Tuesday 17 January 2012
Local Touring Theatre Company Take To The Stage To Tackle Subjects Of Immigration And Globalisation
A touring theatre company from the South of England has devised a new play, Invisible, that tackles the thorny subjects of immigration and globalisation in the 21st century.
Amid the world of visas and wind turbines, commuter flights and nightclubs, fairy tales and tabloid press, a chance meeting drives four disparate lives towards a chilling point of no return.
Lara left home convinced that hard work and talent would reward her with a better life. Anton was forced to leave his village and only to find himself suspended 16 floors above a city cleaning windows.
Malik stands on a beach and looks out towards a country where women apparently walk around half-naked. Felix, a young businessman with a pretty wife and a lucrative future, finds it difficult to get out of bed in the mornings.
Emma Cameron, Producer, Transport, said: ‘Invisible explores the many sides of migration, a state known to man for over 80,000 years.’
Invisible is a new collaborative theatre piece, produced and toured supported with a £67,615 Arts Council England Grants for the arts award.
Grants for the Arts is Arts Council England’s open application funding programme. It invests National Lottery money to support arts activities that engage people in the arts and helps artists and arts organisations with their work.
Richard Kingdom, Theatre Relationship Manager, Arts Council England, says: ‘It’s great to see our National Lottery funded Grants for the arts scheme supporting artistically ambitious regional touring companies like Transport, who are drawing on strong partnerships with other arts organisations to make exciting new work for audiences both locally and UK-wide as well as internationally.”
Last summer, Transport launched an interdisciplinary arts platform in an old fish and chip shop in the Creative Quarter of Folkestone, Kent, which ran for three months as part of Folkestone Triennial Fringe.
Their latest project sees them working in India with dance/theatre company Ranan exploring ideas for a new piece, The Edge, which is supported by the British Council.
Invisibles. has just returned from a one-week run in Luxembourg with rave reviews, will be on tour in the South of England over the coming months.
by: Mike Cobley
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