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HOURGLASS: A SUFFRAGETTE'S STORY
Lady Caroline Braithwaite enters the suffrage movement blind to the pitfalls that lie ahead, with Cordelia, her daughter, following in her footsteps. The women tread a treacherous line in Edwardian England. A brand new play that will keep you on the edge of your seat!
PERFORMANCE DATES
THE SOHO POLY:
Tuesday 25 June, 7pm
Wednesday 26 June, 2pm & 7pm
ACTOR'S EAST THEATRE:
Friday 28 June 7.30pm
Saturday 29 June 2.30pm & 7.30pm
Sunday 3pm
WRITTEN BY
Amy Leigh-Matthews & Vikki Thompson
CAST
James Finn Stephen, Larissa Pinkham, Paul White, Penny Bosworth, Stephen Ball, Vikki Thompson
DIRECTOR
Amy Leigh-Matthews
SPECIAL THANK YOU
The Soho Poly: Thank you for supporting our first full length play and allowing us to be a part of you first festival.
ACTrophy Theatre: . Thank you for helping with rehearsal space and for the opportunity to present a rough reading of it to an audience.
Paddington Railway Working Men's Club: FB @Paddington Railway Working Mens Club. A hidden gem in London's Notting Hill. With a secret garden and a friendly welcoming. Thank for providing the rehearsal space & making our project possible.
OUR PARTNERS (Click here to visit our partners page for more information)
Women's Aid Luton
Herstorical Tours
Vikki Thompson
Vikki is an actor, writer, director, trained in the Meisner technique and dramatic improvisation. She was part of Lipstick Rebels Women Making Waves last year, in which she wrote and performed in Prosperina Redux, wrote and directed In Hitler's Bathtub and co-wrote and performed in The Servant Problem. In 2021 Vikki wrote, directed and performed in the short film A Special Place which won an IndieFest Award of Merit. More recently she has appeared in the award-winning webseries Retail is Hell and featured in The Phlebotomist, by Ella Road (South London Theatre) and in the radio play Any Evening. www.vikkithompsonactor.com/
James Stephen Finn
James Stephen Finn is an actor and musician, collaborating frequently with Band Of Holy Joy bandmate and playwright Johny Brown, performing in theatrical plays, radio plays and art performances.
Penny Bosworth
Penny trained at the Actors Temple, the Salon Collective & Identity Drama school. She has her own theatre company, The Muse Group Theatre Company where she has directed and written her own work. Theatre Credits: The Lost Lombi ( Rebel Soldier), Joe Orton's Last Laugh (Mavis), Frida The Colours (Frida kahlo), Mad Girl (Jitzuko), No Exit (Inez), Blue Beard (Prosecutor), The Seagull (Polina), Exit the King ( Juliette), The Mask Before The Plaque (Wench), In The Palm Of Your Hand (Mother), The Bald Prima Donna (Mrs Martin), Romeo & Juliette (Lady Capulet). Screen Credits: She's the One (Homeless Women), Clays Redemption (Hera), Cyber Bride (Chanel), A bird in Glass (Therapist), It's not Safe Outside (Neighbor), The Feeling (Siren)
Paul White
Paul decided to try his hand at acting whilst on a sabbatical and signed up for a course at the Poor School in King’s Cross. He was immediately hooked. He went on to study the Meisener technique and joined the Third Person Theatre improv group. He has a many short films and numerous plays. Paul’s recent roles include Pozzo (Waiting for Godot) Toby Belch (Twelfth Night)and most recently Robin in The Children (Lucy Kirkwood)
Stephen Ball
Stephen studied drama at the City Lit and theatre productions include; Keeping in Touch with Temptation Lion and Unicorn, Rabbit Barons Court, An Audience Investigates Hampstead Theatre, You Are the Detective Theatre Delicatessen, The Marriage of Bette and Boo Edinburgh Fringe and Battling Lewisham The London Theatre. He has worked extensively with Third Person Theatre Company and performances include Visions of Hell, Stories Within Stories and Outsider at The Bread and Roses. TV and film include The Skies of Arcadia, Kingmakers, A Day in May and Sleepwalking
Larissa Pinkham
Larissa is an actor, dancer & puppeteer, having performed at the 02 Arena for Capital FM's Jingle Bell Ball, Britan's Got Talent, The Queens Jubilee Parade BBC1, Stonehenge, La Merce Festival Barcelona and more.
