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Midnight's
Children, Rushdie's prize winning classic story
of the magic, myth making and mischief of modern
India is brought to the stage for the very first
time in a thrilling new production by the Royal
Shakespeare Company. An
extraordinary and kaleidoscopic tale of modern
India, Midnight's Children recounts the epic story
of Indian independence and the births of Pakistan
and India as seen through the eyes of one remarkable
family.
Saleem,
born at the stroke of midnight August 15th, 1947,
the moment of Indian independence from Britain;
is swapped at birth where his life becomes magically
entwined with the destinies of the twin nations
born at the same moment as he.
One
of 1,001 midnight's children, Saleem becomes a
symbol of his homeland. One midnight's child determining
the state of his nation and the fortunes of his
family...
A
breathtaking and brilliant novel, a modern classic
of wild invention and fierce imagination adapted
for the stage for the very first time. Be prepared
for cinematic magical history, family saga and
political epic.
Company
|
Character(s)
|
Actor
|
| Mian
Abdullah, Hanif and Ayooba |
Ravi
Aujla |
| Tai,
Lifafa Das and Deshmukh |
Antony
Bunsee |
| Joe
d'Costa, Shaheed and the Thin Man |
Pushpinder Chani |
| Narliker,
Ghani, Sabarmati, Sonny and C in C |
Kammy
Darweish |
| Amina |
Meneka
Das |
| Pia
and Masha |
Mala
Ghedia |
| Aadam
and Picture Singh |
Kulvinder
Ghir |
| Jamila |
Anjali
Jay |
| Naseem
and Lila |
Shaheen
Khan |
| Alia
and Parvati |
Syreeta
Kumar |
| Homi
Catrack, Glandy Keith and Farooq |
Ranjit
Krishnamma |
| Shiva |
Selva
Rasalingam |
| Mary
Pereira and Rani of Cooch Naheen |
Sirine Saba |
| Zulfikar,
Wee Willie Winkie and Mujib |
Kish
Sharma |
| Saleem |
Zubin
Varla |
| Ahmed
and the Fat Man |
Antony
Zaki |
| Padma |
Sameena
Zehra |
| |
|
| Director |
TIM
SUPPLE |
| Designer
and Choreographer |
MELLY
STILL |
| Dramaturg |
SIMON
READE |
| Lighting
Designer |
BRUNO
POET |
| Sound
and Video Designer |
JOHN
LEONARD |
| Video
Designer |
JON
DRISCOLL |
|
Show
Details
Venue: The Barbican Theatre, London
| DATES |
TIME |
| 1,6,8,13,15,20,22
February |
1.30pm |
| 25
January |
5.15pm |
| 26
January and 9,16,23 February |
4pm |
| 29
January |
7pm |
| 18,20
- 22,24, 27,28,31 January and February
1, 4 - 7, 11 - 15, 18 - 22 |
7.15pm |
| 7
February |
7.15pm |
| 8
February |
7.30pm |
| 19
February (audio described performance) |
7.15pm
|
| 22
February |
1.30pm |
|
Tickets £5,£10, £15, £20
and £25
Full price tickets can be booked online - please
click on the 'book now' link on The
Barbican website.
To
purchase discounted tickets, please contact the
Box Office on 020 7638 8891. If
you wish to book a group of TEN OR MORE tickets
please call our Groups Manager on 020 7382 5268
(weekdays 10am - 5pm). Discounts are available
on many performances.
About
Salman Rushdie
 Salman
Rushdie was born in Bombay on June 19, 1947, just
eight weeks before Indian independence. A member
of a middle-class Muslim family, he attended the
Cathedral Boys' High School and was later sent
to the prestigious Rugby School in England. He
received his MA with honors from King's College,
Cambridge, in 1968.
After
a brief career as an actor, he took up fiction
while earning his living as an advertising copywriter.
Rushdie published his first novel, Grimus, about
a Native American who receives the gift of immortality,
in 1975.
Midnight's
Children followed in 1981 and made Rushdie's name.
The novel quickly sold 43,000 copies and won Britain's
top literary prize, the Booker. Then able to commit
his energies full-time to writing, Rushdie brought
out Shame (1983) and The Jaguar Smile (1987),
a non-fiction account of the political and social
conditions he observed during a 1986 trip to Nicaragua.
In
1988, Rushdie published The Satanic Verses, which
incorporates events depicted in the Koran and
other aspects of Islamic culture. The Satanic
Verses enraged devout Muslims and touched off
an international furor, and a fatwa was issued
from Iran calling for the author's execution.
Rushdie went into hiding and spent much of the
next decade under the constant protection of bodyguards.
In 1998, the Iranian foreign minister, Kamal Kharraz
lifted the fatwa.
Since
1990, Rushdie has published Imaginary Homelands:
Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991 (1992); The Wizard
of Oz (1992), an appreciation of the MGM classic;
East, West: Stories (1994); The Moor's Last Sigh
(1995); The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999); and
Fury: A Novel (2001). A new collection, Step Across
This Line: Collected Nonfiction, is due out this
year.
Click
here for a plot
synposis.
Click here to visit the Midnight's
Children website.
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