Nov
1st
50/50 Daring Pairings The Factory
By Katherine Hayes
50/50 Daring Pairings The Factory
The Factory together with Hampstead Theatre, for a select number of nights are presenting an interactive and slightly unorthodox theatre experience.
The company has collaborated with writers to develop short plays where dialogue can be played by any actor male or female. The actors need to know all the parts in the play and the audience can select what order they see them. Writers working on this project took their inspiration from any period in the last 50 years and were required to focus on character only, no special effects, props, costumes or stage directions allowed.
It was an exciting and daring prospect, and I felt myself hold my breath in the hope that no-one would forget any of the lines ( which nobody appeared to do).
Featured plays included Underwater Love by Paul Jenkins, Tomatoes by Peter Rumney,The Poll Tax Riots by John Donnelly, 1975 by Federay Homes and Assistance by Stephen Bloomer.
Themes varied from a clandestine meeting in a hotel room in Underwater Love to a charity workers determination to hear atrocities from the affected in Assistance.
Underwater Love by Paul Jenkins was the most entertaining of the five and the audience had the opportunity to see the play twice. Both Colin Hurley and Alan Morissey brought interesting revelations in each of their roles as the two hesitant lovers, and then again in the role reversal showed excellent comic timing in their performances.
The Factory has assembled themselves a talented troupe of actors and their residency at the Hampstead theatre is one not to be missed.
Friday 30 October 9.30pm, Friday 6 November at 2.30 and 9.30pm, Saturday 7 November at 9.30pm
Hampstead Theatre
The Factory together with Hampstead Theatre, for a select number of nights are presenting an interactive and slightly unorthodox theatre experience.
The company has collaborated with writers to develop short plays where dialogue can be played by any actor male or female. The actors need to know all the parts in the play and the audience can select what order they see them. Writers working on this project took their inspiration from any period in the last 50 years and were required to focus on character only, no special effects, props, costumes or stage directions allowed.
It was an exciting and daring prospect, and I felt myself hold my breath in the hope that no-one would forget any of the lines ( which nobody appeared to do).
Featured plays included Underwater Love by Paul Jenkins, Tomatoes by Peter Rumney,The Poll Tax Riots by John Donnelly, 1975 by Federay Homes and Assistance by Stephen Bloomer.
Themes varied from a clandestine meeting in a hotel room in Underwater Love to a charity workers determination to hear atrocities from the affected in Assistance.
Underwater Love by Paul Jenkins was the most entertaining of the five and the audience had the opportunity to see the play twice. Both Colin Hurley and Alan Morissey brought interesting revelations in each of their roles as the two hesitant lovers, and then again in the role reversal showed excellent comic timing in their performances.
The Factory has assembled themselves a talented troupe of actors and their residency at the Hampstead theatre is one not to be missed.
Friday 30 October 9.30pm, Friday 6 November at 2.30 and 9.30pm, Saturday 7 November at 9.30pm
Hampstead Theatre
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