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Click here to download the full festival programme.>>Welcome to HighTide. We're thrilled to announce our 2008 season, which includes some of the brightest theatre and film talent in the UK. Highlight's of this year's festival include the premieres of four brand new productions, plus talks, short films and a feature film programme.
2008 season highlights:
FOUR NEW HIGHTIDE PRODUCTIONS
Four new productions from the best emerging talent: I Caught Crabs in Walberswick, Switzerland, Stovepipe and Certain Dark Things
SIR TOM STOPPARD: A RETROSPECTIVE ON STAGE AND SCREEN
Sir Tom Stoppard talks to Mark Lawson, Guardian Columnist and presenter of Radio 4's Front Row about his career on stage and screen Talks Programme >>
BREAKFAST SHORTS
New plays by Owen McCafferty, Laura Wade, Chloe Moss and Rebecca Lenkiewicz performed by the HighTide company Breakfast Shorts >>
HIGHTIDE SHORT FILMS
Short films from the emerging filmmaking talent in the UK, plus short films from Mike Leigh, Peter Greenaway, Stephen Daldry and Christopher Nolan Short Film Programme >>
AKENFIELD AND AKENFIELD REVISITED
Screening of the film by acclaimed theatre director Sir Peter Hall, based on the best-selling novel Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village Akenfield >>
THE WARRIOR
Screening of the multi-award-winning film The Warrior by British-Indian director Asif Kapadia The Warrior >>
MICHAEL PALIN'S EAST OF IPSWICH
Screening of Michael Palin's BBC Drama 'East of Ipswich', followed by a Question and Answer session with Michael Palin East of Ipswich >>
SCENES OF A SEXUAL NATURE
Screening of Scenes of a Sexual Nature, starring Ewan McGregor and Catherine Tate, introduced by Director/Producer Ed Blum and followed by a Question and Answer session Scenes of a Sexual Nature >>
WUNDERKIND
Halesworth Middle School pupils have their poems turned into theatre by the HighTide Company Wunderkind >>
I CAUGHT CRABS IN WALBERSWICK
Friday 2nd May// 21.00 // Ticket Price: £10/£7 Saturday 3rd May // 21.00 // Ticket Price: £10/£7 Sunday 4th May // 11.30 // Ticket Price: £10/£7 Monday 5th May // 17.00 // Ticket Price: £10/£7
I Caught Crabs in Walberswick >>
2 boys, a girl, and a car - coming of age on a road trip in Suffolk.
Writer: Joel Horwood
Director: Lucy Kerbel
Tickets: £10 full price /£7 concessions
subject to availability
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SWITZERLAND
Thursday 1st May // 19.30 (Preview) // Ticket Price: £5/£3 Friday 2nd May // 18.30 // Ticket Price: £10/£7 Saturday 3rd May // 13.00 // Ticket Price: £10/£7 Sunday 4th May // 17.30 // Ticket Price: £10/£7 Monday 5th May // 19.30 // Ticket Price: £10/£7
Switzerland >>
A kaleidoscopic and heartfelt look at the impossibilities of having to let the one you love go.
Writer: Nick Payne
Director: Kate Wasserberg
Tickets: £10 full price /£7 concessions
subject to availability
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STOVEPIPE
Thursday 1st May // 16.00 (Preview) // Ticket Price: £5/£3 Friday 2nd May // 19.00 // Ticket Price: £10/£7 Saturday 3rd May // 11.30, 16.30 // Ticket Price: £10/£7 Sunday 4th May // 14.00, 19.30 // Ticket Price: £10/£7 Monday 5th May // 11.0, 14.30 // Ticket Price: £10/£7
Stovepipe >>
When a private contractor goes missing in Iraq, one man embarks upon a hunt across the post-war Middle East.
Writer: Adam Brace
Director: Michael Longhurst
Tickets: £10 full price /£7 concessions
subject to availability
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CERTAIN DARK THINGS
Thursday 1st May // 18.00 (Preview) // Ticket Price: £5/£3 Friday 2nd May // 15.30 // Ticket Price: £10/£7 Saturday 3rd May // 14.30, 20.00 // Ticket Price: £10/£7 Sunday 4th May // 10.30, 16.30 // Ticket Price: £10/£7 Monday 5th May // 12.30, 18.30 // Ticket Price: £10/£7
Certain Dark Things >>
A young boy is living with his family under Franco's dictatorship in 1960s Spain. One day he comes home and tells his mother he's gay. His mother calls the police. Staged in the round with live music.
Devised by You Need Me
Director: Emily Watson Howes
Tickets: £10 full price /£7 concessions
subject to availability
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Honeymoon | Dir Miranda Bowen | UK Fiction | 30 mins
A bride seemingly abandoned in a motorway service station begins to wonder how well she really knows her new husband.
What do I know Dir Sejla Kameric | Bosnia-Herzegovina Fiction | 15 mins
In a house and around it, love stories interlace. The ghosts of love remain to seek the answer to the same question: "What do I know about love?"
Lady Margaret Dir Deborah Haywood | UK Fiction | 10 mins
Danny and Joe drive Sadie into the woods, where things go wrong for all three of them.
Antonio's Breakfast Dir Daniel Malloy | UK Fiction | 15 mins
Unable to dress, eat, move or breathe on his own Antonio's father depends on him for everything.
City Paradise Dir Gaelle Denis | UK Animation | 6 mins
When Tomoko arrives in London, she has no idea that soon she will discover a mysterious secret hidden beneath the city.
Mercy Dir Candida Scott Knight | UK Fiction | 5 mins
What would you do if you were an eleven-year-old boy in a bad situation? How far would you go to save yourself?
The Girls Dir Sebastian Godwin | UK Fiction | 10 mins
A late autumn afternoon. Two sisters are playing in the garden when their late father returns. As dusk falls the atmosphere darkens.
True Colours Dir Barney Elliott | UK Fiction | 10 mins
A social drama about a loving father with a propensity for violence and his struggle to earn his family's trust.
One Hundreth of a Second Dir Susan Jacobson | UK Fiction | 5 mins
Kate is a talented photojournalist. She risks her life to deliver powerful images to the waiting world until a photograph of a Girl changes her life forever.
Youth Dir Jane Linfoot | UK Fiction | 20 mins
Youth is comprised of three observational vignettes. Filmed in a naturalistic style, this short focuses on the minutae of adolescence.
Peter and Ben Dir Pinny Grylls | UK Documentary | 10 mins
Man and sheep 'leave the flock' and form an unusual and lasting friendship.
Soft Dir Simon Ellis | UK Fiction | 14 mins
A father rediscovers his fear of confrontation, at the worst possible time.
