Kursk

Tue 4 – Sat 8 May

After triumphant runs at the Young Vic in London and in Edinburgh in 2009, playing to sell out audiences, theatres up and down the country Warwick Arts Centre in Coventry will be playing host to Kursk from Tue 4 – Sat 8 May.

Nominated for a Whatsonstage Award for Best Off West End Production and an Evening Standard Award for Best Design in 2009, Kursk is a powerfully immersive theatrical experience inspired by the Russian submarine disaster of August 2000.

Pioneering theatre company Sound&Fury (The Watery Part of the World, Ether Frolics, War Music) and playwright Bryony Lavery (Frozen, Stockholm) recreate the life of submariners, deep below the icy seas on the fraying front line of the Cold War.

In consultation with former submariners and naval psychologists, Sound&Fury have created an environment of submarine warfare, transporting the audience to a confined underwater world of command and control, secrecy and codes, fear and camaraderie.
Also, join members of Sound&Fury on Wed 5 May to find out how Kursk works by taking a guided tour of the set and the space. This tour is free to ticket holders for the show. Passes from Box Office.

Tickets for Kursk can be booked online at warwickartscentre.co.uk or from the Box Office on 024 7652 4524. Free tickets for Under 26s are available under the A Night Less Ordinary scheme, which Warwick Arts Centre continues to be part of.

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For more information, review tickets and interviews please contact Keri Wills, Press Officer on 024 7652 3804 or keri.wills@warwick.ac.uk

Press images are at http://www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/about-us/press

Date of Release: 2 April 2010

Listings Information:
A Young Vic and Fuel co-production, Sound&Fury’s
Kursk
a collaboration with Bryony Lavery, commissioned by The Junction Cambridge
Tue 4 – Sat 8 May 7.45pm, Thu matinee 1.30pm, Sat matinee 2.30pm £15, Under 26s £10, Thu matinee £10 (Limited number of tickets for Under 26s are FREE under the A Night Less Ordinary Scheme www.anightlessordinary.org.uk)

Warwick Arts Centre
The University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
www.warwickartscentre.co.uk
Box Office: 024 7652 4524

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