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PRESS RELEASE Twitter @Eduplaylondon Facebook @Educationplaylondon PRESS RELEASE www.educationplay.co.uk Twitter @EduPlayLondon Facebook @EducationPlayLondon A co-production between The Wardrobe Ensemble, Royal & Derngate, Northampton, and Shoreditch Town Hall Presented in the West End by Trafalgar Theatre Productions and Eilene Davidson IMAGES CAN BE ACCESSED HERE SPOTIFY PLAYLIST CAN BE ACCESSED HERE REHEARSAL IMAGES RELEASED AHEAD OF WEST END PREMIERE OF THE WARDROBE ENSEMBLE’S HIT COMEDY EDUCATION, EDUCATION, EDUCATION The cast of Education, Education, Education © James Bullimore With just over two weeks until the production begins previews at the Trafalgar Studios, rehearsal pictures have today be released for acclaimed theatre company The Wardrobe Ensemble’s production of Education, Education, Education, in co-production with Royal & Derngate, Northampton and Shoreditch Town Hall. The Scotsman Fringe First Award and The Stage Edinburgh Award winning, smash-hit production will play a strictly limited four week run in London’s West End this summer. “We in Germany, and Europe, have been watching somewhat envious as your country’s been undergoing a resurrection… Your newfound pride in your culture and your heritage… It’s so wonderful to see a country wearing its identity so proudly on its sleeve” It's May 1997. The iPhone doesn't exist, no one knows who Harry Potter is, Titanic is on the shelves of every Blockbuster and we have just won Eurovision. Britain is the coolest place in the world. “First a Eurovision win and now Tony’s our new Prime Minister. I can barely recognize this country; you know I actually saw people smiling on the train this morning.” At the local secondary school it's a different story. It's the last week of term and Tobias, the new German language assistant has just arrived in the UK. While political change occurs outside of the classroom, a revolution slowly starts to take place within it. Tobias is greeted by a group of eccentric schoolteachers just trying to make it through the day, including Miss Belltop-Doyle who can't control her year 10s and Mr Pashley who is trying to keep a confiscated Tamagotchi alive. This whip-smart show is a love letter to education in the 90s and is jam-packed with more hits than ‘Now That’s What I Call 1997’ including Oasis, Katrina and the Waves, The Spice Girls. Crammed with Teletubbies references, jokes about Take That and the Macarena, Education, Education, Education plays a strictly limited four week season at the Trafalgar Studios. The Wardrobe Ensemble uses its singular style of irreverent humour and inventive theatricality to dissect education and responsibility at the dawn of Blair’s Britain in 1997. In Education, Education, Education audiences are thrown back to the 90s; the music, the fads and the icons as well as issues that remain pertinent to the twenty-first century experience. The cast of Education, Education, Education will include: Tom Brennan (Paul McIntyre), Ben Vardy (Tim Pashley), Jesse Meadows (Susan Belltop-Doyle), Emily Greenslade (Emily Greenslade), James Newton (Tobias) and Tom England (Hugh Mills) with Hanora Kamen and Kerry Lovell sharing the role of Louise Turner. Education, Education, Education has been devised by The Wardrobe Ensemble and directed by Jesse Jones and Helena Middleton. Education, Education, Education is a co-production between The Wardrobe Ensemble, Royal & Derngate, Northampton, and Shoreditch Town Hall, presented in the West End by Trafalgar Theatre Productions and Eilene Davidson. LISTINGS Education, Education, Education Trafalgar Studios 1, 14 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2DY 31 May – 29 June 7.30pm, matinees at 2.3opm on Thursdays and Saturdays* Press Night: 5th June Box Office: 0844 871 7632/ www.educationplay.co.uk *No matinee performance on Sat 22 and Thu 27 June Directed by Jesse Jones and Helena Middleton Written by The Wardrobe Ensemble Design: Lucy Sierra Lighting Design: Katharine Williams Sound Design: Ben Grant Dramaturg: Bea Roberts Associate Sound Design: Daniel Balfour Wardrobe Supervisor: Felicity Jones Cast List: Tom England- Hugh Mills Emily Greenslade- Emily Greenslade Jesse Meadows- Susan Belltop- Doyle James Newton- Tobias Tom Brennan- Paul McIntyre Ben Vardy- Tim Pashley Hanora Kamen – Louise Turner (until 15 June) Kerry Lovell – Louise Turner (from 17 June) ABOUT THE WARDROBE ENSEMBLE The Wardrobe Ensemble is a Bristol-based group of theatre artists working together to make and tour new plays that dissect the twenty-first century experience. Dedicated to finding the place where the intellectual and the emotional collide, they explore the big ideas of our time through intimate human stories and bold imagery. They consist of nine core members, one producer and a constantly growing community of associate artists and work as a