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BLOWING

written by: Jeroen van den Berg
translated by: Rina Vergano
directed by: Dan Barnard and Rachel Briscoe (FanSHEN)
dates:
Oct  - Nov 2010 (national tour dates see below)
partners: a Fanshen production in association with Company of Angels and The Junction, Cambridge as part of the Young Angels Theatremakers Award (2009)
supported by:
Arts Council England, East

design: Joanna Scotcher
lighting design:
Emma Chapman
composition:
Richard Hammarton
cast:
Peter Bray, Paul Brendan, Jennifer Jackson, Louise Bush


What happens when family becomes just a game for other people to watch?

Stop.     
Rewind.
Start again. And this time, make sure it’s perfect.


A perfect family celebrate their perfect mother’s perfect fortieth birthday.
A perfect photo opportunity – or a chance to destroy the image of perfection that they’ve been peddling for years.

Time to choose.

Winner of the prestigious Dutch Taalunie Award for Best Play, Blowing is the darkly comedic story of a disintegrated family which no one has got around to leaving yet, written by one of the most talented contemporary playwrights in the Netherlands.

 

‘It’s a tense, brutal evening of truth-telling and layers of all sorts being stripped away, and is performed with conviction … stimulating food for thought.’****
The Evening Standard on Fanshen’s recent sell-out show, Shooting Rats

Fanshen’s production of Blowing is the winner of the Young Angels Award 2009.

Tour Dates:
12 Oct                        The Junction, Cambridge
                                    www.junction.co.uk / 01223 511511
13 Oct                        The Seagull, Lowestoft 
                                    www.theseagull.co.uk / 01502 589726
15 Oct                        Kingston Grammar School 
                                    020 7928 2811 (tickets via CoA)
16 Oct                        Mowlem Theatre Swanage
                                    www.mowlemtheatre.co.uk / 01929 422239
19 Oct                        Colchester Arts Centre
                                    www.colchesterartscentre.com / 01206 500900
20 Oct                        MAC Birmingham
                                    www.macarts.co.uk / 0121 4463232
27 Oct                        Watermans Arts Centre
                                    www.watermans.org.uk / 0208 2321010
2 - 6 Nov (not 4th)    Southwark Playhouse (part of Theatre Cafe Festival 2010)
                                    www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk / 020 74070234
9 Nov                          Theatre Royal Bath (The Egg)
                                    www.theatreroyal.org.uk / 01225 823409
10 Nov                       Harrow Arts Centre
                                    www.harrowarts.com / 020 84168989
11 Nov                       The Maltings, St Albans
                                    www.stalbans.gov.uk / 01727 844222
12 Nov                       The Dukes, Lancaster 
                                    www.dukes-lancaster.org / 01524 598500
14 Nov                       The Cut, Halesworth
                                    www.newcut.org / 0845 6732123