Take a look at some of our previous plays
While London dances the river rises & swells Jewish immigrants try to get by – It’s 1922 and Noah Babel is busy carving the last few animals for his carousel which he has been commissioned to build for Darke & Sanger’s Traveling Fair. His little workshop in Paradise Street, Bermondsey, is wedged between the towering […]
Could the ‘Famous Five’ possibly be ideal for a commedia dell’arte treatment? Finding a paradigm for 1940s English village life – When we decided to do a play in 2007 about English village life and our class system in the 1940s (paradigmatically enshrined in Enid Blyton’s ‘Famous Five’ stories) the Italian ‘family household’ model of […]
Commedia as ‘epic theatre’ A touch of Brecht – Our 2006 play again takes up Brecht’s idea of epic and we found that commedia dell’arte fits very nicely. It is another odyssey (therefore not a traditional commedia story structure), this time to find gold and with it happiness and personal meaning. Edmond Warner, a Daily Telegraph […]
This was revised & toured again in 2018 as ‘Oberon’s Cure’ The Fairy Queen & A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Many people have said that the 2005 play, The Fairy Queen, reminded them of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. Some people even thought it was A Midsummer Night’s Dream! Our play, though a quite different story, is similar in […]
More experiments with our style Another adventure with Brechtian ‘epic’ theatre – The Odyssey, our play for the summer of 2004, was another Brechtian style epic (with the goddess Athene as narrator) and another journey or rite of passage (this time for the son Telemachus and wife Penelope, who search for the lost father / son, […]
With new versions in 2004 & 2014 What do women really want? Well there’s a question! – Is there one man who has not asked it? ‘The Wife of Bath’ (in later versions in 2004 for the Old Red Lion indoors run in Islington & the 2014 rural tour it was just called ‘The Wife’) […]
This was substantially re-written & toured again with the same title in 2015 Our first effort to make a brand new play Looking for our own style – Written by Pete Talbot fresh back from training with Antonio Fava at the Scuola Internazionale dell’Attore Comico and using ideas from Flaminia Scala’s ‘Scenarios of the Commedia […]
The Comedy of Errors (1999) Starting out with Shakespeare – Our first tour was in the lovely summer of 1999 with the commedia dell’arte inspired play of twins, mix-up’s and confusions, Shakespeare’s appropriately named under the circumstances ‘Comedy of Errors’. We had a cast of nine, hopelessly low wages and a set that initially took […]
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