Bare Bones Nights
Next performance: Sixteen by Adam Barnard
Monday 29th March 2010, Old Red Lion Theatre
Islington Community Theatre is proud to be part of Bare Bones Nights at the Old Red Lion Theatre.
Bare Bones Nights was set up by Rebecca Adamson to give emerging writers, directors and actors the fantastic opportunity to create new work on a London stage. It is primarily a showcase of their work at a London venue with a great reputation and a central location.
The first Bare Bones performance by Islington Community Theatre was Sixteen by Adam Barnard on Monday 25th January 2010.
Sixteen
By Adam Barnard
It's Joe's birthday and he's on his way into the only school that hasn't chucked him out. Jodie is in her bedroom (and on Facebook) getting ready to meet someone special. Will either of them come home tonight?
REVIEW
"Real gems uncut and priceless"
The moment of sexual awakening, looming adulthood - and painful naïvete - are captured perfectly by Hayley Thomas. Daniel O'Keefe ... is, if possible, even more compelling. In one long monologue that never loses pace he moves through all the moods of a life on the brink as his sixteenth birthday plays out; O'Keefe's delivery, emotion and physical presence combined to produce something very special.
Both actors and director Ned Glasier, of Islington Community Theatre, got the best out of some very astute writing from Barnard. Exciting stuff indeed.
Cast (drawn from our Work in Progress group):
Jodie
Hayley Thomas
Joe
Daniel O'Keefe
Directed by
Ned Glasier
Assistant Director
Emily Kempson