ColLAB 22 A festival of self-created work
The Linbury Theatre LAMDA ColLAB 2022 is a platform of self-created work showcasing our 2022 MFA Professional Acting & MA Directing graduates. It is an exciting collaboration of urgent new writing, creative innovation, bold devising, brand new music theatre, solo-performance and more. The festival features 8 original pieces ranging from 10 to 40 minutes in length. An important celebration of new work and its vital place in our challenging cultural climate.
Fault Lines, The Doorway Effect, Rule Zero and plewds Performances Wednesday 6 July at 3:30pm Thursday 7 July at 11am Thursday 7 July at 6:30pm Performances of Fault Lines, The Doorway Effect, Rule Zero and plewds will be performed alongside each other.
Fault Lines Directed by Madison Gerringer
About Singer songwriters, Marie and Aisling, are on the cusp of motherhood, and they hope, fame and fortune. But will they be able to work together to navigate this new shaky ground when all is not as it seems? What will they do when the earthquake hits?
Performed by Catherine Chalk Mackenzie Larsen
Creative team Project Mentor & Dramaturg
Lauren Mooney
Production team Technical Stage Manager on Book & Lighting Design Sound No. 1 Technician
Cara Dickens Jacob Eckardt Poppy Morley
The Doorway Effect About At a travelling circus, people are trying to find their lost memories.
Performed by Alina Lew Angela Jones Jun Noh Peik Sirén Daniel Bradley
Creative team Project Mentor & Dramaturg
Lauren Mooney
Production team Technical Stage Manager on Book Lighting Design & Programmer Sound No. 1 Technician
Jas Meara-Wall Abhinav Mishra Jacob Eckardt Poppy Morley
Rule Zero About Their basement. The Odds. His puppet. When estranged friends are called to their childhood home, they return to a past they’d left behind. The dust is unsettled, the rules have changed and demons they’d buried are coming to light.
Performed by Yasmine Meaden Shaun Mendum Jacob Hutchings Elinor Crawley Dominique Hamilton
Creative team Project Mentor & Dramaturg
Lauren Mooney
Production team Technical Stage Manager on Book Lighting Design & Programmer Sound No. 1 Technician
Chloe Alexander Cara Dickens Jacob Eckardt Poppy Morley
plewds Directed by Maximillian Griggs
About Noun. 1. The stylized sweat drops drawn onto a character’s head, as if it were coming out of the character, as used in cartoons. A genre-and-gender-bending exploration of our ability to ignore what’s right in front of us.
Performed by Kathrine Payne
Creative team Project Mentor & Dramaturg
Lauren Mooney
Production team Technical Stage Manager on Book Lighting Design & Programmer Sound No. 1 Technician
Erin Blake Cara Dickens Jacob Eckardt Poppy Morley