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04-Feb-2010 - Spring Tour 2010 - The Long Way Home
The Long Way Home on tour Feb 17th - May 22nd
The Long Way Home
Written by Charles Way, Directed by Naomi Jones
Designer Mika Handley, Music Rebecca Shanks, Puppetry Polly Beestone, Lighting Steve Cooney
Opens at Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh on Wednesday February 17th
Eastern Angles use music, puppetry and storytelling techniques to bring this contemporary folktale to life.
The story centres on a spirited old woman and her pilgrimage across country back to the seaside village of her childhood. As she treks across the land the ‘old mother' meets an abandoned dog-boy and a tender friendship is forged.
On the way, the two companions encounter a series of strange and unsettling characters - a distraught mother, a proud farmer, dangerous bandits and ghosts from the past all fighting their own personal battles.
Charles Way is an award-winning writer of over thirty plays. Eastern Angles audiences will remember his wonderfully atmospheric play In The Bleak Midwinter which toured the East of England back in 2000.
The Long Way Home will be directed by Naomi Jones whose 2009 Spring Tour Return To Akenfield gained glowing reviews from The Guardian and The Times.
This new production will tour to over fifty venues across the East of England between February 17th - May 22nd
Cast: Susan McGoun, Theo Devaney, James Bolt & Jumaan Short
Stage Manager: Penny Griffin
29-Jan-2010 - Booking opens for Bentwater Roads
Booking for our spectacular, site-specific production Bentwater Roads opens on February 1st!
Members of the Eastern Angles Friends scheme can book tickets for our exciting new production Bentwater Roads from 10am on Monday 1st February.
General booking will open one week later on Monday 8th February.
Bentwater Roads is written by Tony Ramsay. Eastern Angles audiences will remember Tony's plays The Bluethroat, Message from Neptune and The Anatomist.
The production will be directed by Eastern Angles founder, Ivan Cutting and designed by Rosie Alabaster (We Didn't Mean to Go Sea). Music is by Roger Eno.
Bentwater Roads will be performed at the Hush House, Bentwaters Park between July 1st - July 18th.
Tickets: £9 - £17.50
Pre-show airbase tours: £2.50
Ring the Eastern Angles Box Office on 01473 211498 for more details.
03-Jan-2010 - Mansfield Park & Ride is Guardian Pick of the Week!
This week's Guardian Guide has selected Mansfield Park & Ride as their Pick of the Week.
This week's Guardian Guide has selected Mansfield Park & Ride as their Pick of the Week, proclaiming Eastern Angles as "always purveyors of a good Christmas show".
Lyn Gardner wrote: "It has been a very fine 12 months for Eastern Angles, the East Anglian based company that, back in 2008, faced Arts Council cuts, but which has since reinvented itself, coming out with some interesting work like the superb verbatim piece Return to Akenfield. As its title suggests, Mansfield Park & Ride is going to be one of the company's lighter shows, as the cast don breeches and bonnets to liberate Jane Austen's novels from the corset of the page and smear them with puns, ditties and outrageous satire. Clearly a bit of festive silliness which the publicity assures us is "a long, long way after Jane Austen", it could be a fun way to start the new year if you fancy seeing whether Mrs Bonnet succeeds in marrying off her dotty daughters or why Betsy the Maid is in every scene."
30-Jul-2009 - A new collaboration and a new play.
Eastern Angles & Menagerie join forces.
Last year, as part of Black History Month, Eastern Angles teamed-up with London-based theatre company Tiata Fahodzi to present a series of rehearsed readings by up-and-coming British-African playwrights.
The collaboration was so successful that Eastern Angles have decided to work with Cambridge theatre company, Menagerie, to stage a new play, Egusi Soup, by British-Nigerian playwright, Janice Okoh. Once again, this production will form part of the October 2009 Black History Month celebrations.
Janice Okoh, who has completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, has written two plays for BBC Radio 4. Her first short play for the theatre was selected for the 2007 International Play Writing Festival.
