Summer SEASON 2013
This summer season we are presenting Congreve’s restoration comedy Love for Love and Martin Sherman’s bohemian When She Danced and Sarah Kane’s challenging tragedy Phaedra’s Love. We also have the showcase productions from our students graduating from our MA in Theatre Directing course. All three shows will be performed by a professional cast and this year the directors have chosen The New Electric Ballroom by Enda Walsh, Love and Money by Dennis Kelly and M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang.
All our productions are supported by our technical theatre arts students working behind the scenes to the highest professional standards.
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Gielgud Theatre
Tue 28 May - Sat 08 Jun at 7:00pm
Matinee Sat 01 Jun at 2:00pm
Tickets £14 | Concessions £10
Senior Friend £6 | RADA Alumni £5
Warning: This play may not be suitable for young audiences. Please check with the Box Office prior to booking tickets.
by Sarah Kane (1996)
Directed by Iqbal Khan
Designed by Florence de Maré
Phaedra’s Love is Sarah Kane’s brutal and sinisterly comic vision of an ancient tale. The crown prince Hippolytus is bored, lethally bored. His stepmother, Phaedra, is distracted... Her husband left long ago after their marriage night to fight the wars and a clawing longing breeds within her... The consequences of this ‘love’ may burn the royal house and the streets without.
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GBS Theatre
Wed 29 May - Sat 08 Jun at 7:15pm
Matinees Sat 01 & Fri 07 Jun at 2:15pm
Tickets £14 | Concessions £10
Senior Friend £6 | RADA Alumni £5
by Martin Sherman (1988)
Directed by Tim Luscombe
Designed by Louis Carver
Paris, 1923. Isadora Duncan has an idea. To found a dance school in Italy. But where will the money come from? Most of her funds go to cover the exorbitant demands of her alcoholic Russian husband - Sergey Esenin, the insanely jealous, non-English speaking poet. A dinner party must be organised in order to charm the money out of an Italian diplomat Isadora met last night. Lobsters! Champagne? Sell the furniture!
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Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre
Thu 30 May - Sat 08 Jun
Aftershow discussion Mon 03 Jun
Tickets £14 | Concessions £10
Senior Friend £6 | RADA Alumni £5
by William Congreve (1695)
Directed by Annie Tyson
Designed by Amelia Jane Hankin
‘Now my mind is set upon a man, I will have a man some way or other…’. So determines Miss Prue, up from the country and a valuable commodity in the marriage market. However, she has a mind of her own as do all the women in Congreve’s racy, dark comedy: Mrs Foresight, married to a superstitious old hypochondriac, Mrs Frail, her sister, somewhat past her shelf-life and desperate for a husband and not least Angelica, ‘difficult’ and independent, who is pursued by the libertine, Valentine. He has ruined himself financially among the women of the town, is threatened with disinheritance by his father, pursued by creditors and has a bastard child to support. Does he stand any chance, or indeed deserve, to get the girl?
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GBS Theatre
Thu 27 Jun 7:15pm, Fri 28 Jun 9:00pm
Sat 29 Jun 7:15pm, Mon 01 Jul 9:00pm
Wed 03 Jul 2:15pm and 9:00pm
Fri 05 Jul 7:15pm, Sat 06 Jul 4:00pm
Tickets £14 | Concessions £10
Senior Friend £6 | RADA Alumni £5
THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM
by Enda Walsh (2005)
Directed by John Haidar
In a small fishing village on the west coast of Ireland, two ageing sisters re-enact an evening at the New Electric Ballroom that changed their lives forever. Isolated from the outside world, opening their hearts might be their only hope of salvation. Enda Walsh’s dark fable of devastating romance confirms his place as one of the most dazzling wordsmiths of contemporary theatre.
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GBS Theatre
Thu 27 Jun 9:00pm, Sat 29 Jun 2:15pm and 9:00pm
Tue 02 Jul 7:15pm, Wed 03 Jul 4:00pm
Thu 04 Jul 7:15pm, Fri 05 Jul 9:00pm
Sat 06 Jul 7:15pm
Tickets £14 | Concessions £10
Senior Friend £6 | RADA Alumni £5
by Dennis Kelly (2006)
Directed by Paris Erotokritou
Love and Money focuses on a young married couple whose lives are ruined because of financial pressures and a huge debt incurred by the wife’s incurable shopping addiction. In a debt-ridden world where paradoxically consumerism often substitutes for human communication Love and Money reflects on the impact of contemporary financial disasters on ordinary people.
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GBS Theatre
Fri 28 Jun 7:15pm, Sat 29 Jun 4:00pm,
Mon 01 Jul 7:15pm, Tue 02 Jul 9:00pm,
Wed 03 Jul 7:15pm, Thu 04 Jul 9:00pm,
Sat 06 Jul 2:15pm and 9:00pm
Tickets £14 | Concessions £10
Senior Friend £6 | RADA Alumni £5
by David Henry Hwang (1998)
Directed by Whitney Mosery
‘A former French diplomat and a Chinese opera singer have been sentenced to six years in jail for spying for China after a two day trial that traced a story of clandestine love and mistaken sexual identity…’ The New York Times, May 11, 1986
Based on this incredible true story, David Henry Hwang’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated play weaves captivating theatricality with startling emotional honesty to explode our preconceptions of love and loyalty. Love may be an illusion, but it is an illusion many would die to believe in.
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Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre
Fri 28 Jun, Mon 01 Jul, Thu 04 Jul at 7:30pm and Sat 06 Jul at 1:00pm
Tickets £14 | Concessions £10
Senior Friend £6 | RADA Alumni £5
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Helen Strange
A tale of disguise, mistaken identity, loss and love.
This production is part of the RADA School Tours Project. Click here for more information.
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Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre
Thu 27 Jun, Sat 29 Jun, Fri 05 Jul at 7:30pm and Sat 06 Jul at 4:30pm
Tickets £14 | Concessions £10
Senior Friend £6 | RADA Alumni £5
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Dugald Bruce Lockheart
High farce mixes with cruelty in this controversial battle of the sexes.
This production is part of the RADA School Tours Project. Click here for more information.
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Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre
Wed 26 Jun at 7:30pm, Sat 29 Jun at 2:30pm, Tue 02 Jul at 7:30pm and Sat 06 Jul at 7:30pm
Tickets £14 | Concessions £10
Senior Friend £6 | RADA Alumni £5
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Andrew Tidmarsh
Can true love win over evil in this classic story of love and mischief?
This production is part of the RADA School Tours Project. Click here for more information.
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