by CARIDAD SVICH directed by BEN PURKISS
To accompany our production of Howard Brenton’s Churchill in Moscow, which recounts the stories of two translators working for Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin, we are producing this superb new play which takes a very different look at the business of translation.
A ghost story about the self and the space between truth and fiction. Or the story of a translator.
When a theatre company programmes the latest play by the renowned but reclusive Kora K, their translator is confronted with academics, the audience, their own conscience, and an ethical dilemma. As rehearsals progress, uncomfortable questions arise: where is the line between pure fiction and mere interpretation?
Ben Purkiss was born and bred in London and discovered his passion for directing while studying English and Drama at the University of East Anglia. Since then, he has collaborated frequently as a freelance director with many London-based theatre companies, including Make It Beautiful and Little Lion Theatre Company. These productions include Our Little Life at the Black Box Studio in Slovenia, What You Will (Twelfth Night) at Tea House Theatre, as well as numerous short plays. Most recently, Ben directed the 5-star show Sniff at the Park Theatre after a number of successful runs at other London venues.
About OT Lunchtime Plays
Lunchtime Plays at the OT hark back to our origins over fifty years ago when a group of actors adopted a room above the Orange Tree pub, performing with scripts in hand and nothing but the daylight through the windows to light performances. Chairs were placed around the edge of the room creating an in-the-round space that remains at the heart of our work all these years later.
Cast
Actor
Rebecca Hayes
Translator
Khai Shaw
Audient
David Sturzaker
Lecturer
Hara Yannas