Nov 2008
G12 James Arnott Theatre

Circa STaG Nights is a circus themed three night festival. Each night several short plays all new writing, all super, will be performed for your viewing pleasure. Throughout the night there will be acrobats, carnival games/snacks, a bar, mimes, and much more!

The Circle of Life
Directed and Written by Joe Waterfield
Unspeakable to mortal ear, Too terrible for eyes to see – Oedipus Rex, Sophocles. This humble tour de force is a foolish piece of tom-foolery and jack-knavery that promises to ask the difficult questions.

Will the Real Slim Shady Please Stand Up?
Directed and Written by Simon Gwynn
In August this year Japanese professor Toshimitsu Shigemura claimed that the secretive North Korean leader Kim Jong-il actually died in 2003 and since then has been impersonated by a double. How did the North Korean authorities pull off such a feat? This play aims to find out.

At Once
`At Once’ follows the stories of five very different women, at very different periods in their life, who share one very potent similarity: the men in their life and their affect on them. The play examines the effect a singular event can have on one’s life and the predator/prey positions that dictate the nature of that change.

The Measure of Tragedy
Directed by Philippa Mannion, Written by Matt Griffin
“How can a person be this tired, but not sleep, this hungry, but not eat? Why is this happening to me? Why is it affecting me so badly?”

A Wee Play
Directed and Written by Ciaran McHale
Loosely based on a section of “If nobody speaks of Remarkable Things” by Jon McGregor. This is a short play about loneliness, friendship, memory, nostalgia, about not living in the past, but carrying it with you into the future.

The Smoking Act
Located in an unknown room, somewhere in the past, a private encounter between two young men leads to a dramatic delirium. Enjoy the tragedy as the triviality of a cigarette is challenged by the whimsical and earnest characters.

By Midnight
Four couples struggling to make it work: Can their tedious, angry, painful, bittersweet issues all be resolved before the clocks go off? They haven’t got long…

I’ll Tell You When you’re Older
The Story of a Young Boy and his Grapefruit. Unlike the days of yester-year, a young boy can no longer play jump rope in the street, throw a coin down a wishing well or carry his sick grandfather home. Life can be hard, but this evening’s performance gives a little glimpse into what things could be, if they weren’t.

Crocodile Tears
Directed and Written by Alice Blundell
Life as we see it, or life as we dream it? Real tears or crocodile tears? Follow these 10 characters making a journey on a train, going different places for different reasons. Conversations are fragmented and un-finished, relationships are reformed, phone calls are made and a woman makes the biggest decision of her life. Drift in and out of reality and let your imagination guide you on this surreal journey.

I Have a Dream
I Have a Dream is a passionate struggle along the contested landscape of the dream world. Powerful and elusive, it is a collage of emotional thoughts that makes no sense yet somehow rings true.

In Jest
“In China a clean plate is an insult. But then again if the plate’s clean, the food keeps coming…” In the midst of the credit crunch, ever-growing food prices and society’s general consumption à la mode, ‘In Jest’ addresses the issues at stake.

Tales from the Evil place, Where bad Things Happen
“There once was a boy who lived in an evil place where bad things happened. A land of endless terrors.”

That was When
‘A brother and sister are surrounded by boxes full of childhood memories; an empty quilt under which both reside is the home for all memories deemed to be important enough to keep. In the process of picking and choosing it becomes apparent that they have rather different ideas of their past, what is important to remember and what to forget’

Irrelevance in her Absence
Irrelevance in her Absence is a play about that annoying feeling you get when your girlfriend leaves and then your depression and denial force you out of the ordinary narrative of the space time continuum into a desolate bubble ridden with cult science-fiction references.