Performance

Venue	Haymarket Theatre
	Also: Studio
Town	Leicester
County	Leicestershire
From	9th October 2000
To	21st October 2000
When	14:15 and 19:45
Haymarket Theatre (V431)
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Play to Win

Work:: Play to Win (S1552121958)

This hard-hitting drama is a contemporary, accessible and thought-provoking examination of adolescence highlighted by the use of trance music, martial arts (with Gold medallist Tom Wu) and digital technology. Twelve year old Paul de la Cruz feels he is a loser. He is bullied at school, home is chaotic and his mother, a first-generation immigrant with no experience of growing up in Britain, hasn't got a clue what he is going through. When he is offered friendship by the Black Snake Triad his life spirals out of control as he gets mixed up in violence, truancy and petty crime. The boundaries of fantasy and reality blur as he escapes into computer games.

Author

David KS Tse

Production:: (T66663919)

Commissioned by Sainsbury's Checkout Theatre: a new initiative to encourage quality theatre for the 10-14 age group.

Company	Soho Theatre Company
Company	Yellow Earth Theatre (in association with Leicester Haymarket Theatre)
Director	David KS Tse
Lighting	Arnim Friess
Design	Janet Vaughan
Choreographer	Tom Wu (Martial Arts)
Choreographer	Henri Oguike
Performer	Sang Cam Lui
Performer	Jonathan Chan-Pensley
Performer	Paul Charles
Performer	Kumiko Mendl
Performer	Simon Nagra
Performer	Tom Wu

Listing:: L0149234151

Studio

Production details

Commissioned by Sainsbury's Checkout Theatre: a new initiative to encourage quality theatre for the 10-14 age group. Studio

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