7/7 Director Delighted to be Back at College

Next week the Royal Welsh College is performing an extraordinary, evocative, troubling and humane play.

As director James Grieve explains, “Simon Stephens is the greatest playwright of his generation and one of the most searing and insightful chroniclers of our times. I feel hugely privileged to have the opportunity to direct such a brilliant and important play, and to be returning to the Royal Welsh College which consistently produces top class actors and boasts some of the best facilities of any drama school in the UK”.

Playing from Wednesday 8 to Saturday 18 December, Pornography captures all the excitement, hope and optimism that gripped London during one week in July 2005 when the Olympics were announced and Live8 rocked Hyde Park.

It captures all the confusion, despair and hopelessness when just as suddenly all that joy was obliterated by four suicide bombers on 7/7.

In Pornography, playwright Simon Stephens explores the seismic aftershock of the bombings through the deeply personal stories of unconnected individuals whose lives were changed irrevocably by that rollercoaster week.

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