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| Poster for 'SUNSTROKE' at Birmingham Rep - 7th September 2015. |
I spent an exhausting but ultimately very rewarding day at Birmingham Repertory Theatre yesterday courtesy of BOLD Text Playwrights. Together with actress Bharti Patel and director Jessica Dromgoole and the writers, we spent the day rehearsing 8 micro-plays for a script-in-hand performance in the evening at The Door at The Rep.
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| Sean Connolly rehearsing 'SUNSTROKE' at Birmingham Rep for the BOLD Text Playwrights - 7th September 2015. The BOLD Text Playwrights collective consists of EIGHT playwrights: Helen Kelly, Tim Stimpson, Stephen Jackson, Sayan Kent, Vanessa Oakes, Julia Wright, Nicola Jones and Liz John. |
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| Writer Helen Kelly (left corner) with actors Bharti Patel, Sean Connolly and director Jessica Dromgoole deep in rehearsal. The plays we rehearsed and performed were as follows:
• Seeing
the World Part 1 (Helen Kelly)
• Stateless
(Tim Stimpson)
• Oceans
Apart (Stephen Jackson)
• Here
(Sayan Kent)
• I’m
Staying (Vanessa Oakes)
• Sunstroke
(Julia Wright)
• The Trip
(Nicola Jones)
• Seeing
the World Part 2 (Liz John)
All eight plays had the running theme of British holidaymakers caught up in various types of 'trouble abroad'. All the plays were poignant, also very different in their approach. The roles I had to play were also varied; a liberal sprinkling of Brummies, a mysterious Eastern European and a male stripper!! Oh I've missed theatre!!
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