Matthew Jamesson discusses his play, Ten Days
This week’s visitor is Matthew Jameson. Matthew is most nicely generally known as being a part of the crew at The Space on Canary Wharf. But in addition to his day job, he has additionally been busy writing his play, Ten Days. Well, we are saying busy, however as he tells us, it has been ten years within the making!
As nicely as discussing the play, we additionally discover just a little time to speak about The Space, and a few of what they’ve been as much as.
Ten Days performs between 14 and 25 March. The play can even be livestreamed on 23 March after which accessible on-demand for 2 weeks afterwards. Further info and bookings right here.
Ten Days
The Space
14 – 25 March
The People are livid and their new authorities can’t or gained’t do something about it. Over 10 months a sequence of flukes, accidents and errors steered a newly free Russia from burgeoning democracy to the best political experiment of all time. But regardless of the protests, the coups, the counter-coups and the packed, livid rallies… no one appeared to note.
From the marching plenty on the streets of Petrograd to the clandestine compromises within the backrooms of energy, the occasions of Revolutionary Russia have moved from a historical past to a state-of-the-nation play.
Ten Days is a slice of intensified historical past, based mostly on the memoirs of those who lived it and tailored for 2022. An epic, comedian, political thriller from journalist John Reed as he follows Lenin, Trotsky, Tsar Nicholas II and (after all) The People of Russia from the February rebellion by means of the Storming of The Winter Palace in an action-packed, ridiculous and pressing retelling of ten days that modified our historical past and shook the world.
Tickets (together with livestream/ ondemand) accessible right here