Something Underground Theatre Company present
The Last Lunch
It's Sunday lunch, and where the roast should be, there's a tofu wiener casserole instead.
Albert, a butcher, is mortified and questions his wife Jean who has put it on the table.
Why has she?
One of their twins, Mark, a vegan, and his opinionated vegan spiritual-midwife girlfriend Julie, are coming to lunch, and Albert takes it all very personally.
Twin sister Maddy, is on her way too, with 16yr old daughter, Hannah, who has an intense personal secret she needs to share.
Everyone is converging on Albert's house, including beef-farmer Pete, (father to Hannah's dreamy boyfriend, Andy), abattoir worker Dave, (and his set of large knives), Andy himself, Sam (Albert and Jean's youngest, just back from fighting in Afghanistan, and bearing frightful news) and the spirits of some of the animals that Dave, Pete and Albert have, between them, been instrumental in dispatching.
All is set for a monumental clash of beliefs, values, knives,… and hearts.
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Living on beef and dairy farms. one spends hours, listening to the animals, their cries and calls to each other, and to the wind and to the Gods.
In The Last Lunch, butchers and vegans find strange common ground, and common ancient knowledge, locked away in tombs buried for millennia
Now deeply hidden secrets must emerge, and new disturbing secret pacts must be made.
A blood blessing is required. To seal the family in, for ever.
The Last Lunch: '...think "The Archers",
Only with more vegans, more acid,.........oh.......and more ritual murder.'
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"The Last Lunch" (working title) is a new play now in its 6th draft with two rehearsed readings, to date, and one 10-minute Scratch performance at The Nightingale Theatre, Brighton, Sept 2010.
Performances of the full play, during the
24th -27th May, 7pm,
The Old Courtroom, Church Road, Brighton.
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Auditions are still open for the play, till late February. We currently still seek someone to play a 16 yr old boy, plus 3 other older men (inc: a farmer, a slaughter man). We also seek someone to be our Technical Operator throughout our 12 showings in May and June.
Please get in touch if you're interested to be involved either on or off stage
Something Underground Theatre Company are (so far):
Jonathan Brown,
Rose Dunne,
, Wendy Quelch,
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I am seeking support for this new play from local arts organisations and also those people and organisations whose work includes animal welfare.
If YOU would like to contribute, get in touch. We'll interview you (we can email you the questions) about your choice to become vegetarian / vegan, how your work reflects that choice, and what you've been up to lately.
...a chance to gently plug your latest passions and work.
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If you would like to make a financial contribution to the play, do get in touch, and I will furnish you with a "Wedding List" of our needs. I am aiming to launch it proper at a certain Fringe Festival you may know of, and this requires some resources to do so.
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More about The Last Lunch, and Interviews.