TV & Film credits: 'Doc Martin' Season 10, 'Spotted Spines', 'Kevrenna' and 'Barbie'.
Dance Credits: 'London Makes It Possible' (site specific), 'Agent of Change' (Royal Opera House – Clore Studio), Ellie Goulding & Calvin Harris's Music video 'Miracle', 'The Gatsby Girls' at The Zedel - Piccadilly.
In 2016 she co founded Wonderbox Theatre Collective and toured their original show ‘A Womb of Ones Own’ across the UK. She was commissioned by Kneehigh Theatre company to create ‘The Cornish Anarchy Mobile’, for their final project 'Random Acts of Art' in 2021. In February 2022 she received further funding to continue performing it across rural towns in Cornwall.
TV & Film credits: 'Doc Martin' Season 10, 'Spotted Spines', 'Kevrenna' and 'Barbie'.
Dance Credits: 'London Makes It Possible' (site specific), 'Agent of Change' (Royal Opera House – Clore Studio), Ellie Goulding & Calvin Harris's Music video 'Miracle', 'The Gatsby Girls' at The Zedel - Piccadilly.
In 2016 she co founded Wonderbox Theatre Collective and toured their original show ‘A Womb of Ones Own’ across the UK. She was commissioned by Kneehigh Theatre company to create ‘The Cornish Anarchy Mobile’, for their final project 'Random Acts of Art' in 2021. In February 2022 she received further funding to continue performing it across rural towns in Cornwall.
Vikki Thompson
Vikki is an actor, writer, director, trained in the Meisner technique and dramatic improvisation. She was part of Lipstick Rebels Women Making Waves last year, in which she wrote and performed in Prosperina Redux, wrote and directed In Hitler's Bathtub and co-wrote and performed in The Servant Problem. In 2021 Vikki wrote, directed and performed in the short film A Special Place which won an IndieFest Award of Merit. More recently she has appeared in the award-winning webseries Retail is Hell and featured in The Phlebotomist, by Ella Road (South London Theatre) and in the radio play Any Evening. www.vikkithompsonactor.com/
James Stephen Finn
James Stephen Finn is an actor and musician, collaborating frequently with Band Of Holy Joy bandmate and playwright Johny Brown, performing in theatrical plays, radio plays and art performances.
Penny Bosworth
Penny trained at the Actors Temple, the Salon Collective & Identity Drama school. She has her own theatre company, The Muse Group Theatre Company where she has directed and written her own work. Theatre Credits: The Lost Lombi ( Rebel Soldier), Joe Orton's Last Laugh (Mavis), Frida The Colours (Frida kahlo), Mad Girl (Jitzuko), No Exit (Inez), Blue Beard (Prosecutor), The Seagull (Polina), Exit the King ( Juliette), The Mask Before The Plaque (Wench), In The Palm Of Your Hand (Mother), The Bald Prima Donna (Mrs Martin), Romeo & Juliette (Lady Capulet). Screen Credits: She's the One (Homeless Women), Clays Redemption (Hera), Cyber Bride (Chanel), A bird in Glass (Therapist), It's not Safe Outside (Neighbor), The Feeling (Siren)
Paul White
Paul decided to try his hand at acting whilst on a sabbatical and signed up for a course at the Poor School in King’s Cross. He was immediately hooked. He went on to study the Meisener technique and joined the Third Person Theatre improv group. He has a many short films and numerous plays. Paul’s recent roles include Pozzo (Waiting for Godot) Toby Belch (Twelfth Night)and most recently Robin in The Children (Lucy Kirkwood)
Stephen Ball
Stephen studied drama at the City Lit and theatre productions include; Keeping in Touch with Temptation Lion and Unicorn, Rabbit Barons Court, An Audience Investigates Hampstead Theatre, You Are the Detective Theatre Delicatessen, The Marriage of Bette and Boo Edinburgh Fringe and Battling Lewisham The London Theatre. He has worked extensively with Third Person Theatre Company and performances include Visions of Hell, Stories Within Stories and Outsider at The Bread and Roses. TV and film include The Skies of Arcadia, Kingmakers, A Day in May and Sleepwalking
Larissa Pinkham
Larissa is an actor, dancer & puppeteer, having performed at the 02 Arena for Capital FM's Jingle Bell Ball, Britan's Got Talent, The Queens Jubilee Parade BBC1, Stonehenge, La Merce Festival Barcelona and more.
