Paris English Theatre news from the Smith Prize for Political Theatre, Moving Parts, Montmartre Dionysia, Shakespeare and Company's Bard en Seine reading and more!
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laywrights! Check out the Smith Prize for Political Theater.
"Administered by the National New Play Network, the prize encourages emerging playwrights to dramatize the pressing issues of our times, and provides an incentive for theaters to produce their winning play. The prize annually awards $10,000 to the selected proposal for a new play: a $5,000 commission to the winning playwright to write the play, $2,500 once the play is written for its further development at an NNPN Core Member theatre, and $2,500 to the first theater which mounts a full production."
http://www.timothyjaysmith.com/bio/the-smith-prize/
Sunday, 30th November 2014 at 7.30 pm Carr's Pub & Restaurant 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris Metro : Tuileries MOVING PARTS presents a reading of a screenplay by Ralph Bismargi SLOWLY BUT SURELY
Will Botch is a few french fries short of a happy meal. His dream to be an actor like his dad isn't working out. Even his mom throws him out of the house. Then his teacher says "Why go to auditions if you can act every single day of your life?"....
with
JEREMY COFFMAN, ANDRES PEYROT
OLIVIER RAYNAL, DAVID COBURN
TIFFANY HOFSTETTER, DARCY RUSCIO
NICOLAS DELENNE, PETER VICKERS
KAY BOURGINE, LOUISE DENYER
ALICIA MARTINEAU, FRANCES VIERAS BLANC
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DECEMBER 1 TO 6th: New Plays in English with Montmartre Dionysia! For tickets email[email protected]. Full programme here: Dionysia Dec 1to6 Programme (see our interview with Albert Alla on creating English language theatre in Paris)
Monday to Thursday, we're at the Petit Théâtre du Bonheur, 6 rue Drevet, 75018 Paris, and the first show starts at 8pm, the second at 9.30 pm.
Friday and Saturday, we're aboard the Alternat, Quai St Bernard in the 5th (close to the Péniche du Coeur), at 7.30 pm.
SCHEDULE
Monday:
8 pm:
Warm-up: Boobs: The Left Boob
Competition Play: King of Cakes
9.30 pm:
Off-Competition: Napoleon, Femme, Rhinocéros &
Victoria Station; Night
Tuesday:
8 pm:
Warm-up: Boobs: The Right Boob
Competition Play: Yellow Sable Coat
9.30 pm:
Off-Competition: Death in the Haarlem Projects
Wednesday:
8 pm:
Warm-up: Boobs: The Left Boob
Competition Play: How Not To Write A Play
9.30 pm:
Off-Competition: Victoria Station; Night &
Napoleon, Femme, Rhinocéros
Thursday:
8 pm:
Warm-up: Boobs: The Right Boob
Competition Play: Saturday Afternoon
9.30 pm:
Off Competition Play: Requiem for a Play, feat. Where All Roads Lead
Friday:
Off-Competition Finale:
Napoleon, Femme, Rhinocéros
Death in the Haarlem Projects
Victoria Station; Night
Saturday:
Competition Final:
King of Cakes
Yellow Sable Coat
How Not To Write A Play
Saturday Afternoon
Followed by a party.
PLAY DETAILS:
COMPETITION
Title: Yellow Sable Coat
Playwright: Gina Cargas
Director: Gina Cargas
Blurb: When two actresses accidentally kill a dog in a Hollywood hotel room, they must decide who's to blame — and whether to keep their relationship secret.
Title: Saturday Afternoon
Playwright: Tom O`Brien
Director: Tom O`Brien
Blurb: Molly wants excitement, Pemberton needs to take care of one final piece of business and Jerry shows up looking good in leather. The countryside isn't always as restful as it seems!
Title: How Not to Write a Play
Playwright: Iana Sophia & David Leo Sirois
Director: Iana Sophia
Blurb: How Not to Write a Play is about a couple: Martin, a self-absorbed poet, and Victoria, an ambitious drama student, who are writing a play together, involving a similar couple writing a play. But they get stuck in it. Enter a handsome encyclopedia salesman...
