| Description | As part of this year's Shell Connections Festival, we present three playreadings taken from the Federal Theater project, which took place in America in the 1930s and in many ways pre-empted the aims of Shell Connections. The Project was one of five arts-related projects established during the first term of Franklin D Roosevelt presidency in 1935 under the Works Progress Administration. The writers included a young Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill.
The readings combine young Connections actors alongside members of the National Theatre company.
Pinocchio: The Federal Theater Project Musical
by Yasha Frank, score by Solomon Rubin
With a cast of twenty from the National's Youth Company
Directed by Anthony Banks
Cast includes: Isabella Anderson, Jordan Andrews, Marcus Campbell, Tafara Craig, Alicia Davies, Joe Duffy, Chester Fell, Henry Harley, Cressida Jones, Jemimah Norman, Hannah Norman-Bruce, Joshua Perry, Aiko Phillips, Shmeika RIchards, Maggie Walker |