Children of Fate (Hechos Consumados). Juan Radrigan
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inside intelligence presents
The UK Premiere
CHILDRENOF FATE
by JUAN RADRIGAN Translated by ROBERT SHAW
Cast
| MARTA | Siân Reese Williams |
| EMILIO | Dan MacLane |
| AURELIO | Julia Tarnoky |
| MIGUEL | Offue Okegbe |
The performance lasts approximately 65 minutes.
There will be no interval.
| Director | Robert Shaw |
| Designer | Gillian Argo |
| Lighting Designer | Anna Sbokou |
| Fight Director | Jonathan Waller |
| Stage Manager | Sarah Julie Pujol |
| Assistant Director | Holly Sharp |
| Producer | Danny West |
| Social Media & Communities Manager | Jade Desumala |
| Assistant Lighting Designer | Sarah Crocker |
The first performance of this production was at The Bussey
Building, Peckham on 29 October 2013.
Juan Radrigán | Playwright Juan Radrigán Rojas was born in Antofagasta, Chile, in January 1937. He is self-taught. He never went to school because from a very young age he had to go out to work. He claims to have learned to read, and much else besides, in the endlessly sad eyes of his mother, in the magnificent, rain-soaked places of the South, in the dry lands of the North and in many hundreds of faces and bodies destroyed by unrelenting poverty. He has written forty-two plays and hopes to write many more for as long as he continues to keep death at bay. He says he has no idea where this need in him arose to set about joining together words that tell stories, words that protest or reflect about the time when he was fated to exist. For many years he was a textile worker and thanks to the education he was able to give himself, he became the president of several trade unions. From 1973 on, he had a wide variety of jobs including librarian, salesman, shop assistant, factory packer. In 1980 he wrote his first play, Testimonio de las muertes de Sabina. Productions of his plays have reached trade unions, villages, schools and communities traditionally considered marginal, as well as professional theatres. In October 2011 he was awarded the National Prize for the Performing Arts in Chile.
Robert Shaw | Director/Translator Robert graduated from Cambridge University. In May 1995 he founded inside intelligence. Theatre as director includes Tejas Verdes (St John’s Church, Edinburgh), Happy New (Trafalgar Studios), the British premieres of The Woods (Finborough Theatre) by David Mamet and his own translations of Ana in Love (Hackney Empire) by Paloma Pedrero and Fermín Cabal’s ¡shoot! (Jermyn Street Theatre). Other theatre includes One God, One Farinelli! (BAC) with Richard O’Brien, Three Women by Sylvia Plath (Jermyn Street Theatre, London; Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh; 59E59 Theaters, New York), his own adaptation of Some Gorgeous Accident (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh) by James Kennaway, his own adaptation of Up To Now (Edinburgh Festival), his own play Teddy and Topsy (Hill Street, Edinburgh and Old Red Lion Theatre, London), Anna Akhmatova’s Poem Without a Hero (Edinburgh Festival), As You Like It (Cambridge, Jermyn Street Theatre and Greenwich Festival), The Investigation by Peter Weiss (Richmond), Inferno XXXIII by Michele Celeste (Gate Theatre), Reunion by David Mamet (Duke’s Playhouse, Lancaster), Tell Me That I’m Dreaming by Mark Brennan (The Place), Measure for Measure (Chelsea Theatre), The Poker Session and The Ruling Class by Peter Barnes (Putney Arts Theatre), Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music (Cambridge), The Hostage (An Giall) by Brendan Behan (Edinburgh Festival), Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets, Statements after an Arrest under the Immorality Act by Athol Fugard, Fear by Mark Brennan (Sir Richard Steele Theatre, of which Robert was Joint Artistic Director) The Prince by David Drane and Dutchman by Leroi Jones