International Student Drama Festival Show Guide

International Student Drama Festival
NSDF
ISDF – NSDF12
The 57th Sunday Times NSDF
22nd – 30th June 2012
The National Student Drama Festival Ltd, Registered
Charity No. 1054121
Company registered in the United Kingdom
No. 3103602
Registered Office c/o Breckman and Company, 49 South
Molton Street, London, W1K 5LH
CryHurtFood
By
Daniel Giles
Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club, Harvard University, USA
Cast
Jane - Georgina Parfitt
Maurice - Ben Lorenz
Janis - Margaret Kerr
Lucy - Mariel Pettee
Annabel - Scout O’Beirne
Alex - Sam Clark
A little girl must be made to realize that she is not actually a little girl. Her parents
must choose to save either their marriage or their family. A scientist must make an
unthinkable sacrifice in order to cause an impossible transformation. Based on true
events, CryHurtFood is a new monster story about a chimpanzee who believes that
she is a person, and what happens when the people who raised her to think so decide
that she is not.
Fatherly
By Arash Abbasi and Mohammad Naghaee adapted from the book by Arash Abbasi
Pol Group, Islamic Azad University
Cast
Ionas 2, Father 3 - Amir Bashiri
Ionas 3, Father 1 - Majid Bakhsheshian
Mather - Mahboubeh Soltani
Mehri - Neda Asadi
Ionas 1, Father 2 - Sajjad Entezari
Fatherly is the story of a young man that has lots of difficulties and he thinks all of the
problems are because of his family and specially his father. And to get rid of all these
problems he makes some decisions that cause struggles between him and his family.
In this play we focus on the world of youth, their problems and the way they think
which makes it usually difficult communicate with their parents and the previous
generation in general. Our play talks about the decisions they make that sometimes
lead to immigration.
Five Names
By Howard Barker
Pot of Thieves, Aberystwyth University, UK
Corporal Webb - Joseph Blunt
Sarah – Louise Sutterby
Abraham – William Pritchard
Servant - Philip Clement
Charles VII - Gareth van der Westhuyzen
Penelope - Alecsandra Rees
Odysseus - Andrew Gaunt
Mrs Williams - Devon Baur
Husband - Jonathan Patton
Five Names is the world premiere of this unpublished Howard Barker play where
figures in five landscapes across history and mythology struggle against the
circumscriptions of their identities. The performance seeks and wrestles for meaning
within the challenging matrix of morality, sexuality and death which the theatre alone
can offer. Pot of Thieves is a theatre company based in Aberystwyth, Mid Wales, which
seeks to produce radical text-based drama grounded in an inter-cultural disciplining of
the actors' expressive bodies.
The Gaza Monologues
Astar Theatre
The Gaza Monologues is a global project told by youth around the world. In 2010,
ASHTAR Theatre decided that it is time to make the voices of the children in Gaza
heard and let at least their monologues travel to the World to be heard from people
outside their prison Gaza…
The Gaza Monologues are personal stories of 31 young people from Gaza translated
into 14 languages, and were performed simultaneously on October 17th 2010 by over
1500 youngsters in more than 60 cities in 36 countries around the world.
The Gaza Monologues film is following the theatre training that took place over 6
months with the young Gazans recording their fears, pain, hopes and aspirations.
Good
By C P Taylor
Actung, Kibbutzim College, Israel
Cast:
Maurice - Gome Fryd
Bouller, Hitler, Eichmann - Elad Semama
Helen, Anne, His Mother - Zlil-Hen Saks
Halder - Yoli Seker
Pianist – Michael Soloman
John Halder is an educated German in the 1930s, who constantly hears dance bands
playing in his head, marking his mood, and, to an extent, his desperation. Halder is a
good man, preoccupied by his demented mother, the loveless marriage he's stuck in,
and his newly found love for his student Anne. His pro-euthanasia work, based on the
experiences with his mother, attracts the interest of the Nazis. Halder not only joins the
party, but becomes an active member of the SS in the attempt to do good - to help the
less fortunate.
Through a unique physical language and a periodic music, a group of Israeli actors
interacts with its past, present and future.
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If Room Enough
By William Shakespeare adapted by the Company
With Wings, Various, UK
Cast
Ariel - Tom Coxon
Prospero - Christian Eccles-Cannon
Miranda - Chloe Crenigan
Caliban - Dominic Blake
Trinculo - Mark Portnell
Stefano - Josh Wells
Ferdinand - Tom Figgins
Alonso - David Hickling
Gonzalo – Isobel Jones
If Room Enough transports you into a world where Shakespeare’s play: The
Tempest, can be ‘played’ with. It is an intimate and dynamic theatre where characters
are suspended in sleep and fall in love in and out of drawers. With a close ensemble
who don’t believe in half-doing anything - and a beach hut - magic will be found in the
everyday. The Island positively breathes live original music as rights to people and
places and freedom are explored.
