Blue/Orange

Submitted by recruitment@oxf... on October 26, 2021 - 09:23

Venue, Timing and Cost

Venue: 
Oxford Playhouse
Date(s): 
Tuesday, 16 November 2021 to Saturday, 20 November 2021
Timing: 
Daily 7:30pm, Sat Matinee 2:30pm
Cost: 
From £10

A Royal & Derngate Northampton, Theatre Royal Bath Productions, and Oxford Playhouse co-production

By Joe Penhall
Directed by James Dacre
Winner of the Olivier Award for Best Play

In a London psychiatric hospital, a mysterious patient wants out. The problem is that, to him, oranges are bright blue and Muhammed Ali is a whole lot more than just a boxer.

As his doctor and senior consultant debate whether to section or release him, an extraordinary new claim causes them to become more and more divided in their diagnosis. Their power struggle escalates into a startling and provocative exploration of power and privilege, revealing uncomfortable truths about all three men.

When Joe Penhall’s (Mindhunter, The Road) groundbreaking Blue/Orange premiered in 2001 it won the Olivier, Critics’ Circle and Evening Standard awards for Best New Play.

Twenty years after Joe Penhall’s (Mindhunter, The Road) ground-breaking Blue/Orange premiered, he collaborates with Giles Terera (winner of the 2018 Olivier Award for Hamilton), Michael Balogun (Death Of England, National Theatre), Ralph Davis (Small Axe) and Royal & Derngate’s Artistic Director James Dacre (2020 Olivier Award Nominee Our Lady Of Kibeho) on a brand new production shining new light upon this incendiary interrogation of power and privilege in modern Britain. The play won the Olivier, Critics’ Circle and Evening Standard awards for Best New Play in 2001.

Further Information

Contact Details: 

Oxford Playhouse, 11-12 Beaumont St, Oxford OX1 2LW
oxfordplayhouse.com
Box Office: 01865 305 305

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