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Achidi
J's Final Hours
by Amy Evans
Isa
is black and from Senegal. Alex is white and German. Between
the summer of 1999 and spring of 2001, they meet, fall in
love and start a family. As the tension in the town increases,
fuelled by anti-immigrant protests and accusations of police
brutality, Isa’s and Alex’s love for each other
and their child is stretched to breaking point.
World
Premiere
Frontline - a collaboration between Spikenard and WHen.
Finborough Theatre, London
6th - 29th May 2004
The
Cast
Martin
Brody - Alex
Amanda Wright - Isa
Linda Gathu - Awa
Daniel Rabin - Andy
Eddie Daniels - Guy
Carsten Hayes - Civil Servant
Kevin O'Donohoe & James Alper
- German Officers
Winston Atour - Achidi J
The
Creative Team
Che Walker - Director
Dick Bird - Set Designer
Fiammetta Horvat - Set Design Assistant
Alex Wardle - Lighting Designer
Jack C. Arnold - Sound Designer
Amy
Evans - Playwright
ACHIDI J'S FINAL HOURS, her first play, was joint winner of
the 2002 Verity Bargate Award. She is currently working on
her second play, WHISPER. Her poetry has appeared in VELOCITY:
THE BEST OF APPLES & SNAKES anthology of spoken word artists,
and she continues to write and perform her own work.
'It
is a play about the lost, the abandoned, the insecure... this
is a most impressive debut and Brody and Wright are two of
the most promising newcomers seen in years'
The Sunday Times
'Amy Evans's award-winning first play has a strangely elliptical,
expressionist quality that places it firmly in a European
tradition of writers… this play is the work of a talented
writer with a gift for unexpected phrases… Amanda Wright,
Martin Brody and Linda Gathu all give strong performances
in an imaginatively lit production.'
The Guardian
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