ATC & Drum Theatre Plymouth Present THE GOLDEN DRAGON 9/1-24

Actors Touring Company (ATC) and Drum Theatre Plymouth present The Golden Dragon
By Roland Schimmelpfennig, translated by David Tushingham, directed by Ramin Gray at ARCOLA THEATRE LONDON from September 1 - 24 & NATIONAL TOUR

"Number 6: Thai soup with chicken, coconut milk, Thai ginger, tomatoes, button mushrooms, lemon grass and lemon leaves (hot)."

Following its UK premiere at Drum Theatre Plymouth and its Edinburgh Festival run at The Traverse, Germany's most lauded and performed new play makes its London debut at The Arcola in September and then embarks on a national tour. The Golden Dragon is Ramin Gray's inaugural production as Artistic Director of Actors Touring Company and is a bold co-production with The Drum Theatre Plymouth.

The Golden Dragon by Roland Schimmelpfennig is a tragicomic tale of globalisation set in your local takeaway. Five actors play a huge cast of characters - a Chinese migrant with toothache, a woman in a red dress, the man from the shop next door, two air-stewardesses plus a cricket and some ants - in a deconstructed soap opera that moves everywhere and nowhere. Charting a journey from far-off China to just around the corner and back again, The Golden Dragon reveals what really goes into that bowl of hot and sour soup.

"If I could be something completely different from what I am. If I could be something completely different from what I have to be. Another person. If I could have one wish."

Before taking his post at ATC earlier this year, Ramin Gray was International Associate and Associate Director at The Royal Court Theatre from 2000-09, and has also directed for the RSC, Out of Joint, Liverpool Playhouse, Gate Theatre as well as major theatres across Europe and Russia.

Roland Schimmelpfennig is Germany's hottest contemporary playwright. Previous work performed in the UK includes Ramin Gray's production of Push Up at The Royal Court Theatre and ATC previously presented Arabian Night. In 2010, Schimmelpfennig was awarded the Mühlheimer Dramatists Award for The Golden Dragon. Schimmelpfennig also received the highest Playwriting Award in Germany, the Else-Lasker-Schüler-Prize, to honour his entire oeuvre.

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ARCOLA THEATRE
24 Ashwin Street Dalston, London E8 3DL
Box Office: 020 7503 1646 or www.arcolatheatre.com

September 1 - 24

Press Night
September 2 -7.30pm

Evenings 7.30pm
Matinees September 10, 17 & 24 3.00pm

£17 (£11 concs)
Pay what you can Tuesdays
£10 September 1 - 3

TOUR
North Wall, Oxford
September 29 & 30

Quarterhouse, Folkestone
October 1

Manchester Royal Exchange
October 4 to 8

Hull Truck Studio
October 12 & 13

Bristol Old Vic
October 18 - 22

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