Laura Wade’s seminal play is the first instalment in our #StudioRep season. Its debut in 2005 won her the Most Promising Playwright award from the Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards.
Amy is a chambermaid who has the peculiar luck of regularly finding the recently deceased … and today is no exception. Egged on by Ray, Jim agrees to investigate an increasingly oppressive smell coming from a storage locker. Previously separate lives converge in this cleverly constructed drama … and are shattered to their core.
'I hope you have a nice time. I don’t believe in God, really, which is a shame in this type of situation, but –'
The New Actors Company is proud to produce their first season of plays, performed in Rep by a company of six versatile actors, in the Studio at New Wimbledon Theatre.
Actors David Burt, Dave Fishley, Alice Bailey Johnson, Imogen Smith, Christopher Williams and recent GSA graduate Emma Byrne form the #StudioRep company under Robert Laycock’s direction.
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This production will be the first professional London revival of Breathing Corpses since its premiere at the Royal Court Theatre in 2005.
Contains strong language, scenes of a violent nature and adult themes.
Studio at New Wimbledon Theatre is a 50-80 seat black box theatre, founded in 1994 in a ballroom where it is rumoured that Fred & Adele Astaire once danced. The Studio's particular achievement has been the development of work from new writers, comedians, directors and production companies.