2009 - TriANGLE 09:

COMMERCIAL RD by Mina Maisura ( 3 week run 3- 20 June)

Commercial Rd charts a group of dispossessed asian workers in an East London petrol station, as they work the night shifts and run circles around their tyrannical and desperate boss, Girish. When a new worker joins the group; hilarious jokes, steely ambition and arguments escalate reaching a violent climax and masking the deepening despair of Krishnan, a young Tamil "freshie".

Directed by: Charlotte Gwinner
Music and sound composed by: Elizabeth Purnell
Designed by: Garance Marneur
Cast: Kal Aise, Ravi Aujla, Ashley Kumar, Alton Letto, Rina Mahoney

THE SEA AT NIGHT by Luciana Saldanha (2 x performances 14th June)

The Sea At Night explores the yearning and longing at the heart of the immigrant experience. Set amongst Italian immigrants living in Sao Paulo; Estela awaits the arrival of her daughter whom she abandoned to pursue her lover Pepe in Brazil. As the couple anticipate her arrival: dreams, fears and guilt rise to the surface and tensions mount as their future together becomes increasingly uncertain.

Directed by: Charlotte Gwinner
Music and Sound designed by: Elizabeth Purnell
Lighting designed by: James Whiteside
Cast: Yolanda Vazquez, James Clyde, Daphane Alexander, Gabriela Saldanha Blackwood.

KHADIJA IS 18 by Shamser Sinha (2 performances 21st June)
 
Khadija is 18 explores the tragi comic dilemmas of two teenage refugee girls in London; Liza and Khadija. Pressure mounts as the two girls compete for boys, friends and a place in multi-cultural Britain.
 
Directed by: Tim Stark
Music and sound designed by: Elizabeth Purnell
Cast: Eric Abrefa, Jason Frederick, Shamaya Blake, Olga Fedori, Megan Bernard

Events:

BEHIND THE SCENES: TRIANGLE09 Angle Theatre was delighted to invite community groups reached through its original "call for plays" to participate in "behind the scenes:" and experience: "live trailers" of the plays, opportunities to meet the cast and creative team.

Readings:

TRIANGLE09 featured readings of the following new plays, drawn from our New Writers Award 2008:

"Hard Time Killing Floor" by Saeed Taji Farouky (public reading)
"The Bog Down in the Valley Oh" by Michelle Forde (closed reading)

Directed by Roisin McBrinn

2008 - New Writers Awards 2008:

In 2008, Angle Theatre launched a unique New Writers Award, that sought to celebrate and reflect the international voices of the communities of East London on stage. We were delighted to receive scores of scripts from writers across East London, most of whom had never had access to professional theatre before.

The recipients of the New Writers Awards 2008 were:

Mina Maisuria for COMMERCIAL RD.
Luciana Saldanha for THE SEA AT NIGHT
Shamser Sinha for KHADIJA IS 18
Saeed Taji Farouky for HARD TIME KILLING FLOOR
Michelle Forde for BOG DOWN IN THE VALLEY OH/IN TESCO FOR A FIVER

New writers Awards 2008 was a new scheme, dedicated to providing a platform to budding playwrights from all backgrounds in East London. It had a commitment to provide access to the theatre for writers who may otherwise be left unheard. Angle issued a multi-lingual call for new plays from playwrights from all backgrounds living in East London. For this, inaugural Award we strongly encouraged submissions from writers of international origin and ethnic minorities based in East London who had something to say and wanted it to be heard.

We received over seventy submissions from our "call for plays" in East London. Our submissions brought a broad spectrum of talent including: young people, pensioners and non- English speakers, all who were read by ANGLE's band of professional script readers and using bi-lingual readers where needed.

Each submission received professional written feedback and a panel of theatre professionals helped us to select five talented writers for our inaugural season at Hackney Empire. Over six months our five selected writers received sessions with established playwrights, directors, tickets to see new plays in London, development sessions with directors, translators.

Our eminent team of theatre professionals included:

Panel members:
Paul Miller (National Theatre, Sheffield Crucible) Lin Coghlin (National Theatre, The Bush), Dinah Wood ( Faber and Faber), Simon Bent ( The Bush, The Ambassador Theatre Group),Dawn Walton (The Royal Court, Eclipse Theatre,)

Development to production:
Paul Miller, Dawn Walton, Tim Stark (The National Theatre Studio, The Manchester Royal Exchange,) Jane Fallowfield (Paines Plough, The Bush,) Roisin McBrinn (The Tricycle, The Arcola), Mark O Thomas (The Royal Court.)