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Playhouse Creatures (2005)

2010-01-04T12:25:53Z

213.232.79.139: /* Reminiscences and Anecdotes */

[[Image:playhouse_web.jpg|thumb|300px|Poster by [[Mark Davies]]]]

by [[April de Angelis]]

Directed by [[Lorraine Spenceley]]

Performances: Wed 14th – Sat 17th December [[2005]], Prompt Corner.

== Introduction ==

The year is 1669 - a bawdy and troublesome time for Restoration London. The theatres have been reopened after 17 years of repression under the Puritans, encouraging a great upsurge in dramatic activity. Of vital importance to the development of drama was the entrance of the first English actresses upon the stage. Five famous figures - Nell Gwyn, Elizabeth Farley, Rebecca Marshall, Doll Common and Mary Betterton - provide us with a moving and often comic account of the precarious lot of a Restoration actress.

== Cast ==

*Doll Common - [[Jeanette Hoile]]
*Nell Gwynn - [[Helen Herman]]
*Mrs Farley - [[Samantha Golton]]
*Mrs Betterton - [[Vanessa Colls]]
*Mrs Marshall - [[Kate Monro]]
*Man Servant - [[Steve Ellis]]

== Crew ==

*Production Asistant - [[David Lomas]]
*Stage Manager - [[Steve Ellis]]
*Lighting - [[Chris Liddle]]
*Sound - [[Brian Fretwell]]
*Wardrobe - [[Val Williams]] & [[Ayako Koyama]]
*Dresser - [[Giovanna Zizza]]
*Fight Arranger - [[Anton Krause]]

== Reviews ==

Some review quotes go here

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
Image:Playhouse photo.jpg|[[Helen Herman]] and [[Vanessa Colls]]
Image:Playhouse photos01.jpg|[[Samantha Golton]]
Image:Playhouse photos013.jpg|[[Samantha Golton]] and [[Kate Monro]]
Image:Playhouse photos06.jpg|[[Jeanette Hoile]]
</gallery>
(Photos: [[Mark Davies]])

== Reminiscences and Anecdotes ==

Members are encouraged to write about their experiences of working on or seeing this production. Please leave your name. Anonymous entries may be deleted.

1669?!?? ARE YOU JOKING?!

== See Also ==
Have there been other SLT productions of this play? Link to them here.

Or add anything that is related ''within this site''. The author's page for instance or other plays with a similar theme.

== References ==

== External Links ==

[[Category:Productions]]
[[Category:Prompt Corner Productions]]

The Positive Hour (2006)

2010-01-04T12:24:39Z

213.232.79.139: /* Reminiscences and Anecdotes */

[[Image:PositiveHourPoster.jpg|thumb|300px|Poster by [[Steve Marchant]]]]

by [[April De Angelis]]

Directed by [[David Lomas]]

Performances: Wed 19th – Sat 22nd July [[2006]], [[Prompt Corner]]

== Introduction ==
Some scripts leap out at you as soon as you pick them up and demand to be put on stage. Exactly as with Loveplay last year, I was immediately drawn to The Positive Hour by its directness, spiky issues and crackling wit. There are certainly themes in common with April de Angelis' slightly earlier Playhouse Creatures (recently seen in Prompt Corner, December 2005). We are again concerned with a close-knit group of women trying to survive, to find their own place in a pretty unwelcoming world and to form relationships with men.

However this play is far from being a period piece. It was first performed in 1997 and it is very much set in today's world, with all of the characters facing very contemporary dilemmas and traps. Two of the main characters - Miranda and Emma - were students in the 70s and they grew up in a world which was to some extent more idealistic and less determined by all-pervading capitalist forces and corporations than today. Where they now stand with regard to issues of morality, self-protection and self-expression are questions which are central to the play. The script keeps asking whether the driving enthusiasms of their youth - feminism, socialism, truthful artistic communication - continue to have any validity at all in today's world. But if this is starting to sound as if it might be a bit over serious and worthy, please don't be put off. This is very much a laugh-out-loud funny and earthy piece, just as Loveplay was a rude and comic exploration of some pretty dark and important issues last year.

