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Rosemary Branch Theatre presents
Branching Out
Save the crippling train fare to Edinburgh, dodgy accommodation, debilitating hangovers and midge angst as The Rosemary Branch Theatre emulates the spirit of the Edinburgh Fringe with three action packed weeks of organically grown pot luck theatre.
From rehearsed readings and workshop performances of new writing and plays that deserve another airing, to cabaret, comedy, storytelling and other uncategorisable theatrical events we promise you never a dull moment.
Highlights include:
- Preview of Judith Paris' new show, Jacques Brel - The Rage To Live
- Rehearsed reading of GB Shaw's Arms and the Man
- Irony and Bliss, a new revue show with Fliss Walton and Bryony Thompson
- The Love Course, directed by Rita Osei
Produced by Bryony Thompson for the Rosemary Branch Theatre
Key
RR: Rehearsed Reading WIP: Work in Progress NW: New
Work
CS:Comedy Sketch C: Cabaret FP: Full Production ST:
Story Telling
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Tuesday November 6th 7.30pm |
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Conflict Relief |
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Wednesday November 7th 7.30pm |
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The Love Course |
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Wednesday November 7th 9pm |
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Conflict Relief |
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| Thursday November 8th 7.30pm
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The Love Course |
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Friday November 9th 7.30pm |
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Treading the Boards - Reginald Hill
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Friday November 9th 9pm |
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The Missing Scale: An Entertainment in
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Saturday November 10th 7.30pm |
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Treading the Boards - Reginald Hill
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| Saturday November 10th 7.30pm Tickets: £5 |
Adam
and Steve By John Cusworth Armageddon. Two men have the task of re-populating the earth with a gender changing pill. Heads or tails? |
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Sunday November 11th 5.30pm |
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Remembrance |
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Sunday, November 11th 6.30pm |
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Charlotte Mew |
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Sunday, November 11th 8pm |
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The Hoo-Hah Conspiracy |
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Monday November 12th 7.30pm |
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Arabian Night |
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Tuesday November 13th |
WIP
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Irony and Bliss |
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| Wednesday November 14th 7.30pm
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ST/NW
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Story
Telling with Allister Bain Allister will be reading some of his new stories, including Caribbean Christmas and Frighten Friday. |
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Wednesday November 14th 8.30pm |
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Dutchman |
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| Thursday November 15th 7.30pm AND 9pm Tickets: £5 |
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All Men
Are Whores By David Mamet A play about falling in love, loss of love and yearning for love. |
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Saturday 17th November |
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Joy Division |
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Sunday November 18th 3pm |
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De-Emancipator |
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Sunday November 18th 5.30pm |
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On The Cut |
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Sunday November 18th 7.30pm |
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Brel - The Rage to Live |
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Monday November 19th 7.30pm |
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Arms and the Man |
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Tuesday November 20th 7.30pm |
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Off the Page presents |
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Wednesday November 21st 7.30pm |
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Conflict Relief |
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| Wednesday November 21st 8.45pm Tickets: £5 |
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White Room Theatre Presents
Bite Size A comedy showcase featuring a new short play by Adam Hadley. |
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Thursday 22nd November 7.30pm |
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The Language of Shadows |
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Thursday November 22nd 8.15pm |
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Deirdre of the Sorrows |
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Friday November 23rd 7.30pm |
