TEN - five days to go - new performers announced
TEN
Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, London Sunday 7 April 6pm
Call 020 7565 5000 or visit the Royal Court Theatre web site
Latest message from producer Jan Woolf: "TEN - that 'citizens arrest of a show' is just five days away and the last seats are selling fast. Latest news is comedian ARTHUR SMITH is joining the stellar list of performers as compère. He will be introducing renowned British/Iranian comedian Shappi Khorsandi, actor Timothy West, legendary musician and producer Brian Eno, a film of Harold Pinter, and much much more in a multimedia evening of ten performances to mark the tenth anniversary of the Iraq war."
TEN, at the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at the Royal Court on Sunday 7 April at 6pm to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq – and to celebrate the enduring anti-war movement.
TEN, a benefit event for Stop the War, comprises ten, ten-minute pieces with specially commissioned new plays, music, poetry and comedy from British and Middle Eastern artists, including Lynsey Baxter, Richard Bradbury, Andrew Bridgmont, Corin Campbell Hill, Aidan Casey, Sally Davies, Stella Duffy, Sophia Efthimiou, Brian Eno, Joe Gaminara, Shappi Khorsandi, Alan Franks, Muzz Khan, Jane Lapotaire, Roger Lloyd Pack, Peter Lynam, Kika Markham, David Mumeni, Ahmed Mukhtar, Lara Rossi, Marlene Sidaway, Shelley Silas, Ralf Togner, Martin Turner, Timothy West, Philip Wilson, Jan Woolf, Saadi Yusef.
Each play will be introduced by a leading political figure from the anti-war movement, including Tony Benn, Ken Livingstone, Lindsey German, Jeremy Corbyn MP and Ken Loach.
The event will include an exclusive screening of Harold Pinter reading poems from his collection War in 2004.
TEN years on from the Iraq invasion, Brian Eno said – ‘Far from admitting it was a mistake, there’s now a vigorous effort to rewrite history and convince us that, in the end, it has all turned out for the good. In order that we don’t embark on yet another stupid war – In Iran, or Mali, or anywhere else, we need to remember what really happened in Iraq.’
Book now to get one of the few remaining stalls tickets. Top price tickets to the benefit include a programme and signed prints of the now iconic image Photo-Op by anti war artists kennardphillpps.
Call 020 7565 5000 or visit the Royal Court Theatre web site