New Perspectives announce BBC Radio 3 adaptation and download for Soho Theatre
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For December and the new year, New Perspectives will be presenting a versatile series of theatre in different mediums: a radio play, a Zoom play, a postcard drama, a Whatsapp drama, and a series of reimagined Christmas cards.
Originally streamed by Soho Theatre in September, the Lars von Trier office drama The Boss of It All has been adapted for a working from home version with Josie Lawrence playing the title character. The comedy drama was originally presented at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2013 to widespread critical acclaim before transferring to Soho Theatre. In 2020 the office setting has now become a remote working set up, with the action taking place via a series of Zoom meetings. For years the boss of an IT company has tricked his staff into believing he is simply another co-worker. So when he needs a ‘real’ boss to help close the deal of a lifetime, he hires an actor to play the role. What could possibly go wrong? The Boss of It All is available for download from the Soho Theatre website from 9th December.
As part of BBC Lights Up, The Fishermen will come to BBC Radio 3 in February following runs at the Edinburgh Fringe, London and West End. Adapted by Gbolahan Obisesan and directed by Jack McNamara, it is the story of four brothers torn apart by a prophecy. In a small Nigerian town, Ben and Obembe slip away to fish at a forbidden river along with their two older brothers. Risking the wrath of their father, who expects great things of them all, they continue unnoticed and carefree until one day the prophecy of a madman changes the course of their lives. Based on the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel by one of Africa's major new voices, New Perspectives present Chigozie Obioma's powerful allegory of brotherhood, vengeance and fate. Originally a two hander, the BBC adaptation sees the three actors who have played the roles unite for the first time: David Alade, Michael Ajao, and Valentine Olukoga. For their performances in the show, Michael and Valentine won The Stage Award in 2018 and Valentine Olukoga recently won Best Actor at the Black British Theatre Awards.
For their festive offerings, New Perspective have collaborated with six renowned UK theatre makers on limited edition Christmas cards, each reimagining traditional yuletide messages. The artists have each designed the front and inside of a card to create a handheld piece of artwork which can be kept as a curio or given as a gift. The cards can be bought singly, as a pack of three or a pack of six. The artists are: 1927, Tim Etchells, Eve Leigh, Selina Thompson, Jane Upton and Jatinder Verma MBE.
New Perspectives have also announced another opportunity to experience Stay Safe, the spine-chilling drama via WhatsApp. Inspired by Shirley Jackson’s gothic horror story The Witch, the drama is being given a special showing on 14th to mark her birthday. Finally, New Perspectives have announced a Christmas extension of their postcard drama Love From Cleethorpes, a drama told through a series of postcards, both as a result of popular demand. Love From Cleethorpes has recently been ‘toured’ to 25 countries worldwide.
New Perspectives is an East Midlands based company with over 40 years experience of touring high-quality productions to venues of all sizes across the UK, from mid-scale theatres to village halls. With a strong rural core, they create productions to fit spaces of any size in order to bring new work that is unexpected and thought-provoking to a wide range of audiences. Since 2012, New Perspectives has been led by Artistic Director Jack McNamara whose productions include The Boss of It All by Lars von Trier (Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh and Soho Theatre), The Lovesong of Alfred J Hitchcock by David Rudkin (Brits off Broadway, New York and UK tour), Darkness, Darkness (Nottingham Playhouse co-production) and the Stage Award winning The Fishermen by Gbolohan Obisesan (Trafalgar Studios, Assembly George Square Studios and UK Tour). Their podcast series PlacePrints is currently available, and their postcard drama Love From Cleethorpes is available again at Christmas.
The Boss of It All
From 9th December
Soho Theatre on Demand https://sohotheatre.com/soho-
Available to rent for 48 hours for £4
The Fishermen
On BBC Radio 3 in February as part of BBC Lights Up
Limited Edition Christmas Cards
Commissioned by New Perspectives
Cards by 1927, Tim Etchells, Eve Leigh, Selina Thompson, Jane Upton and Jatinda Verma
1 card addressed and mailed to recipient: £4.50
Pack of 3 cards mailed to one UK address: £12.50
Collection 1: Tim Etchells, Selina Thompson Jatinder Verma
Collection 2: Eve Leigh, Jane Upton, 1927
Pack of the 6 cards mailed to one UK address: £24
Plus:
£3.00: Donate a card and New Perspectives will send to an emerging artist or someone who might feel isolated this Christmas
#NPXmas
Love From Cleethorpes
Six postcard series
Per UK address: £12
For European and Worldwide delivery: £25
Bookings until Boxing Day
#LoveFromCleethorpes
Stay Safe
A spine-chilling WhatsApp drama
Saturday 14 December 2020, 8pm and midnight
Tickets £1
Running time 45 mins
Bookings until 90 mins before the advertised time
#StaySafe
About Culture In Quarantine
BBC Arts’ Culture in Quarantine initiative is an essential arts and culture service across BBC platforms that will keep the arts alive in people’s homes, focused most intensely across BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, BBC Two, BBC Four, BBC Sounds, BBC iPlayer and www.bbc.co.uk/bbcarts. We are doing this in close consultation and collaboration with organisations like Arts Council England and other national funding and producing bodies.
This arts and culture service includes:
- Guides and access to shuttered exhibitions, performances or permanent collections in museums, galleries and performance spaces;
- Ways to experience books with privileged access to authors including a collaboration with the Big Book Weekend amongst other initiatives.
- Jewels from the archive as well as brand new content ensuring that brand new theatre and dance performances will join with modern classics to create a repertory theatre of broadcast.
- Participatory offers including masterclasses and ways to enable audiences to create at home through Get Creative
- Topical arts through Front Row, Front Row Late, Free Thinking and more
- A fund with Arts Council England to support around 25 artists to create new work
- A place for arts organisations to share innovations from quarantine and for audiences to discover new things through www.bbc.co.uk/arts
The Fishermen is a co-production between Naked Productions Ltd and New Perspectives. It was commissioned for BBC Arts and Radio 3 by Matthew Dodd. Producer is Polly Thomas. Director is Jack McNamara. Shadow Producer is Ravelle-Sadé Fairman. Composer is Adam McCready.
Soho Theatre On Demand
Soho Theatre’s digital service, Soho Theatre On Demand, is currently broadening the range of work available so that audiences can continue to see great theatre, comedy and cabaret, and provide a platform for independent artists, theatre companies and practitioners at this time when venues can’t fully reopen. The next batch of releases includes four new films: The Tiger Lillies: Live in Prague (2009), Camille O’Sullivan: Dark Angel, Live at the Olympia (2007), New Perspectives’ The Boss of It All (2020), and OperaUpClose’s La bohème (2015).
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