18th, 19th, 20th June 2006
Hide the Front Page!
by Francis Beckett
In
a world where we need a new and different sensation every day, and when we have
had philandering male cabinet ministers and gay male cabinet ministers, we must
soon have a philandering female cabinet minister. The public demands it. Hide
the Front Page! is about what will happen when she emerges, and
the level of sisterly solidarity she can expect from other women in politics
and journalism. Nicola McDonald PC MP looks like a success story: a young Cabinet
minister, able, attractive, superficial, fluent, faultlessly Blairite and tipped
for the top. And she thinks no-one knows about Stephen Harling...
Directed by Joanna Turner
Cast:
Ali Lane - Flavia, a journalist
Clareine Cronin - Rt Hon. Nicola
McDonald, PC MP
Claire Louise Oliver - Miranda, editor of The Daily Trumpet
Katy Balfour - Sally, the Chief Whip
Caroline Langston - Dr Patricia Marks
Peter Rae - Stephen Harling
Since My Last Confession by
Yasmine van Wilt
Woollen
pants, cold pools, and alarms for breaches of conscience! Since
My Last Confession is a play about the three things you should
never bring up at the dinner table with elderly relatives: religion, sex, and
sex with the religious. It is a dark coming-of-age comedy. When protagonist
Father Alistair is confronted with his old flame, does he give into temptation
or keep up his guard? The play follows the lives of three friends who have grown
up together, becoming separated and then reunited. Two became priests and the
third is looking for a father. Tensions rise as secret relationships are revealed.
Anti-repression and pro-progression, this play is about forgiveness, love, attraction
and conscience.
Directed
by Peter Barton
Cast:
Rachael Black - Anna
Shaun Nethercott - Father Alistair
Adam Piercy - Colin
Geoff White - Chris