Usually the Latest News column just as the print programme comes out is marred by corrections and shows dropping out, but, fingers-crossed, none of either of those yet. What we do have for you is a NEW SHOW and rather a good one too.
A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain by Pakistani writer/journalist Sami Ibrahim, is about Immigration, pulls no punches, and is on at The Royal School’s Sophie Cameron Theatre.
Says Imrahim: “At its heart, it’s about a mum. The fairytale element comes from the main character trying to explain the situation that she’s stuck in to her daughter. That fairytale becomes a means of speaking to her daughter and trying to explain things to her. And the play is about the daughter believing and unravelling that story, and that felt like the way in – the little snapshot to tell a bigger story about citizenship and nation.”
“A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain is a reminder of the lengths some of us must go to just to live a ‘normal life’ – and how the aftershocks of those efforts affect our communities” – The Skinny.
The Royal School doesn’t yet come up on our online venue system, but can be found heading out of the city on Lansdown Road, on the right before Charlcombe Lane, and long before the top of the hill.