Bold Productions & Aberystwyth Arts CentrePresent ASHES TO ASHES & SILENCE By Harold Pinter Thursday 9th - Saturday 11th October Aberystwyth Arts Centre Studio Theatre www.aber.ac.uk/artscentre Box Office - 01970 623232 Wednesday 22nd October Bridgnorth Theatre On The Steps www.theatreonthesteps.co.uk Box Office 01746 763257 Ashes To Ashes First presented by the Royal Court Theatre in London in September of 1996, Ashes to Ashes is a triumph of power and concision. In the living room of a pleasant house in a university town outside of London, Devlin, threatened by his wife Rebecca's recollections of an abusive ex-lover, questions her relentlessly in his need for a single truth. In her seamless blending of what she knows of violence with the wider violence of the world, Rebecca reveals an eerie communion with the dead victims of unnamed political barbarities As Pinter get older..., his plays get shorter and more abstract--epiphanies both of grief and of the gulf between people..."Ashes to Ashes" throws the audience immediately into the middle of an intimate disturbing conversation: there are no explanations of what has come before or what will come after, just a mysterious moment that will be perpetually reinvented and expanded by the characters as the play unfolds. New Yorker - John Lahr Silence Silence is universal; it is a comment, a verdict, rather, on the whole of life…….. In Silence, the smooth surface erupts into one of those bravura passages about ordinary matters for which Pinter has been famous for ever since his rhapsody on the Number 19 bus at Dalston Junction in The Caretaker. The Sunday Times – Harold Hobson For further information about the company including future productions, please visit www.boldprod.co.uk. It is so robustly acted, imaginatively directed and subtly lit in this production by the Welsh company that the piece almost takes on the quality of high art Donald Clarke – The Irish Times NOONDAY DEMONS - DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL 2004 |
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