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Alphabetti Theatre (founded 2012) is an intimate artist lead award winning theatre in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Before Covid-19 Our 80 seater theatre held on average each year 320 performances,...
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Alphabetti Theatre (founded 2012) is an intimate artist lead award winning theatre in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Before Covid-19 Our 80 seater theatre held on average each year 320 performances, worked with/supported 2,000 artists & welcomed 15,000 audience members - with 60% of our programme part of our Pay What You Feel ticket scheme, with all remaining tickets £10 or under.
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11 MAY 2024 · HOPE IS A FOUR LETTER WORD
written by Gobscure
directed by Ali Pritchard
performed by Zoe Labert and Rebecca Glendenning-Laycock
with additional material written and performed by Harrison Rowley-Lynn
"Under Pritchard's nimble direction, the piece offers light and dark in equal measure, laced with both broad humour and dry wit. It is often very funny, with a beautifully nuanced Glendenning-Laycock deploying expert comic timing without ever undermining the seriousness of the subject matter." Tracey Sinclair - THE STAGE - 4 Stars
Experience a groundbreaking production crafted by an award-winning creative team – two intertwining monologues that delve into similar themes from opposing perspectives.
‘I lost my way. Twelve years underground, isolation, different names, a lost self. I had arrived at a deeply wrong way of responding to social problems. Prison lies at the end of a road taken. ... now more than twenty years in prison, I share with other women daily issues of parenting, education, and health. I have turned sixty. I think about how do we protect our planet’ These profound words are from Kathy Boudin, a convicted terrorist and founding member of the US militant Weather Underground organization. The group engaged in bombings of government buildings to express opposition to U.S. foreign policy and racism.
The second narrative unfolds after enduring two serious crimes without support. Our character finds themselves in a psych-ICU-prison, where they encounter Kathy Boudin's words. This unbelievable and true tale is rife with ridiculous and cruel absurdities. Beginning in a psych-ICU-prison and concluding in a river with water cooling and drowning the insane narrative, it liberates our character as a kingfisher gracefully flies past.
Witness an extraordinary journey that challenges perceptions and captivates audiences with its raw, emotional intensity.
Recorded live at Alphabetti Theatre 2024
(audio version recorded and edited by Matt Jamie)
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9 MAY 2024 · This solo show from Daniel Bye is a surreal and often very funny take on deeply unfunny subjects – grief, environmental devastation and the possible end of the world....
Bye is a TV comic tasked with turning the week’s events into bit-sized satirical shows. But when his big-hearted brother dies, it throws his cynicism into sharp relief. What kind of person, he wonders, stands at a sibling’s deathbed and ponders how he would rewrite the scene? His character is further tested when an unlikely celebrity suicide brings out his dark side. When he finds himself in a creative crisis, help comes from the most unlikely source: a spectral Piers Morgan.
Tracey Sinclair THE STAGE
Written and performed by Daniel Bye
Produced by Alphabetti Theatre and ARC Stockton
Recorded live at Alphabetti Theatre by Matt Jamie
Sound Design by Ziad Jabero
Technical Operations by Chris Foley
Special Thanks to Annabel Turpin, Veronica Johnson and Sarah Pushon
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7 DEC 2023 · Angela
a Darkly Funny Journey through Innocence and Disillusionment.
written by Charlotte Small
Alphabetti’s Autumn 2023 season continues with a debut show from local writer, Charlotte Small. Girl-guides, talking eggcups and wildlife disposal, Angela promises to be one of the most bizarre and hilarious stories to debut at the Award-Winning Fringe Venue. Angela is a play for everyone who has ever felt like a no one. She wants more than she has and commits one and a half hours per week volunteering as a Guide Leader to try and get it. And even when she fails, and fails again, she keeps going, and keeps us going with her.
The play builds on its origins as a 2023 Winner of Alphabetti’s Response Writing programme. Angela will be contributing to a decade’s old tradition of new writing created and nurtured by Alphabetti in the North East. It promises a hilarious, heart wrenching yet uplifting tale of talking eggcups, a beatboxing Spiderman, and finding your power when you feel powerless.