democratic devising ensemble wherein every member contributes to the research, writing, structuring, and performing of a show, creating a unique shared theatrical language and aesthetic from show to show. The Wardrobe Ensemble has made four full company shows, RIOT, 33, 1972: The Future of Sex and South Western. They have also made nine shows for families and young audiences, including Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain and The Star Seekers, which played at the National Theatre for 3.5 weeks in summer 2018. They are Associates of Complicite and Shoredicth Town Hall, and their shows have been performed at the National Theatre, Almeida, Bristol Old Vic, Northern Stage and abroad at Jack, Brooklyn, NYC. www.thewardrobeensemble.com Facebook: /thewardrobeensemble Twitter: @WardrobEnsemble Instagram: thewardrobesemble ABOUT ROYAL & DERNGATE, NORTHAMPTON Royal & Derngate is the main venue for arts and entertainment in Northamptonshire, with audience members for live shows and films numbering 378,000 last year, and an additional 115,000 seeing its work on tour at over 85 venues. Named Regional Theatre of the Year in The Stage Awards in 2011 (and nominated again in 2016), the theatre won the UK Theatre Awards for Best Presentation of Touring Theatre in 2015 and Best Touring Production in 2016 for The Herbal Bed, and The Stage Ensemble Award and a Fringe First for Education, Education, Education in 2017. Alongside touring nationally and internationally Royal & Derngate’s Made in Northampton productions have transferred to the West End and Broadway as well as Shakespeare’s Globe, the National Theatre, Hackney Empire and the Lyric Hammersmith. The venue also presents a diverse range of visiting productions on both the Derngate and Royal stages, featuring musicals, dance, comedy and music, including a residency from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Royal & Derngate’s award-winning, nationally recognised Get Involved programme engages with over 21,000 participants each year, including schools, families and communities in Northamptonshire and beyond, and its two-screen cinema welcomed over 82,000 audience members to the best in world, independent, British and mainstream film. Meanwhile, the theatre’s Generate artistic development programme supports hundreds of local and emerging artists and practitioners each year. www.royalandderngate.co.uk Facebook: /royalandderngate Twitter: @royalderngate ABOUT SHOREDITCH TOWN HALL Welcoming over 70,000 people through its doors every year, Shoreditch Town Hall is an established independent cultural and community space housed in one of the grandest former civic buildings in the capital. Comprising over 48,000 square feet across 70 individual rooms, the Town Hall has undergone something of a transformation in recent years, from a beautiful but under the radar hire space, to a thriving flagship cultural and events venue for Hackney, London and beyond. Shoreditch Town Hall is now more in use than at any other point in its recent history with a year-round programme of bold and adventurous new theatre, music, dance, comedy, talks and events, alongside a range of learning, community and engagement activities. The venue is also occupied by one of the most talked about restaurants of recent years, the Michelin starred Clove Club, in the west side of the building. With eight main spaces from 40 to 800 capacity, the Town Hall works with 130 artists, community groups and arts organisations, programmes over 60 productions, hosts up to 700 events, and commissions up to 8 new pieces of live performance every year. The Town Hall’s programme has recently included work with Andrew Schneider, dreamthinkspeak, Jamie Lloyd, Kneehigh, Manchester International Festival, Nigel Barrett & Louise Mari, Royal Shakespeare Company, Spymonkey and The Wardrobe Ensemble, alongside events with the likes of Alexander McQueen, Amazon, Channel 4, Fred Perry, Red Bull and the filming of The Death of Stalin, Florence Foster Jenkins and The Lady in the Van. Shoreditch Town Hall is a registered charity (1069617) and receives no regular or revenue funding. www.shoreditchtownhall.com Facebook: /ShoreditchTH Twitter: @ShoreditchTH Instagram: @shoreditchTH ABOUT TRAFALGAR THEATRE PRODUCTIONS Co-founded by Sir Howard Panter and Dame Rosemary Squire in 2017, Trafalgar Entertainment is a live entertainment business and home to Trafalgar Studios, two theatres under one roof in the West End. Recent productions include transfers of the two sell-out ground breaking and Olivier nominated new British productions: the Bush Theatre’s Misty and National Theatre’s Nine Night. The production arm of the company, Trafalgar Theatre Productions, is producing a group of new shows and classic musicals in London and internationally including the Lincoln Center Theatrer’s award- winning
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