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⭐️ WHAT A FANTASTIC DAY ⭐️celebrating theatre with "A Heart Act to Follow" 5 monologues by Playmate actors Robin Gott, Michaela Palmer, Joan Bentsen, Kevin Benn and Evdokia Kelessidi.
So many people came we had to turn them away! For both the monologues AND a splendid workshop by Certified Michael Chekhov Teacher ⭐️Nathalie Drakemyr⭐️ @drakemyren

A packed house. Riotous applause. Whoops and curtain calls. THANK YOU Malmö!
Thank you @malmoscenfest
See you in the theatre!

And an enormous thank you for Logistics, hosting, support & "fika" to ardent supporters & theatre lovers ❤️ Shari and Roger.

#theatreacrossborders
#theatrecommunity
#theatreinprogress
#theplaysthething
#theatreinenglish
#monologue
#theatreinthemaking
#theatrematters
#svenskscenkonst
#pjäs

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🍾🥂🎂 Happy 28th Birthday to ❤️🍻❤️
Nick Weisend and Alex Weisend !!
We have really enjoyed watching you grow out of your shell ! 💝 Mom & Dad 💝

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Happy Birthday to that guy who is in almost all of my selfies - looking forward to another trip on the merry-go-round!!!
Love you Johno! 💝

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Puppy love by candlelight! 😍💞

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⭐️What an amazing day yesterday ⭐️
THEATRE FESTIVAL “A FOREST UNDER THE WATER” MULTILINGUAL OPEN STAGE Saturday 6th July 11:00 – 17:00
A day of light, laughter, talent, craft, audience & artists, discipline & Method, movement & text, languages & theatre-passion and tender emotion on stage!

We at TMR Theatre In-Balance are so happily overwhelmed and impressed by the concentration and dedication of all the performers - ⭐️ the highly disciplined Lab demo of the In-Balance Method,⭐️ the creative improvised floor work by the Lab group,⭐️ the performances created on the theme of THE HOUSE and ⭐️ all the individual plays & pieces performed.

Such joy on stage and off as well as among all the people who came to watch! Feels like this is the beginning of something big!

Enormous thanks to all the highly gifted actors, support staff and crew - especially stage tech and master-craftsman Andrew who ran lights n sound with such skill; Michaela front-of-house, Eva Söderquist for support and everybody else. [Also those with us in spirit who were away - playwright Keren Klimovsky - ] ; Vanessa P. for coordination of the whole Festival and of course Artistic Director ⭐️ Mariana Araoz ⭐️without whose magic we would not be here!

⭐️The lovely Lab actors & ensemble & performers ⭐️were a joy to watch, committed, calibrated, organic...
THANK YOU! To:

Peder Holm; (from Playmate Theatre Malmö) : Vanessa Poole Jönsson Joan M. Bentsen
Karen Rebecca Olrich White ;
Nathalie Drakemyr Lesley Leichtweis Bernardi Inna Syzonenko Anarita M. Rodrigues ; (from Grenverket:) Em Lang, Konrad Holmqvist, Olivia Longo , Evdokia Kelessidi Nidia Martínez Barbieri and all supporters, family, audience and friends.

(More images to follow)
Thank you @lundskommun for sponsoring this residency and enabling this Festival

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Playmate is SO excited to be performing a 30-minute excerpt from ⭐️ LULLABY FOR A GROWN MAN⭐️ for the @transmissionresearchsverige multilingual open stage theatre festival. In English.
On Saturday 6th July. In Lund.
This powerful anti-war dark and comically grotesque drama by Keren Klimovsky was a success at Bastionen in May and its Scandinavian premiere.

🎭Will be a hugely fun day on Saturday😎 with 10 different fragments of theatre performed on stage by a range of highly ambitious and dedicated actors/ performers based in southern Sweden - all working for this event on pieces of theatre and dramatic work-in-progress based on the theme of THE HOUSE.

Playmate is scheduled to go on at c. 13:30 but audiences are invited to attend a whole day of theatre from 11 a.m to 5 p.m.

