Silo presents THE PRIDE - from August 10th 2012
Media Release – Wednesday 27th June 2012
How
Much Courage Does It Take To Be Who You Really
Are?
Silo presents
THE
PRIDE
Written by Alexi Kaye Campbell. Directed
by Sophie Roberts
Silo jumps back to the future when THE PRIDE plays at Auckland’s Herald Theatre from August 10th. This is one of those thoroughly grown-up plays, examining changing attitudes to love and sexuality on either side of the sexual revolution. Told with heart, humour and boundless empathy, this is a history of sorts.
Oliver, Phillip and Sylvia are caught in a kind of
erotic time warp. Their complex live triangle, replete with
conflicting loyalties and passions, shift from 1958 to the
present and back again in a maelstrom of fantasy, repression
and rebellion. In one world, they’re forced to be
strangers to both desire and to themselves, weighed down by
cautious euphemisms and fearful self censorship. In the
other, the rainbow-stickered present, casual sex and empty
style collides with the human heart.
THE PRIDE marked the playwriting
debut of Alexi Kaye Campbell in November 2008, taking
London’s Royal Court Theatre by storm. Interchanging
between two different times, Campbell’s work is elegiac in
tone but thrilling in its takeout. Campbell’s
trail-blazing debut earned him the Critics Circle Award, the
John Whiting Award, a GLAAD Award and a Laurence Olivier
Award. The New York premiere went on to star hot young
things Ben Whishaw, Hugh Dancy and Andrea Riseborough.
Kip Chapman returns to Silo for the
first time since 2007’s Lobby Hero. Chapman created
the hugely successful Apollo 13: Mission Control,
which is currently being redeveloped for a North American
tour. He is also the mastermind behind the Hackman
Theatre Awards, Auckland’s “alternative” to the
Chapman Tripp Awards in Wellington and is about to appear in
Eli Kent’s Black Confetti for Auckland Theatre
Company.
Simon London
returns to New Zealand from Sydney for this production, last
appearing with Silo in the watershed production of When
The Rain Stops Falling and is joined onstage by
Dena Kennedy.
Following her directing debut for the company last year with I Love You Bro, Sophie Roberts returns to helm this thrilling contemporary narrative. Leading costume designer Elizabeth Whiting promises a celebration of vintage bespoke tailoring in one era and the latest Soho streetwear in another.
Evident in the
programming of Tribes, The Brothers Size, The Only Child
and When the Rain Stops Falling, Silo upholds the
tradition of presenting audiences with the very best of
international writing with this beautiful chamber piece,
which seems tailor-made for the intimacy of the Herald
Theatre.
THE PRIDE provokes questions about
the benefits of liberation: are we any happier? The
constructs of the characters evolve over a 50-year period
(for better or worse) in a work of mirrored symmetry that
examines the bold sacrifices we sometimes are forced to make
for happiness.
“a brave and rewarding drama that speaks to us all.” – THE GUARDIAN, UK
“A tremendously rich and uplifting work.” – TIME OUT, NEW YORK
THE PRIDE plays
at the Herald Theatre
Friday 10th August – Saturday 1st
September 2012
Monday - Tuesday at 7pm; Wednesday
through Saturday at 8pm
OPEN DIALOGUE: Monday 13th
August
TWENTYSOMETHING: Thursday 16th August
Tickets:
$25.00 - $49.00 (service fees apply)
Tickets available
through THE EDGE – 0800 BUY TICKETS or silotheatre.co.nz
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ENDS