HighTide Festival 2010 :
30th April - 3rd May 2010

The HighTide Festival returns to Halesworth, Suffolk for a fourth year from Friday 30th April – Monday 3rd May to present an exiting and vibrant programme of new theatre, platforms and free events.

What’s On
World premieres by new British and international playwrights

Ditch by Beth Steel
Britain: the near future. Citizens struggle to retain a semblance of civilisation in the face of the inevitable onset of global war.

Moscow Live by Serge Cartwright
Politics clash and emotions run high in an state-run Russian newsroom on the eve of Milosevic’s death.

Lidless by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
Worlds collide as a former Guantanamo detainee visits his interrogator fifteen years after their initial brutal encounter.

Platform discussions with leading experts

Clive Stafford Smith, founder-director of Reprieve, talks on 'Human Rights in Guantanamo'.

Owen Matthews, author of Stalin's Children, discusses 'Russia versus the West'.

Steve Waters, author of The Contigency Plan, debates 'Climate-change art: does it do any good?'.

Short plays in secret locations

Midnight Your Time by Adam Brace
Famine Diary by Jesse Weaver

Plus…

Free late night film screenings
Workshops including the BBC Writersroom and film making courses for young people

Booking Information:
HighTide Festival, The Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk, IP19 8BY

Friday 30th April – Monday 3rd May 2010
Box Office 0207 566 9767
For the full programme and further details please visit www.hightide.org.uk

All photohgraphs in this feature are kindly supplied by the Hightide Festival.