shutYOface presents:
The Slippery Soapbox: Spotbanded Skat
Saturday 13th October, 6pm AND 7.30pm
‘The slickest, sharpest and downright silliest new comedy since The Mighty Boosch’
NME
Enter the world of the Slippery Soapbox and feast your eye(s) and ears on a cohesive comedy sketch show of epic proportions!
When Warren loses his best friend, his job, and his dignity he embarks on a quest to find the Spotbanded Skat. Along the way he’ll encounter rapping pirates, humous addicts, Lion King enthusiasts, and the fearless Captain Bluetooth.
Last year, having been embraced by a wide range of Festival goers (while simultaneously being dropped slowly but decisively by Jim Davidson fans), The Slippery Soapbox became a cult success, achieving SELL-OUT status.
And now, accompanied by one new recruit, Nottingham-based company, shutYOface, have reunited to create this year’s most imaginative comedy: entirely new sketches, blended with an epic storyline, and drizzled with pioneering music and fresh beats.
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‘Infectious Madness’ Three Weeks
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‘Hilarious… a guaranteed laugh out loud production!’ edfringe.com
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‘A huge hit with the audience… book a ticket now!’ Broadway Baby
New Theatre Season Proper:
The New Theatre has programmed the most ambitious season in its history. With twelve in-house productions this season, and at one point ten days of straight theatre (Proof 14-17th, Can’t Stand Up For Falling Down 18th-20th, Lonesome West 21st-24th November), there’s bound to be something at New Theatre for you to come and enjoy.
Bouncers & Shakers
by John Godber
24 – 27th October
Two hilarious pieces of theatre which speak to “a generation of
clubbers”. Bouncers & Shakers focuses on four misunderstood doormen,
four weary cocktail waitresses and their rowdy customers, following
them through the glitz and glamour of a nightclub. “Absorbing, yet
revealing, modern comedy? you?ll laugh until they throw you out!”
Directed by Jackie Lee & Adam Paulden
Hallowe?en Double-Bill
31st Oct ? 3rd Nov
No Exit
by Jean Paul Satre
One of Jean-Paul Sartre?s most ground-breaking works delving into ideas
of self-deception and human responsibility. Three characters from
socially disparate backgrounds find themselves in Sartre?s unique
perception of hell. What follows is a tense and dramatic depiction
of possibly the cruellest form of torture ? the human imagination.
Each of the characters soon realise that they themselves are the
instruments of hell, and it is each other who will force them to
reveal their deepest and darkest secrets.
Directed by Meir Adler
?followed by?
Crave
by Sarah Kane
Set in an unnamed city from which voices and images spring, Crave charts
the disintegration of a human mind under the pressures of love, loss
and desire. Four nameless characters tell their tales, with poetic
dialogues that meet, converge and move apart with balletic grace.
Directed by Fu Baxter
New Writing Double Bill
7th ? 10th Nov
7 minutes 31
Written & Directed by Anthony Lau
The average time it takes for the emergency services to respond to a
collision, Seven Minutes Thirty-one explores the moments immediately
after a car crash all the way up to the eventual arrival of the
police. The play tackles the thoughts and feelings of each character
involved with the incident, from the driver?s recollection and
regret to the desensitisation of events from emergency response
teams. An exciting and fresh piece of drama which will challenge and
provoke both actor and audience.
…followed by?
Under the Blacklight
Written & Directed by Nicholas Moran
The stage can be a harsh mistress some say, and Jennifer, a newcomer to
the Crawford Theatre Company is soon to discover just how
unforgiving it can be. A hilarious, iconoclastic romp through the
little seen world of backstage Under The Blacklight poses very few
questions and answers far fewer.
Proof
by David Auburn
14th ? 17th Nov
Proof premiered in 2000 and in 2001 it won the Tony Award for Best Play
along with twelve other awards in the same year. Proof is a
“gripping but witty drama” which explores the unknowability of love
as much as it does the mysteries of mathematics. “All four
characters ? whether loving, hating, encouraging or impeding one
another ? are intensely alive, complex, funny, and human.” John
Simon, New York.
Directed by Guy Unsworth
Can?t Stand Up For Falling Down
by Richard Cameron
18th ? 20th Nov (In Lincoln Library)
A series of intertwining monologues exploring the past and present of
three women who have never met yet are all deeply connected through
the suffering that they have endured at the hand of one man. These
poignant, partial perspectives reveal hidden strength despite the
oppressive force of abuse, cruelty and loss.
Directed by Caroline Collier & Briony Gittins
The Lonesome West
by Martin McDonagh
21st ? 24th Nov
The play combines manic energy and physical violence in a way that is
both hilarious and viscerally exciting” – “Daily Telegraph”. Valene
and Coleman, two brothers living alone in their father’s house after
his recent death, find it impossible to exist without the most
massive and violent disputes over the most mundane and innocent of
topics. Only father Welsh, the local young priest, is prepared to
try to reconcile the two before their petty squabblings spiral into
vicious and bloody carnage.
Directed by Maia Gibbs
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
28th Nov ? 1st Dec
Salesman Willy Loman is in a crisis. A slave to the capitalist system for so many years in continuous search of achieving the American dream, he is about to lose his job. He can’t pay his bills, his sons don’t respect him, and he never realised his potential. He wonders what went wrong and how he can make things up to his family.
Directed by Cal Lewis
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare, adapted by James Phillips
5th ? 8th Dec
A fast paced punchy and powerful adaptation from award winning
playwright and director James Phillips. It premiered to great
acclaim at the Sheffield crucible. Entirely in the original
Shakespearean language, but cut to last just over an hour, the parts
are divided between 4 actors, all playing multiple roles.
Directed by Charlie Brafman
Disco Pigs
by Enda Walsh
11th-14th Dec
Pig and Runt are two 17 yr olds who share everything: birthday,
language, world views ? and that moment when pop songs and life
changing orgasms flash by and last forever. On the evening of their
17th birthdays we set out with them to celebrate through the
nightclubs of Cork, a city lost in pounding rave rhythms. Disco Pigs
is an involving tale of survival providing extremely challenging
work and great opportunities for two serious actors.
Directed by David Betz-Heinemann
