Preview: Stowaway - On tour across the North East

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Stowaway

On tour across the North East:

Bishop Auckland Town Hall - Wed 24 Feb
The Customs House, South Shields - Fri 26 & Sat 27 Feb 

ARC Stockton Arts Centre - Wed 2 & Thur 3 Mar
Hartlepool Town Hall Theatre - Fri 4 Mar
Saltburn Community Theatre - Sat 5 Mar
Alnwick Playhouse - Tue 8 Mar
Queen’s Hall Arts Centre, Hexham - Wed 9 Mar
Arts Centre Washington - Fri 11 Mar
Seaton Delaval Arts Centre - Sat 12 Mar

A regional tour of ‘Stowaway’, the new show from award-winning theatre company Analogue, will be touring across the Norht East in February and March 2016.

Stowaway is a story about a man from India who finds himself far from home and adrift from everything he knows.  He hides in the wheel arch of a commercial airliner bound for the UK, in a bid to change his life.  His body is discovered, frozen, in the car park of a B&Q in a leafy suburb of outer London.

Inspired by a number of real-life stories of similar bodies found along the flight paths of the South East’s busy airports, Stowaway is the story of an extraordinary journey in search of an impossible future, developed by Analogue’s co-director Hannah Barker and long term Analogue co-writer Lewis Hetherington. 

In rehersal

Barker and Hetherington undertook a trip to Chennai and Kolkata in 2012, where they took a similar story from a newspaper.  Every meeting on the trip presented a new interpretation of the story, each a contradiction of the last.  This trip and the subsequent development process have raised important questions about the sensitivities of telling someone’s story when they come from a world so different from our own – questions that have become central to this production. 

With the skeleton of a plane cutting across the stage, Stowaway flies back and forth through time and place, to present a physical and compelling piece of theatre that looks at storytelling as a political act.

The show tours the North East in Spring 2016 as part of REACH, the Strategic Touring initiative run by DEP Arts and ARC Stockton Arts Centre visiting Bishop Auckland Town Hall, The Customs House South Shields, ARC Stockton, Hartlepool Town Hall, Saltburn Community Theatre, Alnwick Playhouse, Queens Hall Arts Centre, Arts Centre Washingtonand Seaton Delaval Art Centre

Analogue’s award-winning work includes Mile End, Beachy Head, 2401 Objects, Lecture Notes on a Death Scene and Re-enactments.  The company are associate artists of Farnham Maltings and Shoreditch Town Hall.  Stowaway has been developed with the support of British Council, Arts Council England, Platform, National Theatre Studio, Traverse Theatre, Shoreditch Town Hall, PULSE Festival and Migrants Research Council.

On The Web:

Website: www.analoguetheatre.co.uk

Twitter: @analogue_  #stowaway

Tickets:
Click on this link to see how to obtain tickets to each venue 
 

Tour Dates:
Bishop Auckland Town Hall - Wed 24 Feb, 7.30pm 
The Customs House, South Shields - Fri 26 & Sat 27 Feb, 8pm
ARC Stockton Arts Centre - Wed 2 & Thur 3 Mar, 7pm 
Hartlepool Town Hall Theatre - Fri 4 Mar, 7.30pm 
Saltburn Community Theatre - Sat 5 Mar, 7.30pm 
Alnwick Playhouse - Tue 8 Mar, 7.30pm 
Queen’s Hall Arts Centre, Hexham - Wed 9 Mar, 7.30pm 
Arts Centre Washington - Thur 10 & Fri 11 Mar, 7.30pm 
Seaton Delaval Arts Centre - Sat 12 Mar, 7.30pm