Watch: Latifa’s monologue
Sara Masry as Latifa in Sanctuary – The Secrets of the Gunter Mansion.
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Sanctuary – refuge or safety from pursuit, persecution, or other danger
Sanctuary at The Borough Theatre Abergavenny – June 2023
Contemporancient Theatre is pleased to be bringing this innovative play about the Gunter Mansion – Plas Gunter, to the Borough Theatre in the Summer of 2023. Working with and supported by the Gunter Mansion and other key stakeholders such as Abergavenny Town Council, the Postcode Lottery Abergavenny Town of Sanctuary, and the Arts Council for Wales (ACW), Sanctuary will be a mix of historical theatre, alongside a modern story of refuge – told by professional actors, who will be ably assisted by a community chorus. In addition to this, a suite of music has been composed for the play which will embrace both Welsh and Syrian culture.
Tickets are on sale from the Borough Theatre – click here for details.
Sanctuary – Cast, Director, Writer, and Lyricist
Synopsis
For more than four hundred years Abergavenny has provided Sanctuary for those in danger – now the horrors and joys of their secret stories are told in thrilling theatre and music.
Carys is hiding in a garret in The Gunter Mansion in the centre of Abergavenny whilst building work and restoration goes on around her in 2023; Garnet and Oldcorne, two Jesuit priests are hiding in the same garret space in the early 17th century; Latifa has fled to Wales from Syria – all three find refuge and find each other in this hard-hitting, deeply moving and ultimately life-affirming and joyful story of Sanctuary and of kindness in Abergavenny. Told through original music and song, through visual images, and through the power of theatre, this is a story of Abergavenny’s past and its present and points very much to its future.
Tickets are available now. Please click here
Cast at First Read through for Sanctuary – January 2023
Photo & Video Credits: Chris Lloyd
