Performance

Venue	Royal Exchange
	Also: The Studio/Swan Street Studio
Town	Manchester
County	Greater Manchester
From	12th March 2020
Opened	17th March 2020
To	17th March 2020
When	19:30. Thu, Sat Mats 14:30
Royal Exchange (V491)
Current/Future Listings
Listings Archive

Production Changes

Previous details associated with this item and date of change.

Date of change: 14 Nov 19 - T0246264990

Rockets and Blue Lights

Work:: Rockets and Blue Lights (S150818437)

'I am the slave ship. Wrecked. Empty. I am a shark, livid with the desire for blood. I am the sea, boiling with fury.' Amid the gloom of Victorian England, Thomas, a black sailor prepares to take one last voyage, while an ageing Turner seeks artistic inspiration in a half-remembered story. In 21st-century London, an actress finds herself handcuffed by history - two centuries after abolitionists won her ancestors their freedom.

Author

Winsome Pinnock

Production:: (T0246264990)

Winner of the 2018 Alfred Fagon Award, Winsome Pinnock's astonishing new play retells British history through the prism of the slave trade. Fusing fact with fiction, past with present, the powerfully personal with the fiercely political, this epic production asks who owns our past - and who has the right to tell its stories?

Producer	Royal Exchange
Director	Miranda Cromwell
Design	Laura Hopkins
Lighting	Jessica Hung Han Yun
Sound	Elena Pena
Music	Femi Temowo
Music	Elizabeth Westcott
Performer	Kiza Deen (Lou)
Performer	Karl Collins (Thomas)
Performer	Paul Bradley (J M W Turner)
Performer	Anthony Aje
Performer	Natey Jones
Performer	Rochelle Rose
Performer	Matthew Seadon-Young
Performer	Kudzai Sitima
Performer	Cathy Tyson
Performer	Everal A Walsh
Performer	Femi Temowo (musician)

Listing:: L01534623980

Production details

Winner of the 2018 Alfred Fagon Award, Winsome Pinnock's astonishing new play retells British history through the prism of the slave trade. Fusing fact with fiction, past with present, the powerfully personal with the fiercely political, this epic production asks who owns our past - and who has the right to tell its stories?

Reviews

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Special Performances

21 Mar 20 Captioned
21 Mar 20 Captioned
24 Mar 20 Relaxed
25 Mar 20 Sign Interpreted
4 Apr 20 Audio Described

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