TRIANGLE 2009: 3 Plays By 3 East End Playwrights Comes To Hackney Empire In June

Angle Theatre and The Hackney Empire present TRIANGLE 2009: 3 new plays by 3 new East End playwrights at the Hackney Empire Studio

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Hackney Empire Studio - 3rd - 21st June 2009

Press Night Thurs 4th June at 7.30pm

THE SEA AT NIGHT (Staged Reading)

Hackney Empire Studio - Sunday 14 June, 4.00pm and 8.00pm

KHADIJA IS 18 (Staged Reading)

Hackney Empire Studio - Sunday 21 June, 4.00pm and 8.00pm

Last year the recently formed Angle Theatre launched a new initiative, backed by a dedicated marketing campaign, which invited people from some of London's most deprived areas to write a play for the very first time. Sponsored by the internationally renowned design and marketing agency Pentagram, and supported by the Arts Council and private donors, the campaign material was translated into five different languages and targeted 50 international communities in East London.

A staggering seventy scripts were submitted in many different languages. A team of multi-lingual script readers, along with a panel of industry judges including Dawn Walton, Paul Miller and Indhu Rubasingham selected three scripts for performance. As part of their development each writer received tickets to the theatre, script advice, workshops and mentoring from established playwrights and directors.

Charlotte Gwinner, Artistic Director, said:

‘I conducted some research that revealed there were lots of writers, particularly from international communities, who perceived their cultural background excluded them from theatre. So I went to those communities directly and found an extraordinary clash of writing traditions, reflecting a diversity in contemporary Britain I had never seen on stage before. Angle Theatre was formed as a result of this research.'

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By Mina Maisuria

3-20 June

Directed by Charlotte Gwinner

Commercial Road hilariously explores the struggles and fears of a group of dispossessed Asian petrol station workers in East London.

THE SEA AT NIGHT

14th June 4pm, 8pm (Rehearsed Reading)

By Luciana Saldanha

Directed by Charlotte Gwinner

Set in Sao Paulo, Brazil, an Italian couple debate returning to their homeland. Individual desires and fears rise to the surface as they yearn for the past and dream of their future.

KHADIJA IS 18

21st June 4pm, 8pm (Rehearsed Reading)

By Shamser Sinha

Directed by Tim Stark

Two teenage refugee girls, in London's East End, compete for boys, friends and a place in multicultural Britain.

Charlotte Gwinner is the Artistic Director of Angle Theatre and an Associate at The Bush Theatre. Last year she was Director on Attachment at The National Theatre Studio where she worked on a range of new plays including Lobster, Love in Glass Jar and Right Here Right Now. She has developed new plays for Paines Plough, The Royal Court Young Writers Programme and Nottingham's Theatre Writing Partnership and her directing credits include; Little Dolls by Nancy Harris (The Bush), The Country of Blind by Simon Bent (The Gate), The Blood of Others by Simon Bent (The Arcola) Men Should Weep by Ena Lamont Stewart (Headlong No 1 Tour of Scotland and England) Knives in Hens by David Harrower (Theatre Royal Bath) Everything Must Go by Steven Sharkey, Riders to the Sea and other plays by JM Synge (The Southwark Playhouse), The Conservatory by Mark Dooley (The Old Red Lion.)

Set and Costumes by Garance Marneur - winner of the Linbury Prize 2008

Music and Sound Design by Elizabeth Purnell

"This company sounds really exciting." Nicholas Hytner, National Theatre

"I feel like people are on my side, not trying to change what I'm doing but helping me to do it better."

Shamser Sinha, playwright, Tri-ANGLE2009

· Website: angletheatre.co.uk

· Tickets available from: hackneyempire.co.uk

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