Encompass Productions presents the WORLD PREMIERE of
HOMECOMING
A New Theatre Festival
20 – 24 July, 2021
White Bear Theatre, Kennington – London
138 Kennington Park Road, London SE11 4DJ
Tickets: £16 Concessions: £14
Tickets available via: www.whitebeartheatre.co.uk
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After recently celebrating over a decade of theatremaking and a critically acclaimed, award-winning online run, Encompass Productions
Artistic Director of Encompass Productions, Jonathan Woodhouse, said “We’re ecstatic to finally bring Homecoming: A New Theatre Festival to audiences this July. To be invited to curate a week of new writing for the White Bear Theatre’s reopening season is a true honour. New work from multi-award winners Tramp, a solo show from Faith Brandon, our co-production of Jordan Paris’s debut play with Metamorph Theatre, plus the return of Bare Essentials make Homeco
Tues 20 July – 18:30 & 20:30
LOVE ME OR I’LL KILL MYSELF
Created by Faith Brandon and Jonathan Young – world premiere
Wed 21 July – 15:00, 18:30, 20:30
RISE
A world premiere and debut play by Jordan Paris
Co-produced by Metamorph Theatre & Encompass Productions
Thur 22 July – 20:30 & Fri 23 July 18:30 & 20:30
Tramp presents STILL WATER by Hannah Kennedy – world premiere
Sat 24 July – 15:00, 18:30, 20:30
BARE ESSENTIALS: HOMECOMING by Encompass Productions – world premiere
TUES 20 JULY : LOVE ME OR I'LL KILL MYSELF
Created by Faith Brandon and Jonathan Young
A madcap, true-life saga of passion, crushing despair and salvation by bath bombs. Join Faith on a quest into the dark heart of Love’s enchantments - and if there's any life worth living without them. Whether you’re a seasoned Lothario or yet to taste your first kiss, if you've ever experienced the pain of impossible love, Faith's here to help. Help you feel less alone. And less crazy. Maybe by falling in love with you.
‘Witty and woeful...an exhilarating freight train of pain and hope’
Amelia Hunt, Evening Standard
Faith Brandon is a performance artist whose work focuses on playful autobiographical exploration through live art, comedy, theatre and clowning. Faith is an LIPSA graduate and works as a performer, outside eye, puppeteer and movement director.
Jonathan Young is an award-winning theatremaker, director, writer and teacher. He trained with Jacques Lecoq in Paris, before studying clowning with Philippe Gaulier and Sue Morrison. He work as a director and freelance creative, as well as teaching movement and theatre at LAMDA, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and LISPA.
WED 21 JULY: RISE by Jordan Paris
A world premiere debut play co-produced by Metamorph Theatre & Encompass Productions (CAST TBA)
'My name is Rex Carrow. You know my Voice. You know my name. It's time you knew my face.'
Rex Carrow was born into a world in turmoil. On the day of her birth, her city voted to build a wall around itself. Why? That’s not important. What’s important is what happened after the wall went up - and what Rex plans to do about it. Spanning fifty years, and looking through the lens of one room in a former hospital, RISE depicts how rapidly inequality can grow and society can deteriorate when the outside world is prevented from watching.
Jordan Paris studied at the University of Edinburgh before training at Drama Centre London. Leaving to join the cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in London’s West End, Jordan began dedicating his time between shows to writing theatre, the subtext of which was and is heavily influenced by his earlier study of psychology. Believing that theatre can be an agent of change, Jordan strives to shine a light on important issues without the audience feeling like they’ve heard it all before. RISE will be Jordan’s first play for the professional stage.
THUR 22 & FRI 23 JULY: STILL WATER by Hannah Kennedy
Presented by multi-award-winning theatre company Tramp
If time stood still, who would you spend eternity searching for? Hannah Kennedy’s debut full-length play is a funny, surreal, and heart-wrenching sci-fi fable about time, love .. and plumbing. STILL WATER will star Lizzie Aaryn-Stanton (Book of Monsters - Feature Film, Doctors - BBC, Confessional by Tennessee Williams - Southwark Playhouse).
Directed by Offie-nominee Jack Silver (Confessional by Tennessee Williams - Southwark
Playhouse, Blow - Vault Festival) and presented by multi-award-winning theatre company Tramp (Angry by Philip Ridley - Southwark Playhouse, The Beast Will Rise - Online, The Sweet Science - Ed Fringe, The Poltergeist by Philip Ridley – Southwark Playhouse).
Praise for Lizzie’s previous stage performances:
'Lizzie Aaryn-Stanton absolutely smashes it.' - Fringe Guru 'A powerhouse leading performance.' - Broadway Baby
'There’s something magnetic about Lizzie Aaryn-Stanton.' - The Gay UK
Tramp was founded in 2014 specialises in powerful, accessible work. Their Offie-nominated production of Tennessee Williams’ Confessional, restaged in a pub in Southend, (‘A mini-masterpiece of theatre’ ★★★★ The Stage) broke the box office record when it transferred to Southwark Playhouse. 2020’s Blow: A Deaf Girls Fight was a finalist for the Charlie Harthil Award and nominated for a Vault Festival Origin Award. The Beast Will Rise, a series of 15 Philip Ridley world premieres produced in lockdown had over 20,000 views, great reviews and an Off West End Award (‘Masterly.’ ★★★★ The Arts Desk, ‘Powerfully haunting.’ ★★★★ The Upcoming).
SAT 23 JAN: BARE ESSENTIALS: HOMECOMING
New writing from award-winning Encompass Productions
The Homecoming festival culminates with the triumphant in-theatre return of
Bare Essentials, the UK's longest-running and best-reviewed independent new writing night. Returning to the White Bear Theatre, Homecoming festival creators Encompass Productions (Chummy, Stasis), will stage short plays by established and emerging international playwrights, presenting dynamic new theatre at its most elemental. Featuring:
Angeline Getting Married by Emma Dawson Mummy is a Tree by Heloise Thual
Claire Avenue by Henry P. Gravelle Science Friction by Ken Preuss
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