PLAY ABOUT HOMELESSNESS BY DOUGIE BLAXLAND TO BE STAGED AT TOBACCO FACTORY THEATRES
ROUGHHOUSE THEATRE
UNKNOWN
Fri 01 & Sat 02 October 2021
We are delighted to announce that a critically acclaimed production of Unknown by Dougie Blaxland will be staged at Tobacco Factory Theatres on Fri 01 & Sat 02 October as part of its autumn tour.
From the creative team behind N17 - winner of The National Campaign 2021 Award for Best Arts Project - Unknown is a hard-hitting drama that tells the painfully true and profoundly moving story of a young man’s struggle to survive living on the streets of the UK.
First performed as a radio play in October 2020, Unknown received widespread acclaim:
“Intimate, extremely moving and wonderful performances” Listed as a readers’ “favourite theatre of 2020” by The Guardian
“Harrowing stories eloquently told - all the more shocking because we know them to be true” Filmmaker Ken Loach
Background to Unknown
In just two years from 2017 to 2019, more than 800 people died living and sleeping rough on the streets of the UK; a significant number of them have never been identified or named. Unknown is a verbatim play dramatising the tragic but true story of one young person's journey from an abusive childhood to a life on the streets of Bath - one of the most affluent cities in the UK.
Supported by The Big Lottery, The Royal Victoria Hall Foundation and The Big Issue Bath, Unknown has been written by Dougie Blaxland with the assistance of six people who have recent experience of homelessness: Sammy Clark, Nathan Dempster, Ian Duff, Paul Jones, Lloyd Rusdale and Anthony Williams.
Unknown is directed and produced by Moira Hunt and Shane Morgan of RoughHouse Theatre.
Reviews for previous work by RoughHouse Theatre and Dougie Blaxland
Getting The Third Degree
Play of the Year 2019 (Salford Star)
“Perfectly paced, impressively assured” The Bath Magazine
“Beautifully written…this puts football in its social context” The Telegraph
The Long Walk Back
“A remarkable piece” The Guardian
“Taut, probing and beautifully structured” My Theatre Mates
When The Eye Has Gone
★★★★ “Brimming with charisma and honesty” The Stage
“What makes Blaxland’s piece so compelling is that Milburn’s is a universal tale” The Telegraph
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