Fresh from the success of last year’s STIR FRIED PLAYS, Stage Two Productions & Theatre of Love serves up its latest delicious recipe of short plays – an evening of nine unpredictable 10minute plays that will charm, provoke, delight and shock.
The show features short plays from up and coming young playwrights: Ashley Milne (Writers Block, 2007 Young Playwright Competition and 2008 Flip the Script Winner) Benjamin Teh (Where the Monsters Are, Lets Make a Baby) Roderick D. Morgan (Ian the Antichrist, Keiran), Jonathan Riley (Bus), Pamela Raia (finalist in Ashland Short Play Festival 07) and fresh new talent, Leigh Fitzjames, Rhiann Munro, Harrison Christian and Rowan French.
The plays deal with a rich smorgasbord of stories, themes and characters. Audiences will find themselves travelling from the Olympic Games, to an online fantasy computer game, to the red light district, to a Reality TV show that stars a robot, a ninja and a monkey.
Stir Fried provides a much needed opportunity for young theatre practitioners to get their work onstage. Leigh Fitzjames is the writer and director of ‘Formalities’ centring on a 21st birthday party that goes wrong. “I find most 21st speeches to be quite superficial. I thought it would be interesting to play with that dynamic and have three totally different characters to deliver a speech and see the effects on the birthday girl”. One of the biggest challenges in the rehearsal room is keeping it serious – “we have a little too much fun at times!”
In “Here Lies Lex” writer Rhiann Munro directs a story about a mechanic who discovers he is dead, and is buried next to a pair of Victorian Ghosts at war with each other. Rhiann finds it “nice to see my words coming to life and people on the stage performing what I wrote”.
The first season of Stir Fried Plays was so successful that Producer James Wenley had no question about bringing it back again. “The plays selected this year are of an even higher quality and even more entertaining. It is a great format, every ten minutes there is something new for the audience.”
A fast-paced show filled with twists, treats and laughs, this is one meal we guarantee you’ll enjoy!
“moments of greatness… highlighted the range of talent we have in our midst” – Craccum Magazine (Stir Fried Plays 08)
STIR FRIED PLAYS 09
Short. Sweet. Tasty.
(Now with added sauce)
Take nine fresh new scripts
Add talented young directors and actors
Serve for a tasty night at theatre!