Almeida Theatre
Almeida Street
N1
020.7359.4404
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Cloud Nine
- When
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25 Oct 2007 – 8 Dec 2007
Mondays–Fridays (7:30pm)
Saturdays (3 & 7:30pm)
- Where
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Tube: Angel, Highbury & Islington
- Price
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£6 - 29.50
- Links
This 1979 piece by provocative playwright Caryl Churchill still has the power to disturb. The first act, set in colonial Africa, is carefully contrasted with the second, which takes place in a London park during the late '70s; the characters remain the same, only aged by 20 years. Drawing stark comparisons between colonial and sexual oppression, Cloud Nine maintains a recurrent theme in Churchill's funny yet powerfully political plays. True to the original, Thea Sharrock's production features plenty of sex, obscenity and cross-dressing, as well as a strong cast — including James Fleet, fresh from the Hampstead Theatre.
