Get 'Ophelia is also Dead' to EdFringe 2019!
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We’re trying to take ‘Ophelia Is Also Dead’ by Aliya Gilmore to the Edinburgh Fringe 2019, and we’re raising money to help us get there!
An original piece of theatre by Aliya Gilmore, ‘Ophelia Is Also Dead’ takes its name from Tom Stoppard’s iconic ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead’, which itself debuted at Fringe back yonder in 1966. We hope to follow in its footsteps with this brand new play, exploring instead the unspoken but ever-intriguing voice of Shakespeare’s Ophelia. The show is a bitty magpie-nest of a show, with inspiration stolen from anywhere and everywhere - it flip-flops from monologue, to raucous scenes of Elsinore party life, to a boys' boarding school production of Hamlet in drag. Ophelia is about girlhood, and, of course, Hamlet, but it's also about growing up, qualia, and Natalie Portman.
First performed as part of Durham Drama Festival 2019, the show was an immense success, raking in stellar reviews and winning awards for Best Lighting, Best Writing, Best Directing and Best Lead Actress in festival. Directed by Auguste Voulton , and with Fionna Monk in the titular role alongside a supporting Shakespearean cast of Durham Student Theatre’s finest, ‘Ophelia Is Also Dead’ is a prime example of contemporary student theatre, and deserves a place among the best at Edinburgh Fringe.
The Fringe festival is famous around the globe for bringing together the best in contemporary theatre, whether it be new or old writing, improvised or devised, comedy or tragedy. It truly is a showcase of the best the theatrical community has to offer, and this year we want to join it. We believe in the power of our show, and want to see it put on in a global forum to help spread it to a wider audience. As individuals all greatly interested in the world of theatre, the opportunity to go to Fringe is also fantastic on a personal level, allowing us access to new imaginative horizons and helping us on our journeys as creatives.
Taking a show to Fringe will be a fabulous experience - but it will also be an expensive one. With competition so high for access to this incredible festival, costs for venue hire, accommodation, marketing, staging, travel, technical equipment and everything else that goes into making great theatre add up. And so we need your help and support for this endeavour. Whether you loved seeing the show in Durham and want to help it reach a wider public, or wish to support a friend or family member for this opportunity, we’d like to ask for donations to aid ‘Ophelia Is Also Dead’ in being performed at Edinburgh Fringe 2019.
Any donation you can make would be immensely appreciated, and we simply hope you believe in this production as much as we all do.
Love from the Ophelia team x
An original piece of theatre by Aliya Gilmore, ‘Ophelia Is Also Dead’ takes its name from Tom Stoppard’s iconic ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead’, which itself debuted at Fringe back yonder in 1966. We hope to follow in its footsteps with this brand new play, exploring instead the unspoken but ever-intriguing voice of Shakespeare’s Ophelia. The show is a bitty magpie-nest of a show, with inspiration stolen from anywhere and everywhere - it flip-flops from monologue, to raucous scenes of Elsinore party life, to a boys' boarding school production of Hamlet in drag. Ophelia is about girlhood, and, of course, Hamlet, but it's also about growing up, qualia, and Natalie Portman.
First performed as part of Durham Drama Festival 2019, the show was an immense success, raking in stellar reviews and winning awards for Best Lighting, Best Writing, Best Directing and Best Lead Actress in festival. Directed by Auguste Voulton , and with Fionna Monk in the titular role alongside a supporting Shakespearean cast of Durham Student Theatre’s finest, ‘Ophelia Is Also Dead’ is a prime example of contemporary student theatre, and deserves a place among the best at Edinburgh Fringe.
The Fringe festival is famous around the globe for bringing together the best in contemporary theatre, whether it be new or old writing, improvised or devised, comedy or tragedy. It truly is a showcase of the best the theatrical community has to offer, and this year we want to join it. We believe in the power of our show, and want to see it put on in a global forum to help spread it to a wider audience. As individuals all greatly interested in the world of theatre, the opportunity to go to Fringe is also fantastic on a personal level, allowing us access to new imaginative horizons and helping us on our journeys as creatives.
Taking a show to Fringe will be a fabulous experience - but it will also be an expensive one. With competition so high for access to this incredible festival, costs for venue hire, accommodation, marketing, staging, travel, technical equipment and everything else that goes into making great theatre add up. And so we need your help and support for this endeavour. Whether you loved seeing the show in Durham and want to help it reach a wider public, or wish to support a friend or family member for this opportunity, we’d like to ask for donations to aid ‘Ophelia Is Also Dead’ in being performed at Edinburgh Fringe 2019.
Any donation you can make would be immensely appreciated, and we simply hope you believe in this production as much as we all do.
Love from the Ophelia team x
Co-organizers (3)
Harry Jenkins
Organizer
Aliya Gilmore
Co-organizer
Auguste Voulton
Co-organizer