£12.00
Concessions: £6.00
Tuesday - Saturday, Tuesday 17th November 2009 - Saturday 5th December 2009 8.00PM
Friday 20th November 2009 - Saturday 5th December 2009 8.00PM
On Fridays and Saturdays choose between 7pm or 8pm start as LOBSTER plays both before and after VANTASTIC!
BSL intepreted on Tues 1 Dec, with Jaqcui Beckford
Audio described on Thurs 3 Dec, with Ruth James & Alison Clarke, including pre-show touch tour 1 hour before show
VenueEntire Venue
Production CompanyNatasha Productions in association with Oval House Theatre
Please note that the advertised times are the start of the actual performance, not the time when doors open: please arrive in good time to collect your tickets and take your seats as, in most cases, we CANNOT admit latecomers for whatever reason. If you arrive after the start of a show you will NOT be entitled to a refund, so why not come early instead and enjoy a drink or a meal in our licensed Cafe/Gallery beforehand.
Natasha Productions in association with Oval House Theatre presents
Lobster & Vantastic
by Russell Barr
A double bill of two new short plays challenging what it means to live in confined spaces.
Directed by Luke Kernaghan
Designed by Peter Todd
Lighting designed by Martin Langthorne
Music composed by Felix Faire
Featuring a stirling cast, including the 80’s pop icon Clare Grogan (Altered Images, Gregory’s Girl), Richard Syms (Secrets and Lies, Truly, Madly, Deeply), Eileen Nicholas (Trainspotting, All About My Mother), Richard Flood and Leo Richardson.
VANTASTIC
“This is a brand new, 'New Hampshire' caravan. Brand new leather sofa. Brand new 'American style fridge'. Brand new beds. Brand new loo. Everything brand new. And you leave the door open?”
Meet Pam, she has a beloved Collie cross-called Shaggy. Shaggy is incontinent. Shaggy is dead. Meet Peter, Pam’s husband, he has a heart condition and erectile dysfunction. Meet their daughter, Scratchit, she is enormous, and is going through the early menopause. Meet Scratchit’s gay best friend, Doddie, he is depressed and shoplifts buckets and spades. They are all on holiday together, in two Caravans. Stuck. A mysterious, young man arrives, and changes all their lives forever.
Come see VANTASTIC challenging what it means to live in confined spaces.
LOBSTER
TOBIAS : "Because our brains are the same."
CHATTY : "That's right my boy. They must never be parted. It is very, very dangerous. Just like the lobsters. And you don’t mind?”
Meet Chatty, she is old. She lives with her Grandson Tobias in a nuclear bunker. Tobias has never been allowed out. Tobias has two pet lobsters that he loves. One is called Jessie. Tobias wanted a friend. Chatty found him one. The boy with no name. He has been locked in a nuclear bunker with them for five years. Tobias has dreams of drag queens and little people and the Seven Wonders of the World. Chatty likes to be punched. She is black and blue. Today is Tobias’s Birthday. They are all waiting for the end of the world.
Come see LOBSTER challenging what it means to live in confined spaces.
A successful actor (Shopping and ****ing, Slab Boys, About A Boy) Russell Barr has now embarked on an equally promising career as a playwright. His first play was the award-winning Sisters, Such Devoted Sisters, produced by Max Stafford’s Out of Joint, followed by The Super Slash Naughty XXXmas Story and Danny Diva (about the deaf drag artiste from Bette Bourne’s infamous BlooLips troupe) at Soho Theatre last year.
VANTASTIC & LOBSTER is a double bill of two short plays performed on the same evening: one in the downstairs theatre and the other upstairs. On Fridays and Saturdays LOBSTER plays twice, both before and after VANTASTIC, so you can choose in which order to see them. WHEELCHAIR ACCESS: we are offering free tickets to two live video broadcast to our Video Auditorium of LOBSTER on Weds 25 Nov and Weds 2 Dec 8pm, so that wheelchair users have access to this double bill. Free tickets include admission to VANTASTIC in our downstairs theatre on the same evening. Please call 020 7582 7680 to book.
What The Press Say...
3 STAR REVIEW FOR LOBSTER & VANTASTIC - THE GUARDIAN
There is something both weird and also weirdly compelling about these separate but thematically linked plays, written by Russell Barr, whose…” (read full review)
Lyn Gardner, THE GUARDIAN — 22nd November 2009
A review by Jafar Iqbal for EXTRA! EXTRA!
New writing has arrived at the Oval House Theatre this month as Natasha Productions introduced two hours of what was…” (read full review)
Jafar Iqbal, Extra! Extra! — 23rd November 2009
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