Sunday 22nd July 2012 at 7pm
Tickets £6/£5 from www.corpusplayroom.com
The theme for WRiTEON’s evening of staged readings of new writing is drawn from the idiosyncratic layout of The Playroom, where the audience views the stage from two different angles. The challenge issued to the writers was to create a piece appropriate to the space, which also gives their own unique interpretation of, and perspective on, the theme. Writers were invited to interpret the theme in whatever way they liked AND THEY DID!
We have four Ancient Greeks with oddly familiar names contemplating some mathematical issues raised during roofing, a princess being led to her death after the Trojan War, an attempt at a truly authentic nativity play, Shakespearean tragedy and comedy performed simultaneously and getting their wires crossed, a disappointed Cinderella with broken shoes, a look back at a 1941 wedding, a couple trying to get a good enough TV signal to watch the 1969 moon landing, two men at a junction in their lives, two teenage boys up to no good on an allotment, an unspeaking performance artist being interviewed by a journalist, an exhibition in a a plague-ridden tower, the musings of a stroppy teenager and her disaffected teacher during a detention, an awkward lunch with political undertones, an off the wall job interview, a couple getting jiggy while talking on the phone and a play of which half the audience might understand half and half the other half.
The plays are:
Bad Reception by Dave Pescod
Camelots by William Patterson
Dumb by Claudine Toutoungi
Detention by Paula Fleming
Lunch in Damascus by David Lambert
Mr Right Angle by Richard Peoples
Question de Langue ou Question de l'Angle? by Valerie Fabre
Sabotage by Trish Rawson
Sweet Nothings by Caroline Ferguson
The Allotment by Graeme Curry
The Gospel According to St Matthew by Julia Bolden
The Plague Tower by Felicity Norman
The Shakespeare Angle by Colin Hume
Three Princesses by Gill Saxon
The actors are:
Abigail Sage
Adam Augustyn
Andrew Bailey
Colin Hume
Ed Haines
Francesca Brown
Hugh Chapman
Jane Bowen
Jenny Scudamore
John Parry
Leigh Chambers
Lindsey McAuley
Pedro Raulk
Richard Peoples
Stephen von Schreiber
Tony Dutton
Valerie Fabre
The directors are:
Anni Domingo
Julia Bolden
Sarah Phelps