THE WARDROBE ENSEMBLE
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- THE WARDROBE ENSEMBLE’S 1972: THE FUTURE OF SEX TO BEGIN NATIONAL UK TOUR IN MARCH 2016
- 1972: THE FUTURE OF SEX WILL OPEN UK TOUR AT THE WARDROBE THEATRE, BRISTOL (8 – 26 MARCH) AND WILL PLAY FOR TWO WEEKS AT SHOREDITCH TOWN HALL (12 – 23 APRIL)
Award-winning theatre company The Wardrobe Ensemble will take their production 1972: The Future of Sex on tour across the UK this spring. The production, which won the Stage Award for Acting Excellence in 2015, will begin its UK tour at the Wardrobe Theatre in Bristol where it will play as part of Tobacco Factory Theatres BEYOND from 8 – 26 March. The production will then tour to eight venues across the UK, including a two-week residency at Shoreditch Town Hall.
1972: The Future of Sex is the latest offering from The Wardrobe Ensemble. Devised by the company, the show uses The Wardrobe Ensemble’s trademark inventive theatricality, irreverent humour and spectacular ensemble moments to tell the story of 3 couples having sex for the first time on the night that David Bowie first appeared as Ziggy Stardust on Top of the Pops.
Directors of 1972: The Future of Sex Tom Brennan and Jesse Jones said: “We’re thrilled to take 1972: The Future of Sex on the road to some of our favourite venues across the UK and to see it grow and develop in front of lots of different audiences. Originally, we wanted to make a show about sex because it’s something we all have opinions on and experience of. However, once we started rehearsals it became clear that a conversation about shagging is also a conversation about a whole host of other prickly subjects: power, gender, choice, representation, equality, identity and oppression just to name a few. We decided to use the lens of the seventies to examine the topic because as well as being a pivotal moment in sexual history (a seemingly consequence-free era post-the pill and pre-AIDS) it also gave us the distance to comment on sex and sexuality today. It also gave us a really great soundtrack.”
The Wardrobe Ensemble is a group of theatre artists from Bristol working together to make new plays that dissect the twenty-first century experience. Their previous plays include RIOT, 33, Eliza and the Wild Swans, Edgar and the Land of Lost, Eloise and the Curse of the Golden Whiskand The Star Seekers. They have toured nationally and internationally to venues including the National Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre, Bristol Old Vic, Salisbury Playhouse and Jack, Brooklyn.The full cast for the production includes: Tom Crosley-Thorne, Tom England, Emily Greenslade, Kerry Lovell, Jesse Meadows, Helena Middleton, James Newton and Ben Vardy.
1972: The Future of Sex is commissioned by Shoreditch Town Hall. Supported by Arts Council England, Bristol Ferment, the Kevin Spacey Foundation and Tobacco Factory Theatres Artist Development Fund.
1972: THE FUTURE OF SEX
Co-directed by Tom Brennan and Jesse Jones
Design by Georgia Coleman
Lighting design by Rachael Duthie
Dramaturg Edythe Woolley
Composer and musician Tom Crosley-Thorne
Producer Hannah Smith
Anton James Newton
Anna Jesse Meadows
Tessa Emily Greenslade
Christine Kerry Lovell
Rich Ben Vardy
Penny Helena Middleton
Martin Tom England
LISTINGS
1972: THE FUTURE OF SEX
The Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol
8 – 26 March
Press Night: 10 March
www.thewardrobetheatre.com
The Bikeshead Theatre, Exeter
29 March – 9 April
www.bikeshedtheatre.co.uk
Shoreditch Town Hall, London
12 – 23 April
Press Night: 13 April
www.shoreditchtownhall.com
The Marlowe Studio, Canterbury
2 May
www.marlowetheatre.com
The Hub, Leeds
8 May
www.slunglow.org
The Lowry, Manchester
20 May
www.thelowry.com
South Hill Park, Bracknell
25 May
www.southhillpark.org.uk
The Old Market, Brighton
27 – 28 May
www.theoldmarket.com
The Drum, Theatre Royal Plymouth
14 – 18 June
www.theatreroyal.com