After three years of industry-recognised undergraduate training, the BA Acting for Stage and Screen graduating class will be sharing their hard work in a showcase.
The BA Acting students at London South Bank University have had a busy three years of conservative style acting training in the heart of London’s theatre quarter.
Their Acting Degree Showcase is the finale of this training and gives graduating students the opportunity to share their work with a live audience.
Over a month period, from Friday 16th May to Friday 6th June, students will be delivering four plays by established playwrights to showcase their hard work and training.
Pleasures of the Damned, Friday 16th May:
An adaptation of George Gissing’s novel, The Nether World, this play is set in the heart of the Victorian East End. Written and directed by Alex McSweeney, it brings the underclass to life, with motifs of loneliness, alienation and spiritual despair.
Experience the smoky Gin Palaces and raucous Music Halls straight from the pages of the novel that shocked the nation.
It follows Michael Snowden, who returns to the East End with newfound wealth to rescue his family. But, in a city buried in misery, his fortune might not be enough to save them.
Date: Friday 16th May
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Time: Performances at 2pm and 7pm
Tickets: £10 general admission, £5 concessions. Buy tickets here.
Our Country’s Good, Friday 23rd May:
This play, written by Timberlake Wertenbaker and directed by Gill Foster, is set in the heart of 1789 Australia, the period where British convicts were sent to penal colonies on the other side of the world.
The convicts in the camp put on a production and explore the idea that theatre and the arts can be a force for good amidst deprivation and injustice.
Date: Friday 23rd May
Time: Performances at 2pm and 7pm
Tickets: £10 general admission, £5 concessions. Buy tickets here.
The Welkin, Friday 30th May:
Written by Lucy Kirkwood in 2020, this play was first performed at the National Theatre. It is directed at LSBU by Jon Lee and is set in a village in Suffolk in 1756.
The play follows a young women accused of murder and subsequently sentenced to hang. She claims to be pregnant and twelve local women are pulled away from their work to decide whether she is lying or telling the truth.
Date: Friday 30th May
Time: Performances at 2pm and 7pm
Tickets: £10 general admission, £5 concessions. Buy tickets here.
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, 6th June:
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is written by Stephen Adly Guirgis and directed by Aiden Condron. It’s a funny, powerful play set in a strange world between Heaven and Hell. It puts Judas, the man who betrayed Jesus, on trial to ask one big question: should he be forgiven?
The play looks at right and wrong, free will, and whether anyone is beyond saving. Characters like Satan, Mother Teresa, and Sigmund Freud are called to the witness stand in a courtroom to testify in a trial of God.
The play mixes serious ideas with sharp humour, using the energy of 1980s New York to tell a story that’s both thought-provoking and entertaining.
Date: Friday 6th June
Time: Performances at 2pm and 7pm
Tickets: £10 general admission, £5 concessions. Buy tickets here.
