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2145 is a dark, comic road trip to the future where no one knows who’s in control. It’s Thelma and Louise meets Red Dwarf for the stage. Mike and Joyce are a poor London couple living in a bedsit. Mike is an ex-boxer living on the dole who makes extra cash by running people down for money, and Joyce is an ex-prostitute. by Aldyth Morris The story of Father Damien de Veuster, the leper priest of Molokai and patron saint of outcasts. In this passionate, one man show, actor Daniel Finlay channels the powerful stories of the challenges that Damien experienced while serving the community of exiled lepers on a remote Hawaiian island in the 1870’s and 80’s, until his own life was taken by the affliction on April 15, 1889. He was born Joseph and received the name Damien in religious life. In 1864, he was sent to Honolulu, Hawaii, where he was ordained. For the next nine years he worked in missions on the big island, Hawaii. In 1873, he went to the leper colony on Molokai, after volunteering for the assignment. Damien cared for lepers of all ages, but was particularly concerned about the children segregated in the colony. He announced he was a leper in 1885 and continued to build hospitals, clinics, and churches, and some six hundred coffins. He died on April 15, on Molokai…. Pope John Paul II declared him beatified on June 4, 1995. Father Damien was canonised in a ceremony at the Vatican on October 11, 2009. “In our own time as millions around the world suffer from disease, especially the pandemic of HIV/AIDS, we should draw on the example of Fr. Damien’s resolve in answering the urgent call to heal and care for the sick.”
2145 by Emma Kelly
2145 by Emma Kelly
The Ruffian on the Stair
The Ruffian on the Stair
The Ruffian on the Stair is the first play Joe Orton ever wrote. Rarely performed, this production set in a sordid bedsit has been described as ‘dripping with menace’ and ‘compelling’.
It is an unsympathetic yet comedic one-act portrayal of working class England, as played out by a couple and a mysterious young man who toys with their lives. It was based on The Boy Hairdresser, a novel by Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell.
God On High
God on High
Tulip, a young, free spirited vicar, whose debt-ridden church is on the brink of closure, needs a miracle.
Living in a parish with a rising drug problem, trying to revive her failing love life, dealing with her bankrupt church, her oversexed nan, plus horny parishioners, she now has to acknowledge her grief after the recent, unexpected, death of her mother. With wavering faith, and bombarded with what appear to be signs from God, Tulip needs help. When an unexpected inheritance from her mother is announced, she finds herself asking is God testing her faith or has He found the perfect way to solve all her problems?
God on High is a loosely autobiographical play by Rhoda Dell. Four years ago Rhoda heard a spiritual voice announcing that her mother, who was in good health, was going to die and how. And then she did… on Good Friday!
Since then life has continued to demonstrate to Rhoda that she may not be the sole author of her story. Following this realisation, she has found life a lot more interesting- when you let go of how you think life should look, to endless possibilities appear.
Rhoda holds a Masters in Theology from The University of St Andrews, and trained at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in Acting and Singing.
Directed by Karen Rabinowitz:
An international director, choreographer and movement director, and from 1995-2014 she was Course Leader for the Musical Theatre Course at the Royal Academy of Music. Karen is particularly interested in working on new musicals and plays.
Original Music by Sam Hall:
A Kent based composer, lyricist, musical director, orchestrator and multi-instrumentalist. Sam is currently the Musical Director for The Bodyguard UK Tour 2023/24. Sam studied contemporary classical composition at the Royal College of Music with his music and arrangements being played by first class orchestras including the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Recently, Sam’s musical On The Edge was included in the MMD Claude-Michel Schönberg Masterclass.
Poster design by Nigel Hook:
Who has designed a wide range of drama, musical and opera productions throughout the U.K. & Europe.
He is the winner of the 2017 Tony Award for best Set Design and The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design for The Play That Goes Wrong.
Damien
Damien
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