Inheritance Blues
Devised by DugOut Theatre Company
DugOut Theatre Company, University of Leeds, UK
Cast:
Scissorhands - Ed Smith
Kingpin - Luke Murphy
Champagne - Harry Williams
Robert - Tom Black
Charlie - Henry Perryment
Archie - Will Barwick
Allow ‘The Hot Air Ballues’ to take you back in time to their first (and strangest) gig as
a trio. The Fenwick brothers have just buried their father, and fraternal tensions are
high as they toast his memory in a Dorset country pub. All the while, the bandinexplicably booked for the occasion- play on, and eventually face up to some tensions
of their own. Comedy, live music and a cappella singing combine in DugOut Theatre’s
first devised show.
Leather
By Dean Tristan
My Son Tristan, University of Lincoln, UK
Cast
Gaius - Danny Ridealgh
Venia - Abigail Smith
Dubh – Dean Graham
Boss - Nicholas Holden
Truck Driver/Vet - Alex Harvey Sporle
Timo - Joseph Murray
Tiss - Leana Sherwood
Director - Dean Graham
Stage Manager - Gemma Smart
Technical Crew and Operators - Gemma Smart
Photo Credit: Sean Hunt
Violence, vice and dubstep fuel this grimy, urban thriller. A dark, comic journey,
illuminated by vibrant characters, vigorous dialogue and a gripping, electric plot. Gaius
is trying to make a better life for himself and his drug-addicted girlfriend, Venia,
carrying out highwayman-like heists on passing trucks with his Kiwi accomplice, Timo.
Their latest cargo, a truck full of red, leather sofas, brings with it a more sinister threat
than the clutches of the law...and they don’t even know it’s coming.
Mephisto
Based on the novel by Klaus Mann, Adapted by
Ariane Mnouchkine, Translated by Timberlake
Wertenbaker
Heart Sleeve Productions, Oxford University, UK
Cast:
Hendrik Hofgen - Nick Howard Brown
Carola Martin – Ella Waldman
Mr Knurr - James Kitchin
Theresa von Herzfeld - Zoe Bullock
Hans Miklas/Thomas Bruckner - Lloyd Houston
Sebastien Bruckner - Jack Cottrell
Magnus Gottchalk - Jo Allan
Otto Ulrich - Tim Gibson
Madame Efeu/Emelyne - Lucie Cox
Juliette - Maisie Richardson-Sellers
Alex - Georgia Waters
Myriam Horowitz - Philippa Baines
Nicoletta van Niebuhr - Sarah Perry
Erika Bruckner - Joana Duyster Burreda
Theophile Sarder - Richard Hill
Lorenz/Ludwig - Nick Williams
Hans Jostinkel - Johan Floderus
Hendrik is an ambitious actor in the cut-throat world of German theatre. As the Nazis
gain control life becomes increasingly dangerous for his Peppermill cabaret with its
Jewish and socialist actors. When Hendrik is offered the leading role of Mephisto in
Faust, he faces the ultimate temptation: what is he prepared to sacrifice for the chance
of stardom… Meanwhile his beleaguered colleagues confront their own impossible
choices.
Erotic and provocative, this dazzling ensemble piece is a cabaret about cabaret.
Moderate Light Fastness
By Richard Aczel
Port in Air, University of Cologne, Germany
Man 1 - André Valente
Man 2 - Thomas Bönnen
Woman 1 – Sarah Freihoff
Woman 2 - Jana Steinheuer
Lulu - Sophia Leube
Director - Richard Aczel
Assistant Director - Laura Casey
Lighting Designer - Henning Vahlbruch
Photo Credit: Lily McLeish
Two couples, moderately unfaithful, moderately unhappy clash verbally at high speed.
Gridlocked in the language of home decoration, they long for something new. It’s time
to change the wallpaper, but they live, breathe and speak through its patterns. Every
change is just another kind of pattern repeat. Time passes. Patterns harden. The paper
slowly peels from the walls. Underneath, in place of a revelation, is a shock both more
moderate and more harrowing.
Thanks: Artheater, Köln and English Department, University of Cologne
Our Town
By Thornton Wilder translated by Irakli Samsonadze
Shota Rustaveli Theatre& Film State University, Georgia
Cast
Stage Manager - Konstantine Roinishvili
Stage Manager, Mrs. Soames - Tekla Javakhadze
Mr.Webb - Nikoloz Gabelia
Mr.Webb - Tamaz
Mrs.Webb - Ana Tskhadadze
Emily Webb - Mariam Nadiradze
Wally Webb - Davit Matsaberidze
Dr.Gibbs - Zaza Meladze
Mrs. Gibbs - Natia Kvashali
Rebbeca Gibbs - Salome Tscindeliani
Rebbeca Gibbs - Tinatin Makharadze
George Gibbs -Giorgi Makharadze
Joe Stoddard - Tornike Gogrichiani
Simon Stimson - Lasha Gurgenidze
Constable Warren - Giorgi Mamalashvili
Our version of play, based on original text of the book Thornton Wilder, Our Town and
other plays. Modern Classics.
