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So and So Members Showcases at Tristan Bates Theatre

 

Free to watch!  We provide the theatre space in an unbeatable central location. You bring the work!

Audiences  will not be charged so this provides a brilliant showcase platform for your project.

A massive thank you to everyone who applied for our showcase opportunites during the festival. The quality of work submitted was wonderful.  Please see the list of showcases below and come and support each other's work."

                                                                                                                                                                               Sarah Berger  & Jemma Gross

Tuesday 23rd July 

1:30-2:30pm 

 
BOUND by Tina Jay 

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Directed by Richard Elson

Cast:  Gareth Saunders

 

This is a work in progress performance . The monolgue has been inspired by her earlier work Dog City which was recently performed at the Lost Theatre.

 

 

 

Tuesday 23rd July 

​​5.30-6.30 : A Double Bill!

 

HIDDEN by Gary Thomas 

Directed by Gary Thomas

Cast: Jonny Collis. 

 

A One man show about the darkest thoughts we can't always share about ourselves. The story follows Sam, who experienced an episode of psychosis in his 20s, as it resurfaces and begins to takes hold again.

GOING BACK 

by Carol Allen & Chrissie Fraser

Directed by Carol Allen

        Cast: Jo Cooklin, Jackie Lye, Taran Bolina, Claire Jared

 

 At the funeral of her mother Lizzie Julie sees a woman in a burka observing from a distance.  It is the start of a shocking and poignant journey into Lizzie’s life when young, which totally changes Julie’s view of the woman she knew as her mother."
 

Wednesday 24th July

1:30-2:30pm 

 
MATA HARI

Animation and set design by Cristina Espejo Vindel. Costumes by Yueer Zhang. Choreography by Ash Mukherjee. Direction by Aliki Kylika.

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“I’ll know how to die.”  As Dutch femme fatale and spy Mata Hari is imprisoned, awaiting death by firing squad, she reflects on her life.  Based on actual letters and interviews, this illumination of a legendary woman is interspersed with songs like dance by cabaret performer Aletia Upstairs. At the heart of this piece we see Mata Hari’s art of seduction, inspired by Indonesian temple dance.  Aletia Upstairs is a South African born, London based cabaretist, singer-songwriter and recording artist, currently completing an MA in Performance Design and Practice at Central Saint Martin's.She will be taking this production to the Edinburgh Fringe in 2013. http://aletiaupstairs.com

 

Wednesday 24th July

3pm - 4pm

 
HOLLIE MAY &
LUCY BLACK

 

Lucy Black has recorded 4 video singles "Runaway", "Lover", "Make it Happen" and "Not in Love". She has a powerful voice which is equally suited to rock/pop and great ballads.
 

Wednesday 24th July

5:30-6:30pm

MR LAUREL by Gail Louw

 

This new one-man play about legendary Hollywood comedian Stan Laurel has been written by nenowned playwright Gail Louw in association with the play's actor Jeffrey Holland.


Stan Laurel enters the bedroom of his life-long friend and partner, Oliver Hardy, who is lying half comatose after a severe stroke. He reminds his friend of things they have done and films they have made while at the same time remembering past successes, losses and heartaches. The poignancy of a life passing is relieved by the humour of Stan revisiting sketches from some of their best loved films.

In a captivating hour-long piece, the play explores Laurel's relationships with his family, his boss, Hardy himself and the many women in his life.

 

 

Thursday  25th July

1:30 - 2:30pm 

THE AUTUMN OF HAN       

Adapted and Directed by Ross Ericson (Casualties)

Produced by Red Dragonfly Productions and Grist to the Mill Productions Cast: Ashley Aylmann, William M Lee, Benjamin Wong, and Michelle Yim

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The Autumn of Han is a new adaptation of a traditional Chinese play, HanGongQiu; a tragic tale of love and corruption in the Imperial Chinese court. A beautiful concubine is hidden away from the Emperor in a forgotten wing of the palace by the corrupt minister, triggering a chain of events causing passion and duty to clash and change everyone’s lives forever.  This new adaptation was written especially for European audiences and revives one of the most beautiful and tragic love stories ever told.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday 25th July

5:30 - 6:30pm

 

PERU by Mike Elliston

 

"At first there was a fire....and a marriage in freefall. Will Joe become the man he wants to be? Will Dorothea finally be the wife she dreams of? Inspired by HBO this dark comedy stris back the rules where normsl just aint normal no more.".

 Friday 26th July

1:30 - 2:30pm

TINNED GOODS 

by Fiona Whitelaw

 

Sue                        Fiona Whitelaw

Rachel                 Hilary Derrett

Bethany            Stephanie Hyam

Charlene             Zena Carswell

Don                       Hilary Derrett

Brenda                 Margaret Ashley

Director           Liz Bagley

 

August 1984 in a Yorkshire mining town. Having found themselves divided from former friends by the men's choice to strike or not, the play explores the journey travelled by the women in this tight knit neighbourhood.

 

 

Friday 26th July 3pm

OFF THE KING'S ROAD 
 by Neil Koenigsberg

Directed by Alan Cohen

featuring Michael Brandon 

 

a staged rehearsed reading will be directed by Alan Cohen  after which we will have a feedback session, on the writing, the merits of rehearse readings as part of the development process and the way in which to go about staging this particular play, casting budget etc.

 

After the passing of his wife and retirement, American businessman Matt Browne takes himself off to his favourite city ,London,for a respite in a small hotel in Chelsea.Almost immediately upon arrival, Matt's world is turned upside down as his as his seven day stay tumbles into a voyage of self-discovery.

Friday 26th July 5.30pm

 

DANIEL CAINER 
 Schtick and Spiel

Daniel has toured this ever-evolving collection of unique stories in song. Tales of feuding tailors, a cocaine-addicted rabbi, Israel and Palestine, a young Jewish woman who joins a fundamentalist Christian sect in the 1950s and more. The Jewish Chronicle 'christened' him the 'new comic bard of Anglo-Jewry' and in this short presentation of some of his material you will possibly see why... 

'Genius' Three Weeks ****

'Lovingly detailed shaggy-dog storytelling' Time Out ****

‘With his stories within stories, Daniel Cainer reminds me of Buñuel. If Buñuel had been Jewish, born in England and been an admirer of Jake Thackeray, this is what he might have sounded like’ Alan Bennett

'Does on stage what I do on the page' Howard Jacobson

 

 

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