Following a debut performance at Marseille’s Théâtre de la Mer, Moovida Académie brings Red, Black, and Ignorant to Dartmouth House on 4 July.
This highly relevant, dystopian play, first performed at the Barbican in 1996, looks at the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust with drama and sensitivity.
It is the fruit of a partnership that started with an English Summer School sponsored by Nick Hill’s Aix-Marseille Branch. Three years later, with the support of the US and British Embassies in Paris, Moovida Académie boasts a vibrant English language section.
Nassim Bouguezzi, a Moovida alumnus with a successful TV and cinema career, will lead the cast in London.
After the performance, we are hosting our annual Fourth of July party in honour of the ESU’s Birthday. Tickets for both the play and the party start at just £30. Please click the link below for more information.
The Play:
Red, Black and Ignorant is the first opus of the War Plays’ trilogy, by the British playwright Edward Bond. Originally published in 1985, during the late Cold War, the plays bear Hiroshima’s sequels and the fear of nuclear war. Inspired by agitprop partisan theatre, the nine acts of the play display essential aspects of life, yet always jousting with paradoxes (Learning, Love, Eating, Selling, Working…)
Moovida Académie:
This rendition of Red, Black and Ignorant is produced by Ph’Art et Balises, a non-profit organisation that has been based in Marseilles’ most deprived areas for 17 years. Its mission is to tackle the deficit of education in priority education zones, which strikes even more art and culture careers: audiovisual, cinema, performing art and music. Each year, Moovida Cinema and Theatre Academy assists one hundred talented young people from Marseille, through an alternative training course on cinema, audiovisual and performing arts careers, that requires no degree. This project shines a light on the creative potential present in Marseille.
