NEW
SHOWS
RedCape
shows currently in development:
1, Beach Road
Sarah lives near the sea, very near, perhaps too near and she's getting closer every day.
She lives at 1, Beach Road. There used to be a 2, 3, 4 even a 27 - but they're long gone. Her house is the last still standing on Beach Road and soon that too will slip into the sea and sail away.
Claire lives near a lido, not that near, not near enough. She lives in Flat 12, Block D Wellington Estate. Once they've completed Block G she will no longer be able to see the lido.
Claire worries about Sarah, Sarah worries about her garden, will she get to eat the tomatoes she planted? Do fish like tomatoes?
Claire's flat is worth twice what she paid for it. Sarah's flat is worth £1.
1, Beach Road explores the lives of two ordinary women, one living horizontally and the other vertically. As Norfolk slowly slides into the sea what will become of Beach Road and Britain's first climate change refugees? Will the locals rally round as they did 400 years before and build their own sea defences? Once Wellington Estate is finished will Claire be able to see anything out of her window?
RedCape's new show is a quirky tale of defiance, stupidity, and trying to turn back the tide. Combining their successful mix of beautiful visual theatre, physical storytelling and new writing RedCape examine what it means today to own land, air and what if the sea puts in a higher offer.
In development 2008/2009. Available for touring Autumn 2009
Hairy Fairy Tails
A Revolting Rhymesque show for ages 8+
"If you're cranky, you pong, you're in any way wrong,
If your legs are too short and your arms are too long,
If you're shunned, pushed aside and the rules you ignore,
If you grumble, you rumble, you parp and you snore,
Fear not, because now, without further ado,
SHUT UP, do be quiet, this story's for you."
A sweet and spikey show from the fairy tale characters we’ve all tried to forget. Cinderella’s ugly sisters, the giant’s lonely wife, the seven rejected dwarves finally get to have their say in RedCape’s new Christmas show commissioned by South Street Arts Centre, Reading. Includes live music and brightly coloured suitcases.
Available from December 2008
From Newbury With Love
1971, In the depths of the Cold War, the daughter of an imprisoned Soviet dissident received a postcard from across the Iron Curtain that changed her family's life.
Harold & Olive Edwards, antiquarian booksellers in Newbury, wrote to the family of Marina Aidova, aged 8, because her birthday was one day before Harold's. They signed the postcard "From Newbury With Love". The families wrote to each other for the next 16 years. The letters were inspired by an Amnesty letter-writing campaign asking people to support the families of Soviet prisoners of conscience. Marina's father had been sent to the gulag for running an illegal printing press. This remarkable correspondence chronicles a fascinating period of social, political history and the intimate, seldom heard details of daily life in two very different worlds. The letters finish when Harold passes away, aged 90. Marina was 24.
In an our age of emails, texts and SMS, From Newbury With Love reminds us of the simple power of putting pen to paper.
From Newbury With Love is a proposed association between RedCape Theatre and Amnesty International. Dates to be confirmed.
Big Berta
Berta is feeling like she doesn't fit. Literally. Being a teenager in the suburbs is taking it's toll: Mum & Dad are 'having difficulties', school is dull, the netball team is full of bullies and last (but definitely not least) Berta is having a radical growth spurt. When she falls in love with the new paper-boy her increasing size and over-active hormones start affecting the weather with cataclysmic results.
A modern-day Romeo & Juliet in a mundane setting. Big Berta is an elegy for all our troubled teenage years.
Using puppetry, stop-motion animation, a dynamic set, two tall actors, tragedy, comedy and a bit of magic, Big Berta is an absurd, sensory rollercoaster.
Directed by Claire Coaché
Puppetry & Design by Yngvild Aspeli
Written by Melanie Wilson & Lisle Turner
Mentored by Gavin Glover
Berta played by Melanie Wilson
Inspired by the novel 'Berta La Larga' by Cuca Canals.
Big Berta is a proposed collaboration between RedCape Theatre, South Street Arts Centre, Reading and the Berkshire Venues Consortium, Institut Internationale de la Marionette in Charleville-Mezieres, France and Figurteateret i Nordland in Stamsund, Norway. Big Berta was a finalist for the 2008 Samuel Beckett Theatre Award.
Suitable for ages 12+
In development 2009. Available from spring 2010.