United States. Years of Great Depression. Two vagrants (man and woman) sneak into
abandoned salon. They are preparing for overnight stay. Woman reminiscing about
past times, her youth, her mother - town Grover’s Corners in New Hampshire. It’s
cold. Man and woman are embracing each other, trying not to be frozen at night and
whole story of play begins like a mirage.
Stains
By Nadav Fridman
Kibbutzim College, Tel Aviv, Israel
Cast
Nadav Fridman
Ortal Evnaim
Ariel Cohen
Mor Antar
Nadav Sadaka
Nadav is wounded badly in his military
service. What happened to a man who tries
to get back to normality when nothing is
normal.
A rare glimpse to a wounded soul, who
struggles getting back to life, especially
when intimacy appears. An exciting personal
story about dealing with trauma, which
integrates humour and pain, wild fantasy
and sharp reality.
Sweeney Todd
Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim,
book by Hugh Wheeler from an
adaptation by Christopher Bond
Newcastle University Theatre Society,
Newcastle University, UK
Cast
Sweeney Todd - Ben Hooper
Mrs Lovett - Milly Falkner-Lee
Beadle Bamford - Paddy Kelly
Anthony - Jamie Excell
Pirelli - Terry Manolitsis
Johanna - Katy Louise Nicholas
Judge Turpin - Ed Burgon
Tobias - Rachel Slattery
Beggar Woman - Rebecca Ward
Mr Fogg - Christian Cargill
Paul Thomas
Carl Jonsson
Paul Hickey
James Houston
Luke Kelly
Max Taylor McEwan
Dan Grant
Chorus
Alex Herbert
Georgia Snow
Louise Anderson
Lucy Howard
Annelies de Jong
Catherine McCallum
Camilla St Aubyn
Revenge is a dish best served cold for wronged barber Sweeney Todd, who seeks
retribution for the loss of his family. With those who maligned him still at large, Todd
sets about making the world pay for his loss. So begins a war of personal justice. With
companion Mrs Lovett, owner of a failing pie shop, they hatch a plan that turns the
‘dish’ of revenge into something not so metaphorical. Fresh from Newcastle, this
production puts a unique spin on the classic tale! If you would like to consider staging a
version
of
this
production
go
to:
(http://www.josefweinberger.com/musicals/musical/sweeney-todd-school-edition.html)
Tainai
By Juro Miyoshi
Bokutachi Watashitachi, New National Theatre Drama Studio
Cast:
Hanaoka - Yudai
Murako - Akiko Enji
Sayama - Satoshi Imai
Who are the Japanese of today? We went on a search for a hint to answer this big
question, motivated also by the tsunami and nuclear disaster of last year. Can we also
approach the essence of Man’s nature? Looking into the literature of the period around
WWII, we found our play Tainai (In the Womb) written in l949 by Juro Miyoshi who
bravely faces how the defeat in the war affected the Japanese and takes us on a
journey to ourselves.
The Birthday Party
by Harold Pinter
DugOut Theatre Company, University of Leeds, UK
Cast:
Meg - Phoebe Sparrow
Petey - Will Barwick
Stanley - Hugh Coles
LuLu - Megan Greeves
McCann - Luke Murphy
Goldberg - Tom Black
It isn’t Stanley Webber’s birthday. At least, he’s pretty sure it isn’t. But if it isn’t his
birthday, why have two strangers arrived to celebrate with him? What is this ‘guest
house’ in Brighton, really? Is he really a pianist? Above all, who watered the wicket at
Melbourne?
The Lives They Left Behind
By
Lucy Flack & Laura White
The Miskin Theatre Company, North
West Kent College- Dartford, UK
Cast
Willard - Stephen Edwards
Dr Walter Chase - Billy Howard
Dr
John
Deegan
–
Jordan
Ledgerwood
Matron Gillian Packard - Emilie Gain
Nurse Nancy Jaycot Caniff - Rowen
Bodle
Nightwatch Clarence - Lawrence
Folashade
Irma Medina - Millie Aldridge
Margaret Dunleavy - Perri-Rose
Usher
Madeline Cartier - Nerija Caberia
Dr Jeffrey Lerman - Jake Day
Lawrence Marek - Peter Hall
Herman Graham - Ollie Saward
Ethel Black Small - Alex Melody
Frank Coles - Daniel Alaile
Roderigo Lagon - Erol Uzunhasan
Dmytro Zarchuk - Lewis Plumb
Faith Bomore - Lataisha Fashola
Michael Brink - Blake Palmer
Josephine Smith – Emma Ray
Charles Farkas - Tommy Gorman
We are your Brother, Your Sister, Your Mother, your Father, the man across the street.
