2019 Productions

You Stupid Darkness!

Written by
Sam Steiner

“I just think it’s, you know, important to look at the good things that are happening as well.”

 Everything’s been falling apart for a while now. In a cramped, crumbling office four volunteers spend a few hours every Tuesday night on the phone to strangers telling them everything is going to be ok. As the outside world disintegrates around them, Frances, Joey, Angie and Jon teeter on the edge of their own personal catastrophes. Their hopes and fears become entangled as they try, desperately, to connect with the callers and with each other.

 An urgent play from rising star Sam Steiner about the struggle for optimism and community amid the chaos of a collapsing world.

 “Hello. Brightline. You’re through to someone you can talk to…”

Performances

Theatre Royal Plymouth
Thu 07 - Sat 23 Feb 2019

Reviews

⭐⭐⭐⭐
“cracking jokes as the world burns”
The Guardian

⭐⭐⭐⭐
“brilliantly realised, unflinchingly truthful mid-apocalyptic comedy”
The Stage

Cast

David Carlyle
Andrew Finnigan
Becci Gemmell
Lydia Larson

Creative

Writer
Sam Steiner
Director
James Grieve
Designer
Amy Jane Cook
Movement Director
Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster
Lighting Designer
Peter Small
Sound Designer
Dominic Kennedy
Assistant Director
Freddie Crossley

God of Chaos

Written by
Phil Porter

It’s like smacking a baby to stop it from crying. Or fighting some superbug with antibiotics. You don’t kill it. You just teach it to fight better next time. If you think we’re making the world a better place, you’re kidding yourself.

Stan and Rosa work as ‘moderators’ for a social media company. Each day they go into battle against a rising tide of rage and smut. As an unlikely romance evolves between them, new employee Becky is horrified by the world she encounters through her screen. She decides to take the fight into the real world.

Is the war against online anger and obscenity winnable or even a good idea? Does it make the world a better place or just ‘feed the trolls’? And will the internet be our undoing or our salvation?

God of Chaos is an outrageously funny and provocative new play about the world of online censorship. Written by Olivier-nominated playwright Phil Porter, writer of the 2016 TRP production, The Man With The Hammer.

Performances

Theatre Royal Plymouth
Thursday 7th - Saturday 23rd March 2019

Reviews

“bold attempt to address issues of online censorship”
The Guardian

⭐⭐⭐⭐
“a work for our times”
WhatsOnStage

“a stylish, funny production”
The Stage

Cast

Omar Austin
Ryan Early
Laura Waldren
Lizzy Watts

Creative

Writer
Phil Porter
Director
David Mercatali
Set & Costume Design
Grace Smart
Lighting Designer
Malcolm Rippeth
Sound Designer
Martin Ward
Video Designer
Ian William Galloway
Video Programmer
Lauren Kunicki
Casting Director
Marc Frankum CDG
Assistant Director
Freddie Crossley
Costume Supervisor
Delia Lancaster

Loopstation

Directed by
Alexander Devriendt

An homage to routine.
To habits.
To the beauty of everyday rituals and the wonder of patterns that make the world go round.

Contrary to what we’d love to believe, namely that we’re adventurous, we humans actually seek comfort, balance and familiar structures.

LOOPSTATION is a large scale performance with live music where today is always a bit like yesterday, but still different from tomorrow. Where growth is not an obligation but a natural consequence of the actions that give meaning to existence.

Nothing is entirely new, nor is it ever the same.

Nine performers build a world on a rotating disk, a fascinating microcosm in which everything is connected and loops are no obstacle to progress.

Performances

Theatre Royal Plymouth
Wednesday 27th - Friday 29th March 2019

Cast

Angelo Tijssens
Ferre Marnef
Hans Trentelman
Jeroen Van der Ven
Julia Ghysels
Karolien De Bleser
Max Wind
Nona Demey Gallagher
Sachli Gholamalizad

Creative

Director
Alexander Devriendt
Musicians
Annelies Van Hijfte
Ellen Wils
Jolien De Gendt
Lore Binon
Dramaturgy
Joeri Smet
Marie Peeters (intern)
Composition
Joris Blanckaert
Light Design
Babette Poncelet
Stage
Danny Vandeput e.a.
Costumes
Charlotte Goethals
Valerie Le Roy
Technicians
Babette Poncelet
Tom Daniels
Rinus Samyn
Sean de Sweemer (intern)

UNSUNG

Written by
Vincent Stuer

The makers of BigMouth are back with a thrilling and pertinent new show that delves deeply into the politician’s life and laying bare those juicy backstage scenes we are all on the lookout for.

Valentijn Dhaenens’ performance unravels the DNA of the homo politicus – with all attendant nastiness – and creates a personage that both mesmerises and repulses. While the whole world’s asleep, we follow the political animal as he pulls into yet another hotel, peels off yet another white shirt, peps himself up for yet another speech. Today, we give you the all-time politician: the power junkie, the rogue, the strategist, but also the husband, the father, and in the end, the very lonely human.

Performances

Theatre Royal Plymouth
Tuesday 10th - Saturday 14th September 2019

Cast

Valentijn Dhaenens

Creative

Text
Vincent Stuer
Dramaturgy
Kristin Rogghe
Set Design
Roel Van Berckelaer
Costumes
Heidi Ehrhart
Lighting Design
Margareta Anderson
Sound
Max Stuurman & Stephane Papadopoulos