Productions (Brockley Jack Theatre)

Since 2004 the Brockley Jack Studio has been host to many events, including theatre, comedy, music and film. Below are some of the performances that have taken place.

The Brockley Jack Writers' Workshop will be running again from September.
If you wish to receive a booking form or more details, please contact David at writers@brockleyjack.co.uk

Deirdre and Me by Rachael Halliwell
Her Big Chance by Alan Bennett
presented by Round Pebble Theatre Company

Deirdre and Me is a short play about obsession, friendship, loneliness and Deirdre from Coronation Street. Susan is Deirdre's No.1 superfan; she has catalogued all of the intimate details of the former Mrs Rashid. Deirdre and Me unravels the true extent of Susan's special friendship and how it changes her life.

In Her Big Chance Lesley is a bit part actress offered her big break in a video for the German market. Alan Bennett's classic monologue from the Talking Heads season was originally seen on television.

Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
Adapted by Brute Farce

Suitcases, boxes, steamships, trains and elephants...Brute Farce's re-working of Jules Verne's classic tale whisks the audience from rainy station platforms in nineteenth century London to a technicolour, Bollywood vision of the tropics and the frozen wastes of North America. With trademark invention the company bring Phileas Fogg, his faithful servant and various pursuing police officers, Indian princesses and Wild West bullies to life.

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of hell, and a hell of heaven

In Between Dreams takes a light hearted look at the daydreams and diversions which distract us from the mundanity of everyday life.

Using puppetry, live music and song this production invites you to escape the norm and enter into a world of fantasy and illusion.

Borderline
by Rob Benson

One man's journey from the euphoric highs of the dance floor to the desperate despair of the mental health ward - walking hand in hand with an illness he can't escape.

A provocative and punchy verse-driven drama exploring life, love, obsession and all the pills in between...
A One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest for the ecstasy generation.

Blavatsky's Tower
by Moira Buffini

On the twenty-fifth floor of a monstrous tower block Hector Blavatsky - visionary, architect and patriarch - dominates his family with God-like authority. Fearful of being tainted by the rest of humanity below ('the crushed') the Blavatskys are in full retreat from the world. But Hector is dying. And when an outsider arrives in their miniature universe the family must finally consider flying the nest and joining the crushed - but at what cost?

Moira Buffini's black comedy takes a wry look at that most dysfunctional of establishments: the family.
...a gripping evening's entertainment. The British Theatre Guide
to read the full review of show click here

In September 2009 the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre invited playwrights with a connection to South East London to submit unperformed plays to the venue.

The three plays below, which formed our season in February - Martch 2010, were drawn from these submissions.

The Write Now Season was made possible with thanks to Lewisham Arts Service's Take Part Fund.

The Bitch From Brixton
by Kate Gallon and Kate-Lynn Hocking

It's obvious when I shot him I intended to kill him...

Open and shut cases are rarely what they seem. Ruth Ellis, the so-called 'Bitch from Brixton' is hanged after being found guilty of the murder of her lover. Yet beyond the tabloid controversy lurks a seedy underbelly of espionage, power and betrayal in 1950's London. Using court archives and biographical accounts, this thrilling new play offers Ruth Ellis a powerful and contemporary voice. Part of the Jack's Write Now season.

Fighting
by Tom Green

Will we fight back? Without any weapons. What are we going to do?
Throw stones? Call them names?

Two soldiers flee from an ambush in the middle of the night. They think it's just a military exercise but the arrival of a wounded colleague suggests that the fighting is for real. So who is behind it? And are they out there still, hunting them down? Fighting is a provocative new drama that questions what we can rely on and whose account of the truth we should believe.
Part of the Jack's Write Now season.

Go for a spacewalk in Piccadilly. Scubadive down the South Bank.
Think you're thinking about anything... except you.

Ever since he was born, a terrible gift has cut Robin off from those around him. Today that may change. This is Robin's last chance to propose to the woman he loves, but he has to get to Machu Picchu to do it. And how can he cross the world, when he can't even get out of his bedsit? Compression is a funny and moving new play about the voices in our heads that hold us back, and how one singular man talked them around. Part of the Jack's Write Now Season.

