Picnic on the Battlefield photography

Here is an exclusive look at rehearsals that are taking place for the Big Pants Theatre Production of Picnic on the Battlefield.

I was lucky enough to be asked by the actors from Big Pants and Director Alan Perrin to go along to rehearsals and take some photographs. I am pleased with the results and can't wait to see the play.







See the full set of photographs here on my Flickr account.

See the previous blog post for more details on how you can get tickets to see the play & the Big Pants Theatre Productions website.

Photography © Jane Postlethwaite 2011

Big Pants Theatre Productions present PICNIC ON THE BATTLEFIELD

Big Pants Theatre Productions is a newly established Brighton Based Theatre Company, producing contemporary plays for Brighton theatre goers who enjoy a pint and a play.


Big Pants Theatre Productions present: PICNIC ON THE BATTLEFIELD written by Fernando Arrabal, Directed by Alan Perrin.

Set Amidst a battle. During a lull in the fighting at the front, soldier Zapo gets a surprise visit from his parents who have decided to cheer him up with a picnic. Whilst bombs burst around them, the family makes a madcap picnic, joined by an enemy whom their son has captured.

A series of comic situations highlights the family's impossible encounter with the Other as we see the ultimate absurdity of war.

After a successful, sell out inaugural production of 'Blue Remembered Hills', Big Pants Theatre Productions return with another piece of no frills, honest theatre.

"Tonight's production of 'Blue Remembered Hills' was funny and beautifully acted. The stage was full of action and childlike excitement- not a dull moment"

- Jenny Rowe,The Maydays

Venue: The Lectern Pub, 5 Pelham terrace, Lewes rd, Brighton (opposite the B&Q Lewes rd)
Date: Sunday 6th March -Sunday 13th March 2011
Tickets: Pint and a Play- £9.80 Play- £7.50
Time: 8pm (Doors: 7:15pm)
To book tickets online please go to www.wegottickets.com
Reservations and queries: bigpantstheatre@hotmail.com

AKT Youth Theatre presents Bassett by James Graham

AKT Youth Theatre present Bassett by James Graham
Directed by Janette Eddisford & Daniel Finlay

Citizenship class at Wootton Bassett School and the supply teacher has gone a bit nuts, doing a runner and locking the pupils in. That's bad enough, but tensions are higher today than normal, a day when only yards from their confinement a repatriation of fallen British soldiers is happening along the high street - as it has over a hundred times before through this quiet Wiltshire town. And this one is more personal than most ...

Dean needs the toilet, Aimee needs a coffee, Amid needs to pray, and Leo ... well, Leo really, really wants to be at the repat, and is determined to escape. As factions form and secrets are revealed, maybe he's not the only one who'll want to get away.

Bassett is a pacy, funny and exhausting look at young people who have inherited a world at war; who, as they grow older, are starting to ask questions about these conflicts, their country, and themselves.

Bassett appears as part of The National Theatre New Connections 2011 - the UK's most exciting festival of Youth Theatre. NT Connections 2011

Venue: The Sallis Benney Theatre, 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton BN2 0JY
Date: 11th - 12th March 2011
Time: 8pm (doors 7.30pm)
Tickets: £7.00 (£5.00 Cons)

To book tickets on line please go to brightonticketshop.com or call the Dome Box Office on 01273 709709.

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