Stoke Newington Shakespeare Festival

Hi everyone, we DO have a website but are having techincal problems, so you have to visit manually - it doesn't come up in Google.

All the info for the festival is there, including tickets sales... www.roartheatre.co.uk. GO!

Festival design

Look at our lovely poster design, thanks Pip!

New website

Website's up!

roartheatre.co.uk

Updates...

We've been given the definite go-ahead by Abney Park Cemetery for A Midsummer Night's Dream, so now we can create a spectacular evening promenade event that will really knock your socks off!

Auditions for Measure for Measure are up on Facebook, please do join the group if you want updates about these and all upcoming auditions: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=204685669551915

Roar x

Shakespeare in Stokey

Planning for the Stoke Newington Shakespeare Festival is well under way, and it's already looking exciting. We had a great turn out at our meet and greet - thanks to everyone who turned up, you'll be hearing from us soon if you haven't already. The event really showed us that there is no limit; it was encouraging to meet so many enthusiastic and talented practitioners.

We're coming up with events, workshops, and rehearsed readings to complement the three Shakespeare productions that are going to take place. Measure for Measure at the Lion is going to open the festival in early June, and it's going to end with a spectacular Midsummer Night's Dream in Abney Park Cemetery in July. There's also going to be a third production, which is yet to be decided.

The first round of auditions are going to be for Measure for Measure, which will be held during the royal wedding weekend. If you're interested in auditioning for this or for anything else, or in any other aspect of the festival, get in touch by emailing RoarTheatre@hotmail.com

Stoke Newington Shakespeare Festival

We've recovered from FLAMING BODIES and have started planing our next project, a Stoke Newington Shakespeare festival in late June.

We're organising a number of events, from workshops to readings, and will be mounting two productions:

Midsummer Night's Dream in Abney Cemetery
Measure for Measure at the Lion Pub

We are also looking at the possibility of mounting a third, so if you have any ideas get in touch at RoarTheatre@hotmail.com

Review of Flaming Bodies

So this is pretty good...

Review

Here's a review of FLAMING BODIES, which ends tonight. I've really enjoyed it - video, more info about how the run went,  and another review to follow. For now...

Roar x

REVIEW

FLAMING BODIES opens on Tuesday

Hi everyone,

Roar Theatre's FLAMING BODIES opens on Tuesday at the Rosemary Branch, Islington. There are going to be four performances: on the 8th and the 9th at the Rosemary Branch at 7.30, and then the 13th and 14th at the Lion Pub, Stoke Newington, at 6pm.

We've been working extra hard to make this a really great production. With a wonderfully talented cast of Guildhall graduates and original set and sound design, FLAMING BODIES promises to be a completely bizarre and thoroughly enjoyable evening.

Rehearsals have been going so well that last time Snoo came along he didn't have any notes for us.

To find out more check out the facebook group and to book tickets email RoarTheatre@hotmail.com - do book as all performances are filling up quickly.

Looking forward to seeing you there,

Roar xx

FLAMING BODIES facebook event

LOVELY NEW POSTER

Here's the poster for our upcoming production of Flaming Bodies, designed by the lovely Binky. It's Binky's birthday today: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Meeting with Snoo

We are lucky enough to have Snoo Wilson on board. I had dinner with him last night; we split a bottle of wine and talked all things theatrical. He also offered to help out in any way possible, which is both exciting and daunting! He gave me some very good insights that will without a doubt only service the production for the better.

Snoo's a prolific writer, and his work has been staged at the Arcola, the Royal Court, the Bush Theatre, the Young Vic and by the RSC.

Next production decided: Snoo Wilson's FLAMING BODIES

Hi there,

we at Roar have just decided on our next production: Snoo Wilson's Flaming Bodies. It's a great and completely bizarre play. It's certainly going to be a challenge, both for us and our audience. More to be revealed later...

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Roar Theatre presents Snoo Wilson's FLAMING BODIES

Cast:
Henry Gilbert
Paloma Oakenfold
Marene Vanholk

Director: Bryony Hope
Producer: Saskia Rusher
Designer: Rachel Wingate
Sound Designer: James Finn

8th and 9th of March: The Rosemary Branch Theatre, Islington
13th and 14th of March: The Lion Pub, Stoke Newington Church Street

After Liverpool

James Saunders writes of the play: 'After Liverpool is not a play but a suite of pieces, to be performed by one or more actors and one or more actresses. The order in which the pieces are played is not specified. Using a musical analogy, the script gives some themes, within and between which any number of variations are possible.'

Or to put it simply, the play-script consists of lots of little chunks of dialogue simply shared between M and W (man and woman). With six actors, the first thing to do was to establish three couples, which we did through improvisation. After the couples were established, we set about organising the chunks of dialogue into three distinct narratives, with some overlaps. 

We established three locations, and ended up with a couple who spent most of their time in bed, with a dysfunctional, primarily sexual, relationship, a couple who spent their time arguing in their living room, and finally a couple who kept on meeting in a bar but never quite made it happen. Oh and the girl from the bed ends up going to the bar and taking bar-man back to her bedroom, so there was a crossover and a bit of infidelity thrown in for good measure. And all of it was put together and rehearsed in two weeks!

We did two performances to packed houses on both nights, and everyone seemed to thoroughly enjoy it, to the extent that they weren't distracted by the noise from the footie downstairs in the pub. Or at least that's what they told us.

Cast:

Terry Doe

Paloma Oakenfold

Patrick Osborne

Nikesh Patel

Marene Vanholk

Eleanor Wyld

Director: Bryony Hope

Producer: Ellie King

Video footage of After Liverpool coming soon!

Roar Theatre

Roar Theatre was established in 2010 by Bryony Hope and Eleanor Wyld, after a vague promise to work together post-university, and a much-less-vague-promise once they had both graduated.

Roar was set up to provide a platform for emerging theatrical talent in London, especially for those attempting to establish a career in theatre. It gives young practitioners a forum in which to work with others in a similar position to themselves. The aim is to produce good, thought provoking work, with no gimmicks involved. Just thoroughly enjoyable theatre.

Roar are lucky enough to to have a free space above The Lion pub on Stoke Newington Church Street, a godsend in a city as bloody expensive as London.