Ruby Honeycut Corset:
cellist, singer, serial killer presents
Ruby's Last Confession

This intimate performance combines the best in dark comedy and live music, with
some luxurious storytelling. Following three years on the national Burlesque scene, Chloe Bezer brought her kleinkunst cabaret sensation to The Brockley Jack for an
extended and theatrical performance.

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
by Peter Nichols

Prior to a run in Malta and Gozo, In Company Theatre brought a British classic to The Brockley Jack Theatre.

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg is about a young couple's attempts at coping with their daughter's disabilities.

This dark, but very funny comedy sees the couple using fantasy and humour to try to bring joy into their daughter's and their own lives, despite the prejudices of both friends and family

About 24 years ago Frank promised Romy eternal love. And today she has come to claim his promise. Frank is about to emigrate with his wife Claudia and their son Andy when Romy visits and demands the extinction of the past 24 years in exchange for a new life.

All he wants is the job, and all 'they' want is for themselves to survive! Wild East is about a young man's endeavour to make his mark on an interview, that is being derailed before his eyes! This drily comic and of the moment piece stands to give you an insight into the business world, that you never imagined existed.

1867
by Theresa Roche
presented by Palladini Productions

1867 is a moving new play inspired by the story of Madam CJ Walker, the first self-made African American female millionaire.

Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare
presented by The Faction

The Faction returned to the Brockley Jack Theatre with their exciting new production of Shakespeare's comedy masterpiece, staged in, on, over, under, around and through a grand piano.

"If music be the food of love, play on”

From The Singular Ensemble came the UK premiere of a new darkly comic drama. Musing on the central themes of suicide and relationships of all kinds, Notes On A Lasagne is a witty two-hander that proves friendship can develop in even the strangest of situations.

'pleasingly dark and quirky' The British Theatre Guide

'an extremely moving and surprisingly captivating piece ... This is a clever and witty production with strong performances and a dark underside.' Remotegoat

The Hungry and the Hunted
by Catherine Connor
presented by the Crofton Players
The Hungry and the Hunted is a play about the walls of silence. It is about the lengths that one man will go to make sure that his gory secrets are never revealed.

Set in Brockley, spanning the last 30 years, this tale is real and is happening...on your doorstep. Crofton Players are a young, fresh company creating new work for the theatre that is raw and relevant to a new generation coming to adulthood in South London.

Wilde's comic masterpiece is brought to life by first year students from The Actor Works Theatre School.

Dazzling and fun, Wilde's drama portrays the antics of two young men passionately in love with two young women, both of whom are determined to marry a man called Ernest.

Amidst the chaos of the city the lives of 7 separate people crash, collide and weave in out of one another. Each driven by their own constant desires.

Farley's Date
written by Mark Homer

Farley's stuck in a rut: pigeon-stepping it to his mid-thirties but clutching to a fading dream. For best mate Jace, life couldn't be rosier. Good job, nice pad and soon to marry the lovely Stella! In Farley's pokey flat in Lewisham, the boys finally green light their trip of a lifetime Easy Rider style.

Will the boys ever get their motor running?
Just the small matter of telling the bride to be!

Farley's date, written and performed by Mark Homer (Eastenders), is a heartwarming and humorous look at morality in love and friendship and what happens when dreamers have to grow up.

Nina and Shaz
by Laura McCluskey
presented by Language Laid Bare Productions

Young, Gifted and Black. Two women, Nina Simone and Shazne.
Worlds apart but with one thing in common – the power of Music.
Two compelling stories, set against the backdrop of the stirring American Civil Rights Movement, and the turbulent streets of contemporary London, Nina and Shaz is a powerful yet inspiring play with music for the generation of today and yesterday.

Fearless writing for thrilling actors ... the cast are impressive ... a poignant, thought provoking and highly original play that sticks in the minds of the audience long after the cast take their final bow.'
The Pulse

MACBETH
by William Shakespeare
presented by theFaction

theFaction returned to the Brockley Jack to present Shakespeare's bloody and supernatural thriller with an all-male ensemble. For Macbeth they have drawn inspiration from Japanese Kabuki techniques, creating moving staircases, walls and corridors that reflect a world of tangible evil spirits and the distorted reality that poisons Macbeth’s mind.