Writer: Charlotte Small (she/her)
Director: Ruth Mary Johnson (she/her)
Performer: Rebecca Glendenning-Laycock (she/they)
Sound Designer: Calum Howard (he/him)
Dramaturg: Tamsin Rees (they/them)
Producer: Gina Ruffin (she/her)
Stage Manager: Hannah Richardson (she/her)
Technical Coordination: Chris Foley
Audio recording, adaptation and editing: Matt Jamie
Closing Music: Jahzzar (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/ - used under CC license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
Production Company: Alphabetti Theatre
22 MAR 2021 · As part of Alphabetti Theatre’s Listen Up project comes the ninth of nine short plays written by underrepresented writers in the North East.
Jaz is a Northern writer and NHS biomedical scientist. As a BAME artist she enjoys writing stories about Black British experiences. Her stage work has been performed in Sheffield, Leeds and Manchester and she has written a short film as part of the BFI Network Film Hub North 'Script Lab'.
Tricia Wey is a 25-year-old London-based multi-disciplined creative and describes herself as a General Maker of Things. She is passionate about removing passivity from theatre and is an advocate for encouraging those who don't see themselves in theatre to take up space. She is particularly interested in creating and producing work that represents marginalised groups, and aims to instill young creatives with the confidence to explore their various artforms. When life begins to open up again, she would like to get more involved with the London cabaret and drag scene.
She has written and performed work at the Bunker Theatre, the Vaults, Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, the World Transformed Festival, and the National Theatre. She also recently partook in WoLab's actor-writer programme. This is her first radio play and she was absolutely honoured to work with the cast and creatives. She hopes you enjoy this little slice of domestic Black life.
Music by Ketsa
freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa
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15 MAR 2021 · As part of Alphabetti Theatre’s Listen Up project comes the eighth of nine short plays written by underrepresented writers in the North East.
Celine and Malik made a pact and now the day has come to face their fear together.
Giraffe is a short audio drama about loss, honour and the childhood friendships which shape you as an adult.
Julie Tsang is an award-winning playwright. Her recent work includes: All Noise – Imagination project with Theatre Centre and Theatre 503, Spring Lantern Riddles - Lyceum theatre/Royal Shakespeare Company, Fix - Pleasance theatre. Julie's work will be staged as part of the 12th Women's International Playwrights Conference in Montréal 2022.
Find out more about Julie’s work by following her on Twitter: @executetheatre
Music by Borrtex: Distant Sphere
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Borrtex/Distant_Sphere
Used under Creative Commons Licence
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8 MAR 2021 · As part of Alphabetti Theatre’s Listen Up project comes the seventh of nine short plays written by underrepresented writers in the North East.
Janet, recently retired and bored of it already, loves a good bus tour. She’s been all over: Loch Lomond, Stratford-upon-Avon, even the Isle of Weight. It’s time to try something new, so she books herself on a mystery bus tour. Where on earth will she end up? And what on earth will she end up doing?
Directed by Paula Penman
Dramaturged & Produced by Ali Pritchard
Recording, Editing & Sound Design by Matt Jamie
Performed by Zoe Lambert
Hannah is an emerging writer and performer originally from Cumbria. She’s had short many plays staged in theatres such as The Southwark Playhouse, Union Theatre, Canal Café Theatre and Alphabetti Theatre. She loves comedy and was one of the regular writer-performers on BBC Newcastle’s radio sketch show ‘It’s Grin Up North’.
Find out more about Hannah’s work by following her on twitter: @hannahsowerby1 or visiting her website www.hannahsowerbywriter.co.uk
Music by Ketsa
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa
CC licence
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And Swing Music clip from Moson Big Band
http://mosonbigband.hu
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1 MAR 2021 · As part of Alphabetti Theatre’s Listen Up project comes the sixth of nine short plays written by underrepresented writers in the North East.
This is a play about voices – those we choose to adopt when it suits us, and those we choose to ignore when it...suits us. For Matt, the voice is a familiar one, but the conversation is anything but.
Directed by Karen Traynor
Dramaturged & Produced by Ali Pritchard
Recording, Editing & Sound Design by Matt Jamie
Performed by Adam Donaldson
Richard Boggie is an emerging writer from Newcastle. He can normally be found performing spoken word as Bogsey. His work is often playful and comedic, but can also offer Serious insight into life with sight loss and disability.
