
ECC: Savage/Love & The Dumb Waiter (21-25 Sept ’10)

“Hurtling along at the speed of light, this breathtaking farce is a near faultless piece of theatrical invention.” – London Guardian
“A nifty comedy about double adultery and gourmet cooking….” London Sunday Times
Bernard is planning a weekend with his mistress. He has hired a gourmet cook, is packing his wife Jacqueline off to her mother’s, and has invited his best friend, Robert, to provide an alibi. It is foolproof. What could possibly go wrong? Suppose Robert doesn’t know why he has been invited? Suppose Robert and Jacqueline are secret lovers? What happens if the cook is mistaken for the mistress and the mistress can’t cook? Mix these ingredients and you have the recipe for an evening of hilarious confusion…where nothing can go right!
STARRING: Peter Martin – Zena Waters – Adrian Veale Inge Hodl – Melanie Willow – Graham Duthie
Tickets: Adult €13 / Student €10
The ATC is pleased to announce
its first production for the new season,
a great American classic by Arthur Miller,
All My Sons
October 12 to 16, 2010 at 8pm
Bozar Studio theatre
While Joe Keller made a fortune during World War II, he is facing substantial personal losses. One son, Larry, remains missing and another, Chris, is lost
amongst his own thoughts about money, war and love. Meanwhile Mrs Keller is consumed by the longing for her son Larry’s return and battles to cope with the idea of Chris falling in love with his brother’s girl. This classic Arthur Miller drama from 1947 examines the dissonance between theAmerican Dream and the harsh realities of war and capitalism, a subject which is particularly worth reconsidering in the context of the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The show, directed by Carrie Ellwanger, has an All-Star cast made up of both old and new ATC members.
Joe Keller – Ted Fletcher
Chris Keller – Christopher Flores
Kate Keller – Janet Wishnetsky
Ann Deever – Sarah Watts
George Deever – Daniel Prior
Sue Bayliss – Simone Ellul
Jim Bayliss – Charif Wehbe
Frank Lubey – Henri Colens
Lydia Lubey – Aoife O’Grady
Absurd, absurd!
12th-16th October at 20.00.
Studio Theatre, rue Waelhem 69a, 1030 Brussels
ETCetera’s next multilingual production after “Fin de Siècle” in 2009 is an evening of 3 plays dedicated to classic writers of the Absurd movement: unreal and real at the same time, and very funny.
Pic-Nic, by Fernando Arrabal in Spanish, is set in the First World War trenches; Victoria Station, by Harold Pinter in English, is about a London minicab “dispatcher” and his driver; while La Cantatrice Chauve, by Eugène Ionesco in French, is set in the English suburbs in the 1950’s.
Each will have “surtitles” in the other 2 languages.
The plays are directed by 3 of Brussels’ most experienced directors (see over), and include some very established actors such as Eduardo Aladro-Vico, Martin Whitworth, Christine Marchand, and Brian Holland.
KING JOHN
The Brussels Shakespeare Society is pleased to announce its production of William Shakespeare’s “King John”
Directed by Stephen Challens
9th to 13th November 2010 from 20h00
The Warehouse Studio Theatre
69a rue Waelhem, 1030 Brussels
One of Shakespeare’s least known and least performed plays, this is a sage of high politics.
A weak leader is yesterday’s news, yet pacts and coalitions are ever present…
“Translations” by Brian Friel, Directed by Nick Roche
Performances 22 – 27 November 2010 at 8pm, Matinee on Saturday 27 November at 3pm
Warehouse Studio Theatre, Rue Waelhem, 73, 1030 Schaerbeek.
The Royal Engineers have come to the Irish-speaking community of Ballybeg in Donegal to conduct an ordnance survey, mapping the landscape and changing the place-names from Irish to the King’s English. This seemingly purely administrative exercise is the trigger for an irrevocable transformation in the lives of everyone involved. Laughter abounds and love blossoms before tragedy ensues. Throughout it all Friel’s language scales impossible heights as he leaves us to ponder on how we communicate with one another, between countries, between siblings, between the generations, between the sexes, between cultures and between languages.
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Ryan Millar spent two years as a tour guide in Rome. As he says, “I showed up in Rome with no money and no idea what I was going to do, and eight months later I was a well-paid expert on the city.” Six months later he left. But while he was there, taking people through the incredible monuments and relating the fascinating and bizarre history to tourists, he realized it would make great theatre. So he wrote this show.
Roman Around: A Guided Tour of the Eternal City is the product of three years of thinking and writing. It is also the product of his love for the city and its history. For the audience, the show is both a guided tour of the city (including the Roman Forum, Saint Peter’s Basilica and the Sistine Chapel) as well as a window into one man’s struggle to make sense of life in Rome.
Born and raised in Canada, in the past seven years Ryan has lived in Amsterdam, Vancouver, Rome, Brussels, and now London. After all that moving he hopes to stay in London for awhile. He has worked as an educational rapper, video host, barista, art educator, and marine naturalist. More recently he has been a touring sketch and impro performer with Amsterdam’s Boom Chicago, a communications manager in Brussels, and – of course – a tour guide in Rome.
