Thursday
30 January 3003
World Première : Black Box @ Contact |
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The cast of black box |
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Another
season... another world premiere at the Contact.
Written and directed Manchester's Christopher Wright. 'black box'
is the first production by the North-West based LeKoa company. |
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Synopsis:
Meet Cassius, Kate, Will and Liz. They’re all good friends. But someone
is missing. Jack. Having died suddenly, his body is now lying at rest
in the city art gallery. Without him the group begin to fall apart,
revealing the source of their deepest fears: the secrets and lies
that make up their lives.
Biography:
Christopher Wright
 Born
01/07/70 in Manchester
Trained
at Leicester Polytechnic School Of Performing Arts
Directed
critically acclaimed "RULE 43 (Disappear Here)" at 1991 National
Student Drama Festival.
Founded
The Honeymoon Killers Theatre Company in 1993, and as Artistic
Director wrote, directed and produced Ran (1993), Ballad Of
Lucy Jordan (1994), Raymond & Martha (1995), Dirty Mary (1996)
which toured nationally and in Europe.
Disbanded
the company in 1997 to work in Botswana as a Community Drama
Workshop Leader
Returned to the UK in 1998, directing freelance around the country
Founded
LeKoa, a theatre collaborative committed to writing and producing
new plays, in April 2002 |
Featuring
ordinary people in an extraordinary situation, black box is
an emotionally electric tale of love, loss, guilt, and forgiveness.
Like a mirror held up to the face of its audience, black box offers
an uncompromising reflection that begs the question: what do we really
know about each other?
Set in the city art gallery and framed by four works of modern art,
black box also questions the nature of art, the increasingly blurred
boundaries between what is and what isn’t acceptable human behaviour
and the theatrical tendency and compelling complexity of our everyday
lives.
Written and directed by Christopher Wright, one of Manchester’s leading
independent directors, black box is the first production by LeKoa,
a theatre collaborative committed to writing and producing new plays
in and around the North West region.
"Why can’t people just say how it is? They’re so scared of being
misunderstood that theylie to avoid it." |
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