Undergraduate Acting Productions
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Our Town
29 Nov 2011 - 03 Dec 2011
By: Thornton Wilder
Directed by: Richard Beecham
Design: Simon Kenny
Lighting: Richard Howell
OUR TOWN is widely regarded as one of the most important American plays of the Twentieth Century. Full of passion and poignancy, humour and heartache, OUR TOWN dramatizes the lives of ordinary people in an extraordinary way.
Cast:- Joe Potter, Jade Matthew, Mara Leah, Adam Philps, Poppy Drayton, Murray James, Josh Ruhle, Jessica Rowland, Kemar Downey, Matt Casey, Eleanor Crooks, Pepter Lunkuse, Rollo Skinner, Harriette Sym
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Andorra
11 Oct 2011 - 15 Oct 2011
By: Max Frisch
Translated by: Michael Bullock
Directed by: Maria Aberg
Design: Naomi Dawson
Lighting: Richard Howell
War is threatening. Everyone is an enemy, and no one is safe. The people of Andorra are forced to confront their fears, with devastating consequences.
Cast:- Nadia Hynes, Dan Parr, Jackson Smith, Verity Harris, Amy Ambrose, Rob Lines, Tarrick Benham, Ruth Zielinski, Patrick Cavendish, Charlie De Melo, Tom Vallen, Scarlett Archer, Blioux Kirkby.
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Unnatural Selection
05 Aug 2011 - 27 Aug 2011
Presented by: Wavelength Theatre Company
Written by: Boris Mitkov
Director: Boris Mitkov
Unnatural Selection
What use is immortality if you can’t remember the day before?
At the heart of this fantasy drama is a vampire couple on a mission to discover the truth about their transformation and to get revenge on the race that made them what they are.
But below the surface lie betrayals closer to home and the complicationthattheir immortality comes at a price. Piecing together the story becomes an almost impossible task when every day begins with
the puzzle of remembering the day before.
Ultimately, the play is about survival and examines how the unnatural can exist in a natural world. Are we really any different?
Praise for ‘For Your Entertainment’ (Edinburgh Fringe 2010, reviewed by Ed Cripps for Broadway Baby)
“taut, ambitious and layered work” “the sort of twisted poetry one might find at a video exhibition at the Tate Modern”
“the acting mature, the direction superb”
This year, Wavelength Theatre Company return with a dark tale to appeal to the masses. We have set ourselves the challenge of creating a definitive vision of the vampire legend and explored the philosophy of an immortal creature. The empty space is given form by the bold physicality of the performers and the minimal lighting creates a claustrophobic and terrifying atmosphere experienced by our two rebels on the run.
The company has just completed their final year of study at ArtsEd London, a college famous for its unrivalled Film and TV training, and are all keen to maintain the excellent reputation the school has for producing talented and dedicated actors. They are very much looking forward to this opportunity to experience Edinburgh for a second time and also to bring a different and
experimental play to the mix.
The When and The Where
5th-29th August, 2011
Time: 19:30 – 20:35
V53- Surgeon’s Hall, Theatre 1
Tickets: £8.50 (full), £6.50 (conc.) 2for1 available.
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Arcadia
24 May 2011 - 28 May 2011
By: Tom Stoppard
Director: Zoë Waterman
Stoppard’s wise and yearning play spans the Georgian sublime and the present day, spinning ideas about the shape of the universe and the needs of the heart.
It is April 1809 at a stately home in Derbyshire, through the window may be seen some of the ‘500 acres inclusive of lake’ where Capability Brown’s idealised landscape is about to give way to the ‘picturesque’ Gothic style. Thomasina, a gifted pupil, proposes a startling theory beyond her comprehension. All around her the adults, including her tutor Septimus, are preoccupied with secret desires, illicit passions and professional rivalries. Two hundred years later, academic adversaries Hannah and Bernard are piecing together puzzling clues, recalling those events of 1809 in their quest for an increasingly elusive truth. In Stoppard’s play of sex, science and poetry these two time frames crisscross and the past is a constant presence as the characters resolve that if the universe is an apparently doomed machine, then whilst we are alive, we might as well dance.