Excellent production of Shakespeare's gruesome classic The Stage
TheFaction...has returned to the Brockley Jack with another thought provoking production... their inventive and physical approach has blown away the cobwebs British Theatre Guide

Alarms and Excursions
by Michael Frayn
presented by In Company

Alarms and Excursions – More Plays Than One is a light-hearted and extremely funny piece, very much in the style of Frayn's masterpiece of farce, Noises Off. In it various hapless, helpless and sometimes hopeless human beings are confronted by the machinations of modern technology or are trapped by the trappings of an electronic world.

Alarms and Excursions is a fantastic and polished production. Remotegoat.
To read review click here

Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
adapted by Polly Teale
produced by the Brockley Jack Theatre

First published in 1847, Jane Eyre was an instant sensation. Orphaned and abandoned Jane Eyre embarks on a quest for love and fulfilment. It is a quest which unlocks powerful secrets that threaten to destroy her. This passionate drama was brought explosively to life in Polly Teale's critically acclaimed adaptation.

Jane Eyre was another sell-out production from the Brockley Jack Theatre's in-house company.
this production has achieved wonders Extra! Extra!

Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis
by Charlotte Jones
produced by In Company

What do you get when you cross the lives of a dominatrix, an obsessive-compulsive, a part-time transvestite and a Chinese Elvis Presley?! It's the Feast of Epiphany, Josie's 40th Birthday, and an Elvis impersonator has been booked as a surprise, but the real surprise turns out to be much more than anyone had bargained for.

Outrageous, irreverent, uplifting and very funny, this beautiful Charlotte Jones' play is a burlesque that conjures the eventual transformation of six very flawed people and their curious lives.

A company of 27 burst onto stage at the Brockley Jack to make Shakespeare's most popular history play truly epic. The energetic ensemble create everything they require to tell the story with their own bodies. A production of powerful physicality that matches the muscularity of Shakespeare's language.

This is epic physical theatre - Time Out
An intelligent and thought provoking performance - Remotegoat

Shoot 2 Win
by Tracey Daley, Jo Martin & Josephine Melville
produced by In Company & Southside Arts

In Company collaborated with Southside Arts to bring the pacy and provocative play Shoot 2 Win to the Brockley Jack Theatre.

Seven women come together as the netball team, The V.I.P. Crew, on one gruelling day of competition. As the day progresses it becomes clear that the ladies have to overcome their personal problems and differences if they are to succeed. Originally produced at Stratford East, Shoot 2 Win delivered a hilarious evening of fights, tears, joy and shocking revelations.

You Can't Choose Your Family
by Paul O'Connor
produced by Stellar Theatre Company

In July 2008 Stellar Theatre returned to the Jack with a sell-out production of Paul O'Connor's comedy You Can't Choose Your Family.
Just another day of Bitching, Fighting, Sibling Rivalry, Whiskey and Sausage Rolls! But today is Beryl's wake - not that you'd notice...
Families! Who'd ave 'em?

Can You See Me Yet?
by Timothy Findley
presented by Language Laid Bare Productions
This critically acclaimed production, written by one of Canada's best loved playwrights, shows a world about to go mad with war.
An asylum for the insane seems to offer sanctuary for its patients, but as Cassandra Wakelin stands in the heart of the asylum, confusing her fellow inmates with members of her own ill-fated family, we are forced to ask the question, 'Can anyone find sanctuary anywhere?'

Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
adapted by Brute Farce

With large helpings of modern mayhem and a generous sprinkling of satire, eighteenth century England is ingeniously re-invented in a wickedly outrageous adaptation from one of England's most exciting young theatre companies. This show is a melting-pot of style which simmers and spits with biting wit and caustic humour.

Dinner
by Moira Buffini
Presented by The Actor Works Company & Southside Arts
Moira Buffini's Olivier nominated play is a skewed take on the classic drawing room mystery - full of sharp humour, surrealism and a deliciously terrifying finale.

Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
adapted for the stage by Hugh Leonard

For Christmas 2007 the Brockley Jack Theatre's in-house company presented a sell-out production of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. This classic tale, populated with some of literature's most memorable creations, was brought to life in Hugh Leonard's atmospheric adaptation.

The The Actor Works' Second Year Students returned to The Brockley Jack with their engaging production of The Beau Defeated by Mary Pix. No one is what they seem in this restoration comedy of manners where all the action revolves around plots: people plotting for love, money, title or all three....

