Unlimited Theatre - Back at The REP!
Unlimited Theatre and Curve present
The Moon The Moon
A new play by Clare Duffy, Jon Spooner and Chris Thorpe
The Door, Birmingham Repertory Theatre
Wednesday 1 April – Saturday 4 April 2009
Press Night: Wednesday 1 April 7.45pm
Unlimited Theatre, one of the UK's boldest companies, brings The Moon The Moon, a terrifying, tender and heartbreakingly optimistic new play to Birmingham Repertory Theatre from April 1 – 4.
Created by Unlimited's three founding artists, Clare Duffy, Jon Spooner and Chris Thorpe, The Moon The Moon is huge and beautiful and human and truthful and brilliant and gut wrenching view of loss and how we deal with it.
Artistic Director Jon Spooner says “It's a simple story about the most profound things, simple things, fundamental things – everyday events of which we all have an understanding - loving and losing, grief and renewal. The story is tender and brutal, moving between worlds and questioning realities. It'll tear you to pieces and wear you out but it'll put you back together and leave you tingling with its visceral impact. Medics call it 'complicated grief'. When we were writing, we were wondering is there really anything they can do for you? How can you live after the most choking experience of grief? Can dream and illusion seduce you back to life? The Moon The Moon shows one man clawing his way through and finding his answers.”
Multiple Fringe First winners Unlimited have produced consistently outstanding work that is scared of neither the emotional nor the intellectual including The Ethics of Progress, Neutrino, Static, Zero Degrees and Drifting, Tangle and Trodden. They make new work for the theatre through collaborative writing and devising processes, touring extensively in the UK and overseas.
Their collaborative approach attracts the cream of established theatre artists, emerging talent and practitioners from other fields. The team for The Moon The Moon includes TONY Award winning sound designer Mic Pool, Linbury Award winning Designer Rhys Jarman, Lighting Designer Ben Pacey and David Edwards, better known as Minotaur Shock, remixer for Snow Patrol, Bloc Party, Super Furry Animals and Badly Drawn Boy.
The cast of The Moon The Moon includes Suzanne Ahmet, Helen Cassidy, Tim Chipping who are all making their Unlimited debut plus Artistic Director Jon Spooner.
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