Past Projects
BLUFFING YOUR WAY INTO BALLET
8pm Tuesday 7th - Thursday 9th February 2023
Bluffing Your Way In Ballet pirouettes its witty and irreverent way through the history of Ballet.Brought to you by the fabulous Seizing The Day Company, you’ll hear funny and moving stories from Ballet’s leading performers:
• Louis XIV of France who helped create ‘the five positions of the feet’
• Vaslav Nijinsky who beguiled audiences with his unbelievable mastery – those leaps!
• Margot Fonteyn and Rudolph Nureyev with their perfect dance partnership
• And Strictly Come Dancing's Dame Darcey Bussell who brings Ballet and dance to new and larger audiences
• And more!
We'll demonstrate - in avant garde fashion - the intrigue, tragedy, and magic of Ballet's greatest stars past and present.Bluffing Your Way In Ballet is created by Alexandra Pickford and the Seizing The Day Company. Alexandra was formerly with the Royal Ballet Company and has danced with some of these great stars. She is delighted to share her knowledge and experiences with you!
Join us! At The Alma Tavern and Theatre.
Writers:
Alexandra Pickford and the Company.
Consultant writer:
Andrzej Wawrowski
Shakespeare's Macbeth
Presented by the Rondo Theatre Company
July 6-9th 2022
• Full £14 Concs £12
In Aid of Marie Curie
"Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires." Macbeth
In the aftermath of the first world war, following the return of the soldiers to a country that was struggling to support them, organised crime erupted in the inner-city areas of England. Familiar with violence, the gangs were ruthless in their pursuit of power.
Duncan, a much respected (and feared) leader keeps the peace but is usurped by one of his own – Macbeth – pushed on by his ambitious wife.
The three witches, from their opium den of inequity, predicted this future and set Macbeth on a path for greatness and, of course, ultimately… destruction.
Come and bear witness to our dark and gritty journey: Macbeth as you’ve never seen it before…
This is RTC’s annual charity production. All profits are in aid of Marie Curie.
The Mix - Stage Build
on Behalf Of:
4000 Miles by Amy Herzog at the Rondo Theatre Summer 2021
Tuesday 6 - Friday 9 July 2021 • 7:30pm • Full £12 Concs £10
Presented by Rondo Theatre Company
After suffering a major loss while he was on a cross-country bike trip, 21 year-old Leo seeks solace from his feisty 91 year-old grandmother Vera in her West Village apartment. Over the course of a single month, these unlikely roommates infuriate, bewilder, and ultimately reach each other. 4000 MILES looks at how two outsiders find their way in today's world.
Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles at the Rondo Theatre, Autumn 2019
Wed 27 – Sat 30 Nov • 7:30pm • Full £12 Concs £10
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Adapted by Louise Wallace
Presented by Rondo Theatre Company
Sherlock Holmes is asked to investigate the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville and to safeguard his heir, Sir Henry. The legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles has haunted this family for generations. Too busy to take on the case himself, he sends Watson ahead to Baskerville Hall on rugged Dartmoor, where the nearby Grimpen Mire is a sure death trap – but what of the hound?
Bearpit & Void
at the Rondo Theatre 10/11th July 2019
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/bath/rondo-theatre/bear-pit
Followed by Edinburgh Fringe Festival August 2019 at Q2, Riddle’s Court, Venue 277, Riddle's Court ,Edinburgh. 02/13 August 2019
https://pqavenues.co.uk/event/void/
Bear Pit
Devised by E.A.T Company
What is choice? Is your life predetermined? What is the ripple effect of one bad decision?
Elvin Acting Theatre Company’s latest creation, interrogates the complexities of choice and life’s daily twists and turns - the consequences of the decisions we make and we ask, does fate plays a part?
Void
Written by William W Jesmond de Clermont
What happens after you die? Angels? A black hole? Perhaps... but what if you choose to die? Enter, Grim. Shoved on suicide duty, will this shift ever end?
Void explores the choice of life or death.
GOING POSTAL, Bath, Summer 2019
Written by Stephen Briggs
Presented by Rondo Theatre Company
Moist von Lipwig (and that’s just the beginning), was a con artist, a fraud, a criminal. He was given a choice: certain death or get the Ankh-Morpork Postal Service back in business. It was a tough decision.
He’s not alone in his mission – he has a Golem who has been in a hole in the ground for hundreds of years, a man who knows nothing about pins (he knows everything about pins), and Junior Postman Groat (anything but junior) to help him get the mail through! He’s got more than the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk company to fight… and getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart (she hates it too) would be nice as well.
Playhouse Creatures at the Rondo Theatre, Bath Spring 2019
The year is 1669 a bawdy and troublesome time. Theaters have just reopened after seventeen years of Puritan suppression. There is a surge in dramatic writing and the first English actresses appear on stage. Playhouse Creatures focuses on five of the most famous (Nell Gwyn, Elizabeth Farley, Rebecca Marshall, Doll Common and Mary Betterton) to provide a moving and often comic account of the precarious lives of Restoration actresses.
All New People at the Rondo Theatre, Bath Spring 2018
The play is set in an up-market beach house, and begins with Charlie's interrupted suicide attempt. Emma, an expat Briton, comes in and saves him. She is there to show the property to prospective tenants. Emma infers that her fortuitous arrival was divine intervention, and sets about trying to rescue Charlie. She calls in Myron, a Long Island fire-fighter (and drug dealer) to help. Finally, Kim, an escort girl provided by one of Charlie's friends, arrives.
Charlie announces that he has killed six people, as an explanation for why he was trying to kill himself. As the play progresses, the reasons of how each of the other people came to be there are revealed. In the initial run, this was achieved with a series of projected filmed interludes. Charlie finally reveals how his trauma came about through seeing a pair of ants fighting over a crumb.
Standby at the Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol, Summer 2016 by 12Roots Theatre Company
Beyond Milkwood at the Tobacco Factory Theatre, Bristol, Spring 2016 (Adapted from Under Milkwood by Dylan Thomas) By David Goodland, FdA Theatre Performance
To begin at the beginning: it is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black…
Students from the first and second years of this unique performance training degree course perform the première of David Goodland’s clever, witty, funny and hard-hitting re-envisaging of Dylan Thomas’ play to a contemporary setting.
The lives of Llareggub’s community are reflected and given voice in an atmospheric, exciting and provocative multi-media production.
Brizzle at the Hamilton House Studio, Bristol, Winter 2015 12Roots Theatre Company
What brings you here, to Bristol? Did you think you'd stay here all this time? What did you want to do with your life?
These were the first questions asked to strangers in Broadmead, in Clifton and throughout Bristol.
12Roots Have taken to the streets to find what makes the locals tick and what makes The City, Their City.
A piece about the voice of local people, 12Roots have transformed ideas and conversations into a journey and explore how these journeys intertwine with each other.
Hamilton Cabaret at Hamilton House Studio, Bristol, Winter 2015 12Roots Theatre Company
Our Country's Good at Brewery Theatre, Bristol, Summer 2015 12Roots Theatre Company
Observed by a lone, mystified Aboriginal Australian, the first convict ship arrives in Botany Bay, 1788, crammed with England's outcasts. Colony discipline in this vast and alien land is brutal. Three proposed public hangings incite an argument: how best to keep the criminals in line, the noose or a more civilised form of entertainment?
The ambitious Second Lieutenant Ralph Clark steps forward with a play. But as the mostly illiterate cast rehearses, and a sense of common purpose begins to take hold, the young officer's own transformation is as marked and poignant as that of his prisoners.
War of the Senses at The Tobacco Factory Theatre, Bristol. Spring 2015 12Roots Theatre Company