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The Mannequin

From the streets of Soho to the drag bars of Montmartre, the frantic lives of these artists all revolve around ‘The Mannequin’. Models, designers, lovers, and writers all desire attention and validation in lives, only to be left feeling inadequate and alone. Throughout the course of two evenings they find solace in each other and their work leading to closure. In this multimedia production, a piece of new writing with original film and costume, relationships to the queer body and relationships within the arts industry are explored in a burst of film projection and sensory immersion.

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This is Das Stück´s first original production. Das Stück is a London-based theatre company that creates multimedia performances and focuses on new-writing which explores the themes of identity, queerness, femme-oppression and collaborative artistic creation. Das Stück is excited to collaborate on this production with The King´s Players, King´s College London´s leading theatre society, as part of their support scheme to bring new productions up to the Edingburgh Fringe Festival. Their projects include a wide range of classical, modern and contemporary playwrights.

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May 29, 202

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January 11, 2023

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 November , 2023

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From the streets of Soho to the drag bars of Montmartre, the frantic lives of these artists all revolve around ‘The Mannequin’. Models, designers, lovers, and writers all desire attention and validation in lives, only to be left feeling inadequate and alone. Throughout the course of two evenings they find solace in each other and their work leading to closure. In this multimedia production, a piece of new writing with original film and costume, relationships to the queer body and relationships within the arts industry are explored in a burst of film projection and sensory immersion.

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This is Das Stück´s first original production. Das Stück is a London-based theatre company that creates multimedia performances and focuses on new-writing which explores the themes of identity, queerness, femme-oppression and collaborative artistic creation. Das Stück is excited to collaborate on this production with The King´s Players, King´s College London´s leading theatre society, as part of their support scheme to bring new productions up to the Edingburgh Fringe Festival. Their projects include a wide range of classical, modern and contemporary playwrights.

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Watch The Trailer

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                            filmed by Alex Matraxia 

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Evalcia Allen as Vanessa

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“I’ve been looking for you this whole time. Maybe if I spent more time down here, I’d have found you by now. But he’s still got you. Why would he want me when he’s off with you?”

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Evalcia Allen is an interdisciplinary artist from South East London. She is a singer and songwriter, writing for artists in New York, LA and London. She has worked in voice overs for film and series.
Evalica studied performing arts. Her favourite performance during her studies was 'Romeo and Juliet'. Currently, she is in the process of wrting her own short play called 'You think you know but you have no idea'. 

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Elizabeth Cassidy as Samson

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“They’re not our pictures. I was hired to take them. I sold the only thing of value i have ever shot. Can’t you understand that?”


Film & Television: She started out as an actress, appearing in Bill Condon's Mr. Holmes alongside Ian McKellen and most recently ITV’s Grantchester. On set Elizabeth took an interest in production and started producing short films in 2015.
Elizabeth attended the National Youth Film Academy and with a group of young filmmakers produced her first film Remembering Amy. After its reception at the Hackney Picturehouse and online success, Elizabeth pitched her debut feature film, Catalyst. Elizabeth started writing Catalyst of which she was taken on as director and is currently still in production. Since Catalyst, Elizabeth has co-produced a short film for Reformed East Sussex Charity and worked as the second assistant director and personal assistant to director Marc Zammit on the feature film, Homeless Ashes.
Theatre: Elizabeth has appeared in Two’s Company The Fifth Column at the Southwark Playhouse and as Juliet and Ophelia in Shakespeare’s 200 Year Anniversary at St. Paul’s Church in Covent Garden.
Elizabeth's training and work has taken her across the world from London to Rome and even to LA. Elizabeth is currently studying English & Film at King's College London as a mature student. 

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Alan Hall as Dimas 

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“I’ve been looking for you this whole time. Maybe if I spent more time down here, I’d have found you by now. But he’s still got you. Why would he want me when he’s off with you?”

