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Dateline: 23rd February, 2011
HighTide Line-up Announced The full programme of the 5th HighTide Festival, taking place between 28th April and 8th May in Halesworth, Suffolk, has been announced. The Festival opens on 28th April with the European premiere of Dusk Rings A Bell. Written by Stephen Belber, this is a new American play about reigniting a teenage romance 20 years on and reconciling one’s dreams to the crushing realities of life. Twenty-four years ago, the future was going to be different. Mol was going to be happy; older and smarter and married with kids. Ray was going to be a heart surgeon. When they meet again, by chance – she divorced and childless; he a caretaker and gardener – they discover that their lives are even further from that future than they had thought. Andrew Motion, the former poet laureate, will make his debut as a playwright with a controversial work about the war in Afghanistan. Incoming tells the story of Danny, a soldier killed in Afghanistan, his grieving widow Steph and their young son Jack. It will premiere at the Festival in co-production with The Poetry Trust and is a powerful examination of the disturbing issues surrounding war and how hard it can be for those left behind. Two months ago, Danny was killed in Afghanistan. One winter morning, just before dawn, he appears. Incoming examines Britain's place in the world, the sacrifices made for that place and the repercussions, both private and public, of those sacrifices The Festival will also premiere Nicked, musical theatre for the 21st Century, written by performance poet Richard Marsh, with an original, urban soundtrack by Natalia Sheppard, aka Rogue Nouveau, and directed by the award winning young British director Pia Furtado. Nicked is the story of today’s government - how it came to power and the tribulations of the first year, with Nick Clegg as the central character and a supporting cast of David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Vince Cable, the Millibands, Sam Cam, Miriam Clegg and lady Britannia herself. It is "a brazen, political, intelligent and infectious show which offers politics you can dance to." A short version of the play, under the title Westminster Side Story, was performed at Theatre503 as part of Coalition in 2010. The final play of the season is Midnight Your Time, a new play by Adam Brace, which makes its debut and reunites the entire creative team behind HighTide's Stovepipe. It will star Diana Quick, the star of ITV's Brideshead Revisited. Every Thursday at 3am, Judy talks to her daughter on a webcam. Judy calls from Islington; her daughter is in Palestine. A retired lawyer, Judy is casting around for ways to occupy herself: with a women's peace league; with Mr and Mrs Prabhakar; with her daughter’s life. In addition to the performances, during the weekends of 30th April/1st May and7th/8th May, there will be a full day-long ancillary programme of panel debates, Q&As with the creative teams, one-off performances, workshops for young people, the Genesis Studio for emerging artists, films for free and two late-night parties. Full details can be found on the HighTide website.
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