Egusi Soup, Janice's first full-length play, premiered at Hotbed, the Cambridge New Writing Theatre Festival and is described as a funny, fast-paced family drama. The story focusses on two sisters, Anne and Grace, as they prepare to pack their bags and travel from London to a family funeral in the Nigerian city of Lagos.
The play, which will be presented as another 'rehearsed reading' with actors performing with ‘script-in-hand', will be directed by Menagerie's Artistic Director, Paul Bourne.
The Egusi Soup tour will begin on Thursday 8th October at the Eastern Angles base - the Sir John Mills Theatre in Ipswich - before visiting six other towns and cities across the East of England.
Tour dates & box office numbers:
Oct 8th & 9th Sir John Mills Theatre, Gatacre Road, Ipswich Tel: 01473 211498
Oct 10th Luton Hat Factory, Luton Tel: 01582 878100
Oct 12th Samuel Ward Arts & Technology College, Haverhill Tel: 01440 714140
Oct 13th Brightlingsea Community Centre, Brightlingsea Tel: 01473 211498
Oct 14th Seagull Theatre, Morton Road, Lowestoft Tel: 01473 211498
Oct 15th Key Theatre Studio, Peterborough Tel: 01733 207239
Oct 17th Sheringham Little Theatre Tel: 01263 822347
Egusi Soup contains some strong language and is not suitable for children under 15
26-Sep-2007 - Eastern Angles shortlisted for Special Achievement Award
Eastern Angles are on the shortlist for this year’s Stage Award for Special Achievement in Regional Theatre.
Eastern Angles are on the shortlist for this year’s Stage Award for Special Achievement in Regional Theatre.
Eastern Angles receives a nomination for 25 years of bringing high quality theatre to the towns and villages of East Anglia.The winner will be announced at the Theatrical Management Association Awards on October 21 at Hampstead Theatre.
Manchester property company Bruntwood, theatre organisation Chicken Shed and the Tivoli Theatre Trust were put forward by The Stage’s judging panel and join reader choices Eastern Angles theatre company, Nottingham Playhouse’s Young Critics’ Circle Scheme and Northumberland Theatre Company.
29-Aug-2007 - DOUBLE AWARD GLORY FOR EASTERN ANGLES!
JANET BAMFORD and EUGENIA CARUSO have jointly won The Stage Best Actress Award for Acting Excellence for Truckstop in Edinburgh.
DOUBLE AWARD GLORY FOR EASTERN ANGLES!!
Eastern Angles Theatre Company have brought back more than just fantastic reviews from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for their latest runaway success - TRUCKSTOP.
The show’s two actresses - JANET BAMFORD and EUGENIA CARUSO have jointly won The Stage Best Actress Award for Acting Excellence.
Beating off stiff competition from 4 other excellent candidates, they are understandably delighted with their victory!
When it comes to theatre, The Stage knows its stuff. Now in their 13th year, the awards are adjudicated by the newspaper’s festival review team, and aim to recognise outstanding theatre performances by individuals and companies on the Fringe. Nominees are selected from nearly 350 productions covered by the reviews team during the festival.
Co-produced with renowned theatre company Company of Angels, TRUCKSTOP is a beautifully written show which focuses on a controlling mother who will stop at nothing to protect her vulnerable daughter from her truck-driver boyfriend. But when a knife is drawn, their lives are changed. Forever.
TRUCKSTOP won the highly prestigious Van der Vries prize in 2005 for the best new play in the Netherlands and was selected for the Escalator East to Edinburgh 2007.
Being described as “Compulsory viewing for anybody with half a heart”(Three Weeks), “Wonderfully powerful, exceptionally acted by all and delightfully staged” (one4review.com) and “A captivating tale of maternal love” (The Independent) there is no excuse to miss out as it plays at the Sir John Mills Theatre Thurs 6th - Sat 8th September and will tour the region until 4th October before going into London.
For full booking details ring the Box Office on 01473 211498 or log onto www.easternangles.co.uk