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FallOut Theatre is committed to the drama of aftermath, the beauty of chance, and the overwhelming energy of conflict: we like to see What Falls Out.

Formed in 2007, we concentrate on producing new work and innovative explorations of classics. We are currently working a new stage adaptation of Ian McEwan's The Cement Garden. Previously, we have produced Meat - a new play by our writer-in-residence Jimmy Osborne, which was staged at Theatre 503 in June 2012 - and the first full production of Torben Betts’ brutal critique of consumerist culture, Mummies and Daddies, as well as Personal Enemy by John Osborne and Antony Creighton – lost for over half a century by the Lord Chamberlain’s office who had censored its contents of all reference to homosexuality. Personal Enemy opened in London in June 2010, before transferring to the Brits Off Broadway Festival in New York, in November of the same year.

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NEWS

January 26-28th 2013
Devoted and Disgruntled 8
David Aula attended the 8th annual Open Space Theatre event hosted by Improbable Theatre Company. You can view David's reports at www.devotedanddisgruntled.com.

January 18-19th 2013
Maisie Says She Loves Me
David Aula performed Jimmy Osborne's first monologue at the Lincoln Performing Arts Centre, 18-19 January 2013, as part of the Newvolutions Festival

March 2012
MEAT Production Dates Announced
We're very pleased to announce that MEAT will open at Theatre 503, Battersea, in June 2012. More details about casting will be announced soon. Tickets can be booked via the Theatre 503 website.

UPCOMING PRODUCTIONS

Maisie Says She Loves Me

Written by Jimmy Osborne
Directed by Simon Evans
Performed by David Aula

18 January 2013, 8pm
19 January 2013, 7pm

Admission – Free

Lincoln Performing Arts Centre

"Maisie says she loves Sheldon, but he’s not sure. Sheldon worries. About lots of things. About Maisie. About his family. About himself."

A monologue about love and inheritance.

Developed in association with Newvolutions at the Lincoln Performing Arts Centre.

Running time - 20 minutes

PREVIOUS PRODUCTIONS

Meat
by Jimmy Osborne

5 - 30 June 2012

Theatre 503

"Sometimes I dont even remember being there. Wake up at the end of my shift. Only part of my brain working is the bit connected to the knife."

Vincent works in a meat processing factory. When the local lads erupt, things get out of hand and Vincent becomes a vigilante. As the violence from his workplace blazes through the streets, Vincent has to choose to fight for his town or for the woman who was once the love of his life.

"Multi-layered, provocative...David Aula’s production is well executed."

Exeunt Magazine

"..has the power to smack you in the face."

A Younger Theatre

"Meat asks questions, tackles issues in today's society and entertains in a way that stays with you after you have left the theatre."

Remote Goat

"[Osborne] has pertinent - and sometimes funny - things to say."

The Stage

Personal Enemy
by John Osborne

4 - 28 November 2010

Brits Off Broadway Festival

59E59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street
New York, NY 10022, USA

FallOut Theatre presents the World Premiere of John Osborne and Anthony Creighton's lost play, Personal Enemy. A vivid depiction of the political and sexual paranoia that gripped America in the 1950s, the play explores a time when the public enemy suddenly became a lot more personal.

Personal Enemy tells the story of the Constant family during the uncertainties of the Cold War and the witch-hunts of McCarthyism. Mrs Constant, a mother and pillar of the community, finds that even in the leafy suburbs of Langley Springs politics is never far away as her loyalty to her sons is tested by her allegiance to God and Country. This is a story of a family torn apart by a country's fear of itself.

Lost after a heavily censored performance in 1955, and only rediscovered last year, Personal Enemy has never before been performed in its entirety. Written several years before Look Back in Anger, Personal Enemy is a sharp interrogation of small-town thinking and the tyranny of familial love from the original angry young man. FallOut Theatre is proud to be bringing to life a work so significant to the Osborne story and an important chapter in post-war theatre.

★ ★ ★ ★

"a gripping piece"

"an extraordinary play"

"one hears the unmistakably excoriating voice of the later Osborne"

"David Aula's excellent production"

"impeccable performances"

"this is a sensational revival that deserves wider exposure"

Michael Billington in the Guardian. Read the review in full.

Originally performed at the White Bear Theatre, London, June-July 2010

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