Performance

Venue	Finborough
	Other spaces: The Finborough
Town	Inner London
County	Greater London
From	25th November 2014
To	20th December 2014
When	Tue-Sat 19:30. Sun Mats 15:00. Sat Mats 15:00 (from Dec 6)
Prices	From £16.00. To £18.00.
What is currently on at Finborough (V199)

Silent Planet

T01596904987
At the height of the Cold War, dissident writer Gavriil is detained in a Soviet mental prison as a punishment for protesting against the government. His only escape is the prison library, a treasure store of banned literature available to the patients, but off-limits to the prison staff. His interrogator, Yurchak, offers to protect him from torture in exchange for sharing the forbidden stories. Their agreement will help them both find a kind of freedom, at the risk of their lives. Inspired by an incident in the life of writer, activist and neurophysiologist Vladimir Bukovsky, Silent Planet is a love story about our love of stories, a passionate and poetic fable about the power of literature in a world in which the wrong words can get you killed.

Author

Eve Leigh

Archive :: production:T01596904987, play:S02137504780, venue:V199

Production details

World Premiere. Performance Length: Approximately 70 minutes with no interval.

Reviews

No UKTW or User reviews available.

Company

Presented by	Upstart (in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre)
Director	Tom Mansfield
Performer	Graeme McKnight (Gavriil)
Performer	Matthew Thomas (Yurchak)
Performer	Kevin Hand (Doctor)
Performer	Aaron Vodovoz (Guard)

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