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News
The Hermit Crab at Pilot Nights
2nd of August
One of Milja's short plays has been chosen to be performed as a scratch performance at a Pilot Nights evening in Birmingham on the 28th of August.
"PILOT Nights are a motley assortment of new, untested shorts from some of the UK’s most exciting theatre companies. Each last between 10 and 20 minutes and together present a glorious mix of comic, touching and peculiar performance."
Originally called Who has Seen the Chance and now re-christened The Hermit Crab tells the story of a young succesful woman from the city who needs to escape and ends up on a lonely mountain. She meets hundreds of sheep and two men. Both show her a side of life she had long forgotten. One makes her laugh again. With the other, as if logic and normality where lost that day, she discovers a sense in life that makes no sense at all.
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Toby Clarke to direct I am Green!
30th of July
Theatre director Toby Clarke has decided to direct I am Green, Vier’snew production. Toby has worked with Milja on a previous project and is currently working with the National Theatre Studio at the development of his piece Feral.
With a director like Toby at the wheel, there is no question that I am Green will be a piece to get lost in – in the greatest sense of the word!
Cézanne sings at Grimeborn Opera Festival
20th of July
On August 6 Cézanne will be playing a part in The Nightingale and the Rose. A new opera by Jenny Gould based on the short story by Oscar Wilde.
"After its successful launch last year, GRIMEBORN – An Opera Season is back at Arcola for three weeks of theatrical innovation from the frontline of contemporary music and performance."
The Chance Plays – Inspirational and enthusing!
11th of July
Five plays, all of which performed and directed by 1st year students of East 15 Acting School, were shown last Thursday (10th July ’08) in Loughton.
The plays were written by young writers and were each surprising and refreshing in style, subject and presentation. The actors and directors had had a week to put the evening together and it was simply inspiring how the enthusiasm radiated from the entire event.
With the pieces varying from elaborate and edge-of-your-seat murder plots, via romantic comedy and political intimacy to a hilarious three hander tackling the trials and effects of popularity in modern society, the entertainment value of the night ran sky-high.
Who has seen the chance? - written by Milja Fenger, was outstandingly well received by the audience. The piece told the story of a woman arriving on a mountain, where she finds herself faced with a range of choices, each of which will send her life down a path, utterly diverse from another. Funny, touching and ever so tantalizing, it is a typical VIER flavoured gem.
A night to remember...
Vier and Dutch Embassy collaborate
5th of July
The Dutch Embassy in London and our company have started a collaboration aiming to spice up the bond between Dutch and English theatre.
To read more about the cultural activities of the Dutch Embassy in the UK click here.
The Rhythymn Plays - a start of a venture
14th of May
This showing of three short plays by Milja Fenger and one by Nick Howard-Brown played to a small audience of young East 15 students. All plays were experimental and very different in stye, content and atmosphere. Immediately it was clear that this set up - write a short play in a week, rehearse it in a week - is very useful in quickly examining the potential in ideas. We have decided to keep these evenings going, while changing the brief every time.
Erin & Florian scratch previews a great success
30th of April
Over two-hundred students, tutors and directors came to watch this week’s previews of Milja’s latest play, Erin & Florian. The small performance space packed with spectators, the performance made for an evening so ‘real’ it can hardly be called ‘a scratch’. With three energetic and detailed performances, the audience was swiftly moved from laughter to tears and from outrage to relief.
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