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Alan started acting when he joined a kids drama group in Cambridge at age 11 called The Young Actors Company (YAC). At 12 he was cast as a Brazilian character called Miguel Ribeiro on a soap opera that was filmed in London and Warsaw over a couple of months called ‘The Londoners.’ Alan used his earnings from the show to fund tuition for a 3 week summer acting school at the New York Film Academy in Manhattan the following year.

After that experience and a few short jobs on the way he was cast (in an ambiguously Latino role) as Rico in series 3 of ‘Sadie J’, a programme on CBBC. 
Since joining King’s Alan has been taking part in plays, radio plays and short films within and outside Kings. 

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James Green as Devon

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“I’m writing without a point and it makes me want to delete everything and start again.  I can just feel these eyes on me all the time, there’s this nagging pressure that I should be doing something more with my life.”

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James Green plays Devon. â €
James Green is a student and freelance writer based in London. He's been performing since he was 6 in a range of am-dram/school productions as well as in multiple slam poetry competitions. James has covered various film festivals and events as a member of the press, representing an independent blog (aptly named 'JG Review' @jg.review) which he began in 2014. He is currently enjoying juggling his degree, theatre work and film coverage, and is excited to debut at the Edinburgh Fringe.â €

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Medea Manaz as Nina 

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“Doesn’t wood ache too? Why does this thing not wear down? It comes fully assembled and ready to pose. Expressionless. Malleable.” 

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Medea Manaz is an actress and student of classics and English at King’s college London. She has acted in various productions whilst at King’s, including the annual Greek play, alcmaeon in Corinth and billy liar. Medea is also a member of the National Youth Theatre.

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Gabriel Thomson as Andrew 

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“It’s good to get it all off at the end of the night. When all the people have crawled home and it’s just you and me. But it’s worth it for that fame. It’s just the second after the music has stopped and you hear that little pattern of hands. That’s what it’s always been.” 

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abriel performed from a young age, beginning his acting career at the age of four, performing in plays with a company called The Goliards while his family holidayed in Devon.
It was in 1999 that Thomson secured his first major acting role, playing Young Pip in a BBC adaption of Great Expectations. The following year, Thomson made his big screen debut as Pinocchio in The New Adventures of Pinocchio.
From 2000 until 2011, Thomson played Michael Harper in the British BBC sitcom My Family, starring alongside Robert Lindsay, Zoë Wanamaker. He is also remembered for acting alongside Jude Law, Rachel Weisz and Ed Harris in the 2001 film Enemy at the Gates as Soviet spy Sasha Fillipov.


Thomson portrayed Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing with the British Shakespeare Company on their 2009 tour of the UK, the Republic of Ireland, Norway and the Czech Republic.
He also starred in the British film 13Hrs alongside Tom Felton and Josh Bowman 2010. He later joined the cast of GB Theatre Company, playing Orlando in As You Like It and Dr Caius in The Merry Wives of Windsor on their tour of the UK, and played Romeo for the same company the following year.
Having “moved on” from acting, Gabriel has performed in about three plays each year whilst studying English Literature at King’s College London, having the chance to play some great roles including Lord Henry in Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Travis Flood in Philip Ridley’s Ghost from a Perfect Place. Now that university is drawing to an end, he has decided to stop fighting it and return to acting full time.

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Special Thanks To  

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Rebecca Degener

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Victoria Hazebrouck

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Will Lovell

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Conor Murphy

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Eliza Cocksworth

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    London Previews 

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28.07. Bunker Theatre

29.07. Bread and Roses

           Theatre

 

Edingburgh Fringe 

19th - 24th August

Fleming Theatre

The Space UK

Meet the Cast 

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The Creative Team  

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Director and Playwright - Sam Kindon

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Movement Director - Hannah Eirich-Hollerbach

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Dramaturg - Tamsyn Hankinson-Chandler

 

Producers - Hannah Eirich-Hollerbach

              - Emma Giaretto

              - Tamsyn Hankinson- Chandler
 

Film - Alex Matraxia

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Technical Operation -  Timothy Choi

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Original Dress Design - Maria Gemra

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