In autumn/winter 2009, Big Brum will be touring a brand new secondary TIE programme centred on A Window, a new play written by world renowned playwright Edward Bond.
'Bond… is the greatest of post-war British playwrights.' (Lyn Gardner, The Guardian)

'A room in a high rise flat. The window overlooks the city street.

A woman reads a story in a newspaper. It shatters her world. Her hopes for herself and the child she is carrying turn to fear. She tries to explain to her partner. He will not listen: "That kid’s a curse on me. Get rid of it or I’m out."

Years later, her partner has long since vanished and the ‘kid’ is a young man. He takes great risks to help his mother but fails – she will destroy herself. When he is fi nally left alone he meets his lost father in a startling confrontation. It leads to a radiant climax in which the young man seems to meet himself. He turns to the window and for him the city beyond it and his own life are changed.'

A remarkable insight into the tangled problems of being human in an inhuman world - of the relationship between the individual and the community, between delusion and reality, choice and coercion - A Window is sometimes disturbing but always deeply compassionate.

Edward Bond is internationally known as one of the world’s greatest playwrights. His 45 plays have been staged by the RSC, The National Theatre, The Nationale Theatre De la Colline, and in some 60 countries. This is his seventh Big Brum play written specially for the young people of Birmingham and the West Midlands.

Challenging and thoughtful, A Window is designed to have cross-curricular appeal and is a must for those seeking to cultivate creative approaches to teaching and learning. It also provides a powerful stimulus for the exploration of roles, themes and theatrical conventions within classroom GCSE/BTEC/A Level delivery.

The programme will be touring schools from Oct-Dec 2009. Booking is underway, and it is anticipated that interest will be high.

October to December 2009
To book, or for more information, please contact:
Claire Procter, Big Brum Theatre-in-Education, Pegasus Infant and Junior School, Turnhouse Road, Castle Vale, Birmingham, B35 6PR.
Tel: 0121 4644607 Mob: 07736 324818 Fax: 0121 4644605 E-mail: claire@bigbrum.plus.com