programme for
january 2011 to april 2011
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Sat 22nd - Sat 29th Jan |
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Speed The Plow
by David Mamet
directed by Steven O’Shea
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 Set within the world of the Hollywood movie industry, ‘Speed-the-Plow’ is a brutal satire centred upon the age-old conflict of ‘art versus commerce’.
Charlie Fox, a struggling movie producer, brings to his long-time friend Bobby Gould, a newly promoted studio boss, a sure-fire hit movie project with a major star attached. Gould appears certain to attain the necessary‘ green light’ to begin production until the unexpected intervention of his temporary secretary, Karen.
David Mamet is one of America’s most acclaimed and controversial playwrights. This sparkling black comedy figures amongst his most successful and significant works.
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Sat 5th - Sun 6th Feb |
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Directors Workshop
with Pat Boxall and Mark Wilson
However experienced or inexperienced you feel you are, or simply if you would like to find out more about directing whilst at the same time contributing to the learning of others, then this workshop is for you.
We’ll be looking at what directors do and how they do it. There’ll be actors on hand and a choice of scripts to work on with them from the dead easy to the impossibly difficult – you choose.
For further information please contact pat.lyne_47@btinternet.com
10am-4pm
£25 (£20 members)
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Fri 11th Feb |
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Love’s Labour’s Lost
A night of live short fiction
 Please submit your short stories of 1500 words maximum on the theme of 'Love's Labour's Lost' (feel free to interpret it 'as you like it'). Selected stories will be read on the night by NVT actors.
Please send your story in the body of an email or as an attachment to: brightonnewshound@hotmail.co.uk
Please include your name and contact details. Deadline for submissions is 16th 24th January 2011. You will be notified by the end of January if your story is chosen.
7.45pm
£6 (£5 members)
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20th Feb - 10th Apr (every Sunday) |
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Working Toward Performance
with Steven O’Shea
A course of eight classes, (plus a performance night), designed to replicate the creative process undertaken when engaged on a professional theatre production.
Particular emphasis will be placed on how to effectively break down and analyse text ensuring an understanding of the given circumstances and how best to communicate the story to the audience in the most compelling way possible and to the full potential of the actor’s own creative talents and dramatic imagination.
Steven O’Shea is a teacher, director and former artistic director of Mandrake Theatre Company.
Places are limited, please book via ulrike.schilling@newventure.org.uk
6pm-8pm
£60 (£40 members)
Performance night: Sat 16th April
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Sat 5th - Sat 12th Mar |
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The Well
written and directed by Jonathan Brown
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 It’s 1862 in Victorian Woodingdean, and Jack is digging the world's deepest-ever well, but – no water. Despite Jack’s suspicions about this seemingly pointless exercise, and the ever-mounting expense, the Town Guardians order the digging to continue, to supply their planned workhouse.
But Jack is also digging for the truth about his mother, a prostitute who was found dead under the pier when he was a child. Now, in a relationship with Bella, another prostitute, he discovers too much; about those in power, and about Betsy...
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Sat 26th Mar - Sat 2nd Apr |
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Double bill: Fake / Lie With Me
Fake by Michael Graney; directed by Arwen Matthews
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 The Steven Eldritch Show comes to the NVT!
“Audiences are left stunned, uplifted, comforted.”
The celebrated psychic medium is humbled to meet fans of his TV show 'Parting The Veil', “I've touched so many hearts... I feel richer than a king.”
Fake?
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Lie With Me devised and directed by Steve Coulson
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We all lie to each other. The biggest lies though are the ones we tell ourselves. The ones that stop us from breaking down and screaming out loud. The ones we desperately need those closest to us to be complicit in.
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