Return of the Vanishing Peasant

RETURN OF THE VANISHING PEASANT
by Ros Martin in collaboration with Denise Ferreira da Silva (Queen Mary, University of London)

A party.
A municipal cemetery. Rio, Brazil.
All Souls Night
A night where the living and dead are in communion; the living honour the dead, the higher spirits summon the restless. Enter, a brooding, angry, restless spirit; Carlos Mendes Rodrigues, peasant activist, (Movimento dos Tabalhadores Sem Terra) Landless Workers Movement, executed five years earlier…………..

                                                      Menagerie Theatre Co – Hotbed Festival

What’s Up Doc?  is a new festival commissioning project designed to bring ideas and people together. Each commission is a play written and created in response to a question or challenge established by a ‘Doc’ in conversation or correspondence with a writer.

Theatres
Cambridge Junction
Cambridge Junction (11-14 July) Friday 12 Jul 6.00 pm
Box Office: 01223 511511
Website: http://www.junction.co.uk Sunday 14 Jul 6.30 pm

Mercury Theatre, Colchester
Mercury Theatre, Colchester (18-21 July) Saturday 20 July 7.00 pm
Box Office: 01206 573948
Website: http://www.mercurytheatre.co.uk Sunday 21 July 2.45 pm

Soho Theatre, London
Soho Theatre, London (23-27 July) Thursday 25 Jul 8.30 pm
Box Office: 020 7478 0100
Website: http://www.sohotheatre.com Friday 26 Jul 9.00 pm

You will be able see another short play for £10. Book tickets at the respective theatres and check out the programme of other festival events. Do take the opportunity of feeding back if you see the play. It will be greatly appreciated: