RedCape Theatre UK
The Idiot Colony London Premiere
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Thu 22 to Sun 25 Jan 8pm
After Show Discussion Sat 24 Jan
BSL interpreted performance Sat 24 Jan
Runs approx 65 mins/no interval
All seats £13.50 (£11 concs)
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‘A delicate work of damaged poetry and slow-moving grace. Beautifully accomplished…a remarkable debut.' The Herald
‘Endlessly inventive…thoroughly disquieting. It’s stunning, you can’t help but catch your breath.' Metro
Forgotten for decades inside a mental hospital three women escape their present by remembering their past. In the asylum’s hair salon, to the strains of Rick Astley and Glenn Miller they relive wartime affairs, illicit trysts and childhood secrets. Total Theatre Award and Fringe First winner at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival, The Idiot Colony is inspired by true accounts of the treatment and incarceration of ‘moral defectives’ in 1940’s Britain.
RedCape Theatre is a new company comprising three performers, Cassie Friend, Claire Coache and Rebecca Loukes and writer Lisle Turner. The production's director is Andrew Dawson.
