First London Run for ACE-Funded New Play By Rose Collis

• LocationLondon
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• ContactRose Collis rose.collis@outlook.com

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After four sell-out previews in Brighton, Arundel and Hove earlier this year, East Sussex writer and performer Rose Collis is taking her new one-woman play Wanting the Moonto the award-winning London venue Bread & Roses for six performances in September.
The Arts Council-funded play focuses on the remarkable life and career of Clemence Dane, eminent author, artist, playwright, journalist and Oscar-winning screenwriter.
Asked by her great friend Noel Coward to revive her acting career and play the famous role he once created for her: the eccentric medium ‘Madame Arcati’ in Blithe Spirit, she observes, ‘I have enough ghosts around me nowadays without playing someone who makes a living from conjuring them up…’
As she prepares to answer him, she reflects on their long personal and professional relationship − as well as memorable episodes from her chequered career, including penning the controversial early 20th century lesbian novel Regiment of Women, her war experiences, and her adventures in Hollywood with Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich… and The Marx Brothers. And, as she ‘summons up’ these ghosts from her past, she contemplates her own imminent future in the other world: ‘Perhaps I’ll come back and haunt you all. But I promise not to do it when Madame Arcati is summoning up the spirits.’

Wanting the Moon written and performed by Rose Collis, directed by Keith Drinkel.
September 18-20, 22-24 (no performance Sep 21), 7.30pm
Bread & Roses Theatre, 68 Clapham Manor, St, London SW4 6DZ. Nearest Tube: Clapham North. Tickets £10/£8. Bookable at: http://ift.tt/2bYsgPf

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First London Run for ACE-Funded New Play By Rose Collis