Theatre Production
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Directed by Angela Michaels
The battle of the sexes begins in this Caribbean Christmas tale suitable for the whole family.
The Story... It’s nearly Christmas, the presents are wrapped and the family prepares to celebrate. Newly retired Cornelius, the head of the family reveals his Christmas surprise. What was meant to be an intimate family occasion quickly spirals into farce, as for the first time ever Precious, his wife stands up for herself. With plenty of laughs and a few home truths, we’re taken on a right rollicking ride in this black comedy that dares to delve into family secrets. Precious refuses to back down, the family takes sides and the battle of the sexes begins! PLEASE STAY FOR THE AFTER SHOW CHAT-BACK, WIN PRIZES COURTESY OF OUR FABULOUS SPONSORS.
Hackney Empire
The Albany
Rich Mix
Dates: 3rd, 4th & 5th Dec 09 291 Mare Street London E8 www.hackneyempire.co.uk
Dates: 10th, 11th &12th Dec 09 Douglas Way SE8 4UG www.thealbany.org.uk
Dates: 17th, 18th & 19th Dec 09 34-47 Bethnal Green Road Shoreditch, London E1 6LA www.richmix.org.uk
A Big Thank You! This production has been made possible due to the support from the following:
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Words from the Writer The script of King Of The Castle was originally developed and supported with the help of Ann Considine the Artistic Director of Second Wave. In 2004 Tell Tarra was launched with a rehearsed reading of the play which was kindly hosted at Second Wave in their studio theatre in Deptford. Despite the fact that a large African and West Indian community has been resident in the UK for the past fifty years most non-African and African/Caribbean communities still do not have an insight into the experiences, struggles and challenges the early Windrush settlers have encountered and how it has carried into their lives and affected their British born children. I believe that there is a still a lack of awareness around the challenges and struggles our elders have encountered and feel that through creating a piece like King Of The Castle that it will resonate with a wider audience. As a writer who respects and loves to hear the voice of the elderly Black community, I was compelled to write King Of The Castle as I yearned to hear and see more of our parent’s and grandparent’’s experiences depicted on stage and in our literature. I wanted to document their rich, funny, poignant, often bitter sweet stories and note their infinite wisdom as way of preserving a culture and a generation too beautiful to fade.
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Next Big Thing by JB Rose
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Established to celebrate and promote Britain’s most talented writers this exciting company was the brain child of playwright/ singer/ songwriter JB Rose who elicited the help and expertise of the highly respected director/actress Angela Michaels. Tell Tarra exploded onto the theatrical scene in 2004 and has fast become renowned for its Writers’ Festivals, showcases, networking events and high quality theatre productions. 2010 will see the full scale production of the musical The Next Big Thing by JB Rose and directed by Angela Micheals - an insightful, witty play about the highs and lows of the music industry and centered around two female characters determined to reach the top whatever it takes.
Carol Moses Actress
Kofi Agyemang Writer
Kwame Kwei-Armah Tell Tarra Patron
Shelia White Writer
Paul Morris Writer
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Oladipo Agbolajae Writer
JB Rose Writer
Co-founder and joint Director of Tell Tarra. As well being a professional singer songwriter which includes touring around the world JB has been working with young people, writing, directing and producing plays for many years. ‘Darker the Berry’ and the musical ‘Syreena’s Song’ were both commissioned by Second Wave followed by BBC TV commissions ‘Striking Out‘ (a situation comedy) and BBC 2’ drama, ‘Brothers & Sisters’. In 2004 Halfmoon Young People’s Theatre commissioned JB to
write the 50-minute children’s play ‘Rukia’s World’. JB’s play ‘King of The Castle’ was read at the first Tell Tarra event December 2004. In 2005 she wrote another a play for Halfmoon Theatre called ‘Tagged’, directed by Angela Michaels and has also completed writing a piece for Immediate Theatre for their Black History month showcase in October 2007. In September 2006 JB was writer in resident at Charter School in Southwark and is currently working on commission for Second Wave Centre for Youth Arts based in Deptford.
