Arch 468: Performance Archive

The following performances took place as part of Arch 468: Prospects 2010

Saturday 13 November 2010 @ 7pm

Le Marchand de Merde

by Andrew Thompson, directed by Tom Latter

Saturday 20 November 2010 @ 7pm

nanJO

by Robin Marchal, director Mark Swetz

Saturday 27 November 2010 @ 7pm

Phyllis

by Sarah Kosar, directed by Lora Mander

Sunday 28 November 2010 @ 7pm

Please Be Patient While You Love Me

by Karla Williams, directed by Isaac Jones

Sunday 18 December 2010 @ 7pm

What We Do Is This

by Cathy Thomas, directed by Charlotte Ive

The following performances took place as part of Arch 468: Prospects 2009

WorkLife: Gavin Whenman

Directed by Melanie Spicer

Sunday 9th August at 7.45pm

David Foster and Graham Leary are colleagues until they are forced to take divergent paths: one is made redundant, while the other prospers. WorkLife is their story as they grapple with their respective destinies.

Gavin Whenman is a writer and journalist. His first play, Stephen Jones, was performed by the University of Reading Drama Society in 2005, and his second, The Newsroom, was shortlisted for the 2007 Windsor Fringe Marriott Award for New Drama Writing. He recently completed the Royal Court Theatre’s Young Writer’s Programme.

All Arch 468 Projects are FREE to attend.

There is no Prospects reading on 2nd August.

Three Stories: Chad Armitstead

Directed by Rebecca Atkinson-Lord

Sunday 26th July at 7.45pm

Ruth is sixteen and wants to start dating. Her parents are religious and she doesn’t believe in sex before marriage. When Ruth falls pregnant after her father claims his ‘paternal privilege’ it’s no immaculate conception and now she must learn to live in a world without the love of a benign father. 

Chad Armitstead moved to the UK from Utah to study play writing in London. His work has been produced at festivals and readings in the US and at the Central School for Speech and Drama.

All Arch 468 Projects are FREE to attend.

The Red Man In The Door / Simply Misplaced Doublebill: Lucy Foley / Sarah Lakin

Directed by Susie Fairbrother

Sunday 19th July at 7.45pm

Two new short plays, full of magic and mystery.

Lucy Foley is based in Ireland and New York. Her plays have been read at the Abbey theatre, Dublin and highly commended for the Lady Gregory Award. She has performed at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival, Enniskillen Arts Festival, and others. She is recording her first album in New York. You can hear her at myspace.com/the2train

Sarah Lakin, a writer and director, successfully finished her degree last year, and has recently been working on her first directorial piece named 'Coro'. This was performed at The Hampstead Theatre, in which she worked with The Heat and Light Production Company. She has also recently completed The Young Writers Programme at the Royal Court Theatre.

All Arch 468 Projects are FREE to attend.

D-Composing: Stuart Pursell

Directed by Chris Hill

Sunday 5th July at 7.45pm

A brand new Absurdist play.

Stuart Pursell is a Performing Arts graduate from the University of Ballarat in Australia. He has been writing and directing theatre since 1993. He has previously worked as artist-in-residence in schools and currently runs the Millfield Youth Theatre Company in north London.

All Arch 468 Projects are FREE to attend.

Las Mujeres: Barbara Cooke

Directed by Zoe Waterman

Sunday 28th June at 7.45pm

A woman in white stalks the waterways as children disappear. Las Mujeres re-envisons a haunting Latin American myth about ethereal women who commit infanticide.

Barbara Cooke is currently on the MA Theatre program at Royal Holloway  after studying playwriting in her native California.

All Arch 468 Projects are FREE to attend.

Virtue: Tim Slover

Directed by Natasha Dawn

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Sunday 21st June at 7.45pm

12th Century mystic nun Hildegard is preparing to complete her book of revelations and present it to the Pope. But everything changes when a beautiful young penitent arrives and begins to appear in Hildegard’s visions.

Tim Slover’s plays have been produced off-Broadway (Joyful Noise­ - Lamb’s Theatre, Treasure – Abingdon Theatre) and in professional regional and university theatres in the US and Canada. Joyful Noise also received a staged reading at the Hampstead Theatre’s Michael Frayn Space last Autumn. Tim’s awards include the Grand Prize, 65th Annual Writers Digest Writers Awards; the Christopher Brian Wolk Award for Playwriting Excellence (NY); a Cine Golden Eagle; a Freedoms Foundation George Washington Honor Medal; and a Hopwood Award for Best Play. He was also a finalist for a Television Arts and Sciences Community Service Emmy.  Tim’s eight-part radio drama, The Christmas Chronicles, will air December 2009 on PBS radio. Virtue was developed in workshops at the Penn State University School of Theatre.

All Arch 468 Projects are FREE to attend.

Men Together Today: Chris Bennion

Directed by Chris Hill

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Sunday 14th June at 7.45pm

Mats and Hahn are on the mountain. They have to get to the top. But others are close behind, threatening to beat them to it. Who will survive in the deadly race to be first?

Chris Bennion studied play writing at Goldsmiths College before writing Men Together Today while on the Royal Court Young Writers Programme. Earlier this year, he was selected as one of the writers taking part in the inaugural Theatre 503 Foundations evening.

All Arch 468 Projects are FREE to attend.

Almost Dead, Nearly Funny: Richard Lazarus

Directed by Luke McEwan

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Sunday 7th June at 7.45pm

Saul Green is leading a double life. By day he's an accountant but at night he sneaks out to perform stand-up in secret. His Mother is a harridan and his wife is shagging his brother. Life sucks. But what if he were dead?

Richard Lazarus’ stage plays Shopping Lists And Suicide Notes and Hoofprints In The Sand have been produced in London and Edinburgh. He has written twenty episodes of EastEnders, and co-written a Sit-Com with Manjinder Virk – Being Jane Brown – which is being developed with Baby Cow.

All Arch 468 Projects are FREE to attend.

Small Black Flowers: Craig Norman

Directed by Ellen McDougall

Sunday 31st May at 7.45pm

“Small Black Flowers” is a quartet of pieces filled with the bittersweetness of rememberance and loss.

Craig Norman studied scriptwriting at the University of Glamorgan. His plays include Killing London, Bleach, Dark Forest and Aurora and have been staged across the UK.

All Arch 468 Projects are FREE to attend.

Right: Chad Armitstead

Directed by Helen Tennison

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Sunday 24th May at 7.45pm

Michael and Evelyn are a Mormon couple trying to have a baby - until she is raped and becomes pregnant. Now Michael is trying to persuade his wife not to have a baby that isn’t his... 

Chad Armitstead moved to the UK from Utah to study play writing in London. His work has been produced at festivals and readings in the US and at the Central School for Speech and Drama.

All Arch 468 Projects are FREE to attend.

Rather More Pressing Issues: Inigo Purcell

Directed by Rebecca Atkinson-Lord

Sunday 10th May at 7pm

Later in the afternoon on which the world began to end, two school friends meet in Trafalgar Square… 

Inigo Purcell has written two and a half plays, one of which, Always So Free, is being performed at the LOST One Act Festival this May. She began to write plays when on courses at the Royal Court Young Writer’s Programme and somewhere along the way discovered that she wants to write plays that change the world, preferably in a three act structure.

All Arch 468 Projects are FREE to attend.