Cardboard Citizens’ Fridays Premieres at Riverside in Feb

Cardboard Citizens will present its latest production, A Few Man Fridays, at Riverside Studios from 15 February to 10 March 2012 (previews from 10 March).

The play, which centres on the population of a chain of tropical islands, the Chagos Archipelago, who were evicted by the British government in the late 1960s and early 70s, is written and directed by the company’s artistic director Adrian Jackson.

According to press material, “The play reveals the shocking chronicle of who lied, who believed them, who colluded and who suffered in the expulsion from their homes of a people described by the Foreign Office in 1966 as ‘a few Tarzans and Men Fridays’.”

Cardboard Citizens, which was founded in 1991, is the UK’s only professional theatre company working with homeless and ex-homeless people. Its recent productions include the award-winning Mincemeat (2009), which was recently adapted for Radio 3.