Upstart writer-director team in hit show at the Old Red Lion
Two of our Upstart colleagues, writer Sarah Sigal (The Christmas Truce) and director Jessica Beck (Zoo), are behind a rather spiffing show at the Old Red Lion Theatre. Sarah’s new play Alice’s Adventures in the New World is a picaresque nineteenth-century voyage from Ireland to Colorado, via bohemian London and the world of New York’s down-and-out theatricals and society belles. It’s had some great reviews (check out the whatsonstage.com one here), a terrific cast and design, and Upstart regular sound and lighting designer Phil Hewitt has brought some brilliant Heath-Robinson contraptions to the sound. I’ve seen the show twice now and thoroughly enjoyed it – check it out!
Booking available via the Old Red Lion website.
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Upstart Theatre return to Tristan Bates’ Midnight Matinees!
This month Upstart join some of London’s most innovative theatre practitioners including Coney, Alex Christofi, Crow Theatre and Folded Feather at the Tristan Bates Theatre for their infamous Midnight Matinees. Prepare to be taken on a journey that includes riots on Brighton Beach, a 1990’s school reunion, a circus in a suitcase and a post-modern pastiche extravaganza that involves cutting up words and making your own play. These regular sell out nights, recommended in Time Out’s top things to do in 2009 are not to be missed!
Upstart are planning a full scale riot – think leather, grease and Elvis versus parkas, Lambrettas and the Yardbirds. It’s March 18th, 1964 – a bank holiday weekend – and everyone’s heading down to Brighton for a bit of a holiday. The youth are just discovering what it means to be young, have money in your pocket and a thirst for life. Pity that what happened next sparked a nationwide moral panic.
May 18th 1964, Brighton Beach.
Mods vs Rockers.
The Who vs Presley.
Vermin. Louts. Moral Panic.
Whose side are you on?
A riotous attack on the senses by Upstart Theatre
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Tristan Bates Theatre
Saturday 20th February
Midnight – 3am
Tickets: £5
Book Now: 020 7240 6283 / http://www.tristanbatestheatre.co.uk
Address: Tristan Bates Theatre, 1a Tower Street, WC2H 9NP
Nearest Tubes: Leicester Square, Tottenham Court Road, Covent Garden
vBlog – De Menezes family unveil permanent memorial at Stockwell
Yesterday, the family of Jean Charles de Menezes unveiled a permanent memorial outside Stockwell underground station. Jean Charles, a Brazilian electrician, was shot dead at the station by armed police officers on 22nd July 2005.
Vivian Figueiredo, Jean’s cousin, said on behalf of the family:
Jean Charles was not the first person to be killed unjustly by the police and he won’t be the last. But we hope that through our campaign, we have raised awareness of the importance of police accoutability and how families should always be told the truth about how their loved one has died. To this day, not a single police officer has been disciplined or punished in any way for the deliberate shooting of an innocent man and the cover-up that followed. This is a public scandal and this memorial stands testament to that.
The memorial replaces the “shrine” to Jean’s memory which had been created and maintained by members of the public alongside Jean’s family since the immediate aftermath of his death in 2005.
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