Finborough Theatre Presents World Premiere of TRIDENT MOON

In a production commissioned by the Finborough Theatre, the world premiere of Trident Moon by multi-award-winning Canadian playwright Anusree Roy in her UK debut runs at the Finborough Theatre, playing Sunday and Monday evenings and Monday and Tuesday matinees from Sunday, 9 October 2016.

India, 1947. Six women, three Muslim and three Hindu, hide inside a coal truck as it speeds through the newly-divided Hindustan. Nothing will prevent Alia getting to West Bengal. Her former employers are now her captives and she will have revenge for what they have done, even if she has to harm the child she has spent her life raising.

Violence and hatred threaten to engulf those inside the truck, as thick and terrifying as that which can be heard outside in the streets. But suddenly the truck stops, and the women must find what unites them in order to have any chance of survival...

In 2016, over 9 million people fled their homes due to rising religious violence. In the run up to next year's 70th anniversary of India's partition, Anusree Roy's stunning new play is an extraordinary opportunity to explore the lives of women caught in the crossfire.

Playwright Anusree Roy emigrated to Canada from Kolkata, India, at age 17. Her 2007 play Pyaasapremiered at Toronto's Theatre Passe Muraille and won two Dora Mavor Moore Awards including Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Performance (Female). Her subsequent plays have includedLetters to My Grandma, Roshni and Brothel #9. Brothel #9 won the Carol Bolt Award and the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play in 2011, and was a nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language Drama at the 2012 Governor General's Awards. She has also won the RBC Emerging Artist Award, the K. M. Hunter Award and the Siminovitch Protege Prize. She has premiered two operas, Noor over Afghan and The Golden Boy. She has been Playwright-in-Residence at Canadian Stage, Theatre Passe Muraille, Nightwood Theatre, Factory Theatre and the Blyth Festival, and is co-artistic director with David DeGrow and Thomas Morgan Jones of Theatre Jones Roy. She currently plays Nurse Patel on the TV show Remedy (Indian Grove Productions). She was also a story editor for Remedy in its first season.

Director Anna Pool devised and directed the world premiere and national tour of Dust Child as the youngest director and librettist ever engaged by the Olivier Award winning company, English Touring Opera. She is Artistic Director of interactive theatre company workshOPERA, nominated for a 2016 New British Music Theatre Award for their productions of Boys of Paradise (EGG LDN and Tete a Tete Festival) and Seven Velvet Suits (BasicSpace Festival). Other direction includes Il Parnaso Confuso (Wilton's Music Hall), Songs for a New World (Silk Street Theatre, Barbican) andContactless (Theatre N16). Anna is a Staff Director for Welsh National Opera, assisting Sarah Crisp and Elijah Moshinsky on Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci and Tobias Richter on The Marriage of Figaro. She has also assisted Peter Mumford on The Ring Cycle (Opera North), Helen Donnelly onPig Girl (Finborough Theatre) and Lotte Wakeham on the world premiere of The Other School(National Youth Music Theatre at the St. James' Theatre). Anna was Associate Director of the City of London's Corpus Christi celebrations, devised and directed with Annabel Arden.

Peformance Details:

Finborough Theatre, 118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED
Box Office 0844 847 1652 Book online at www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk
Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18 October 2016
Sunday and Monday evenings at 7.30pm. Monday and Tuesday matinees at 2.00pm.
Tickets £18, £16 concessions.
Performance Length: Approximately 90 minutes with no interval.