ENDED 9TH MARCH 2024
The Trial of Jemmy Button
A verbatim play based on old documents and letters.
Written and directed by Luis Gayol.
Wednesdays to Saturdays 7.30pm.
February 14th to March 9th.
It was the year 1830 when a young aboriginal from Tierra del Fuego was abducted and brought to England. As he was exchanged for a large pearl button, he was given the name of Jemmy Button. He was spared from being exhibited in a human zoo, as was the custom of the time; instead, he was sent to school to be indoctrinated in all aspects of English culture and the Christian religion.
After some time, he was put on a boat and returned to his land – the famous voyage of the Beagle, with Charles Darwin on board – in the hope that he would spread “civilization” among the members of his community.
ENDED 25TH MARCH 2023:
SEPTEMBER
A new play by Tereza Briggs Novaes.
“September” is a new play about love, betrayal and murder that links General Pinochet’s coup in Chile on September 11, 1973 and the attacks on New York, on September 11, 2001.
Three lives, two 9/11.
Brazilian theatre director and playwright Tereza Briggs-Novaes has devised a play that spans over three decades and looks at the issue of personal responsibility for great political events.
With
Stephanie Ellyne
John Terence
Bianca Beneduzi
Lukas Rimkus
Directed by Tereza Briggs-Novaes
THEATRE
ENDED 10 DECEMBER 2022
THE CRITIC
With Gary Heron and Gemma Pantaleo,
Directed by Sally Ripley.
Hugh is a renowned theatre critic who seems to have
everything a telegenic 50-something
could possibly want:
success, adoring fans, money. Even a basic understanding
of
Twitter.
Privately it’s another story. He has no real friends and gets regular death threats. And tonight, someone who bears a very real grudge against Hugh is planning to exact their revenge, once and for all...
