Ampersand Media and Greenhouse Northwest presentA DIFFERENT PLACE Written by Robin Graham Directed by Zoë Reason Performed by Mark Stevenson A Different Place will be touring nationally from May 6th 2005. This comic and touching one-man show follows asylum-seeker Abel's attempts to create a new life for himself in Britain. In Manchester he meets Janey. Is love to be found here, as well as a new home? Can Abel find a way to deal with the tragedy of his past life and learn to laugh again? Winner of the Yvonne Arnaud/Stop-Gap Theatre 'Feet First' competition, A Different Place is produced by Ampersand Media and Greenhouse Northwest "A better advertisement for Amnesty International would be hard to find" - Frances Russell "Compelling and vivid" - The Stage The Show is not suitable for children under 13 years The show opens on the 6th May 2005 and tours until 4th June 2005. The piece deals with the whole issue of asylum - showing the human and personal side of a refugee's life. It also questions the current trend of detention without trial, which when the play was written was seen as something that only happened in 'non-democratic' countries. But also the play is a love story that shows that the human spirit can triumph over any obstacle. The full script can be found online at: http://www.aber.ac.uk/tfts/journal/archive/graham.html The Writer The writer is Manchester based Robin Graham. His plays include Growing Pains, for M6 Theatre Company; A Mother’s Perspective, for Greenhouse Northwest; Club Nemesis at the Green Room, Manchester. He is also a performance poet, and as Poet In Residence at Clitheroe Castle Museum during The Year Of The Artist, he wrote Crikey Mikey's Summer Holiday which was published by Ribble Valley Council. A Different Place and A Mother’s Perspective are published in the Journal of Consciousness, Literature and the Arts. Currently he is associate writer at the Green Room. The Actor A Different Place is performed by Mark Stevenson. To be seen in cinemas later this year in The Last Horror Movie and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, as well as the BBC's forthcoming Macbeth. Mark was a founding member of Scotland’s Theatre Babel for whom he performed in Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night and Julius Caesar. He has performed for numerous companies throughout Britain including Bill Kenwright, Polka and QDOS. TV work includes numerous appearances on The Big Breakfast and All Along the Watchtower for BBC Scotland The Director Zoë Reason did an MA in Theatre Directing at the University of East Anglia. Her directing credits include Storeys by Rachael McGill (The Finborough Theatre, London), The BitchKiss season of plays at the BAC (included plays by Stella Duffy, Margaret Hollingsworth and Shelley Silas), Howard Barker's The Early Hours of a Reviled Man (The Finborough) and Judith (Studio, Norwich), Players in Paint (Norwich Playhouse). She works in script development for Paines Plough and the BBC. Website Details: www.differentplace.co.uk Listings Information 2005 6 May University of Wales, Aberystwyth conference performance 11 May Lochside Theatre, Castle Douglas 01556 504506 7.30 12 May Thornton Little Theatre 01253 771144 7.30 15 May Chat’s Palace, London 020 8533 0227 8.00 18 May Touchstones, Rochdale 01706 864 986 7.30 19 May East Kilbride Arts Centre 01355 261000 8.00 20 May Paisley Arts Centre 0141 887 1010 7.30 25 May Salford Art Gallery closed performance 26 May Buddle Arts Centre, Wallsend 0191 200 7132 7.30 27 May Cramphorn Theatre, Chelmsford 01245 606505 8.00 28 May New Cut, Halesworth 0845 6732123 7.30 30 May Lochinver Village Hall 01571 844 262 7.30 31 May Kinlochbervie High School closed performance 1 June Farr High School closed performance 2 June The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen 01224 642 230 7.30 3 June Craigmonie Centre, Drumnadrochit 01456 459224 8.00 4 June Chester Gateway 01244 340392 7.30 For further information and images call Ampersand Media on 07970 798 308 or e-mail info@differentplace.co.uk |
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 |
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