The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes. Hassan Blasim

As a sound operator, credits include The King & I, The Full Monty, Contact, Jerry Springer The Opera (Olivier Award for Best Sound), Guys And Dolls (Olivier Nomination), The Lord Of The Rings (Olivier Nomination), Our House, Loserville and Once – The Musical (Olivier nomination).

      For Kneehigh Theatre Company, Andy has worked as an operator and Associate Sound Designer on three seasons of The Asylum, Brief Encounter (UK Tour, USA & Australian Tours & Broadway – Tony Nomination for Best Sound), The Red Shoes (UK, USA and Australia), The Wild Bride (UK, USA and New Zealand), The King of Prussia, Midnight’s Pumpkin, and Blast!

      Solo design work and collaborations include Mary Rose (Riverside Studios), Allegro, Spend Spend Spend (LMST/Bridewell), Jekyll and Hyde (English Theatre, Vienna), A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings (BAC), The Kiss Of The Spider Woman (Arts Ed), The Other School (NYMT/St James), A Scent Of Flowers (Brockley Jack) and The Beautiful Game (Union). He is currently the UK Sound Associate for Once – The Musical (Phoenix) and Handbagged (Vaudeville).

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      Since 2012 Nick of Time Productions has commissioned plays from Clare Bayley and Rahila Gupta on deaths in custody in collaboration with Inquest and supported by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust. The company is also working on a project on Drones co-produced with Jemima Khan, and with commissions from Christina Lamb & Ron Hutchinson, David Greig and Amit Gupta.

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       YOUNG PEOPLE’S CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPSaround this production co-ordinated and run by

      GILLIAN CHRISTIE (Workshop coordinator)

      Gillian worked with Nicolas Kent as Education Director at the Tricycle Theatre for over 12 years delivering a variety of creative projects and workshops for children and young people. In addition to facilitating creative writing workshops, she is project leader for a local inter-generational community event leading to Black History Month, and co-ordinating a personal history project for Age UK, both based in Islington.

      LUCY POPESCU (Workshop Artistic Director)

      Lucy Popescu is a writer, arts critic and creative writing teacher with a background in literature, theatre, and human rights. She is a volunteer mentor with Freedom from Torture’s writing group, Write to Life. She runs regular writing workshops in north London and is experienced in inspiring, developing and shaping others’ creative work. Lucy is the author of The Good Tourist and has edited various books including refugee writer Jade Amoli-Jackson’s Moving a Country, Write to Life’s collection of refugee writing, Body Maps, and the PEN anthology Another Sky.

      THE NIGHTMARES OF CARLOS FUENTES

      Rashid Razaq

       THE NIGHTMARESOF CARLOS FUENTES

      Based on the short story by Hassan Blasim

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      Based on the short story © Hassan Blasim, 2014

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