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Vacant Possession
Photograph Simon Warner
normal productions / ray brown
New writing

SIZE OF COMPANY
2–5 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small- to middle-scale
Minimum stage area 5mx4m

PERMANENT STAFF
Partners
Ray Brown
Rosanne Marsden

ARTISTIC POLICY
To produce high quality accessible theatre on contemporary examples of universal themes.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
'Touching production... powerful... affectingly human picture.' The Times (Living Pretty)

'Energy and emotion... great charm and integrity.' The Scotsman (Living Pretty)

'Walsh delights the audience... Eziefula charms the audience.' Three Weeks (Living Pretty)

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Living Pretty The life story of Alfred Williams, born into poverty in Jamaica, ending his days in an English industrial town. An ordinary man made extraordinary by humour and determination (60 mins, 2 on stage, 4 on the road)

Vacant Possession Comedy exploring house purchase, loneliness, insecurity, suicide, coping with the elderly and the loss of youthful idealism (90 mins plus interval, 2 on stage, 4 on the road)

...is normal! Drama-documentary exploring the everyday consequences of civil war as experienced by Ray Brown’s friends in former Yugoslavia. Breaks conventions, combines actions and interviews, fact and fiction. (90 mins, with or without interval, 3 on stage, 5 on the road)

FUTURE PRODUCTION
Steinbeck in Avalon A moving, funny, informative dramatisation of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck’s attempts to write a 20th century definitive account of the life of King Arthur. Set in Somerset and New York. (60 mins, 1 on stage, 2 on the road)

WRAP-AROUND ACTIVITY
Workshops on techniques for collecting documentary bases for public performance and publication. Directorial and acting workshops. Q&A sessions. Public readings and talks.

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Deatails on request.