CALL ME FURY
at The Hope Theatre September 17 - October 5 7:45pm
http://www.thehopetheatre.com/productions/call-me-fury/
“The fire of fear is the only flame that burns bright.”
The winter of 1692 was cold and Salem Village finds itself under attack.
CALL ME FURY is about The Witch Trials. Sort of. A feral scream of rage, this play is a commentary about sexual politics and feminism today.
Using folk songs and stories from Witch Trials across the world, the all-female ensemble “give[s] voice to the women, the poor and the outcasts to ask: what is it that we fear so much that we cease to see others as human?” – Lyn Gardner
Fresh from a SOLD OUT run at VAULT Festival 2019, CALL ME FURY is a new play by Sasha Wilson, author of BURY THE HATCHET (VAULT 2018 People’s Choice Award Winner and Off West End Award Winner for Best Ensemble).
For women then, now and always. But also for you gents.
Praise for CALL ME FURY:
Nominated for an Off West End Award or Best Ensemble Inaugural Winner of The North Wall’s Alchymy Company Award 2019
“Like a spell: a good spell” Lyn Gardner
“Another hit show for this award-winning company” There Ought to Be Clowns
“You’re in for a treat” My Theatre Mates
“Rousing and chilling” Fringe Guru
“A primal, telling-stories-around-a-campfire vibe” Broadway World
Supported by I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd; Yale Publishing; Amberley Publishing; Da Capo Press
BUry THe Hatchet
Lizzie borden took an axe...
Andrew Borden and his wife Abby are found dead in Fall River, Massachusetts on the morning of August 4th, 1892.
Their daughter Lizzie is the main suspect.
Tried but acquitted of the crime, the story goes that she wielded the axe that killed them. Overnight, she becomes America's original “mad, bad and dangerous to know” icon of tabloid and rumour.
Set to prairie bluegrass music, and fusing folktale, nursery rhyme and Vaudevillian horror, “Bury the Hatchet” will settle the age-old question: Did Lizzie escape the hangman's noose? And is Andrew and Abby's blood truly on her hands?
| WINNER VAULT Festival “People’s Choice” Award 2018 | | WINNER Off West End “Best Ensemble” Award 2018 | | NOMINATED Broadway World “Best Musical” Award 2018 |
"Worth suffering forty whacks to see."
- There Ought To Be Clowns
Previous tour of Bury the Hatchet:
13 - 14 July 2017 King’s Head Theatre
7 - 11 March 2018 VAULT Festival
3 - 4 April 2018 Theatre N16
27 April - 6 May 2018 Taliesin West, AZ USA
3 May 2018 Rosson House, AZ USA
26 July - 16 August 2018 The Hope Theatre
18 August 2018 Canary Wharf Garden Space
Bury the Hatchet is available for performances from March 2019. For more information please email info@outoftheforesttheatre.com
"A strong debut production from a fledgling theatre company." - Live Theatre UK
"Unlike most on the fringe scene." - The Play's The Thing
"Played at a whistlestop pace, it's a grisly story that grips." - What's On Stage
★★★★ "Engaging, hilarious, interesting and brilliantly performed, Bury the Hatchet is one of the most entertaining history lessons you’ll ever receive!" - Love London Love Culture
★★★★ "In the hands of Out Of The Forest Theatre the bloody slaughter and Lizzie's subsequent trial become an inventive and lively piece of musical theatre with nine well-composed songs delivered by three gifted actor-musicians." - Act Drop
★★★★ "The epitome of meta-theatre!" -London Theatre 1
★★★★ [Leaves you] wishing school history lessons had been as enthralling as this." - Theatre Weekly
★★★★ "An unorthodox delight." - London Pub Theatres
"In places it is knockabout funny, but it also seriously challenges attitudes around sexism and gender issues... and the picking, playing and singing are quite sublime." - Horror Hothouse
On Your Head Be It
A Cautionary Tale
All happy couples have a hobby, For Eleanor and Stuart, it’s homicide. But Eleanor’s been getting a bit carried away recently, and Stuart thinks they need some r&r. Cue rural Wales, surely nobody can get on their nerves here? Hilarity and horror inevitably ensue to overwhelm their romantic getaway when a local cabbie makes a wrong move, and Eleanor knows exactly how to take her revenge; and no, it isn’t a strongly worded email to the cab company. “On Your Head Be It” is a black comedy that delves into the depraved psyches of this young couple as their battle for dominance sees their relationship disintegrate.
All he wanted was a quiet weekend away, but someone forgot to pack the bin bags...
“the marriage of gallows humour and rom-com” - The Play’s the Thing
★★★★ “Precision acting, a sharp script and a deft plot” - Everything Theatre
★★★★ “Quite brilliant in a weird kind of way.” - Close Up Culture
666/666 “literally crackles with razor-sharp wit and highly charged emotion.” - Horror Hothouse
★★★★ “Genuine laugh-out-loud moments to enjoy in an unexpectedly bittersweet show.” - London Theatre 1