Set in a 1950s boarding house in the rolling hills of the Welsh Valleys, The Devil Inside Him tells the story of Huw Prosser, a young man suffocating in his tight-knit Methodist community. He is bullied by his father, who thinks he is soft in the head, and, when his erotic poems are discovered, he is subjected to sermons by the local preacher. As he desperately searches for a way to express himself, and reaches out for the love he so urgently needs, he unearths the dark and wild side of a man who has never been understood; and when he finds himself alone with the pretty, teasing servant girl he finds his thoughts turning to murder…

Written when he was only 20, The Devil Inside Him reflects both the turmoil of the social changes affecting post-war Britain, and the beginnings of the Angry Young Man genre that changed the face of British Theatre, much of which had it’s origins in his own troubled childhood.

Although the play was produced briefly in 1950, it lay lost in the recesses of the British Library until 2009. The White Bear is staging this play as part of its Lost Classic policy, following on from the “sensational revival” (**** Guardian) of Personal Enemy, another of Osborne’s early plays. Personal Enemy subsequently transferred to the Brits Off Broadway festival in New York.

Performance Dates:
2nd May – 26th May 2012.
Monday – Saturday at 7.30pm,
Sundays at 6.00pm
Tickets: £14 (£10 Conc.)
Box Office: 020 7793 9193
 

'Smile and dance and move the moving hands of yours
that know to search my softer deeper spots.
You skilfully, begin to join the dots.'

He is an ageing artist. She is a young prostitute. What starts as a drunken exchange, a night of paid-for fantasy, turns into a lilting, lusting love-story. Egon and Valie find themselves at sea, caught unexpectedly in the potent rise and fall of love. Drawn to each other, and bound together inexplicably, they are happy to exist only for each other. But Egon is ill, and when disease and decay sets in, their story plunges into murky water. He finds himself failing Valie, quickly losing the ability to paint or to love. Drunk and reeling, against the backdrop of clanking docks, swarming fish and a swirling sea, their story comes to a tragic, mournful end.

‘I am the aftermath before the after.
A breath after disaster.'

Switching between lyrical, swaying verse and terse dialogue, Beast mixes intimate live performances and voice-overs, with a haunting soundscape and strange, evocative flickering film footage to create the passionate and vulnerable world of fated lovers.
 

Director: Natasha Pryce
Designer: by Alistair Turner
Movement Designer: Jennifer Alice Malarkey

Cast
Kieron Jecchinis
Mel Oskar

Produced by:
UNtitled Theatre Company
www.untitled-theatre.com
 

Performance Dates:
29th May – 17th June 2012.
Tuesday– Saturday at 7.30pm,
Sundays at 6.00pm
Saturday Matinees 2nd, 9th and 16th June @ 3.00pm
Tickets: £13 (£10 Conc.)
Box Office: 020 7793 9193

Molly Bloom is a one woman theatrical dramatisation of the second half of the Soliloquy which closes out James Joyce's Ulysses.

The famous soliloquy that brings Joyce's most famous work to its fragmented, audacious finish contains just eight sentences. Dense with intimate memories, half-formed thoughts and erotic fantasies, they run, babble, surge, digress and double-back for more than 60 pages, encountering just two punctuation marks on that wilful journey.

In rendering the "Penelope episode" as a solo performance piece, Eilín O'Dea has tamed that text into speech; finding the breaks and breaths between thoughts; hacking a trail of lucid sentences through Joyce's overgrown jungle; doing the hard work so you don't have to. O'Dea's conversational delivery certainly makes Joyce's words accessible, even though scholars of modernism may look at Molly's stream of consciousness and suggest that its difficulty is largely the point.

Performance Dates:
Sunday 3rd June @ 8.30pm
Monday 4th June @ 7.20pm

Tickets: £14 (£10 Conc.)
Box Office: 020 7793 9193
 

My Way
Say It with Flowers
The Gypsy
For Once in My Life
Till…

Dorothy Squires was among the biggest singing stars of the 1940s and 50s
As Mrs Roger Moore, married to the future 007, she was her own worst enemy…

Her hits included Say It with Flowers, Till and My Way (rivalling Sinatra)
Her heartaches included litigation, disaster and rancorous relationships.

Now the fabulous legend of Welsh-born Dorothy lives on, starring Al Pillay (Channel 4’s The Comic Strip) and a stunning supporting cast.

Director: Stewart Nicholls
Musical director: Ben Stock
Arrangements: Tony Osborne

Cast: Al Pillay and les boys!

Produced by Evergreen Theatrical Productions Ltd

Performance Dates:
Wednesday 6th – Friday 8th June 2012
Tuesday 12th – Saturday 16th June 2012
at 8.45pm
The show lasts one hour

Tickets: £12 (£10 concs)
Box Office: 020 7793 9193