Come see.
October 20th @7:30,
Questors Theatre, Ealing
5 brand new plays will be written, rehearsed and performed in one day- for the third time!
The first time… March 2nd, 2024
The second time… May 12, 2024
OUR FORMAT– 8:30am, 5 writers will meet at Drama Studio London in Ealing and armed with nothing more than (randomly chosen) head shots, their laptops and a theme they will bravely begin writing the one act plays that will become the evening’s offering.
(Writers at Picturehouse Ealing, during our first installment March 2nd. 2024)
12:30pm– Actors, Directors and Director’s Assistants assemble at Drama Studio London where the Directors will randomly choose one of the freshly printed plays..
..so they can start rehearsal! Drama Studio London is a tailor made workplace where five plays can simultaneously be rehearsed into ready shows…
6:00pm– Tech rehearsal at Questors
7:30pm– Curtain Up !
So what is the Same Day Plays, day of plays…?
It’s a theater experiment built to capture the essence of immediate and instinctual theater by following all the traditional steps of building a play, and then removing the luxury of time.
So, why the rushed schedule?
This is our attempt to answer the age old theatre questions; “Is it possible to remove expectations and worry over results and create theater that is pure execution? Is there a way to insure that every artist works only from their instinct in creating a play?”
Now, what if an evening was created by randomly pairing artists and have them create new plays under a nearly impossible timeline. Would it remove the luxury of thinking and engage their every artistic instinct necessary to pull off creating a show that didn’t exist before 9am that morning?
This is our attempt to test that out.
It’s surely an experiment, and we are hoping it will teach us about our theatrical community. Who in their right mind would agree to blindly leap into the discomfort of taking this very unconventional approach to our well established practice? What will they learn about themselves and their process for creating?
The audience is treated to the end of all that momentum when the curtain goes up and what happens is as fresh and immediate as possible. No one really knows what the outcome will be. The shared journey of unpredictability makes each performance a unique experience.
Sounds wild, right?
We won’t be listing our participants but we do promise that all our players are London theatre veterans of varied cultures and generations who have written for, starred in, or directed things you’d be impressed by. One of them won a BAFTA. Not kidding.
Since we don’t know what the writer’s will write it’s probably best you don’t bring your under 18 child.
We hope you can make it!
This is a community theatre project. Questors and Drama Studio London, both Ealing based theatre entities, are teaming up to make a wild day of theater exploration happen!
