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Dateline:
5th September, 2005
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The RSC New Work Festival
The second Royal Shakespeare Company New Work Festival turns the company’s
attention overseas, showcasing new international voices alongside the
work of British writers.
The Festival takes place in Stratford-upon-Avon between 17th and 28th
October in the Swan Theatre, and a new venue, Cox’s Yard.
The Festival includes the world premiere of Fraser Grace’s Breakfast
With Mugabe (directed by Antony Sher), and the UK premieres of two
American plays - Elective Affinities by David Adjmi and Eric
LaRue by Brett Neveu. These two plays will be directed by New Work
Festival Director Dominic Cooke and presented as a double bill under
the title, Postcards from America. This will be the first time
that audiences in Britain will have had the opportunity to see the work
of these two American writers.
Two plays that formed part of the 2004 New Work Festival in both Stratford
and at the Soho Theatre in London, make a return: a full staging of
Debbie Tucker Green’s Trade, and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s
monologue, Nowhere To Belong – Tales of an Extravagant Stranger.
Worldviews - a series of conversations, lectures and debates
featuring high-profile broadcasters, politicians and writers - will
give audiences the opportunity to explore further the international
themes of the Festival.
Dominic Cooke, RSC Associate Director and Director of the New Work
Festival, said, “This year’s festival promises to show exciting,
challenging new drama performed by actors from the RSC’s 2005 acting
ensemble. It premieres work by emerging British and American writers
with a wide variety of international themes - especially relevant at
this moment – providing an interesting precursor to the Complete
Works Festival next year when the company will host international companies
from around the world. The Worldviews series of events will also sharpen
this focus with talks by an impressive array of leading political and
cultural commentators. All this should make for a vibrant and thought
provoking two weeks.”
Listings
Breakfast With Mugabe
(World Premiere)
By Fraser Grace
Directed by Antony Sher
The Swan Theatre
Trade
Sex Tourism: a collage of voices from home and abroad
By Debbie Tucker Green
Directed by Sacha Wares
The Swan Theatre
Postcards From America
Elective Affinities
(UK Premiere)
By David Adjmi
Directed by Dominic Cooke
Cox's Yard
Eric LaRue
(UK Premiere)
By Brett Neveu
Directed by Dominic Cooke
Cox's Yard
Nowhere to Belong – Tales of an Extravagant Stranger
By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Directed by Gavin Marshall
Cox's Yard
Season of Migration to the North
A work-in-progress based on the novel by Tayeb Salih
Tuesday 25 October, 2pm
Cox’s Yard
Sweet Charity
(Part 2: A Darker Look at Life)
Tuesday 25 October, 5pm
Swan Gallery
Worldviews
Global Culture
Wednesday 19 October, 11am – 12.30pm, Swan Theatre
Sir John Tusa, cultural commentator and director of the Barbican Centre
in London, delivers a keynote lecture about globalisation and its
impact on culture, in conversation with RSC Associate Director Dominic
Cooke.
Displacement, Belonging and Identity
Wednesday 19 October, Post performance discussion after 5.30pm performance
of Nowhere To Belong
Cox’s Yard Attic Theatre
Three women in conversation about the lot of the migrant in modern
Britain and beyond: playwright, actor and commentator Yasmin Alibhai-Brown,
BBC Arts correspondent Razia Iqbal, and Joyce MacMillan, drama critic
and leading commentator on British and Scottish identity.
Analysing Uncle Sam
Thursday 20 October, 3pm – 4.30pm,
Cox’s Yard Attic Theatre
People with intimate knowledge of the US examine its unique view of
the world as well as the divisions within the country and its influential
role around the globe. Baroness Shirley Williams, Liberal Democrat
peer and Harvard University politics professor; Godfrey Hodgson, veteran
reporter on America and author of More Equal than Others: America
from Nixon to the New Country; with Stryker McGuire, London bureau
chief of Newsweek
Africa: Cradle of Civilisation or basketcase?
Thursday 20 October, 5pm – 6.30pm
Swan Theatre
In a year of unprecedented focus on Africa, Kumi Naidoo, a Johannesburg
based campaigner for better governance and against poverty, draws
lessons from the Make Poverty History campaign he helped to lead.
In conversation with Tajdeen Abdul Raheem of Justice Africa, and Richard
Dowden of the Royal Africa Society.
The Jon Snow Lecture: The distorted window on the world
Friday 21 October, 11am – 12.30pm
Swan Theatre
Jon Snow, Channel 4 news anchorman and experienced correspondent at
the front line, delivers a keynote lecture on the impact television
has on the stories it covers and how TV shapes viewers’ view
of the world. This event is chaired by James Naughtie of BBC Radio
4's Today Programme.
All the news that fits to print
Friday 21 October, 1.30pm – 2.30pm
Cox’s Yard Attic Theatre
James Naughtie chairs a revealing insight into how decisions are made
in Britain’s newspaper offices about what international news
gets coverage. Panellists include John Lloyd of the Financial Times,
David Pratt of the Sunday Herald and Mark Leonard of the Centre for
European Reform.
Britain’s Foreign Exchange
Saturday 22 October, 11am-12.30pm
Swan Theatre
After the Iraq war, with Tony Blair's premiership coming to an end,
and with constitutional gridlock threatening the European Union's
future, what is the future of Britain's relationships with the rest
of the world? Sir Menzies Campbell, the Liberal Democrat deputy leader
and a highly-respected analyst of Britain's foreign and defence policy,
discusses the way ahead with Mark Leonard, of the Centre for European
Reform.
It’s Saturday, so this must be Stratford: The culture
of tourism and the tourism of culture
Saturday 22 October, 3 - 4.30pm
Cox’s Yard
The growing pressure for ethical tourism and how it affects the people
who do the travelling is discussed by the leading travel writer William
Dalrymple, Harold Goodwin, director of the International Centre for
Responsible Tourism and Frank Barrett, travel editor for the Mail
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