THE Island Arts Centre will be welcoming back theatre company Love&Madness for a double bill of theatrical enjoyment at the beginning of February.
A scene from Romeo & Juliet
On Friday February 5 th
e company will be staging a production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
And on Saturday February 6 Love&Madness' Artistic Director, Neil Sheppeck, will be directing A Taste of Honey.
The Love&Madness weekend begins with the tale of forbidden first love.
In the long hot summer Romeo & Juliet pray for the private night to be alone - away from the blistering passions of masculine honour and the viscous cycle of violence brought on by their families' ongoing feud.
In this cruel adult world of pride, envy and greed, youth and innocence have no place, and Romeo and Juliet must go to desperate measures to be together.
Love&Madness are pleased to welcome Owen Horsley onboard to direct this production.
Owen trained at Drama Centre London. Theatre includes: As Director Edward II by Christopher Marlowe (St Andrew's Crypt) The Insect Play by The Kapek Brothers (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh) As Assistant Director Troilus and Cressida (Cheek by Jowl, Barbican) Cymbeline (Cheek by Jowl, Barbican) The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley (Cheek by Jowl, Barbican) Film includes Suddenly (Third Wheel Productions).
The theatrical treats continue on Saturday (February 6) with A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delany.
Shelagh was just nineteen when she wrote
A Taste of Honey, which was first performed by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop in 1958 and filmed in 1961. Jo's relationship with her irresponsible mother, the Nigerian sailor who leaves her pregnant and the homosexual art student who moves in to take care of her while she waits for the baby to be born, are chronicled in this play which has become a modern classic.
Love&Madness' Artistic Director, Neil Sheppeck, whose credits include The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, Sweetness Follows, Othello, Twelfth Night, Playboy of the Western World, Frankenstein, Mirror Magic Market Tales and La Ronde, is directing.
For further information on either of the shows, both of which begin at 8pm, or to book tickets, priced £10/8 for each show, contact the Island Arts Centre Box Office on 9250 9254.