Director's Notes <ref>Director's Notes: [http://www.southlondontheatre.co.uk/productions/2006/positivehour/ SLT Website]</ref>

== Cast ==
*Miranda - [[Emma Hillman]]
*Emma - [[Fiona Daffern]]
*Paula - [[Jane Lobb]]
*Nicola - [[Georgina Wedderburn]]
*Roger - [[Alan Brown]]
*The Man - [[Brian Andrews]]
*Victoria - Anna Van Miert

== Crew ==

*Production Assistant - [[Ronae Jolliffe]]
*Stage Manager - [[Mark Ireson]]
*Assistant Stage Managers - [[Kat Moody]] and [[Constantine Siriopoulous]]
*Set Design - [[Dave Hollander]] and [[Constatine Siripoulos]]
*Costume Co-Ordinator - [[Michelle Thomson]]
*Lighting - [[Chris Liddle]]
*Sound Design - [[Andrew Rickinson]]
*Sound Operator - [[Helen Victoria Jones]]
*Production Photographs - [[Phil Gammon]]
*Portrait Painted By - [[Hazel Hindle]]

== Reviews ==

Some review quotes go here

== Gallery ==

== Reminiscences and Anecdotes ==

Members are encouraged to write about their experiences of working on or seeing this production. Please leave your name. Anonymous entries may be deleted.

There is NOTHING about this play, and there is nothing we can use to find a plot/synopsis. If anyone finds anything, please post it here.....Our A Levels depend on it......

Yeah.

== See Also ==
Have there been other SLT productions of this play? Link to them here.

Or add anything that is related ''within this site''. The author's page for instance or other plays with a similar theme.

== References ==
<references/>

== External Links ==

[[Category:Productions|Positive Hour, The]]
[[Category:Prompt Corner Productions|Positive Hour, The]]

The Positive Hour (2006)

2010-01-04T12:24:25Z

213.232.79.139: /* Reminiscences and Anecdotes */

[[Image:PositiveHourPoster.jpg|thumb|300px|Poster by [[Steve Marchant]]]]

by [[April De Angelis]]

Directed by [[David Lomas]]

Performances: Wed 19th – Sat 22nd July [[2006]], [[Prompt Corner]]

== Introduction ==
Some scripts leap out at you as soon as you pick them up and demand to be put on stage. Exactly as with Loveplay last year, I was immediately drawn to The Positive Hour by its directness, spiky issues and crackling wit. There are certainly themes in common with April de Angelis' slightly earlier Playhouse Creatures (recently seen in Prompt Corner, December 2005). We are again concerned with a close-knit group of women trying to survive, to find their own place in a pretty unwelcoming world and to form relationships with men.

However this play is far from being a period piece. It was first performed in 1997 and it is very much set in today's world, with all of the characters facing very contemporary dilemmas and traps. Two of the main characters - Miranda and Emma - were students in the 70s and they grew up in a world which was to some extent more idealistic and less determined by all-pervading capitalist forces and corporations than today. Where they now stand with regard to issues of morality, self-protection and self-expression are questions which are central to the play. The script keeps asking whether the driving enthusiasms of their youth - feminism, socialism, truthful artistic communication - continue to have any validity at all in today's world. But if this is starting to sound as if it might be a bit over serious and worthy, please don't be put off. This is very much a laugh-out-loud funny and earthy piece, just as Loveplay was a rude and comic exploration of some pretty dark and important issues last year.

