Tron Theatre: Mayfesto 2014

Published: 20 April 2014
Reporter: Sandra Giorgetti

Tron artistic director Andy Arnold has chosen Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good as the core to Mayfesto 2014, which has colonisation as its central theme.

My Name Is... is presented with award-winning company Tamasha and Heart is presented with Newcastle-based company Zendeh.

Mayfesto 2014 will have a show for young audiences for the first time; Saltbush: Children’s Cheering Carpet is an interactive journey through the culture and landscape of Aboriginal Australia by Imaginate Festival on Tour.

Andy Arnold says of the festival, "It is appropriate in this year of the referendum to examine how the Scottish experience of empire, at once implicated in and subjected to the project of empire, fits into the story of colonisation.

"Mayfesto sets out to do this, with a programme that examines the power, poetry and defiance that runs through the language of colonisation literature."

In addition to theatre performances, there is a programme of readings, a series of debates and participatory workshops.

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