East 15 Productions

Welcome to our 2012 Spring Season

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

AT THE CLIFFTOWN THEATRE, SOUTHEND

Thursday 2^nd to Saturday 4^th February at 7:30pm Matinee on Saturday at 2:30pm

MFA Acting (International) present

The Lark

By Jean Anouilh Directed and conceived by Chris Rolls Translated by Christopher Fry Original Music by Andrei Ionescu

To the great lords of her time, as well as the politicians of the Church, expediency was God. So the Maid had to die. Her life has the somewhat artificial quality of a play. Short scenes are played out during the trial as they struggle to turn her simplicity into heresy. But it is the glory of her life rather than the tragedy that is the triumphant climax of the play.

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Thursday 16^th to Saturday 17^th February at 7.30pm Matinee on Saturday at 2.30pm

BA Acting & Stage Combat present

The Ghosts of the Mary Rose

Directed by Chris Main

In 1545 Henry VIII’s flagship, The Mary Rose, sank off the English coast. Now, as the Mary Rose Museum team ready a new exhibition on Tudor life as it was, they may well be experiencing “Tudor life as it is”. Is the disturbing presence the ghosts of those who perished – or something equally frightening? Shifting between the present and that fateful day in 1545, the Ghosts of the Mary Rose is a swashbuckling ghost-story devised by the company.

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Thursday 1^st to Saturday 3^rd March at 7.30pm Matinee on Saturday at 2.30pm

BA World Performance present

Worlds Apart

Three one-act plays Devised by the cast All plays will be performed at each show.

An array of illuminating, short shows inspired by studies on multi-cultural and international theatre

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Thursday 8^thto Saturday 10^th March at 7.30pm Matinee on Saturday at 2.30pm.

BA Physical Theatre present

Dot .Dot.Dot

Devised by The Cast Directed by Filomena Campus

Affirming the idea that stagecraft is another form of authorship and technology is another grammar the company attempt to open our horizons by exploring the boundaries between life and technology with a playfully Italian influence.”

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Thursday 15^th to Saturday 17^th March at 7.30pm Matinee on Saturday at 2.30pm

BA Acting & Stage Combat present

Premier

Written by Alex Jones Directed by Shane Dempsey

Playwright Alex Jones has been commissioned to write a new play for this, the actor’s final directed production of their graduate year. Alex’s previous plays have appeared at the Birmingham Rep, the Stephen Joseph Theatre and The Belgrade Theatre, Coventry. He has also written numerous plays for Radio 4 and several short films

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AT CHIGWELL DRAMA CENTRE, CHIGWELL

Wednesday 15th to Saturday 18th February 2012
Details of performance times of each play will follow soon

BA Acting and Contemporary Theatre present

DEBUT

New actors in new plays by new writers

Writers coached by April De Angelis Concept by Uri Roodner Directors mentored by Uri Roodner and Jesse Briton

Designed by graduating students of Wimbledon College of Art

The Debut Festival is a unique event dedicated to the staging of new plays written and directed as well as performed by graduating students on the BA Acting and Contemporary Theatre course.

Written and directed as well as performed by graduating students on the BA Acting and Contemporary Theatre course.

Since the project’s inauguration in 2008 a number of the Debut plays have been professionally produced at The Edinburgh Festival, the Brighton Festival and in numerous theatres in Britain and abroad, receiving awards for writing, directing and acting.

Perhaps the best known to date is the multi awarded ‘Bound’ which was first staged in 2010.

“It's one of the most accomplished pieces of debut playwriting that I've seen in a long time.”

Fiona Mountford, London Evening Standard, September 2011.

LUCKY LITTLE CREATURES by Jasmine Woodcock-Stewart

Directed by Daniela Pasquini

He's moving and breathing like an animal. Beth Watches. Panda sneezing on YouTube. They watch.

ISLANDS OF SERENITY by Louise Trigg

Directed by Anna Tall

How close can two people get before barriers blur and separation no longer exists?

MARIA 68 by Nasi Voutas

Directed by Richard Perryman

Heart break is somewhat addictive, especially for romantics.

SEALAND

Written and Directed by Luke Clarke

Ted has a dream, but no man is an island.

THIS WAY UP

Written by Daniela Pasquini

Directed by Jasmine Woodcock-Stewart

They packed up, moved out, but now they're boxed in

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AT THE CORBETT THEATRE, LOUGHTON

Wednesday 7^thto Saturday 10th March at 7.30pm Matinee on Friday at 2.30pm

BA Acting present

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

by Thomas Middleton Directed by Vik Sivalingam

Amidst a cast rich in scheming characters in A Chaste Maid of Cheapside are the eponymous maid and her beau, desperately attempting to fulfil their love. Will they succeed? In Middleton's canny "city comedy", nothing is as it seems!!!

Thursday 15^th to Saturday 17^th March at 7.30pm Matinees on Friday and Saturday at 2.30pm

The Europeans

by Howard Barker Directed by Zoë Waterman

‘Oh, the great chaos of this continent…the batter of perpetual and necessary horror. Who would not be a European if he could?

An indecently cruel and uncompromising tale of the attempt to find meaning and love in a world torn apart by the barbarity of war. Barker’s darkly comic dystopian vision speaks too of our Europe and unflinchingly shows us as we are.

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AT BAC LONDON

Thursday 15^th to Saturday 17^th March at 7:30pm Matinee on Saturday 17 at 2:30pm

MFA Acting (International) present

ORLANDO

Adapted by Sarah Ruhl from the novel by Virginia Woolf Directed by Chris Meads

Sarah Ruhl’s inspired adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel “Orlando” is a poetic and vivid paean to the art and importance of discovering oneself.

Woolf wrote Orlando in 1928, as homage to her friend, the writer Vita Sackville-West. In it, gender preferences shift, in this case, albeit implausibly, along with genders, all accompanied by subtle and satiric commentary on the status of men and women. A wildly clever and funny play based on an internationally acclaimed novel.

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AT ICKWORTH HOUSE, SUFFOLK

Saturday March 17 at 12.00 noon and 2.30pm

BA Acting and Community Theatre present in association with National Trust

Ickworth Lives

Based on oral history of the staff below stairs during the early 1930s, this slice of Living History will be performed in the stunning location of The Rotunda at Ickworth House in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, where staff prepared for sumptuous feasts and hunting parties for the guests of Frederick Hervey, the 4th Marquess.

Note; BA Acting and Community Theatre students will also be performing at the launch of the Ickworth Lives project on Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4^th March between 11am and 3pm

Performances form part of the Ickworth House experience and tickets must be purchased from The Rotunda, Horringer, Bury St Edmunds, IP29 5QETelephone: 01284 735270

Box Office Information

Tickets for performances at

The Corbett Theatre,

Clifftown Theatre, Chingford Drama Centre and BAC

are £8 / £5 concessions.

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For all Loughton Campus, and Chigwell Drama Centre 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

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.