At The Gates of Gaza
Year staged: 2008
Opening night: 02/10/2008
Theatre Company: Big Creative Ideas
Staged in: Birmingham Repertory Theatre
Cast Size: 5
Synopsis
Stranded in the battlefields of the Holy Land during the Great War, a battalion of West Indian volunteers fight for the Empire, the King and the Mother Land. Their long search for identity and honour falls apart as the fragile hopes of young lives, both black and white, explode and shatter as betrayal and race take their toll.
Original Cast
Ben Bennett
Patterson
Fabian Spencer
Big George / Walcott
Curtis Jay Cole
Fairchild
Toyin Omari-Kinch
Styles
Matthew Moxon
Miller
Production Team
Crin Claxton
Lighting
Colin Thorpe
Sound
Daniel Kobbina
Fights
Mark Walters
Designer
Steven Luckie
Director
Additional Materials
Unpublished Playscript
Ref: BBPA/4/27
National Theatre