Cast: Daisy Ward, Eleri Morgan, Mimi Davenport, Rosie Orchison, Joe Forte, Tom Senior, Max Wilson, Tom O’Connell, Mitchell Hunt, Freddie Rogers, Steven Roberts
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VICTORIA
17 May 2011 - 21 May 2011
By: David Greig
Director: Richard Cant
VICTORIA is a rich, epic work, comprising three separate but interweaving plays. The shifting political and social history of Britain in the twentieth century is witnessed in 1936, 1974 and 1996 by three women - each named Victoria.
Each life is shaped by dramatic events in a rural community on the Scottish coast.
Poetic, erotic and witty, VICTORIA premiered at the RSC’s Pit Theatre in April 2000.
Cast: Rebecca Farrell, Teri Ann Bobb-Baxter, Shvorne Marks, Daisy May, Chloe Rose, Jennifer Grogan, Adam Youssefbeygi, Boris Mitkov, Luke Storey, Matt Plumb, Oliver Towse, Adam Mercer, Ben Benson
N.B This production contains some nudity
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Acting Showcase 2011
29 Mar 2011 - 30 Mar 2011
Director: Rupert Frazer
Consulting: Janie Frazer
Booking now open…
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Roberto Zucco
22 Feb 2011 - 26 Feb 2011
By: Benard-Marie Koltes
Director: Richard Beecham
Who is Roberto Zucco? A prisoner or a secret agent? A lover or a rapist? A chameleon or a rhino? A peace-loving student or a killer on the run? In a series of poetic, fast moving scenes, Koltes takes his hero on a mythical journey through a landscape of strange and violent beauty.
Cast Includes: Teri Ann Bobb-Baxter, Mimi Davenport, Adam Mercer, Boris Mitkov, Eleri Morgan, Rosie Orchison, Matt Plumb, Freddie Rogers, Chloe Rose, Tom Senior, Oliver Towse, Adam Youssefbeygi.
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Measure For Measure
16 Feb 2011 - 19 Feb 2011
By: William Shakespeare
Director: Justin Audibert
The Duke of Vienna leaves Angelo, his deputy in charge of the city’s government while he travels on a secret mission. Angelo decides to make his mark, rigorously enforcing the city’s laws against fornication, and a young man, Claudio, is condemned to death for sleeping with his fiancé before their wedding. But who can survive a zero tolerance approach to justice unscathed?
Cast Includes: Thomas O’Connell, Daisy Ward, George Brockbanks, Shvorne Marks, Max Wilson, Jennifer Grogan, Mitchell Hunt, Daisy May, Joe Forte, Rebecca Farrell, Steven Roberts, Luke Storey.
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ROMEO AND JULIET
01 Dec 2010 - 04 Dec 2010
Written by: William Shakespeare
Director: Jamie Rocha Allan
Cast Includes:- Teri Ann Bobb-Baxter, Mimi Davenport, Adam Mercer, Boris Mitkov, Eleri Morgan, Rosie Orchison, Matt Plumb, Will Rogers, Chloe Rose, Tom Senior, Oliver Towse, Adam Youssefbegyi
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LOVE AND MONEY
12 Oct 2010 - 16 Oct 2010
Written by: Dennis Kelly
Director: Gemma Fairlie
Love and money is a funny and thought provoking play about life in our credit culture, which dares us to question the cost of happiness.
Cast Includes:-d Tom O’Connell, Daisy Ward, George Brockbanks, Shvorne Marks, Max Wilson, Jennifer Grogan, Mitchell Hunt, Daisy May, Joe Forte, Rebecca Farrell, Steven Roberts, Luke Storey
Tickets on Sale from 6th September.
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The Frontline
25 May 2010 - 29 May 2010
Written by: Ché Walker
Director: Ché Walker
Saturday night outside the tube; God, strip bars, weed, crack, lost old men, unemployed actors and vegans all collide in a rip tide of chaos on the streets of London.
In this vibrant and darkly comic new play, a dozen private stories emerge and their voices give utterance to a storm of subjects and feelings; pop culture and sexual fantasy, the ruins of empire and the delusion of religion. A panorama of contemporary London.
