Interruptions shows an imaginary country preparing for an election, undergoing a military coup, and then living through the consequences. Originally devised by Annabel Arden and Stephen Jeffreys, Represent now has the privilege of staging its UK premiere with a new adaptation. Jeffreys’ wife Annabel Arden writes: “[Interruptions] sprang from [Stephen’s] fascination with the Japanese aesthetic principle of Jo-ha-kyu and his desire to create a particular narrative form to express our struggles with democracy and leadership.”
It asks the questions: Do we need to be led? How do we decide who leads? What happens when there are no leaders?
The performances on Tuesday 30 November at 7:30pm and Saturday 4 December at 2:30pm will be captioned
Prefer to watch online? The performance taking place on Thursday 25 November will be live streamed. Book tickets for the live stream here.
Post-show Q&As
Free to ticket holders for that evening’s performance
Thursday 25 November
The Challenges of Leadership
Marcus Davey (Chief Executive & Artistic Director of the Roundhouse and on the board of represent.), Alex Colás (Professor of International Relations at Birkbeck), Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner (Co-Chair of the Global Interfaith Commission on LGBT+ Lives and former Senior Rabbi of Reform Judaism)
Thursday 2 December
The Work & Legacy of Stephen Jeffreys
Annabel Arden (Director and Co-Founder of Complicité), Simon Stephens (playwright), April de Angelis (playwright)
Photos: © Guy Bell, GBPhotos.com
Credits
- Stephen Jeffreys: Writer
- Guy Woolf: Writer of new version
- Guy Woolf: Director
- Complicite’s Kasia Zaremba-Byrne: Movement Director
- Co-founder of Complicite, Annabel Arden: Associate Artist