Blind Eye Crying By Glyn Maxwell

Directed by Alex Clifton

(After Hecabe and The Trojan Women by Euripides)

Glyn Maxwell rips up two Greek classics and makes a new English play out of the pieces-Five quarrelling women drawn together by grief…Three exhausted generals who hate each other’s guts…A King who falls for a girl so mad she can see the audience…A teenage princess dreaming of the Underworld…And a lonely man of conscience trying to get it all down on paper…

Love, loss and sarcasm in the smoking ruins of Troy…

“Glyn Maxwell is a superlative writer…..(his) writing gleams with the wit of John Donne delivered in the rhythm of Shakespeare….”

*****The Scotsman

Alex Clifton co-founded Simunye Theatre Company in Soweto, South Africa.  He assisted for Thelma Holt Ltd and at the RNT, then worked as a Staff Director for English National Opera, before directing as an associate of the John Caird Company and becoming Artistic Director of Pursued by a Bear Theatre Company, resident at the Farnham Maltings Arts Centre.  Later this year he will direct Our Countrys Good at The Watermill Theatre.  Other credits include Carmen 1936 by Stephen Jeffreys (RADA), Julius Caesar, For One Night Only by Oladipo Agboluaje (tour), Cancer Time by Gary Owen, Yorgjin Oxo by Thomas Crowe (both Theatre 503).  He is a director of the International Schools’ Theatre Association. 

Blind Eye Crying has been developed with the Royal Academy Of Dramatic Art and was  performed by students at The Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre in July 2008

July 5^th: 2pm, 7.30pm. July 7^th: 7.30pm + discussion. July 12^th: 7.30pm 

For more information visit www.rada.org 

Lifeblood Theatre Co presented a rehearsed reading of Blind Eye Crying in September 2009

A full scale production will follow in 2010