Part of TMR's residency @stenkrossen.lund this spring 2024.
*FREE ENTRANCE

#theatreinprogress
#blackcomedy
#Skådespelare
#teateriSkåne
#svenskscenkonst
#internationaltheatre

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What a night! A packed house! There were audience giggles and gasps and you could hear a pin drop! - it was a privilege to have the playwright @kerenklimovsky watching
Also Teater Kef, @bastionen_scenkonst and supporters from Stockholm and Copenhagen as well as loyal Malmö regulars.
Feeling grateful, humble and glad!😍😎

[The talented cast and crew and playwright in pic]

On stage:
Joan M Bentsen (US) as the Grandmother
Karen Olrich White (UK) as the Daughter
Vanessa Poole (UK) as the Wife

Director:           Evdokia Kelessidi
Light & Sound Designer: Andrew Christiansen
Stage manager & props: Shari Weisend
Music audio:                     Elias Faingersh

*With thanks to Bastionen for their support and to Teater Theatron for the Festival the rest of the week.🙏

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⭐️Thursday 30th May. 1 chance only ⭐️ 3 strong actors. 1 script. 1 director.⭐️ STAGED READING . A full performance. A Scandinavian premiere. 1 hour of live theatre.🎭

LULLABY FOR A GROWN MAN
by Keren Klimovsky
Directed by Evdokia Kelessidi
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"...In a small country by the sea three generations of women share a home - a grandmother, a wife and a daughter. But where is the man of the house? His kit bag is packed for The Front. The door to the bedroom is locked. Is he there? Can he speak? Has he left to fight? Or has he come and gone?

As the women chatter and bicker, days pass. The teenage daughter plays on her phone, flies start to buzz around the bedroom door… and three women sing a lullaby to the bees that are slowly vanishing from the face of the earth…"
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Have you booked?
Do you dare?

*This performance is an exciting, rehearsed, staged reading in English 🇬🇧🇺🇸in the hands of an experienced director; a work in progress where the British/American cast have their scripts in hand, use movement, blocking and staging.🎭

TICKETS:
https://www.kulturcentralen.nu/evenemang/lullaby-for-a-grown-man
[150 SEK/ 100 SEK]

*LULLABY FOR A GROWN MAN is one of a series of staged playreadings being presented in English this year by Playmate in collaboration with Bastionen. It is also a part of STRANGE SPACES Theatre Festival being organised by Teater Theatron

Written by Keren Klimovsky
On stage:
Joan M Bentsen (US)
Karen Olrich White (UK)
Vanessa Poole (UK)
Director: Evdokia Kelessidi
Light & Sound Designer: Andrew Christiansen
Stage manager & props: Shari Weisend
Music audio: Elias Faingersh

#svenskscenkonst
#svenskpremiär
#viälskarmalmö
#stagedreading
#livetheatre
#teaterpåengelska
#theatrematters
#theatreinEnglish
#skådespelare
#casting
#storytelling
#nydramatik
#artforpeace

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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: ⭐️ of "LULLABY FOR A GROWN MAN" staged reading on 30 May 🇬🇧⭐️

Evdokia Kelessidi, now based in Malmö, got her degree in performance, drama, voice, music and theatre studies in Greece, where she attended among others the POSTGRADUATE PROGRAM IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND ANTHROPOLOGY concentrating on the works of Jean Paul Sartre.
She is a GRADUATE OF THE THEATRICAL CENTRE OF RESEARCH OF THESSALONIKI ( 2 years) and a GRADUATE OF THE THREE-YEAR THEATRICAL WORKSHOP TRAINING "DUENDE" which specialises in music and theatre improvisation, as well as a GRADUATE OF "ARHI" DRAMA SCHOOL (2014).

Evdokia has also studied classical guitar for 8 years. She worked with music, performance, dance and movement on stage and off in Athens and in Thessaloniki as a singer, actress, performer and director for more than 10 years. She has taught drama and music to teach and inspire all ages, from pre-school to highschool to special needs communities; as well as animated children’s tales for the stage and directed childrens’ theatre in Athens.

Through many years of teaching drama and performing theatre, Evdokia has worked on chorus, movement and storytelling on, among other “Waiting for Godot” by Samuel Beckett , "The Ceremony" by Pavlos Matesi, “Lebensraum” (2016) “ Jean Cocteau” and “Avlea” both at the Theater of Thessaloniki; “A Midsummer night's Dream” by William Shakespeare; "The Butterfly’s Evil Spell’" by Federico Garcia Lorca; “No exit” by Jean Paul Sartre.

Since arriving in Sweden Evdokia has performed vocally on the classical guitar for Playmate’s monologues People in Shorts in 2023; directed “The Busy Business Lady’s Xmas” a feminist fringe play in Copenhagen; played a role in the upcoming Gothenburg feature film Checklist; in Copenhagen completed a week’s residency and directed her own performance for ’My site-my space” at Huset KBH with Assemble Theatre Collective.

