East 15 Productions

Summer Season

Welcome to our Summer Season. Once again, East 15 not only offers a rich mix of both established and new work from across the range of acting courses but also takes many of the productions beyond our own campus theatres and out to many other performance spaces. We hope you enjoy our work.

If you would like to join our priority mailing list and be among the first to hear about up-coming productions, please e-mail us at east15@essex.ac.uk with your contact details.

At The Corbett Theatre

Rectory Lane, Loughton, IG10 3RY

BA Acting and Contemporary Theatre present

DEBUT FESTIVAL – PART TWO

From 15th to 18th May

Times for each performance to be announced shortly

Writers mentored by April De Angelis Directors mentored by Jesse Briton

Concept by Uri Roodner

The Debut Festival is a unique event dedicated to the staging of new plays written, directed and performed by graduating students on the course.

This year the festival generated so much new work that the event has been extended. Part One was held in February, now it continues with five new plays.

The Daiquiri Jackpot

By Shabaneh Razvand Directed by Jonnie Bayfield

With nothing but the roll of a dice and her heart on her sleeve, Jesse sells her belongings and heads to Vegas!

Wednesday 15^th at 8.0pm Saturday 18^th at 4.00pm

One in Six

By Jim Crago Directed by Yasmin Zadeh

Dying to get out of their Cornish home-town, six friends take to the woods armed with cider, songs, and a single bullet.

Thursday 16^th at 7.30pm and Saturday 18^th at 6.00pm

Hawaii

By Adam Colborne Directed by Tom Cray

A thrilling tale of deadly passion and betrayal.

Thursday 16^th at 9.00pm and Saturday 18^th at 8.00pm

Americo

By Alessandro Marchese Directed by Jesse Briton

A story of a quest shaped by immigration, people, meetings and an old man with beautiful shoes. Told at the East15 café.

Friday 17th at 7.00pm and Saturday 18^th at 5.30pm

Babita

By Alexandra Wolfe Directed by Rianna Dearden
little girl, stranger…

Friday 17th at 8.00pm and Saturday 18^th at 2.00pm

At The Clifftown Theatre

Nelson Street, Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS1 1EF

BA World Performance present

Hayavadana

By Girish Karnad (adapted by Thomas Mann) Directed by Michael Walling

The plot of Hayavadana comes from Kathasaritsagara, an ancient compilation of stories in Sanskrit.

Karnad uses the conventions and motifs of folk tales and folk theatre – masks, curtain, dolls, and the story-within-a-story-to create a bizarre world.

Wednesday 15^th and Saturday 18^th May at 7.30pm

Friday 17^th at 2.30pm

The Government Inspector

By Nicolai Gogol (translated by David Harrower) Directed by Janet Steel

This comic masterpiece is about mistaken identity. When a Government Inspector is scheduled for a visit to a small town where all the important people want to make the best possible impression.

Thursday 16^th and Friday 17^th May at 7.30pm

Saturday 18^th.at 2.30pm

BA Physical Theatre present

Go Solo

Created by The Company with direction by Simon Hunt

Eighteen individuals presenting eighteen solo pieces that explore touching, beautiful, bizarre and hilarious stories told through word, song, mime, circus and more.

Thursday 30th and Friday 31^st May at 7.30pm

Saturday 1st June at 3.00pm and 7.30pm

BA Acting and Stage Combat present

The Last Straw

Devised and directed by The Company

Tickets for this event just £3.00

A programme of original work comprising three short plays drawing on all the skills and experience they have acquired during the student’s three years of training

Thursday 6th at 7.30pm and Friday 7th June at 6.00pm

BA Community Theatre present

Act Locally

Two plays from the Southend Community

Adult Overnight

A fun-filled family play performed with local young parents

Outside the Box

A play about valuing cultural experience, performed with people in transitional housing

Friday June 7^th at 7.30pm and Saturday June 8^th at 2.30pm

TOURING PRODUCTIONS

At RADA Studios

Chenies Street, London, WC1E 7EX
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BA World Performance presents

Hayavadana

By Girish Karnad (adapted by Thomas Mann) Directed by Michael Walling

The plot of Hayavadana comes from Kathasaritsagara, an ancient compilation of stories in Sanskrit.

Karnad uses the conventions and motifs of folk tales and folk theatre – masks, curtain, dolls, and the story-within-a-story-to create a bizarre world.

Monday 20^th May at 7.30pm

The Government Inspector

By Nicolai Gogol (translated by David Harrower) Directed by Janet Steel

This comic masterpiece is about mistaken identity. When a Government Inspector is scheduled for a visit to a small town where all the important people want to make the best possible impression.

Tuesday 21^st May at 7.30pm

BA Acting and Stage Combat presents

LOL

By Lee Mattinson Directed by Shane Dempsey

When Jonathan Fudge dies, his friends flock to his Facebook page to make sense of the horrible mess. But when Jonathan starts to respond, they begin to wonder whether their friend has disappeared at all.

Wednesday 22^nd May at 7.30pm

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BA Physical Theatre present

Pieces

Devised by the Company Directed by Mark Bell

Graduate year students work as part of an ensemble, through comedy, melodrama, movement, word and song in a punchy celebration of all things physical theatre.

