The Bread & Roses Theatre

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  • Playwriting
    • Writers Membership
    • Playwrights Circle
    • Playwriting Course - BREAD & PROSES
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      • Playwriting Competition 2015
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No Pictures Please presents
Sweet Fanny Adams
by Matthew Lyon

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Jack and Emily are both drunks. He is a writer, she is an actress.
No, start again. Be creative with the language – this isn’t a witness statement for the police, you’re trying to promote a show.
Jack is a writer. Who doesn’t write.
Okay, good – punchy. Keep going.
The whiskey flowed, but the ink would not.
Oh god. Now you sound like a sixth-former's poetry recital. Can’t you manage more than one good line in a row, Jack?
Jack and Emily have communication problems.
No, no, no, no, NO.
Emily!
It isn’t happening, Emily! I can’t write this blurb. The show will have to go without a blurb. It’ll have to be a blurbless show.
Emily...?
Emily, have you been drinking my whiskey again........?

With Matthew Lyon, Meg Bennett

"There are similarities to Edward Albee’s seminal work ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’; Sweet Fanny Adams is full of venom, full of black humour, but also the odd redemptive moment of tenderness. It’s a proper kitchen sink drama, naturalistic, messy, and morally complex......It would be all too easy for this play to be a morose and unpleasant experience. On paper, it’s two drunks arguing for an hour. But there’s so much more that has been threaded into the script by Lyon’s writing and emphasised by Coates’ direction. The characters are multi-faceted, and we feel both desperate frustration and sympathy for them. The humour is quick, dry, and clever, and provides a brilliant spark to the drama..." - ★★★★
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“plenty of clever moments of dialogue throughout” - ★★★
Sweet Fanny Adams
Tuesday 12th June at 7.30pm
Wednesday 13
th June at 7.30pm
Thursday 14th June at 7.30pm
Friday 15th June at 7.30pm
​Saturday 16th June at 7.30pm

Tickets: £12 | Concessions: £10
Running time: 75 minutes
Bad language. Ticket purchases are non refundable. Concession prices apply to students; under 18s; pensioners; those on disability and unemployment benefits; Equity, BECTU & SDUK members; Portico Places cardholders. ​As a young venue we are still upgrading and developing the space, any additional donations are much appreciated and will be used towards improving the theatre even further and keeping the venue going in the long-term.
The Bread & Roses Theatre
68 Clapham Manor Street, Clapham SW4 6DZ, London

Ticket purchases are non refundable. Concession prices apply to students; under 18s; pensioners; those on disability and unemployment benefits; Equity, BECTU & SDUK members; Portico Places cardholders. ​As a young venue we are still upgrading and developing the space, any additional donations are much appreciated and will be used towards improving the theatre even further and keeping the venue going in the long-term.


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