RedTIEtheatre

IMMACULATE by Oliver Lansley

2011-02-15T13:39:00.000-08:00

Quay Arts March 2nd and 3rd 8pm doors/bar open from 7pm

£7 (students £5)

Directed by Eve Cardew & Helen Reading

With Imogen Evans, Hebe Gregory, Sam Robertson, Bill Holland, Lewis Wheeler & Ben Curtis

You're young, free and single and haven't had sex for the last eleven and a half months, then one morning you wake up pregnant and to make matters worse the Angel Gabriel is on your doorstep claiming parentage!

Hilarious, rude, irreverent and unique.

Contains strong language throughout – advised 16+

Coming soon ..... RedTIE 2011 @ Quay Arts

2010-10-25T14:23:00.000-07:00

Iron by Rona Munro

January 19th & 20th 8pm

£7 (£5 students) Box office: 822490

Faye is coming to terms with the arrival of her daughter whom she has not seen since she was imprisoned for a horrific murder. Her daughter, Josie, has no memory of the first 11 years of her life. Faye helps her recollect her past and her relationship with her father - a lovely man who pushed things too far, with fatal consequences.

Directed by Helen Reading

Starring Fiona Gwinnett and Marie Hickman.

2010-08-16T14:23:00.001-07:00

Coming soon - Mother Courage

2010-08-16T14:07:00.000-07:00

2010-04-13T11:09:00.000-07:00

Feedback from The Goat

STAGE REVIEW: ARE there no limits to the talents of Helen Reading and her innovative RedTIE Theatre company? Having walked off with an armful of awards at the last County Press theatre awards for her work on and off stage with RedTIE, Helen last week directed one of the most powerful pieces of drama ever staged on the Island.The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, by Edward Albee, is an explosive black comedy about a long-married couple whose lives fall apart when the husband falls in love... with a goat called Sylvia.Like a rollercoaster, the play grips you and shakes you to the core. You stumble out of the theatre afterwards, your mind racing with broken taboos, existential questions and profound revelations about life, love and the universe.The script is crammed with hard-hitting one-liners: "Nothing means anything." "Things happen." "I don't know if there are any rules..." "Kill her? I think I might as well."The performances, by Terrie Burland (Stevie), Phil Burland (Martin), Steve Reading begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting (as family friend, Ross) and Ben Curtis (the couple’s son, Billy) were exceptional — courageous, polished, breath-taking. As good as it gets.This was certainly not entertainment for the faint-hearted. Plates were smashed by the dozen, profanities came thick and fast.RedTIE theatre is known for tackling daunting plays about pithy issues — murder and forgiveness, domestic abuse, learning difficulties, to name a few. But after The Goat, are there any taboos left to challenge?

Hi Helen.
Just a line to say how much we enjoyed this production. As you said, it's a well written play that treads in areas that are difficult to engage with at the best of times. I think the acting was really accomplished and delivered with a natural fluid pace. Personally, I don't particularly like to hear too much gratuitus bad language but it was entirely appropriate within this piece. We really appreciated the way that one was taken from real comedy to serious issues within the blink of an eye!It would obviously not be everyone's cup of tea (I noticed that John Hannam left at the interval) but it would have certainly demonstrated to those who missed it, how this kind of production should be accomplished. Congratulations to you and the cast.

2010-03-29T08:42:00.000-07:00

On 26th March at Cowes Yacht Haven RedTIE theatre performed "What Are You Waiting For?" a piece devised and scripted by Rosie Rae and young people she has been working with. The piece highlighted the plight of children in situations where they rely on the intervention of adults to save them from harm or neglect, and aimed to encourage concerned adults to act, rather than wait for someone else to take charge.
This is the feedback from the event.

Dear Helen and all the Red Tie players!!

Where do I start to tell you how fabulous you all were on Friday. I wrote that piece as you know, on the back of the input from some locals teenagers who had been involved with services, then watched you rehearse is and so to be honest I thought I had become pretty hardened to the impact. How wrong could I be…. It was so beautifully performed and so very real that I was hugely moved by the acting and presentation – you were all awesome, some of the very subtle intonations and body language made such an impact and so WOW is all I can say!! Thank you!!

