Following the success of previous live streams, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, and Sonnets & Carols, William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, directed by Caron Hall, will be a zoom rehearsed reading on Saturday 31st July at 7.30pm (BST). Phil Aizelwood (Dorcas/Lord) and Oliver Cotton (Old Shepherd) are joining previously announced cast members, Helen Adie (Lady in Waiting/Dorcas/Lord), Ben Elder (Cleomenes/Gaoler/Mariner/Mopsa), Tim Fitzhigham (Autolycus), Alistair Hall (The … [Read more...]
Tom Ryalls: Writer and Producer of Can You See into A Black Hole?
Tom Ryalls is the writer and producer of Can You See Into A Black Hole?, the second play of Iris Theatre’s 2021 Seed Commissions winners, originally commissioned by Upstart Theatre as part of DARE Festival 2018. When Tom grows up he wants to be an astronaut... or the blue power ranger, they’re kind of the same thing anyway, right? But, when he has his first seizure aged 8 and a black hole opens up inside his head, his entire world is swallowed and he must find an even bigger adventure. … [Read more...]
Q&A with Danielle Pearson, playwright of Queen Mab
Danielle Pearson's Queen Mab is the first play of Iris Theatre’s 2021 Seed Commissions series. Directed by Georgie Staight, Queen Mab weaves music and storytelling in this dynamic piece of new writing. Both Danielle and Georgie are Associate Artists of the Watermill Theatre. Inspired by Mercutio’s famous speech in Romeo and Juliet, Queen Mab brings this mythic dream-weaver into the mundanity of pandemic life. A coming-of-age tale for fifteen-year-olds and five-hundred-year-olds alike. … [Read more...]
Q&A with Sarah Kameela Impey from the cast of The Three Musketeers
The classic tale of The Three Musketeers is brought to you by the inconceivable, unimaginable and fantastical FoolHardy Theatre… a company with questionable theatrical training, no experience and no taste. What could possibly go wrong? Audio and animation are brought together in this swashbuckling adventure. Expect sword fights, deception and a right royal romance as audiences are taken back to the regal splendour of 17th century France in this exciting, madcap comedy. The new online … [Read more...]
The Great Pacific Octopus Maritime School: Q&A with Manjinder Virk
5North and Ellie Keel Productions’ Written on the Waves, a series of world premiere audio plays – the penultimate play, and first for a family audience, in the series is The Giant Pacific Octopus Maritime School by Jaclyn Backhaus and directed by Jessica Rose McVay, CEO and Creative Director of 45North. What's it like once the Earth's surface is uninhabitable? Well, if you ask Priya and Ilya, citizens of a newly constructed underwater society, it's pretty boring. That is, until their … [Read more...]