The Classic Season shows are performed at Rose Bruford College by our Acting BA (Hons) and Actor Musicianship BA (Hons) students in collaboration with our Design, Management & Technical Arts students.
Her Naked Skin by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
London 1913, and militancy in the Suffragette Movement is at its height. Thousands of women of all classes serve time in Holloway Prison in their fight to gain the vote. Amongst them is Lady Celia Cain who feels trapped by both the policies of the day and the shackles of a frustrating marriage. Inside, she meets a young seamstress, Eve Douglas, and the flame of love and chaos is lit.
Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s historical epic evokes the turmoil of female emancipation in the last century, while asking pertinent questions about our own. The play premiered at the National Theatre in 2008.
Event details
Thursday 3 November – 7pm
Friday 4 November – 2.30pm & 7pm
Saturday 5 November – 2.30pm
Venue: Rose Theatre, Rose Bruford College, Burnt Oak Lane, Sidcup, DA15 9DF
Click to view the cast and production team
This amateur production of “Her Naked Skin” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk
Content warnings. This show contains: Weapons, self-harm, suicide, blood, loud noises, sexual assault and sexual content, abuse, violence and torture , explicit language, smoke/haze, smoking, flashing lights. The use of theatrical prop firearms, with no actual ability to fire. There will be no use of blank rounds.
Nora: A Doll’s House by Stef Smith after Henrik Ibsen
Nora is the perfect wife and mother. She is dutiful, beautiful and everything is always in its right place. But when a secret from her past comes back to haunt her, her life rapidly unravels. Over the course of three days, Nora must fight to protect herself and her family or risk losing everything.
In this new version of Ibsen’s brutal masterpiece, Stef Smith reframes the drama in three intertwined time periods. The fight for women’s suffrage, the Swinging Sixties and the modern day play out simultaneously provoking us to consider what has changed in the past hundred years.
Nora: A Doll’s House was produced by the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, in 2019, at Tramway, Glasgow, and revived at the Young Vic, London, in February 2020.
Event details
Thursday 10 November – 7pm
Friday 11 November – 2.30pm & 7pm
Saturday 12 November – 2.30pm & 7pm
Venue: Barn Theatre, Rose Bruford College, Burnt Oak Lane, Sidcup, DA15 9DF
Click to view the cast and production team
This amateur production of Nora: A Doll’s House is presented by arrangement with Nick Hern Books.
Content warnings.
This show contains: Adult themes, swearing, sexual scenes, scenes of unpleasant sexual nature, domestic violence, loud noises, references to alcoholism, references to drug use, mentions of cancer, haze.
Coram Boy by Helen Edmunson adapted from the novel by Jamila Gavin.
In 18th-century Gloucestershire, Otis Gardner preys on unmarried mothers, promising to take their babies and their money to Thomas Coram’s hospital for foundling children. Instead, he buries the babies and pockets the cash. This opens Dickensian tale of deceit, divided families, and unexpected musical gifts that make redemption possible in the struggle against evil.
The play was first performed, with music composed by Adrian Sutton, in the Olivier auditorium of the National Theatre, London, on 15 November 2005
Event details
Thursday 17 November – 7pm
Friday 18 November – 2.30pm & 7pm
Saturday 19 November – 2.30pm
Venue: Rose Theatre, Rose Bruford College, Burnt Oak Lane, Sidcup, DA15 9DF
Click to view the cast and production team