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Dateline: 27th July, 2005
African-American Season at the Tricycle Kilburn's Tricycle Theatre is to present a season of three African-American plays from NOvember 2005 to March 2006, during which it will create a resident company of black actors who will perform in all three productions. First on the list is Walk Hard by Abram Hill, the story of Harlem bootblack turned champion boxer, Andy Whitman, who soon discovers he is fighting against more than his opponent in the ring. Directed by Nicholas Kent and featuring Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Jenny Jules, Joseph Marcell, Carmen Munroe & Ony Uhiara, the production runs from 28th November (previews from 24th) to 24th December. Set in New York at the end of the Depression, Walk Hard employs a large cast of gloriously flamboyant characters, acerbic wit and a cracking dialogue that takes a vicious swipe at the boxing racket. It was first performed on Broadway on 1942.
Following it - from 10th January (previews from 6th) to 4th February is the UK premiere of August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean. Directed by Paulette Randall, Set in 1904, Gem of the Ocean begins on the eve of the 287th birthday of Aunt Ester, when Citizen Barlow arrives at her house. Aunt Ester sets Citizen Barlow, a man in spiritual turmoil, out on a spritual journey to find the mythic city of bones leading him to startling discoveries and setting him on a course of duty and redemption. Gem of the Ocean is the ninth play in August Wilson's extraordinary 10-play cycle, chronicling the African-American experience through each decade of the 1900s. The Tricycle has presented four of these works, including The Piano Lesson, Two Trains Runnin' and King Hedley II, all directed by Paulette Randall.
Lynn Nottage's Fabulation runs from 20th February (previews from 16th) to 18th March and is directed by Indhu Rubasingham. In the play, which received its premiere in New York last year, Undine Barnes Calles, a successful publicist, watches her once-stable life disintegrate before her eyes when her lover Herve leaves her. Taking with him Undine's money and social standing and leaving her with an unborn child, Herve leaves Undine alone and desperate. Undine must face what she has long avoided: the home and family in Brooklyn which she left fourteen years ago. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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