The Big Idea: Two Duets

Two writer-performers collaborate with performers to create short plays to perform together. SILLY GIRL BY ELLIE KENDRICK Jerwood Theatre Downstairs Wednesday 10 February 2016, 9pm performed by Jason Barker and Ellie Kendrick £5 or free with a ticket to that evening's performance of Escaped Alone. A short play about how we refashion the events and characters of our past to tell us who we are. Jason Barker is a filmmaker, youth worker and cartoonist among other things. Having done occasional stand up gigs over the years, Jason loved performing but never thought there would be any roles that a person like him could do. Then, last year, he did the Trans Acting Course run at Central School of Speech and Drama by Gendered Intelligence and felt like anything was possible. Ellie Kendrick is a writer and actor. She was a finalist for the 2015 Bruntwood prize for playwriting with her play Tabs, developed at the Royal Court, where she has written on the Young Writers' Programme and the Studio Group. As an actor she has performed at the Royal Court (Pests, The Low Road, In The Republic of Happiness) and the Globe (Romeo and Juliet), and screen work includes Game Of Thrones, The Diary of Anne Frank, An Education, Upstairs Downstairs, Being Human and Misfits. THE HOLDING PLACE BY SUE MACLAINE Jerwood Theatre Downstairs Tuesday 23 February 2016, 9pm (captioned) performed by Caroline Hunt and Sue MacLaine £5 or free with a ticket to that evening's performance of Escaped Alone. A short play about being neither here nor there. Please note this Big Idea will follow the captioned performance of Escaped Alone for hard of hearing, and will also be captioned. Caroline Hunt trained as an actor at LAMDA. She has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, the Abbey Theatre Dublin and performed in The Archers. Later she became a script reader for the RSC and the Arts Council which gave her the experience to start a new writing company CV ONE, which commissioned, amongst others Anthony Minghella's A Little Like Drowning. She has since gone on to direct plays for Bristol Old Vic, the Tobacco Factory, Theatre 503, the BAC, the RSC Swan Theatre, Theatre Royal Bath, Soho Theatre and Theatre Royal Haymarket in the West End. Sue MacLaine is a theatre-maker, writer and performer based in Brighton, England. She has created three works; Still Life: An Audience with Henrietta Moraes, The Sid Lester Christmas Special (with Emma Kilbey) and Can I Start Again Please. She is a freelance director, dramaturg and mentor with a particular interest in working with dance artists. She qualified as British Sign Language/English interpreter in 1997 specialising in performance interpreting.