I’ve just this second come from the preview performance of Clint’s Reality, and I’m delighted to say it was a huge success. An eager audience queued all the way up the cobbled entrance to the Underbelly (no doubt as a result of a concentrated campaign on the Royal Mile by the cast and crew) and...
And we’re off. Previews opened today in Edinburgh, but the shows that really count start tomorrow (Thursday) in the Underbelly, shortly after mid day. Clint’s Reality are up first at 12.35 in the Belly Button, followed shortly after by former WT students the Dog-Eared Collective at 15.10 in the White Belly. Alcatraz previews a day...
CLINT’S REALITY Aireborne Theatre Venue: Belly Button Clint is a media icon disgraced for rigging his reality TV shows. He has one evening to save his career, rekindle his marriage, silence his mistress and overturn the apathy of his disinterested son. Expect rushed decisions, hushed revisions and blushed derisions in a world that is anything...
ALCATRAZ Aireborne Theatre Venue: Belly Button One moment will create, destroy or alter perspectives. ‘Alcatraz’ explores the perforations and cracks in the walls of everyday perception. This new piece of writing focuses on the experiences of four very individual characters, each locked into their own world, but impacting and imposing upon one another without knowledge...
On Saturday 17th July the D.E.C. will be at The Carriageworks, Leeds to stage a Dog-Eared party performance ‘smack down’ to raise money for their comedy endeavours with… Barnaby Brown – The Romp-a-Long 2010 – An interactive comedy experience! First up they’ll perform their critically acclaimed Dickensian spoof Barnaby Brown, featuring an A-list orphan, a...
Winners announced The three winning scripts for the seventh Windsor Fringe Marriott Award for New Drama Writing have been chosen, and our very own Jan Perry is amongst the winners. A total of 213 scripts were this year submitted from Japan, USA, Australia, Finland, Norway, Spain, Jersey, Wales, Eire, Northern Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of...
We had a nice picnic Practical Essays Soundtrack 2010 Crank that soldier boy by Soldier Boy Sonic Attack by Hawkwind The Flowers by Regina Spektor Clouds by Toru Takemitsu The Rogue by The Correspondents Kisses Sweeter Than Wine by Marlene Dietrich Under The Sea from The Little Mermaid Big Rock Candy Mountain by Harry ‘Haywire’...
Jan Perry’s play “Click” has been shortlisted for the Windsor Marriott award. Jan wrote the play as part of her MA: Writing for Performance and Publication, and as part of the developmental process, an early version of this play was work-shopped right here in Studio 1. “Click” is a 30 minute drama in which an elderly...
The Workshop Theatre Poem 2007-2010 It’s 10am the workshop is gonna go on for hours But if I dressed as a wizard I’d have magic powers Italian fascists aren’t on the module for physicists And biologist would never know that Hamletmachine’s a bitch And I’ve still got splinters from House Seven’s furniture and flats But...
There will be a rehearsed reading of Elsewhere… at the Workshop Theatre. Elsewhere… is a new play by our Playwriting Fellow Philip Meeks, and has been commissioned by the York Theatre Royal. The rehearsed reading will take place on Friday 14th May at 4.30pm in the Banham Theatre (Michael Sadler Building). In Elsewhere… two brothers...
For various reasons (largely down to timing) the three proposals received for this year’s Student Production have been withdrawn. This means there is a vacancy if anyone would like to fill it. We are offering: space, technical support, a staff mentor and funding for a performance in week 5 of next term (week commencing 25th...
It’s that time of year again… You meticulously plan your practical essay rehearsal schedule, only to find your cast members are stranded on the continent due to a volcanic eruption in Iceland and the subsequent closure of European airspace. How many times have we heard that tired old excuse? Assuming that Hephaistos – that troublesome...
On stage in Studio 1 next week: Tales from the Bar of Lost Souls is a new theatre show and workshop project made as a collaboration between The National Theatre of Greece, Cyprus Theatre Organisation and imitating the dog as part of the British Council Creative Collaboration programme. The overall aim of the Creative Collaborations...
THE DREADFUL HOURS by Chris Fittock and Tmesis Theatre Tmesis Theatre (www.tmesistheatre.com) embark on their biggest and most innovative collaboration to date with the upcoming tour of ‘The Dreadful Hours’. ‘The Dreadful Hours’ combines Tmesis Theatre’s Yorgos Karamalegos and Elinor Randle and their trademark physicality with new writing from Liverpool playwright, and Workshop Theatre graduate,...
