Summer Festival
a three week season featuring plays, a musical and concerts, 3-21 July


An exciting three week summer season featuring an edgy modern play about sexual politics in the office, a rep season of one-act plays, the musical Baby and other one-off specials. All performed at our resident home, the Bridewell Theatre.


Push Up: 3-7 July

by Roland Schimmelpfennig

"Just so you understand: the problem is not that your're fucking my husband. The problem is that you need to."

Everyone wants to get to the executive suite. Everyone wants the Delhi job. Everyone wants sex, everyone wants love. So, they push for it. Push Up is set in a world we all know: the world of work.

Set within the headquarters of an expanding corporation, Push Up, by contemporary German playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig, explores sexual and political maneuverings in a contest of the survival of the fittest. Competition is fierce and timing is everything. The public face and the private lie collide, relationships become expendable and vanities are stripped bare in this coolly ironic examination of modern behavior in the workplace.

Everyone wants power, success, sex and if time permits, love. Welcome to the world of Push Up where a momentary lapse can cost everything.

Cast

FRANK - Sebastian Revell
ROBERT - Jack Loy
MARIA - Jacqueline Williams
HEINRICH - Yasir Senna
HANS - Craig Karpel
PATRIZIA - Rachel Thorn
SABINE - Shani Schwartz
ANGELIKA - Sophie Head

Director: Chris De Pury

 

Baby: 10–14 July

Music by David Shire
Lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr.
Book by Sybille Pearson

Baby tells the story of three couples on a university campus as they deal with the painful, rewarding and agonizingly funny consequences of this universal experience. There are the college students, barely at the beginning of their adult lives; the thirty-somethings, having trouble conceiving but determined to try; and the middle aged parents, looking forward to seeing their last child graduate from college when a night of unexpected passion lands them back where they started.


Cast

LIZZIE - Emma Walton
DANNY - Alex Spinney
PAM - Heather Panton
NICK - Robert Stanex
ARLENE - TBA
ALAN - Rob Dorey

Ensemble

Olga-Marie Pratt
Lucy Buzzoni
Carly Buchanan
Stephen Beeny
Trevor Harvey
Brett McHargue

Directors: Roger Harwood and Dawn Harrison-Wallace
Musical Director: David Winters
Choreographer: Jane Saunders



 

War And Patriotism Double Bill: 17-21 July

Sink the Belgrano!, by Steven Berkoff

A political satire based on the events and personalities of the Falklands conflict with dark undertones. As Maggot Scratcher debates with her Downing Street lackeys Pimp and Nit, a supporting cast of submariners, Falklands residents, ministry hats and the President of Argentina describe and disseminate the events of 1982. Beautifully irreverent, the play is a must see for all interested in political intrigue and modern history.

"It had to be written. What a story! All those statements and contradictions in the House of Commons. All those statesmen lying their heads off in the Commons," Steven Berkoff

Cast

MAGGOT SCRATCHER - Sarah Heenan
PIMP - Thom Petty
NIT - Chris Warren

Ensemble

Nick Edwards
Hazel East
Caitlin Homes
Jess Battersby
James Saunders

Director: Matt Hudson



The Man of Destiny, by George Bernard Shaw

An investigation of a young twenty-seven year old general by the name of Napoleon Bonaparte who has yet to achieve the accomplishments for which make him such an important figure in world history. In the play we find him waiting impatiently at an inn on the road between Lodi and Milan for a packet of dispatches to arrive, in which he will discover the truth of a personal betrayal.

With rich dialogue and dramatic style Shaw delivers within this short little work a satisfying character study and a portrait of the everyday life of a great man prior to his greatness.


Cast

GIUSEPPE - Eddie Register
THE LADY - Joey Timmins
NAPOLEON / LIEUTENANT - Andy Murton
LIEUTENANT / NAPOLEON - Peter Cabrera

Director: Jacqui Adams


 

Festival Specials

 

The Show Off: 7-13-14 July 2012

The Show Off does just what it says - gives Sedos and Sedance members the chance to whop out that showstopper you've been keeping under the bed and join in a riotous evening of singing, dancing and anything else that you feel our audiences have been waiting for.

We are looking for a cast of singers to present a selection of solos / duets / group numbers all loosely gathered under the theme of "Showstoppers". We are also looking for one or two compères - we have some ideas about how we would like this done, which we will investigate at auditions.

The Show Off will of course be rehearsed, but there will be an onus on performers to do the bulk of their preparation independently: so please only audition if you are confident and comfortable with whacking out a showtune without eight weeks intensive voice coaching and rehearsal beforehand…

We will also be presenting dance numbers from a few of Sedance's favourite choreographers. Dancers for these numbers will be invited to participate separately so if you are interested please make this clear on your email. You will need to be available for Monday night’s Sedance classes to be able to be a dancer in the show.

There is some scope for us to double cast the show, so if you’re dying to do it but can’t necessarily make both weekends please do get in touch anyway.

To register for an audition please drop an email to showoff@sedos.co.uk stating whether you are singer / dancer / both / other, and including a note of your favourite showstopping solo, duet and company number!

Auditions: 31 May
Recalls / First workshop: 2 June
Rehearsals: Sedance Mondays 7pm
Staging / Music: Weds 6.30pm-9.30pm and Saturdays 10.30am–5.30pm

Download the full audition notice

Please register to audition (so we know who to expect) by emailing showoff@sedos.co.uk.


Sedos Summer Festival
The Bridewell Theatre
Bride Lane Fleet Street
London, EC4Y 8EQ

3-21 July 2012



 

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