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RedCape Theatre

The Idiot Colony

Mon 9 & Tue 10 Nov 2009 7.45pm

Studio: £10.50 (£8.50)

Director: Andrew Lawson

Production Company: RedCape Theatre

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The Idiot Colony is an award winning and visually stunning play based on real life accounts of the treatment and incarceration of “moral defectives” in 1940’s England. Genuinely funny and incredibly moving.

Forgotten for decades inside a mental hospital, three women escape their present by remembering their past. In the asylum’s hair salon, to the strains of Rick Astley and Glenn Miller they relive wartime affairs, illicit trysts and childhood secrets.

Scotsman Fringe First Winner 2008

Total Theatre Award for Best Visual Theatre

“an affecting, humorous piece of physical theatre” The Times

“A delicate work of damaged poetry and slow-moving grace.” The Herald

“it has a sly sense of fun. One to catch…” The Guardian

“endlessly inventive, thoroughly disquieting. It’s stunning” The Metro

www.redcapetheatre.com

Running Time: 1hr 10mins (no interval)

Dates & Times

Mon 9 Nov Studio 7:45pm
Tue 10 Nov Studio 7:45pm

Studio

Warwick Arts Centre's intimate Studio Theatre space provides a platform for the work of emerging artists as well as many established performers from the worlds of theatre, dance and music.

Part of A Night Less Ordinary

1 Comment

  • I'm very much looking forward to seeing this. I plan to bring some students along with me to inspire them!

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    Nicky Osborne at 9:44pm on Sat 26th Sep 2009

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