Red Ryder is Script Teasing

Play readings are fun too

2 weeks, 6 plays, 1 night each 

This November the Blue Room Theatre is our salon, and you’re invited. 

We love our playwrights sweating away in ivory towers (or at their Mum’s house). We love the words on the page. But our artform must, at its most essential, be heard. So, lend us your ears. 

A range of scripts to be announced – The hot new international sensation? The one from the canon by the dead, white guy? The one you have to study for school? Because how many plays have you heard of but never heard? We know, right! 

Let’s sit around the campfire (or LEDs) and tell stories, in an effort to understand. 

Great actors, great scripts and great conversations. Join us. 

Tuesday 18 November – A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen (1879) Directed by Emily McLean

The door slam that echoed around the world.  An outrageously radical play when it was first performed, so outrageous some countries would only perform it with an alternative ending. Let’s hear it today and see what’s changed!

Cast – Amy Mathews, Michael Abercromby, Benj D’Addario, Alex Jones, Michael Loney, Julia Moody

Thursday 20 November – The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich

This is history at its rawest. A reading of a selection of verbatim interviews taken from the iconic history book. These true stories of Russian women who fought in WW2 subvert the usual stories of war and make the violence of all aspects of war shockingly real. An anti-war piece.

Cast:  Alison van Reeken, Bobbi Henry, Jo Morris, Lucy Wong, Tamara Creasey, Teresa Jakovich

Saturday 22 November – Girls and Boys by Dennis Kelly (2018)

A devastating love story. What starts as an entertaining love story takes a shocking but all too common turn. A story for our times. The control of the narrative by the central character Kelly is truly remarkable.

Cast: Alison van Reeken

• Producers

  Alison van Reeken
  Benj D’Addario
  Emily McLean