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The Better Deal |
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Friday November 23rd 8pm |
WIP
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Irony and Bliss |
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Saturday November 24th 9pm |
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The Better Deal |
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Sunday 25th November 7pm |
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Persephone |
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Tuesday November 6th 7.30pm Conflict Relief Conflict Relief is dedicated to bringing Arab and Israeli artists together to explore conflict through comedy. We comment on the perceptions of the Middle East and the stereotypes associated with the region. The stage is our vessel that provides a platform whereby we can explore the cultural similarities and explore the differences that exist between us. Through satirical play, absurd theatrical images and comedy we take you on a journey through the behavior of every day life in the Middle East. Conflict Relief the Arab Israeli theatre collaboration invites you to the first performance of a year long tour around London. 24 hour Box Office 020 7704 6665 |
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Wednesday November 7th AND Thursday 8th November The Love Course by AR Gurney A university literature course is taught by male and female professors with different views on life, one an expert on romantic literature and the other specializing in classical literature. A serious comedy. 24 hour Box Office 020 7704 6665 |
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Friday November 9th 7.30pm Treading the Boards - Reginald Hill An evening with this much-loved star of stage and screen, who offers a glimpse of life behind the scenes as he looks back on more than forty years in show business. Come and experience the smell of the crowds and the roar of the greasepaint with one of Britain’s finest classical actors as he reads from his recent autobiography, Treading the Boards. The author will be appearing downstairs after the reading for a short signing. Chris trained at Lamda and subsequently won the Carleton Hobbes award, leading to six months as a member of the BBC Radio Drama Company where he worked on a huge range of plays and readings for Radio 3 and 4 including Hard Times, The Pallisers, Richard III, Volpone, Maurice and Pilgrim's Progress. He worked with Howard Barker's company The Wrestling School on Dead Hands and in the French language production of Animals in Paradise at Theatre Deux Rives in Rouen. Last year he played the role of Bill Taylor in Jeremy Sams' West End revival of Michael Frayn's Donkeys' Years and most recently he has been touring Ireland as Harry Hoveden in Ouroboros' production of Brian Friel's Making History. He has also directed the sketch comedy group The Hollow Men in London and Edinburgh. 24 hour Box Office 020 7704 6665
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Friday November 9th 9.00pm The Missing Scale: An Entertainment
in Seven Vignettes His boyfriend has just left on a jet plane. Where is he going and will the bastard ever be coming back!? Sometimes one’s heart and mind are so wracked with the pain of loss and the sense of something having left that it is impossible to think, to function, even to breathe. Whether someone or something has gone missing or whether we have discarded something or someone that we want back, until now there has been no scale to measure that missing…. From the award winning writer of Liberace’s Suit (‘The most entertaining and thought provoking play in the West End’ Sheridan Morley, The Express. ‘Brilliantly funny!... Four stars’ Benedict Nightingale, The Times) comes an evening delving into the darker and dafter aspects of ‘missing’. A black comedy of a spectacle that will delight in making you laugh and making you cry. www.tenebrislight.com 24 hour Box Office 020 7704 6665
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Saturday November 10th 9.pm Adam and Steve Armageddon. Earth has been left with two survivors - two men - who find themselves destined to live out the remainder of the human race trapped in a military bunker. That is until they discover a gender changing pill which will finally give them a purpose and a chance to repopulate the world. Heads or tails? 24 hour Box Office 020 7704 6665
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Sunday November 11th 5.30pm Remembrance On the eleventh minute A rehearsed reading of a new play from the team behind this year’s production of Better & Afterwards here at The Rosemary Branch. Praise for Better & Afterwards: "It’s very much a young, fresh production – indeed, if Nick Hornby was a bit better at writing, he might have come up with this... I’d happily catch anything coming out from the company on the strength of this production." Stratford Express 24 hour Box Office 020 7704 6665
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Sunday, November 11th 6.30pm Charlotte Mew The actress Petra Markham was sent a photo of the poet Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) by a friend who thought they looked alike. Petra decided to write a play about Charlotte Mew, an actress, and a northern male playwright with writer’s block. This is a reading of a work in progress of that play. Petra Markham is the daughter of the writer and poet Olive Dehn, and the sister of Jehane Markham who had a musical play Hermes at the Rosemary Branch. 24 hour Box Office 020 7704 6665
