Waiting for Sikes – A Fresh Look at the Life of Charles Dickens
By MADS GOLDING
Online reading directed by Justin Butcher
Thursday, 10th February 2022
7.00pm (UK) 8.00pm (Italy)
The year is 1870 and Charles Dickens finds himself dangerously ill. He is about to take to the stage for one of the most infamous public readings he will give – a one man show called ‘Sikes and Nancy’ inspired by his book ‘Oliver Twist’. His novels inspired national renowned theatrical pieces, most of which he never saw. The one-man show is his final attempt to regain artistic control over the mountain of work that made him into an icon. The harder he works to create the career he dreams of, the more his personal relationships rupture, and it seems that even the characters in his head refuse to be controlled.
An evening of drama and intrigue as Charles Dickens tries to balance family, fame, and fortune. Can a genius really have it all? And if he can, what will it cost him?
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TOP GIRLS
by CARYL CHURCHILL
Online Play-reading directed by Mary Chater
Curated by Julia Holden
Tuesday, 8th March 2022
7.00pm (UK) 8.00pm (Italy)
Top Girls is set in the late seventies and reveals a world of women’s experiences at a key time in British history. Told by an eclectic group of historical and modern women who share a continuous conversation across different ages and generations. It plays out serious themes with wit and tremendous eloquence. Caryl Churchill is at the forefront of modern playwriting.
‘Ms Churchill is one of our best writers…her play is brilliantly conceived with considerable wit to illuminate the underlying deep human seriousness of her theme’
Bryan Robertson, Spectator
Top Girls was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London on 28 August 1982.
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The Welkin
by LUCY KIRKWOOD
Online Play reading directed by Illona Linthwaite
Thursday, 24th March 2022
7.00pm (UK) 8.00pm (Italy)
Rural Suffolk, 1759. As the country waits for Halley’s Comet, Sally Poppy is sentenced to hang for murder. When she claims to be pregnant, a jury of twelve matrons are taken from their housework to decide whether she’s telling the truth or not, or simply trying to escape the noose.
Only midwife Lizzy Luke is prepared to defend the young woman while a mob are baying for blood outside the courthouse. The matrons struggle with their new power, and the devil is in their midst.
The Welkin premiered in the National Theatre, London, in 2020, directed by James Macdonald.
“A superb new history play – a feminist courtroom drama that’s equal parts Twelve Angry Men, The Crucible and Vagina Monologues…
A warm, humane and very funny piece, firmly anchored in women’s everyday experience” BROADWAY WORLD
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Art
by YASMINA REZA
WE HAVE HAD TO POSTPONE THIS EVENT FOR TECHNICAL REASONS. PLEASE ACCEPT OUR APOLOGIES.
Online Reading directed by Justin Butcher
Thursday, 7th April 2022
7.00pm (UK) 8.00pm (Italy)
Art not only brings to the stage a topical debate, it makes it invigorating, touching and ultimately disturbing. This dark comedy, translated brillantly from the original language by Christopher Hampton, explores the themes through a rift between friends.
Art in translation was first performed at Wyndham’s Theatre, London, on 15 October 1996 and was directed by Matthew Warchus.
A remarkably wise, witty and intelligent comedy. “Art” has touched a universal nerve’
The Times
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