1st Framework will be presenting 3rdthought (the radical over 60’s theatre group) in Martin Crimp’s trilogy ‘Fewer Emergencies’ as part of its Against Type season for Southwark’s Silver Festival in the Clore Studio at the Unicorn on Thursday April 3rd at 7pm.
It will also be shown at the BUYA! festival at Stratford Circus on Saturday April 5th at 7pm.
Grateful thanks to www.set-a-side.co.uk for sponsorship of this production.
Make reservations by ringing 0207 022 1941 or by emailing and stating your contact details and booking requirements. Tickets (£5) will be waiting in the foyer on the performance night.
There will be a public dress rehearsal at 2Inspire
1a Wendover, Thurlow St SE17 2UD on Tuesday April 1st at 6.30.
The three short plays by the Royal Court ‘in yer face’ writer Martin Crimp (b 1959 Dartford, Kent) are ‘Whole Blue Sky’, ‘Face to the Wall’ and ‘Fewer Emergencies’. The subjects are harsh and the language astringent. The main challenge is to prove that 3rdthought , after its recent bright, light fairground show ‘Paradise’, can deal with tougher, bleaker yet often funny material on its own terms.
Photographer Laurence Burns
3rdthought
The fifteen years of over 60's drama work based at the Mary Ward Centre has developed into a fringe theatre company known as 3rdthought. Now a year old the group has show a radical version of David Storey's 'Home' in a season of work at Oxford House in Bethnal Green together with a devised piece of physical theatre called 'There We Are'. The latter was also presented in Girona in Spain. Impressed by the quality of these productions the Arts Council is financially supporting the next project, 'Paradise'.
'People in this group have got some nerve attempting such an ambitious programme. You'd think they'd be old enough to know better! From all accounts they do, They are very good'. Mavis Nicholson, The Oldie.
Click here to view a slideshow of 'There We Are'
Click here to view a slideshow of David Storey's 'Home'
Click here to view the 3rdthought slide show
Incidents
Click here to view the Incidents video
Previous work as 1st Framework presenting The Mary Ward over 60's drama group between 1987 and 2002:
"The work challenges the historical stereotype surrounding arts for older people." Time Out
British Council - Australian tour as part of International Year of Solidarity between generations.
Double bill Larkrise To Candleford /Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Stories
Playground
Marat/Sade
Spring Awakening
Ubu Roi
Collaborations:
National Youth Theatre
Museum in Docklands
Serpentine Gallery
Tate Modern