Musical Theatre

Rebecca is passionate about musical theatre and as well as undertaking commissioned work, also works with her collaborators on creating her own musical theatre projects.  She is a member of Mercury Musical Developments. 

Current shows include:

Sex and the Village

Chloe wants the High Life, Katie wants the Good Life.  As for Ken, he just wants a new thermos flask and a bit of peace.  A new musical about Life, love and power cuts.

Alongside NYMF award winning writer Sue Pearse, we are currently developing Sex and the Village following its first outing at the Edinbrugh Festival last summer.  Its reading was part of the exciting new venture, Musical Theatre at George Square, where we gained some excellent feedback.

So far, in  2009, we have been workshopping parts of the new show with postgrad students at the Royal Academy of Music.  We have also been participating in the development process, Writing Lab Extreme, with Mercury Musical Developments.

SEX AND THE VILLAGE IS NOW BEING DEVELOPED IN ASSOCIATION WITH PERFECT PITCH MUSICALS

More about Sex and the Village can be found, and songs can be heard at www.sexandthevillagethemusical.com. 

The Walpole Orange

Based on the hilarious novel by Frank Muir, "The Walpole Orange" is a quintessentially English musical comedy which delves into the hidden world of that ancient and apparently respectable institution, the Gentlemen's Club.  The story revolves around the efforts of William Grundwick, Club Secretary, as he attempts to keep a group of frisky OAPs under control, save his marriage, and preserve the Club's reputation from a damaging expose - not to mention arranging an unusual celebration for the Club's 250th birthday, code-named 'Orange'....

Written with bookwriter Michael Caines, "The Walpole Orange" was performed at the Robert Atkins Studio, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre in April 2006.  It will be making further outings in due course...

Something Strange

Midsummer in a village in Somerset and friends and family gather for the celebration of a babys christening.  With all the happy mingling and pleasant festivity, who would notice the strange happenings beginning?

For midsummer is also a time for faeries - not the sweet kind of faerie you would see at the bottom of your garden - but the dark faeries of ancient folklore; the spirits that tempt their mortal victims to a watery grave in the lake; the wailing washerwomen, fated to wash the blooded clothes of those about to die; the faeries in need of a mortal child to take back to their land, who leave a grotesque changeling in its place.

Seven years have passed since faerieland last paid their tithe to hell and the time has come for the next payment of human souls.  "Something Strange"  will show you the world as it is seldom seen: when mortal meets faerie, and the past stalks the present...

A 20 min showcase of Something strange was performed in the GRIMEBORN FESTIVAL at the Arcola Theatre in August 2009.  See www.somethingstrangethemusical.co.uk for further details.

Directed by Helen Tennison, with Candida Caldicot as Musical DIrector, the cast included:

James Hayward
Emma Fenney
Lucinda Forth
Alvaro Flores
Daniel McWilliams