Presented by Michael Neri & Liam Holmes as part of the Nu' Pen Festival 2025
Each show is 45 minutes to 1 hour long. There will be two performances this evening with a 15 minute interval in between.
Florence
by Honor Santa Barnes
Director – Leona Vaughan
Producer – El Blackwood
This is a one woman show exploring the story of an under-confident protagonist, who creates a false identity called Florence in order to escape her past self and secure a job in the art world. Although initially a comedy that satires the art world and upper middle classes, the play takes a darker turn as the protagonist reveals the turn of events that have led her to taking on the persona of someone else. It explores the friction between self and persona; you can put on as many masks as you like, you cannot run away from yourself. This is a one woman show exploring the story of an under-confident protagonist, who creates a false identity called Florence in order to escape her past self and secure a job in the art world. Although initially a comedy that satires the art world and upper middle classes, the play takes a darker turn as the protagonist reveals the turn of events that have led her to taking on the persona of someone else. It explores the friction between self and persona; you can put on as many masks as you like, you cannot run away from yourself.
The Sun in Your Bones
by Adelaide Leonard & Robert Halvorson
Director – Robert Halvorson
It’s fine – enough – for Maddy. But something out of her control helps her make a wrong decision, then another, and another, until she knows full well what she’s doing but does it anyway. It’s all to keep the pieces of her life together, and maybe God or a lover or her cards, those blessed cards, will stitch her fragments together, if they could only understand at the base of it is always love.