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Dateline:
13th July, 2003
Visionary Theatre: Classic Plays
In association with The James Menzies-Kitchin
Memorial Trust
Battersea Arts Centre: 18th July - 23rd August 2003
Three new plays and a special Scratch Week comprise this season a BAC.
First off is a double bill of Pinter plays - Party Time &
One for the Road - directed by the winner of the James Menzies-Kitchin
Memorial Trust Award for Young Directors 2003, Bijan Sheibani. Previewing
from the 18th to 20th July, this production opens on 22nd July and runs
until 17th August.
The JMK Award for Young Directors was established in memory of James
Menzies-Kitchin, who staged his first production in 1994. In the following
year and a half he established himself as a theatre director of thrilling
promise. He was committed to staging classical theatre of the highest
quality. When James died suddenly at the age of only 28, the Trust was
set up to encourage others to fulfil their potential, as he had promised
to do.
Opening on 24th July (previewing on 22nd and 23rd) is mindrocket projects'
production of Pains of Youth by Ferdinand Bruckner (newly translated
& adapted by Simon Day). It will be directed by Katie Read, up-and-coming
director who is currently resident director on Terry Johnston’s
Hitchcock Blonde having completed a bursary at the National Theatre
studio. It also runs until 17th August.
Due to the exceptional standard of this year's JMK Award shortlist,
the venue has invited all finalists to present a showing of their work.
These include: Runner-Up Phil Breen, with Destiny by David Edgar;
John Terry with Item; Helen Eastman with The Cure at Troy
by Seamus Heaney; Chris Rolls with Under the Earth; and Charlotte
Westenra with Waiting for Lefty.
Fill listing details are as follows:
Party Time & One for the Road
18th July to 17th August (previews 18th to 20th July) · 7.30pm
(Sundays 5.30pm)
£10.75 (Full) £6.50 (Conc)
Tuesday Pay What You Can
Pains of Youth
22nd July - 17th August (previews 22nd & 23rd July) · 8.30pm
(Sundays 6.30pm)
£10.75 (Full) £6.50 (Conc)
Tuesday Pay What You Can
Scratch Week
£4.75 (Full) £3.50 (Conc)
Destiny: Wed 20 - Fri 22 Aug · Main House · 8pm
Item: Tue 19 - Wed 20 Aug · Studio 1 · 7.30pm
The Cure at Troy: Tue 19 - Wed 20 Aug · Studio 2 ·
9pm
Under The Earth: Fri 22 - Sat 23 Aug · Studio 1 ·
7.30pm
Waiting for Lefty: Fri 22 - Sat 23 Aug · Gallery ·
9pm
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