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Cardiff’s pub theatre The Other Room announce Autumn/Winter 2017 season |
Today, Cardiff’s pub theatre The Other Room, located in Porter’s and winner of The Stage’s Fringe Theatre of the Year Award 2016, announces its Autumn/Winter 2017 season. Curated and programmed by The Other Room, the season features new productions of hang by debbie tucker green, My Name is Rachel Corrie and Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden, alongside a series of readings called Blue Sky Scripts, focusing on early development of new plays from Welsh and Wales-based writers. An under-wraps Christmas show is to be announced later in the year.The Autumn 2017 season will open with a new production of hang by debbie tucker green, produced by Run Amok (Tuesday 5 - Saturday 16 September). Set in a time close to now, hang is debbie tucker green's blistering play, imagining a UK where the death penalty remains legal. Premiered at London's Royal Court in 2015, the play exposes one woman's treatment by a modern legal system that allows victims to choose how the death penalty is enacted upon a perpetrator. Rapid dialogue and razor sharp humour create a tense and compelling challenge to our own sense of morality in an exclusive regional premiere from one of Britain's greatest living playwrights. hang will be directed by Run Amok founder and The Other Room’s Associate Director Izzy Rabey, and star Anita Reynolds, Seren Vickers and Alexandria Riley. Izzy comments: “I am so hugely excited and delighted that this project is coming to fruition. debbie tucker green is famously discerning, and this will be the first time she has allowed a new production of hang using an unpublished, new draft of the script. This will also be the first time her work has been performed in Wales (hang premiered at The Royal Court in 2015). hang is a play which directly explores themes and narratives which as an applied theatre practitioner I engage with directly on a weekly basis through my work at Valley and Vale Community Arts. These issues include: marginalisation, isolation, trauma, family breakdown and people whose loved ones are in the criminal justice system. All incredibly important themes that I feel theatre should be exploring for everyone right now, at this moment in time.” From Tuesday 10 – Saturday 21 October, former Associate Director of The Other Room Chelsey Gillard (co-Director of Constellation Street) will direct My Name is Rachel Corrie as the debut production of her new company Graphic. My Name is Rachel Corrie follows an impassioned American student from her safe childhood bedroom in Washington to the moment she stood between a civilian house and an armoured bulldozer in The Gaza Strip. Curated from Corrie’s own writings (by Katherine Viner and Alan Rickman), her words sing with idealism, eloquence and most of all hope. On Tuesday 31 October – Saturday 11 November, Fio return to The Other Room with a new production of Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden, directed by Abdul Shayek. The play is a dark thriller exploring the reverberations sent through a society that emerges from dictatorship to democracy - and the scars that a regime may leave as you emerge from dark into light. Alongside these three productions, The Other Room will also present Blue Sky Scripts, a series of one-off readings and daily changing line up of new scripts from some of the very best Welsh and Wales-based writers. The first week will take place Monday 18 September - Friday 22 September with the second to follow on Monday 13 November - Friday 17 November. With applications and line ups to be announced, this series promises to celebrate the wealth and depth of writing talent from and in Wales. A Christmas show will be performed at The Other Room Tuesday 5 December - Saturday 23rd December, with further details to be announced later in the year. Associate Artistic Director of The Other Room and programmer of the season, Ben Atterbury, comments: “Autumn/Winter at The Other Room again demonstrates the strength that Wales has in young and emergent companies making exciting and energetic productions of plays rarely or never before performed in Wales. Three plays, each looking at moments in time past, present and possible future but with a deep political resonance to now. We are proud to programme them and give a platform to some of Wales's best young artists. Alongside these, we welcome back a series of Blue Sky events we're calling Blue Sky Scripts - 10 nights, 10 readings of brand new plays from Welsh or Wales based writers, kickstarting conversations about where they might go in future, and busting open the creative process in true Other Room style. Then, we've got a surprise for you at Christmas. We can't say too much about it just yet, so let's just say that it'll have you wigging out, and uke might enjoy a bit of an alternative treat. More to come from us there - watch this space!” Tickets for The Other Room’s Autumn 2017 season are available now from www.otherroomtheatre.com. To keep updated on The Other Room, you can also follow the team on Twitter @TORtheatre and Facebook www.facebook.com/otherroomtheatre |
| The Other Room web site: www.otherroomtheatre.com |
| The Other Room e-mail: info@otherroomtheatre.com |
Monday, August 28, 2017 |
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