By Dave
Link: https://soundcloud.com/southwarkplayhouse/puffins-by-sophie-ellerby
Available until: Unknown
Puffins is all about regrets. You don’t go through life without amassing a few of them and it’s often when you reach an ending of some sort that you look back on these regrets and wish you’d done things a bit differently.
By Cal
Link: https://soundcloud.com/southwarkplayhouse/time-lapse-by-stewart-melto
Available until: Unknown
Time Lapse is the story of four sisters – Lucy, Angela, Minnie and Sophie. They’re very close. But they’re not all still alive. One of them has died.
The others are sad. Of course they are. They miss their sister. But they also don’t want to suffer as she did. They don’t want to die.
By Tommy
Link: https://soundcloud.com/southwarkplayhouse/red-tide-by-justina-kehinde
Available until: Unknown
Southwark Playhouse’s Plays For Today series, which I believe is written and performed by members of the Southwark Elders Company, has encompassed a wide variety of subjects. Although there has been a strong focus on family relationships, the stories told have been very different.
By Emma
Link: https://soundcloud.com/southwarkplayhouse/melancholy-by-abraham-adeyemi
Available until: Unknown
A lot of plays especially modern ones have a really big and clever idea which you’re supposed to figure out or some kind of really major issue which is really important. I think these plays are really enjoyable too and they’re a great way of getting people to think about the important things in the world. But sometimes you don’t want to use your brain in order to understand the story. Sometimes you just want to enjoy the play and let your brain kind of figure things out in the background.
By Louise
Link: https://soundcloud.com/southwarkplayhouse/they-also-serve-by-wendy-buckley-and-john-mcrae
Available until: Unknown
They Also Serve is a beautiful, inspiring and important play. It is dedicated to Leslie Gay, one of the founding members of the Southwark Elders Company. It is so wonderful that the Southwark Elders Company have managed to create something so special in his memory. They can be so proud of this play.
By Dave
Link: https://soundcloud.com/southwarkplayhouse/how-to-kill-your-mother-by-georgia-green
Available until: Unknown
As you get older, even when you’re actually quite young to anyone who’s not a twelve year old girl (who will give me the most wonderful eye-roll if she deigns to read this, just wait till you hit forty, young lady), it does sometimes happen that people show you a bit less respect. They act like you’ve lost your marbles when they’re actually all neatly in the box on the shelf. They act like your opinion doesn’t matter so much because you don’t know what you want, anyway. It’s sad and wrong. This incredible play demonstrates in all sorts of ways how wrong it is and how the older generations are actually kind of brilliant.