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Sunday, November 11th 8pm Rosemary Branch regulars return for their monthly evenings of music madness, serious silliness and incoherent inconsequentialities. YOU'VE NEVER BEEN PART OF ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE! The Rosemary Branch becomes the strange, seedy underworld of The Hoo-Hah Club. Think Shockheaded Peter, think Rocky Horror Show in smaller heels. Think what you like! It's all the same to Marlene Markova, the club's sexually confused Russian manager (all will be revealed) Tarara - the Hoo-Hah Club's charming Hat Check girl will help you to your seats (and possibly help herself to anything about your person if you're not careful). Your host for the evening calls himself The Twisted MC (you'll begin to understand why once he's sung you his 'torch' song)... Meanwhile, Jonny Du Bois-a rock poet with veins of pure Jack Daniels-and his band The Hoo-Hah Conspiracy will tell you stories of murder, bullying and advertising executives from their JPF World Music Award Winning debut album Telling Tales (think David Bowie meets Talking Heads!). Later on Jonny might ask to 'induct' you and the rest of the audience into the conspiracy with a gratifyingly FREE vodka & Hoo-Hah gingerbread man. 'But what of all this' ,you ask, 'Who Are The Hoo-Hah?' ... We Are. You Are. Join Us. 'Telling Tales' By The Hoo-Hah Conspiracy Is Out Now On iTunes! WINNER! BEST MODERN ROCK ALBUM WINNER! BEST MODERN ROCK SONG JPF WORLD MUSIC AWARDS, LOS ANGELES 24 hour Box Office 020 7704 6665
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Monday November 12th 7.30pm Arabian Night by Roland Schimmelpfennig
'There’s a faint singing in the corridors of the seventh floor. A hot wind envelops me and sand burns in my eyes.' There is a reason Franziska sleeps so much and makes Turkish coffee every morning. There is a reason Fatima carries so many keys. Hans takes a quick trip to the desert. Peter has an unfortunate experience with a brandy bottle. And Kalil can’t help himself. With Claire Louise Amias, Bryony Thompson, Donal Cox, Akin Gazi, and Ben Bela Boehm 24 hour Box Office 020 7704 6665
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Tuesday November 13th Irony and Bliss Irony: the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning. Bliss: supreme happiness, utter joy or contentment. Scenes, poetry and prose performed by Fliss Walton and Bryony Thompson. 24 hour Box Office 020 7704 6665
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Wednesday November 14th 7.30pm Story Telling with Allister Bain Allister will be reading some of his new stories, including Caribbean Christmas and Frighten Friday. The style is based on the African oral tradition. 24 hour Box Office 020 7704 6665 |
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Wednesday November 14th 8.30pm Dutchman New York 1964. Hot, humid. Lula, a spirited and daring white American woman meets Clay, a buttoned up, middle class African American. What follows is an explosive encounter where both of their beliefs regarding race, sex and class are shaken to the core. Leroi Jones (Amira Baraka) wrote Dutchman against the backdrop of the civil rights movement which transformed the country's landscape for ever. 24 hour Box Office 020 7704 6665
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November 15th 7.30pm AND 9pm Tickets: £5 All Men Are Whores All Men Are Whores - a show about falling in love, loss of love and yearning for love, told in a series of rotating monologues, given while the characters reflect over relationships in all their complexity. A play which attempts to address sexuality in modern times, and what that means to the individuals on stage, male and female. Written by playwright David Mamet, the play discusses themes that are found in many of his works, yet this play shows a uniquely visceral, existential expression in his writing, It is an obvious choice of material for Prime Chaos Theatre, a new company producing bold, accessible theatre, choosing to explore the endless complexities of human relationships, and a belief to create theatre with a message that is Mature, Bold, Expressive and Immediate. Prime Chaos theatre was founded in the spring of 2007 with the intention of giving a group of actors a home where they could engage in a variety of theatre workshops designed to push each other's limits, and allowed them to bind together into a tightly knit, uninhibited and impassioned ensemble - one in which each member is given the support to creatively develop and explore new concepts they may not have the opportunity to develop in mainstream theatre. The company's main ethos allows members to create and develop new ideas, and in that, create a unique theatrical system, something with personal power and relevance. Another element of the company's approach is to embrace the modern world in all its strangeness, which gives our productions this particular tone. 24 hour Box Office 020 7704 6665
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Saturday 17th November In the 70s and early 80s, the well-known Manchester band, Joy Division, took their name from events had nothing to do with joy. The name comes from forced labour camps in Nazi Germany. In these camps, thousands of young women were used as sex slaves for German officers before they went to fight on the Russian front. These young girls, known as ‘Feld Hure’ (Field Whores), underwent daily ‘enjoyment duty’ where three bad reports were met with brutal levels of punishment. The question is, in such dire circumstances, do humans take solace in the companionship of others suffering the same fate? Or does an individual’s supposed submission give them greater dominance and a longer shelf life? Warning: contains female nudity. 24 hour Box Office 020 7704 6665
