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drinks Monday 4 August 08
THEATRE IN THE POUND
Verdict: 4 fringe shorts for £1
London - Cockpit Theatre - Thur 30 Jan 03
Theatre in the £ is a monthly evening of fringe shorts, with all tickets at £1. A typical evening starts 7pm, ends 10.30pm, with 6 acts 20 minutes long, a couple of intervals, and a licensed bar. It's a chance for writers and actors to try out their work, and audiences to see a selection of acts which may vary from the terrible to the magnificent: a feature of this glorious evening is that there's no control of content by the theatre. (But no jugglers - the Cockpit's great set of expensive lights is over the stage).
Details of the four pieces performed this night are given below, mainly from programme notes. Three are reports (including item 2 which can’t be reviewed as it’s written by the reviewer ...), fourth contains review notes.
Boredom. ‘A humorous insight into a day in the life of four different women dealing with the same problem - boredom’. Cast - Jo Mallet, Stuart Hogben. Writers - Debra Staines, Jo Mallet. Director - Debra Staines.
Horace, Clementine, Jane la Putain and Studley. 20-minute musical. ‘Horace is stodgy, Jane’s plain, Clem’s frisky, Studley’s up for it’. Cast - Alison Collinge, Richard Costello, Gareth Kane, Vanessa Stevens. Musical director / pianist - Pete Smith. Technical director - Nic Watson. Director - Alex Dower. Writer - John Park. Company website - Cabaret Theatre.
Examples. Poetry, by Theatre In The Pound Writer In Residence David Erdos.
A Small Piece of The Material Generation. ‘A new piece of devised theatre’. Cast: Sue Keen, Jo Pearson. Company: Twitter ‘n’ Bisted. This is a telling extract from Sue Keen and Jo Pearson’ full-length work, to be shown for 2 nights in February at the People’s Theatre. Two women confront each other, one longing for acceptance, the other bent on her rejection. It’s a subtle piece, using stage distance, voice tone, and the relative attitudes of the actors’s bodies to convey their metaphorical gulf.
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John Park / Cockpit Theatre / 30 January 03
(c) Fringe Report 2003
Fringe Report (c) Fringe Report 2002-2008