Find out more about Richard by following him on Twitter @reb_678
Music by Chad Crouch
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chad_Crouch
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22 FEB 2021 · As part of Alphabetti Theatre’s Listen Up project comes the fifth of nine short plays written by underrepresented writers in the North East.
Liam and his mum decided to become a foster family. Now he invites you to listen to his side of the story. The side that doesn't get asked about. Discover the highs, the lows, the brutal truths and emotions that come along with foster caring and inevitably, letting go. A beautiful heart wrenching drama about a side we don’t hear about in the foster system.
Directed by Paula Penman
Dramaturged & Produced by Ali Pritchard
Recording, Editing & Sound Design by Matt Jamie
Performed by Arabella Arnott & Bob Nicholson
Beth is an 23 year old emerging northern writer and actor. Jigsaw is about foster caring from the perspective of a Foster Carer's birth child- something she experienced. It's a specific voice in society which rarely gets heard, she feel it's under, and sometimes, falsely represented within media. It's her mission to write something which gives an accurate insight into the foster caring experience. Away from writing, she loves creating comedy sketches with her best friend, playing the ukulele, performing their own spoken word and hiking in the lakes!
Music by Ketsa
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/
Used under Creative Commons license:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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15 FEB 2021 · As part of Alphabetti Theatre’s Listen Up project comes the fourth of nine short plays written by underrepresented writers in the North East.
It’s hard to talk about the thing you really want to talk about, especially if you’re British – Tea? When Sam goes over to her ex-Rob to use his washing machine, he hopes to be able to talk all things they never were able to finish…A comedy drama about so much more than dirty clothes.
Directed by Paula Penman
Dramaturged & Produced by Ali Pritchard
Recording, Editing & Sound Design by Matt Jamie
Performed by Craig Fairburn & Hannah Walker
Assad grew up in the west end of Newcastle, in a bustling Asian neighbourhood full of loudness and drama, where his love for storytelling was born. He’s fascinated by human nature and how we navigate relationships, ambitions, fears and everything in between. He’s had the privilege of exploring these as an actor and now curious to explore as a writer
Music by KETSA
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa
Used under CC license
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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8 FEB 2021 · As part of Alphabetti Theatre’s Listen Up project comes the third of nine short plays written by underrepresented writers in the North East.
Jimmy has been missing for two days, his partner Vivien is distraught with worry. When a boy comes knocking on the door with answers, they don’t know what to believe. A queer love-loss story with a twist.
Directed by Paul James
Dramaturged & Produced by Ali Pritchard
Recording, Editing & Sound Design by Matt Jamie
Performed by Samantha Bell & Luke Maddison
James Piercy is a writer from the West Midlands. He graduated from Northumbria University with a BA in drama & scriptwriting. His debut play 'Waiting for Garbo' ran at the crescent theatre, in Birmingham, garnering rave reviews. Several of his one act plays; 'Oscar', 'Out in the streets' and 'Margie' have been produced in cities all around the U.K, including Newcastle's Northern Stage. He has also written four screenplays, including his directorial debut 'Known Voices' which is available online.
He is interested in ways of telling more authentic LGBTQ+ stories, wanting to tell queer stories that don't always focus on our sexuality but our existence.
“Queer people still have to fight for our rights, battle addition, debt. We want to get married and have children. I want to offer real stories about real people, not the usual stereotypes.”
This is James’s debut audio commission, find out more about James work via their Twitter: @mrjamespiercy
Music by Blear Moon
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blear_Moon
Used under CC license
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Alphabetti Theatre (founded 2012) is an intimate artist lead award winning theatre in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Before Covid-19 Our 80 seater theatre held on average each year 320 performances,...
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Alphabetti Theatre (founded 2012) is an intimate artist lead award winning theatre in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Before Covid-19 Our 80 seater theatre held on average each year 320 performances, worked with/supported 2,000 artists & welcomed 15,000 audience members - with 60% of our programme part of our Pay What You Feel ticket scheme, with all remaining tickets £10 or under.
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