TV & Film credits: 'Doc Martin' Season 10, 'Spotted Spines', 'Kevrenna' and 'Barbie'.
Dance Credits: 'London Makes It Possible' (site specific), 'Agent of Change' (Royal Opera House – Clore Studio), Ellie Goulding & Calvin Harris's Music video 'Miracle', 'The Gatsby Girls' at The Zedel - Piccadilly.
In 2016 she co founded Wonderbox Theatre Collective and toured their original show ‘A Womb of Ones Own’ across the UK. She was commissioned by Kneehigh Theatre company to create ‘The Cornish Anarchy Mobile’, for their final project 'Random Acts of Art' in 2021. In February 2022 she received further funding to continue performing it across rural towns in Cornwall.
TV & Film credits: 'Doc Martin' Season 10, 'Spotted Spines', 'Kevrenna' and 'Barbie'.
Dance Credits: 'London Makes It Possible' (site specific), 'Agent of Change' (Royal Opera House – Clore Studio), Ellie Goulding & Calvin Harris's Music video 'Miracle', 'The Gatsby Girls' at The Zedel - Piccadilly.
In 2016 she co founded Wonderbox Theatre Collective and toured their original show ‘A Womb of Ones Own’ across the UK. She was commissioned by Kneehigh Theatre company to create ‘The Cornish Anarchy Mobile’, for their final project 'Random Acts of Art' in 2021. In February 2022 she received further funding to continue performing it across rural towns in Cornwall.
Vikki Thompson
Vikki is an actor, writer, director, trained in the Meisner technique and dramatic improvisation. She was part of Lipstick Rebels Women Making Waves last year, in which she wrote and performed in Prosperina Redux, wrote and directed In Hitler's Bathtub and co-wrote and performed in The Servant Problem. In 2021 Vikki wrote, directed and performed in the short film A Special Place which won an IndieFest Award of Merit. More recently she has appeared in the award-winning webseries Retail is Hell and featured in The Phlebotomist, by Ella Road (South London Theatre) and in the radio play Any Evening. www.vikkithompsonactor.com/
James Stephen Finn
James Stephen Finn is an actor and musician, collaborating frequently with Band Of Holy Joy bandmate and playwright Johny Brown, performing in theatrical plays, radio plays and art performances.
