A double bill of plays open at Southwark Playhouse for a one-week run on 30 August 2011 before playing at the Beijing International Fringe Festival.
Magical Chairs is an entertainingly absurd short play. Two young lads grappling with growing up and our societal attitudes to youth become two trapped Magicians trying to escape a room filled with chairs. By playing with storytelling the audience is brought to look at universal truths and the consequences of our preconceptions and choices on our youth of today.
By casting British actors of Chinese and African Caribbean descent, Lumenis aims to allude to the global clashes between East and West, old world and new world, head and heart, in a way to deeply appeal and engage with the diverse audiences of London.
There’s Only One Wayne Lee is a unique coming of age tale. Wayne, a bookish British Chinese teen unexpectedly befriends Carl, the British African Caribbean school football captain. Set in 1970s Britain, where intolerance was brazen and rife, this is a fresh exploration of what it means to try to fit in and thrive in contemporary Britain, and the hitherto unseen parallels and divergences between the different diaspora communities.
After opening at Southwark Playhouse, this double bill Magical Chairs and There’s Only One Wayne Lee will go on to play at the Beijing International Fringe Festival in September 2011. Representing the UK this will be the first ever British production to be presented at this pioneering festival.
Post-show and Q&A session: 31st August, acclaimed theatre critic Aleks Sierz will be talking to writers Roy Williams and Mary Mazzilli, director Jonathan Man and producer David Ahlbrecht about intercultural theatre and new writing.
This project is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and by China-UK Connections Through Cultures, British Council.
A double bill of plays open at Southwark Playhouse for a one-week run on 30 August 2011 before playing at the Beijing International Fringe Festival.
Lumenis Theatre Company in association with Southwark Playhouse presents A Double Bill
Magical Chairs by Mary Mazzilli
There’s Only One Wayne Lee by Roy Williams
Directed by Jonathan Man
30th August to 3rd September 2011
CELEBRATING YOUTH and MULTICULTURALISM
Venue
Main House, Southwark Playhouse
Shipwright Yard
Corner of Bermondsey St. and Tooley St.
London SE1 2TF
Nearest Tube: London Bridge
Performances
30 August – 3 September 2011
Tuesday to Saturday at 7.45pm
Saturday matinee at 3.15pm
Box Office
Online
www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk
24 HOURS/NO BOOKING FEES
By Telephone
020 7407 0234
NO BOOKING FEES
Ticket Prices
All tickets £10
Concessions
Disabled people can bring one companion free of charge.
There are no other concessions