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Dateline: 8th September, 2006
Eastern Angles to Tour de Bernières' Adaptation Eastern Angles is to tour the first stage adapatation of of Louis de Bernières' latest novel, Birds Without Wings. Overlooking the Aegean in the small fishing town of Eskibahçe on the southwest coast of Turkey, the Christian Greeks have lived alongside the Muslim Turks for hundreds of years. Still distinct but intertwined, Muslim midwives, Christian priests, Turkish imams and Greek tutors minister to each other’s flocks without division. Then the events of the early 20th century like giant magnets pull everything out of kilter, and when the simple love of the Muslim Goatherd for the beautiful Christian girl goes tragically wrong, whose fault is it? Just as in Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, de Bernières mixes the political and the farcical, the romantic and the prosaic, and leaves us to choose between the inevitable and the cock-up as determining the course of history. Artistic director Ivan Cutting has previously adapted Trollope’s The Way We Live Now and updated Chekhov as Another Three Sisters. The tour will include three performances at Upstairs at the Gatehouse in Highgate from 20th t0 22nd NOvember. The Tour
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