Louise and Jon are part of a tight friendship group along with Sjon and Johan. But Jon's fed up. He wants out. First he has to tell the others. It is this simple act that starts a cycle of misinformation, rumour and suspicion. Friendship sours to enmity and old rivalries come to the surface forcing Louise to make a choice. Should she take her chance and leave too, or stick with what she knows? Not only does she have to decide how she actually feels ... she then has to say it out loud.
Big Aftermath of a Small Disclosure is a play about language. About how dangerous words can be. As soon as thoughts are verbalised, ownership of those thoughts is relinquished. Words can be misunderstood, and once uttered, truth and intention are often lost. Others can appropriate and interpret them in whatever way they want. And that can be dangerous. For everyone concerned.
Comedy and tragedy collide in a play that explores how lives can turn on a single word and confronts that urge that we all share - the sometimes-irresistible compulsion to hit the self-destruct button.
Dutch playwright Magne van den Berg is the author of several plays acclaimed in her native Holland. Big Aftermath of a Small Disclosure won the HG Van der Vies Prize. This is the first production of her work in the UK.
Translator Purni Morell was Artistic Director of the Unicorn Theatre, the UK's leading theatre for young audiences, from 2011 until March 2018 and is a former director of the National Theatre Studio. Prior to this she was based in Scotland as a producer, first with Suspect Culture in Glasgow, then running her own
Production Company, gryllus, which provided creative and logistical support to freelance Scottish artists. Her productions for the Unicorn include, as writer: A Winter's Tale, Henry V, The Fourth Wise Man and Othello; as director, A Winter's Tale, Dora, The Velveteen Rabbit, Baddies: the Musical, My Father Odysseus, Big Love and Version A (the last two co-directed with Christian Roe). Her next production will be Dido for
English National Opera and the Unicorn Theatre in May 2019.
Alice Malin is Associate Director of Actors Touring Company. She has most directed the touring revival of the acclaimed ATC / Orange Tree production of Winter Solstice by Roland Schimmelpfennig. She was also assistant director on ATC's critically hailed production
David Greig's adaptation of Aeschylus's The Suppliant Women and on
Mark Lockyer's Living With The Lights On (both 2017). Her other director credits include Daddy's Girl (Vault Festival); Treasure (Finborough Theatre) and Fluxorama (Theatre 503).
Actors Touring Company (ATC) makes international, contemporary theatre that travels. The company creates shows with a global perspective: activating and entertaining the audience whilst asking questions of the world around us. Placing the actor at the heart of our work, and employing a lean aesthetic which promotes environmental sustainability, ATC has toured the UK and internationally since it was founded in 1978, reaching audiences far and wide.
Recent projects include the 2018 revival of The Brothers Size which was staged at and co-produced with The
Young Vic, Living with the Lights On written and performed by
Mark Lockyer (national tour,
Young Vic, Helsinki and Barcelona), The Suppliant Women (co-production with Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, toured in 2017/18 to Royal Exchange Manchester,
Young Vic, Dublin and Hong Kong Festivals) and Winter Solstice (co-production with Orange Tree, national tour). Other recent work includes The Events by
David Greig (Traverse,
Young Vic, UK and international tours 2013-16). ATC has been coming to Edinburgh Fringe since 1978, when it won its first Fringe First for Don Quixote directed by founder
John Retallack.
ATC presents
BIG AFTERMATH of a small disclosure
by Magne van den Berg Translation by Purni Morell Direction by Alice Malin UK premiere
August 1 - 26
14.00 (60mins)
Summerhall
https://www.summerhall.co.uk
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