Thistle and Rose Theatre discuss their upcoming Scratch Evening
With Worldwide Girls’s Day arising on Friday 8 March, what higher approach to mark it than with a female-led scratch night time of creativity? We snatched a couple of minutes with Katie Bignell and Caitlin Lee Smith from Thistle & Rose Theatre Firm to ask concerning the thrilling night they’ve deliberate.
Hiya Katie and Caitlin Lee. We at ET are huge followers of your organization Thistle & Rose and simply cherished Put up-Intercourse Spagbol on the Vaults final yr. Would you prefer to say a bit about what you do?
Hello Mary! Thanks a lot. We’re an rising female-led theatre firm devoted to uncovering the soiled truths of womanhood, shaped in 2022 and graduates of the Appearing & Up to date Theatre course at East 15. We now have since created reveals with an ensemble of ladies from England, Scotland, Denmark, America, Mexico, and numerous areas throughout the UK. We’re dedicated to bringing ahead girls’s voices with gasps and giggles, creating theatre that’s open, sincere, provocative and unapologetic. Our debut play, Put up Intercourse Spagbol, gained The House Launchpad Award 2022 and was nominated for The Spirit Of VAULT Award and an OffFest Award. We’re excited to proceed elevating and celebrating female-voices via our upcoming Scratch Evening!
You’re internet hosting a scratch night time for brand spanking new work by girls this week. Why now?
We now have been eager to placed on a female-led scratch night time for some time now, and what higher night time than on Worldwide Girls’s Day! In mild of the day, we can be donating all our earnings to the Malala Fund. An unimaginable charity “working for a world the place each lady can study and lead”.
How did these various feminine creatives come collectively?
We put out a call-out on social media and had an incredible response of artists, which made our job very troublesome as we had so many implausible submissions. We have been eager to give attention to very new, rising artists / work and to create a various array of efficiency kinds. We now have new music from work-in-progress EPs, extracts from scenes, 1-person reveals and a few poetry! A few of our artists now we have been fortunate to collaborate with earlier than, and a few are model new to Thistle & Rose Theatre!
Are you able to inform us concerning the performs and the work in progress on the night time?
After all! We now have an actual combine, new comedy reveals akin to I Be Stress by Demelza Sears, Kuthbert’s Events by Kat Stidston & Nicole Cuthbert, Get together Favour by Shelby Corley and Go Go Boots Go by Rosalie Roger-Lacan & Amber Charlie Conroy – all of which discover femininity, girlhood and female-expectations, however in laugh-out-loud methods. We even have some drama akin to Not In The Temper For Quiche Anymore by Victoria Buse and Cherry Bitter by Isabel Quiroz that discover advanced relationships, and eventually The Womb by Aylin Rodoplu, which is a singular, absurd play about issues that “girls have been going via for the reason that starting of the world until now”.
And what different efficiency varieties may we anticipate to see?
In addition to all our implausible performs – now we have some music! Crystal Mills can be performing a brand-new, unique tune, ‘Lion Of Judah’, and Sarah Victoria (who can also be our fabulous techie for the night) can be performing ‘Chelsea Tractor’ – a bit of satirical songwriting that pokes enjoyable at gentrification in South London, impressed by Amy Winehouse’s ‘F*ck me Pump’. We even have the implausible Georgie Wedge performing her new piece ‘Per-Verse’, the place Georgie “examines her relationship experiences via the 5 senses”, carried out in a spoken phrase/rise up type!
Can anybody come alongside or is it only for girls?
After all! At Thistle & Rose Theatre we’re eager to create creative areas for ladies and marginalised genders however we encourage everyone to attend our scratch night time to chortle, study and join.
This all sound actually thrilling. What’s going to Thistle & Rose be doing subsequent?
Thanks Mary! We’ll completely be placing on one other scratch night time quickly, as this one has been such successful, we’re additionally planning to run some extra workshops after the success of our writing and comedy workshop final spring. We’re additionally each within the means of writing new performs so hopefully that is one thing we’ll be planning quickly – however we’re additionally trying to develop our firm and convey on new fiery, female-led reveals from exterior playwrights!
Thanks very a lot to Katie and Caitlin Lee for taking the time to speak to us concerning the Worldwide Girls’s Day Scratch Evening which takes place on Friday 8 March at Actor’s East, Dalston, London. Tickets for the occasion at the moment are offered out however you’ll be able to be part of a ready checklist for returns right here.
You’ll find out extra about Thistle and Rose right here.
