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Chair Woman (wip)
The Bread & Roses Theatre68 Clapham Manor Street, Clapham
Mon 14 Sept · 21:00 · £10
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The Defectors Presents Chair Woman (WIP) written by Harrison Cole, James Darby & Daniel Hemsley directed by James Darby Work in Progress performance of the brand new comedy conspiracy thriller from The Defectors, using their “tightly-choreographed, slickly-performed” style to take on an epic tale of fabrication, foul-play and fully functional furniture. Patsy Darning has tried to leave the intense world of upholstery pageantry behind her. But when she gets pulled back in for one last job (padding out a chair on the new Presidential spacecraft), she finds herself caught in a cover-up that goes all the way to the bottom... Can Patsy follow the threads of truth and prevent this cosmic catastrophe? Who can she trust now that she’s sitting on something this huge (a big chair)? From slapstick espionage to precarious political satire, Chair Woman pays homage to classic conspiracy thrillers and
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