Angela Michaels Director
Co-founder and joint Director of Tell Tarra Angela Michaels specialises in directing dynamic visceral theatre. Angela is co-founder and joint director of Tell Tarra, a company, dedicated to developing and producing new writing from BME communities, for which she has directed extensively at the Albany, Oval House and Royal Court Theatres, including The Politician by Kwame Kwei-Armah and The Next Big Thing by JB Rose . Angela is also Associate Director at Half Moon, forwhich she has directed critically acclaimed national tours of Locked In (2006 and 2008) and We Are Shadows - both by award-winning writer Fin Kennedy. Most recently she took on the challenge of directing the devising of a non-
verbal physical theatre piece, The Magical Adventures of Spud and Plum, for Half Moon’s Early Years Festival, “Exchange for Change”. Her interest in physical theatre has also been supported by David Glass in her own piece, Charting the Journey at Chisenhale Dance Space. This year Angela has also curated Buskin Boy for a tour by the dance artist Sean Graham and directed a staged reading of Identity by Paul Morris (winner of the ‘Adopt a Playwright’ award) at the Tristan Bates Theatre. Angela passionately believes in theatre as an art-form that not only inspires but also provokes thought and debate. Her next project at Half Moon is a national tour of Begin/End, a new play by David Lane.
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Geoff Aymer Cornellius
Geoff is an actor/writer, and former comedian. His most recent work was playing the part of Horace in the Richard Harris/ Dennis King penned That Old Feeling at the Mill at Sonning, Desmond and Lloyd in Roy Williams’ Angel House. He has also appeared as Anansi in Talawa Theatre’s Anansi Trades Places at the Shaw Theatre; Hoke in Driving Miss Daisy at Frinton Summer Theatre and The Reverend in the musical, The Big Life (at the Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue). He has also performed in a number of live sketch shows including the topical/satirical Newsrevue (at the Canal Café Theatre), and three Edinburgh Festival shows: Gagging For It (at The Gilded Balloon), and HMS Comedy’s Evolution and Revolution (both at the C
Venue). He also recently had a TV credit in Eastenders (BBC1) and has had previous TV credits as a comedian on The A Force and The Real McCoy (both BBC2) as well as Club Class (Channel 5). Film credits include the part of Pa Tagbo in Rag Tag (for Mucka Flicks). As a writer, he has written for many sketch shows as well as Aymer and Powell’s Assorted Foolishness. His playwriting credits include Anansi and the Magic Mirror (Talawa production); the Robbie Gee and Eddie Nestor two-hander The Oddest Couple; and two T.I.E. pieces-- What a Wonderful World (for Blue Elephant Theatre), and Wha Tif (for Hackney Empire’s Education Dept.).
Marcia Mantack Precious
Marcia trained at the Arts Educational School and since graduating has worked extensively in all areas of the entertainment industry. Marcia played the part of ‘Mama’ in the production of ‘Stamping, Shouting and Singing Home’ for the Nuffield Southampton, which also went on tour. She appeared in the award-winning production of The Bacchae for the National Theatre of Scotland. Her stage work has ranged from playing the Fairy in Cinderella at the Wolverhampton Grand Theatre to playing Rose in Stepping
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Out at the Albery and Prince Regent Theatre directed by Julia McKenzie; from the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet to Asaka and Erzulie in Once On This Island. Having played Agnes in Fruit Salad at the Hackney Empire she repeated the role for BBC Radio 4. On television she has appeared in Paradise Heights, Magnificent Seven, After You’ve Gone and London’s Burning. Her film work includes The Girls, First Steps and Missing. She is delighted to be making her debut with Forest Forge and the Nuffield Theatre.
Chizzy Akudolu Barbara
Chizzy’s TV credits include Jinx and Stupid (CBBC), Dead Set (E4), Green Wing (Ch4), Hollyoaks Later (E4), The Complete Guide to Parenting (ITV) and Eastenders (BBC). Her Theatre credits include ‘The Vagina Monologues’ (no1 tour) ‘Blaggers’ (Stratford
East) and ‘Funny Black Women on the Edge’ (Stratford East and Hackney Empire). She is a calligrapher and also teaches karate. She has just finished writing her first play.
Dionne Mitchell Carlene
Dionne Mitchell has been performing as a singer at social events and family gatherings from a very young age. She soon decided to perform at radio weekenders and do PA’s at various clubs through-out London. Eventually Dionne landed her first real serious acting role as Syreena in the musical Syreena’s Song by JB Rose which was produced by Second Wave Centre for Youth Arts in Deptford. She also played Esmee in the Tell Tarra play The Next Big Thing also by JB Rose and directed by Angela Michael’s. 2006 saw Dionne auditioning for ITV’s X Factor where she earned a place in the final 12 selected acts.