The feedback from the floor? Here are some examples;
Hugely moving, powerful.
Those Young people said all that needed to be said – amazing impact!
This brought it all home to me, I wont wait before acting
I could see children I have taught in school in those young actors
Thank you for reminding me what matters!
I have nothing left to say that could sum up what they said.

And more of the same… on every evaluation sheet!!

So please pass on out thanks to your brilliant talented group of actors, I know you are going to be flooded with requests at other events and we would absolutely love to work with you again (so save a space for me!!)
There is still the likelihood that we will look to turn our piece into a DVD so will be in touch.

Lets catch up soon as we agreed!
My huge thanks again
Rosie

2010-03-07T16:41:00.000-08:00

The Goat or Who is Sylvia by Edward Albee

2010-03-04T08:00:00.000-08:00

RedTIEtheatre's next production is The Goat by Edward Albee.

March 25th, 31st and April 1st at 8pm. Quay Arts Theatre, Newport. Tickets £7 Doors open 7pm

Cast: Phil Burland as Martin, Terrie Burland as Stevie, Ben Curtis as Billy and Steve Reading as Ross.
Directed by Helen Reading

Albee's most shocking play about a "happily married" couple whose lives are destroyed by a very strange affair.

Darkly comic, witty and thought provoking, this play will make you laugh, cringe and, most importantly, think about how and why we set the rules on moral behaviour.

This play contains strong language and deals with adult themes. Recommended age: 16+

RedTIE Prepare for 2010 Production.

2010-01-17T15:16:00.000-08:00

The RedTIE kids started their new term on Saturday (16th) - delayed for a week due to the snow. We started working on the devised pieces for our February performances (16th and 17th at Quay Arts - tickets £6 available from Quay Box Office 822490).

The RedTIE adults started rehearsals this weekend for our production in March - details to folow soon - watch this space!!!!!!!

SNOW

2010-01-08T06:27:00.000-08:00

There will be NO REDTIE workshop tomorrow (9th Jan) but we will see you all on the 16th next week. Happy snowballing!!!!!!!!

2010-01-06T18:23:00.000-08:00

RedTIE new term starts Saturday Jan 9th at Nodehill Middle School. 13-19 years 10 am -12. 9-13 years 1-3pm. Access is from the rear entrance of the building in Orchard st (with the Lord Louis Library on your left).

Productions in Feb 1/2 term:
Younger group "Lesson Objective" 16th Feb Quay Arts 4pm and 7pm. Suitable for all ages.
Older group "Unclaimed Baggage" 17th Feb Quay Arts 4pm and 7pm. Suitable for 12+.

Students should be at Quay Arts on day of performance at 10 am - bring packed lunch and tea.
Rehearsal on Monday 15th Feb: younger group 1-3pm Older group 3-5pm
Tickets £6 available from Quay Arts box office 01983 822490

2009-12-11T04:53:00.000-08:00

New Term at RedTIE

2009-12-11T04:45:00.000-08:00

Both RedTIE workshops start again on Saturday 9th January at Nodehill Middle School. 13-19 yrs 10am - 12 and 9-13 yrs 1-3pm. £40 for a 10 week term with performances at The Quay Arts Centre during the February 1/2 term week.
Have a fabulous Christmas all of you - and thanks for working so hard this term.

Anti-bullying Performance - STOP campaign

2009-11-20T10:37:00.000-08:00

I can't tell you how proud I am of the students who took part. 100 awards wouldn't make me feel as good about what we do at RedTIE as this!!!

We have had really good feedback from teachers and students about the performance - both its content and the way in which it was delivered.

RedTIE theatre were recently commisioned by Steve Hoyle, Commissioning Manager for Behaviour, Attendance and SEAL (Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning) to put together an Anti-bullying performance for a teachers' conference at the end of October this year.

