27.04.2006
Babylon Burning
PRESS RELEASE – For Immediate release to News Editors
Theatre Workshop presents another sensational production!
Babylon Burning
[Another Lovely War]
Opens 8 – 17 June 2006
Using the original Theatre Workshop’s classic ‘Oh What A Lovely War’ of 2002, this
years Community Play adopts a similar format, as it tries to make sense of the current
war in Iraq.
With a cast of almost 100 participants, it combines popular song, dance and music, documentary photography and film, an ensemble of musicians, heightened theatricality and political satire, together with real life experiences of combatants and civilians.
Babylon Burning promises to take us on a symbiotic theatrical journey of the current war in Iraq, where life is a currency competing with the thirst for oil.
A powerful, compelling and compassionate production that will evoke an emotive response to the conflict in Iraq today.
Witness and experience Babylon Burning and ask yourself ‘are you willing to tolerate this war and the horrors on humanity, future generations will have to live with?’
Babylon Burning opens on 8 June – 17 June 2006 at Theatre Workshop,
34 Hamilton Place, Edinburgh EH3 5AX
Box Office 0131 226 5425
Main 0131 225 7942
Press 0131 226 4366
Textphone 0131 220 0234
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Email; rholloway@twe.org.uk
Ticket prices £10 & Concessions £6 (escorts go free)
Group bookings for 8 plus only £5 per ticket
Saturday 10 June Signed performance 7.30pm
Saturday 17 June Audio Described performance 7.30pm
Thursday 15 June Meet the Director and Panel for pre production discussions and questions at 6.30pm
Additional information
Director Robert Rae
Associate Director Nazli Tabatabai
Music director John Sampson
Costumier Christine Ross
Designer Sarah Paulley
Lighting Design George Tarbuck
Sound Design Daniel Williams
Written by Ghazi Hussein, Grace Barnes, Andrew Dallmeyer and Robert Rae
For further information and interviews please contact Ros Theatre Workshop on 0131 226 4366