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Birmingham School of Acting present their Spring 2009 Season
Mother Clap’s Molly House
Wed 11th – Sat 14th February 2009 in the Main House
11th-13th at 7.30pm plus matinees on Fri 13th at 2.30 and Sat 14th at 5.00pm
It’s 1726 and Mrs Tull is in trouble. Business is down, her husband has just had a heart attack, the apprentice boy keeps wandering off, the whores are driving a hard bargain and a bloke in a dress wants a job.
Meanwhile in 2001, Will and Josh are planning an orgy!
Mother Clap’s Molly House is a satirical comedy with songs that celebrates the diversity of human sexuality, explores our need to form families and provides a fascinating insight into a hidden chapter of London’s history.
This play contains themes of an adult nature and male nudity.
By arrangement with Casarotto Ramsay Associates
On the Shore of the Wide World
Wed 11th – Sat 14th February 2009 in the Ron Barber Studio Theatre
11th - 13th at 7.45 plus matinees on Thu 12th at 2.30pm and Sat 14th at 5.15pm
Life’s full of the extraordinary. Full of it.
Roy Keane, girls and the size of the galaxy: Stockport, 2004, and the boys are growing up fast. Soon they’ll be looking to escape, and it makes their parents feel old. Christopher could always rely on a kind word from his grandfather, but now he’s not so sure. And then something happens that changes family life forever.
Set over the course of nine months, ‘On the Shore of the Wide World’ is a tender play about discord, heartbreak and the redemptive powers of love across three generations. The play takes the title from the Keats poem “When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be.” Winner of the 2006 Olivier Award for Best New Play.
This performance contains smoking.
Don Juan in Soho
Wed 18th – Sat 21st February 2009 in the Main House
18th - 20th at 7.30pm plus matinees on Fri 20th at 2.30 and Sat 21st at 5.00pm
‘Forgive my lack of discretion, but the man’s a slag’
…swank new hotels and festering old clip joints, crack heads in alleys and cokeheads in clubs. The destitute, the delirious, the broken and the brazen, the hustlers and hoorays, the media and movers and merciless whores – all packed in to one seething square mile…
DJ feels perfectly at home.
Marber’s startling funny update of Moliere’s portrait of a rake’s progress to Hell is a ravishing and thoroughly modern make-over, brazen with brilliance.
This play contains themes of an adult nature and the performance contains smoking.
The President of an Empty Room
Wed 18th – Sat 21st February 2009 in the Ron Barber Studio Theatre
18th - 20th at 7.45pm plus matinees on Thu 19th at 2.30 and Sat 21st at 5.15pm
“Cuba will become America and those little girls at the back will eventually become Madonna and Michael Jackson and the tough boys in the store room will become Hell’s Angels with real bikes … do you like my republic?”
Amid the vibrant, spirited community of a Cuban cigar factory, the senior roller proclaims a democracy and work goes to hell. There’s Flamenco dancing, burst of opera, quarrels, reconciliations, revelations and a bungled sexual encounter; but Miguel has lost his sweetheart to America, there’s a storm in Havana, and tobacco is the last thing on his mind.
This performance contains smoking.
By arrangement with Nick Hern Books
Tickets: £7 (Concessions £5.50)