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Whisper - by Amy Evans
A work-in-progress commissioned by Context Theatre Company
Followed by a panel discussion with invited speakers on language, asylum and power politics in modern Britain.
Saturday 15 November 2003, 8pm
Cambridge Drama Centre, Covent Garden (Off Mill Road), Cambridge.
The event is free but tickets are limited.
Please book on 01223 511 511
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Whisper is a story of self-discovery, of generations reaching across cultures, nationalities and traumatic histories in order to find one another again. Inspired by the stories of people who have been forced to flee their countries of origin and the children who help them rediscover home.
The commissioning of Whisper was developed out of Context Theatre's work on Back and Forth (Edge Festival, 2002), which was performed at Oakington Immigration Centre, Cambridge Drama Centre plus a range of schools which highlighted a chasm of ignorance towards immigration politics.
Amy Evans was born and raised in the Southeast of the United States. She completed a Master of Arts degree in Writing for Performance at Goldsmiths College and her first play, Achidi J's Final Hours, was awarded a Verity Bargate 2002 bursary from Soho Theatre in London. In July 2003, the play was selected to be read as part of the Immigrant Theatre Project's summer reading series in New York City. She is now based in Berlin where she performs her own work as well as writing for radio and the stage in collaboration with a number of artists in the Black German community. In spring 2003 she instructed Genders Studies students at Humboldt University, Berlin in using performance writing as a means of examining and critiquing social structures, and also performed in director Ping Chong's Secret Histories/Undesirable Elements at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in June. Achidi J's Final Hours will be read at The Frontline Festival, Soho Theatre, November 2003.
There will be a discussion after the show, at which we would welcome your Register. In conjunction with Chats Palace, the piece will be further developed in response to the reading and through The InFlux? programme working with refugee communities in Hackney, London.
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