'Memory' to Open at Pleasance Theatre October 1st

Terry Hands' production of Jonathan Lichtenstein's Memory will open at the Pleasance Theatre, Islington on 1 October, after a national tour.  Previews at the Pleasance begin on 30 September and the show is booking until 2 November.   Hands' production, which had its world premiere in 2006 at Clywd Theatr Cymru before an off-Broadway run, is designed by Martyn Bainbridge. Memory is presented at the Pleasance Theatre by Clwyd Theatr Cymru in association with Karl Sydow.

The cast is Ifan Huw Dafydd, Daniel Hawksford, Guy Lewis, Simon Nehan, Vivien Parry, Oliver Ryan and Tom Shepherd.
 
Memory is an intimate exploration of how we choose to remember events and the consequences of those choices.  From a group of actors and their director in the rehearsal room, Memory takes us to East Berlin in 1990 just as the wall has come down.  A young man arrives at his grandmother's flat with awkward questions about the past.  Meanwhile, a generation later, the Israeli security barrier is going up.

Welsh writer Jonathan Lichtenstein has written five plays comprising Moving the Scrolls and Human Rights for BBC Radio 4, Station - staged by Soho Theatre Company, The Pull of Negative Gravity - staged by the Traverse, Edinburgh before an international tour, and Memory.  He is currently working on a new play The Morning of Two Lights.
 
Terry Hands is one of Europe's leading theatre directors.  His international credits include productions in Berlin, Brussels, Chicago, London, New York, Oslo, Paris, Tokyo, Vienna and Zurich. Founding director of the Liverpool Everyman Theatre and former Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company he is now Director and Chief Executive of Clywd Theatr Cymru, a theatre he saved from closure in 1997 and has since built into the most productive producing arts organisation in Wales.
 
Ifan Huw Dafydd is an Associate of Clywd Theatr Cymru.  His screen credits include Holby City, Foyle's War, Heart of Gold and Midsomer Murders and on film his credits include The Silent Twins and The Bullion Boys.

Daniel Hawksford is an Associate of Clywd Theatr Cymru.  Other work includes seasons at the Royal Shakespeare Company, The National Theatre and The Globe.  His screen credits are Colditz, Little White Lies and The Life and Times of Benvenuto Cellini.

Guy Lewis has worked at The National Theatre, in the West End and at Clywd Theatr Cymru. His screen credits include Torchwood, Casualty and Caerdydd.
 
Simon Nehan is an Associate of Clywd Theatr Cymru.  His screen credits comprise The Comedy Show, Casualty and Tracy Beaker the Movie of Me.

Vivien Parry is an Associate of Clywd Theatr Cymru.  She was last seen in the West End as Donna in Mamma Mia.  Her screen credits include EastEnders, Lovejoy, A Separate Peace, Take Me Home, Bodyguards and Medics.
 
Oliver Ryan is an Associate of Clywd Theatr Cymru. His screen credits include Midsomer Murders and The Bill and on film his credits include It Could Be You and Killing Me Softly.

Tom Shepherd will make his professional theatre debut in Memory following graduation from The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

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