HighTide and Arcola Theatre Announces THE SUGAR-COATED BULLETS OF THE BOURGEOISIE

Ahead of revealing its full tenth anniversary programme on 15 March, HighTide has announced today that, alongside the Arcola Theatre, they will present a brand new play by Anders Lustgarten. The play will run at the Arcola from 7th April before opening HighTide Festival in September.

THE SUGAR-COATED BULLETS OF THE BOURGEOISIE will reunite Lustgarten, who won the inaugural Harold Pinter Prize for If You Don't Let Us Dream We Won't Let You Sleep (Royal Court), with HighTide Artistic Director, Steven Atkinson whose recent credits include Forget Me Not, peddling and Bottleneck. The pair's previous collaboration was the acclaimed production of Lustgarten's powerful play about the refugee crisis, Lampedusa, (HighTide/Soho Theatre). Based on almost a decade of study, The Sugar-Coated Bullets of The Bourgeoisie is an urgent and timely new play that explores the lives of the Chinese people in two eras, during the rise of Maoist China, and in 2016, an increasingly diverse, volatile, $11 Trillion economy on the precipice of change.

The production's 8 strong cast of British East Asian actors includes Andrew Leung (Chimerica, You For Me For You) and Anna Leong Brophy (P'yongyang).

Revolution has stirred, China has stood up and Communism reaches Rotten Peach Village. Over the next sixty years, the villagers are battered by the waves of New China, lurching from the extremes of Maoism to the extremes of capitalism. Yet amid all the change and turmoil, one thing does not alter: their willingness to fight.

HighTide, one of the UK's leading new writing organisations focused on developing emerging playwrights, will celebrate its tenth anniversary in September 2016. The annual festival in Suffolk has showcased some of the UK's most well-respected new writers of the last decade including Luke Barnes, Vickie Donoghue, Ella Hickson, Nick Payne, Beth Steel and Jack Thorne. The full 2016 programme will be announced on 15 March.

THE SUGAR-COATED BULLETS OF THE BOURGEOISIE
Written by Anders Lustgarten
Directed by Steven Atkinson
Design by Lily Arnold
Lighting by Elliot Griggs
Sound by Giles Thomas
Movement by Struan Leslie
Casting by Louis Hammond CDG
Associate Director Andrew Twyman

Performances
7 - 30 April
Monday - Saturday at 7.30pm
Saturday matinees at 3pm

Ticket prices
£19/£15| £14/12 | £10

Previews £10

Box Office
020 7503 1646
http://www.arcolatheatre.com/the-sugar-coated-bullets-of-the-bourgeoisie/

HighTide Festival is one of the UK's leading producers of new plays, and one of the few professional theatres focused on the production of new playwrights. Now entering its tenth year, HighTide has premiered more than sixty productions by now major playwrights including Ella Hickson, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig, Nick Payne, Adam Brace, Beth Steel, Sam Holcroft, Luke Barnes, Vickie Donoghue, Anders Lustgarten, Jack Thorne and Joel Horwood.
www.hightide.org.uk

Arcola Theatre is one of London's leading off-West End theatres. Locally engaged and internationally minded, Arcola stages a diverse programme of plays, operas and musicals. World-class productions from major artists appear alongside cutting-edge work from the most exciting emerging companies. Arcola delivers one of London's most extensive community engagement programmes, creating over 5000 opportunities every year. By providing research and development space to diverse artists, Arcola champions theatre that's more engaging and representative. Its pioneering environmental initiatives are internationally renowned, and aim to make Arcola the world's first carbon-neutral theatre.
www.arcolatheatre.com

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