AT THE JELLYFISH THEATRE…
PROTOZOA
by Kay Adshead
23 September – 9 October 2010
evenings at 8pm, matinees at 3pm on 2, 6 & 9 October
“And it was a new beginning. A chance to do things better this time.”
Twenty years from now, after the Storms, the UK has become an oppressive police state based on segregation and control. Cordelia, a successful property developer, and Sheann, a single mother, are poles apart, but now they form an unlikely alliance. Surviving in the debris, one tries to rebuild her former life, the other searches for her missing daughter. Can they create an alternative society and does the mysterious and secretive colony of river women on the other bank hold the key?
Compelling and powerful, Protozoa is a dark, dystopian drama, with twists and turns that finally reveal a glimmer of hope.
Kay Adshead’s previous play for The Red Room, The Bogus Woman, won an Edinburgh Festival Fringe First and was called by The Guardian “a powerful, passionate, committed piece of theatre that, if seen widely enough, might change hearts and minds.”
this production is recommended for age 15+
Running time approximately 90 minutes with no interval
Seating is unreserved. Tickets are £13 with some concessions at £10 (ages 16 or under, ages 65 or over, disabled, unemployed and full time students). Please note there is a booking fee of £1 per ticket.
Groups 8+: Tickets just £9.
Protozoa cast
Sheann/Egasha Anne Akin
Cordelia Dido Miles
Hall Neil d’Souza
Invisible woman Eugenia Low
Protozoa and Oikos creative team
Director Topher Campbell
DesignerBernadette Roberts
Lighting Designer Tim Deiling
Sound Designer and Music Fred De Faye for Fahrenheit 59 Production. www.f59sonicart.com
Movement Director Jean Abreau
Assistant Director Zoe Lafferty
Design Assistants Alex Christie & Becky Johnson
Director of Filming Topher Campbell
Assistant Director Zoe Lafferty
Video Peter Williams
Production Manager Adi Billinge
Stage Manager Cleo Maynard
PREVIOUS PRODUCTION…
OIKOS
by Simon Wu
26 August – 18 September 2010
evenings at 8pm
“We’re a family…. If we leave together, noone is left behind”
Salil, a highly-successful businessman, has it all worked out: career, family, river-view des-res in Chiswick and a beautiful mistress. So why is he increasingly haunted by ghosts from the Old Country? When the Thames bursts its banks and his family scramble to keep their heads above water, the very foundations of his perfect life are threatened and Salil is forced to look to both his future and his past for redemption.
Oikos was developed at the National Theatre Studio
Oikos cast
Lily Amy Dawson
Assana Dido Miles
Salil Neil d’Souza
Oikos film cast
Pramath AJ Chaabra
Aashiyana Sakuntala Ramanee
The Jellyfish Theatre
Marlborough Playground, 11 – 25 Union Street, Southwark, London SE1 1 LB