Dionne won over Sharon Osbourne with her unique rendition of Tina Turner’s What’s Love Got To Do With It . Like Tina, Dionne continued to deliver strong and energetic performances to audiences of 10 million. Dionne worked with world-renowned legendary stars such as Rod Stewart, Tony Bennet and Lionel Richie, receiving huge accolades from all three. Since leaving the X factor, Dionne has returned to study and completed an English and Drama degree. She is currently song writing, writing for other artists as well as herself. Dionne Mitchell is now working on a new album set to be released in 2010.
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Ashley.J Nadeem
Ashley J is a dynamic performer who specialises in Presenting, Acting, Street/ Hip Hop dancing, writing and Comedy. He has been involved in East Youth Theatre’ and Boy Blue Entertainment (a dance company in East London). As a dancer/choreographer he has won many trophies and awards including the title of SDI (Street Dance International) four time solo champion and has performed at many the international hip-hop showdown Breakin Convention, choice FM junior jam to the MOBO’s after party. He was also the youngest ever male finalist in the original UK dance competition “Bump n Grind” (series 1 Trouble TV). As an actor Ashley has played (Jerome), in the play ‘Father’s and Son’s, directed by Angela Michaels
written by JB Rose, ‘The Blacks’ playing the role of the Caucasian, Dave Davis in the London Bubble’s open-air production The Dong, (directed by Karen Tomlin). TV credits include a featured role in Eastenders. Ashley J has also presented around the UK for MTV Base, Choice Fm and Studioline working closely with Kat.B. Ashley is in the process of developing his own company, sketch show production; A.C.T (all creative talents) with his double- partner Tee-J, there sell-out improvisation show ACTing Up; Hackney Empire, Broadway Barking Theatre, will be once again touring theatres around the UK in 2010.
Billy Reid Hilton
Billy is currently training at the United Kingdom’s First Black Drama School – Identity Drama School. Theatre credits to date include; Lord Chancellor inSleeping Beauty at the Palace Theatre.
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Also appeared in The Opera in The City ‘The Mikado’.
Priya Thanki Stage Manager
Priya Thanki is training at renowned drama school, Rose Bruford College; she is currently in her final year studying to become a stage manager. Priya has previously studied acting therefore understand the key skills needed on and off stage. Priya has also been involved in a film ‘Journey to the moon’ by Dream on Films which is currently in post production. While undertaking her degree Priya has
worked on a variety of shows including devised ‘The institute’ by Jonathan Grieves, ‘Serious Money’ by Caryl Churchill, Little Sweet Thing by Roy Williams, ‘Mirar Mucho Tiempo Tus Valles’ by Juan Ollero, ‘Freshly Brewed’ adapted by Tony James and ‘Mud, River Stone’ by Lynn Nottage. Priya is also interested and been involved in live events and has recently worked on a private multi-million pound wedding and Simon Cowell’s 50th Birthday Party.
Anna Harding Designer
Anna works as a freelance designer, maker and puppeteer. She most recently worked as the Apprentice Designer for The Royal Haymarket’s production of ‘Waiting for Godot’. As part of the apprenticeship she showcased ‘A Man Outside’ by Wolfgang Borchert at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. She has designed productions for The Unicorn Theatre and The Point Young People’s Theatre and has made props for
Punchdrunk, The Bristol Old Vic and Colonel Blimp Productions. She is currently designing for the Half Moon Young People’s Theatre’s new show ‘Begin/End’ directed by Angela Michaels. Anna is a co-founder and member of Left Luggage Theatre who specialise in site-responsive theatre and puppetry. They were selected to represent the UK in the Biennale of Young Artists 2009, which took place in Skopje.
Fred Beaufort
Lighting Designer
Fred is a production manager and lighting designer. He works extensively with the Half Moon Young’s People Theatre on their participatory projects and main professional productions. His recent credits for the company include Locked In, We are Shadows, Baa Moo Yellow Dog and Icicle Bicycle. Previously Fred worked as the Production Manager at Regents Park Open Air Theatre,
credits included, Gigi, Hamlet, Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet. Fred also works as a freelance Production Manager, recent credits include The Harder They Come (remounted-Theatre Royal Stratford East) and The Carl Rosa Opera Season (Gielgud Theatre, West End).
