A Small Miracle Transfers To Tricycle Theatre

ukNeil D'Souza's new play Small Miracle, which receives its world premiere at Colchester's Mercury Theatre on 1 June, will transfer to the Tricycle Theatre from Tuesday 19 June (press night).  Directed by Janice Dunn, Small Miracle is designed by Chloe Lamford, with lighting by Tony Simpson and sound by Marcus Christensen. 

 

When Sadie, her mother, Hindu step-father and grandmother arrive at the caravan park of a religious shrine in rural Ireland, a series of increasingly weird events take place. The play is a funny inter-generational road-trip centred on a feuding family and set against the backdrop of bigger questions of religion and divinity.  Can the family get their relationships and holiday back on the road? Can an elderly woman with a dodgy heart find love? And why is Sadie so obsessed with her mobile phone?

 

The cast is Peter Dineen, Souad Faress, Kulvinder Ghir, Gina Isaac and Ella Vale and is directed by Janice Dunn, who has directed several plays for The Mercury Theatre Company as well as The Royal Court, Liverpool Everyman, Oldham Coliseum and Coventry Belgrade.

 

Neil D'Souza was recently seen in the hit The Man of Mode at The National Theatre and has featured in The Mercury Theatre Company's productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Our Country's Good. Small Miracle is his first professionally produced play as a writer.  This other acting credits include Twelfth Night (Albery Theatre), Midnight's Children (RSC), Richard III (Haymarket, Leicester), The Merchant of Venice and The Honest Whore (both at Shakespeare's Globe), The Merchant of Venice (English Shakespeare Company), Skeleton(Soho Theatre), Staying On(Theatre of Comedy) and A Little Princess (Library Theatre).  His television work includes Happiness, Back Up and Absolutely True. On film his credits include Gateway to Heaven, Ganga Guest House, The Late Twentieth, My Sweet Home and Love Letters.

 

Kulvinder Ghir has worked extensively in theatre, film and television and radio and is best known as being one quarter of the highly successful BBC television and radio comedy series Goodness Gracious Me.  His many theatre credits include Twelfth Night (Albery Theatre), Midnight's Children (RSC), The Mariage of Figaro (Royal Exchange, Manchester), The Waiting Room and The Caucasian Chalk Circle (National Theatre), Uganda(Royal Court Theatre), Thatcher's Children (Bristol Old Vic) and The Mystery Plays (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield.  On television he has appeared in My Life as a Popat, Food for Ravens, Out of the Blue, The Real McCoy,  GBH, At Home with the Braithwaite's and three series of Goodness Gracious Me.  His film credits include Nina's Heavenly Delights, Dead Cool, Rita, Sue and Bob Too, Halal Harry, Send in the Clowns and Bend it Like Beckham.

 

 

Souad Faress has performed extensively in theatre, film, television and radio and is perhaps best know for playing Usha Gupta in Radio 4's The Archers. Her theatre credits include A Curse(Royal Court Theatre), Sugar and Snow (Hampstead Theatre), The Permanent Way (Out of Joint/Sydney Theatre Company), Celestina (Birmingham Rep) and Homebody/Kabul (Young Vic).  Her film credits include The Fever, Promoted to Glory, Bhaji on the Beach,  My Beautiful Laundrette, Sixth Happiness and Who's Who.Her television credits include The Bill, Bodies II, Family Affairs, Doctors, My Hero, Noah, Being April Casualty, Roger Roger, Down to Earth, No Angels, Bremner, Bird and Fortune andCoronation Street.

 

Tickets available via www.tricycle.co.uk. Price range from £8.50-£18