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Dateline: 9th January, 2008
Eclipse 2008 Ths year's Eclipse Theatre production, the fifth, is to be Roy Williams' new play Angel House. How can two brothers with the same upbringing take such different paths? Fifty years ago, the Vincent family arrived from the West Indies and settled in the West London tower block Angel House. They brought with them suitcases full of hopes and dreams for themselves and future generations. But life has not worked out the way they expected. Jean's son Frank, the ‘big man' of the estate, is heading for prison, while her other son Stephen is a successful lawyer with political aspirations. Frank's son Adam and the rest of the teenagers on the estate are all struggling to cope with life's choices and their consequences. Eclipse Theatre, a consortium of the New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich, Birmingham Rep and West Yorkshire Playhouse led by Producer Gemma Emmanuel-Waterton, aims to develop the national profile of Black (i.e. of African or African Caribbean origin) British Theatre and its practitioners. Through producing and touring high quality work on the middle scale, it aims to increase the diversity of work on offer to existing audiences whilst encouraging new Black audiences, and by facilitating training and employment opportunities for Black British Theatre practitioners, to be an active force for influencing and instigating change that will lead to a more equitable theatrical landscape. Angel House opens at the New Wolsey, Ipswich, where it runs from 1st to 9th February, and then tours to:
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