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Pomona is a play by Alistair McDowall [1] that was commissioned for The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 2014 and performed at The Gate Theatre in London as part of the NEW festival of plays. [2] It then went on to the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, South West London, in November 2014.
Sep 16, 2015 · Pomona is an urban wasteland in Manchester, once a set of Victorian docks, now “a hole in the middle of the city.” It’s largely left unexplored and McDowall uses it as a metaphor for all the...
Jul 23, 2019 · In Alistair McDowall’s 2014 play, Pomona, after the island, itself named for the Roman goddess of fruit trees, it is owned by a man named Zeppo and guarded by a man named Charlie. And that urban decay attracts a variety of other characters from the fringes of Manchester society.
Pomona originated in-the-round at the Orange Tree in Richmond before transferring to the National Theatre's temporary space, so fits neatly into—and takes full advantage of—the Royal Exchange's unique main stage in the city where it is set.
Sep 16, 2015 · Many things, perhaps even everything, are uncertain as far as the narrative of Pomona is concerned, but one element of the evening stands proudly above doubt: the ebullient ambition of its young...
- Fiona Mountford
Nov 19, 2014 · Pomona itself is a kind of island, an overgrown strip of land near the centre of Manchester that nobody’s bothered replacing the streetlights on for years. “So when you go past it at night it’s just this black hole.
Mar 20, 2018 · These characters inhabit a familiar, populist world; the same stars watch over them as us. But, gradually, you learn that Pomona is hiding an organ harvesting operation. With its debt to Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, the play moves from disturbing reality to sinister fantasy.
