TEAZER/TRAILERS OF OUR WORK
“…wanted to let you know how appreciated your performance of Sunday in Sodom was... We were all deeply moved by the play and as you could see it really hit home with many students... so much positive feedback from them, both from those who were completely new to the theatre and from those that have experience from before. Many commented on [Vanessa Poole’s] personal performance of Edith as a true feat. A big thank you”
/ "förbluffad fin tolkning av Vanessa Poole som Lots fru"
⭐FROM THE AUDIENCE of⭐
SUNDAY IN SODOM
by Jordan Tannahill
Directed by Matthew Short
"Vilken föreställning!!! Wow säger jag bara, den berörde verkligen!"
"outstanding!"
"djupt imponerad."
"Sunday in Sodom is a must see play! Visceral and gripping, this is an eloquent portrait of the human struggle, brought to life by a brilliant cast and director, staged perfectly in a minimalist set.
The power and beauty of live theatre lies in moments like these... I laughed. I cried..."
"It was so good and moving"
"Quite brilliant"
"Amazing. Impressed"
"This really was London standard of theatre"
"So simple yet so effective"
"Wow. Can't stop thinking about this".
"Such a strong text"
"Was a brilliant play and performance"
"All the cast were superb"
"It really is a play of the moment".
LULLABY FOR A GROWN MAN by Keren Klimovsky
A staged reading in English & a Scandinavian premiere
May 2024, in Lund July 2024 as an excerpt.
Directed by Evdokia Kelessidi
One of a series of staged readings in 2024 put on in Malmö with the support of Bastionen.
ABOUT THE PLAY
In a small country by the sea three generations of women share a home - the grandmother, the wife and the daughter. Where is the man of the house? His kit bag is packed for The Front. The door to the bedroom is locked. Is he there? Can he speak? Has he left to fight? Or has he come and gone?
On stage: Joan M Bentsen, Karen Olrich White, Vanessa Poole.
Light & Sound Designer: Andrew Christiansen. Stage manager: Shari Weisend. Audio music: Elias Faingersh
Vanessa Poole, Kevin Benn, Michaela Palmer, Inna Syzonenko are the family in SUNDAY IN SODOM.
Photos @Smallfield Photo/Tomas Lissåker)
Inna Syzonenko plays Nanna
A rehearsed, staged reading in English on stage. Directed by Henrik Norman.
A world premiere written by Copenhagen-based Irish writer Billy O’Shea.
A ghost story, a love story. A joy to watch.
ABOUT THE PLAY
Daniel sits working in the operations room manning the radar in Helsingborg, overseeing sea traffic between Sweden and Denmark, when a familiar, cheery voice enters the room. It’s Maggie…
Maggie?? When Daniel first met Maggie, - funny, flirty, feisty Maggie - over drinks on board the MS Estonia, he thought it was just a casual hook up.
Maggie teases and makes us laugh. It’s fun. But both Daniel and Maggie it turns out have secrets… What was she keeping in her cabin that night? And then things changed. Forever.
When disaster strikes, who can we rely on? Can we trust a stranger? Can we trust ourselves? And all these years later, why is Daniel the only one who can hear her, see her…Who really are the survivors? In the end, we must hope, love will conquer all.
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Survivors is a play that asks searching questions about what it means to be a human being today. The play is an entirely fictional account, set against the tragic background of the events of 28 September 1994 when the ferry MS Estonia sank in the Baltic Sea, en route from Tallinn to Stockholm, with the loss of 852 lives. 461 of the dead were Swedish. The setting is also very loosely based on the VTS coastal radar stations that have been established along the Sound (Öresund) between Sweden and Denmark. The station is given an imaginary location outside the harbour of Helsingborg in Sweden, from where the Danish town of Helsingör (Elsinore) and ‘Hamlet’s Castle’ (Kronborg) can be seen on the opposite shore.
On stage: Alun Thomas (UK), Vanessa Poole (UK) & introducing Roger LeBlanc Jr (US)
Director: Henrik Norman
Light & Sound Designer: Andrew Christiansen
Stage manager: E. Kelessidi
Props: R. Gott & R leBlanc
Logistics & support: Kevin Benn
Soundscape & live music: Specially composed by Basic Baby
Projection & V/O recording: Rikoschett
This performance is a one-time event. A rehearsed, staged reading in English in the hands of an experienced director; a work in progress where the British/American cast have their scripts in hand.
The date of performance, 28 September 2024, has been specifically chosen to respectfully mark the passing of 30 years to the day, since the sinking of the MS Estonia, the worst peacetime disaster involving a European passenger ship since the Titanic sank in 1912.
SURVIVORS
by Billy O'Shea
