STAG Nights: Shadows
STAG Nights: Shadows | 13th-15th November 2018 | The Art School
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STAG nights is back and this year it's more shadowy than ever!!!
Join us on the 13th | 14th | 15th of November for our first new writing festival of the year in the GSA! Doors open at 8PM!
Expect 9 new pieces of writing, fabulous interval acts & lots more hidden in the shadows that is just too good to reveal yet!
Night One
Hosted by Eve L. Batch (Gabe Brosius)
Interval Act: Stephen English
With nearly two years experience, Stephen took up pole dancing because he wanted to get fit in a creative way. Before he was afraid to even take his top off, now he has a new found body confidence and an array of pole skills to entertain you with on the opening night of STAG Nights Shadows!
Jeanie Fae The Neeps
Jean is an elderly women with dementia who now resides in a are home with other sufferers. Throughout, the play follows the impact that the condition has on Jean herself and the family around her, as she slowly begins to lose everything she once had.
DIRECTOR — Ellen Wilson
AD — Anushka Nargund
PM — Emma Forsyth
SM — Steven McFeat
TECH — Konstantina Keramida | Finley Dickins
JEAN — Caitlin Carrick-Varty
MARGARET — Anna Dillingham
GRACE —Klara Łuczka
NURSE — Miranda Degen
BILL — Mikes Smith
Spitting Image
An outrageous character comedy that unfolds over the course of one day in the recruitment office of a tribute act agency. When the company’s four worst acts are called in to hear some bad news, cue tantrums, tears and some tantalizing truths revealed.
DIRECTOR — Beth Leishman
AD — Niko Lingle-Siertz
PM — Mia Clarke
SM — Laura Vieira Duff
SOUND — Konstantina Keramida
LIGHTS — Finley Dickens
ROGER — Matthew Wilson
DAWN —Hannah Allison
NEIL — Christian Lihou
SVETLANA — Yael Gordon
TONY — Ewan Shand
SID — Calum Ross
Big Enough for the Two of Us
Come on down to the ol saloon in the Wild West, where a deadly standoff is taking place between two rivals bandit gangs in contention for the framed Jackwater’s Gold. But, when two of the bandits recognise each other from a previous relationship, the topic of conversation (and gunfights) starts veering towards their nasty break-up.
Writer— Rory Doherty
Co-Director — Kelly MacArthur
Co-Director — Goose Masondo
SM — Alisa Brock
PM — Faith Beach
Light Tech — Finley Dickins
Sound Tech — Konstantina Keramida
Clay Mercy — Ted Horrocks
Snakeskin Sal — Julia Hegele
Easton Price — Martin McHard
Rosie Plymouth — Megan Storer
Blind Sights Bill — Lewis McDermott
Night Two
Hosted by Angel of the North (Shannon Twiddy) and Mr Carter (Ross Taylor)
Interval Act: Ellie Moore
Ellie is a juggler & has been doing it for 7 years. She learned by working in a youth circus where she mainly taught other young folk to juggle and stilt walk and play with fire. And over the summer she was involved with a project by Gandini Juggling - who put on a show called Cascade at Somerset House in London for the 250th year anniversary of the creation of circuses in Britain! We’re so excited
MAGA MAGA
A BIZZARE AND NIGHTMARISH STORY OF 3 FRIENDS SET IN DYSTOPIAN MAGALUF. SL*T, P*SSY AND BEV TRY TO SURVIVE THEIR FIRST NIGHT ON THE MAGALUF STRIP, CORNERED BY 2 SLIMY CREATURE-LIKE CLUB REPS WITH THEIR SHOP WINDOWS OF DANCING GIRLS AND NEON PAINT-COVERED HANDS. THIS PLAY IS A HARD-HITTING FEMINIST CRITIQUE OF THE TRUTH BEHIND PARTY ISLAND CULTURE. LIGHTS WILL FLASH, MUSIC WILL BLARE, AND ALCOHOL WILL BE SPILLED- ITS GOING TO GET MESSY.
