Naked Stage 2011 Full Programme
This list does not necessarily reflect the running order on the night.
All shows took place in the ADC Theatre bar, Park Street, Cambridge.
23 OCTOBER
The Human Box
by
Dragana Lazici
A box in a glass building and four people who should have never met are stuck inside.
DIRECTOR: Frances
Bartram
THE NARRATOR: Robert Jezek
TOM: Douglas
Wren
ALBERT: Declan Lynch
AMANDA: Bernadette
Parsons
PAUL: Stephen von Schreiber
Your Inner Simon
Cowell
by
Clare Shaw
Richard and Rose are on a blind date. Just the two of them....or not.
DIRECTOR: Pam
Jenner
RICHARD: Stephen Hullyer
ABIGAIL: Corrina
Gordon-Barnes
ROSE: Rachel Nielsen
WAITER: Angela
Rowland
The God Bones
by
Sarah Dobbs
Her Dad captured young Susan's imagination with his stories of the "God Bones". Now he's dying, she begins to see they were more than just ways to pass a summer's day.
DIRECTOR: Pam Jenner
DAD:
Adrian Ient
YOUNG SUSAN: Claire Eaglesham
ADULT SUSAN:
Angela Rowland
MUM: Francesca Brown
MARION: Lara
Whittington
Cubicle Four
by
Rachel Jarmy
A hospital cubicle of an A&E department; the modest stage for so many life defining moments. Three shorts which follow the life of one hospital bed, in one twenty four hour period.
DIRECTOR: Clare
Kerrison
JONNY: Henry Jones
GRANDMA: Trish Rawson
ALAN:
Alan Hay
DAVE: Laurence Bourn
PATRICIA: Cat Nicol
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30 OCTOBER
Jessica
by
Gregory Skulnick
Mary is Edgar's girl. Dominic is Edgar's friend. Chess is Edgar's game.
DIRECTOR: Michelle
Golder
EDGAR Stuart Conlan
DOMINIC Ashley Cook
All Your Things
by
Nick Judd
A woman alone in a room at night.
DIRECTOR: Julia
Bolden
WOMAN: Emma Spearing
Remembering
Emptiness and Belonging
by
Valérie Fabre
Two castoffs remember a past of purpose and fulfilment.
DIRECTOR: Michelle
Golder
ACTOR 1: Emma Gable
ACTOR 2: Robert Jezek
The Hankerbox
by
Ross Howard
Janice brings a box to husband Kenneth's workplace at lunchtime. What is it?
DIRECTOR: Julia
Bolden
KENNETH : Leon Coleman
JANICE : Angela
Rowland
GEORGE: Vaughan Allanson
Retribution
by
Trish Rawson
The dying sound of the Council’s grass cutter heralds the beginning of an unusual day for two residents from the street.
DIRECTOR: Francesca
Brown
MAN: Stephen von Schreiber
WOMAN: Sarah
Ingram
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6 NOVEMBER
Wild Geese:
Chickening Out
by
Julia Bolden
Gunilla's friend and neighbour, Magda, pops in to return something she borrowed yesterday but Gunilla is none too pleased to have it back. This is a short stage tryout of a sitcom concept based around the relationship between these two women.
DIRECTOR: Julia
Bolden
GUNILLA: Emma Spearing
MAGDA: Emma Gable
JANE:
Cat Nicol
MISS DIRECTION: Clare Kerrison
The Noose of
Light
by
Kate Miller
1850: unsuccessful writer, despised son and reluctant fiancé Edward FitzGerald has a few obscure Persian verses in his pocket - the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, which will make him one of the most famous poets in the English language. But first he faces a wrenching choice between duty and freedom.
DIRECTOR: Graeme
Curry
EDWARD FITZGERALD: Vaughan Allanson
MARY
FRANCES FITZGERALD: Sarah Ingram
OMAR: James Southwick
Balls Like
Icebergs
a
radio play by Felicity Norman
A visit to the vet results in some surprising information.
DIRECTOR: Diane Moules
MRS
FFOLLIOTT: Pam Jenner
NURSE: Abigail Sage
VET: Alan Hay
Local Heroes
a
radio play by Alistair Lawrence
When local hero Francis Lane makes the papers for protecting his boxing gym from a gang of thugs it brings him to the attention of a businessman, Adam Sandford. Is this the opportunity of a lifetime...or another test of his courage?
DIRECTOR: Anni
Domingo
FRANCIS LANE: Geoff Copping
ADAM SANDFORD:
John Parry
MR SMITH: Alan Hay
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13 NOVEMBER
Kill
by
Trish Rawson
For two decades a political icon of the 20th century has lived with the threat of assassination. Then one day he has a visitor.
DIRECTOR: Sarah Ingram
MALE
VISITOR: Declan Lynch
TROTSKY: Robert Jezek
Coup
by
Elinor Perry-Smith
A Seamstress of the old regime and the King of the new order meet on the day after the revolution and discover themselves repeating history to bloody effect. Who will break the cycle of royal power play and allow the people to truly govern themselves?
DIRECTOR: John Parry
THE
NEW KING: Kevin Wright
THE SEAMSTRESS: Rachel Nielsen
THE
DOWAGER QUEEN: Sarah Ingram
RADIO ANNOUNCER: Richard
Peoples
Birthday Wish
by
Steven Kitson
Meeting your girlfriend’s father is always a memorable experience - more so when it turns out she’s been keeping secrets from both of you.
DIRECTOR: Michelle
Golder
GEOFFREY TROY: Stephen von Schreiber
MIRANDA
ROSEWOOD: Jenny Scudamore
NEAL PORTER: Alan Hay
A MALE
WAITER: Ashley Cook
To the Brink
by
Paul Richards
Samantha, the new girl in the office, is a nice, intelligent, honest girl...so what possibly has driven her to have dreams about killing her colleague, Greg? And more to the point, what will happen if these dreams actually become reality?
DIRECTOR: Julia
Bolden
SAMANTHA: Fran Burgoyne
GREG: Stuart
Conlan
WALTER: David Monksfield
SALLY: Abigail
Sage
JAKE: Ashley Cook
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20 NOVEMBER
Matters
by
Jane Grieve
Is our existence merely a ‘game’? A fleeting, irrelevant game, that we can never win? Can we stack the odds? Are we even in the game? Rock, Paper, Scissors. What matters. Who matters? Who cares?
DIRECTOR: Gill Saxon
PAPER:
Rachel Nielsen
SCISSORS: Izzy Rees-Nicholson
ROCK:
Stephen Hullyer
The Telephone
by
Roger Mortimer-Smith
To the humble stagehand of a small regional theatre, it seemed a sensible precaution to check that the onstage telephone was working. Then again, it might have been better to do it before the play had started...
DIRECTOR: Clare
Kerrison
ACTOR: Robert Jezek
ACTRESS: Michelle
Golder
STAGEHAND: James Southwick
Educating Bobby
K.
by
David Lambert
New York, 23 May, 1963 civil unrest is about to erupt across the nation. Invited to meet Attorney General Robert Kennedy with a concrete proposal, Black writer James Baldwin is holding a ‘strategy meeting’ with his associates. But strong personalities, passionately held viewpoints, and alcohol reveal deep rifts among ‘the brothers’ ...
DIRECTOR: James Hadley
JAMES
BALDWIN: Ery Nzaramba
DAVID BALDWIN: Nabil Audie
LORRAINE
HANSBERRY: Sophie Cartman
SAUL GOLDSTEIN: Simon Jones
CLARENCE
B. JONES : Ayo Aloba