Frantic Assembly have recently collaborated with Clean Break to provide the movement direction for a new play The Boiler Room, by Laura Neal (Washed Up; Paines Plough). Written for Clean Break’s Access to Higher Education 08/09 students, the piece is directed by Imogen Ashby (Cakehole; The Michael Frayn Space, Hampstead Theatre), with support from Clean Break’s Technical Theatre students.
Set in a call centre The Boiler Room is a dynamic, site-specific performance piece...
It’s inspection day at Rothsco call centre and the company is hitting the skids. The boss, Mr Thompson, has not turned those figures around. Allison who has kept Rothsco going, despite Mr Thompson using the company as an extension of his leisure time, is damned if she is going to let him ruin their livelihoods now. She needs to figure out a way of removing him. Just for the day….
“If we hadn’t have done what we did this morning – we’d have been packing up our desks by now.”
Clean Break is a theatre and education company using theatre for personal and political change for women whose lives have been affected by the criminal justice system.
The Company was founded in 1979 by two women prisoners at HMP Askham Grange. It has grown over the past 30 years to become a critically-acclaimed new writing theatre company, highly respected for its education and training work with women offenders and those at risk.
For more information about Clean Break please visit www.cleanbreak.org.uk or keep in touch by joining the mailing list through general@cleanbreak.org.uk or by phoning 020 7482 8600.
Press quotes from Clean Break’s production of This Wide Night by Chloe Moss at Soho Theatre in 2008.
'And if you are someone who has no sympathy for former prisoners, perhaps This Wide Night will change your mind.' Julie Bindel – The Guardian
'Commissioned by Clean Break and created after a research period at Cookham Wood prison, the piece is beautifully written: comic, colourful, full of pain and tenderness and truth…. Raw and riveting.****' The Times