Wooden racks filled with Suitcases. Men’son the left, Women’s on the right. Labelled
and covered with layers of birds droppings. A secret history, untouched for many years.
The Miskin Theatre lifts the lid on the real life stories of the forgotten patients of Willard
State Hospital, to share the emotional stories and poignant memories from The Lives
They Left Behind.
Umfazi
By Sandra Ndebele and Mandisi Gobodi
Intombi Zomqangala, Intombi Zomqangala School of Arts
Cast:
Drummer, Singer - Mzingaye Ndlela
Dancer, Singer, Drummer - Buhlebenkosi Sibanda
Dancer, Singer, Drummer – Alice Gurure
Lead Actress, Drummer, Singer - Titibele Phiri
Dancer, Singer, Ullullation - Ayanda Shaylet Mpofu
Dancer, Singer, Percussion - Faith Moyo
Dancer, Singer - Nodumo Sibanda
Dancer, Singer - Matrine
Dancer, Singer - Moline Muzanenhamo
Dancer, Singer - Nomalungelo Sibindi
This is a riveting traditional and contemporary dance drama utilizing mime and song to
entertain and educate on issues affecting women. The first act deals with physical
abuse in a marriage. We are introduced to the traditional setup we have the girls going
to the river, a ceremony where the man chooses the woman. A wedding celebration,
then the man physically abuses his wife. Other women come to her rescue and warn
all abusers that they will meet the same fate if they mess around with women.
In the next act the same man is now the priest at an Apostolic Faith denomination, he
leads the all women congregation in song and in dance. Whilst he is preaching the
gospel he has affairs with different women in the congregation he impregnates two of
them and infects three others with HIV. The women meet up in a clinic and discover his
affairs and end up fighting. A woman alerts the other women and they accost the
Pastor bringing him down showing that women have the power to protect their rights.
The last act shows the power of women. The can do things on their own, sing on their
own, dance on their own, play the drum.
Unlovable
by Samuel Hardy
Loughborough University Department of English and Drama, Loughborough University,
UK
Cast
Robert – Ben Burns Scully
Julian - Toby Bartlett
Christie - Lolly Adefope
Biologist Robert attempts to deliver a sex education lecture with his colleague, Christie,
after a regular lecturer is involved in a traffic collision. Neurotic Robert struggles to
cope with Christie’s cold, dismissive manner and the lecture hall’s lazy and apathetic
technician, Julian. Robert’s naivety, uninformed perceptions of the opposite sex and
perverse curiousness about ‘doing it’ gradually lead him towards an inevitable
meltdown…
Wake in Fright
adapted by Bob Pavlich from a novel by
Kenneth Cook
La Trobe Student Theatre and Film, La Trobe
University and the Festival of Australian
Student Theatre, Australia
John Grant - Leo Milesi
Janette - Sophie Petridis
Dick - Stephen Foster
Jock - Kurt Mottershead
Doc Tydon - Matthew Bolger-Hobson
Joe - Jacob Pruden
Bar Woman - Renee Palmer
Tim Hynes - Matt Sharawara
Musician - David Wright
Wake in Fright tells the story of John Grant, a
young teacher from the city who is eager to
escape his one-room outback school for the
summer holidays. He heads toward Sydney,
passing through the rough mining town of
Bundanyabba. Losing his wages in a game of two-up, Grant becomes hopelessly
stranded, quickly sinking into a cycle of drunkenness, hangovers, fumbling sexual
encounters and increasing self-loathing. Trapped in a hellish limbo, the once ordinary
world of rural Australia becomes the setting for his grotesque and sometimes surreal
nightmare.
By arrangement with the Licensor, Kenneth Cook Estate c/o Curtis Brown (Aust) Pty Ltd
Zombie Haiku
Adapted by Chloe Mashiter from the book by Ryan Mecum
CUADC/Fletcher Players, Cambridge University
Ensemble - Michael Campbell, Laura Gilbert, Robbie Aird, Charlie Bindels, Lizzie
Schenk, Natalie Noble, Katherine Soper, Justin Wells
An original adaptation of Ryan Mecum’s book, Zombie Haiku follows the survivors of a
zombie apocalypse through ruined houses, decimated cities and abandoned airports as
they try to stay alive.
Bringing the humour, emotion and darkness of the book to the stage, this production
blends physical theatre, an original soundtrack and (of course) haiku to explore what
happens when the living clash with the undead.
The city is dead | Streets are filled with people | Who aren’t quite people.