A Significant Role: A Season of 3 Plays
Barefaced Theatre presents three new plays -- 'Mad Women', 'All Hidden' and 'Whore' -- to be performed in repertory in London, 4th - 31st October 2012.
Film by: Nigel Doylerush
Actors: Alexa Brown, Marcia Brown, Berri George, Anne Zander
Book Tickets (£10): Mad Women, All Hidden, Whore
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A Significant Role - a season of 3 new plays in repertory.
By Barefaced Theatre 4th – 31st October 2012
Portobello Pop Up, 3 Acklam Road, London, W10 5TY
(Times vary – performing most nights.)
Barefaced: Fresh New work, from fresh new faces.
A London based Theatre Company focused on producing ambitious and accessible theatre that invites audiences to expand their imaginations, employing a ‘theatre style that subverts audience expectations and questions the world around us’. Barefaced focuses on strong storytelling, strong physicality and strong women’s roles, both on and off stage.
And following on from the amazing success of the Portobello Pop Up’s various film festivals and screenings, Barefaced are now going to be taking over the homemade digital Microplex cinema, nestled under the Westway, for the whole of October. It makes the perfect setting for
Barefaced’s first repertory season, as they will be experimenting with both video art and animation throughout all the productions.
This project revolves around three new plays: Mad Women, Whore, and All Hidden. The season focuses on women who have helped themselves and have strived to succeed in what they were good at. These are going to be immersive, innovative and provocative pieces of theatre.
Mad Women examines the perceived madness of Mary Shelley, whose sensational personal life and loss of her children found release in her novel Frankenstein; Emily Dickinson, the 19th century American whose poems reached far beyond the confines of her reclusive life; the utopian feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman, plagued by depression, whose story The Yellow Wallpaper highlighted the horrors of confinement for women termed ‘mad’; and Virginia Woolf, the modernist genius whose own demons would eventually consume her. (Running time 2hrs 15mins excluding interval)
All Hidden is a brand new play that charts the stories of two courageous women; Eileen Nearne was an SOE during the Second World War and Sophie Walker works as an intelligence officer within MI5 today. The play conjoins the worlds of these female spies. Alongside this one act play, presented as a double bill, will be the Scratch Beneath Festival, exploring what happens when new artists scratch beneath the surface of their potential to bring new ideas out into the world and present them as a mini show. Including, First Night by Pete Maxey, Halb – Welt Kultur: The life of the Weimar Girls performed by Stephanie Hampton, Postcards from Medea by Jose Gandia, The Lemons, written and performed by Lowri Jenkins plus Celyn Ebenezer performs her eerie one-woman show. (Running time 1hr 35mins excluding interval)
Whore is a re-imagined version of Barefaced’s previous play Whore. It is a bold, daring insight into four of history’s most interesting prostitutes. Meet Theresa Berkley, a 19th Century Dominatrix, Marie Duplessis, a famous French courtesan, Polly Adler, a New York 1920’s brothel madam with heavy links to the mob, and Valerie Solanas, American prostitute turned Warhol assassin. (Running time 1hrs 10mins)
During the Interval there is a cash bar, where wine will be supplied by Griffenwell Wines – serving both red and white wine £4 per large glass. www.griffinwell.com