About
London Season is created and performed by final-year BA Acting and BA Actor-Musicianship students. This year, the season heads to Greenwich Theatre. Presenting our graduating students in the heart of the capital is an exciting milestone, offering audiences the chance to experience bold, original work from the next generation of performers in a major London venue.
Ruthless! by Marvin Laird & Joel Paley
Directed by Lucy Betts
Ruthless is a camp cult classic, an all-female musical with music by Marvin Laird and book and lyrics by Joel Paley that spoofs Broadway musicals, like Gypsy and Mame, and movies such as The Bad Seed and All About Eve. The musical premiered Off-Broadway in 1992.
The story of a naive 1950s housewife, Judy, and her adorable but sociopath 8-year-old daughter Tina. Encouraged by her manager, Sylvia, Tina will do ANYTHING to get the lead role in her school play “including murdering the leading lady!”. In Act II, while Tina spends time at a reform school for psychopathic ingenues, Judy discovers from her adoptive mother that her birth mother was a famous actress. Judy decides that she should be famous as well and becomes a Broadway diva.
This is an amateur production by arrangement with Concord Theatricals.
Programme
7pm, Friday 6 March
7pm, Saturday 7 March
2pm, Monday 9 March
7pm, Monday 9 March
Venue: Greenwich Theatre
Content & technical warnings: use of flashing, atmospheric haze, strong language, depictions of violence, use of realistic guns and gunshot sounds, depictions of smoking and death
Run time: 2 hours with a 15-minute interval
How to book
Please book now via Greenwich Theatre.
Students: Book your tickets using your usual College discount code.
Staff and Industry Guests: To be added to the guest list, please email [email protected] with the subject line “London Season.” Please note that our box office is closed outside of working hours. If you wish to attend and are unable to reach us, please call the venue directly.
Cast
Sylvia St. Croix – Ripley Craig
Judy Denmark – Emily Weaver
Tina Denmark – Daisy Pearson
Miss Thorne – Beatriz Gouveia
Louise Lerman – Alice Barker
Lita Encore – Abigail de Brύn
Eve – Flora Henderson
For more information about our students, please visit Student profiles.
Download the Cast and Creative Team Sheet.