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Three evenings of new drama, performed by Oxford Playhouse 12|16 and 17|25 Young Companies, all inspired by the concept of ‘freedom’.
We fight for basic human rights and individual luxuries but in truth we take our freedoms for granted. You think you know what spurs you on but are surprised each time the past creeps or jumps up to remind you why you do what you do and who you are. If the past is inescapable how do you face it or do you hide in someone or something else?
OP Young Playmakers have written short plays exploring the concept of freedom and how we encounter individual and universal freedoms throughout our lives.
Duration: 2 hours 15mins with interval
Tuesday 3rd July: Grown Folk, Maya's Place and Technical Difficulties
Wednesday 4th July: Grown Folk, Maya's Place and Optimum
Thursday 5th July: Six People Standing in Line... and Optimum
Friday 6th July: Six People Standing in Line..., Optimum and Technical Difficulties
GROWN FOLK by Josh Parker
MAYA'S PLACE by Sophie Kitching
OPTIMUM by Daniel Cooksey
SIX PEOPLE STANDING IN LINE ON THE SIDE OF A MAIN ROAD WAITING FOR A FUNERL PROCESSION TO PASS by Matthew Warwick
TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES by Harri Marshall
Duration: 2 hours 15mins with interval
Tue 19 , Thu 21 & Sat 23 Feb
"It's not God I worry about. It's people." Bobbi is a photographer. Jerry is a writer. Bobby is worldly-wise. Jerry is stepping out on his own for the very first time. Bobbi is gay. Jerry is straight. Bobbi is passionate, talented and artistic. And so is Jerry. Plagued is the story of two men attempting to make a life for themselves in New York City. Inadvertently paired, together they...
Tue 19 , Thu 21 & Sat 23 Feb
Middle of the road and in the middle of the Midlands, Burtonwood is a town like any other. As the council budget is cut and public services are slashed, the town’s trade and transport dry up. Horticulture is left to ruin, hospitals turn away patients, and the high street houses the homeless. In the ‘Town Welfare Department’ of the council offices, four phones charging extortionate rates...
Wed 20 , Fri 22 - Sat 23 Feb
Meet Geeta, a Sri Lankan girl living in a British world. Geeta deals with being a daughter of immigrants, the effects of genocide and war, and puberty ceremonies all in the middle of London. Performed as a one woman show, Confessions of a Coconut is a research-based theatre piece seeking to explore issues of immigration and identity in a modern world. Confessions of a Coconut is par...