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| The Wharf |
The Living Room aims to promote new talent in an accessible way. Four Walls' Dan Grinter said: 'The whole idea of the evening is to give new writers, new actors, new artists a platform to show there stuff.
'We have got a textile artist who will be showcasing her work at the venue so you can have a look in the interval and as audience members come in we are going to be promoting a new band.'
The company was founded seven years ago by four writers who worked in a theatre cafe in Bristol but were distinctly unimpressed with the calibre of entertainment.
"We just thought we could do this" Dan said.
"Our idea is new music, new writing and new artists that are of good quality. It's not an elitist thing - people can come along and it will be accessible to everyone."
Dan himself wrote the first short play of the evening. 'Nonentity' staring, Christopher Chandler, Eloise Scott, Matthew Shephard, Clair Fairbairn and others. is about an agoraphobic who shops going out, his flatmate sets up a big plot to try and get him out."
'The Living Room' including 'Nonentity' and 'Gimmick' and work by artist Judi Fairbairn is at the Space in Westferry road from Wednesday February 14th to Saturday February 17th at 7.30pm for further information visit www.space.org.uk
Written By: Lucy Walters |
| Letter from 'The Ash, Technology College' |
Dear Class Acts Promotions
Thank you very much for your performance of 'Scream' last month at our school. It was a very special PSHE event for our year 7 and 8 students that truly made them think. Seeing both sides of the bullying story was very powerful and brouth out strong emotion. Subsequently students have discussed a lot of the issues and you seem to have given them a language to use - just by saying you know a 'Mikey' or have helped a 'Geoff' Everyone around hear knows hwat you mean!
Class Acts performance of Scream (Ash College news letter write up)
There are two sides to every story. However 'right' each side of the story claims to be, it's always interesting to hear the other person's version of events. On Wednesday 17th May 2006, Year 7 and 8 students were shown the two sides of a story about bullying, cleverly portrayed by a theatre group named Class Acts.
What makes 'Class Acts' really clever was that it only had one actress. Eloise (who was a girl) played both the boys and used her body lanugage and voice to project the two contrasting characters. This brought home the really frightening thing ... that potentially there is a Geoff and a Mikey inside all of us.
Written By: Mrs Lou West Published On: 08/06/2005
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| The Daily Echo |
As a social comment on the changing role of women it is spot-on, and Nell Dunn's outstanding script is by turns hilarious and deeply thought-provoking, with every character and situation fully developed.
The Cast - Nicola King, Denise King, Tommy Egerton, Rachel de Courcy Bemish, Eloise Scott and Yvonne Henley - Excel themselves.
Their fine acting totally makes us believe that they really are those socially diverse women who meet up to share their hopes, fears and friendships, all the while learning from each other and growing in stature as a result.
Written By: Linda Kirkman |
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