Following another critically successful year, The Yard's Artistic Director Jay Miller is delighted to announce plans for Spring through to Summer 2016.
Offstage Theatre with Paul Jellis and The Yard Theatre presents
Re:Home Created by Offstage Theatre Directed by Cressida Brown and designed by Georgia Lowe Produced by Paul Jellis Tuesday 9 February to Saturday 5 March, 8pm PRESS NIGHT: Friday 12 February, 8pm Our homes belong to us. Ten years ago residents of the Beaumont Estate Towers in Leyton looked on as their homes were dismantled brick by brick. Re:Home sequels Cressida Brown's 2006 production, Home, made and performed before people were moved out of the towers. In 2016, Cressida revisits the Beaumont Estate to make a show about what our homes mean to us today. Using testimonies collected from former and current residents of the estate, Re:Home documents fraying relationships in the changing landscape of East London. Winner of the Kevin Spacey Foundation Artists of Choice Award- UK Theatre Award, Re:Home is a show brimming with urgency and compassion, giving a voice to a community that no longer exists.with The Yard, Sheffield Theatres and Birmingham Rep presents
Cuttin' It Written by Charlene James Directed by Gbolahan Obisesan Designed by Joanna Scotcher Tuesday 26 - Saturday 30 July, 8pm 'We're opposites, even though we came from the same, she's nuttin like me, an that shames me.' Teenagers Muna and Iqra get the same bus to school but they've never really spoken. Muna wears TopShop and sits on the top deck gossiping about Nicki Minaj's latest spat, while Iqra sits alone downstairs in her charity shop hand-me-downs. They were both born in Somalia but come from completely different worlds. But as they get closer, they realise that their families share a painful secret. A new play by Charlene James tackling the urgent issue of FGM in Britain. Charlene James won the Alfred Fagon and George Devine Awards for Cuttin' It. She is a playwright and an actor who trained at Birmingham School of Acting and The School at Steppenwolf, Chicago. In 2008, she participated in the Royal Court Theatre Young Writers Programme and in 2012 she was selected to be one of the 503 Five at Theatre 503. In 2013 Charlene became a writer in residence at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre for their season focusing on mental health. Her play, Tweet Tweet, was commissioned by the Birmingham Repertory Theatre as part of Young Theatre Makers and premiered there before touring. As a writer Gbolahan Obisesan's credits include Pigeon English (Bristol Old Vic), Mad about the Boy (Edinburgh Festival, Unicorn, Bush, Young Vic) and Hold It Up (National Youth Theatre/Soho). As a writer and director his credits include How Nigeria Became, A Story and A Spear that Didn't Work (Unicorn). Other directing credits include We Are Proud to Present... and Sixty-Six Books (Bush Theatre); Songs Inside (Gate Theatre); Eye/Balls and Hold It Up (Soho Theatre); and 200 Years (Watford Palace Theatre). He was also awarded the Bulldog Princep Bursary as Resident Director at the National Theatre Studio 2008-09 Fringe First Award. He is currently Genesis Fellow of the Young Vic.The Yard Theatre is located at Unit 2A Queen's Yard, White Post Lane, Hackney Wick, London E9 5EN. Buy tickets online at www.theyardtheatre.co.uk. Previews: £12.50/10 conc.; £15 / £12.50 concs.
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