Penny Bosworth
Penny trained at the Actors Temple, the Salon Collective & Identity Drama school. She has her own theatre company, The Muse Group Theatre Company where she has directed and written her own work. Theatre Credits: The Lost Lombi ( Rebel Soldier), Joe Orton's Last Laugh (Mavis), Frida The Colours (Frida kahlo), Mad Girl (Jitzuko), No Exit (Inez), Blue Beard (Prosecutor), The Seagull (Polina), Exit the King ( Juliette), The Mask Before The Plaque (Wench), In The Palm Of Your Hand (Mother), The Bald Prima Donna (Mrs Martin), Romeo & Juliette (Lady Capulet). Screen Credits: She's the One (Homeless Women), Clays Redemption (Hera), Cyber Bride (Chanel), A bird in Glass (Therapist), It's not Safe Outside (Neighbor), The Feeling (Siren)
Paul White
Paul decided to try his hand at acting whilst on a sabbatical and signed up for a course at the Poor School in King’s Cross. He was immediately hooked. He went on to study the Meisener technique and joined the Third Person Theatre improv group. He has a many short films and numerous plays. Paul’s recent roles include Pozzo (Waiting for Godot) Toby Belch (Twelfth Night)and most recently Robin in The Children (Lucy Kirkwood)
Stephen Ball
Stephen studied drama at the City Lit and theatre productions include; Keeping in Touch with Temptation Lion and Unicorn, Rabbit Barons Court, An Audience Investigates Hampstead Theatre, You Are the Detective Theatre Delicatessen, The Marriage of Bette and Boo Edinburgh Fringe and Battling Lewisham The London Theatre. He has worked extensively with Third Person Theatre Company and performances include Visions of Hell, Stories Within Stories and Outsider at The Bread and Roses. TV and film include The Skies of Arcadia, Kingmakers, A Day in May and Sleepwalking
Larissa Pinkham
Larissa is an actor, dancer & puppeteer, having performed at the 02 Arena for Capital FM's Jingle Bell Ball, Britan's Got Talent, The Queens Jubilee Parade BBC1, Stonehenge, La Merce Festival Barcelona and more.
TV & Film credits: 'Doc Martin' Season 10, 'Spotted Spines', 'Kevrenna' and 'Barbie'.
Dance Credits: 'London Makes It Possible' (site specific), 'Agent of Change' (Royal Opera House – Clore Studio), Ellie Goulding & Calvin Harris's Music video 'Miracle', 'The Gatsby Girls' at The Zedel - Piccadilly.
In 2016 she co founded Wonderbox Theatre Collective and toured their original show ‘A Womb of Ones Own’ across the UK. She was commissioned by Kneehigh Theatre company to create ‘The Cornish Anarchy Mobile’, for their final project 'Random Acts of Art' in 2021. In February 2022 she received further funding to continue performing it across rural towns in Cornwall.
TV & Film credits: 'Doc Martin' Season 10, 'Spotted Spines', 'Kevrenna' and 'Barbie'.
Dance Credits: 'London Makes It Possible' (site specific), 'Agent of Change' (Royal Opera House – Clore Studio), Ellie Goulding & Calvin Harris's Music video 'Miracle', 'The Gatsby Girls' at The Zedel - Piccadilly.
In 2016 she co founded Wonderbox Theatre Collective and toured their original show ‘A Womb of Ones Own’ across the UK. She was commissioned by Kneehigh Theatre company to create ‘The Cornish Anarchy Mobile’, for their final project 'Random Acts of Art' in 2021. In February 2022 she received further funding to continue performing it across rural towns in Cornwall.
Vikki Thompson
Vikki is an actor, writer, director, trained in the Meisner technique and dramatic improvisation. She was part of Lipstick Rebels Women Making Waves last year, in which she wrote and performed in Prosperina Redux, wrote and directed In Hitler's Bathtub and co-wrote and performed in The Servant Problem. In 2021 Vikki wrote, directed and performed in the short film A Special Place which won an IndieFest Award of Merit. More recently she has appeared in the award-winning webseries Retail is Hell and featured in The Phlebotomist, by Ella Road (South London Theatre) and in the radio play Any Evening. www.vikkithompsonactor.com/
James Stephen Finn
James Stephen Finn is an actor and musician, collaborating frequently with Band Of Holy Joy bandmate and playwright Johny Brown, performing in theatrical plays, radio plays and art performances.
