The Love of the Nightingale by Timberlake Wertenbaker
10th-13th March
Director – Charlotte ‘Chilli’ Wright – 07884 260 315 – costume@newtheatre.org.uk
Producer – Sophie Watson – 07855153926 – aeycrscw@nottingham.ac.uk
A 20th Century take on an ancient Greek tragedy. Set in the post-war 1940s, this production explores the themes of love and betrayal with plenty of tension between high emotions and stiff-upper lips.
Road by Jim Cartwright
17th-20th March
Director – Liz Stevenson – 07821 195 096 – liz_1234@hotmail.co.uk
Producer – Rose Williams – 07842833401 – rose_williams46@hotmail.com
“THIS IS OUR ROAD! But tonight it’s your road an’ all!”
Drunken wide-boy Scullery guides the audience through his deprived, working-class, Lancashire town under Thatcher government during the 80s. Inhabitants of the ROAD resort to sex, drink and their own imaginations to escape their grim reality; the source of hilarity and tragedy that makes this night ont’ ROAD a gripping experience for its visitors.
32 fascinating characters varied in size, strength and sensibility. 10 actors. Each night.
the shape of things by Neil LaBute
24th-27th March
Director – Gus Miller – 07816 367 787 – lpydgm@nottingham.ac.uk
Producer – Anna Morley – 07773 870 055 – apybajm@nottingham.ac.uk
Adam, an unconfident, unattractive English student in a Midwestern college enters, by means he cannot comprehend into a relationship with a beautiful, enigmatic art student. Under her guidance he undergoes a huge physical transformation. But what is the price of beauty? Meanwhile his best friend’s engagement with Adam’s long-term crush comes under strain. ‘the shape of things’ is an intimate, claustrophobic character piece.
Excess by Cesar Teixeira
29th-31st March
Director – Cesar Teixeira – 07825 327 784 – cesar_teixeira17@hotmail.com
Producer – Kat Feevers – 07806 789 676 – zoe_kath@hotmail.com
Three stories intersect in a tango bar, and as each unravels we find striking similarities with ourselves, our relationships, our questions, sexuality, vices and expectations.
EASTER
The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard
5th-8th May
Director – Oli Margolis – 07905 934 056 – olivermargolis@googlemail.com
Producer – Libby Galvin – 07903 487 130 – libbygalvin@hotmail.com
There’s a body in the middle of the stage. Simon Gascoyne has come out of nowhere. Magnus Muldoon is mysteriously good in a wheelchair. And where’s Higgs? Tom Stoppard’s classic take on theatrical criticism mixed up in a somewhat amateur whodunit throws up a hilarious satire that leaves the audience asking: Who is The Real Inspector Hound?
The Small Things by Enda Walsh
12th-15th May
Director – Andy McNamee – 07969 568 427 – andymcnamee@hotmail.com
Producer – Jess Conway – 07952 165 601 – jess_conway@hotmail.com
Two houses, each perched on a mountaintop, stare at each other across a deep valley. A man and a woman talk abut the small things – parquet floor zigzagging down corridors, brown sauce and soggy chips.
Enda Walsh’s electrifying two-hander is an awesome account of brutality and unfaltering loyalty magnificently told through the inane chitchat of everyday life.
EXAMS
His Lordship Entertains by Ronnie Barker
2nd-5th June
Director – Conrad Cohen – 07932 818 007 – radcohen@hotmail.com
Producer – Rachel Feeney – 07763 140 386 – afycrrf@nottingham.ac.uk
Described as “Fawlty Towers Mark One”, His Lordship Entertains follows the exploits of Lord Rustless and his staff, as they attempt to run a hotel in a stately manor. With characters of every shape and size, an affair, a French exotic dancer, a rogue lion and a wedding doomed to hilarity, Ronnie Barker is sure to have everyone of us in stitches with this timeless golden comedy.
