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Dateline:
17th April, 2007
Coming Soon
Here we list forthcoming productions in various parts of the country
which you might not otherwise hear about. The list will be updated every
time we get new information and the shows will be listed in date order,
with the earliest at the top.
April - London
Trinculo Theatre presents
To a Sunless Sea
By Daniel McGowan
10th - 29th April
Etcetera Theatre, Camden
Tickets £10 (£8 concessions)
The Kursk K141 nuclear submarine was the flagship vessel of the Northern
Fleet and pride of the Russian Navy, an "unsinkable" submarine
preserved at great cost even in the face of the severe spending cuts
which followed the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the
Soviet Union.
Every August the Northern Fleet holds training exercises in the Barents
Sea, covertly monitored by other nations, to practise manoeuvres,
tactics and weapon deployment. But on 12th August 2000, as the Fleet's
vessels completed their exercises and switched to radio silence, the
unthinkable happened - the Kursk seemed to disappear.
She was found many hours later on the sea bed, paralysed but with
a chance that some of the crew might still be alive. Mystery and intrigue
shroud the sinking of the Kursk and the events of the days which followed.
Was it possible that an "enemy" sub hit or fired at the
Kursk and escaped unnoticed? Why did Russia fail to call on foreign
aid before it was too late? And what really happened in the corridors
of power in the fateful week which ended with the loss of all 118
sailors on board Russia's greatest submarine?
Daniel McGowan's tense, claustrophobic new play explores the events
of August 2000 from the perspectives of the sailors trapped on board
the Kursk and their commander, Admiral Vyacheslav Popov, who led the
rescue mission and whose dealings with his shadowy political superiors
are widely believed to have sealed the fate of the Kursk's crew.
May - London
Inanna
A theatrical performance with internationally acclaimed storyteller
Diane Wolkstein and composer-performer Geoffrey Gordon.
(Introduced by Olivier Bernier, author and lecturer at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art)
May 12, 2007 from 7:30 - 9:00 p.m
British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG
Tickets £15 (British Museum Friends and concessions: £12)
Contact: 011 44 (0)20 7323 8181 or boxoffice@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
The story follows Inanna, the Sumerian Goddess of Love, War, and
Fertility, as a young woman as she boldly (and with the help of Gilgamesh)
gains her throne. After visiting the God of wisdom, she gains her
queenship, a husband and children. As a mature woman, she abandons
her earthly achievements to confront the mysteries of the underworld,
returning with a new consciousness - that of compassion. Her sophisticated,
multi-layered life cycle is as relevant today as it was in ancient
Iraq. The text resonates with liberating, passionate love poetry and
is the template for subsequent underworld journeys of self-discovery.
This riveting presentation, performed three times at the American
Museum of Natural History in New York City to sold-out audiences,
has been given on five continents. As Diane Wolkstein speaks and Geoffrey
Gordon plays, we are drawn into another world and made a part of that
time and place.
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