LynchPin Productions Theatre Company’s
ScripTease
ScripTease is Readers Theatre events where we expose little-performed and/or new play-scripts through rehearsed, performed readings* as well as staged readings**. It is our hope to expand the concept of Readers Theatre, ‘teasing’ out scripts and exposing audiences to plays they might not otherwise have the chance to experience. With this we also create a public forum for playwrights to have the opportunity to test new work with actors in front of a live audience.
Attention playwrights... this is a great way to workshop your script!! We have already worked with 5 playwrights, workshopping their scripts and using the chance of having a rehearsed reading in front of a live audience to inform and aid in developing their work.
If you are interested in hosting a ScripTease event, have a suitable venue, would like a Readers Theatre Workshop, or have a script you’d like to suggest and/or workshop, please contact us on 01483 424 023, or email info [at] lynchpinpct.co.uk.
*performed readings: a well rehearsed live reading of a script in front of an audience, generally with the actors seated or standing, with or without music stands; can be performed in a variety of spaces and production elements (eg with or without lighting, sound, projections, etc).
**staged readings: a well rehearsed live reading of a script generally on a stage with some degree of blocking/staging and a variety of production elements (eg with or without lighting, sound, projections, costumes, set pieces, etc).
ScripTease events so far:
at The Electric Theatre Cafe Bar in Guildford:
The Women of Lockerbie, by Deborah Brevoort, for 7 voices
The Native, by Christopher Hanvey, performed by the playwright
The Tiniest Poem in the World, by Gareth Strachen, for 2 voices
Self-Made Girls, by Annie Reilly (with projections), performed by the playwright
Speak Truth to Power, by Ariel Dorfman (with projections), for 10 voices
The Way to Keep Him, by Arthur Murphy, for 7 voices
Old Abe, by Hugh Steadman Williams, multi-media, psuedo-documentary for 2 voices
Palestine Monologues, scripted by Sonja Linden, a iceandfire theatre script
HIM (excerpts) by E.E. Cummings, for 5 voices
Consider This by Jack Lynch, a new play inspired by stories from The Forgiveness Project, for 7 voices (a work
Fall Tales directed by Kate Napier, readings of autumnal tales and poems to take us into the night
War of the Worlds, a reading of the famous Orson Welles’ Mercury Theatre adaptation of HG Wells famous story
Another Sky, readings adapted from the English PEN publication
Celebrating Chekhov, Brian Friel’s adaptation of THE BEAR, and his original work AFTERPLAY
The Stuff of Love, readings from loves scenes and poetry old and new in celebration of Love
Animal Magnetism, Mrs Elizabeth Inchbald’s hilarious 18th Century farce
Rendition Monologues, and iceandfire script scripted by Christine Bacon
F Scott Fitzgerald 3 Short Comedies, The Camel’s Back, Porcelain & Pink, and Mr Icky
An Ideal Husband (reduced) , Oscar Wilde’s famous comedy in a slimmed-down version
Reading Histories and Drawing Pullets, studies in the Sensitive and Sensible from Jane Austin
Dracula, a reading from The Mercury Theatre On The Air archive, by Orson Welles.
Voices From the Great War, readings from letters and poets as well as songs of WWI.
Can Any Mother Help Me?, Foursight Theatre’s adaptation of Jenna Bailey’s book, regarding 50 years of friendship through a secret magazine.
at The Light Box in Woking
The Tiniest Poem in the World, by Gareth Strachen
at The Barn at Green Coat Place, London
Old Abe, by Hugh Steadman Williams (staged reading w/ full lighting, sound and projections), for 2 voices
The Women of Lockerbie , by Deborah Brevoort, for 7 voices
at Mountain House in Caux, Switzerland
Old Abe, by Hugh Steadman Williams (staged reading w/ full lighting, sound and projections), 2 performances.
Performances of
I TAKE YOUR HAND IN MINE, by Carol Rocamora for 2 voices (staged reading w/ full lighting and sound) performed in The Yvonne Arnaud Mill Studio, The Electric Theatre (Guildford), Eden Court (Inverness), Bowhill Theatre (Selkirk), The Heron Theatre, Milnthorpe, Cumbria
