SPARE
New Diorama Theatre, 2010
Shortlisted for Best Director Award at the OffWestEnd.Com Theatre Awards (Offies), 2010
“Spare was thought provoking, raw and yet very real.”
Sarah Kelly, National Association for People Abused in Childhood
“The high calibre of performance combined with excellent production values and a novel idea makes Spare a piece of outstanding theatre, and it is not to be missed and in fact I want to go back more than once.”
Fringe Review
“Innovative look at people’s actions... The acting is superb and without exception each performer makes their character for the night their own... A refreshingly different play”
Ham&High
“A brave and daring new approach to theatre, it's fortunate that Rex's skill as a director equals (their) ambition as a writer… Spare treads over exciting territory. Subject and style are exactly matched”
Total Theatre
“The writing has clarity and style without being patronising and the staging is bold and inventive without being superficial… Sebastian Rex is an interesting and coherent writer of original theatrical pieces”
Paul Vale critic for The Stage
Sarah Kelly, National Association for People Abused in Childhood
“The high calibre of performance combined with excellent production values and a novel idea makes Spare a piece of outstanding theatre, and it is not to be missed and in fact I want to go back more than once.”
Fringe Review
“Innovative look at people’s actions... The acting is superb and without exception each performer makes their character for the night their own... A refreshingly different play”
Ham&High
“A brave and daring new approach to theatre, it's fortunate that Rex's skill as a director equals (their) ambition as a writer… Spare treads over exciting territory. Subject and style are exactly matched”
Total Theatre
“The writing has clarity and style without being patronising and the staging is bold and inventive without being superficial… Sebastian Rex is an interesting and coherent writer of original theatrical pieces”
Paul Vale critic for The Stage
80 minutes
8 actors
A queer, provocative and absurd comedy looking at abuse and how it affects us in all areas of life.
12-year-old QWERTY spends all day searching through the newspaper for someone to meet… until stumbling upon SAM;
VOORTY has just been attacked by SAM and is desperate to analyse it;
PRANTY is very special, and SAM knows it.
Trying to make sense of the trauma that happened, is happening or is about to happen, the three seek support from authority figures: PARENT, FRIEND, POLICE and DOCTOR – but each has their own agenda, and every exchange requires power assertion.
The play is written in gender-neutral language and encourages a gender/age/race-blind approach to casting.
Cast
Cornelia Baumann
Laura Corbett
Christian Devellerez
Ido Gonen
Sarah Hall
Avita Jay
Bethen Thorpe
Billie Vee
Guy Warren-Thomas
Creative Team
Writer\Director - Sebastian Rex
Designer - Kasper Svenstrup Hansen
Lighting Designer - Claire Childs
Original Music - Theo Holloway
Assistant Director - Joanne Boniface
Design Assistant - Katie Bellman
Prop Making Assistant - Emma Flavel
Stage Managers - Adam Smith, Katina Saouli and Ina Berggren
Graphic Design - Ma3t
Photographer for flyer - Thomas Edwards
Produced by - Acting Like Mad
Photography - Tina Engström
8 actors
A queer, provocative and absurd comedy looking at abuse and how it affects us in all areas of life.
12-year-old QWERTY spends all day searching through the newspaper for someone to meet… until stumbling upon SAM;
VOORTY has just been attacked by SAM and is desperate to analyse it;
PRANTY is very special, and SAM knows it.
Trying to make sense of the trauma that happened, is happening or is about to happen, the three seek support from authority figures: PARENT, FRIEND, POLICE and DOCTOR – but each has their own agenda, and every exchange requires power assertion.
The play is written in gender-neutral language and encourages a gender/age/race-blind approach to casting.
Cast
Cornelia Baumann
Laura Corbett
Christian Devellerez
Ido Gonen
Sarah Hall
Avita Jay
Bethen Thorpe
Billie Vee
Guy Warren-Thomas
Creative Team
Writer\Director - Sebastian Rex
Designer - Kasper Svenstrup Hansen
Lighting Designer - Claire Childs
Original Music - Theo Holloway
Assistant Director - Joanne Boniface
Design Assistant - Katie Bellman
Prop Making Assistant - Emma Flavel
Stage Managers - Adam Smith, Katina Saouli and Ina Berggren
Graphic Design - Ma3t
Photographer for flyer - Thomas Edwards
Produced by - Acting Like Mad
Photography - Tina Engström