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Dateline:
20th July, 2011
Decade: Writers and Cast Announced
Headlong has announced the writers and cast for Decade, a site-specific
production which investigates the legacy of 9/11 (see our news
story of 28th June).
The writers will be:
- Christopher Shinn (Now or Later at the Royal Court, which
won an Evening Standard award for Best Play, Dying City which
won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Where Do We Live and Other
People)
- Lynn Nottage (Ruined, which was also the recipient of seven
Best Play Awards including the New York Critics’ Circle Award,
two Drama Desk Awards and four OBIE Awards and was most recently seen
at the Almeida Theatre, and Fabulation)
- John Logan (Red at the Donmar Warehouse and Tony award-winner
for Best Play), Never the Sinner, Hauptmann, Speaking
in Tongues. As a screenwriter: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber
of Fleet Street (Golden Globe Award), The Aviator, Gladiator,
The Last Samurai, Any Given Sunday and the WGA Award-winning
RKO 281)
- Simon Schama is a professor of art history and history at Columbia
University (Rough Crossings won the National Book Critics Circle
Award for nonfiction and was produced for stage by Headlong in 2007.
Documentaries for the BBC, PBS, and the History Channel, including
The Power of Art, which won the 2007 International Emmy for
Best Arts Programming, Art of the Western World and his award-winning
15 part History of Britain)
- Bafta Award-winning writer Abi Morgan (BBC TV drama The Hour,
the upcoming Margaret Thatcher film Iron Lady s and the award-winning
drama Sex Traffic for Channel 4. She previously worked with
Frantic Assembly on Tiny Dynamite, and her other previous writing
for the stage includes The Night Is Darkest Before The Dawn, part
of the Tricycle Theatre’s Great Game season, Fugee
for NT New Connections, Tender at Hampstead and Splendour
for Paines Plough).
- Samuel Adamson (Breakfast at Tiffany’s at the Haymarket,
Southwark Fair and Mrs Affleck for the National Theatre),
Fish and Company for Soho Theatre/ National Youth Theatre,
Clocks and Whistles at the Bush, Grace Note for the
Peter Hall Company/Old Vic Theatre) and All About My Mother at the
Old Vic).
- Mike Bartlett (Earthquakes in London, Love, Love, Love
for Paines Plough, Cock at the Royal Court, Artefacts
at the Bush and My Child at the Royal Court)
- Alecky Blythe (London Road at the National Theatre, The
Girlfriend Experience, Do We Look Like Refugees?, Cruising
and Come Out Eli).
The cast includes Jonathan Bonnici, Leila Crerar, Kevin Harvey, Tom
Hodgkins, Samuel James, Arinze Kene, Amy Lennox, Tobias Menzies, Claire
Prempah, Charlotte Randle, Cat Simmons and Lia Williams. Rupert Goold
directs, Miriam Buether directs with costumes by Emma Williams, choreography
by Scott Ambler, lighting designed by Malcolm Rippeth and composition
and sound score by Adam Cork.
Decade runs at St Katharine Docks from 8th September (previews
from 1st) and runs to 15th October.
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