Tickets/Information: THOC Box Office, 7777 27 17
 

NEW STAGE: CASTING by ALEXANDR GALIN

In post-socialist Kursk, two Japanese impresarios hold auditions for young Russian women to work at their night clubs in Singapore. Their classified ad fails to specify that the young women must be single, leading hundreds of unemployed women to show up.

The play takes place in a movie theatre. Six women are there: three are married while two are young, single and work as prostitutes in another town. The sixth is the mother of the two young women and works as an itinerant saleswoman of aromatic vodka. The Japanese impresarios will only accept the married women if they have the written consent of their husbands and problems arise when they turn up at the auditions.

This is a macabre black comedy about the trafficking of women, in which mix-up of characters is a cross between Chekhov and Tennessee Williams.

Lefkosia: Theatre Apothikes THOC, 6 April, 20.30

Entrance is not permitted to children under the age of 15.

NEW STAGE: OUR CLASS by TADEUSZ SLOBODZIANEK

Sometimes people react without control. Sometimes even good people can do evil things. It is no secret that millions of people lost their lives in concentration camps. But, how would you react if you found out that half the population of your neighboring city was taken out by its own residents? Our Class is a play about the events that took place in the Polish city of Jedwabne, when, during World War Two and under German occupation, its Catholic residents exterminated the town’s Jewish population. The story follows the lives of 10 schoolmates, before and after the horrific events which changed their lives forever. It’s a play that highlights just how far people will go when they are under pressure, and how sometimes our own actions and sudden decisions can make us fear our own selves. 

Lefkosia: THOC Theatre, 15 April, 20.30
Lemesos: Rialto Theatre, 12 April, 20.30                      

Entrance is not permitted to children under the age of 15.  

MAIN STAGE: SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH by TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

Chance Wayne, a ruthless and ambitious young man, returns to his hometown, a city in Florida, in the conservative province of the American south, where violence, racism and the law of the fittest rule. Accompanying him in this journey is Alexandra Del Lago, a movie star whose career is on the wane, to whom he offers his services. Two people obsessed with the passing of time, find refuge in each other’s company as they try to deal with their feelings, fears and the panic of an illusory heaven of drugs and alcohol, while hoping to achieve fame and fortune.

Written in 1959, Sweet Bird of Youth is one of Williams’ most famous and acclaimed works. Being staged for the first time at the Cyprus Theatre Organisation, it is a story about two people trying to build the life they’ve always envisioned while dealing with an unbearable reality that rears up and knocks them down without any warning.

Lefkosia: THOC Theatre, 23 April & 6 May, 20.30
Lemesos: Rialto Theatre,18 May, 20.30

Entrance is not permitted to children under the age of 12.