Van Badham...making it in London
and Edinburgh with the best of them!
Australian Playwright and Postgraduate
student (MA Research) Van Badham (pictured right), from
the Faculty of Creative Arts, is currently in London
and Edinburgh staging two of her shows at the Edinburgh
Festival Fringe (July / August 2003) : Camarilla and
Bedtime for Bastards.
Camarilla, her best play yet, will
receive its world premiere in Edinburgh before transferring
to London for 4 weeks at the Old Red Lion Theatre. Furthering
her reputation as a writer of corrosive political theatre,
Camarilla is a drama about the world terrorist climate
and its effect on the personal relationship within a
family. (30th July - 24th August at the Fringe).
Fresh from a four week run at The
Old Red Lion Theatre (London), Bedtime for Bastards
is essentially 3 plays about friendship, love, power
and corruption: Capital, Kitchen and Morning on a Rainy
Day, make up the triple bill. Photos (see below) are
taken by Ric Mountjoy at The Old Red Lion Theatre, London,
in April 2003. At the Fringe in Edinburgh, Bedtime for
Bastards will be comprised of two of the plays and staged
from 30th July to 24th August.
Since her debut at the 2002 Edinburgh
Festival Fringe, Van has been described by The Guardian
as "a potential major talent". Her black comedy
Kitchen (from Bedtime for Bastards) wowed audiences
and critics alike. It opened in New York last month
(May) and she is presently fielding equiries to stage
it in Germany, Denmark and Ireland...while also discussing
film rights for the play.
"If you live in the Southern
Hemisphere, you can catch the Bedtime for Bastards show
in Wollongong in September and there's a rumour of a
Sydney season in December, which would be nice. Given
that these plays have already been seen in London, Nottingham,
Edinburgh and NY, it's comforting to think that someone
from my home country might actually get to see them.
It'll be a Pesto Manifesto show, so it will ROCK".
- Van Badham
Kitchen review - from the Edinburgh
Guide (Pick of the Fringe).
"Cooked to perfection...Full of expression and
sexual friction, this is intelligently funny, emotionally
acted and very scarily 'too close for comfort' real".
- Shona Brodie.
Congratulations Van ... from students
and staff at the Faculty !
Visit the Edinburgh
Festival Fringe Website
Media Enquiries to Van through
her agent, James Grieve
james@nabokov-online.com
M: 0771313 8650 (UK)
Page created August 22nd 2003
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