New Shows! - 22/07/2020
Hello everyone!
We're excited to announce our upcoming shows for the Michaelmas Term of 2020: You Stupid Darkness and Dracula! Read the plot summaries below, including some insights from the directors!
Hello everyone!
We're excited to announce our upcoming shows for the Michaelmas Term of 2020: You Stupid Darkness and Dracula! Read the plot summaries below, including some insights from the directors!
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You Stupid Darkness - In a cramped, crumbling office, four volunteers spend a few hours every Tuesday night on the phone telling strangers that everything is going to be okay. As the outside world disintegrates, they teeter on the edge of their own personal catastrophes. Their hopes and fears become entangled as they try, desperately, to connect with the callers and with each other.
Sam Steiner's You Stupid Darkness! is an urgent play about the struggle for optimism and community amid the chaos of a world falling apart. It was first seen at Theatre Royal Plymouth in February 2019, in a co-production between Paines Plough and Theatre Royal Plymouth. "You Stupid Darkness is a wonderful play written with so much heart. We're so excited to get back to doing what we love; and if you're a potential new face, we can't wait to see you in October!" - Ciara Hay and Evie Kerr, Directors |
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Dracula - A few days before his marriage, Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to finalise the sale of a house to the mysterious Count Dracula; however he soon discovers that his client is much more than he seems. As trouble brews in England and Jonathan discovers darker and darker secrets about the Count, a series of coincidences manifest into a terrifying, supernatural force comparable to the devil himself...
Dracula, adapted by Liz Lochhead, is a chilling yet faithful adaptation of Bram Stoker’s famous vampire narrative, first performed in 1985 in the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh. "I’ve been fascinated by vampire narratives since my first year of university, and naturally Dracula was at the top of my list. It’s one of my favourite novels, and I fell in love with Lochhead’s adaptation as soon as I read it. I’m so excited to get this play off the ground and see what weird and wonderful things the cast and crew are going to do with it!" - Isaac Rolfe, Director |
