Nu:Write Theatre Festival SC, Teatar &TD, Zagreb 15th-19th November 2011 nuwritefestival.com
LONDON TALES Directors: Adam Quayle and Hannah Tyrrell-Pinder Cast: Ross Armstrong, Adam Best and Natasha James Movement: Robin Guiver Sound Design: Fergus Waldron
ZAGREB TALES Director: Franka Perkovic Cast: Lada Bonacci, Petar Cvirn and Ivana Krizmanic
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." Charles Dickens, Tale of Two Cities
Box of Tricks and Nu:Write join forces to stage Tales of Two Cities: a transnational theatrical adventure in six parts. The Anglo-Croat company present six 15-minute monologues inspired by place: three London plays in English, three Zagreb plays in Croatian. Celebrating these two great capital cities, this is theatre without boundaries: a cross-cultural, bilingual collaboration that unites the very best of both worlds.
Read the Tales of Two Cities Blog for the latest updates from England and Croatia and a unique insight into the transnational collaborative process leading up to the Nu:Write Theatre Festival in November 2011.
London Tales
Shove,Kenneth Emson "And I started to feel like I was about to fall. Like I was about to come crashing to the floor and this feeling took me over." The story of how we fell.
David,Daniel Kanaber “It's amazing how much life fits into so little time”. A portrait of one summer and its impact on a lifetime.
Struck by Love/Train,Evan Placey Sarah fell in love today. Before she fell under a train. But she needs to break up with her husband. One woman's journey to find true love on the London underground.
Zagreb Tales Zagreb, mon amoure,Srdjan Sandic ZagrebBoy27 logs on and plugs in to the worldwide web. Every morning. Every night. He is angry and frustrated and tells a story about Zagreb, love, sex, politics and the failing economy.
The One Who Waits, Olja Lozica
One morning she woke up and realised that her life is remarkably boring, remarkably routine. And now, at this particular moment, she is locked up in a bank lobby, talking to a security camera, waiting for someone or something to happen.
To fuck because we want to, Vedrana Klepica "Approximately _ _ years ago, he told her: Be quiet ... Be quiet.'" A short piece on what we decide is real.
Snapshots
A picture is worth a thousand words...
Snapshots is a wraparound project: we're asking the public to send photos of London and Zagreb, striking images that evoke what their city means to them. The photos will make up a gallery of images presented on the blog and at the Nu:Write Theatre Festival.
Playwrights are then invited to write a one-page play inspired by an image of their choice to be played by the Anglo-Croat company for Tales of Two Cities: Snapshots at Nu:Write 2011.
TALES OF TWO CITIES: WeFund Campaign Thank you Bernice Chitnis, Katie McCullough, Husna Ahmed, Roland Smith, Charlotte Worthing, Lisa Cagnacci, Suzanne Goldberg. www.wefund.com/project/tales-two-cities