Our House
Writer
Theresa Rebeck
Director
Nicky Allpress
Location
The Linbury Theatre
Dates
Saturday 12 October at 7:15pm
Monday 14 October at 2:15pm
Tuesday 15 October at 7:15pm
Wednesday 16 October at 2:15pm*
Thursday 17 October at 7:15pm
*This will be a relaxed performance. Find out more.
The running time is 1 hour and 40 minutes.
About the show
Are news and entertainment interchangeable? A cocksure TV bigshot faced with dwindling ratings installs America's favorite news anchor as host of a popular reality show. Meanwhile, in Middle America, a houseful of roommates bickers over high-stakes real-world conflicts: Merv doesn't clean the bathroom. Someone ate Alice's yogurt. And the rent is long past due. When reality collides with reality TV, we find ourselves front and center in a drama that holds the nation riveted. Our House is a sharp comedy that takes on media-driven culture determined to spin even the most serious crises into sensational entertainment. It offers a darkly humorous critique of America's fixation on "reality" TV.
Nicky is a freelance director and dramaturg, working with writers in the development of new plays and musicals. She is a member of the Young Vic Creator’s Programme and Stage Directors UK.
Her directing credits include The Shape of Things (Park Theatre), Walworth Farce and Romeo & Juliet (Southwark Playhouse), Crackers (Polka Theatre), My Brilliant Friend (National Theatre as Staff Director assisting Melly Still), Restless(Terrifying Women), Moment of Grace (Tristan Bates), PROUD (New Wimbledon Theatre), Market Boy (Union Theatre), Mosquito (Seven Dials Theatre), Invisible Me (Bloomsbury Festival), Maddie (Arcola Outside), Tragedy in the Park (Site Specific outdoor Shakespeare), Circle Mirror Transformation and Pomona (Mountview) and Rabbit (Drama Centre London).
Nicky was also Assistant Director to Jessica Swale on the film Summerland.
Theresa Rebeck is an American playwright, television writer, and novelist. New York productions of her work include Dead Accounts at the Music Box Theatre; Seminar at the Golden Theatre; Mauritius at the Biltmore Theatre in a Manhattan Theater Club Production; The Scene, The Water's Edge, Loose Knit, The Family of Mann and Spike Heels at Second Stage; Bad Dates, The Butterfly Collection and Our House at Playwrights Horizons; The Understudy at the Laura Pels Theater in a Roundabout Theatre Company production; and View of the Dome at New York Theatre Workshop. Omnium Gatherum (co-written, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2003) was featured at the Humana Festival, and had a commercial run at the Variety Arts Theatre.
On television, Ms. Rebeck has written for Dream On, Brooklyn Bridge, L.A. Law, American Dreamer, Maximum Bob, First Wave, and Third Watch. She was the creator of the NBC drama Smash. She has been a writer/producer for Canterbury's Law, Smith, Law and Order:Criminal Intent and NYPD Blue. Her produced feature films include Harriet the Spy, Gossip, and the independent features Sunday on the Rocks and Seducing Charlie Barker, an adaptation of her play, The Scene. Among her awards are the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award. In 2012, she received the Athena Film Festival Award for Excellence as a Playwright and Author of Films, Books, and Television.
Contains intimacy, sex, gun violence, strong language, references to war and terrorism, death, references to mental health, use of sexual language, use of ableist language, Islamophobic comments, blood and exploitation.
This amateur production of “Our House (Rebeck)” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk
Creative Team
* LAMDA staff member or visiting artist
Director
Nicky Allpress*
Designer
Matilda Maguire*
Producer
Rebecca Lyle*
Costume Supervisor
Caitlyn Keaney*
Wardrobe Assistant
Daniella BG*
Voice Director
Megan Burns*
Lighting Designer & Production LX
Aidan Gibson
Sound Designer & Production Sound Engineer
Ronan McKenna
Fight Director
Sam Lyon-Behan*
Intimacy Director
Enric Ortuño*
Movement Director
Anna Alvarez*
Cast
Wes
Christian Arrubla
Stu
Darcy Bengt
Vince
Cameron Forrest
Alice
Ada Grey
Merv
J Howe
Grigsby
Rebecca Matundu Iloko
Jennifer
Selena Thompson
Production Team
* LAMDA staff member or visiting artist
Production Manager
James Knight
Stage Manager
Holly Higgs
Deputy Stage Manager
Ace Turner
Assistant Stage Manager
Chloe Wood
Deputy Prod LX
Camie Mackenzie
Production Carpenters
Alex Hoppe
Patrick McAneny