The Effect by Lucy Prebble
Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl
Posh by Laura Wade
Directed by Gaye Poole
6 October - 2 December 2015
The Effect
A clinical romance. Two young volunteers take part in a pharmaceutical drugs trial. This funny, moving play explores questions of sanity, neurology and the limits of medicine, asking what makes us who we are and who we love.
“What makes The Effect so special is that as well as being a play of ideas, it is also deeply moving, both in its depiction of the giddy wonder of love, and also in its account of the terrifying wasteland of depression itself. ”
Production Team
Direction: Gaye Poole
Lighting: Dion Rutherford
Graphic design: Vincent Owen
Technical assistance: Luke Jacobs
Programme: Hannah Wright
Cast
Dr Lorna James: Mandy Faulkner
Connie Healey: Alice Kennedy
Tristan Frey: Dave Taylor
Dr Toby Sealey: Phil Dalziel
Eurydice
A reimagining of the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love. The play is a contemporary look at a timeless love story.
“Rhapsodically beautiful. A weird and wonderful new play - an inexpressibly moving theatrical fable about love, loss and the pleasures and pains of memory.”
Production Team
Direction: Gaye Poole
Sound effects: Sam Franicevic
Lighting: Dion Rutherford
Graphic design: Vincent Owen
Technical assistance: Luke Jacobs
Programme: Hannah Wright
Cast
Eurydice: Cian Gardner
Orpheus: Philip Garrity
Her Father: Phil Dalziel
A Nasty Interesting Man/
Lord of the Underworld: Antony Aiono
Little stone: Lily Empson
Big stone: David Marris
Loud stone: Missy Mooney
Posh
A satirical fly-on-the-wall account of a disgraceful and violent meeting of an all-male Oxford University dining club.
“Wade deftly skewers the sense of entitlement that swirls like a sickly perfume around a certain kind of upper-class thug. Her characters seem to have everything, yet whinge relentlessly....Posh combines twisted humour with ripe excess and a cruelly precise topicality.”
Production Team
Direction: Gaye Poole
Lighting: Dion Rutherford
Graphic design: Vincent Owen
Programme: Margaret Amies
Technical assistance: Luke Jacobs
Cast
Jeremy: Phil Dalziel
Guy Bellingfield: Sharn Rao
Chris: David Lumsden
George Balfour: Nick HallToby Maitland: Calum Hughes
Ed Montgomery: Liam Hinton
Harry Villiers: Antony Aiono
Alistair Ryle: Ryan Wood
Hugo Fraser-Tyrwhitt: Conor Maxwell
Miles Richards: Philip Garrity
Dimitri Mitropoulos: Nick Bourchier
James Leighton-Masters: Will Collin
Rachel: Missy Mooney
Charlie: Jacki Dawson