Director's Notes <ref>Director's Notes: [http://www.southlondontheatre.co.uk/productions/2006/positivehour/ SLT Website]</ref>

== Cast ==
*Miranda - [[Emma Hillman]]
*Emma - [[Fiona Daffern]]
*Paula - [[Jane Lobb]]
*Nicola - [[Georgina Wedderburn]]
*Roger - [[Alan Brown]]
*The Man - [[Brian Andrews]]
*Victoria - Anna Van Miert

== Crew ==

*Production Assistant - [[Ronae Jolliffe]]
*Stage Manager - [[Mark Ireson]]
*Assistant Stage Managers - [[Kat Moody]] and [[Constantine Siriopoulous]]
*Set Design - [[Dave Hollander]] and [[Constatine Siripoulos]]
*Costume Co-Ordinator - [[Michelle Thomson]]
*Lighting - [[Chris Liddle]]
*Sound Design - [[Andrew Rickinson]]
*Sound Operator - [[Helen Victoria Jones]]
*Production Photographs - [[Phil Gammon]]
*Portrait Painted By - [[Hazel Hindle]]

== Reviews ==

Some review quotes go here

== Gallery ==

== Reminiscences and Anecdotes ==

Members are encouraged to write about their experiences of working on or seeing this production. Please leave your name. Anonymous entries may be deleted.

There is NOTHING about this play, and there is nothing we can use to find a plot/synopsis. If anyone finds anything, please post it here.....

Yeah.

== See Also ==
Have there been other SLT productions of this play? Link to them here.

Or add anything that is related ''within this site''. The author's page for instance or other plays with a similar theme.

== References ==
<references/>

== External Links ==

[[Category:Productions|Positive Hour, The]]
[[Category:Prompt Corner Productions|Positive Hour, The]]

The Positive Hour (2006)

2010-01-04T12:24:15Z

213.232.79.139: /* Reminiscences and Anecdotes */

[[Image:PositiveHourPoster.jpg|thumb|300px|Poster by [[Steve Marchant]]]]

by [[April De Angelis]]

Directed by [[David Lomas]]

Performances: Wed 19th – Sat 22nd July [[2006]], [[Prompt Corner]]

== Introduction ==
Some scripts leap out at you as soon as you pick them up and demand to be put on stage. Exactly as with Loveplay last year, I was immediately drawn to The Positive Hour by its directness, spiky issues and crackling wit. There are certainly themes in common with April de Angelis' slightly earlier Playhouse Creatures (recently seen in Prompt Corner, December 2005). We are again concerned with a close-knit group of women trying to survive, to find their own place in a pretty unwelcoming world and to form relationships with men.

However this play is far from being a period piece. It was first performed in 1997 and it is very much set in today's world, with all of the characters facing very contemporary dilemmas and traps. Two of the main characters - Miranda and Emma - were students in the 70s and they grew up in a world which was to some extent more idealistic and less determined by all-pervading capitalist forces and corporations than today. Where they now stand with regard to issues of morality, self-protection and self-expression are questions which are central to the play. The script keeps asking whether the driving enthusiasms of their youth - feminism, socialism, truthful artistic communication - continue to have any validity at all in today's world. But if this is starting to sound as if it might be a bit over serious and worthy, please don't be put off. This is very much a laugh-out-loud funny and earthy piece, just as Loveplay was a rude and comic exploration of some pretty dark and important issues last year.

Director's Notes <ref>Director's Notes: [http://www.southlondontheatre.co.uk/productions/2006/positivehour/ SLT Website]</ref>

== Cast ==
*Miranda - [[Emma Hillman]]
*Emma - [[Fiona Daffern]]
*Paula - [[Jane Lobb]]
*Nicola - [[Georgina Wedderburn]]
*Roger - [[Alan Brown]]
*The Man - [[Brian Andrews]]
*Victoria - Anna Van Miert

== Crew ==

*Production Assistant - [[Ronae Jolliffe]]
*Stage Manager - [[Mark Ireson]]
*Assistant Stage Managers - [[Kat Moody]] and [[Constantine Siriopoulous]]
*Set Design - [[Dave Hollander]] and [[Constatine Siripoulos]]
*Costume Co-Ordinator - [[Michelle Thomson]]
*Lighting - [[Chris Liddle]]
*Sound Design - [[Andrew Rickinson]]
*Sound Operator - [[Helen Victoria Jones]]
*Production Photographs - [[Phil Gammon]]
*Portrait Painted By - [[Hazel Hindle]]

== Reviews ==

Some review quotes go here

== Gallery ==

== Reminiscences and Anecdotes ==

Members are encouraged to write about their experiences of working on or seeing this production. Please leave your name. Anonymous entries may be deleted.

