New Writing Festival is Back at Barons Court Theatre

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Actor Awareness presents eight new plays over six days from Monday

From Monday 17 to Saturday 22 July, Barons Court Theatre is presenting the Actor Awareness New Writing Festival.

One of Barons Court's most unforgettable weeks, the festival features different plays performed over six nights from eight different companies.

It's a highly interesting festival of new writing and what makes it different is that the writer will be present at each performance for a Q&A session.

Actor Awareness are a campaign dedicated to helping actors who don't have the opportunity to reach platforms that people from financially secure backgrounds do. They aim to help the untrained or struggling actor who constantly keeps hitting the class ceiling.

If you interested in new upcoming undiscovered talent, writing, directing and acting, this is the event to see.

PLAY SCHEDULE

MONDAY 17 JULY, 7.30pm. SPECI-MAN written by Jayne Woodhouse and Directed by Calum Robshaw
It’s the year 3052 and a world where men are an endangered species. Adam, one of the last few surviving male specimens, is kept in a scientific facility under the care of his keeper, Morgan. Unfortunately, Adam appears to be suffering from a potentially fatal condition and regressing to male behaviour patterns from 2017.

TUESDAY 18 JULY, 7.30pm. C'EST LA VIE written by Stephanie Silver and Directed by Emelia Marshall Lovsey 
C’est La Vie deals with three couples struggling under a privatised healthcare to keep their relationships going. Set post Tory re-election people struggle to keep their heads above water. In a damaged fast paced society, how does modern love survive?

WEDNESDAY 19 JULY 7.30pm.WORSOOZ written by Catherine Kay and Directed by Kevin Russell
When Worsooz meets her estranged father Nick, her mother Alberta is immersed in a secret relationship with girlfriend Anne and building their plan to rid the world of domestic violence. Isolated and disgusted by her mother’s relationship, Worsooz is lured into criminality by her father Nick and immerses herself into a secret world where only men can belong. Set in the late 1980’s Worsooz is a semi-autobiographical story of how far one girl will go for the love of her father.

THURSDAY 20 JULY 7.30pm.COME DIE WITH ME written by Vicki Connerty and Directed by Shian Denovan
Upstairs, a man is dying. Downstairs, his family attempt to navigate their way through the entirely unfamiliar and oft-absurd waters of grief with varied levels of success. A darkly comic tale of love, loss and laughter.
***STOP PRESS!*** This performance has been sold out for some time. However, the theatre has arranged a second performance for 9pm on the same day. This performance will probably sell out as well – so early booking is essential.

FRIDAY 21 JULY 7.30pm. WALK OF SHAME written by Emelia Marshall Lovey and Stephanie Silver
Directed by Emelia Marshall Lovsey
Meet Alice
Meet Liam
1 night and many double Vodka shots later two world collides in a night to remember, classes and glasses collide in the bright lights of London.

FRIDAY 21 JULY 9pm. SUBMISSION written by Shafeeq Shajahan
Produced by Liver and Lung Productions
Sameer, a young British Pakistani, struggles to reconcile his sexual desires with his Islamic roots and values. On the day of his 23rd birthday, Sameer hosts an unprecedented after-party with four friends. A series of unwelcome events unfold, triggering an unhinged response in Sameer. Not only does he begin to question his faith, he also begins to acknowledge the cruel realities that queer people of colour face. Torn between his allegiance to Mecca and his desire for temporal modernity, Sameer recites spoken word come Quranic compositions, forcing us to contemplate the importance of integrating age-old philosophy with new-wave ideology.

SATURDAY 22 JULY 7.30pm. 2022£ written and Directed by Colleen Pendergast
Christmas Eve. An immigration detention centre. Five years in the future. Post Brexit Britain has lurched sharply to the right. In the wake of the break with Europe, Scotland has seceded from the Union. A hard border now exists between England and Scotland, and after global instability and a huge economic crash, it has been made illegal to be Muslim in Britain.

SATURDAY 22 9pm. THE STAFFROOM written and Directed by Michelle Payne
They’re teaching our children, but are they teaching the right things?
Three young teachers navigate their way through adulthood and educating. A peek inside a state school staff room. With fad diets, Instagram abs and the government imposing a sugar tax, do the educators even know what is good for us? A Geography, History and PE teacher form an unlikely friendship within the dynamics and the solace of the staff room, bonding over all that matters; biscuits and banter.

 

TICKETS: £12, £10 Concessions

BOX OFFICE: 020 8932 4747

EMAIL BOOKINGS: Send details of performance and number of tickets required to londontheatre@gmail.com. Then pay for them, in cash, when you come to the performance.

Barons Court Theatre is at 28a Comeragh Road,W14, under the Curtains Up pub.

 

June 19, 2017