PLAYREADINGS
RADA graduates perform rehearsed readings of a wide range of new work. Previous playreadings have included World Music by Steve Waters, The Schuman Plan by Tim Luscombe and Eyes Catch Fire by Jason Hall that have subsequently been performed at the Hampstead Theatre, Donmar Warehouse and the Finborough Theatre.te D’Arthur at the RSC.
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Stringpopper
by David Whatley, directed by Hanna Berrigan
Margaret and Vincent grew up and married in the same Wiltshire village, where they still live. Their elder son, Tom, a soldier, is on active service. His younger brother Ben is behaving badly at school, while yearning after Tom’s girlfriend Sonia. Sonia’s father Lawton has never stopped loving Margaret, but Margaret’s affections are straying in an entirely different direction. At the village Fayre, on an idyllic summer’s day, this dark comedy rises to farce before reaching its tragic conclusion. “I was tremendously excited. It is completely brilliant – strikingly original, unusual, funny, poignant and powerful. It’s among the best plays I have read in the past year.” (James Grieve, Paines Plough, 08 March 2012).
Wednesday 09 May at 7:30pm |
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Twenty Six Miles
by Anthony Sergeant.
Written for the radio in the first instance Twenty-Six Miles takes as it starting point the phenomenal performance of marathon runner Dorando Pietri at the 1908 Summer Olympics held in London. It not only reconstructs the events leading up to Queen Alexandra’s having a special medal struck for Pietri but suggests how he might have revisited her fantasy life for years after, through the death of Edward VII and into World War I. Dorando’s growing international celebrity is paralleled by John Wood, a young English carpenter who also participates in the 1908 Olympics, and his love for Alice, a suffragette.
Wednesday 16 May at 7:30pm |
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