A Boy and His Soul. Colman Domingo

       ABOUT THE TRICYCLE THEATRE

       The Tricycle views the world through a variety of lenses, bringing unheard voices into the mainstream. It presents high quality and innovative work, which provokes debate and emotionally engages. Located in Brent, the most diverse borough in London, the Tricycle is a local venue with an international vision.

      Converted from a music and dance hall, the Tricycle opened in 1980 as the permanent home of the Wakefield Tricycle Company – a touring theatre company which presented new plays and children’s theatre throughout Britain and internationally. Ironically, they never played Wakefield.

      Today, with Indhu Rubasingham as Artistic Director, the Tricycle Theatre continues its reputation for world-class British and international work, reflecting the exceptional diversity of its local community.

      Open seven days a week, the Tricycle has a unique 235 seat theatre, an independent 300 seat cinema, a vibrant bar and café, plus three rehearsal spaces which are used for our productions, workshops and Creative Learning projects.

      Recent productions include Red Velvet, which launched Indhu Rubasingham’s inaugural season and returns to the Tricycle in 2014 prior to a New York transfer; The Arabian Nights, a modern re-imagining of ancient tales for young people; and Paper Dolls, an extraordinary true story of cultures colliding in Tel Aviv which was developed with The Sundance Institute Theatre Program. We have also recently co-produced with Shared Experience, and collaborated with Tiata Fahodzi, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Theatres, and Eclipse Theatre.

       CINEMA

      Our luxury 300 seat cinema shows the best art-house and mainstream films alongside festivals and special Q&A screenings.

       “This King of Kilburn is a sleek and stylish single-screen gem that attracts moviegoers from all over London”

       The Guardian

      Highlights include our Q&As with acclaimed writers and directors, such as Moira Buffini, Dominic Dromgoole, Stephen Frears, Mike Leigh and Ken Loach, and with renowned actors including Jim Broadbent, Kim Cattrall, Paul Chahidi, Julie Christie, Glenda Jackson, Simon Paisley Day and Rosamund Pike.

      Recent partners include: NT Live; Globe on Screen; BFI London Film Festival; Images of Black Women Film Festival; the UK Jewish Film Festival; DocHouse; Kilburn Film Festival.

       The Tricycle is a hub where cultures connect, creativity can flourish and curiosity is engendered.

       CREATIVE LEARNING

      The Tricycle’s Creative Learning programme works to develop the imaginations, aspirations and potential of children and young people in the diverse community of Brent and beyond. Collaborating with schools and young people, we use theatre, drama and film, to bring unheard young voices into the mainstream; creating work that engages the emotions and provokes debate. Whether as audiences, writers, performers or producers of new work at the theatre, young people are at the Tricycle’s heart.

      For more information about our current workshops and social inclusion projects, please visit www.tricycle.co.uk/young-people

      Tricycle Theatre presents

      A BOY AND

      HIS SOUL

      Indhu would like to express her gratitude to Sundance Theatre Institute, through whom she met Colman. Without them, this collaboration might not have happened.

      The Tricycle would also like to thank Jamie Martin, Michael Prosser and Monique Quesada from the US Embassy who have helped in bringing this project to fruition.

      A Boy and His Soul was first produced by the VINEYARD THEATRE, Douglas Aibel, Artistic Director, New York City

      A Boy And His Soul is produced by special arrangement with THE GERSH AGENCY, 41 Madison Avenue, 33^rd Floor, New York, NY 10010.

       COLMAN DOMINGO

       Writer & Performer

      Colman Domingo is a Tony Award-nominated and Obie award-winning actor, playwright and director. For theatre, his work includes the original company of The Scottsboro Boys, which he will reprise later this year at the Young Vic. Other theatre work includes Passing Strange and Chicago (Broadway). For film, his forthcoming credits include Lee Daniel’s The Butler, All is Bright, A Long Walk, Hairbrained and Newlyweeds. Other film work includes Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, Spike Lee’s Red Hook Summer and Passing Strange. A Lucille Lortel Award-winning playwright, his play Wild with Happy recently premiered at The Public Theater in New York and Theatreworks in California. Domingo currently has a residency with People’s Light and Theater Company and is under commission from Milwaukee Rep, The American Conservatory Theater and Inner Voices.

       TITAS HALDER

       Director

      Titas Halder is a writer and director. He was previously Resident Assistant Director at the Donmar Warehouse, Creative Associate at the Bush Theatre and Literary Associate at the Finborough Theatre. As director, work includes The Dance of Death by August Strindberg/ Conor McPherson (Donmar/Trafalgar Studios), The Goat at Midnight by Anne Carson (Sixty Six Books Bush Theatre), Painting a Wall by David Lan (Finborough Theatre), Write to Rock (Clwyd Theatr Cymru). Writing includes Not Cricket (Paines Plough), Darkling (Prithvi Theatre/Paines Plough), Replica (Nabokov).

      Titas was also Assistant Director on the Tricycle productions Red Velvet and Stones in his Pockets.

       RICHARD KENT

       Designer

      Upcoming work includes: Handbagged (Tricycle).

      Theatre includes: Paper Dolls (Tricycle), The Dance of Death (Trafalgar Studios); Josephine Hart Poetry Week (ARTS); Macbeth (Sheffield Crucible); 13 (NYMT, Apollo); Clockwork (Hightide Festival); Titanic – Scenes From The British Wreck Commissioners Inquiry: 1912 (MAC Theatre, Belfast); Richard II (Donmar Warehouse); Mixed Marriage (Finborough); The Stronger & Pariah (Arcola). Richard has worked as Associate to Christopher Oram since 2008, working on numerous shows at the Donmar Warehouse including: Spelling Bee, King Lear (also BAM, New York), Passion, Red (also Broadway and Mark Taper Forum, LA), A Streetcar Named Desire as well as Ivanov, Twelfth Night, Madame De Sade, (Donmar West End) and Hamlet (DWE, Elsinore Denmark and Broadway).

      Work as Associate includes: Don Giovanni (Metropolitan Opera);