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CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FOR BOOKING: please contact Kim Charnock on info@rogueplay.co.uk
'Portrait Of An Actress As...'- Comedy sketch show
'Not Just A Suitcase' -Family friendly physical theatre
'Ultima Censura' - Live installation
'PORTRAIT OF AN ACTRESS AS… 'RoguePlay's comedy sketch show- TOURING FEB/MARCH 2011
After a triumphant run at Leicester’s Comedy Festival, a superb revival at the Mixing Bowl Theatre, Birmingham, and not to mention successful performances at Henley Fringe Festival 2010, we are currently touring our ever-popular comedy tales about treading the boards.
'The pair share an onstage chemistry akin to that of French and Saunders...Charnock is side-splittingly hilarious as she moves between a hapless worker and her council estate attendee.'' (Jeremy Williams, The Kaje: Sept '10)
We all know making a career in the arts is a relentless struggle between artistic integrity and agreeing to underpaid roles just to add to the CV. RoguePlay Theatre explores this dilemma to its full comedic value with a shamelessly bitchy collection of comedy sketches about the joys of life on stage. A firm part of RoguePlay’s repertoire, Portrait of an Actress As… is a timeless production with the observational comedy as accurate to actresses today as well as those yet to be born.
'As "Portrait Of An Actress" draws to a close, the pair launch into an adaptation of Lily Allen's "Littlest Things". Exhausted from the toings and froings of their comic masterpiece the pair once again raise the game ensuring that tongues talk with glee to all their friends about a wonderful night in the theatre.' (Jeremy Williams, The Kaje: Sept '10)
Previewed in both the Metro and the Birmingham Mail, this show will be continuing to appear at festivals over the year throughout the region.
"All in all though this is a funny show, well observed and with laugh out loud moments. **** (Roger Clarke, Behind the Arras, March 11)
'NOT JUST A SUITCASE' -A family friendly piece of physical theatre- AVAILABLE FOR BOOKING 2011
Follow Kim on her voyage of discovery as she treks the length and breadth of the Universe armed only with a map, a cowboy hat and a lot of cardboard boxes!
For those children with inquisitive minds and adults who have long forgotten the benefits of letting your imagination run free, the RoguePlay Theatre performs a beautifully visual piece pf physical theatre in Not Just A Suitcase. (Andy Jones, Henley Standard: Aug 2010)
Not Just A Suitcase is a versatile piece of physical theatre exploring culture and language through play and different forms of communication. Using only snippets of other European language as well as gibberish, Kim embarkes on her journey that takes her through colourful worlds meeting all sorts of weird and wonderful characters. Her experiences in this piece strike a chord with the relationships and transcience modern children today face.
'Engaging from the start, RoguePlay Theatre used their physicality to create amazing visuals and keep the audience entertained with humour and variety [...] It appeals on so many levels.' (Carol Salt, Primary School Teacher: Aug 2010)
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SHAKESPEARE'S MEASURE FOR MEASURE-promenade theatre adaptation- JANUARY & AUGUST 2010
‘Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.'
What would you do if saving someone you loved from a violent death meant turning your back on a force you have given yourself over to in mind, body and soul, all to satisfy the whim of an untrustworthy hypocrite? For the stoic Isabella to save her innocent brother Claudio, she must satisfy the whims of the devious Angelo, unless there is a way to turn his corruption against him...
RoguePlay Theatre gives Shakespeare's enduring tale of loyalty versus hypocrisy a modern twist in this promenade adaption. Led from space to space by the seemingly honourable and the shamelessly damned, around Birmingham's Custard Factory complex in January of 2010, audiences were met in the cold under the dismal railway arches, before being led through the scenes and through the reception space, which became the Duke's office, across the lake, on which was floating Claudio's prison cell, an empty shop front transformed into an intimate church and finally into the Theatre for the final street scene.
'There were excellent performances throughout [...] Little touches like throwing the audience out of the back door at the end, or having Pompey and Mistress Overdone sipping on a bottle of Jack Daniels in prison, really showed a desire to provide a fresh, innovative, theatrical experience. And that it most certainly was.' (Matthew Williamson, Redbrick Newspaper: 29th Jan 2010)
RoguePlay also took Measure For Measure to a completely new site at the Henley-On-Thams Fringe Festival 2010, where it was hailed as the first piece of site-specific theatre to be held at the Festival.
'We try spaces that are never normally used as a performance space [...] Then we have Hot Gossip, a little coffee house [...] She has a bakery out at the back. This year it will be the Church scene for Measure For Measure, a promenade theatre piece from RoguePlay Theatre. It starts at a Spanish Tapas Restaurant, goes down to the river, calls at Hot Gossip and finishes at St. Mary's Church.' (Jo Southwell, Festival Organiser, The Stage: 24th June 2010)
Audiences loved Measure For Measure, as they followed the action around to witness the consequences of their actions and how inevitably, some rise by sin, others by virtue fall.
'I went to see Measure For Measure tonight! It was AMAZING! [...] I felt like I was an intruder and that was scary because anything could happen and yet it was exhilarating.' (Becky Head, Audience member: 29th Jan 2010)
We have a nice selection of reviews on this production on our Facebook page, so give it a visit for all the links and further reviews.
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ULTIMA CENSURA- Live installation- AVAILABLE FOR BOOKING 2011
Ten dome tents, three live performers and some difficult choices to be made.
Ultima Censura is a live installation allowing each audience member exactly four minutes alone inside ten individual tents, which in turn represent each of the Ten Commandments. By placing the audience member in enclosed and sometimes confrontational positions of choice, Ultima Censura questions the nature of judgement and the notion of being watched, both on a human and a divine level. It is a reflective piece of work that brings into question our very first ideas of 'law' and how those ideas have shaped our current concepts of 'right' and 'wrong'.
First performed in the flooded basement of the Custard Factory, Birmingham, Ultima Censura was a sell-out set of 14 shows. This was then followed up as a 10-week installation piece at New Life Baptist Church, Kings Heath.
'I zoomed down to see RoguePlay's installation piece Ultima Censura and was delighted to be led, not into the Theatre but round and down into a cellar space, high ceilinged and flooded. [...] A couple of strands of thought took me into territory I've not explored before and have stayed with me, which is a great thing for a show to be able to claim credit for. Strongest of all was the setting, the vision of the tents in the flooded cellar.' (James Yarker, Stan's Cafe: 14th Dec 2009)
Spend forty intimate moments and seek to discover where your principles lie and what your personal fundamentals of life and law really are.
'I really enjoyed it! It was definitely food for thought.' (Anna Fields, Creative Alliance: Dec 2009)
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