This event is organised by an external organisation: Oxford Playhouse
Join Professor Kirsten Shepherd-Barr for a post-show discussion with members of the company and creative team. Please note that to attend this discussion you must purchase a ticket for the 7.30pm performance of Blue/Orange. The discussion will follow on from the performance in the main auditorium.
Organised in conjunction with Re-Imagining Performance, a TORCH network
Blue/Orange
A Royal & Derngate Northampton, Theatre Royal Bath Productions, and Oxford Playhouse co-production
By Joe Penhall
Directed by James Dacre
Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play (2001)
In a London psychiatric hospital, a mysterious patient wants out. The problem is that, to him, oranges are bright blue and Muhammed Ali is a whole lot more than just a boxer.
As his doctor and senior consultant debate whether to section or release him, an extraordinary new claim causes them to become more and more divided in their diagnosis. Their power struggle escalates into a startling and provocative exploration of power and privilege, revealing uncomfortable truths about all three men.
Twenty years after Joe Penhall’s (Mindhunter, The Road) ground-breaking Blue/Orange premiered, he collaborates with Giles Terera (winner of the 2018 Olivier Award for Hamilton), Michael Balogun (Death Of England, National Theatre), Ralph Davis (Small Axe) and Royal & Derngate’s Artistic Director James Dacre (2020 Olivier Award Nominee Our Lady Of Kibeho) on a brand new production shining new light upon this incendiary interrogation of power and privilege in modern Britain. The play won the Olivier, Critics’ Circle and Evening Standard awards for Best New Play in 2001.
Re-Imagining Performance Network, TORCH Networks
