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Prior to 2007, New Theatre hadn't entered NSDF for years, and was pretty much oblivious to its existence. In 2007 two external companies comprised of New Theatre members entered their productions and got selected. In 2008, this success was repeated when two New Theatre Productions were selected for the Festival.
Two New Theatre productions travelled to Scarborough for the 2008 Festival. The cast and crews of Disco Pigs and Proof braved the unseasonal sleet, snow, wind and rain for a week in the Yorkshire holiday resort, and the New Theatre tasted significant success:
At the Awards Ceremony at the end of the Festival, Proof scooped an incredible five awards, across all the possible categories. The New Theatre itself also won an award.
The cast and crew of Proof all deserve significant praise and respect for their fantastic achievements in Scarborough. These awards are a testament to the professionalism and talent that exists within New Theatre. They also provide fantastic ammunition in the New Theatre's campaign against the University's plans to demolish our theatre. And we should all take special pride in New Theatre's gong: recognition from an external source that what we're doing - and have known all along - is really special.
A full write-up of the Festival is coming soon. Photos can be viewed by clicking here. The techies' Video Diary is also coming soon!
by David Auburn
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
by Enda Walsh
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.
Directed by David Betz-Heinemann
Two plays that were performed in the New Theatre have been selected by the NSDF. The plays, Talking to Terrorists and Cast Aside, will run for a week at the Festival in Scarborough. The NSDF selectors see well over a hundred plays during the course of each year, and only ten have been chosen for the Festival. The fact that two of these ten plays are from The New Theatre is a fantastic achievement.
The plays will be subjected to intense critical scrutiny, and both will be reviewed by The Sunday Times. The New Theatre did not produce the plays, but is proudly sponsoring them both as pretty much every one involved with each production is a member of New Theatre.
Cast Aside was written by the current New Theatre President, Charlie Brafman, and was originally done for The Edinburgh Fringe by his Company, Ankle Productions. It enjoyed a sell-out run and received rave reviews from the Edinburgh press. The NSDF selectors saw the play at its revival early this term in Nottingham.
Talking to Terrorists is a joint production by People at Play and ttproductions.com. Cast from New Theatre members, it went up during the hectic exam season while The New Theatre was hibernating. Although Talking to Terrorists was not a New Theatre production, the Producers are currently considering New Theatre affilliation.
The NSDF Ensemble is a collection of actors and directors who are hand picked from the shows the NSDF selectors see over the year. People invited to join the Ensemble are shown around the Festival by their judge, introduced to people, and mentored for the duration of the Festival. Many people from the two casts and crews have been "Ensembled", and on top of this, Ben Ford, director of the recent New Theatre production of 4.48 Psychosis, has also been invited.
The New Theatre is thrilled to bits by this whole affair, and wishes everyone the very best of luck at the Festival.
Click the above image to see it full size. It's really cool, honest...
A pretentious director, moronic cast and a gender-bending, meta-theatrical mess of a production of The Merchant of Venice, merge in this satirical antidote to everything waffling, affected or ostentatious about the Stage - just what the doctor ordered, darling.
Cast Aside, by New Theatre's very own Charlie Brafman, enjoyed a sell-out run at last year's Edinburgh Fringe. They got a four star review from Three Weeks, a major Fringe review newspaper: click here to read the review. Some proceeds from ticket sales will go towards the New Theatre Edinburgh Fringe fund.
Cast Aside is a production by Ankle Productions
Talking to Terrorists, written by Robin Soans and originally commissioned by the Royal Court and Out of Joint Theatre Company, is the result of 12 months of meetings with peacemakers, politicians, journalists, hostages, psychologists and, perhaps most importantly, with those who've crossed the line themselves. The basic question? What makes ordinary people do extreme things?
A highly topical, politically invigorating and dramatically electric project, Talking to Terrorists will challenge a lot of your misconceptions about what and who terrorists - and their victims - are.
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Talking to Terrorists is a joint production presented by People at Play and ttproductions.com. More details can be found at ttproductions.com/terrorists.
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written and directed by Luke Leonard
The story of a young teenage couple who deliberately encase themselves in a giant concrete box. As people on the outside try to force their way in, Jess and James make the walls thicker, and the two explore their own stories, their thoughts and feelings about love, and the terrifying and traumatic events that lead them to build 'the box'. A dark, macabre and often grotesque story about how sometimes love will always prevail, even if it means isolation, and possible death.
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written and directed by Nick Moran
Breakfast television talk shows are dull, lifeless and insipid, that is one thing that is beyond certain. And even the long suffering cast of 'Good morning and Goodbye' - Britain's 'most cheery way to start the day' - forced to live in a never-ending Prozac-laced world of pseudo-happiness, would not disagree with any accusation of blandness. However, today is a day unlike any other. A tremendous romp featuring religious cultists, celebrity chefs finally getting their due, and the truth about cold freezing, 'Good Morning and Goodbye' promises to deliver a slew of laughs and maybe even more...
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Lenton Boulevard is Nottingham's own URN Student Radio Comedy drama AND PODCAST SHOW - set in Derby Hall and on Lenton Boulevard! This year promises to be the best yet with plots that will intrigue you and one liners that will have you doubled over in stitches. All delivered by a cast picked from over 70 auditions, and comprised of lots of New Theatre Members.
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