Friday 29th January Opening Performance 7.30pm (PRESS NIGHT)
Saturday 30th January Performances 2.00pm, 5.00pm & 7.30pm
Sunday 31st January Performances 2pm & 5pm

All of the events listed below take place
at the Southend Campus Gateway Building

Tickets for TheRealBritain are £5 (£3 concession).
To book tickets please contact the Box Office
on 01702 328335 or click here to book online

For press information and photographs contact: Sue Hyman on 020 7379 8420 / sue.hyman@btinternet.com

Disabled Access is limited due to the use of the whole building.
Some performance zones on the ground floor are accessible.

Parallel to the theatre event is a whole series of linked events on the same key themes. University of Essex departments have contributed to a series of talks and events to explore the questions of identity in Britain today, including:

Friday 29 January

5.30pm: Gateway Building
Round Table Discussion: 'Can the Arts Make A Difference? Human Rights, Identity and Asylum

Saturday 30 January:

11.30, 12.45pm & 2.30pm: Outside the Gateway Building
Car Show: Presented by playwright students from the University’s Centre for Theatre Studies, ‘Car Show’ is a sequence of plays set in front seats of cars, offering you the chance to eavesdrop from the back.

1pm & 4pm: Gateway Building
Asylum Trials: Presented by the University School of Law and Human Rights Centre. Take a closer look at what happens at asylum trials and the real stories of those claiming asylum.

7pm: University of Essex Students’ Union Café mezzanine
Philosophy Café: Discussion led by Dr Katerina Hadjimatheou of the University’s Department of Philosophy

Gateway Building : Gas chambers by Robert Priseman
Artist Robert Priseman traces the development of gas chambers - from their initial use in mental hospitals to those used to murder thousands of Jews in Nazi concentration camps. The exhibition has been curated by the University’s Human Rights Centre and will be open from 12noon-5pm Saturday and Sunday.

Sunday 31st January:

12.15pm: University of Essex Students Union Café mezzanine
Twilight Zone History Café: Concentration Camps: Dr Rainer Schulze, Head of the University’s Department of History, will lead a discussion on the history of concentration camps as part of the University’s Holocaust Memorial Day commemorations.

4pm: Gateway Building
Talk by Holocaust survivor, Dora Love: Essex Honorary Graduate, Dora Love is a Holocaust survivor. Now based in Colchester, she educates younger generations about the Holocaust.

Gateway Building: Gas chambers by Robert Priseman
Artist Robert Priseman traces the development of gas chambers - from their initial use in mental hospitals to those used to murder thousands of Jews in Nazi concentration camps. The exhibition has been curated by the University’s Human Rights Centre and will be open from 12noon-5pm Saturday and Sunday.

Tickets for the Gateway events are free but must be booked in advance. To book tickets please contact the Box Office on 01702 328335 / Clifftown@essex.ac.uk

For press information on all events and photographs contact: Sue Hyman
on 020 7379 8420 / sue.hyman@btinternet.com