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THE SHADOW OF A BOY A new play by Gary Owen Director: Erica Whyman Cast: Lynn Hunter, Catrin Rhys, Jo Stone-Fewings, Rob Storr The scheduled destruction of Earth alarms 11 year old Luke almost as much as starting at the comp. A moving and original study of a boy and his friend from outer space, from the author of Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco. Luke lives with his Nanna following the death of his parents. Katie wants to initiate him into life at the comprehensive. The Shadow is a character from his comic book. This coming-of-age tale examines modes of parenting and the impact of truth and lies on children's behaviour. The Shadow of a Boy is Gary Owen's second stage play. His first, Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco, toured the UK in Spring 2001. Gary is writing a third stage play, The Drowned World, for Paines Plough; a fourth, Cant a Deunaw Eiliad, for the Welsh College of Music and Drama; and a fifth, Here Comes Everybody, for Sgript Cymru. Gary's first radio play After Life goes out this summer as part of The Wire on Radio 3. Erica Whyman is Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre and was awarded the Cohen Bursary from the RNT Studio in 1998. Directing credits include The Gambler, Oblomov (Pleasance, Edinburgh and London), To The Lighthouse (Bloomsbury), Blue Remembered Hills (Bristol Old Vic), The Glass Slipper, The Winter's Tale, The Old Curiosity Shop (Southwark), Tear from a Glass Eye, Les Justes, Box of Bananas and Ion (Gate), and The Birthday Party (Sheffield Crucible) THE SHADOW OF A BOY is the fourth play in the LOFT space in the innovative TRANSFORMATION season, which offers cheaper ticket prices and aims to develop new generations of theatre makers and attract new generations of theatre audiences. Press night: Monday 17 June at 8.00pm 1st preview: 13 June, ends 29 June. Booking now. Box Office T: 020 7452 3000 Tickets £12 (under 25s and conc £8). For further information and interviews, please contact Gemma Gibb on 020 7452 3233 The projects in the Transformation season were developed in the National Theatre Studio. The Loft Theatre was created with the help of the Royal National Theatre Foundation. Transformation is supported by a gift from the estate of André Deutsch, and by Edward and Elissa Annunziato The Peter Wolff Theatre Trust, which is supporting this production, was founded by Peter Wolff, a textile entrepreneur, who has had a great love of the British theatre all his life. In January 1998 he created the non-profit-making Trust to encourage the work of emerging British playwrights and to bring these plays to a wider audience. Since its foundation the Trust has supported fourteen new plays including TO THE GREEN FIELDS BEYOND by Nick Whitby and HUMBLE BOY by Charlotte Jones. |
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| Gemma Gibb, Press Office e-mail: ggibb@nationaltheatre.org.uk |
Thursday, May 9, 2002 |
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