Hamlet
adapted by Richard Rogers
presented by El mono theatre

This one man show, abridging the classic text of Hamlet, explored human perceptions and the way events can be told from a single viewpoint. An engaging and troubled look at this traditional character and his creative mind.

Lilies
by Michel Marc Bouchard
English translation by Linda Gaboriau
Wild Oats Productions presented the UK Premiere and 20th anniversary production of Michel Marc Bouchard's Lilies or the Revival of a Romantic Drama.

Lilies is a passionate and intriguing piece that tells the engrossing and incredibly moving story of Simon Doucet, a prisoner for nearly thirty years. Bouchard is considered one of Canada's greatest living playwrights and Lilies is his best known work.

Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
adapted by John Godber
Kangaroo Court brought a fresh adaptation to Shakepeare's greatest political thriller, raising questions that are ever relevant to today's world. Does power corrupt? Does absolute power corrupt absolutely?

Relative Values
by Noel Coward

showdon'ttell theatre company brought their unique approach to the Jack Theatre with Noel Coward's classic comedy of manners Relative Values.

One of Coward's less-performed works, Relative Values sees the worlds of starry Hollywood and stiff-upper-lip Britania collide over the course of a weekend at Marshwood House, deep in the garden of England, with hilarious consequences.

Miss Julie
by August Strindberg
translated by Michael Meyer

Phrixus Theatre's new production of Strindberg's nineteenth century masterpiece was set in late 1930s Britain, a Britain on the verge of unprecedented social upheaval. Frank in its portrayal of sex, lust, class and gender conflict, Strindberg's work remains startlingly contemporary.

The Merry Wives of Windsor
by William Shakespeare

The Actor Works presented director Helen Alexander's quirky,
gender-busting production of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor.

Richard Sandling in VHS: Death to DVD with
Russell Kane

Reviews from the Edinburgh Festival 2006
The funniest show I've seen so far this year...
broadwaybaby.com
This is a joyful, funny, clever show.
Kate Copstick The Scotsman 2006

Coriolanus
by William Shakespeare
adapted and directed by Mark Leipacher

An all male ensemble explored masculine identity in a violent and visceral new production of Shakespeare's political thriller.

Award winning production company Giudecca, supported by Old Vic New Voices, presented this distilled version of an often neglected tragedy with one of Shakespeare's most terrifying anti-heroes.

MCN TV!
Fourth Wall Productions

Told through video and theatre MCN TV! was the spoof sketch show of a cable television station, battling poor ratings, shoddy programming and inept management in a desperate bid to survive.

The Hound of the Baskervilles
adapted by Simon Williams
from the novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

For Christmas 2006 the Brockley Jack Theatre presented a sell-out production of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's spine-tingling classic - The Hound of the Baskervilles.

This well-loved tale was brought shivering to life in Simon Williams’ atmospheric and theatrical adaptation.

La Ronde
by Arthur Schnitzler

The Ant Theatre company returned to the Jack with a modern interpretation of Schnitzler's turn of the century drama La Ronde.
Adapted and directed by Simon Beyer, this contemporary revival examined
the nature of relationships in today's society.

King Lear
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Jenn Lunn

Set amidst the gangster underworld of 1950's London, Culturcated Theatre Company's sell-out production presented a brutal new realisation of Shakespeare's King Lear.

Teechers
by John Godber
Presented by Brute Farce Theatre Company
Directed by Rob Crouch

Teechers is an hilarious portrayal of life at Whitewall Comprehensive School, as seen through the eyes of three sixteen-year olds. A raw and hilarious look at the best – and worst – days of your life. all.

Twisted – the Annie Ross Story
Written by Brian McGeachen
Directed by Joseph C Walsh
Twisted tells the intriguing and inspiring story of jazz legend and survivor Annie Ross.
Interweaving stories of her triumphs and tragedies with her greatest songs, Twisted was a unique and powerful theatrical event.
Starring Betsy Pennington.

SNAP
by Paul O'Connor
Presented by Stellar Theatre Company

Stellar Theatre Company presented a sell-out production with their hilarious take on a day in the life of a South London family.

Summer Comedy
In July 2006, we hosted a short season of Summer Comedy featuring internationally renowned as well as new and aspiring comedy performers. Performers included Elvenbitches, Shazia Mirza, Jane Galloway, Godliman&Lane and Rosie Wilby.

