AUTUMN / WINTER 2011UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA DRAMA

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ALUMNI PROFILE

Q: Why did you apply to University of Cumbria?

Q: What was life like for you at University of Cumbria?

Q: What are your favourite memories of your time at University of Cumbria?

Q:Q: In what ways has your time studying drama at University of Cumbria inuenced your life since graduation?

Q: What are your future ambitions?

AUTUMN / WINTER 2011

STAFF

Jan AshcroftCourse Leaderjan.ashcroft@cumbria.ac.uk01524 384504

Dr. Jez ColcloughSenior LecturerSenior Lecturerjez.colclough@cumbria.ac.uk01524 384340

Colin KnappSenior Lecturercolin.knapp@cumbria.ac.uk01524 384507

Rob OwenRob OwenTechnician / Demonstratorrobert.owen@cumbria.ac.uk01524 384551

University of CumbriaBowerham RoadLancaster LA1 3JD01524 38438401524 384384

www.cumbria.ac.uk

Design & PhotographyJez Colclough © 2011

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Fewer Emergencies+, 4

Whole Blue Sky Face to the Wall Fewer Emergencies)

Advice to Iraqi Women. Fewer Emergencies+

We Happy Few

Closer

Fewer Emergencies+ by Martin Crimp

We Happy Fewby Imogen Stubbs

Closerby Patrick Marber

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NOVEMBER 2011

Produced and performed by final year degree students studying Drama at the University of Cumbria,

Lancaster

DATES:Wednesday 9th November 2011Thursday 10th November 2011Friday 11th November 2011Saturday 12th November 2011

TICKETS:Pay What You CanPay What You Can

TIME:All Performances begin at 7.30 p.m.

VENUE:The Black Box Studio Theatre,The University of CumbriaBowerham RoadBowerham RoadLancaster. LA1 3JD

BOX OFFICE: Tickets Available On The Doorfrom 7.00 p.m.

SUPERVISING TUTOR:Jez Colclough jez.colclough@cumbria.ac.ukjez.colclough@cumbria.ac.uk

www.cumbria.ac.uk

A triptych of modern fairytales for the iPod generation plus Crimp’s extraordinarily powerful

satire of the war on terror.

Welcome to the wonderful world of Crimpland: British suburbia as seen through the eyes of a skeptical modernist and a master satirist.

Contains strong language and adult humour.

"Crimp's sheer craftsmanship, his originality in "Crimp's sheer craftsmanship, his originality in language, his innovative attitude to theatrical form, the emotional intensity of his vision, his unblinking accounts of the dark void beneath the veneer of the humdrum, and his refusal to compromise his standards or his individuality, are reasons enough

for his greatness".

Alex Sierz Alex Sierz

Wed. 9th to Sat. 12th November 2011

by Martin Crimp

Fewer Emergencies+

JANUARY 2011

Produced and performed by final year degree students studying Drama at the University of Cumbria

DATES:Wednesday 18th January 2012Thursday 19th January 2012Friday 20th January 2012Saturday 21st January 2012

TICKETS:Friday & Saturday Friday & Saturday £10 (concessions £6)

Wednesday & Thursday £6 (concessions £4)

TIME:All Performances begin at 8.00 p.m.

VENUE:VENUE:The Dukes, Moor Lane,Lancaster. LA1 1QE

BOX OFFICE: 01524 598500tickets@dukes-lancaster.org

SUPERVISING TUTOR:Jan Ashcroft Jan Ashcroft jan.ashcroft@cumbria.ac.uk

www.dukes-lancaster.org

Inspired by the true wartime history of the Osiris Players, Imogen Stubbs’ uplifting and touching comedy tells the story of a group of women who come together to form a “girls only” theatre company performing Shakespeare to a culture-starved Britain during the Second World War.

We Happy Few originally opened in 2004 at the Gielgud eatre, London, directed by Sir Trevor Nunn and starring Juliet Stevenson and Marcia Warren.

ImogenImogen Stubbs has appeared in over 40 plays throughout here career, including As You Like It, Huis Clos, A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu, and When We Wake e Dead. Imogen is also a writer, co-writing and directing, Snow On Saturday, for which she won Best British Short Film. She has also written two plays, We Happy FewFew and Grace.

“What did you do in the war mummy?”

Wed. 18th to Sat. 21st January 2012

by Imogen Stubbs

We Happy Few

JANUARY 2012

Produced and performed by final year degree students studying Drama at the University of Cumbria

DATES:Wednesday 25h January 2012Thursday 26th January 2012Friday 27st January 2012Saturday 28th January 2012

TICKETS:Friday & Saturday Friday & Saturday £10 (concessions £6)

Wednesday & Thursday £6 (concessions £4)

TIME:All Performances begin at 8.00 p.m.

VENUE:VENUE:The Dukes, Moor Lane,Lancaster. LA1 1QE

BOX OFFICE: 01524 598500tickets@dukes-lancaster.org

SUPERVISING TUTOR:Jez Colclough Jez Colclough jez.colclough@cumbria.ac.uk

www.dukes-lancaster.org

Closer

Closer

Closer

“Love and sex are like politics: it is not what you say that “Love and sex are like politics: it is not what you say that matters, still less what you mean, but what you do.

Patrick Marber understands this perfectly, and in Closer he has written one of the best plays of sexual politics in the language: it is right up there with Williams’ Streetcar, Mamet’s Oleanna, Albee’s Virginia Woolf, Pinter’s Old

Times and Hare’s Skylight.” e Sunday Timese Sunday Times

“Blisteringly well written… franker, more intelligent and ercer than any new comedy of recent years.”

Daily Mail

REVIEW 2010 / 2011

“It was a plot to make any reviewer careful with her words. Luckilly, this performance of Ben Elton’s witty script was a pleasure to

watch.”

Helen Perkins (January 2011) The Westmorland Gazette

Silly Cowby Ben Elton

“... It is almost impossible to fault this production: costume, “... It is almost impossible to fault this production: costume, set, movement, comic timing and diction exemplary... The University of Cumbria’s final year drama students in

Lancaster took their near-capacity, spellbound audiences at a cracking pace right through the barbed wire satire to a

series of final mind-blowing dénouements.”

Michael Nunn (January 2011) The Visitor

Realismby Anthony Neilson

“A pleasing and professionally staged event from University of Cumbria drama students... This was a tight and well-timed delivery of a complex play: on the surface a student romp, but beneath a dark undertow tugging at illusory normality.”

Sue Seddon (November 2010) Lancashire Life

REVIEW 2010 / 2011

A Triple-Bill of Avant Garde Playsby Gertrude Stein, Thomas Sterne Eliot and Alfred Jarry

“Despite, or because of the linguistic fireworks, dramatic coups-de-théatre and scatology, it was an evening of unmitigated excellence.”

Michael Nunn (March 2011) The Visitor.

The Accrington Palsby Peter Whelan

“...drama students from the University of Cumbria’s “...drama students from the University of Cumbria’s Lancaster Campus delivered a fine, sensitive

production. All the usual hallmarks of excellence were present: perfect casting, imaginative staging (in the round – not easy), some masterly individual

performances and authentic costume and props.”

Michael Nunn (January 2011) The Visitor

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