7/7 Director Delighted to be Back at College
Next week the Royal Welsh College is performing an
extraordinary, evocative, troubling and humane play.
As director James Grieve explains, “Simon Stephens is the
greatest playwright of his generation and one of the most searing
and insightful chroniclers of our times. I feel hugely privileged
to have the opportunity to direct such a brilliant and important
play, and to be returning to the Royal Welsh College which
consistently produces top class actors and boasts some of the best
facilities of any drama school in the UK”.
Playing from Wednesday 8 to Saturday 18 December, Pornography captures all the excitement,
hope and optimism that gripped London during one week in July 2005
when the Olympics were announced and Live8 rocked Hyde Park.
It captures all the confusion, despair and hopelessness when
just as suddenly all that joy was obliterated by four suicide
bombers on 7/7.
In Pornography, playwright
Simon Stephens explores the seismic aftershock of the bombings
through the deeply personal stories of unconnected individuals
whose lives were changed irrevocably by that rollercoaster
week.