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February 1st, Produced by our friends at Equal Measure...
An evening of short plays from WAP's Artistic Director Anna Jordan, including never and rarely performed plays as well as award winning pieces.
1st February 2012, 8pm £12 / £10 - with a free wine reception afterwards
Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, Hammersmith, W6 9RL
Without a Paddle @ Theatre503
‘We’re invisible to you aren’t we? Well not any longer. Now you can see us in all our glory. Now we’ve got your undivided attention.’
Koby’s obsessed with the Rocky movies, Jamie dreams of being eaten alive, and Craig just wants revenge. Following their brother's death in Iraq, three siblings take the law into their own hands and will fight to the death for what they believe; because sometimes people do the wrong things for the right reasons
WAP presented Chris Urch's debut full length play Vote of No Confidence, directed by Anna Jordan as part of LabFest at Theatre 503! Starring Alex Papadakis, Josh McCord, Katie West, Lynn Howes and Sohm Kapila. WAP were delighted to have a total sell out run at this great theatre.
23rd - 25th June at 7.45pm.
Tickets: £10/£8 concessions
Box Office: http://www.theatre503.com/
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BENDER & ShortStuff
@ The WET Rep
Watch the promo vids: www.youtube.com/user/WAPtheatre
Waterloo East Theatre
Brad Street, London SE1
8th Feb - 4th March 2011
Back by popular demand, BENDER made a phoenix-like rise from the ashes! Following its one week run at The Old Red Lion last year, the first play ever written through a Facebook page returns to The Waterloo East Theatre. 250 ‘BENDER’ fans posted the weird and wonderful things that have happened to them on their craziest nights out. The result is this riotous rollercoaster of a play, which follows Billy, Lizzy and Fibs as they fall off the wagon in spectacular style, and embark on a night of unparalleled debauchery.
And WAP presented ShortStuff: Little Plays, Big Stories, bringing together their three best shorts for an evening of evocative theatre. ShortStuff comprised of BED OF FOXGLOVES and COMING HOME, both originally performed and Theatre 503, and CLOSER TO GOD, winner of the Off Cut Festival 2009. Never shy of a challenge, WAP tackled themes of isolation, discrimination, incapacity, brutality, obsession, recession, love and loss, in these three small but perfectly formed plays. Accompanied, as always, with a big dollop of dark humour.
These shows played as part of The first ever WET REP; a season of four plays, performed in double bills.
“It is the standout performances and the direct nature of the script that makes this such a captivating piece of theatre.****”
London Fringe Festival Front Page on BENDER
Peter Gordon in ShortStuff
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The Cast of BENDER
MARIANNE
Picture: http://thomasscurrphotography.com
By Anna Jordan
Wimbledon Studio Theatre
12th – 15th May 2010 7.45pm
Directed by Anna Jordan / Assistant Director – Charlie Swallow
WATCH THE PROMO:
www.youtube.com/watch
They were ever so good. Parked the Panda car at the top of the street so as not to cause a fuss. I’ve often wondered, as they walked down the road and saw us chatting and drinking our tea, if they thought about giving us just a little more time. They could have stopped and smoked a cigarette, or even tied their shoelaces. Just to give us a few more minutes, seconds even, of oh-so blissful ignorance. Before they said the words that would change our lives forever. That would mean, in many ways, our lives were over.
Cath and David have lost a child. Allie has lost a best friend. And Ash has gained a heart. Marianne follows the paths of four people, whose worlds have been changed beyond recognition by one event. Cath has questions she needs to ask. She thinks Ash has the answers. Ash wants the world to go away. David is falling apart. And Allie is falling in love for the very first time.
Marianne is a play about grief and love, about youth and age, about life standing still and life moving on, about being alive and being dead.
Without a Paddle Theatre presents this dark, poignant and often funny play, which explores the person-shaped hole that is left in your life when somebody dies.
We had a stunning cast for MARIANNE, Leighton Pugh, Lynn Howes, Natasha Campbell and Simon-Anthony Rhoden!
