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1. Cutting edge national touring productions
A commitment to touring new writing or new adaptations of significant classics locally and nationally. Prioritising innovation, poignancy and a clear relevance to our times. With these projects the company looks to working with other co-producers nationally.
Our next touring project:
Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World by Louis de Bernieres, A specially commissioned stage adaptation for CTC and featuring Louis de Bernieres in the role of the "Narrator". A visionary, multi media, multi discipline project.
'Sunday Morning..' was inspired by Under Milk Wood and originally written for BBC Radio Four. Louis de Bernieres has since expanded and developed the play and the CTC’s adaptation will be the first national tour of the work. It is very much a contemporary version of Dylan Thomas’ masterpiece but set in Earlsfield; the centre of the world! It is de Bernieres lyrical and colourful tribute to the unlikely inhabitants of this inner-city part of London, where Louis lived "for ten years above a small shop on Garrat Lane that had been by turns an outlet for naughty clothes for transvestites, a West Indian hairdressers, and a junkshop". Whereas poetically de Bernieres has "not attempted any special effects to equal Dylan Thomas", he certainly more than makes up for it with hilariously mischievous wit, meticulous observation of real characters, places and even the "twit bloody twitting" sparrows and pigeons of Earlsfield. His writing is of our time, reflecting the hustle and bustle and the anarchic inconsistency and fast moving pace of our lives to the point where Dylan Thomas’ seedy Welsh village, in comparison, pales into a quaint community of the past, something to even feel nostalgic about!
An unusual piece of work from one of our most renowned contemporary writers. The piece offers countless opportunities for creative, imaginative and innovative trans-disciplinary work, providing a rich, visual and kinetic stage performance.
Louis de Bernieres will be writing original music score for the production.
2. Past Christmas productions productions:
Alice In Wonderland by Louis Carol, new stage adaptation by Nasser Memarzia, January 2008
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, specially commissioned for CTC, January 2007
The Flowering Christmas Tree, by Nasser Memarzia, January 2005, repeated January 2006
A commitment to touring new writing or new adaptations of significant classics locally and nationally. Prioritising innovation, poignancy and a clear relevance to our times. With these projects the company looks to working with other co-producers nationally.
Our next touring project:
Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World by Louis de Bernieres, A specially commissioned stage adaptation for CTC and featuring Louis de Bernieres in the role of the "Narrator". A visionary, multi media, multi discipline project.
'Sunday Morning..' was inspired by Under Milk Wood and originally written for BBC Radio Four. Louis de Bernieres has since expanded and developed the play and the CTC’s adaptation will be the first national tour of the work. It is very much a contemporary version of Dylan Thomas’ masterpiece but set in Earlsfield; the centre of the world! It is de Bernieres lyrical and colourful tribute to the unlikely inhabitants of this inner-city part of London, where Louis lived "for ten years above a small shop on Garrat Lane that had been by turns an outlet for naughty clothes for transvestites, a West Indian hairdressers, and a junkshop". Whereas poetically de Bernieres has "not attempted any special effects to equal Dylan Thomas", he certainly more than makes up for it with hilariously mischievous wit, meticulous observation of real characters, places and even the "twit bloody twitting" sparrows and pigeons of Earlsfield. His writing is of our time, reflecting the hustle and bustle and the anarchic inconsistency and fast moving pace of our lives to the point where Dylan Thomas’ seedy Welsh village, in comparison, pales into a quaint community of the past, something to even feel nostalgic about!
An unusual piece of work from one of our most renowned contemporary writers. The piece offers countless opportunities for creative, imaginative and innovative trans-disciplinary work, providing a rich, visual and kinetic stage performance.
Louis de Bernieres will be writing original music score for the production.
2. Past Christmas productions productions:
Alice In Wonderland by Louis Carol, new stage adaptation by Nasser Memarzia, January 2008
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, specially commissioned for CTC, January 2007
The Flowering Christmas Tree, by Nasser Memarzia, January 2005, repeated January 2006