SINK
WRITER; IN DEVELOPMENTAn exploded-out kitchen sink drama about the end of the world.
In contemporary Hull, a seventeen-year-old girl is convinced she can control the weather. But when the world starts to crumble and her childhood best friend makes a surprise reappearance, she's forced to finally reckon with the depth of her feelings - and the impending doom on her doorstep.
Longlisted for BOLD Playwrights 2024.
Writer Clodagh Chapman
Producer Jess Donn
HOME R&D Cast Molly Crighton & Tsen Day-Beaver
HOME R&D Associate Dramaturgs Sasha Georgette, James Varney & Libby Williamson
Box of Tricks Extract Reading Casts Alice Christina-Corrigan & Lauren Nicole Mayes
Supporters Box of Tricks, Rope Ladder Fiction, HOME Manchester
Developed on Box of Tricks’ Pen Pals and BoxFresh schemes, including an extract reading at HOME Manchester in January 2023. R&Ded with HOME Manchester in December 2023.
DROP IT
DRAMATURG; IN DEVELOPMENT
A love song to teenage pop rock and all of the adolescent hobbies you’ve long since dropped. Featuring drum kits, connection and a little bit of chaos.
Shortlisted for the LET Award 2023.
VENUES INCLUDE: The Lowry & Lighthouse Poole [R&D]
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TEAM:
Writer & Performer Jodie Irvine
Composer & Musical Director Stefan Abingdon
Director Charlie Norburn
Dramaturg Clodagh Chapman
Poole R&D Cast Harry Irvine, Jasmine Earl, Marcus Wood & Stanton Wright
Lowry R&D Cast Jack Hart, Radhika Aggarwal & Toby De Salis
Supporters The Lowry, REcreate Agency & Lighthouse Poole
Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
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Shortlisted for the LET Award 2023.
VENUES INCLUDE: The Lowry & Lighthouse Poole [R&D]
TEAM:
Writer & Performer Jodie Irvine
Composer & Musical Director Stefan Abingdon
Director Charlie Norburn
Dramaturg Clodagh Chapman
Poole R&D Cast Harry Irvine, Jasmine Earl, Marcus Wood & Stanton Wright
Lowry R&D Cast Jack Hart, Radhika Aggarwal & Toby De Salis
Supporters The Lowry, REcreate Agency & Lighthouse Poole
Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
BORROWED
DRAMATURGA story about a pregnant fat girl, a prejudiced healthcare system, and a pineapple.
PREMIERED: Unity Theatre, Liverpool. Further dates TBA.
Writer Sasha Georgette
Director Lauren Tranter
Producer Steph Hartland
Cast Emmy Stonelake & Sasha Georgette
Sound Designer Izzy Odelola
Lighting Designer Xenia Bayer
Dramaturg Clodagh Chapman
Movement Director Elissa Cooper
Creative Access Director Alice Christina-Corrigan
Access Worker & Assistant Director Carly McCann
Trainee Assistant Producer Lauren Dalboth
Photographer Andrew Brown (ABphotography)
Developed on Box of Tricks’ Pen Pals and BoxFresh schemes.
LADYFRIENDS [a period drama]
WRITER & DIRECTORAnnie and Christabel are dating. Historians dispute this on the grounds of 'inaccuracies' and 'lack of scholastic rigour' and 'the over-interpretation of the fact that women shared bedrooms'.
LADYFRIENDS is a high-octane romp through love letters, third dates, and lesbian period dramas - via the (probably) true stories of Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst. Rammed with live music and film, it digs up real-life queer history to ask the age-old question: "are we dating, or are we just really good friends?”
[think: a lesbian period drama that crumbles into a failure at creating a lesbian period drama that crumbles into an Alanis Morrisette tribute act, sort of.]
Expect confetti, PowerPoints, and power ballads.
VENUES INCLUDE: Camden People’s Theatre, Hope Mill Theatre, Loco Klub Bristol, Gloucester Guildhall, Shakespeare North Playhouse.
“Clodagh Chapman opts to tell a plausible love story through moments of gig theatre, film and PowerPoint presentations (yes, really, and it’s utterly brilliant)” - Liam O’Dell
“A glorious collision of off-the-wall humour, quiet intimacy, noisy rebelliousness, and so so much more. A joy.” - Circles & Stalls
“A period drama like no other: drawing on questionable historical data, Powerpoint presentations and guitar solos to weave a forgotten queer love story that would make the BBC blush." - Headfirst
“A charming, stripped-back, playful metadrama” - North West End
“Queer history brought to life with glitterballs, electric guitar, anachronisms and attitude” - Audience feedback
★★★★ North West End
★★★★★ MerseyNewsLive
Headfirst Editor’s Pick [March 2023]
Circles & Stalls Best of Manchester Theatre 2023
TEAM:
Writer & Director Clodagh Chapman
Producer Sarah Allen
Dramaturg mandla
Assistant Dramaturg Sasha Georgette
Musical Director & Sound Designer Izzy Odelola
Creative Assistant Natasha Lunt
Cast Ellie Mejía & Lucy Mackay
Onstage Camera Operator Christina Holmbek
Additional Voiceover James Varney & Christina Holmbek
Production Photographers Natalie Argent, Emrys Thurgood & Hannah Hulatt
Early Development Team Kat Johns-Burke (Christabel), Hannah Bristow (Onstage Camera Operator), Emma Rogerson, Diana Miranda & Emma Holtom (Dramaturgical Team)
Thanks to Yandass Ndlovu & Libby Williamson
Supporters Camden People’s Theatre, Gloucestershire Archives, London Metropolitan Archives, Contact Theatre, Hope Mill Theatre, The Proud Trust, Freedom Youth & University of Manchester
Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, and by Manchester Pride’s Superbia Queer Arts Grant.
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LOB
CO-DIRECTORIt’s the year 2000 and my grandmother, dreaming of Wimbledon glory, is devastated by my lack of prowess.
Having been obsessed with this memory for twenty years now, with her trusty swingball set, Roma Havers attempts to serve a LOB. Egged on by locker room banter, a Victorian ghost for a doubles partner and a masked ball that just won’t go to plan, this dance and poetry show prioritises explores what it could mean to move as queer bodies in sporting spaces, even if you’ll never reach Centre Court.
VENUES INCLUDE: The MAC Belfast and Contact Theatre
REVIEWS:
“Joyful, communal and tender... and feels unpolished in the best way.” - I Love MCR
“Pairs poetic licence with delightfully offbeat movement to winning effect.” - Circles & Stalls
Manchester Wire’s Picks of October 2022
Circles & Stalls Top Nine Picks of 2022
Contact Theatre’s 50 Most Celebrated
TEAM:
Writer & Performer Roma Havers
Producer Ali Wilson
Co-Directors Christopher Brown & Clodagh Chapman
Movement Director Christopher Brown
Dramaturg Frankie Blaus
Composer Donna Loman
Access Champion Ruth O’Sullivan
Supporters Contact Theatre, HOME Manchester, Outburst Arts, The Proud Trust
Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.