For more information about the shows in the 2019 Sedos season, click through the links on the right. Find out where we perform on our Venues Map.
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AFTER THE DANCE | 9-13 Apr 2019
by TERENCE RATTIGAN
“It’s the bright young things over again, only they were never bright and now they’re not even young”
After the Dance by Terence Rattigan is a hilarious, heartbreaking and hauntingly beautiful play. Written as an attack on the hedonistic lifestyle of the ‘bright young things’ of the 1920s and 30s, the play's action takes place on the eve of the Second World War in the drawing-room of the Scott-Fowlers’ flat in Mayfair, a fashionable part of London.
Despite being a critical success when it premiered in 1938, the looming declaration of war meant it was quickly forgotten until a 2010 revival at the National Theatre brought it back to prominence.
HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS
WITHOUT REALLY TRYING | 15-25 MAY 2019
Book by ABE BURROWS, JACK WEINSTOCK, WILLIE GILBERT
Music and Lyrics by FRANK LOESSER
Based on How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying by SHEPHERD MEAD
How to Succeed is a witty, satirical show with an exhilarating musical score and a plethora of interesting and diverse characters. The story follows J Pierrepont Finch, a lowly window washer, who tries to use a little handbook called How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying to climb the corporate ladder and become a high-powered executive at World Wide Wickets - a cricket wicket company.
A SWELL PARTY | 10-14 June 2019 | Cornwall
Music and Lyrics by COLE PORTER
Written by JOHN KANE
Conceived by DAVID KERNAN
An elegant cabaret-style tribute to the life of Cole Porter, one of the greatest composers and lyricists of the 20th century. Through words and music, A Swell Party celebrates the vibrant image of sophistication and glamour that Cole represented for so long to so many people.
First staged at the West End's Vaudeville Theatre in 1991, A Swell Party celebrates the spirit of the songwriter through words and music and includes classic songs such as 'I Get A Kick Out of You', 'I've Got You Under My Skin', 'Brush Up Your Shakespeare' and 'Night and Day', from shows such as High Society, Kiss Me Kate and Anything Goes.
A Swell Party is Sedos' debut production at the Minack Theatre, Cornwall.
BOOK ONLINE VIA THE MINACK WEBSITE
Current Auditions...
Stiles & Drewe’s SOHO CINDERS
Music by George Stiles | Lyrics by Anthony Drewe
Book by Anthony Drewe and Elliot Davies
Robbie has a few problems. His mother has just died, without making a will, and the Old Compton Street laundrette she owned, "Sit & Spin", is under threat from his vulgar stepsisters as they attempt to hike up the rent.
If that wasn't enough, he loves one man while being paid to hang out with another!
James Prince also has problems. He’s running for mayor, but his campaign manager’s a lying schemer and his heart isn’t entirely with his devoted fiancée Marilyn.
When your only inheritance is an urn of ashes on the mantelpiece or if your secret romance becomes tabloid front page news, can love really conquer all?
From the laundrette which hears more confidences than it washes G-strings, to a dramatic political fundraiser where a mobile phone is lost as midnight strikes, Soho Cinders is a witty, heartwarming musical twist on the classic fairytale.
WORKSHOP | Thursday 21 March
AUDITIONS | Friday 12 – Sunday 14 April
RECALLS | Wednesday 17 April
DANGEROUS LIAISONS: AN ORIGINAL DANCE ADAPTATION
Devised movement piece based on the novel by PIERRE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS
It got a facelift in the 90s with Cruel Intentions and now Sedos brings a fresh new take on the classic story of seduction, betrayal and exploitation. Be transported to Hollywood where beauty is expected, abuses of power lurk under the shiny surface and the rivalry of two high-powered producers set in motion a story that will create stars and destroy lives. Told through dance, experience an original adaptation that brings Dangerous Liaisons crashing into the gender politics of 2019.
WORKSHOP | Tuesday 16 April
AUDITIONS | Friday 26 and Saturday 27 April
ARMS AND THE MAN
by BERNARD SHAW
Arms and the Man is one of Bernard Shaw’s most successful romantic comedies, and his first to be performed in New York. It’s an anti-war play set in the Balkans, and involves love interest and social climbing as well as characters being brought down a peg or two as a result of their actions. So it fits very well with the current zeitgeist as well as continuing, in a wryly comic way, to remind us of the futility and folly of war and of posing rather than being true to yourself.
WORKSHOP | Friday 3 May
AUDITIONS | Friday 10, Saturday 11 and Wednesday 15 May
RAGTIME
Book by TERRENCE MCNALLY
Music by STEPHEN FLAHERTY
Lyrics by LYNN AHRENS
Based on the novel RAGTIME
By E. L. Doctorow
At the dawn of a new century, everything is changing... and anything is possible. Set in the volatile melting pot of turn-of-the-century New York, three distinctly American tales are woven together – that of a stifled upper-class wife, a determined Jewish immigrant and a daring young Harlem musician – united by their courage, compassion and belief in the promise of the future. Together, they confront history's timeless contradictions of wealth and poverty, freedom and prejudice, hope and despair... and what it means to live in America.
WORKSHOP | Tuesday 25 June
AUDITIONS | Wednesday 24 July, Friday 26 July, Saturday 27 July
The full audition notice will be released in due course.
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