Cast Includes: Kanga Tanikye-Buah, Alexander Foley, Tommy Vine,
Joshua Hayes, Victoria Brittain, Sarah Kameela Impey, Alice Franklin,
Robert Jackson, Craig Morris, Ben Benson, Jacob Dunn, Darlene Charles,
Lashana Lynch, Hannah Bracegirdle, Jack Derges, Michael Barclay,
Christopher Whitelock, Lili Dabrowska, Isla Ure, Latoya Lees, Owen Pullar
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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
18 May 2010 - 22 May 2010
Written by: Bertold Brecht
Translated by: Ralph Manheim
Director: Steve Marmion
Written in exile in 1941, just before Brecht’s arrival in the USA, Arturo Ui is a savage and witty parable of the rise of Hitler – recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago gangster’s takeover of the city’s greengrocery trade. This prize winning translation skilfully captures the wide range of parody and pastiche in the original - from Richard III to Al Capone, from Mark Antony to Faust - without diminishing the horror of the real-life Nazi prototypes.
Cast Includes: Nicola Siân, Angelica Borge, Hayley Cusick, Jessica Francis, Tamaryn Payne, Fleur Keith, Elsie Bennett, Katy Wale, Sydney Stevenson, Amy Waugh, Emma Hubble, Misha Timmins, Louise Williams, Charlotte Harrison
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TWELFTH NIGHT
18 Feb 2010 - 20 Feb 2010
Written by: William Shakespeare
Director: Justin Audibert
Twelfth Night takes us on a journey of disguise, deception and madness. In the Kingdom of Illyria we see the extraordinary lengths that we will go to in the pursuit of love.
Cast Includes: Victoria Brittain, Angelica Borge, Hayley Cusick, Lili Dabrowska, Alice Franklin, Jessica Francis, Amy Waugh, Charlotte Harrison, Ben Benson, Jack Derges, Alexander Foley, Michael Barclay.
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THE COLOUR OF JUSTICE
17 Feb 2010 - 20 Feb 2010
Written by: Richard Norton-Taylor
Director: Gari Jones
In 1993, black teenager Stephen Lawrence was stabbed to death in a racist attack by a gang of white youths. The police investigation failed to provide sufficient evidence to convict and the public inquiry caused a national outcry as the justice system was revealed to be seriously flawed. This is a dramatic reconstruction based on the transcripts of the inquiry.
Cast Includes: Hannah Bracegirdle, Darlene Charles, Emma Hubble, Lashana Lynch, Tamaryn Payne, Nicola Siân, Katy Wale, Jacob Dunn, Joshua Hayes, Robert Jackson, Craig Morris, Owen Pullar, Christopher Whitelock.
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The Merchant of Venice
03 Dec 2009 - 05 Dec 2009
Written by: William Shakespeare
Director: Trilby James
Shakespeare’s tale of love, faith, trust and revenge. In a noble act, Antonio borrows money from Shylock the money-lender with risky consequences should the debt not be repaid in time. On failing repayment some surprising characters in disguise decide Antonio’s fate.
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A Little Like Drowning
02 Dec 2009 - 05 Dec 2009
Written by: Anthony Minghella
Director: Richard Beecham
Can a man love two women at once?
Anthony Minghella’s poignant and passionate play spans seventy years, three countries and four generations in a tale of love, fidelity and betrayal.
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Comedy of Errors
15 Oct 2009 - 17 Oct 2009
Written by: William Shakespeare
Director: Jamie Rocha Allan
Egeon a merchant of Syracuse is condemned to death on the island of Ephesus for violating the ban against travelling between the two rival cities. As he is led to his death he tells the Ephesian duke that he has come to Syracuse in search of his wife and one of his twin sons, who were separated from him 25 years ago in a shipwreck. The other twin who grew up with Egeon is also travelling the world in search of the missing half of his family. The twins we learn, are identical and each twin has an identical twin slave by the name of Dromio. Meanwhile, unknown to Egeon his son Antipholus of Syracuse (and his slave Dromio) are also visiting Ephesus in search of their missing twins.
The confusion begins when the two sets of twins begin to become confused by others and by each other, this confusion builds until a chance encounter brings all the family together, reuniting Egeon with his long lost wife and twin son, as well as the twin Dromio’s being reunited.
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Don Juan Comes Back From The War
14 Oct 2009 - 17 Oct 2009
Written by: Ödön von Horváth
Translated by: Christopher Hampton
Director: Richard Cant
The shell-shocked anti-hero of the title returns from the front to a defeated society in the grips of the flu epidemic of 1918.
He starts a desperate search for the fiancée he cruelly abandoned, and encounters on his journey a succession of women, all of whom remind him in some way of his lost love.
Von Horvath’s play is darkly witty, fast paced and morally ambiguous.
90 minutes no interval