Penny Bosworth
Penny trained at the Actors Temple, the Salon Collective & Identity Drama school. She has her own theatre company, The Muse Group Theatre Company where she has directed and written her own work. Theatre Credits: The Lost Lombi ( Rebel Soldier), Joe Orton's Last Laugh (Mavis), Frida The Colours (Frida kahlo), Mad Girl (Jitzuko), No Exit (Inez), Blue Beard (Prosecutor), The Seagull (Polina), Exit the King ( Juliette), The Mask Before The Plaque (Wench), In The Palm Of Your Hand (Mother), The Bald Prima Donna (Mrs Martin), Romeo & Juliette (Lady Capulet). Screen Credits: She's the One (Homeless Women), Clays Redemption (Hera), Cyber Bride (Chanel), A bird in Glass (Therapist), It's not Safe Outside (Neighbor), The Feeling (Siren)
Paul White
Paul decided to try his hand at acting whilst on a sabbatical and signed up for a course at the Poor School in King’s Cross. He was immediately hooked. He went on to study the Meisener technique and joined the Third Person Theatre improv group. He has a many short films and numerous plays. Paul’s recent roles include Pozzo (Waiting for Godot) Toby Belch (Twelfth Night)and most recently Robin in The Children (Lucy Kirkwood)
Stephen Ball
Stephen studied drama at the City Lit and theatre productions include; Keeping in Touch with Temptation Lion and Unicorn, Rabbit Barons Court, An Audience Investigates Hampstead Theatre, You Are the Detective Theatre Delicatessen, The Marriage of Bette and Boo Edinburgh Fringe and Battling Lewisham The London Theatre. He has worked extensively with Third Person Theatre Company and performances include Visions of Hell, Stories Within Stories and Outsider at The Bread and Roses. TV and film include The Skies of Arcadia, Kingmakers, A Day in May and Sleepwalking
Larissa Pinkham
Larissa is an actor, dancer & puppeteer, having performed at the 02 Arena for Capital FM's Jingle Bell Ball, Britan's Got Talent, The Queens Jubilee Parade BBC1, Stonehenge, La Merce Festival Barcelona and more.
TV & Film credits: 'Doc Martin' Season 10, 'Spotted Spines', 'Kevrenna' and 'Barbie'.
Dance Credits: 'London Makes It Possible' (site specific), 'Agent of Change' (Royal Opera House – Clore Studio), Ellie Goulding & Calvin Harris's Music video 'Miracle', 'The Gatsby Girls' at The Zedel - Piccadilly.
In 2016 she co founded Wonderbox Theatre Collective and toured their original show ‘A Womb of Ones Own’ across the UK. She was commissioned by Kneehigh Theatre company to create ‘The Cornish Anarchy Mobile’, for their final project 'Random Acts of Art' in 2021. In February 2022 she received further funding to continue performing it across rural towns in Cornwall.
TV & Film credits: 'Doc Martin' Season 10, 'Spotted Spines', 'Kevrenna' and 'Barbie'.
Dance Credits: 'London Makes It Possible' (site specific), 'Agent of Change' (Royal Opera House – Clore Studio), Ellie Goulding & Calvin Harris's Music video 'Miracle', 'The Gatsby Girls' at The Zedel - Piccadilly.
In 2016 she co founded Wonderbox Theatre Collective and toured their original show ‘A Womb of Ones Own’ across the UK. She was commissioned by Kneehigh Theatre company to create ‘The Cornish Anarchy Mobile’, for their final project 'Random Acts of Art' in 2021. In February 2022 she received further funding to continue performing it across rural towns in Cornwall.
Vikki Thompson
Vikki is an actor, writer, director, trained in the Meisner technique and dramatic improvisation. She was part of Lipstick Rebels Women Making Waves last year, in which she wrote and performed in Prosperina Redux, wrote and directed In Hitler's Bathtub and co-wrote and performed in The Servant Problem. In 2021 Vikki wrote, directed and performed in the short film A Special Place which won an IndieFest Award of Merit. More recently she has appeared in the award-winning webseries Retail is Hell and featured in The Phlebotomist, by Ella Road (South London Theatre) and in the radio play Any Evening. www.vikkithompsonactor.com/
James Stephen Finn
James Stephen Finn is an actor and musician, collaborating frequently with Band Of Holy Joy bandmate and playwright Johny Brown, performing in theatrical plays, radio plays and art performances.