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Sunday November 18th 3pm De-Emancipator DE-EMANCIPATOR, Observer, is asking questions, making statements. This year our attention is drawn to EMANCIPATION -200 years gone. But are we free. Are we into another type of slavery. Property, law and disorder. What is the colour of your blood, do you know? Politicians never answer yes or no. Is WILBERFORCE still lurking in the shadow? AWAKE! Computer is like a giant earthquake! 24 hour Box Office 020 7704 6665
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Sunday November 18th 5.30pm On The Cut Two hundred years ago the British government outlawed slavery. That did not mean that trading in slaves suddenly stopped; it simply meant that this lucrative business was no longer legal and its practitioners would be hounded on the high seas by the British Navy. On the Cut is the story of two women, one urban, working class black, one rural, middle class white, whose least expected thing in common is a shared slave-trading great-grandfather, one of those English merchant adventurers who worked the Golden Triangle, trading British goods for West African slaves who were then traded in turn for the cotton, rum, sugar and spices of the Americas upon which many of our foremost family fortunes have been built. Our two women’s fortunes are far removed from these, however, as they struggle to ‘do their bit’, working on the canals as part of the war effort in the 1940s, when women took over jobs traditionally done by men, so that the men could join up and fight for another kind of freedom. It took a certain kind of woman with a certain kind of temperament to cope with the challenge of doing such punishing work, on poor rations, always hungry, yet each valiantly determined to make her contribution, with often comic results. Based on original ideas by John Buchanan, the play interweaves the themes of slavery, life ‘on the cut’ and the Music Hall tradition , a taste for which they do not share. Still, despite their differences, the women realize that concessions must be made if they are to work together and share their cramped cabin, though there will always be things they will never agree on. 24 hour Box Office 020 7704 6665
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Sunday November 18th 7.30pm Jaques Brel - The Rage to Live “What do you do when you are faced with a wall? Do you go round it or climb over it? Me, I go through it with a pick-axe.” The words of a man who hurled himself quite literally against life, writing, performing, touring, drinking and smoking through countless sleepless nights and passionate love affairs; a man who in the space of a few short years became world famous through the language of his songs. Jacques Brel had a huge appetite for life, celebrating every aspect of it in a way that would have exhausted another man. Then in 1966 when he was thirty six and at the height of his fame he took his world by surprise and announced his retirement from solo performing. There were other worlds to conquer, the worlds of film, music theatre, learning to fly, to sail. “Move on, move on.” Jacques Brel—The Rage To Live is a new one-man play with songs that follows Brel’s thoughts as he waits for a consultation with his specialist. The year is 1978. A heavy smoker, he had already undergone major lung surgery four years before. He recalls his memories of the early successes, the brief love affair with the world of the Musical, his years in the film business, a growing desire for solitude and the pleasure of solo flying and sailing alone for months at a time, the nature of his life with his wife and daughters, the complication s of his affairs with other women, his questioning of his stormy relationship with God and Man and his great affection for Hiva Oa, the remote Polynesian island where eventually, he had found peace. In October that year, Jacques Brel died of cancer. He was 49. 2008 is the thirtieth anniversary of his tragically early death. This play wishes to pay homage to one of the greatest singer poets of his time. Jacques Brel’s songs range from the lighthearted to the often dark and bitter, mocking nationalism, religion, love and death. In this play, five songs are sung in Engligh, five in French and five in a mixture of French and English. They include: Viellir, Le Diable ca va, Amsterdam, Jacky’s Song, Madeleine, Les Biches, Ne Me Quitte Pas, Les Bigotes, Valse a Mille Temps, Man of La Manche and the Quest, Au Printemps, La Chanson des Vieux Amants, and two songs as yet unpublished, Les Marquises, and La Cathedrale, the last being a mighty and uplifting valediction of Brel’s last years. The text is in English. Jacques Brel - The Rage to Live is extremely simple in design and therefore economical to stage. The dramatic effects are achieved with a comprehensive lighting design that draws the audience into the two worlds of the show, that of the reality of the text and the fantasy life of the songs. The play is 75 minutes long without an interval. Anthony Cable (Brel and Lyric Translator) began his career in popular music singing and playing the guitar in the bars and cafes of his native Newcastle-upon-Tyne at the age of 16. He studied opera at Newcastle School of Music and in London at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He moved to France and lived there for some years performing at opera houses in Avignon, Toulon. Nice, Monte Carlo, Nimes, Montpelier, Lyons, Bastia, and Ajacio. He sang at the Festival Estival of Aix en Provence, the