Watermans present "Blowing" - free tickets available | |||||
A darkly comedic story of a disintegrated family
BLOWING By Jeroen van den Berg, trans. Rina Vergano Watermans are offering free tickets to this performance. All you have to do is call Box Office on 020 8232 1010 and quote ‘promo1’ for a free ticket. Winner of the Young Angels Theatremakers Award 2009, BLOWING is the darkly comedic story of a disintegrated family which no one has got around to leaving yet, written by one of the most talented contemporary playwrights in the Netherlands. Stop. A perfect family celebrate their perfect mother’s perfect fortieth birthday. A perfect photo opportunity – or a chance to destroy the image of perfection that they’ve been peddling for years. Time to choose. Winner of the prestigious Dutch Taalunie Award for Best Play, BLOWING tells the story of a family imploding under the weight of its own fantasy. Award-winning company fanSHEN (Shooting Rats, Meetings, Full Circle) present a new piece of international theatre about dreams, destruction and deceit. “Stimulating food for thought” **** – Evening Standard on fanSHEN’s recent sell-out show Shooting Rats fanSHEN believe in stories and telling them as a vital function of being human. We create internationally influenced theatre, which is both dynamically physical and affectingly psychological. We seek unusual spaces where we can explore new relationships between the people involved in the live act of theatre. Company of Angels was set up in 2001 by John Retallack to foster and produce new and experimental theatre for young
audiences. The company’s mission is to broaden the definition of theatre for young people through experimental projects
and new productions of a high artistic standard. The Young Angels Theatremakers Award, now in its third year, offers one Company Information October 26, 2010 |