Ryan appeared in the English Comedy Club’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist in 2007. His first play, The Power Force, won The American Theatre Company of Brussels’ One Act Playwriting Contest in 2007. He has recently finished his first short film Flunky, which he wrote and starred in. In the last year he has been working on an MA in Professional Writing at London Metropolitan University.
“A smart, acerbic crowd pleaser…. Simultaneously a love letter and a poison pen letter to the American theatre.” Variety.
“So well written that you won’t have to know a thing about Three Sisters in order to laugh your way through the evening. The writing is sharp, knowing, and cuts to the quick.” – George Heymont, My Cultural Landscape
This madcap comedy follows three actresses across the footlights, down the rabbit hole and into a strangely familiar Wonderland that looks a lot like American theatre the resemblance is uncanny! Holly Seabé is a gorgeous TV star pursuing the cache stage acting can give her to help her land a movie role. Casey Mulgraw, the “Queen of Off-Off-Broadway,” has performed in 200 productions without pay. Lisabette Cartwright, a recent graduate of the Southern Methodist University theatre program, seeks a meaningful experience in theatre.
As these women pursue their dream of performing Chekhov in Texas, they’re whisked through a maelstrom of “good ideas” that offer unique solutions to the Three Sisters need to have life’s deeper purpose revealed. In the tradition of great backstage comedies, Anton in Show Business conveys the joys, pains and absurdities of “putting on a play” at the turn of the century.
Diana Morton-Hooper (Honour, Absurd Person Singular) directs Alan Ayckbourn’s superbly constructed, sharply observed 2004 play for The English Comedy Club.
It follows seven characters, each with something to hide, searching for companionship and love in an emotional social blur through four tightly interwoven stories. She has gathered a cracking ensemble to blow away those winter cobwebs:
Craig Simpson & Rachel Cuff as Dan & Nicola,
Abi Greef & Richard Foxon as Imogen & Stewart,
Alma Forsyth & Mark Prescott as Charlotte & Ambrose
and David Buckley as Arthur
It’s funny, poignant, and a must see.
Performances on Fri 25 Feb and Sat 26 Feb 2011 at 8 p.m.
plus a matinee on Sunday 27 Feb at 3 p.m. and
Tues 1 to Sat 5 March 2011 at 8 p.m.
at The Warehouse Studio Theatre, 69a rue Waelhem, 1030 Schaerbeek
Special Advice: The play lasts around 90 minutes with no interval and because of the way it is staged, once the play has started latecomers will not be admitted into the studio theatre. Curtain up is at 8 p.m. Please leave plenty
of time to find a parking space in the area as parking can be difficult at that time of night. We are looking forward to seeing you at the performance!
Sorry, there are no more tickets left for this production.
Hamlet is the supreme character in the finest play by the greatest playwright we have. He struts, frets, worries, jokes, abuses, roars, feigns madness, goes crazy, kills and finally is killed. All this because his mother married his uncle. So what if 4 different actors play Hamlet’s psychological unravelling and we simply hit the delete button on all other characters. See Hamlet struggle unaided with his demons in German, Swedish, Spanish, French and English. Surtitles in English & French
The Studio Theatre, Rue Waelhem 69A, 1030 Brussels.
15 to 19 March 2011 – 8pmTickets €15 (€13 Members/Groups/65+)
The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a 1996 black comedy by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh.
The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a darkly comedic tragedy by Martin McDonagh. Critically acclaimed, it premiered in 1996 as a co-production of the Druid Theatre/Royal Court Theatre moving to New York in 1998 and garnering multiple awards on both sides of the pond.
For a fun-filled evening of theatre and comedy, come to the American Theatre Company’s Cafe Theatre from April 13-16, 2011 at La Maison Blanche, 606 Chaussee de St. Job, 1180 UccleThere will be 5 short plays (see below) and improv comedy with delicious chilli buffet served by La Britannique and table service for drinks.
Ferris Wheel by Mary Miller directed by Chris Flores starring Daniel Prior (All My Sons) and Hurmayonne Morgan (Anton in Showbusiness) takes the audience on an emotional and humorous ride that explores the private fears and struggles of two strangers stuck, dangling in the air, on this icon ride. Table One by Morgan Fisher directed by John Stanton – You know you are in the States when everything is well, Okay! If your visiting for the first time, be sure to stop by a local diner and everything will certainly be-Okay! Okay? The Philadelphia by David Ives – Ever had one of those days when you thought you wound up in another place and time and yet no one else even seemed to notice it? Perhaps you were actually in a Philadelphia or even a Baltimore which is very similar to a Philadelphia but not at all like a Los Angeles! Departures written and directed by Matthew Snoding – Sitting in Brussels Airport’s departure lounge, Ian is ready to meet his girlfriend Emily’s parents for the first time. Or is he? Lost by Mary Louise Wilson: Two old friends (Alma Forsyth as Alice and Sigrid Van Eepoel as Helen) get lost while going out to lunch.Cafe Theatre is kindly sponsored by Boston University Brussels, www.bu.edu/brussels
Jim hosted again with MCs Martin Kirk and Noel Griffin.
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