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Bernadette Russell

BERNADETTE RUSSELL

  
Nationality:    British
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below is a list of Bernadette Russell's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         366 Days Of Kindness         Dead Funny         Film Club (Baby Jane): People Show 113         Home Of the Wriggler         Lost Property Office, The         Missionary's Position, The         Penny Dreadful's Etherdome         Play Dead (People Show 115)         Wonderhorse The Show

366 Days Of Kindness

Synopsis:
In response to the riots of August 2011, Bernadette Russell committed to be kind to a stranger every single day for a year. This multi media show tells the heartbreaking, surprising and challenging stories of that year, which began with burning buildings and ended with the flame of the Olympic torch, against a global backdrop of social unrest and economic crisis. Part storytelling, part stand up, part live documentary, featuring a dinner party with surprise guests including the Dalai Lama, Aristotle and Princess Diana, this show attempts to answer the question: is it possible to change the world just by being kind

Notes:
Written and performed by Bernadette Russell and Gareth Brierley

1st Produced:
Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead    12 Dec 2013

Organisations:
White Rabbit in association with Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Jacksons Lane

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
multimedia show

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Dead Funny

Synopsis:
A tribute to Hammer House of Horror. A comedic celebration of the great Hammer Horror Films

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Green Carnation    2008

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Film Club (Baby Jane): People Show 113

Synopsis:
two young couples pursue their obsession with the film 'Whatever Happened To Baby Jane ?

Notes:
devised by Jessica Worrall, Bernadette Russell, Nicky Blackwell, Nick Tigg & Gareth Brierley

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Organisations:
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Genre:
Devised Piece

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Home Of the Wriggler

Synopsis:
Imagine living in a very differnet age from our own gas-guzzlinfg era. Perhaps a time after some eco-catastrophe? How could someone explain to you what the West Midlands was like from the late late 1950s onwards? Stan's Cafe has a go with this strange, compelling show, powered by the stories of those who have lived in Birmingham and worked in the motor industry - and also by cycling (which is generated by the cast's often exaustive peddling.
- Lyn Gardner, Guardian.

Notes:
devised by Heather Burton, Amanda Hadingue, Bernadette Russell, Craig Stephens And james Yarker. Text by James Yarker

1st Produced:
Birmingham, A E Harris Factory    2009

Organisations:
Stan's Cafe Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Lost Property Office, The

Synopsis:
A woman reveals what happened after she lost all her memories, and founded the magical Lost Property Office, full of lost dreams, hopes and inhibitions

Notes:
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1st Produced:
national tour    2010

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Missionary's Position, The

Synopsis:
the Rector of Stiffkey: Good Samaritan or Dirty Vicar? Following their sell-out tour and award winning Edinburgh run, the Company who gave you the BITCHES BALL bring to life another famously forgotten character, the original 'dirty vicar' - the Rector of Stiffkey! the Missionary's Position is a flamboyant physical show in the style of the old Music Hall entertainments, with a full compliment of comic routines, eccentric double acts, saucy dances, and heart-warming songs with choruses you can sing along to. Only here, the actors are also telling the incredible true story of Reverend Harold Davidson, one of England's great eccentrics. Disgraced by the establishment for 'saving the souls' of Soho prostitutes, he protested his innocence throughout his trial and long after he was defrocked by the church for immoral behaviour. "You have to save their bodies before you can save their souls" Rev Harold Davidson. What happened to the woman who spoke against him, 17-year-old Barbara Harris? Why did the tap-dancing, cigar smoking Rector spend the rest of his life as a carnival sideshow? And what about his absurd and tragic end, mauled to death in public by FrEddie the Lion during an act in a cage in Skegness? the answer to these and many other questions can be found in the Missionary's Position. Come and join us for fun, frolics and laughter through tears, as we recreate the spirit of the 1930's with our original Music Hall entertainment. Our very own MC will be hosting the proceedings, and audiences are encouraged to take the backstage tour before the action commences. . .

Notes:
Written by Bernadette Russell, devised by the Company

1st Produced:
Darlington Arts Centre, Darlington    21 Apr 2009

Organisations:
Penny Dreadful Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  extras

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Penny Dreadful's Etherdome

Synopsis:
A piece of very black comedy, based on the gruesome true story of 3 rival dentists, and their search for an effective anaesthetic. Welcome to the Etherdome. . . In 1850s America, at the start of the so-called Scientific Age, major surgery is still carried out with only a stiff whisky to calm the nerves and tooth extractions with a bit of alcohol or a stick to bite on. A blood-spattered operating theatre was the stark reality. But all that was about to change. In a fairground tent, alongside tea-leaf fortune-tellers, an amazing discovery is made by accident. But who actually made it? Join Penny Dreadful as they travel from Carny Show to laughing-gas party, to nightmare operating theatre. Using high energy physical comedy, scary apparatus - and a bluegrass chorus - they follow the dentists on a journey that ends in addiction, lunacy, and death. But they leave behind a discovery that changes medicine forever.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Edinburgh: Assembly Rooms    03 Aug 2011

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
black comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Play Dead (People Show 115)

Synopsis:
A postmodern pastiche of the popular mythology of the Wild West.

Notes:
Devised by Nicola Blackwell, Gareth Brierley, Christine Entwisle, Bernadette Russell, Nick Tigg

1st Produced:
Glasgow: The Arches    07 May 2004

Organisations:
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Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Wonderhorse The Show

Synopsis:
Wonderhorse are Chris Entwisle and Bernadette Russell. The bunny girls of the Apocalypse bring you popular classics played live on the Euphonium; challenging quiz questions with luxury prizes; stripping and tambourines. In a breathtaking finale, Wonderhorse will give the audience the finely choreographed song and dance number they so justly deserve. A nihilistic cabaret act making no attempt to arrest their inevitable decline into the rancid piss of alcoholism.

Notes:
devised and performed by Chris Entwisle and Bernadette Russell

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Genre:
cabaret

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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