The Incident – An intimate love story spanning Sweden and Zimbabwe
***** “Powerful, relevant, controversial, open ended.” – Audience Member – National Arts Festival, South Africa
The Incident is new play by Swedish playwright Joakim Daun that tackles belonging, migration, racism and power through an intimate love story spanning Sweden and Zimbabwe.
PERFORMANCE DATES
The Albany
Tuesday 16th October-Friday 19th October, 19:30
For bookings: 020 8692 4446 / www.thealbany.org.uk
*Discussions on the themes of the play will take place after the performances on Wednesday 17 and Friday 19 October
Ticket price: £14 (concessions available)
Poplar Union
Sunday 21st October, 15:00
For bookings:
Ticket price: £9 (concessions available)
ABOUT THE PLAY
Can love can keep two people together when the stakes are raised? How ‘progressive’ are people really, when they’re confronted with difficult choices? How far are people willing to go to understand people with different cultural and ethnic backgrounds?
The Incident explores the realities of living in a different culture, far from family, support, and tradition. It takes a closer at who we allow to belong in our societies and what it means to be an ambitious, non-white woman in a mostly white male dominated society.
ABOUT THE PRODUCTION
The Incident was created collaboratively between Swedish writer Joakim Daun and American Dramaturge Zoë Guzy-Sprague.
Directed by acclaimed Tonderai Munyevu and Arne Pohlmeier at Two Gents Production and starring Swedish Actor David Weiss and British actress Cassandra Hercules.