Title: King of Cakes
Playwright: Nia Cason
Director: Nia Cason
Blurb: Welcome to the world of proud wedding-cake baker, Henry. Believing that his beloved cakes deserve nothing less than the finest occasion, he and his ‘journalist’ friend Miles Powell try to win him a bride for his own perfect wedding. Will the King of Cakes find his queen?
WARM-UP ACTS
Title: Boobs: The Left Boob.
Playwright: Chris Newens & Albert Alla
Director: Albert Alla
Blurb: Rub one of the Dalida statue's breast and you will find happiness in love. The other: misery. The only problem is that no one knows which is which. A year ago, a couple chose the left breast. Now it's their wedding day, and the groom's done a runner.
Title: Boobs: The Right Boob
Playwright: Chris Newens & Albert Alla
Director: Albert Alla
Blurb: Rub one of the Dalida statue's breast and you will find happiness in love. The other: misery. The only problem is that no one knows which is which. A year ago, a couple chose the right breast. Now it's their wedding day, and the bride's done a runner.
OFF-COMPETITION
Title: Death in the Haarlem Projects
Playwright: Chris Newens
Director: Zorro Maplestone
Blurb: Trapped in an elevator with an all-too-fresh corpse and a potential murderer, a writer, a detective, and a stage magician race to unweave their tangled tales and bring meaning to the meaningless before the final curtain comes crashing down. Death in The Haarlem Projects: An Absurdist Murder Mystery for the sleuth and storyteller in all of us.
Title: Victoria Station; Night
Playwright: Harold Pinter
Director: Aurore Kahan
Blurb: Theatre company Les Enfants du Désordre presents two of Harold Pinter's lesser known but most beguiling works. In Victoria Station, a taxi controller attempts to direct a bewildered driver to pick up a passenger at London's most famous station. The only problem is that the driver doesn't know where Victoria is, let alone what a station is. In Night, a married couple try to recall their earliest intimate moments, but the hairline crack between their respective memories threatens to become an abyss.
Title: Napoleon, Femme, Rhinocéros
Playwright: Helen Cusack O'Keeffe
Director: Gabriel Velazquez
Blurb: The Emperor's hat is obstructing his ears. André Breton is on the loose with a catapult and some deadly marshmallows. Only Napoleon's hatmaker can save the Empire - with help from Mademoiselle PomPom de la Tour Eiffel.
Title: Forget the Applause, feat. Where All Roads Lead
Host: Alberto Rigettini
Playwright: Emma Phillips
Director: Milly Unwin
Blurb: In this spectators' revenge, Alberto Rigettini finally invites you to express your true feelings about a play you've just seen. Fight away, for the playwright, director, and actors get a chance to respond. Where All Roads Lead is about one-way relationships, failures of communication, and multiple murders.
A Surrealist Extravaganza by Helen Cusack O'Keeffe en français and in English.
Napoleon’s vast hat has violently prevented all whispers of Josephine's infidelity in his ear, or warnings of the Moscow winter. The strangely tall emperor is duped by his crafty Chapelier, led astray by Mademoiselle PomPom de la Tour Eiffel and snubbed by a deceased Couturier... but André Breton is melting clocks and nothing is as it seems. For tickets email: [email protected]
1st & 3rd December - 9.30 pm au Petit Théatre du Bonheur, with two short Pinter plays:Victoria Station, and Night. 8 euros
5th December 7.30 pm - on L’Alternat (peniche) Quai St Bernard, with two short Pinter plays: Victoria Station, and Night, plus Chris Newens' Death in the Harlem Projects. 12 euros
Reservations recommended!
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The Bard-en-Seine Readings: Antony and Cleopatra
Throughout 2014, in honour of the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, we’ve hosted the Bard-en-Seine Readings. The goal was simple: to revisit and celebrate some of Shakespeare’s most loved plays.
For December, the final play will be Antony and Cleopatra, and the reading will take place on Wednesday 10th DEC at 6pm, in the library.
If you’d like to take part, please email Milly Unwin at [email protected], and tell her whether you’d prefer a larger or a smaller role. Parts will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis, and we’ll let you know a week in advance of the reading whether you have a role. No preparation necessary, and we’ll provide the scripts. Please note that, due to space restrictions, the Bard-en-Seine Readings will only be open to those taking part.
