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JONATHAN HOLMES
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Dr Jonathan Holmes is a writer, director and founder of Arts organisation The Jericho House.
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De Gabay (The Poem) Fallujah Into Thy Hands Katrina Revolution SquareDe Gabay (The Poem)
Synopsis:
Two years ago a group of Somali poets from Butetown walked into the National Theatre Wales office and said they wanted to make a show...Their award-winning story begins in Somalia and sails to Cardiff's Tiger Bay
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1st Produced:
Butetown, Cardiff 03 Mar 2013
Organisations:
National Theatre of Wales
1st Published:
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Music:
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site specific
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Male: 7 Female: 8 Other: -
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Synopsis:
The Siege of Fallujah constitutes one of the most extensive human rights violations of recent times. Breaching over 70 articles of the Geneva conventions. This play presents testimony from those at the heart of the siege. . .
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Harriet Walter, Imogen Stubbs, Dominic Jephcott, Chip Chung, Shereen Martineau, Chris Jarman And Christopher Simpson perform Fallujah, A "testimony" piece About the siege of the Iraqi town, At the Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane, East London, not far from Spitalfields Market
1st Produced:
Old Truman Brewery, London 2007
Organisations:
ICA with Illium Productions
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Music:
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Genre:
Documentary
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 3 Other: 3 actors on screen, doubling
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Top of PageInto Thy Hands
Into Thy Hands is a play about faith, sex, and the translation of the Bible. Set four hundred years ago, it is centred around John Donne and his parallel roles as the first English translator of Galileo, accomplice in the translation of the Song of Solomon, and as the most popular songwriter of the English Court. Set in 1610-11 at the high watermark of the English Renaissance, the play charts the beginning of an English project that would come to dominate the next three centuries. John Donne stood at the nexus of these developments. at various times politician, soldier, poet, musician, lawyer, courtier, theologian and cleric, and as a man born into one of the most distinguished English Catholic families only to die as one of its most renowned Protestants, he lived lives as most shades of English identity. He was also intimately involved with three great English innovations that came to dominate the subsequent life of the country: the anglican church, epitomised by the King James Bible (1611); the scientific enlightenment, prompted by the work of Francis Bacon and the appearance of Galileos work in English (also 1611); and the great artistic flourishing in theatre, poetry and music. This play is about the collision of those worlds.
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1st Produced:
Organisations:
Jericho House Utopia Season
1st Published:
Methuen Drama 978-1408156520
Music:
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Genre:
historical drama
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 5 Other: doubling
Further Reference:
Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 11 Page 591
Top of PageKatrina
In August 2005 Hurrican Katrina narrowly missed New orleans. The resulting storms breached rotting levees and emptied neighbouring lake Pontchartrain into the city. Marooned by floodwater that swamped over 80% of their holmes, the inhabitants had to wait a week without food or clean water before their government came to their aid. Katrina uses survivor testimonies and the rich musical tradition of new orleans to tell the story of the immediate aftermath of the hurricane. Staged in a five-story warehouse on london's South bank, Jericho House's new play takes the audience on an odyssey through a drowned city, enveloped in the most immersive of visual and aural designs, in the company of individuals displaced and abandoned within their own city
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1st Produced:
Bargehouse, OXO Tower Wharf, london 01 Sep 2009
Organisations:
the jerico house
1st Published:
Methuen Drama 978-1408125496
Music:
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Genre:
a play of New Orleans
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: large cast
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Top of PageRevolution Square
Synopsis:
December 2011, Russia saw the largest series of demonstrations and protests since the collapse of the Soviet Union 22 years ago. More than 100,000 people took to the streets in temperatures as low as -20C to protest against widespread fraud and an increasingly authoritarian government. On March 4, Vladimir Putin was re-elected for his third term as President against a background of further corruption and repression.
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1st Produced:
Organisations:
Jericho in collaboration with the Bush Theatre
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
piece
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
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