Thursday 23^rd. May at 7.00pm

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Graduate Presentations

Each year, graduating students from BA courses based in Southend gather in Central London to present a selection of group and individual work, highlighting the range of skills from each unique course.

BA Acting and Community Theatre

Directed by Ainslie Masterson

Wednesday 22^nd May at 6.15pm

BA Acting and Stage Combat

Directed by Chris Main and Shane Dempsey

Thursday 23^rd. May at 1.45pm

BA Physical Theatre

Directed by Mark Bell

Thursday 23^rd. May at 12.30pm

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At The Tristan Bates Theatre

1a Tower Street, London WC2H 9NP

Once again, East 15 brings its Summer Season into the West End with PREMIERES at the Tristan Bates Theatre, performed by graduate year students.

As the title suggests, every one of the plays being performed during PREMIERES is being staged for the first time

MFA Acting (International) present

Animal Farm

By George Orwell (adapted by Glen Walford) Directed by Glen Walford

Wednesday 22nd and Friday 24th May at 7.30pm

Saturday 25th May at 2.30pm

Making Stalin Laugh

By David Schneider Directed by Matthew Lloyd

Thursday 23rd May at 7.30pm, Friday 24thMay at 2.30pm

Saturday 25th May at 7.30pm

BA Acting present

Blackshirts

By Nicola Baldwin Directed by Zoe Waterman

Friday 31st May at 2.30pm and 7.30pm

Saturday 1st June at 2.30pm and 7.30pm

Microwave

By Elinor Cook Directed by Lucy Skilbeck

Tuesday 4th June at 2.30pm and 7.30pm

Wednesday 5th June at 2.30pm and 7.30pm

The Eighth Continent

By Anthony Clark Directed by Anthony Clark

Friday 7th June at 2.30pm and 7.30pm

Saturday 8th June at 11am and 3.30pm

The Tristan Bates Theatre, 1a Tower Street, London WC2H 9NP

Book via the Tristan Bates Theatre Box Office on 020 7240 6283

At The Tower of London

London, EC3N 4AB

BA Acting & Stage Combat Year 2 present

Richard III and the Princes in the Tower
Directors: Chris Main and Kezia Cole
Performances take place regularly throughout the day between 11.00am and 4.30pm

The collaboration between East 15 and the Royal Armouries enters its sixth year. Hear second-year students from East 15’s Acting & Stage Combat course combine their unique blend of sword-fighting, story-telling and historical investigation in order to create a bespoke production for the Royal Armouries. This year’s production will focus on the popular history of Richard III and the Princes in the Tower. The subject that has inspired so many plays, novels and screen adaptations will be played out in the shadows of the very buildings in which the dark tale unfolded.

Tuesday 4th to Friday 7th June

The show is free to visitors already on the Tower of London site.

At BAC

Lavender Hill, London SW11 5TN

MA/MFA Acting (International) present

Widows

By Ariel Dorfman with Tony Kushner Directed by Monique Wilson

Wednesday 19th of June 7.30pm, Friday 21st of June at 7.30pm

Saturday 22nd June 2.30pm

Once in a Lifetime

by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart Directed by Robin Sneller

Thursday 20th June at 7.30p.m Friday 21st June at 2.30p.m

Saturday 22nd June at 6.30pm

At The Cockpit Theatre

The Cockpit, Gateforth Street, Marylebone, London NW8 8EH.

MA Acting present

A Light Shining in Buckinghamshire

By Caryl Churchill Directed by Abbey Wright

Friday 28^th June and Wednesday 3^rd July at 7.30pm

Saturday 6^th July at 6.30pm

The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising

By Gunter Grass (translation by Ralph ManheimDirected by David Mecatali

Saturday 29^th June and Thursday 4^th July at 7.30pm

Friday 5^th July at 3.30pm

The World Turned Upside Down

By Keith Dewhurst Directed by Jamie Wood

Tuesday 2^nd. and Friday 5^th. July at 7.30pm

Saturday 6^th July at 2.30pm

Cockpit Theatre Box Office 020 7258 2925

Box Office Information

Tickets for performances at all venues

are £8 / £5 concessions. unless otherwise stated

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For all Loughton Campus bookings:

Box Office: 020 8508 5983

e-mail: east15@essex.ac.uk

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For all Southend Campus bookings at

The Clifftown Studios, Nelson Street,

Southend on Sea, SS1 1EF

Box Office: 01702 328335

e-mail: clifftown@essex.ac.uk

You can also access the on-line booking service at www.clifftowntheatre.co.uk

Your chance to see our Campus productions FREE!

As well as enjoying special events and priority booking, did you know that Friends of East 15 get two free tickets to every student production throughout the year? If you want to join the Friends it costs just £50 per annum. That means you only need to see four productions and you are in profit! Terrific value in these cash cautious times. To visit the Friends page for more details click here

HOW TO FIND EAST 15 in Loughton

TRAIN
Nearest tube Debden Station on the Central Line. Take pathway opposite entrance toward Debden Broadway. Turn left on Broadway,(with the Post Office on your right) then right at the mini-roundabout(next to the Sir Winston Churchill pub) walk for 250 metres along Rectory Lane and the Hatfields campus is across the road on your left.

BY CAR
The Campus is situated on the A1168, Rectory Lane. The Corbett Theatre has its own car park and there is limited public parking in the lane outside the campus.