DEBUT Festival 2024: Maman | Prenzlauer Berg Players Present, "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare

Debut is a pioneering festival dedicated to the staging of new plays by graduating students on the BA in Acting and Contemporary Theatre (CT) course. Past Debut plays transferred and received numerous national awards including ‘Soho Theatre Best Emerging Writer’, ‘Eddies (Perrier) for best comedy’ and ‘Edinburgh Best New Musical.’ The festival enjoys direct link to several venues and events including Soho Theatre, The Vaults Festival, The King’s Head Theatre, Arts Depo and The Space Theatre.

Maman
Written by Anna Curiel
Directed by Abigail Craner

Everybody wants to hear a story, don’t they? She could tell you - Hi, this is a love story, it has a beginning, a middle and an end. As she tries to remember - the story materialises in front of us.
Meet the Bardo family ruled by Jane, the matriarch. Every year on the first of April, her and her three daughters Elizabeth, Laurence and Sophie meet for Sophie’s husband’s birthday - except this time will be a bit different, as he committed suicide a year ago.
Three Acts unfold - and unfortunately, nothing goes as planned.
Or did it?

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Prenzlauer Berg Players Present: “Romeo & Juliet” by William Shakespeare
Written by Henry Barker
Directed by Lily Aylward

The Prenzlauer Berg Players welcome you to a very normal production of Romeo and Juliet. That's right, it's not at all a metaphor for anything else at all. We promise you won’t even notice that one actor plays every single part except for Romeo and Juliet but instead that our director is very respectable and very much in control of his cast. Oh, and that huge chunk of the Berlin Wall? We're not sure how that got there either! And please just ignore that tall guy sat in the chair in the corner… And anything that he says…