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Summary
“But don’t say that word.”
“What word?”
“The word that starts with B.”
Alejandra and Marcela are planting bombs in the middle of the night. They don’t want violence. They just want to be heard. Prison’s not much of a threat when most of your friends are inside. But José Miguel is from another generation, and he’s committed to change by any means possible.
‘We used to kill kings. We use to kill millionaires. And now all we do is make threats on the Internet. That’s why I’m offering you the chance to start a war.’
Acclaimed Chilean playwright Guillermo Calderón makes his Royal Court debut with the world premiere of his play B, exploring what revolution and violence mean to two different generations.
B was first developed on an attachment with the Royal Court International Department, and premiered at the Royal Court Theatre on 28 September 2017, in a production directed by Sam Pritchard.
Publisher: Oberon BooksReleased: Sep 28, 2017ISBN: 9781786823014Format: book
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B - Guillermo Calderón
B
Guillermo Calderón
B
Translated by William Gregory
OBERON BOOKS
LONDON
WWW.OBERONBOOKS.COM
ROYAL
COURT
THE ROYAL COURT THEATRE PRESENTS
B
by Guillermo Calderón
Translated by William Gregory
B was first performed at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs on Thursday 28 September 2017.
B is presented as part of International Playwrights: A Genesis Foundation Project.
B
by Guillermo Calderón
Translated by William Gregory
CAST (in alphabetical order)
Marcela Aimée-Ffion Edwards
José Miguel Paul Kaye
Carmen Sarah Niles
Alejandra Danusia Samal
Director Sam Pritchard
Designer Chloe Lamford
Lighting Designer Lizzie Powell
Composer Teho Teardo
Sound Designer Gareth Fry
Movement Director Jenny Ogilvie
Associate Designer Camilla Clarke
Production Manager Marius Rønning
Costume Supervisor Lucy Walshaw
Assistant Director Sophie Moniram
Casting Director Amy Ball
International Director Elyse Dodgson
International Assistant Sarah Murray
Stage Manager Sunita Hinduja
Deputy Stage Manager Osnat Koblenz
Assistant Stage Manager Abi Cook
Stage Managment Placement Bethany Davis
Set Built by Ridiculous Solutions & Aquarius Scaffolding
B
by Guillermo Calderón
Translated by William Gregory
Guillermo Calderón (Writer)
For the Royal Court: International Residency 2009; Villa & Speech (reading); International Season 2011.
Theatre includes: Goldrausch (Theater Basel); Mateluna (Hebbel am Ufer); Kiss (Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus/Canadian Stage Company); Escuela (MCA Chicago/Theater der Welt/ Under the Radar/Fringe Arts/Yale Rep); Neva (The Public, NYC/TCG conference with RADAR L.A/Seoul Performing Arts Festival/Checkhov International Theatre Festival/Center Theater Group); Beben (Schauspiel Duesseldorf, Germany); Villa-Discurso (Santiago A Mil/ Tour/Redcat, LA, Théâtre de la Ville/Edinburgh International Festival, Wiener Festwochen); Clase (Buenos Aires Theater Festival); Diciembre (Dublin Theatre Festival/Under the Radar/EIF/ Under the Radar).
Film includes: Violeta Went To Heaven, The Club (Co-writer), Neruda.
Awards include: Herald Angel Award (Diciembre); World Cinema Jury Prize for Drama, International Federation of Film Critics Prize for Best Film (Violeta Went To Heaven); Silver Bear at Berlin International Film Festival, Silver Plaque at Chicago International Film Festival, Mar del Plata Film Festival Best Screenplay, Fenix Film Award for Best Screenplay, Platino Awards for Iberoamerican Cinema Best Screenplay (The Club).
Guillermo Calderón is a Chilean playwright, screenwriter and theatre director currently living in the USA. His plays have toured extensively through South America, North America, and Europe. He is under commission to the Public Theater, NYC and La Jolla Playhouse, California.
Camilla Clarke (Associate Designer)
For the Royal Court: Victory Condition (as associate designer), Human Animals.
Other theatre includes: Frogman (Curious Directive/ Traverse); No Place For A Woman (503); Wind Resistance (Lyceum, Edinburgh); Seagulls (Volcano).
Opera includes: The Day After, Trial By Jury (ENO).
Awards include: Linbury Prize for Stage Design 2015; Lord Williams Prize for Design; The Prince of Wales Design Scholarship.
Aimée-Ffion Edwards (Marcela)
For the Royal Court: The Twits, Jerusalem (& West End/Broadway).
Other theatre includes: Trelawny of the Wells, The Recruiting Officer (Donmar); Fireface (Young Vic); Shitmix (West End).
Television includes: Troy: Fall of a City, Loaded, Peaky Blinders, Aberfan: The Green Hollow, Death in Paradise, Detectorists, Bugsplat, Wolf Hall, Under Milk Wood, Flack, Inside No9, A Poet in New York, Walking & Talking, Luther, Little Crackers – Better Than Christmas, Being Human, Law & Order, Casualty, Skins, Y Pris.
Radio includes: Home Front, Plantagenet.
Gareth Fry (Sound Designer)
For the Royal Court: Victory Condition, Road, Torn, How To Hold Your Breath, Truth & Reconciliation, Wastwater, Chicken Soup with Barley, 10 Billion, Sucker Punch, The City, Harvest, O Go My Man, Talking to Terrorists (& Out of Joint/UK tour), Forty Winks, Night Songs, Face to the Wall, Redundant, Mountain Language, Ashes to Ashes, Under the Whaleback, The Country.
Other theatre includes: Harry Potter & the Cursed Child (West End); The Encounter, The Master & Margarita, Shun-kin, Endgame (Complicite); Woyzeck, Richard III, Dancing at Lughnasa (Old Vic); Barber Shop Chronicles, Othello, The Cat in the Hat, Kneehigh’s A Matter Of Life & Death, Attempts on Her Life, Waves (National); Let the Right One In, Black Watch (National Theatre of Scotland); Boy, Game (Almeida); First Love is the Revolution (Soho); John (DV8/ National); Othello (Frantic Assembly); The Secret Agent (Theatre O); The Noise (Unlimited); The Cherry Orchard, Wild Swans, Hamlet (Young Vic).
Exhibitions include: Perfume (Somerset House); David Bowie Is, Shakespeare: Greatest Living Playwright, Five Stages of Truth (V&A), Digital Revolution (Barbican Curve).
Events include: Somerset House Film4 Summer Screen & Ice Rink; Hampton Court 500 Rewind; Lighting the Sails 2014 (VIVID Live, Sydney); Soundscape design, Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games.
Awards include: Olivier Award for Best Sound Design (Harry Potter & the Cursed Child); Olivier Award for Best Sound Design (Black Watch); Olivier Award for Best Sound Design (Waves); Tony Award for Best Sound Design (The Encounter); Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design (The Encounter); Evening Standard Award for Best Design (The Encounter); Helpmann Award for Best Sound Design (Black Watch); IRNE Award (Wild Swans).
William Gregory (Translator)
Theatre includes: I’d Rather Goya Robbed me of my Sleep than Some Other Arsehole/Son of a Bitch (Old 505, Sydney/Boom Arts/Gate); Villa (The Play Company/ICES, Sri Lanka/Mac, Belfast); Chamaco/Kiddo (HOME); Discurso/Speech (Mac, Belfast); The Concert (Upstream, St Louis); Springtime (Finborough).
Radio includes: Cuba.
William has worked for the Royal Court International Department as a translator, reader and advisor on many Spanish-language new writing projects since 2003.
Paul Kaye (José
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