Festival of Gordes, and the Festival of Castres. Changing career direction, he returned to London to go back to his roots in popular music and has since performed for the last 10 years in Music Theatre both in the West End and in No. 1 tours around Britain. He was a member of the Royal National Theatre last seen in Love’s Labour’s Lost and Anything Goes. Anthony has given recitals and concerts in Germany, Russia, and Israel and has performed many times in cabaret in London. Recently, Anthony was invited to take part in a workshop for the new Schonberg/Boublil musical Marguerite with music by Michel Legrand. He is currently appearing in The Sound of Music at the London Palladium. Stuart Barr (Piano and Musical Direction) has a dual career as a musical director and singing coach for TV and the West End. As a singing coach he has worked on shows such as E4’s School of Performing Arts and Any Dream Will Do, How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? and Let Me Entertain You for the BBC. He was Adjudicating Musical Director for the 2006 Voice of Musical Theare Competition and devised BBC Talent’s Be A Musical Theatre Performer programme. Stuart also runs a busy private teaching studio for West End singers. As a conductor he recently spent a season conducting Sweeney Todd for Varmlands Opera in Sweden and has conduction in theatre from London to Russia, Barbados and America. Musical Direction from the keyboard includes the West End show Zipp! 100 Musicals For Less Than The Price Of One with Gyles Brandreth and It’s Almost Like Being in Love at the Royal National Theatre with Anita Dobson and Sian Phillips. He is currently judging on BBC’s Young Musician of the Year 2008. Judith Paris (Writer and Director) trained at the Royal Ballet School and danced with the company. She was a member both of the Royal National Theatre for 11 years and the RSC for three seasons. She has performed extensively on the West End stage both in straight drama and in Music Theatre and has many TV credits to her name. She made her Broadway debut in Medea with Diana Rigg and recently returned there in Hecuba with Vanessa Redgrave for the RSC. Last year she played Mrs. Higgins in the No. 1 your of the National Theatre/Cameron Mackintosh production of My Fair Lady. She is currently playing Mrs. Henworth in Hobson’s Choice at Chichester Festival Theatre. Judith has written, choreographed, compiled, and directed a number of small scale shows all of which have been successfully produced in London. She was the co-director and choreographer of the British Youth Opera’s Carmen. At the New End Theatre, she wrote and played Lotta Lenya in Weill and Lenya directed by Ken Russell. www.jacquesbreltheragetolive.co.uk 24 hour Box Office 020 7704 6665
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Monday November 19th 7.30pm Arms and the Man A rehearsed reading of Shaw’s much admired satirical play of 1894, targeting the false notions of both war and love. Heroic ideals, both real and imagined, are examined, shredded and reinvented in his social commentary about a middle class family and their attitudes to war. The play was one of Shaw's first commercial successes. He was called onto the stage after the curtain, where he received enthusiastic applause. However, amidst the cheers, one audience member booed. In characteristic fashion Shaw replied: "My dear fellow, I quite agree with you, but what are we two against so many?” Directed by Bryony Thompson with an all star cast of Rosemary Branch regulars including Cleo Sylvestre as Catherine, Richard Earthy as Major Petkoff, Tim Donnelly as Nikola, Ben Bela Boehm as Bluntschli, Sebastian Valentine as Sergius, Rosie Mainwaring as Raina, and Bryony Thompson as Louka. Special appearance by Cecilia Darker reading the stage directions. 24 hour Box Office 020 7704 6665
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Tuesday November 20th 7.30pm A mysterious stranger arrives in Bath in search of a wife. Rumours
abound, but what is his name..? Off The Page! Presents Drury Lane December 1806; an expectant audience eagerly awaits the appearance of “Mr. H__ a FARCE by the acclaimed critic and essayist CHARLES LAMB. Opinion is unanimous and Mr. H__ is 'soundly booed and hissed' off the stage never to be show his face at Drury Lane again. Were the critics too harsh? Rush and queue to catch this rare, if not unique opportunity, to judge for yourselves. Hiss or cheer, Mr. H__ will stay for ONE NIGHT ONLY! in this rehearsed reading rendered by the fearless band of actors that is 'Off the Page!', the Rosie regulars who brough you Henry Fielding’s Tom Thumb 'irresistibly funny' –Time Out, and The Bells 'visceral terror' –Time Out. Director Ben Bazell. Contact: 1st Footman: I’ll wager he’s a ‘Hammond’. 2nd Footman: Don’t tell me: does not ‘Hardcastle’ begin with an ‘H’? 1st Footman: So does ‘Hammond’ for that matter. 2nd Footman: Faith so it does if you go to spell it. I didn’t think of that. PLUS! at 8.45 'Off The Page!' Presents: Reflections from A Madhouse An insight into the turbulent life and troubled mind of the poet John Clare (1793 - 1864) based on his own words and poetry, with Ben Bazell as John Clare. 'Birds, bees, and flowers all talked to me incessantly louder than the busy hum of men' 'FIRST CHOICE' (Best Shows) THE TIMES. 24 hour Box Office 020 7704 6665
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Thursday 22nd November 7.30pm The Green Heart Theatre Company presents The Green Heart Company present The Language of Shadows - three midnight tales from Ireland. 'Three individuals are trapped in deadly conflict with the supernatural.'
