 What Shadows, the acclaimed play by Chris Hannan, directed by Birmingham Rep's own artistic director, Roxana Silbert, recently opened at the Birmingham Rep and has received a positive reception from various publications including The Telegraph, The Financial Times and The Times. Contour Chromatic composer Giles Thomas created sound design for this production.
1992. Rose Cruickshank, a black Oxford academic, wants answers. Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech, with its controversial words about immigration, shattered her childhood and now she is driven to confront both the man who made the speech and her own troubled identity. Will a meeting with Enoch resolve the conflicts that are tearing her - and the country - apart? |
