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Road by Jim Cartwright

Guildhall School of Music & Drama

— ,Milton Court Studio Theatre
Three young boys looking at the camera

Set in 1980s Britain, Road explores the lives of the inhabitants of an unnamed street in a small Lancashire town.

Unemployment is high, an unpopular leader is re-elected and the country is recovering from a recession. But tonight, there’s a party to go to.   

Poignant, funny and poetic, Road is a portrayal of ordinary people’s lives set against the backdrop of a nation divided.   

Jim Cartwright’s Road is ‘uncomfortable and magical...funny and bitter...a northern Under Milk Wood’ (Sunday Times). Paul Foster directs this production. 

Tagged with: Theatre & dance Guildhall School

Presented by Guildhall School of Music & Drama. This amateur production of “Road” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd.

A recording of this production will be available to watch online for free after the performances. Watch online from 2 March.

Creative team

  • Paul Foster   director
  • Liam Bunster   designer
  • Georgie Bottone   lighting designer
  • Levi Meehan-Powell   sound designer
  • Mandy Gordon   movement director
  • Kate Waters   fight director
  • Louise Kempton   intimacy director
  • Lucy Lawless   assistant costume designer
‘Cartwright’s vivid language, with its ugly-beautiful poetry, its rage and compassion, still grabs you by the throat and squeezes, hard.‘
The Times

Production Credits

Paul Foster director  
Liam Bunster designer  
Georgie Bottone lighting designer
Levi Meehan-Powell sound designer
Mandy Gordon movement director
Kate Waters fight director
Raniah Al-Sayed intimacy director
Lucy Lawless assistant costume designer

Milton Court Studio Theatre

Location
Milton Court is located within the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and is approximately a 5 minute walk from the Barbican entrance on Silk Street.

Address
Milton Court,
Silk St, London
EC2Y 9BH

Public transport
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