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 2nd to Saturday 4th 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 16th to Saturday 17th 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 1st to Saturday 3rd 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 8thto Saturday 10th 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 15th to Saturday 17th 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 7thto 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 15th to Saturday 17th 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 15th to Saturday 17th 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 4th 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
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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.










