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SundaySurgery is a Script Development Workshop, Presentation & Networking Event.
Please watch this short video to see what #SundaySurgery is all about:https://vimeo.com/55929184
Each month, we workshop scenes from three new scripts, (#stage, #screen, or #radioscripts) to help #writers develop their work in a live, rehearsal-room setting.
#SundaySurgery is a professional, invite-only monthly #script development workshop with a public presentation and the opportunity to network with industry peers. #SundaySurgery is also part of the London Directors and Producers Meetup Group.
#SundaySurgery, provides a safe and supportive space to develop #scriptswith professional #actors and #directors and receive critical feedback.
#SundaySurgery also produces full script reading of plays that have been developed at the SS. All involved are paid for their time and the event proves to be great showcase opportunities for the actors.
Actors and writers must submit their spotlight link or script, via email for consideration.
COST:
Actors: £15.00
Writers: £25.00
Networking: £5.00
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SCRIPT 1: WHAT WILL BARON BOOBY SAY?
Written by Penelope Maclachlan
Directed by Laurie Sherry
SYNOPSIS
Melissa is unhappily married to Charles. AS her 50th birthday approaches she has a last fling with Kevin, who pretends to be a landscape gardener with ambitions start an agency deploying gardeners to the wealthy. Melissa believes him. She gives him £1,000 to invest. He is forced to spend it on paying the rent. He has none of the wealthy clients which he is always boasting about. As Melissa comes to recognise him for what he is, she always faces the fact that Charles is a bad husband, and Jennifer, a bad sister. Melissa is surrounded by people who are unworthy of her. She finally tells them of a plan, which she ahs been building up for years, to free herself from all of them and make a fresh start.
FULLY CAST
Jennifer, ( 40's ) Melissa’s sister, is a divorced gold-digger. Hitherto she has relied on her looks to get by, but her first youth is past. She could get a clerical job but would never submit to the authority of people she believes her inferiors. She has chosen her own career path, and this choice will estrange her from her family when they know what it is.
Played by: AILEEN ARCHER
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Melissa, ( 50's ) in unhappily married to Charles. Although gentle and sensitive she is not a doormat. I hope to show her progress from a gullible person, too nice for her own good and often exploited, to one who decides on her own future. She is prepared to face loneliness and hardship because independence and self-respect are worth it.
Played by: Maria Cole
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Kevin (Late 40s) is a wide boy. At his best, he has a cheeky humour but there is quite a streak of nastiness in him. He is a liar and a cheat, though to be fair to him some of his worst behaviour is explained by his poverty, which he struggles to hide
Played by: Anthony Allgood
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Charles, (60's) in a pompous, conceited, but to all appearances a respectable gentleman. He is always talking about “the norms of polite society” but there are murky aspects to his past.
Played by: GIL SUTHERLAND
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If you would like to be considered for any of the above roles, please send your CV to sundaysurgery AT GMAIL DOT COM asap
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SCRIPT 2: YOU WILL FAIL HER
Genre: AN IMMERSIVE THEATRE INSTALLATION.
Written by Lennie Varvarides
Directed by: Kaz & Lennie (bieleckiandbielecka.com)
Filming by Kazimir Bielecki
“You will enter a world of movie projection, giant balloons and the soundscape of your inner voice. You will revisit your own childhood and there among your memories, you will relive a trauma so unforgivable that even you will feel the guilt of a system that continues to fail its children”.
SYNOPSIS: YOU WILL FAIL HER is a one person performative installation that weaves the audience into the tapestry of the protagonist’s story though immersive theatre, moving image projection and an interactive soundscape. YOU WILL FAIL HER aims to explore the emotional effects of the education system, parental responsibility, dyslexia, mental health and who to still succeeded within a failing system.
Fully Cast!
Performer: M/F, British, 21-40
Must have extensive theatre experience and training and confident in immersive theatre and be able to involve the audience.
Played by: JANINA SMITH
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With the support of the Arts Council England, DYSPLA, along with The New Theatre Royal and Resident Artist Jon Adams, are producing an R&D project called, YOU WILL FAIL HER; a performative installation that attacks Britain’s education system and condemns how it teaches neurodiverse students.
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SCRIPT 3: My Country (That I Live In)
Written by, Rita Suszek
Directed by, Natasha Markou
SKY is cross with her brother for making their Mum vote Leave. Chris, finally free from being gay-bashed, feels like bullies followed him and changed his country. Veronique's in-laws are cheering for Farage between pouring gravy and she no longer feels welcome at her family table.... Renata's co-workers celebrate Brexit with cake and try to hug her to convince that "everything will be fine". Samuel, the immigrant for 20 years, finds that there are too many foreigners these days and we need to draw the line. Will everything be fine though? And who are "we" anyway?
Three immigrants. Three Brits. Six stories weaving around one another. Who voted? Who couldn't vote? Who's going to pay the price? Six voices exploring the human cost of Brexit, inspired by "My Country" at the National Theatre.
FULLY CAST!
SAMUEL, African, 40-50's, physically strong person and someone who has been in the UK for 20 years, can’t bring his mother over to the UK. He is married, 2 children. Wavering over politics. Solid, worried, aware of unfair treatment.
Played by LAMIN TAMBAhttps://
SKY, British, 40s , youthful, hippie. Divorced, a single mother, family black sheep. Spiritual, fiery, sales assistant, retraining as coach. Outspoken, protective of her daughter, angry with her brother. Political.
Played by: RACHEL STEGGALL
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