The first British Casting Workshops - since 2006

CLARKSON AND CROUCH

NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH
As Broken Britain crumbles, join Messrs Clarkson and Crouch as they once again denounce the horrors of modern life no one else will admit.
 Concerned that aliens have infiltrated the Government? Sick of wishy-washy liberals telling you werewolf marriage is okay? Wonder who - or what – your kids are chatting to on Facebook?! You are not alone!
All concerned citizens and patriots should hurry along to Neighbourhood Watch. Meanwhile, lock the door and let no one in. Remember, everything is really dangerous.www.clarksonandcrouch.com

SALUTE THEATRE COMPANY
Surrounded by conflict, hardened by war, a young boy and his sister must find a way to survive. But there is hope. A seasoned rebel offers an escape and finds in them the family he never had. Supporting War Child (www.warchild.com) - the charity for children affected by war, it will be performed by young people under 18 to raise awareness of this cause.
We are performing:
15-30th August
c+2 Chambers Street, Edinburgh
At 11:00am

DANIEL CAINER
JEWISH CHRONICLES
C-Aquila ROMAN EAGLE LODGE 5th - 31st August 2010 7:30pm
Every song tells a story, every story touches the heart.
One man, one piano; a solo tour de force. Epic stories set to music that take you on a journey through an ancient, influential yet much misunderstood culture. His acutely observed songs are full of wry humour and tell the true tales of feuding tailors, coke-snorting rabbis and the hilarious, adulterous adventures of his own parents.
'Very funny, very moving' (Daily Mail).
'Sophisticated, witty, touching' (Manchester Evening News).
'With his stories within stories, Cainer reminds me of Buñuel... if Buñuel had been Jewish, been born in Leeds and been an admirer of Jake Thackeray, this is what he might have sounded like' (Alan Bennett). 'Daniel is winning hearts wherever he goes' (Jewish Chronicle).
'Brilliant and Brave' (Australia Stage)
www.danielcainer.com
www.jewishchronicles.com

DAVE COHEN
MY LIFE AS A FOOTNOTE
An epic poem about young love, great music - and Phil Collins
 
“Superb, hilarious… fantastic script, beautifully directed and performed” Sue Odell,
 Comedian, Perrier nominee, founder member of the Comedy Store Players, and creator of the world’s greatest Jewish heavy metal band Guns’n’Moses - in the 1980s and 90s Dave Cohen was Britain's Most Averagely Successful Stand-Up Comedian. Now he’s back with My Life As A Footnote, his first new one-man show in 16 years, a true and epic poem of disastrous love and lust set around the first ever WOMAD Festival of 1982.
He has written for Have I Got News For You and Not Going Out, while co-creating hit radio series 15 Minute Musical – winner of the UK Writers’ Guild Radio Comedy of the Year Award.
Since his return to the stage in 2004 he has been hailed as ‘a great comic talent’ by the Daily Mail and the Evening Standard called his songs ‘hilarious’.
http://davecohen.squarespace.com/

SAVIO(U)R THEATRE COMPANY
AT THE BROKEN PLACES
By Joseph Horton
Directed by Kate Gorman & Tim Sullivan
 
At the Broken Places follows the teachers and students of fictional Sierra High School as they write and stage an account of a fatal shooting massacre that occurred at their school twenty years earlier, hoping finally to destigmatize a school that has for so long been synonymous with violence.
The play draws deliberately from the aftermath of the shootings at Columbine High School, an event Horton experienced as a student at a nearby high school in Littleton, Colorado. Through research, interviews, visits to the school and enduring friendships with Columbine students over ten years, much of the dialogue within the Sierra High production is reproduced from his research and the historical record; some of the text is drawn from the journals of the killers.

The express goal of Savio(u)r Theatre Company is to broaden and deepen the bonds between British and American theatre artists. As seen in its recent season, Savio(u)r places a particular emphasis on offering new work alongside classic plays. Based in London, it has brought a unique blend of British-American perspectives through mixed casts in Twelfth Night, or What You Will at the Courtyard Theatre, Sarah Kane’s Crave at Camden People’s Theatre, and A Doll’s House Revisited, a comedic reinvention of Ibsen’s classic, at the Etcetera Theatre. Savio(u)r most recently produced a multi-cultural, music-infused take on the quintessential American play, Our Town, at Camden People’s Theatre in July.At the Broken Places is the winner of the Avery and Jule Hopwood Award for Drama—previous recipients include Arthur Miller and Frank O’Hara—and a Farrar Memorial Playwriting Grant. It receives its world premiere In Edinburgh.
 
22-30 August, 12:50pm (1hr15)
 
C Central. Venue 54, Carlton Hotel, North Bridge
0845 260 1234 www.cthefestival.com
 Tickets: £7.50-9.50 Concs: £6.50-8.50
Contact: Tim Sullivan – tim@saviourtheatrecompany.com

CHECKLEY BUSH
Cast: Victoria Bush & Laura Checkley
Director: Hannah Chissick
Musical Director: Hew Evans
Venue: Gilded Balloon @ The Balcony 2.30pm
Dates: 4th-30th August
 
Welcome to Checkley Bush a place where things aren’t always as they seem. Come and meet the Lanarkshire Lezza’s, the singing Eastern European Siamese twins, a Lambada loving couple and many many more. With a clever mixture of dark comedy, sharp modern wit and show-stopping numbers a ticket to Checkley Bush is the hottest in town.
Checkley Bush are fast becoming the most talked about female comedy double act in the country. Made up of Victoria Bush (Tina O’Kane ITV’s Bad Girls) and West End performer Laura Checkley . The girls have been writing and performing together for the last 3 years and with sell out shows at The Canal Cafe, Soho Theatre and Camden Festival...If you pass by Checkley Bush, you’ve definitely missed your stop!

“Laura Checkley dazzles in a succession of roles”
**** Whatsonstage
“As soon as Victoria Bush steps on stage the audience knows they’re in for a treat” The Stage
“Chissick’s production is wickedly clever and extremely funny”
Northern Echo