Stone Crabs New Directors Festival
Stonecrabs presented 3 evenings of rehearsed readings by 7 new directors.

Learning to Laugh -
a comedy course for women.
With funding from Awards for All, the Jack Theatre ran Learning to Laugh - a comedy course for women who wanted to have a go at being funny.

From stand-up to sketch show, from telling jokes to just clowning around, participants found their comedy feet with the help of professional comediennes. If you interested in attending further comedy courses at the Jack, please e-mail admin@brockleyjack.co.uk

The Brockley Max Festival 2006
The Brockley Max Festival is now in its fourth year, with more of the great talent that Brockley has to offer. The Brockley Jack was the venue for dance, film and Jane Galloway's blend of history, horticulture and haute cuisine: Potatoes.

Can't Pay? Won't Pay! by Dario Fo
Translated by Lino Pertile, adapted by Bill Colvill & Robert Walker
Presented by the Brockley Jack Theatre
Dario Fo's farce of non payment and accidental homicide
crashed into the Brockley Jack in May.

This classic seventies farce with a dose of workers-versus-the-bosses will have you in stitches. The Newshopper. Read full review

Spikefest 2006
In April 2006 the Jack Theatre hosted Spikefest - Lewisham's comedy festival - for the third year running.

We were pleased to welcome both internationally renowned and local comediennes to the festival, which played to full houses.

Performers included Shazia Mirza, Martin Soan, Marc Lucero, Peter Searles and Elvenbitch.

Metamorphosis
by Steven Berkhoff
Twelve Three and a Half

Twelve Three and A Half returned to the Jack in April to present Metamorphosis - Steven Berkoff's adaptation of Franz Kafka's classic story of alienation and transformation, dependency and upheaval.

Ghosts in the Attic
by Andrew Edwards
The Ant Theatre Company
The Ant Theare Compan's second production at that Jack was an atmospheric piece of new writing, where the past visits the present.

The attic at 53 Crescent Road wasn't just a place that stored possessions; it was a place that stored memories. Sometimes family histories are buried in the past or kept in boxes of things long-forgotten. When three women's lives are brought together by fate, the journey of discovery into their pasts reveals more than they expected as they uncover the truth that rests in the attic.

Shakers
by John Godber and Jane Thornton
Brute Farce Theatre Company
After two successful productions at the Jack last year, Brute Farce returned with a sell-out production of Shakers, another hit comedy of urban night life.

A Slice of Life
Dissensemble
New devising theatre company Dissensemble presented an exploration into the complex connections between our anatomies and the physical landscape of our experiences.

Through physical expression and storytelling Dissensemble share experiences relevant to us all in a dissection and celebration of our relationship with our bodies.

Elasticity
Cwtch Theatre
Cwtch explored interchangeable lovers, disposable emotions and replaceable teacups, in an evening of obsessive ambitions and insatiable fantasies. Written by Heather O'Shea through Sgript Cymru, Elasticity was directed and adapted by practicing Live Artist Owen Glyndwr Parry.

The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
The Brockley Jack Theatre presented Oscar Wilde's comic masterpiece as its seasonal treat. Dazzling and fun, Wilde's drama portrays the antics of two young men passionately in love with two young women, both of whom are determined to marry a man called Ernest.
'very much in the spirit of Wilde... heartless and fun' The Stage

Sex, Life and e.f.t
by Peter Searles
Best known for his internationally acclaimed “ HEY GRINGO! ” Trilogy (first premiered at the Gilded Balloon in 1997) - actor, writer and raconteur Peter Searles is a regular performer at the Jack.

In Sex, Life and e.f.t he turned his attention from travel into a quest for enlightenment and love.

A Doll's House
by Henrik Ibsen
Innovative new company Twelve Three and a Half gave Ibsen
thought-provoking and original treatment with their first production:
A Doll's House. Published in 1879, A Doll's House tackles subjects that are still overwhelmingly controversial 126 years later - debt, flirtation and adultery around the Christmas Tree, with abandoned children and an ‘unnatural mother' into the bargain.

People in Glass Houses
by Darren Rapier
presented by Insight Theatre

Insight Theatre returned to the Jack with this intriguing and thought-provoking modern drama.
People in Glass Houses is set in the future when land is scarce, and the nearest you get to a picnic is a sandwich over a window box!

