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SURF works with the cast of The Overwhelming
London – 16th May 2006
The Overwhelming is now touring the UK.
19 - 23 Sep
Nuffield Theatre Southampton
023 8067 1771
www.nuffieldtheatre.co.uk
26 - 30 Sept
Liverpool Everyman
0151 709 4776
www.everymanplayhouse.com
3 - 7 Oct
Library Theatre Manchester
0161 236 7110
www.librarytheatre.com
Date: Showing from Wednesday, 15th May 2006 through August 2006
Time: 7.30pm (unless otherwise cited on The National Theatre website)
Place: The National Theatre
Box office: 020 7452 3000 / Buy online
Info: The Overwhelming page on The National Theatre website
Survivors Fund has been working with the production team and cast of The Overwhelming, a gripping story about a country on the brink of genocide. The Overwhelming is a play by J T Rogers.
You are seeking answers in a country you do not know, without a language to understand it. And yet you wish me to send my soldiers. You would like us to run through the city, flashing guns, asking, ‘What has happened?’
Seizing the opportunity to research a book, Jack Exley uproots his family from Illinois to Rwanda in early 1994. Alarmingly out of depth, Jack begins a fervent search for his dear and missing friend while his wife and teenage son find trouble of their own. As Jack involves himself in the local politics, he discovers a pattern of brutality and beliefs that jeopardizes the lives of everyone around him.
Director: Max Stafford-Clark
Designer: Tim Shortall
Lighting Designer: Johanna Town
Sound Designer: Gareth Fry
Cast:
Jack Exley: Matthew Marsh
Geoffrey Exley: Andrew Garfield
Linda White-Keeler Tanya Moodie
Charles Woseley / British Doctor: William Armstrong
Jean-Claude / Clark: Nick Fletcher
Joseph Gasana / Hospital Orderly / Waiter: Jude Akuwudike
Elise Kayitesi / Waitress / Rwandan Doctor: Chipo Chung
Samual Mizinga: Danny Sapani
Gerard / Waiter: Babou Ceesay
Woman in Club / Market Woman/ Waitress: Adura Onashile
UN Lieutenant / Man in Night Club / Man at Embassy Party /
Market Man/ Policeman: Lucian Msamati
All other parts played by members of the company
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