Legacies - Greenwich Playhouse
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
OPEN Stage is presenting their latest production Legacies at Greenwich Playhouse – from Tuesday, October 6 to Saturday, October 10, 2009.
Broaching the subject of social inheritance, Legacies asks how the actions and deeds of one generation hold ramifications for the next.
Set against a backdrop of greater events stretching over almost a century it follows five individual stories. Starting with an execution for cowardice in World War I and culminating with recent events in Iraq, the play also takes in the Windrush influx of West Indian immigrants in the Fifties and how racism served to shape the attitudes of future generations.
Along the way, there are the baked bean adverts of the sixties, the Winter of Discontent under Callaghan’s Labour Government in the seventies, plus Rubik’s Cube, Wham, The Clash, the Millennium and the predicted Y2K computer crash.
Open Stage literally takes its material straight from the horse’s mouth for this hard hitting drama set in and around a cemetery. Tackling thorny issues such as mental health, crime and addiction, Legacies is collaboratively written and performed by those with firsthand experience and offers a controversial warts and all account of how the consequences of social ills are perpetuated through one generation onto the next.
Open Stage was previously at Greenwich Playhouse with The Dicephalus Project.
Tickets: £8, £5 concessions.
Time: 7.30pm.
For more information call the box office on 0208 858 9256 or visit the Website
Prior to Legacies, East runs at Greenwich Playhouse from September 22 to October 4, 2009.
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