Spring Tour 2010 - The Long Way Home
4 February 2010The Long Way Home
Written by Charles Way, Directed by Naomi Jones
Designer Mika Handley, Music Rebecca Shanks, Puppetry Polly Beestone, Lighting Steve Cooney
Opens at Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh on Wednesday February 17th
Eastern Angles use music, puppetry and storytelling techniques to bring this contemporary folktale to life.
The story centres on a spirited old woman and her pilgrimage across country back to the seaside village of her childhood. As she treks across the land the ‘old mother' meets an abandoned dog-boy and a tender friendship is forged.
On the way, the two companions encounter a series of strange and unsettling characters - a distraught mother, a proud farmer, dangerous bandits and ghosts from the past all fighting their own personal battles.
Charles Way is an award-winning writer of over thirty plays. Eastern Angles audiences will remember his wonderfully atmospheric play In The Bleak Midwinter which toured the East of England back in 2000.
The Long Way Home will be directed by Naomi Jones whose 2009 Spring Tour Return To Akenfield gained glowing reviews from The Guardian and The Times.
This new production will tour to over fifty venues across the East of England between February 17th - May 22nd
Cast: Susan McGoun, Theo Devaney, James Bolt & Jumaan Short
Stage Manager: Penny Griffin