THEATRE PRODUCTIONS
The Strindberg Trilogy by Robin Brooks
with Mark Spalding, Barbara Dryhurst and Nicholas Murchie
Directed by Fiona McAlpine
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Dance of Death - Sept 2021
No Sex in Southwold - Oct 2023
Sex and Death in Southwold - Sept 2024
NO Sex in Southwold by Robin Brooks
Directed by Fiona McAlpine
with Mark Spalding, Nicholas Murchie and Barbara Dryhurst
Loosely based on August Strindberg’s 1888 play, The Creditors
At The Southwold Arts Centre, Cumberland Road, Southwold, IP18 6JP -
23rd -26th October 2023
DEATH IN SOUTHWOLD by Robin Brooks
Thursday 16th & Friday 17th September 2021
St Edmund's Hall, Cumberland Road, Southwold, IP18 6JP
7.30 pm
TICKETS £10. Box Office 01502 722572 or online Southwold Arts Centre.
https://southwoldartscentre.co.uk/whats-on/death-in-southwold
A blackly comic triangle of love, jealousy and hate played out between a husband and wife about to celebrate their silver wedding. Mor and Ruth live in an upstairs apartment near the Lighthouse in Southwold. She’s a vegan activist ex-actress, he’s a professional bore. They are about to celebrate their silver wedding, but he’s made their marriage a tyranny, with his drinking, his hypochondria, and his unhealthy obsession with the Southwold Summer Theatre.
Local Suffolk company, Allegra Productions teams up with Airpocket Theatre company, based in Bournemouth.
Cast : Mark Spalding, Barbara Dryhurst and Nicholas Murchie.
Writer : Robin Brooks
Director : Fiona McAlpine.
Elizabeth and Essex
by Robin Brooks
With Simon Russell Beale, Harry Lloyd, Nancy Carroll and Julian Harries.
Conducted by Robert Ziegler
A live performance with the BBC Concert Orchestra, Alexandra Palace, London. February 2020 and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on Easter day (April 12th) 2020.
Producers Robin Brooks & Fiona McAlpine
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h6t9
The Beast in the Jungle, a live performance co-production with Britten Pears Arts, performed at Snape Maltings main concert hall, at the Britten Weekend, Oct 2018, adapted from the Henry James novella by Robin Brooks. The Doric Quartet playing Benjamin Britten’s 3rd String Quartet.
Cast: Andrew Wincott and Kelly Burke. Directed by Robin Brooks. Produced by Fiona McAlpine.
The Dark Tower
by Louis MacNeice
music by Benjamin Britten
Performed at Orford Church, Suffolk, a co-production with Snape Maltings & BBC Radio 3, Oct 2017
Conducted by Robert Ziegler
With Harry Lloyd, Adrian Scarborough, Lucy Robinson, Jonjo O’Neill,
Jude Akuwudike, Sam Dale, Georgie Glen,
Manjinder Virk, Nicholas Murchie, Hannah Genesius, William Gidney
The Dark Tower, Orford Church, Oct 2017
INK FESTIVAL 2017, It’s a Sperm’s Life by Lewis Wilding, produced and directed by Fiona McAlpine
New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich, 2013, Britten’s Got Talent by Robin Brooks, directed by Fiona McAlpine
Hydrocracker Theatre Company, 2011, The Consultant by Neil Fleming produced by Fiona McAlpine at Theatre 503, starring James Wilby, 2011
FILM PRODUCTION
Billy’s Day Out, produced by Fiona McAlpine. Winner of Best British Short Film at the Edinburgh Festival 2004.
5 x ‘Digital Shorts’ for Screen East, Norwich, 2003, produced by Fiona McAlpine
Plaything, directed and co-written by Fiona McAlpine for ‘Digital Shorts’ 2003
