Producer:  

       Jasmin Kossenjans

Venue: Theater Arlecchino, Walkeweg, Basel

5/6/7/12/13/14 November 2015

Programme

My Apology by Woody Allen, directed by Luca Manganelli 

Characters

Socrates – Scott Holland

Agathon – Isabel Byrne

Simmias – Michael Abi-Saab

The play is a surreally comic re-make of Socrates’ death, where the main character is still very attached to his mortal body. Starting as an almost serious philosophical debate, it quickly drifts to a grotesquely funny attempt to escape the death sentence.

Sure Thing by David Ives, directed by Stephanie Feddern 

Characters

Bill – David Laurie

Betty – Billy Gilbert

In this short comic play Betty and Bill meet by chance in a café, and begin negotiating the maze of wrong things to say on a first encounter. Awkward! Wouldn’t you just love to be able to re-phrase those clumsy chat-up lines?

Sand to the Egyptians by J.P.S. Yates, directed by John Hyland and Michelle Schirpa

Characters

Natalie – Danielle Zammit
Samantha – Janine Jakob / Rajshri Ingle

Smooth operator, James, makes a real splash with Natalie at a speed dating event. In five minutes she discovers that he is a charming, attentive individual with a fascinating and dangerous career (police negotiator), a first class degree from Cambridge University and the surname McVitie - as in the biscuits. However James is not all he seems, but then neither is Natalie.

Syrinx by Kate Mosse, directed by Christine Archer-Lockwood

Characters

Marion Knowles – Zuzana Cox

Sarah Peters – Rita Felder

Susan Winston – Liz Shaw

Julie Peters (Sarah’s mother) – Diana Zuger

The play is set in a school principal's office, before and after a school prize-giving ceremony. School principal (Marion Knowles) is about to leave the school and wishes to put closure to an unfortunate episode involving a student that happened a few years earlier.