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Dateline: 4th September, 2008
Arcola Reunites Legendary Company Dalston's Arcola Theatre is to reunite the director of the legendary 70s Cottesloe Company*, Bill Bryden, with members of that company - John Guerrasio, Greg Hicks, James Hutchinson, Meredith MacNeill, Steve Nicolson, John Nolan, Iain Robertson, Jack Shepherd and Sian Thomas - in a new production of Tennessee Williams' last play Small Craft Warnings. Described as Williams' "most intimate self-portrait", it deals with "Quentin, a washed-up queer screenwriter and one of nine castoffs who gather at Monk’s seedy bar one foggy night in 1972, Southern California." The doctor is drunk, Violet’s hysterical, Leona is leaving and the coast guard have put out a small craft warning. But will they be able to save the unborn baby? It is a play about searching for the solace of companionship in all the wrong places and finding the truth behind foulmouthed faces. Small Craft Warning runs from 10th September to 18th October in Studio 1.
Following that, from 22nd October to 15th November, the theatre presents Tamasha's production of Sweet Cider by Emteaz Hussain. A community is in crisis. Two Pakistani girls have run from their families: one is hunted, the other forgotten. Their bid for freedom has led them to an Asian women's refuge in a nearby Northern town. But with dialogue between the generations impossible, the girls soon ask themselves how sweet freedom really is. Sweet Cider is Hussain's debut play and based, in part, on her own experiences: "I was 16 when I ended up in an Asian women¹s refuge. On my second night there, the girls took me to a pub - I had never been in a pub in my life! I had no idea what to drink and how to ask for it. The girls told me to ask for sweet cider." In 2007, Hussain participated in Tamasha New Writing, part of the company's Developing Artists programme, which led to her being offered a development commission in response to her outstanding work on the course. * You can read about the Cottesloe Company in our review of the book Impossible Plays.
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