Name: Autumn Season
Start: 2024-11-06T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-11-23T23:59:59+00:00
Location: Tramshed

About Autumn Season

Autumn Season returns, bringing you new productions produced collaboratively between our Final Year BA Acting, Actor-Musicianship, Lighting Design, Creative Lighting Control, Scenic Arts, Stage Management, and MA Light in Performance students.

4 plays will take place – The Grain Store, Burying Your Brother in the Pavement, Mermaid, and Jane Eyre.

The Grain Store, by Natal’ia Vorozhbit, translated by Sasha Dugdale

Director: Luke Kernaghan

Ukraine 1929. Stalin launches his reign of terror and turns privately owned farms into state-run collectives. A close-knit rural community stands in the path of this relentless programme of change. The outcome is catastrophic.

It all begins harmlessly enough: the idea is explained to the villagers in the form of harmless comic propaganda shows. But in practice it becomes a force that will turn innocent farmers into enemies of the state, neighbours into persecutors, and ordinary villagers into thieves. Robbed first of their land, then their religion and their independence, the whole country soon becomes engulfed by a tragedy that will scar a nation for generations.

Natal’ia Vorozhbit’s play was first staged in this English translation by Sasha Dugdale by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in 2009.

19:00 Wednesday 6 November

19:00 Thursday 7 November

14:00 Friday 8 November

19:00 Friday 8 November

Venue: Rose Theatre, Rose Bruford College

Burying Your Brother in the Pavement by Jack Thorne

Director: Sophie Drake

Tom’s brother, Luke is dead. A lot of people are upset, but it hasn’t upset Tom. Or so it seems. It has upset him, but in ways he can’t explain. Tom and Luke were never friends. In fact, Tom didn’t really like Luke at all. So it’s odd that Tom wants to bury Luke in the pavement of the Estate where he was killed. As he sets about his task, he meets planning officials, tramps, undertakers, police officers, mothers and babies, estate agents, ghosts, pavement elephants and a strange young person called Tight who wants to sell him a Travelcard. This moving and exhilarating play about grief and looking at someone more closely was performed at the National Theatre Connections Festival in 2008.

19:00 Monday 11 November

14:00 Tuesday 12 November

19:00 Tuesday 12 November

14:00 Wednesday 13 November

19:00 Wednesday 13 November

Venue: Barn Theatre, Rose Bruford College

Mermaid by Polly Teale based on the story by Hans Christian Andersen

Director: Gabriella Bird

Blue is an isolated urban teenager who whose amazing creativity lifts her of a world of insta-bullies and poverty. From her fevered mind comes a mesmeric reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen’s tale, transported to a contemporary setting. Beneath the ocean’s waves there is no death or pain or separation. Above, the modern world is beset with war and injustice. On her sixteenth birthday, a mermaid rises to the surface and falls in love with a mortal prince. To receive his love, she must abandon her life beneath the sea and risk destroying herself. Bold staging, ensemble movement and live music evoke a magical story that sheds light on our troubled world.

19:00 Tuesday 19 November

19:00 Wednesday 20 November

14:00 Thursday 21 November

18:45 Thursday 21 November

Venue: Rose Theatre, Rose Bruford College

Jane Eyre adapted by Chris Bush, based on the novel by Charlotte Brontë

Director: Lucy Betts

‘I must have action! And if I cannot find it, I will make it!’

Orphaned, neglected and beaten, Jane Eyre finds a place as governess to Mr Rochester’s ward at Thornfield Hall. She feels she belongs there, a home at last. But there are secrets and noises in the night and Mr Rochester is not all he seems.

Autumn Season

About Autumn Season

Booking will open later in September.

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