Whilst training at drama school all performers undertake something called ‘Animal Studies’ where they learn to mimic those who have different motivations to humans. Generally, this is a skill which is then put in the memory bank and never really used again – but for one actress appearing in Precious Little at the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre, it has proved very useful indeed, as she gets to inhabit a Gorilla during every performance…
Master of the monologue, Mark Farrelly, sits slumped forward in an upright chair shrouded in a white smock, whose back-ties make it resemble a cross between a straight jacket and a surgeon’s theatre robe…
"I come from a time and country where I was treated like a wrong hushed up. And now, eighty long, dark years later, I find myself living in the heart of Manhattan… the moment I finally caught sight of New York for real I wanted it… After that there was nothing for it but to leave England, which is nothing more than a rain-swept Alacatraz, and move to America…" Using the words of the man himself with only a few stylistically consistent linking phrases, Mark Farrelly's Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope delicately and eloquently charts the course of Crisp’s life and is similarly divided into two parts: Naked and Hope...
Billy Casper is 15 years old. Bullied at school and unhappy at home, he doesn’t fit in.But when Billy comes across a wild kestrel and realises he can train her, he discovers a new life above the small Northern mining town in which he lives...
Helen and Gordon spend their retirement on their Mediterranean balcony, reading and drinking gin, quite a lot of it. Both have moments of dissatisfaction. Is this life changing or merely boredom brought on by age and inactivity? When a younger woman appears in their lives, their comfortable existence is blown apart in an unexpected fashion...
A darkly comic and dangerously dreamlike tale of past and present history colliding. 1905. Moscow. Three sisters return to the capital to find that it is no longer the peaceful city of their childhoods...
Joseph Merrick owes his existence to those who exploit his deformities for their own ends. But as he sits under curious stares, it is the world around him that appears grotesque. London premiere of a highly acclaimed hit at Edinburgh Fringe 2012.
Alter Ego charges in with another winning production. Energetic from the start, the play gives an insight into the life of a mechanic suffused with dark undertones of criminal behaviour and domestic abuse...