Ellen McDougall’s critically acclaimed first season continues at the Gate Theatre with two groundbreaking international productions. This morning the venue announces that actress Nina Bowers will play over 25 roles in the new production of Anna Deavere Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. The play, directed by Ola Ince, opens on 11th January.
When the policemen accused of assaulting young, black taxi driver Rodney King were acquitted, deadly riots broke out across LA, laying bare the recurring pattern of racial oppression and police brutality in America.
For this ground-breaking piece of verbatim theatre, Anna Deavere Smith interviewed hundreds of people from police commissioners to Rodney King’s family about those devastating few days in the summer of 1992. These are their words.
Trust, Falk Richter’s anarchic celebration of broken relationships, complex negotiations and the tyranny of capitalism opens on 22 February. Jude Christian’s production will use the theatre space in a completely new way for her production that asks the question; are we really going to settle for a system that we can’t trust? The cast will include Pia Laborde Noguez and Zephryn Taitte.