The Tempest
presented by Ant Theatre Company

Simon Beyer directed a new and exciting interpretation of The Tempest:
a world where women hold positions of power and authority and the virtue of innocence is seen through the eyes of a young man.

If Shakespeare wrote this play today, would he have set it in a world filled with women in power? A modern parallel for our times in a story centuries old.

A Fans' Club
Written by Matthew Couper,
With original music by Chris Barlow
A Fans' Club is a feel good play about shattered dreams and renewed hope, about taking on the big boys…. and starting again! The play is based on the formation of AFC Wimbledon.

Worlds Apart
by Darren Rapier
.......dignified performances.....Rapier's political and poetic message, namely that immigration has always been an issue in Britain; moreover, for immigrants and Buddhists alike, nothing is ever still. Time Out

After successful productions across America,
Wild Oats Productions presented the UK premiere of
Listen to my Heart:
the songs of David Friedman

SPIKEFEST UK
Lewisham's comedy festival, revisited the Jack Theatre in April 2005. The Jack saw a host of comic talents perform, including Court in the Act, Mark Maier, Chambers and Nettleton, Spencer Brown, Pete Searles, Alan Francis and Elven Bitch.

SHORTSCREEN : FILM AT THE JACK
In April 2005 for the first time ever the Brockley Jack Theatre hosted a festival of cinema shorts. From art house to kitchen sink, these included award winning films and companies as well as more obscure and exciting Sci-Fi. Films included: Between the Wars (Emily Woof), Green Monkey (Rob Sprackling) & the dark comedy Don't Walk featuring Alexi Sayle.
Films supplied courtesy of Whatever Pictures and Sci Fi London.

Antigone translated by Marianne McDonald
Antigone was the work of the Brockley Jack Theatre School. This production marked the culmination of 13 weeks training. The story of Antigone, a sister who risks her life to bury her brother, shows the consequences of decisions made from listening only to the heart or to the head.

Day Trippers by Jean McConnell &
Night Owls by Barrie Smith
Capital Theatre Company presented a double bill of two light and dark comedies. Capital Theatre has been based in south-east London since 1993. Among its recent productions have been Some One Who'll Watch Over Me by Frank McGuiness, Two by Jim Cartwright, Little Eyolf by Henrik Ibsen and Pinterland, a collection of sketches by Harold Pinter.

Bouncers by John Godber
A Brute Farce Production
After two successful productions at the Jack, this was another chance to see John Godber's smash hit comedy and relive part of nearly everyone's disco history. Slow dances, snogging, late night kebabs and being sick in the back of a cab. The ultimate 80s Christmas night out!

A Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni
A Stone Crabs Production
Carlo Goldoni's legendary 18th century comedy came to the Jack in an imaginative and energetic new interpretation. Inspired by Commedia dell'arte, the company explored A Servant of Two Masters through the form's Brazilian incarnation. Combining strong physicalisation with an eclectic cast, Stone Crabs brought Goldoni's riotous humour to life with a unique and contemporary edge. The production transferred to the New End Theatre.

The Country by Martin Crimp
A Stone Crabs Production in collaboration with Teatre2.Akt
Anders Rasmussen, artistic director of the Teater2.Akt, was invited by Stone Crabs to stage this performance. The production opened in June at the Brockley Jack Theatre and transferred to Denmark later in the year.

Spikefest UK 2004
Spikefest UK was the name for the London Borough of Lewisham's 2004 comedy festival. During Spikefest 2004 the Brockley Jack welcomed performances by Peter Searles, Markus Birdman and Patrick Monahan.

Educating Rita by Willy Russell
Presented by Insight Theatre
First produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company and later made into the famous film, this hilarious yet moving comedy brings Rita, an effervescent, working class, Liverpudlian hairdresser to the study of Frank, a disillusioned English Literature professor who likes a drink or two.

Burke and Hare by Terry Newman
Presented by Brute Farce Theatre in association with Skullduggery theatre.
This revival of one of the hits of the 2003 Edinburgh Festival was reworked by director Gemma Sessions for Brute Farce.

A Christmas Carol adapted by Katy Slater
Presented by Brute Farce Theatre
A brand new adaptation of Charles Dickens' seasonal classic, commissioned specifically to be the Jack's opening production. Directed by Rob Crouch.
"...a first rate production that is sure to lift anyone's spirits" The Stage read full review.