Summer Season 2021 Announced

This Summer we are excited to announce five productions, showcasing the work and talents of our third year BA (Hons) Performance Acting, Actor Musicianship and Musical Theatre students.

 

START

26 – 29 May
Acting
“Guys like me don’t get the benefit of the doubt, ya know. So when guys like me get accused, it sticks like fresh tar on road.  Cos guys like me don’t get nothin’ else. And you wonder why guys like me don’t change? Maybe it’s cos guys like you don’t want us to. And it’s a shame.” Ten Young offenders from different boroughs are thrown together into a Community Theatre project, as part of their Youth Rehabilitation Orders. They don’t get on. A raw, new play about perception, privilege, and potential.
More information here.

 

Coram Boy

2 – 5 Jun
Acting and Actor Musicianship
Coram Boy is a heart-breaking tale of orphans, angels, murder and music adapted by Helen Edmundson from Jamila Gavin’s Whitbread Award-winning novel. Set in the 18th century, this is a tale of two cities – Gloucester and London – and the founding of the Thomas Coram’s hospital for foundling children.
More information here.

 

‘Lamination’ and ‘Exile’

10 Jun
Acting
Written by emerging writers Esme Allman and Asa Haynes and directed by award-winning directors Amani Zardoe and Iddon Jones, this two-part short film project explores grief and loss through the eyes of a group of young people living in South East London in 2020, performed by Mountview’s third year Acting students.
More information here.

 

Tipping the Velvet

16 – 19 Jun
Acting and Actor Musicianship
It’s 1887 and Nancy Astley sits in the audience at her local music hall: she doesn’t know it yet, but the next act will change her life. Tonight she will fall in love… with the thrill of the stage and with Kitty Butler; musical artist and top of the bill. Giddy with desire and hungry for experience, Nancy follows Kitty to London where unimaginable adventures await.
More information here.

 

Mother Clap’s Molly House

23 – 26 Jun
Musical Theatre
Skipping between an 18th century Molly house and a group of men planning a raunchy party in 21st century Bloomsbury, Mother Clapp’s Molly House is a riotous celebration of the diversity of human sexuality, and a comment on the commodification of sex and love.
More information here.

 

Kipps

5-10 Jul
Musical Theatre
When orphan and simple soul Arthur Kipps unexpectedly inherits a fortune that propels him into high society, everything he thought he knew about life is turned upside down. This adaptation of H.G Wells’ novel by Julian Fellowes returns the much beloved original musical by Beverley Cross and David Heneker to its literary roots, complimented by new music and lyrics from George Stiles and Anthony Drewe. Recently produced by Sir Cameron Mackintosh, Kipps proved to be a roaring success both at Chichester Festival Theatre and in the West End.
More information here.