Anna Jordan's Play
THAT DARK PLACE
Part of Box of Tricks Word:Play 3
Following the sell-out success of Word:Play 2, Box of Tricks have commissioned six new playwrights to write a fifteen minute play inspired by a single word: Obsession.
That Dark Place: Nathan cannot find his pen. He wants to write his confession. Constance fears the repercussions in their small community. But what are they guilty of?
Other plays are by Hannah Nicklin, Kenneth Emson, Marcelo Dos Santos, and Evan Placey.
Theatre 503, 30th March - 3rd April 7.45pm
CLOSER TO GOD
Winner: Off Cut Festival 2009
Plus winner of Audience Award
Old Red Lion October 2009
This play explores the unlikely friendship between a young mother and an elderly man living on the top floor of a tower block.
Cast: Peter Gordon and Ursula Early
Ursula Early in CLOSER TO GOD
YOUTH & AGE
An evening of new writing exploring the diversity of Great Britain
Camden People's Theatre September 2009
Without a Paddle Theatre presents Just For Fun – Totally Random and We Will Be Gone by Anna Jordan. This double bill of new writing explores the extraordinary lives of two very different groups of people. They live in the same city, but are worlds apart. In Just For Fun – Totally Random we meet Dante, Kelvis, Shakespeare, Skin and Home-Grown Tone. We join them for an evening at the park, enjoying a drink, a smoke and a bit of banter, which later goes horribly wrong. They tell the story of the night that changes everything, for all of them, forever. We Will Be Gone follows Wally, a World War II veteran and Chelsea pensioner, who’s world is turned upside down when the Royal Hospital opens its doors to women for the very first time. One of whom turns out to be Kitty, a female war veteran who he hasn’t seen for over sixty years. Kitty had a profound effect on his life when he was far away from home. Will he decide to reveal who he is? And will she remember him? Without a Paddle will take you from a park bench in Brixton, to The Royal Hospital, Chelsea, from lawless Britain to wartime Italy, and from the noughties to the forties in one diverse evening.
JUST FOR FUN - TOTALLY RANDOM
LAMDA / New End Theatre Hampstead
May 2009
Meet Skinny, who loves Beyonce, hates haters, and doesn’t want to end up like her mum. Meet Home Grown Tone, whose life revolves around bed, weed, and getting his nuts licked. Meet Shakespeare, who spends time in his room devouring books, to escape his dark thoughts. Meet Kelvis, a fat Elvis fanatic who frets about losing his new friends. And finally, meet Dante, who ain’t gonna be caught slippin’. Come and hear the story of one ill-fated night that changed everything, for all of them, forever. Come and spend some time in ‘Lawless Britain”.
Picture:
http://thomasscurrphotography.com
WHITER THAN WHITE & THE DARK. THE TWIST
by Anna Jordan
Cast: Anna Jordan & Kevin Murphy, Emily Randall
Two short plays, part of the first Lost 5 Minute Festival, Tabard Theatre, 2008
Anna Jordan in Whiter Than White
PAPER THIN
By Anna Jordan
Cast: Clarine Cronin, Jack Gavin, Matthew Field, Beth Packer
Barons Court Theatre / Tabard Theatre 2008
Vincent and Victoria live next to Tan and Gav on the sixteenth floor of Standard House. The problem is that noise travels, big time. Rows are overheard, conversations eavesdropped on, and rash conclusions are drawn. This play explores isolation, confrontation and the hope found in an unlikely friendship. Who needs Eastenders when the walls are paper thin?
Jack Gavin in Paper Thin
NO REASON AT ALL, EXCEPT I HAVE TOOTHACHE
By Anna Jordan
Cast: Helen Carter and Aidan Clooke
LAMDA 2006
Hayley has lost too much, and Geoff has nothing to lose. Two strangers meet on the top of a tower block in East London. They are both at crisis point, and feel there is only one way out. We follow Hayley and Geoff as they share arguments, confessions, dreams, and six cans of Stella. Can their new found friendship convince them that life is worth living? Or will they drive each other over the edge? Can a perfect stranger save you from yourself?
No Reason at All, Except I Have Toothache Flyer
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