Fringe First award winning smash hit coming to Newcastle as part of an extensive UK tour
Sh!t
Theatre with Show And Tell present
Letters
to Windsor House
Newcastle Northern Stage
Wednesday 3rd May 2017
Letters
to Windsor House (no, not that one) is the latest show from multi award winning
duo Rebecca Biscuit and Louise Mothersole, aka Sh!t Theatre. The Fringe First
winning/Total Theatre award nominated show takes a typically idiosyncratic,
personal and very human look at the housing crisis in the capital and beyond
and succeeds in making a song and dance about the state of the nation and
‘generation rent’.
North
East audiences have the opportunity to see this smash hit when it comes to Newcastle’s Northern Stage on
Wednesday 3rd May at 7.45pm as part of an extensive tour
that follows a sold out two week London run at the Soho
Theatre.
Combining a highly
entertaining blend of comedy, theatre, song, performance art and investigative
journalism with dancing red cardboard post boxes, Letters to Windsor is a
totally fun show, that nevertheless makes important points about the nation’s
housing crisis, the desperation and inequalities it creates and above all the
utter unfairness of it all.
‘A painfully funny look at the housing crisis…. A kind of
twenty-first-century Withnail & I’ ★★★★ Time Out - Top 10 UK Theatre Shows of 2016
Sitting in their rented council flat in Windsor House, east
London, staring at a growing pile of unopened letters to previous tenants, Sh!t
Theatre’s Louise
Mothersole and Rebecca Biscuit became curious about the history of the flat and
its previous occupants.
A loophole in the Postal Services Act says you can open other
people’s mail … under certain circumstances. Rebecca and Louise decided that this
was that certain circumstance and giving in to temptation opened the Pandora’s
box…
‘hilarious and heartbreaking’ ★★★★ Sunday Times
Their detective work
revealed a legacy of dodgy landlords, a frightening case study of how compound
interest on minor unpaid charges can become thousands of pounds of debt and a
revelation about their own tenancy status that ultimately affected their
friendship. This being an inner London Borough, gentrification is never far
away. A smooth estate agent shows Louise and Rebecca around a new build show
flat aimed at buy to let investors, assuring them that residents of this new
world are more than adequately protected from the tenants of Windsor House…
‘A distinctive style of music-hall
agitprop theatre imbued with wit and heart’ ★★★★ The Times
Rebecca Biscuit said ’we’ve lived and worked together in Windsor House for five years, watching
as London and our friendship changed’. Louise added ‘as
soon as we started opening the mail that had been tumbling through our door,
making guesses at the stories of the various tenants, we knew we had to take
the investigation as far as we could’.
Letters To Windsor House
was a huge sell out hit at the Edinburgh Fringe winning a coveted Fringe First
Award to add to their Total Theatre Award, Arches Brick Award and Three Weeks
Editors Award along with their nominations for the Amnesty Freedom of
Expression and Carol Tambor Awards and a further Total Theatre nomination.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo_fOPYnEhg&feature=youtu.be
Letters to Windsor House was commissioned by Harlow Playhouse and
Supported by Camden People’s Theatre. It is produced by Show And Tell www.showandtelluk.com
Critical acclaim
for Sh!t Theatre:
★★★★★ Three Weeks, Edinburgh Festivals Magazine, Scotsgay
★★★★ Guardian, Times, Time Out,
Scotsman, Daily
Telegraph, The List, WhatsOnStage, Exeunt, The
Stage
Tickets:
Letters to Windsor House comes to Newcastle, Northern Stage at 3 May 7.45pm
£10
(£8 concs)Box Office: 01912305151 www.northernstage.co.uk
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