(co-production with Rachel Bryant at Rondo Theatre 2002)
Rachel Bryant had played Shirley in the West End. She approached The Rondo and Innerroom about developing a small-scale version of the show especially for The Rondo. We were given a special license for the rights for these performances.
“a class act” - Bath Chronicle
This project was developed especially for The Rondo and paired Dawn Burden with John Nicholson from Peepolykus. The play also featured Ashley Christmas as the Maid, who looked aghast as the professors frustration and anger gets the better of him in the darkest of lectures.
“a demonstration on how to get laughs from a Shakespeare text that cannot be bettered” - Venue
Innerroom managed to assemble a cast of local actors for this project at The Rondo Theatre. Using the whole text and one of the best sets to grace The Rondo, this hilarious version of Shakespeares last play was a triumph.
“Small-scale theatre taken to its very limits” - The Independent
In a huge coup Innerroom secured the rights to the script of the Terry Gilliam film. The production toured for four months to the length and breadth of Britain, with great success. Naked men, hilarious wrestles with spaghetti and a heart-warming about salvation made this one of the best shows of 1999.
“Is this what the theatre was invented for I think so” - Bath Chronicle
This beautiful show was performed in full face masks and received rave revues and stunning feedback from audiences. It followed the slow breakdown in communication between a husband and wife and their attempts to spice up their love-life
“slickness personified, one of the funniest comedy-satires on the fringe” - Scotsman
This irreverent romp toured for nearly a year with an ever-changing script. “Pick Of The Fringe” (Scotsman) in Edinburgh and a firm favourite with audiences. All played by two actors, the bouncing bomb was a woman and we really did explode a damn onstage.
“Breakneck speed and a cast of thousands” - Bath Chronicle
Inspired by the theme of Douglas Coupland's Generation X, this devised play followed a possible future controlled only by big business
“faultless and awe-inspiring” - Leicester Mercury
The show that put Innerroom on the map, this barefaced satire of the Westminister Homes-For-Votes scandal was a major triumph on its national tour. Ashley Christmas and Mark Bishop played a cast of epic proportions taking the audience froma packed Houses Of Parliament to a sumo wrestling match.
Three hilarious characters share a room in the middle of nowhere. Together they (literally) build a room onstage. However, the peace is destroyed as they start to argue about who has the most space and who danced with who at last nights impromptu party with only three guests.
