LISP theatre festival
You may remember our interview with Sharon Sexton in the summer when she told us about plans to stage the first London Irish Short Play Festival. Well, her call for submissions had a great response. Now she and her husband Cillian Donnachadha, who together head the Biscuits for Breakfast Theatre Company, have made their selection. Six plays will be performed at the London Irish Centre in Camden from October 20th for four nights. Two of the successful playwrights – Siubhan McNally and Brendan Kenny came into our studios to talk about the festival. They told Catherine Carroll to expect an entertaining evening with something for everyone – even if you don’t have a drop of Irish blood.
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Sharon Sexton as Liza Minnelli
If you’ve heard our interview with Sharon Sexton about her one woman show coming to the Camden Fringe this week, you’re probably keen to hear a taster from the performance.
So here’s a glorious three minutes or so of Sharon portraying the sequined superstar that is …Liza Minnelli. Enjoy!
And if you want to hear more, it’s on for one night only on Friday the 19th at 7.30 at the Camden Irish Centre.
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Tonight I'll Be April
‘Tonight I’ll Be April’ is a new play on at the Etcetera Theatre. In the show April, a feisty Executive struggles to hide the depths of her complex identity crisis in order to maintain control over her relationship. When matters take a turn will she get the help she so desperately needs in time?
The production company behind the play came into the studio to tell Zoe Stegosaurus all about it.
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Interview with Sharon Sexton, star of 'A Fit Wife for a Revolutionary'
April 24th is the official one hundredth anniversary of the Easter Rising in Ireland. Commemorations are already underway to mark the week hundreds of people, mostly in Dublin, rose up to fight against British rule. After six days the struggle ended in an unconditional surrender. The seven men who planned the revolt were executed. But knowing that might be their fate they’d already chosen someone to carry on their work: Kathleen Clarke was the wife of one of their number, Thomas Clarke.
She was under strict instructions to stay home, guard the secrets, look out for the welfare of the fighters’ families and keep the flame burning.
What Kathleen endured during those days has been dramatised by Irish actress Sharon Sexton. She’s performing her one woman play “A Fit Wife for a Revolutionary” at the London Irish Centre in Camden Square from the 29th of March until the 2nd of April.
Sharon has appeared in London in The Commitments and is currently in Billy Elliott. She’s hoping to take her play around Britain and to Ireland later in the year. Sharon was keen to look at the role taken by women in the Rising, which has often been overlooked. She originally planned to follow a number of stories but as her research progressed she found there was just so much to say about Kathleen Clarke’s life that she had to focus on her. Catherine Carroll asked Sharon to describe the subject of her play.
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Whose London Is It Anyway?
Whose London Is It Anyway?
This excellent question is the title of a new festival at the Camden People’s Theatre addressing the urgent issues of housing in London. Where will the pressure of rising housing prices and rapid changes in vast areas of London lead us?
We spoke to Brian Logan, artistic director of the Camden People’s Theatre, about the festival.
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