Writer | Director — Annie Bird
SM — Catriana Black
AD —Jamie Wagstaffe
P*ssy — Skye Galloway
Sl*t— Hannah Stewart
Bev — Bonnie Murray
Rep 1 — Bryn Jones
Rep 2 — George Liddle
Shop Window Girl 1 | Lad Tourist 2 — Rowan Bland
Shop Window Girl 2 |Lad Tourist 1 — Catriona Johnson
Adventure Awaits
Kelly Hobbes and Horace Cole are adventurers: They uncover mysteries, find amazing treasures, and deal with evil villains. Villains such as the enigmatic 'Mr. Gunhand.' Join these two wily adventurers as they uncover the secret behind The Celestial Jewel at the End of the World!
Writer — Lexi Crockford
Co-directors — Rahneda Veka | Sara Abulhawa
PM — Ashley Thompson
SM — Hester Mauduit
Lights — Elliot Bourke
Sound —Guoda Diržytė
Kelly Hobbes — Daisy O’Reilly
Horace Cole — Jack Montgomery
Gunhand — Ailsa Brock
Hilda Carter — Elena Roselli
Than by Her Shadow, What She Wears
”Alas hearts do not shine in eyes,
nor can you more judge a woman’s thoughts by tears, than by her shadow, what she wears”…
John Donne - Twickenham Garden
When group of friends Billie, Jan and Kirsty haven’t seen their fourth member Jorja for nearly a month, they decide to pool together their memories of the last time they all saw her to try and figure out what’s wrong!
Writer - Jessica Paris
Co-directors - Jessica Paris | Ava-Broughton-Stewart
SM - Zara Grew
Billie - Alice Nottage
Jan - Drew Barrett
Kirsty - Katie Moody
Jorja - Audrey Roberts-Laverty
Night Three
Hosted by Betty Swollocks and Maggie Suff
Interval Act: Michael Wraith
Master of the Arcane, expert in the Occult, initiate of the Occult Sciences Steam Guild, member of the Coven of Steam and, just for you, a window into what is to be, through his mastery if the Tarot.
Saboteur
4 pals lost in the woods on a stormy night seek shelter in a castle they stumble across, only to find themselves kidnapped and forced to partake in the games of the popular CBBC show TRAPPED! They are given challenges, but one must ensure the group fail: the Saboteur! If the group successfully complete the challenge, the saboteur will be trapped on that floor forever. If they fail, it could be any one of them that gets TRAPPED.
Writer/co-director — Chaya Gupta
Co-director — Gabe Brosius
PM — Tigerlily Bloggs
SM — Samuel McMillan
Lighting — Goose Masondo
Sound — Niamh Conlan
The Caretaker — Jake Tanner
The Voice — Margaret Hartness
Wiley Sneak — Clemens Zoller
Dani — Nancy Randle
Alex — Viola Vercelli
Jesse — Margaret Nelson
Andie —Emma Forsyth
Like Rabbits
“Thank you for your cooperation.”
Like Rabbits is a dark comedy exploring what would happen if an AI were asked to solve the problem of a declining population. The answer is the most intensive speed dating scenario known to man. Jack and Clara are strangers who are taken from their lives of solitude and thrown together unceremoniously by an AI called Sunny, who cheerfully informs them that they won’t be allowed to leave until they’ve “successfully procreated.” And you thought Tinder was bad.
Writer & Director — Charlotte Smith
Co-Director — Katy Green
PM — Matthew Wilson
SM — Victoria Paige Ann Jemmett
Sound — Niamh Conlan
Lights — Goise Masondo
Clara — Tigerlily Bloggs
Jack — Michael Barker
Sunny — Kirsty Wilkinson
Shadow Cabinet
Anna is the new Shadow Foreign Secretary and has plans to do so much work. Problem is, in the Shadow Cabinet, there’s not much work to do. With the help of her unhelpful assistant Nancy, she heads to Scotland to meet the first minister. What follows is a most ridiculous and farcical series of events.
Writer | Co-Director — Josh Read
Co-Director — Olivia Lesley
SM — Shariam Arpi
PM — Iona Bremner
Anna — Emily Brown
Nancy — Hanna Nes
First Minister — Chris Watt
LOTO — Blair Cunningham
Narrator — Michael Cartlege
News Reporter — Josh Adams
Drunk Man — Stephen English