10 RedTIE theatre students took part in the production which was extremely well received. Since then, we have performed the 15 minute piece to all the students at Bishop Lovett, Lake and Osborne Middle schools as part of their Anti-bullying week (this week - 16th-20th Nov).

Lake Middle school students also took part in 2 days of follow-up workshops led by Helen Reading of RedTIEtheatre. The workshops are designed to encourage discussion about bullying and for students to create their own drama to show how they feel about the subject and how it could be tackled in schools.

The script for the performance was put together by Helen but all the stories and every word used came from real life experiences of victims, perpetrators and witnesses of bullying on the Island.

"Please pass on my thanks to your actors - I think they were brilliant and coped really well with some interesting and difficult reactions from their audience and thank you also for another set of excellent workshops. The pupils got a lot out of it." Samantha Aukhauj - Lake Middle School.

RedTIE Reap Rewards.

2009-11-11T08:59:00.000-08:00

Some of RedTIEtheatre's achievements were recognised and celebrated at the County Press Island Theatre Awards evening on Tuesday 10th November. The late, great and hugely adored Kevin Mitchell won an award for Best Male Lead in The Filibuster. Helen Reading won the Best Female Lead for the same play.

Joe Plumb, aged 18, won Best Director for Five Kinds of Silence and Hazel Wyld won Best Play for The Filibuster.

The highlight of the evening was the award for Services to Island Theatre - presented to Helen and Steve Reading for their work, not only with RedTIE, but with the Apollo and, many years ago, local pantomimes for charity.

Anti-bullying Performance

2009-10-26T09:11:00.000-07:00

12 RedTIEtheatre students performed a new anti-bullying piece at the SEAL conference at Sandown High School on 23rd October. The piece was designed to show teachers how bullying effects students and gave some insights into the feelings of bullies, their victims and highlighted the dangers of not dealing with this issue in schools.
The students gave a thought-provoking, focused and creative performance, bringing tears to the eyes of many in the audience. Andrew Butcher, Ellie Swan and Charlotte Bell played the victims to perfection, revealing the agony, anger and isolation felt by many of our children on a daily basis. Many teachers present asked for the piece to be taken to their schools.

Saturday Workshops

2009-10-12T11:35:00.000-07:00

The Saturday workshops at Nodehill Middle School have been varied and exciting so far this term. A change of venue has given us more space to work in - not to mention the extra running around space for some of our more energetic drama games! We started the term with the usual "back to basics" skills - amazing how some actors forget all about posture and focus after an 8 week break! But everyone is well and truly on form, having worked on posture, gesture, physical theatre, vocal skills, accents and the devising process. Joe Ashworth and Bill Holland gave us plenty to laugh about with their "inept pilots" sketch, while Marie Hickman and friends brought us close to tears with their devised piece last Saturday. In the younger group we can really see how confident some students have become over the past few weeks, with devised pieces that showed great maturity and creativity. Now we will start to work towards 2 devised performances for around Feb/March 2010 - subject matter to be revealed at a later date.....Watch this space!

