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Van Badham

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.

Scenes from Kitchen George Perrin as Owen and Emma Forster as Helene.  Photos: Ric Mountjoy

Scenes from Van's 2002 play, Capital. George Perrin as Jim and Simon Darwen as Bob. Photos: Ric Mountjoy

Scenes from Morning on a Rainy Day Sally Proctor as Polly and Paul Jellis as Ben. Photos: Ric Mountjoy

 Click here to see full-size photos from the show.

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