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Cherrelle Glave
Stagemanager/Writer and Actress Cherrelle Glave recently graduated from Royal Holloway University with a degree in Theatre Studies and Creative Writing. Cherrelle has experience both on and back stage. These include the role of ‘Kat’ in Glimpse (2008) by Lara Stavrinou as well as acting in and helping to devise PRP The London Underground;(2008), The Company of Wolves (1998) by Angela Carter and Twilight Los Angeles 1992 (1999) by Anna Deavere Smith. In August 2009 she became a Stage
Manager on Max and Ivan: Televisionaries (2009), a comedy sketch show based on the theme of television, at the annual Fringe Festival in Edinburgh. Cherrelle has also lent her voice to the radio play version of Sea Oak (2001) by George Saunders. Cherrelle was also part of the team that adapted the short story into a play for the radio. As well as writing plays Cherrelle, is also a keen novelist and is currently compiling a book of short stories.
James Grant Music Producer
James is a composer/producer and sound engineer who has worked with a wide variety of artists. He studied at SAE Institute gaining a BA Hons in Recording Arts. Credits include Forever (Queens theatre) Fathers and Sons (Tell Tarra) and Street Opera (Waterman’s Theatre). He is also part of the successful
award winning production duo Ill Blu well known in the UK funky house scene and for their remixes for major labels. Their credits include their own Say Yes & Blu Magic, Frontline & Big Boys - Princess Nyah, Pull It (Ill Blu Remix) - Shystie, Watching Her Move (Ill Blu Remix) - Donaeo.
Special Thanks to... The actors (Geoff, Dionne, Chizzy, Billy, Ashley, Marcia) for supporting Tell Tarra and being such a talented bunch, the production team (Fred, Priya, Cherelle, Anna, James, Roxan, Gabriella Codardo) to Level 7 Media: (Derek Morisson, Cassandra Mungofa, Piuchi Fu, Milly Lam,Cherelle Glave), Half Moon Theatre, Second Wave, Hackney Empire, The Albany and Rich Mix. Mark Anderson (PR & Marketing) Paulette Long, Kayin-Amara (for beig so understanding to his mummy - JB, in his first year of life). To Angela & JBs family and parents for their love and support. Volunteers: Charlie French, Natalie Rose, Melanie Rose and Anthony, Ashley, Natalie Morrison-Bowen, Geena Clarke.
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Our sponsors, Level 7 Media, Port Royal Patties, Kato Enterprise, Grace Foods, The Voice, Sackville Travel, Institute of Wellbeing. Nixon (for all your understanding and support) Photography Martin Burton This production is especially made possible due to Halfmoon. It has been a thoroughly enjoyable process being able to rehearse at the theatre and we thank you for the loan of your staff, resources and offering your expertise. We look forward to doing it again. in the future.
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Don’t Call Me Florence
The Story of Mary Seacole By Cherrelle
Glave
Obama: The Intangible Dream The Story of Barack Obama’s journey to the White House By
Directed by
Cherrelle Glave
Vernon Douglas
Black Heroes of our Times present two exciting theatrical pieces created for young people aged 13—17 years celebrating Barack Obama’s fascinating journey to becoming the first Black President of the United States of America and Mary Seacole’s feisty quest to heal the sick and needy during the First World War. Black Heroes of Our Time are excited to offer these two 20 minute theatre productions to schools, colleges, youth and community groups which promises to entertain, educate and promote an interest in the achievements of Black Heroes past and present. Find Your Own Way & Calling for Change by Cherrelle Glave and Directed by Vernon Douglas is available for bookings to come to your school, club or centre during school time or in the evening. In addition to this, teachers, facilitators and educators can also book the actor/tutors to lead a drama session with your class or group. This performance and the additional Black Heroes of Our Time drama workshop is created to compliment the Black Heroes of Our Time Teachers Resource pack: a fun practical teachers hand book aimed at schools and educators who want to offer young people the opportunity to learn about African history and modern Black heroes and is also available to purchase.
