With apologies for cross-posting.
Dear colleagues,
On 24-26 September, the University of Edinburgh and Playwrights' Studio Scotland will be putting on a tour of rehearsed readings of Peter Arnott's new play, ENSEMBLE. This is the final draft of a play that has been a year in the making, and we are delighted to be holding readings in Edinburgh, Glasgow and St Andrews.
Peter's play is set in January 1990, in a provincial East German theatre in Friedrich-Engels-Stadt. Two months before the action starts, the Berlin Wall fell, and the world changed. The old certainties and hierarchies have been overthrown, and no one knows the rules. No one knows how many actors will turn up for work. No one knows whether there will be any audience, no one knows what that audience will want. No one really knows what country that audience lives in any more.
Alone in their rehearsal room, the theatre practitioners have to confront the question of what their theatre is for. What should they programme? What should they rehearse? The older members want to stage a play that was a hit in the West and could never be staged in the East - a play written by one of their former colleagues, who was expelled from the GDR. When he turns up out of the blue, old wars, suspicions and accusations rise to the surface...
You can book free tickets as follows:
Thursday 24 Sept, 7:30 pm: The Traverse, Edinburgh, www.traverse.co.uk, tel. 0131 228 1404
Friday 25 Sept, 7:30 pm: Websters, Glasgow, https://peterarnottensemble.eventbrite.co.uk
Saturday 26 Sept, 3 pm: The Byre, St Andrews, www.byretheatre.com, tel. 01334 475 000
Further details about the project are available at www.whoiswatchingwho.org. The project has been funded by the AHRC.
It would be great to see some of you there. Please do forward this message to anyone who may be interested - we have large venues to fill!
All best,
Laura
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Dr Laura Bradley
Postgraduate Director & Senior Lecturer in German
University of Edinburgh
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