18/06/2019
🚨StuFF Day 2🚨
Following a cracking first day full of sell-out shows, standing ovations and happy faces, StuFF is back today! With a fantastic line up and tickets from £3 there really is no excuse not to come! Reserve your tickets at newtheatre.org.uk/stuff
Day 2 Lineup:
11:00 - 'Franz and Marie: Woyzeck Retold' by The Nottingham New Theatre: War has now been raging for many years. Peace is as good as forgotten, soldiers have become a part of everyday life and death is more visible than ever. But now Franz is home, with his loving wife Marie, and both are as safe as can be. So why is it that he cannot seem to trust anybody? Why can he barely look his baby daughter in the eye, or even acknowledge her existence? And who exactly is the mysterious Drummer getting in the way of Franz's happiness? Loosely based on Georg Buchner's incomplete 19th century German classic Woyzeck, this modern adaptation focusses on how we remember victims of war, and how easy it is to fail them.
12:30 - 'Ophelia' by Emma White and Jake Leonard: Ophelia falls in love. Her world view realigns as she becomes infatuated, dreaming romantic visions of new landscapes and colour. Then he leaves. Deranged by rejection, Ophelia finds no choice but to end everything. Standing at the water’s edge, its darkness seems irresistible… and somehow utterly beautiful. Hamlet’s Ophelia is brought into the 21st Century in this interactive one-woman show, scrutinising our world obsession with finding beauty in female tragedy. This is a Research and Development piece in preparation for a run produced by Fishhouse Theatre in Leicester, taking place at Upstairs at the Western in November 2019. The show will therefore be followed by an audience feedback session.
14:00 - 'Apollo; Take 111' by Strickland Productions: 1960s America, and small town middle management employee Stuart James' life is about to change beyond belief. Moved from the Smalltown Department of Facial Equality, Stuart receives a command from "the Big Boss"... He is to help beat the Communists in the race to landing men on the Moon. The only issue is... he doesn't have a clue how to do it. With the help of epic film director, Steven Kosminski, the most difficult group of actors known to Earth-kind; and with press, spies and suspicion surrounding them at every turn, watch Stuart try and fail to mount the largest scam ever thrown upon the world in this hilarious modern farce; which explores conspiracy theories, 1960s American pop culture and why we love to believe nothing in history's ever right.
15:30 - 'Animali Violenti E Caffé In Italia' by It, Per Se: It, Per Se presents: ‘Violent Animals and Coffee in Italy’. Poetry and live music sluiced from mud and left in the sun at low tide. For lovers of words, jazz, or both, this is the antidote to a world without John Ashbery and Charles Mingus.
17:00 - 'The Things We Leave Behind' by Simon Panayi: An affirmingly human moment. An inevitable, cascading global crisis. Ann & Carl. Us. Together. Weaving storytelling, urgent research and live music, The Things We Leave Behind is a new show by award-winning theatre maker Simon Panayi. A performance exploring our individual humanity versus that of our species.
18:30 - 'Decline / Rise' by Hugo Minta: The Lady believes she is fine. She is happy with her world, dismissive of the new and staunchly opposes conflicting ideas to her truth. However, two demons plague her mind, Time and the People. They slowly begin to challenge the Lady's current outlook of the world, questioning the beliefs she once held, coming to the crushing realisation she is trapped in another period of history, disconnected from the events of today. Is she too late to change herself to the times we live in?
20:00 - 'Hard Truths' by UoN Improv: Never-seen-before... Never-to-be-seen again! Presenting 'Hard Truths' - a completely improvised one-act play that will hopefully find the funny out of our real lives! The audience will be asked to suggest a question for our improvisers to answer honestly, and from there they'll weave a fabulous narrative from all their confessions. Expect absolute hilarity and gut-wrenching heartbreak in the same hour. Expect to laugh and cry at the same time! Anything can happen, so what are you waiting for?
21:30 - '2 Clowns 1 Cup' by Ugly Bucket Theatre: S*x. It's raw, passionate, intimate and fulfilling. But sometimes, s*x can be downright funny. We like to talk about s*x privately with our friends. In the comfort of confidentiality, we swap tips, stories that are hot and some are not. But how much are we really willing to share? Ugly Bucket Theatre have invited women to dish all the dirty details, and now they invite you to join two clowns on a wild journey of s*x and self-discovery as these stories and experiences are brought to life in true Ugly Bucket Style. From puberty to puppetry, condoms to clowning, music and ma********on, 2 Clowns 1 Cup explores everything uns*xy in s*x, with little left to the imagination. S*xy, honest and stupid. Ugly Bucket's new piece of extra physical theatre will leave you begging for more. Warning - you will get wet!
23:00 - 'Polly' by Strickland Productions: Meet Polly, she doesn't care what you think. All she wants is to be equal, for everyone to be equal. In a whirlwind evening of live music, spoken word, and drag tomfoolery, Polly will put across her manifesto for ending all the world's problems. Using drag and gig theatre, multi award winning performer Joe Strickland will incite a rebellion against everything that holds us back in life, initially aimed at those in power but slowly turned inward onto the walls and masks we put in front of ourselves.
