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BE: SPOKEN THEATRE present A KIND OF ALASKA.
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A Kind of Alaska, first staged at the National Theatre, won Harold Pinter the 1982 Best Play award from Drama Plays and Players and was inspired by Dr Oliver Sacks account of his work with patients suffering from sleeping sickness in his book Awakenings. Deborah was a lively 16 year old and part of a close knit family, when her body froze into a state of immobility. Twenty-nine years later, watched throughout by the same doctor, she comes to life and gradually and poignantly tries to adjust to the world around her; the doctor, the death of her mother, the ageing of her younger sister
A Kind of Alaska is a brilliant short play. It is a minor masterpiece. (Plays and Players)
Harold Pinter is writing at the top of his powers. (The Daily Telegraph
This venture has bought Julie Barclay, Caroline Bunce and Claire Cage together again for the third time ( they have also created work for Cwmni Theatr 3D and Dirty Protest ) to explore one of the more languid and poetic of Pinter’s short plays.
Julie Barclay is an actress and director closely involved with ‘On The Edge’script held and’ Script Slam’ at Chapter Arts Centre and at The Sherman Cymru Theatre, a lecturer at RWCMD and will be performing in The Censor at Bath Theatre Royal in March
A KIND OF ALASKA.
ONE ACT PLAY.
HAROLD PINTER
Directed by Julie Barclay
Wed 10 March – Sat 13 March 2010
Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
8pm
The Cast
Caroline Bunce
Claire Cage
Nathan Sussex
Julie Barclay has worked widely as an actor in repertory theatre and for BBC radio/tv, including appearances in Belonging, Torchwood, In Love With Barbara , Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Good Arrows, a film written by Dean Cavanagh and directed by Irvine Welsh. She is the director and one of the founder members of Be:spoken Theatre. She is also a lecturer in Theatre Practice at RWCMD/Young Actors Studio. Recently, National Theatre of Wales has given Julie a seed commission to develop and adapt the award winning book of short stories by Rachel Tresize 'Fresh Apples'. She is appearing at Theatre Royal Bath in a production of 'The Censor' by Anthony Neilson and is due to begin rehearsals as the Nurse in the Black Rat Theatre Company's production of 'Romeo and Juliet'. |
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