- June 2005
- June 2005
This is a brilliant Ancient Greek comedy, written by the best in Ancient Greek Satire, none other than Mr. Aristophanes. Despite being written almost 2500 years ago, this play remains at the height of humour and will have you laughing out loud.
Plot Outline: Strepsiades an Athenian, has a son, Pheidippides, who is very keen on horse-racing and has run up large debts. In aim to relieve the debt Strepsiades asks his son to study at Socrates’ Thinkery to learn how to argue himself out of the debts, Pheidippides refuses to go and Strepsiades goes himself. Being utterly confused and ridiculed by Socrates, Strepsiades goes back and forces his son to go to the Thinkery. On arrival they witness to figures having an argument, one is the stronger argument and the other the weaker, the weaker argument is seen to defeat the stronger. Pheidippides agrees to study at the school and learns how to evade the debts, however, he also exposes how the arguments can be used to defeat morals.
- February 2005
Caught in the dull routine of office work in London, Rob and Alex struggle to find excitement in their mundane lives. While Alex is drawn ever closer to suicide by his dangerously destructive urges, Rob has worked his way into the undergarments of every attractive female in the vicinity and now awaits his next 'discovery'. When work colleague Julia sees Alex's vulnerability, she tries to help him, much to Rob's annoyance. Having vied for Julia's attention for some time, to no avail, Rob sets about his own plot to get his own back on Julia, theough her one weakness - Alex. As Alex edges ever closer to suicide and Rob comes closer to murder, who will get there first? Or will Julia stop them both before it's too late.
- November 2004
- June 2004
A once in a lifetime spectacle! Your one and only chance to see a notably amusing and enthralling new production, subtly entitled 'HELEN OF TRINITY'! An epic tale of inter-college rivalry, between the lean and disciplined troops of Downing and the rich and unstoppable hordes of Trinity. Who will get the girl?
Love! Fate! Prophecy! Frolics! (and some quite unecessary debauchery.)
- March 2004
Condom packets crunch underfoot and breakfast is eaten straight off a mirror in The Grand Balcony, a brothel designed for the fulfilment of any conceivable sexual fantasy. With the help of Madam Irma's prostitutes, three men act out double lives as a bishop, a judge and a general. All the while a bloody revolution threatens to penetrate into the brothel and, when the state falls, its patrons of are given the chance to wield in reality the powers that they have hitherto only play-acted. Anita Berber Furniture Removal cordially invites you to be rubbed up the right way by its production of Jean Genet's masterpiece.
- October–November 2003
Shakespeare meets Big Brother in this new piece of student writing. Deep inside the Big Brother house, one of the contestants, Julia, is getting too big for her boots. Will her housemates' conspiracy to get rid of her succeed in producing 'the unkindest cut of all'?
Adapting Shakespeare's Julius Caesar into a modern language to deal with "modern issues", this play combines elements of social satire with observation on the personal devastation produced by manipulation, spite and domestic politics to provide an exciting chance for some early Michaelmas drama.
- June 2002
- March 2002
- February 2002
