Details

Written in collaboration with students on the Three Year Acting Course at LAMDA, Showtime was created as part of the Academy's Long Project initiative. A policeman wants to see his daughter. An immigrant wants to run her own tapas bar. A manager in a multinational corporation wants to do the right thing. A DJ wants to change the world through his music. And an anarchist wants to take his clothes off in public. Against the backdrop of a fictional May Day demonstration, Showtime charts three months in the lives of a group of disparate Londoners, and asks what it really means to be political. How do you show how you feel about someone or something? In an angry world, is saying I love you a political act?

Creatives/Company

Author: John Donnelly
Producer: London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA)
Director: Jeanette Smith
Design: Kara Zeigon