1, Beach Road
Sarah lives near the sea, very near, perhaps too near and she's getting closer every day.
She lives at 1, Beach Road. There used to be a 2, 3, 4 even a 27 - but they're long gone. Her house is the last still standing on Beach Road and soon that too will slip into the sea and sail away.
Claire lives near a lido, not that near, not near enough. She lives in Flat 12, Block D Wellington Estate. Once they've completed Block G she will no longer be able to see the lido.
Claire worries about Sarah, Sarah worries about her garden, will she get to eat the tomatoes she planted? Do fish like tomatoes?
Claire's flat is worth twice what she paid for it. Sarah's flat is worth £1.
1, Beach Road explores the lives of two ordinary women, one living horizontally and the other vertically. As Norfolk slowly slides into the sea what will become of Beach Road and Britain's first climate change refugees? Will the locals rally round as they did 400 years before and build their own sea defences? Once Wellington Estate is finished will Claire be able to see anything out of her window?
RedCape's new show is a quirky tale of defiance, stupidity, and trying to turn back the tide. Combining their successful mix of beautiful visual theatre, physical storytelling and new writing RedCape examine what it means today to own land, air and what if the sea puts in a higher offer.
In development 2008/2009. Available for touring Autumn 2009
Hairy Fairy Tails
A Revolting Rhymesque show for ages 8+
"If you're cranky, you pong, you're in any way wrong,
If your legs are too short and your arms are too long,
If you're shunned, pushed aside and the rules you ignore,
If you grumble, you rumble, you parp and you snore,
Fear not, because now, without further ado,
SHUT UP, do be quiet, this story's for you."
A sweet and spikey show from the fairy tale characters we’ve all tried to forget. Cinderella’s ugly sisters, the giant’s lonely wife, the seven rejected dwarves finally get to have their say in RedCape’s new Christmas show commissioned by South Street Arts Centre, Reading. Includes live music and brightly coloured suitcases.
Available from December 2008
From Newbury With Love
1971, In the depths of the Cold War, the daughter of an imprisoned Soviet dissident received a postcard from across the Iron Curtain that changed her family's life.
Harold & Olive Edwards, antiquarian booksellers in Newbury, wrote to the family of Marina Aidova, aged 8, because her birthday was one day before Harold's. They signed the postcard "From Newbury With Love". The families wrote to each other for the next 16 years. The letters were inspired by an Amnesty letter-writing campaign asking people to support the families of Soviet prisoners of conscience. Marina's father had been sent to the gulag for running an illegal printing press. This remarkable correspondence chronicles a fascinating period of social, political history and the intimate, seldom heard details of daily life in two very different worlds. The letters finish when Harold passes away, aged 90. Marina was 24.
In an our age of emails, texts and SMS, From Newbury With Love reminds us of the simple power of putting pen to paper.
From Newbury With Love is a proposed association between RedCape Theatre and Amnesty International. Dates to be confirmed.
Big Berta
Berta is feeling like she doesn't fit. Literally. Being a teenager in the suburbs is taking it's toll: Mum & Dad are 'having difficulties', school is dull, the netball team is full of bullies and last (but definitely not least) Berta is having a radical growth spurt. When she falls in love with the new paper-boy her increasing size and over-active hormones start affecting the weather with cataclysmic results.
A modern-day Romeo & Juliet in a mundane setting. Big Berta is an elegy for all our troubled teenage years.
Using puppetry, stop-motion animation, a dynamic set, two tall actors, tragedy, comedy and a bit of magic, Big Berta is an absurd, sensory rollercoaster.
Directed by Claire Coaché
Puppetry & Design by Yngvild Aspeli
Written by Melanie Wilson & Lisle Turner
Mentored by Gavin Glover
Berta played by Melanie Wilson
Inspired by the novel 'Berta La Larga' by Cuca Canals.
Big Berta is a proposed collaboration between RedCape Theatre, South Street Arts Centre, Reading and the Berkshire Venues Consortium, Institut Internationale de la Marionette in Charleville-Mezieres, France and Figurteateret i Nordland in Stamsund, Norway. Big Berta was a finalist for the 2008 Samuel Beckett Theatre Award.
Suitable for ages 12+
In development 2009. Available from spring 2010.