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POLITICS & LAW
POLITICS & LAW
Baroness Valerie Amos
Constance Briscoe
B: 1954 - Georgetown, Guyana
B: 1957
The First Black Female Cabinet Minister and Joint First Black Woman Peer Baroness Valerie Amos was created a life peer in 1997. She is a British Labour Party politician and life peer, formerly serving as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council. When she was appointed Secretary of State for International Development on 12 May 2003, following the resignation of Clare Short, she became the first black woman to sit in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom. A distinctive element of Baroness Amos’ political career is that she has never actually been elected to any public office as every office held has been
an unelected appointment. Following positions in Equal Opportunities, Training and Management Services in local government in the London boroughs of Lambeth, Camden and Hackney, she became Chief Executive of the Equal Opportunities Commission 1989–94. After resigning from the cabinet, Baroness Amos took up a directorship with Travant Capital, a Nigerian private equity fund launched in 2007 and is involved with the 2012 Olympic Committee.
Barrister Constance Briscoe was one of six children born to two Jamaicans who settled in the UK in the 1950s. Briscoe studied Law at the University of Newcastle, financing her studies through various weekend and holiday jobs including working at a hospice with the terminally ill. After completing her MA at the University of Warwick she was called to the Bar in 1983, and became a Recorder, a part time
judge in 1996 - one of the first black women to sit as a judge in the UK. Briscoe’s legal practice focuses on criminal law and fraud, principally defending. She is also known for her books ‘Ugly’ and ‘Beyond Ugly’ in which she recounts tales of abuse as a child and she often talks about her experiences publicly.
Baroness Scotland
The First Black Female Attorney General
Dame Linda Dobbs
B: 1955 - Commonwealth of Dominica
The First Black Judge Appointed To the High Courts of Justice
In 1999, Scotland was appointed Parliamentary UnderSecretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. She was responsible for introducing the Bill to ratify the International Criminal Court in the United Kingdom. She also set up a panel of British-based lawyers who provided pro bono services to UK nationals imprisoned overseas. In 2001 she became Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor’s Department, and was made a member of the Privy Council. Scotland was a contender for a
B: 1951
cabinet position at a time when Tony Blair is reported to have considered appointing her Leader of the House of Lords. In 2003, Lady Scotland of Asthal, as she is also known, was made Minister of State for the Criminal Justice system and Law Reform at the Home Office. On 28 June 2007, Baroness Scotland was appointed Attorney General by the new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. She is the first woman to hold the office since its foundation in 1315.
Bernard Grant MP
One of Britain’s First Black MPs
B: 1944 - Georgetown, Guyana
Dobbs’ mother was from Sierra Leone, and her father was an English lawyer who became a High Court judge in Sierra Leone. She studied Linguistic and Regional Studies (Russian and Law) at the University of Surrey, graduating with a BSc in 1976. She received an LLM from the London School of Economics, and a PhD for research on criminology and penology in the Soviet Union. Dame Linda Penelope Dobbs was the first non-white person to be assigned as judge of the High Court of justice of England and Wales. She was appointed a High Court Judge in September
2004. She received a DBE, and was assigned Queen Bench Division, the Administrative Court, and the Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal. At the time of the appointment, Dobbs said: “It is a great honour to have been invited by the Lord Chancellor to become a High Court Judge… I am confident, nevertheless, that I am the first of many to come”. She has subsequently been appointed as Chairman of the Magisterial Committee of the Judicial Studies Board.
D: 2000
Bernard Grant was one of many West Indians who took up the British government’s invitation to the colonies to move to the UK for blue-collar employment in 1963. He was for a period a member of the Socialist Labour League. He quickly became a trade union official, and moved into politics, becoming a Labour councilor in the London Borough of Haringey in 1978. As council leader during the Broadwater Farm riot of 1985, in which a policeman, PC Blakelock, was killed, he was thrown into the public eye, when he was widely quoted as saying “The police got
a bloody good hiding”. Grant claimed had been taken out of context, but offered an apology to the family of PC Blakelock. The controversy did not prevent him from becoming MP for Tottenham in the 1987 election, one of only three black MPs at the time. As an MP he backed demands for black sections in the Labour and was recognised as a staunch voice against Police racism. In September 2007 in Tottenham, London, Haringey Council opened the Bernie Grant Arts Centre in his name.
