Spring Term 10/11
Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mammet
Written by David Mamet, Sexual Perversity in Chicago offers a glimpse into the lives of four young professionals in a series of snapshots. In the ‘screwed-up world of American sexuality’, two people form a relationship but can it survive under the critical eye of their friends? David Mamet is best known for his pieces; Glengarry Glen Ross (1984) and Speed-the-Plow (1998). Sexual Perviersity is one of his first pieces and often considered one of his most contrversial works.
Cast:
Bernard Litko: James Harkness
Dan Shapiro: James Spence
Deborah Solomon: Aella Jordan-Edge
Joan Webber: Amelia Dickens Tickets
Directed by Sophie Bernberg
Antigone by Jean Anouilh
Antigone is going to die. Antigone is young, she would much rather live than die, but there is no help for it.”
Jean Anouilh’s thought-provoking play, originially produced in nazi-occupied France as an allegory of resistance, is a modern retelling of Sophocles’ original Greek masterpiece.
This dramatic adaptation explores the nature of power, fate and above all, choice; as one young girl refuses to be denied the consequences of her actions, in turn setting into motion a chain of events that impact tragically upon all those around her.
“Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless.
… Hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.”
Performed on the 23rd, 24th & 25th February in the Debating Chamber, first floor Falmer House.
Cast List:
Antigone-Georgina Lawry
Creon-Serena Flynn
Ismene-Anna Morton
Heamon-Declan Foley
Nurse-Kat Wilson
Chorus-Keziah Lewis
Directed by Lucy Atkinson
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard’s witty, irrational, tongue-tying tale takes place in the wings of Shakespeare’s Hamlet; revolving around the death-marked Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Through cross-dressing, invisible pirates, magic tricks and the odd existential crisis the play weaves in and out of the action of Hamlet with pace, humour and poignancy as the ill-fated lords move further and further to that moment of realisation…
Performed in the Debating Chamber, first floor Falmer House on the 2nd, 3rd & 4th March 2011.
Cast list:
Rosencrantz-Josh Crisp
Guildenstern-Fred Lintern
Hamlet-Alice Devlin-Baugh
The Player-Patrick Bailey
The Tragedians:
Alfred-John Moore
Horatio & Tragedian-Ryan Foster
Claudius & Tragedian-Jorik Mol
Gertrude, Ophelia & Tragedian-Talia Cohen
Polonius & Tragedian-Rebecca Rowe
Directed by Jess Duxbury & Ben Meredith
Massacre at Paris by Christopher Marlowe
Paris, 1572. The marriage of the Catholic Princess Margaret to the Protestant King of Navarre, intended as an act of religious reconciliation, in fact proves the catalyst for the mass-murder of Protestant citizens, a series of political assassinations and civil war. Deception and betrayal run riot, overseen by the machinations of Catherine the Queen Mother and her favourite the Duke of Guise.
A fast-paced, frightening and blackly comic glimpse into a court and country torn apart by ambition and sectarian violence; The Massacre at Paris is probably the least-known and least performed of Marlowe’s plays: an opportunity not to be missed!
Performed 14th-16th March 2011 in Mandela Hall (Falmer House).