County Press Review

2009-09-18T06:09:00.001-07:00

Show brought tears to eyes
By Sue Lupton - Friday, September 18, 2009

EXTRAORDINARY Island talent was on show at Quay Arts’ Anthony Minghella Theatre last week.RedTIE Theatre’s performance of The Long Road was a powerful, harrowing piece of drama that brought tears to the eyes of more than one member of the audience.Shelagh Stephenson’s script deals with a family’s grief following the fatal stabbing of 18-year-old Danny. The director was Joe Plumb, one of several brilliant youngsters involved in the performance.The RedTIE group runs workshops for young people, encouraging creativity and self-expression through drama. With its productions, it aims to raise awareness of social issues.One of the organisations backed by RedTIE is Help2Grieve, a new group to help bereaved children and families.With knife crime constantly in the news, The Long Road takes a long, hard look at how it affects those left behind.Helen Reading, RedTIE group leader, was utterly convincing as Mary, Danny’s devastated mother, who is driven to try and understand why her son was killed by a young stranger.Her real-life husband, Steve, gave an equally strong performance as Danny’s father, John, who tries to deal with the loss by running and drinking.Danny’s brother, Joe, was played by Henry Vince, a former Carisbrooke High student, now studying drama at Exeter University. He had witnessed the murder, which he recounted in an incredibly moving monologue at the opening of the play.The killer, Emma, a damaged, drug-taking teenager, had stabbed Danny late at night, when he refused to give her money.Superbly portrayed by Katy Rawlinson, a Carisbrooke High student, Emma is cocky, gobby, foul-mouthed and slightly pathetic. A prison therapist, Elizabeth (Maria Wilkinson), arranged for Mary to visit Emma in prison and, though her first visit was a disaster, a turning point came when Emma admitted she did not mean to kill Danny and she did not read Mary’s letters because she was illiterate.Although Mary and Joe cannot forgive her, they start teaching her to read.By the end, the family is on its way to recovery and Emma is starting to turn her life around.

Review of The Long Road by Sue Lupton of the County Press

2009-09-18T03:08:00.000-07:00

"Extraordinary Island talent was on show at The Quay Arts' Minghella Theatre last week.RedTIE Theatre's performance of The Long Road was a powerful harrowing piece of drama that brought tears to the eyesof more than one member of the audience.The director was Joe Plumb, one of several brilliant youngsters involved in the performance ....."

See this weeks County Press for the full review.
Also: RedTIEtheatre has been nominated for 10 County Press awards for Five Kinds of Silence, The Filibuster, Bedroom Farce and The Dumb Waiter. We feel honoured!!

RedTIE youth Workshops

2009-09-16T02:27:00.000-07:00

The new term starts on Saturday 19th September at Nodehill Middle School.
Work starts on the SEAL project piece for October and a performance for Lake Middle School's Anti-bullying week.

More audience feedback for The Long Road

2009-09-16T02:25:00.000-07:00

" ......it really was brilliant. I wish more of the kids could have seen it as it had a really had a powerful effect on the ones that did. I think it was everything live theatre should be - you should be really proud of yourselves, Red Tie just keeps getting better!"

2009-09-10T17:42:00.000-07:00

Feedback from The Long Road audience:

It was evident right from the start just how powerful the interraction between the family members was, and was played to absolute perfection, with the rawness and jaggedness of every emotion vividly portrayed. It felt at times like I was intruding on something intensely personal, almost as though I shouldn't be there. The more I saw and heard, the more intrigued I became.
Congratulations on another triumph.
I just wanted to tell you I thought the long road was ******* excellent. Such a strong cast and all played out with real poignancy. I haven't seen something so good in years. I hope you're all really pleased with how it went, you should be.

2009-09-09T16:59:00.000-07:00

RedTIEtheatre have just finished The Long Road. If you didn't see it you missed a treat. The new term for the RedTIE students is starting on 19th September at Nodehill Middle school and all the places have been taken. If you want to put your name on the waiting list then please contact Helen on 0771 205 0920.
The Press review for the last production will be in next week's County Press weekender.
Watch this space for news of our next production and adult workshops.

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2009-08-21T17:51:00.000-07:00

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2009-08-21T17:50:00.000-07:00

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2009-08-21T17:30:00.000-07:00

RedTIE ran 2 successful and exciting Summer Schools at the Quay Arts Centre during August. One week for 8-12 years, and one week for 13-18 years. We have just finished our run of Bedroom Farce - with the last night selling out completely.

Rehearsals are well under way for The Long Road - by Shelagh Stephenson - a moving play about a family coming to terms with the murder of their son. It challenges accepted views and prejudices about young offenders, and gives an insight into how people deal with grief and forgiveness.
Starring: Henry Vince, Katie Rawlinson, Maria Wilkinson, Steve and Helen Reading.
Tues 8th and Weds 9th September. 8pm Quay Arts Centre £6 call 01983 822490
Contains strong language 15+ only.