Come From Away returns to the West End from 22 July
The West End firm in Come From Away on the Phoenix Theatre 2020. Credit Craig Sugden
The shutters of the Phoenix Theatre in London will raise on 22 July and welcome in audiences to the extremely anticipated re-opening of worldwide hit musical Come From Away.
Winner of each main Best Musical award when it opened within the West End in March 2019, Come From Away tells the outstanding and provoking true story of seven,000 stranded air passengers throughout the wake of 9/11, and the small city in Newfoundland that welcomed them. Cultures clashed and nerves ran excessive, however as uneasiness was belief, music soared into the night time and gratitude grew into enduring friendships.
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Twenty years in the past on 11 September 2001, the world stopped. On 12 September and within the years following, their tales of kindness, generosity and love have moved us all.
The worldwide hit musical has celebrated sold-out, record-breaking engagements on Broadway, in Canada, all through Australia, and on a 60-city North American Tour.
Producers of Come From Away, John Brant and Joseph Smith, say: t’s been too lengthy since we had been in a position to welcome folks to ‘The Rock’ and we’ve actually missed our audiences. The resilience and kindness of Newfoundlanders is thought the world over and consistently supplies inspiration to us all in these difficult occasions. Theatre is integral to the vibrancy of the UK’s artistic sector and we sit up for being a part of welcoming folks again to London’s West End. It’s now greater than ever that we wish to inform our story and provides audiences the possibility to see us dwell once more.
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Tickets for the four-time Olivier Awards-winning Come From Away on the Phoenix Theatre shall be obtainable to buy on Official London Theatre on Monday 19 April(*14*) – so mark your diaries and you’ll want to examine again right here.
Sour Lemons embarks on anti-racism partnerships with Royal Court Theatre and Young Vic(*14*)
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Sade Banks, CEO and Founder of Sour Lemons, at this time broadcasts the April 2021 Big Squeeze collaboration with the Royal Court Theatre and Young Vic and respectively. They have each signed two-year strategic partnerships to establish and dismantle systemic racism inside their organisations with social enterprise Sour Lemons.
Each organisation could have a devoted staff of Associates, led by incoming Director of Programmes, Shoomi Chowdhury, to interrogate inner constructions that uphold systemic racism and create boundaries for underrepresented communities.
Sour Lemons will work alongside every theatre to construct consciousness of how systemic racism manifests inside their organisations. Each companion will set up two inner working teams who shall be central to driving this work ahead and growing a tradition of accountability: an Anti-Oppression Group consisting of white senior leaders and an Accountability Group consisting of colleagues with combined racial identities from throughout the organisation.
Each companion shall be releasing their learnings and progress on the finish of every six-month cycle, to share the challenges and alternatives created when dismantling systemic racism.
The Sour Lemons strategy is adaptive – every programme evolves in response to the lived experiences of racism discovered within the organisations they work with.
Sade Banks, CEO and Founder of Sour Lemons stated: “The dedication the Young Vic and Royal Court Theatre have made and proceed to make, not simply to the partnership however in making a tradition that’s accountable and hostile to racism, sends a powerful message to the remainder of the business. This work has been taking place behind the scenes for the previous yr and Sour Lemons are excited now to announce it publicly.
“Our mission is to make the reality irresistible – if it turns into unattainable to not concentrate on how racism manifests, it’s unattainable to not do one thing about it.
“The Sour Lemons mannequin is exclusive as a result of it responds on to the lived experiences of racism throughout the organisation. By centering the wants of Black and Global Majority colleagues, it forces us to acknowledge that racism is occurring over right here – not ‘over there in America’ or in one other establishment – right here, within the UK and in our sector. This is the chance to do one thing about it.”
Vicky Featherstone, Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre and Lucy Davies, Executive Producer stated: “We have been searching for an distinctive exterior companion to collaborate with us on our Anti-Racism and Oppression work. This well timed, vital and deep work will assist us pay attention, mirror, study, develop, be challenged, be visibly modified, and be held accountable. Our Board has been central to this course of. We are all very honoured to be chosen to be a strategic companion with Sour Lemons for the subsequent two years to do that work, and to be alongside the YV to share and radiate throughout the sector how we modify.”
Kwame Kwei-Armah, Artistic Director of the Young Vic and Despina Tsatsas, Executive Director stated: “We couldn’t be extra honoured to have Sour Lemons be part of the Young Vic household as an Associate Company at this exact second, and as we take part of their ‘Big Squeeze’ programme. Our conversations about working collectively started properly earlier than the 2020 summer time of social justice, after we invited Sour Lemons to develop into an Associate Company, and so we’re delighted our concepts at the moment are a actuality. Having Sade and her staff’s experience in-house to assist the YV sort out the institutional issues that beset our nation is an absolute asset. Conversation and studying is being fostered in all areas of our organisation, from our boardroom to our administrative, inventive and manufacturing areas. We are proud to have Sour Lemons as a part of the YV, and a part of our sector.”
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