Colin Powell
First African-American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Black Heroes of Our Time
B: 1937 - New York City, California, USA Colin Luther Powell, KCB, MSC, is an American statesman and retired as a four-star general in the United States Army. He was well known for his tremendous popularity among the American people. He was the first African American appointed to the position of 65th United States Secretary of State, serving under President George W. Bush. During his time within the military, Powell also served as National Security Advisor, as Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Army Forces Command and as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, holding the latter position during the Gulf War. He was the first, and so far the only, African American to serve on the Joint Chiefs
of Staff. Colin Powell announced his resignation as Secretary of State on Monday, November 15, 2004. The following day, George W. Bush nominated National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice as Powell’s successor. In 2007, Powell donated the maximum amount to John McCain’s campaign with his name listed as a possible running mate in 2008 for Republican nominee McCain’s presidential election bid however, on October 19, 2008, Powell declared his backing of Barack Obama during a Meet the Press interview, citing “his ability to inspire, because of the inclusive nature of his campaign’ additionally referring to Obama as a “transformational figure.”
Dawn Butler MP The first Black Female Minister in the House of Commons
B: 1969- London, UK Dawn Petula Butler is a British Labour politician, Member of Parliament for Brent South and an Assistant Chief Whip for Gordon Brown’s government. She worked as a GMB Union Officer, including time as a national race and equality officer. She was also an advisor to former London Mayor Ken Livingstone on employment and social issues. She is the first Black female minister in the House of Commons. She was born in London into a large family of Jamaican immigrant parentage with a sister and four brothers. She has said, “It is important to me that government is reflective of our diverse community and ordinary hard working individuals are given the opportunity to have their voices heard.” Interest in youth services has continued as one of her main interests in Parliament. On 24 October 2006 she was appointed Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Youth Affairs, and she is an Honorary Vice President of the British Youth Council. After Gordon Brown became Prime Minister, on 27 June 2007, Butler was made one of the Labour Party’s six Vice Chairs, with particular responsibility for Youth issues.n
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By JB Rose
Starring
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By JB Rose, directed by Angela Michaels
3rd, 4th & 5th Dec 2009 Hackney Empire 10th, 11th &12th Dec 2009 The Albany in Deptford 17th, 18th & 19th Dec 2009 Rich Mix in Shoreditch Designed by transition creative 0207 007 0590 www.level7media.co.uk
It’s nearly Christmas, the presents are wrapped and the family prepares to celebrate. Newly retired Cornelius, the head of the family reveals his Christmas surprise. What was meant to be an intimate family occasion quickly spirals into farce, as for the first time ever Precious, his wife stands up for herself. With plenty of laughs and a few home truths, we’re taken on a right rollicking ride in this black comedy that dares to delve into family secrets. Precious refuses to back down, the family takes sides and the battle of the sexes begins! With an exciting cast of talented actors who are no strangers to TV and stage, King of the Castle stars Dionne Mitchell (X Factor finalist 2006), Geoff Aymer (BBC Eastenders, The West End hit Big Life), Chizzy Akudolu (CBBC’s Jinx, E4s Dead Set), Ashley J (Acting Up, originally performed at Hackney Empire) Billy Reid (Sleeping Beauty) and Marcia Mantack (Fruit Salad). A fun-filled family show suitable for the whole family with a lively chat-back with the cast and director after each show.
TOUR DATES Hackney Empire 291 Mare Street London E8 Box Office: 0208 985 2424 boxoffice@hackneyempire.co.uk
Dates: 3rd, 4th & 5th Dec 2009 Tickets: Full: £12.50 Concess: £10.50 Community Access Network: £10 & Friends of the Hackney Empire: £9.50 Doors: 7pm Show: 7.30pm
The Albany Douglas Way Deptford SE8 4UG Box Office: 020 8692 4446 www.thealbany.org.uk
Dates: 10th, 11th &12th Dec 2009 Tickets: £9 / £ 6 concession Doors: 7pm Show: 8.00pm
Rich Mix in Shoreditch 34-47 Bethnal Green Road London E1 6LA Box Office: 020 7613 7490 www.richmix.org.uk
Date: 17th, 18th & 19th Dec 2009 Tickets: £12 / £10 concession Doors: 7pm Show: 7.30pm
This production is made possible due to the support of Halfmoon
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By JB Rose
Starring
Dionne Mitchell
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Written by JB Rose, Directed by Angela Michaels The battle of the sexes begins in this Caribbean Christmas tale suitable for the whole family.
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