An island somewhat like Mallorca, but not Mallorca, at a time somewhat like 1450, but not 1450…
The ordered tranquillity of a remote island is about to be shattered by the appearance of two outsiders: one, an atheist, plucked from the sea by fishermen, whose beliefs represent a challenge to the established order; the other, a child raised by wolves, whose innocence will become the subject of a dangerous experiment.
Popelei Theatre present the first stage adaptation of the Booker-nominated novel Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh, bringing this compelling story to life with bold, poetic physicality and live acoustic music. The magnificent and historic architecture of Shoreditch Church provides the backdrop for this dynamic and challenging new production – which asks the question, could an atheist conceivably be in good faith?
‘A beautiful, unsettling moral fiction about virtue and intolerance.’ Observer review of Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jill Paton Walsh CBE, FRSL is an English novelist and children’s writer. She has won numerous prizes and awards for her work, and in 1994 her self-published novel Knowledge of Angels was short-listed for the Booker Prize. In 1996 she received the CBE for services to literature, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 1998 she won acclaim for her completion of Dorothy L. Sayers’ unfinished Lord Peter Wimsey novel, Thrones, Dominations. In 2002, she followed this up with another Lord Peter Novel, A Presumption of Death, and in 2010 she published a third, The Attenbury Emeralds.
CAST: Henry Douthwaite, Maixence Bauduin, David Vale, Matthew Wade and Julia Correa.
LOCATION: St Leonard’s, Shoreditch Church, Shoreditch High Street, London E1 6JN
DATES: 3rd October – 27th October 2012
PERFORMANCES: 7.45pm Wednesday – Saturday with additional Sunday shows at 7.45pm on the 14th and 21st October
BOOKING: Tickets are £10 and available online at www.popelei.com
PRESS ENQUIRIES: To arrange press tickets for any performance, for additional information for features, or to arrange interviews with Ms. Paton Walsh, Ms. Clarke or any of the cast, please contact Scarlett Plouviez Comnas, Creative Producer,