There is NOTHING about this play, and there is nothing we can use to find a plot/synopsis. If anyone finds anything, please post it here.....

You're all shit.

== See Also ==
Have there been other SLT productions of this play? Link to them here.

Or add anything that is related ''within this site''. The author's page for instance or other plays with a similar theme.

== References ==
<references/>

== External Links ==

[[Category:Productions|Positive Hour, The]]
[[Category:Prompt Corner Productions|Positive Hour, The]]

The Positive Hour (2006)

2010-01-04T12:23:53Z

213.232.79.139: /* Reminiscences and Anecdotes */

[[Image:PositiveHourPoster.jpg|thumb|300px|Poster by [[Steve Marchant]]]]

by [[April De Angelis]]

Directed by [[David Lomas]]

Performances: Wed 19th – Sat 22nd July [[2006]], [[Prompt Corner]]

== Introduction ==
Some scripts leap out at you as soon as you pick them up and demand to be put on stage. Exactly as with Loveplay last year, I was immediately drawn to The Positive Hour by its directness, spiky issues and crackling wit. There are certainly themes in common with April de Angelis' slightly earlier Playhouse Creatures (recently seen in Prompt Corner, December 2005). We are again concerned with a close-knit group of women trying to survive, to find their own place in a pretty unwelcoming world and to form relationships with men.

However this play is far from being a period piece. It was first performed in 1997 and it is very much set in today's world, with all of the characters facing very contemporary dilemmas and traps. Two of the main characters - Miranda and Emma - were students in the 70s and they grew up in a world which was to some extent more idealistic and less determined by all-pervading capitalist forces and corporations than today. Where they now stand with regard to issues of morality, self-protection and self-expression are questions which are central to the play. The script keeps asking whether the driving enthusiasms of their youth - feminism, socialism, truthful artistic communication - continue to have any validity at all in today's world. But if this is starting to sound as if it might be a bit over serious and worthy, please don't be put off. This is very much a laugh-out-loud funny and earthy piece, just as Loveplay was a rude and comic exploration of some pretty dark and important issues last year.

Director's Notes <ref>Director's Notes: [http://www.southlondontheatre.co.uk/productions/2006/positivehour/ SLT Website]</ref>

== Cast ==
*Miranda - [[Emma Hillman]]
*Emma - [[Fiona Daffern]]
*Paula - [[Jane Lobb]]
*Nicola - [[Georgina Wedderburn]]
*Roger - [[Alan Brown]]
*The Man - [[Brian Andrews]]
*Victoria - Anna Van Miert

== Crew ==

*Production Assistant - [[Ronae Jolliffe]]
*Stage Manager - [[Mark Ireson]]
*Assistant Stage Managers - [[Kat Moody]] and [[Constantine Siriopoulous]]
*Set Design - [[Dave Hollander]] and [[Constatine Siripoulos]]
*Costume Co-Ordinator - [[Michelle Thomson]]
*Lighting - [[Chris Liddle]]
*Sound Design - [[Andrew Rickinson]]
*Sound Operator - [[Helen Victoria Jones]]
*Production Photographs - [[Phil Gammon]]
*Portrait Painted By - [[Hazel Hindle]]

== Reviews ==

Some review quotes go here

== Gallery ==

== Reminiscences and Anecdotes ==

Members are encouraged to write about their experiences of working on or seeing this production. Please leave your name. Anonymous entries may be deleted.

There is NOTHING about this play, and there is nothing we can use to find a plot/synopsis.

== See Also ==
Have there been other SLT productions of this play? Link to them here.

Or add anything that is related ''within this site''. The author's page for instance or other plays with a similar theme.

== References ==
<references/>

== External Links ==

[[Category:Productions|Positive Hour, The]]
[[Category:Prompt Corner Productions|Positive Hour, The]]