The Green Heart Company is a new London based Irish Artists Collective that collaborate to create original pieces of Irish writing. The Green Heart Company is currently developing its debut stage play The Supernatural Life of Séana O'Shea to open in 2008. For Further Details: 24 hour Box Office 020 7704 6665
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Wednesday November 21st 8.45pm White Room Theatre presents A comedy showcase featuring a new short play by Adam Hadley, Thrilling Melodrama At High Speeds With Pineapple. Directed by Nick Brice, with Abigail Classey and Genevieve Cleghorn. Praise of Bite Size: "Go see this gem." - Fringe Review (5 stars) "Anything is possible when Bite Size shows up." Rocks Magazine " A bountiful brilliant feast." Edinburgh Festival Guide. email: info@bite-size.org 24 hour Box Office 020 7704 6665 |
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Thursday November 22nd 8.15pm Deirdre of the Sorrows A girl is born, a prophecy is made, and thus begins the story of Deirdre of the Sorrows, one of the greatest tragic heroines of Irish mythology. Her epic story, retold by Giles Abbott, is violent, erotic, funny and tragic, and though it’s feet are in the past (Iron Age in origin) it is a story whose eyes are firmly fixed on the present. Is beauty, for a woman, a blessing or a curse? And if a curse, why? Imagine the story of Helen of Troy, but told from Helen’s perspective. Come and hear one of the greatest stories in mythology told by an award-winning storyteller! Adults and children 12+. “Wit, wisdom and a voice like melted chocolate!” “Very cinematic, with a great ability to get under the surface
of the metaphor” 24 hour Box Office 020 7704 6665
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Friday November 23rd 7.30pm Green-Light Productions presents Six Girls. One club. Many men. It's all in a night's work. A dynamic new play exploring femininity and sexuality through the stark opinions and fears of six young women working in the adult entertainment industry. Scripted by: Christopher Brandon and Sarah Sigal 24 hour Box Office 020 7704 6665
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Sunday 25th November 7pm Fail Better return to Ovid for the first time since 2003’s Echo and Narcissus (‘challenging, gripping, creative’ The Stage) in this new play written by Artistic Director Jonathan Heron. A contemporary reworking of the Persephone myth, this piece explores bi-polarity and the search for the self. Zeus’s judgment for Persephone to spend every autumn and winter in the Underworld is portrayed as a thrilling release from each desolate spring and summer caring for her dying mother, Demeter. Persephone’s story is retold as an account of living with mental illness; it is also a warning against trying to stage Titus Andronicus with a three-headed dog called Cerberus. Following their recent success with Diary of a Madman (‘accomplished one man performance’ Time Out), Fail Better are delighted to return to the Rosemary Branch to contribute to their exciting festival of new work. Fail Better Productions is a collective of young theatre artists who strive for intensity and detail in textually rich and visually arresting performance. The company has staged Sarah Kane plays (Crave and Phaedra’s Love) at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as well as developing new writing (Head). They have an abiding interest in the drama of Samuel Beckett and have recently staged two of his short plays (Rough for Theatre II and Ohio Impromptu). Their devised pieces include new versions of Echo and Narcissus (after Ovid) and Diary of a Madman (after Gogol). 24 hour Box Office 020 7704 6665
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