Penny Bosworth
Penny trained at the Actors Temple, the Salon Collective & Identity Drama school. She has her own theatre company, The Muse Group Theatre Company where she has directed and written her own work. Theatre Credits: The Lost Lombi ( Rebel Soldier), Joe Orton's Last Laugh (Mavis), Frida The Colours (Frida kahlo), Mad Girl (Jitzuko), No Exit (Inez), Blue Beard (Prosecutor), The Seagull (Polina), Exit the King ( Juliette), The Mask Before The Plaque (Wench), In The Palm Of Your Hand (Mother), The Bald Prima Donna (Mrs Martin), Romeo & Juliette (Lady Capulet). Screen Credits: She's the One (Homeless Women), Clays Redemption (Hera), Cyber Bride (Chanel), A bird in Glass (Therapist), It's not Safe Outside (Neighbor), The Feeling (Siren)
Paul White
Paul decided to try his hand at acting whilst on a sabbatical and signed up for a course at the Poor School in King’s Cross. He was immediately hooked. He went on to study the Meisener technique and joined the Third Person Theatre improv group. He has a many short films and numerous plays. Paul’s recent roles include Pozzo (Waiting for Godot) Toby Belch (Twelfth Night)and most recently Robin in The Children (Lucy Kirkwood)
Stephen Ball
Stephen studied drama at the City Lit and theatre productions include; Keeping in Touch with Temptation Lion and Unicorn, Rabbit Barons Court, An Audience Investigates Hampstead Theatre, You Are the Detective Theatre Delicatessen, The Marriage of Bette and Boo Edinburgh Fringe and Battling Lewisham The London Theatre. He has worked extensively with Third Person Theatre Company and performances include Visions of Hell, Stories Within Stories and Outsider at The Bread and Roses. TV and film include The Skies of Arcadia, Kingmakers, A Day in May and Sleepwalking
Larissa Pinkham
Larissa is an actor, dancer & puppeteer, having performed at the 02 Arena for Capital FM's Jingle Bell Ball, Britan's Got Talent, The Queens Jubilee Parade BBC1, Stonehenge, La Merce Festival Barcelona and more.
TV & Film credits: 'Doc Martin' Season 10, 'Spotted Spines', 'Kevrenna' and 'Barbie'.
Dance Credits: 'London Makes It Possible' (site specific), 'Agent of Change' (Royal Opera House – Clore Studio), Ellie Goulding & Calvin Harris's Music video 'Miracle', 'The Gatsby Girls' at The Zedel - Piccadilly.
In 2016 she co founded Wonderbox Theatre Collective and toured their original show ‘A Womb of Ones Own’ across the UK. She was commissioned by Kneehigh Theatre company to create ‘The Cornish Anarchy Mobile’, for their final project 'Random Acts of Art' in 2021. In February 2022 she received further funding to continue performing it across rural towns in Cornwall.
TV & Film credits: 'Doc Martin' Season 10, 'Spotted Spines', 'Kevrenna' and 'Barbie'.
Dance Credits: 'London Makes It Possible' (site specific), 'Agent of Change' (Royal Opera House – Clore Studio), Ellie Goulding & Calvin Harris's Music video 'Miracle', 'The Gatsby Girls' at The Zedel - Piccadilly.
In 2016 she co founded Wonderbox Theatre Collective and toured their original show ‘A Womb of Ones Own’ across the UK. She was commissioned by Kneehigh Theatre company to create ‘The Cornish Anarchy Mobile’, for their final project 'Random Acts of Art' in 2021. In February 2022 she received further funding to continue performing it across rural towns in Cornwall.
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