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First Year Shows
First Year Shows
Working with tutors, students have been exploring the possibilities of working online drawing on work from a wide variety of sources. Each show offers it's own take on the ‘new normal’ for performance and includes a variety of work from all Drama and Musical Theatre students across the first year.

Fail Better: Beckett in the time of Covid

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05/05/2021- 14:30

06/05/2021- 18:30

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Samuel Beckett’s work is often a mediation on the nature of existence. It evokes the lonely, disparate experience of being human. As such the themes and the form of the plays lend themselves both to the time of Covid and lockdowns and to experimental delivery. We are going to explore how to prepare and deliver extracts of some of Beckett’s best-known works through the media we didn’t know existed a year ago but now have become all too familiar with. Welcome to Beckett on Zoom!

What a Wonderful World

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04/05/2021- 14:30
05/05/2021- 18:30

What a Wonderful World
Through the lens of works drawn from Caryl Churchill and Harold Pinter, we sit in our rooms on Zoom and think about the future. We are hoping for a wonderful world, a brave new world full of Miranda’s ‘goodly creatures.’ But we’re not sure. What might be waiting for us?

RoadWorks

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27/04/2021- 14:30
28/04/2021- 18:30

Is a version of Jim Cartwright’s modern classic muscular, poetic play ROAD revisited some thirty-five years on.  The first year Joint Drama students working with director tutors Jane Hogarth and Andrew Sherlock are taking apart the stories, characters, styles, tones and themes of the play and rebooting them in their own image and asking questions on the way.  What’s changed?  Do we still recognise these people?  Who else might we meet on this Road?  What’s the state of the nation on this Road now?  Caught, surreal, helpless, hope, connecting, questioning, hope, relief, unsettled, possible, unsettled, hope, unfulfilled, hope, fight… is what we’ve got so far – but who knows where this Road will lead?

SIX – AND OTHER NUMBERS

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26/04/2021- 14:30

27/04/2021- 18:30

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A playlist to take your head off!    


Taking the show SIX as its starting point, the project offers some alternative views on the stories of the six women defined mostly by their relationship to King Henry VIII, and looks at both the ambition and vulnerabilities behind their portrayal as pop princesses in the hit musical. 

Skid, Kite & Water

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04/05/2021- 18:30

06/05/2021- 14:30

Drawing from – Art, Poems, Songs, Speeches and Characters both real and imagined this new piece of work is inspired by all things MARK. You will explore this non-linear narrative through film, puppetry, music and storytelling in the world of MARK in which no show is the same. It will be reMARKable.

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