Apart from directing Playmate’s staged reading of LULLABY FOR A GROWN MAN❤️ on 30th May at Bastionen , Evdokia will part of the ensemble in the big summer production AMADEUS at Skillinge Teater Österlen in 2024.

TICKETS Kulturcentralen
#svenskpremiär
#regissör
#svenskscenkonst

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⭐️A STAGED READING IN ENGLISH🇺🇸🇬🇧⭐️In Malmö Thursday 30 May 19:00 hrs.

LULLABY FOR A GROWN MAN
by Keren Klimovsky
- Three strong actresses present in English a rehearsed reading of a full-length 1 hour play at Bastionen, Malmö.

ABOUT THE PLAY
In a small country by the sea three generations of women share a home - a grandmother, a wife and a daughter. But where is the man of the house? His kit bag is packed for The Front. The door to the bedroom is locked. Is he there? Can he speak? Has he left to fight? Or has he come and gone?
As the women chatter and bicker, days pass. The teenage daughter plays on her phone, flies start to buzz around the bedroom door… and three women sing a lullaby to the bees that are slowly vanishing from the face of the earth…

On stage:
Joan M Bentsen (US)
Karen Olrich White (UK)
Vanessa Poole (UK)

Director:           Evdokia Kelessidi
Light & Sound Designer: Andrew Christiansen
Stage manager & props: Shari Weisend
Music audio:                     Elias Faingersh

*This performance is a rehearsed, staged reading in English in the hands of an experienced director; a work in progress where the British/American cast have their scripts in hand.

LULLABY FOR A GROWN MAN is part of a series of playreadings in English brought to you by Playmate Theatre Malmö, in collaboration with and with thanks to Bastionen. Thanks are due also for their support to STRANGE SPACES Theatre Festival, of which this play forms a part, to Teater Theatron and to Teater KEF.

@bastionen_scenkonst
@teaterbilletter
@kerenklimovsky
@strangespaces.project

#viälskarmalmö
#teaterpåengelska
#theatrematters
#theatrebeyondborders
#skådespelare
#svenskscenkonst
#playreading
#britishactress
#americanactress
#drama
#artforpeace

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⭐️BOOKING IS OPEN⭐️ in Malmö via Kulturcentralen Thursday 30 May
19:00 - 20:00
(BOOKING LINK IN BIO)

ABOUT THE PLAY
In a small country by the sea three generations of women share a home - a grandmother, a wife and a daughter. But where is the man of the house? His kit bag is packed for The Front. The door to the bedroom is locked. Is he there? Can he speak? Has he left to fight? Or has he come and gone?
As the women chatter and bicker, days pass. The teenage daughter plays on her phone, flies start to buzz around the bedroom door… and three women sing a lullaby to the bees that are slowly vanishing from the face of the earth…

“Lullaby for a Grown Man” is a bitter-sweet, tragicomic, brilliant piece of writing for the stage, by Malmö-based playwright Keren Klimovsky whose plays have been put on all across Russia in the past, as well as currently in Ukraine, Israel, Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. This is the national premiere of this play in Scandinavia and Sweden.

“Lullaby for a Grown Man” is a sterling example of a play that hits home with a dose of humour, more than a slice of grim reality and a touch of the absurd. A play that speaks volumes about the reality of life in today’s society with its conflicts, family tensions and the toll of living in a world subject to forces and to history bigger than our own.

On stage:
Joan M Bentsen (US)
Karen Olrich White (UK)
Vanessa Poole (UK)
Director:           Evdokia Kelessidi
Light & Sound Designer: Andrew Christiansen
Stage manager & props: Shari Weisend
Music audio:                     Elias Faingersh

*This performance is a rehearsed, staged reading in English in the hands of an experienced director; a work in progress where the British/American cast have their scripts in hand.

A Playmate Theatre Malmö production; one of a series of staged readings in English 🇬🇧🇺🇸 in collaboration with Bastionen. This play is a part of the STRANGE SPACES Theatre Festival.
With thanks for their support to Teater Theatron, Teater KEF.
@bastionen_scenkonst
@strangespaces.project

#teaterimalmö
#skådespelare
#teaterpåengelska
#svenskscenkonst
#svenskpremiär
#Britishactress
#americanactress

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Celebrating our American 2023 grads in true Swedish style! Congrats ladies!🎉🍾🥂🎊

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