“…something quite special. … What I got was the best version of Macbeth I have been lucky enough to see, even beating the Royal Shakespeare Company hands down.

But it was the urgency of the C Company show, tapping into the break-neck nature of the dialogue and throwing the audience from scene to scene, that was so engrossing.

Nick Danan as Macbeth was exceptional, backed by his Lady Aileen Gonsalves.

On three separate occasions the witches scared me senseless, surrounding us at the entrance, hanging from rocks and in the final scene.”

Original review here.

Kents Cavern in Torquay is a prehistoric cave labrynith where the audience are pulled down into a world of savagery. Led round by the porter the story unfolds as witches come out of walls and ghosts hide among the stalagmites. At the heart of our civilised world what lies beneath us …underground or deep in our hearts. Blood will have blood…
Perfect way to celebrate Halloween 28th – 31st Oct
3 shows nightly 6pm.7.30, or 9pm (not for the fainthearted)

A drama teacher Tony Benet directed this with me acting in it over 18 years ago and I always dreamed of coming back with my own company. I am also very excited to be playing Lady Macbeth! We have some wonderful actors including…

Nick Danan, Jack Lewis, Euan King, Nina Lacalle, Nicci Holtby,Krissie Mcilquham and Aileen Gonsalves!

For lovers of the play it will be a truly unique experience in the setting. Tickets are selling quite fast and I recommend booking soon as the audience promenade along candlelit passages following the Porter and we are strictly resticted to only 40 people a show.

Please TELL ANYONE you know who LIVES IN THE AREA!

The Stage Review said of our recent sold out London production of Macbeth “The C Company’s brisk Macbeth, performed within the time constraints of a lunch hour, captures the relentless speed of Shakespeare’s shortest play with minimal sacrifices of clarity and characterisation.Textual trimming is intelligent and unobtrusive and director Aileen Gonsalves and the cast are to be credited for natural and colloquial line readings throughout that give a freshness and reality to familiar speeches.”

We are very excited to be coming to this incredible setting and responding to it to create the Kents’s Cavern production of Macbeth!
Box Office – 01803 215136
www.kents-cavern.co.uk
www.ccompany.cc

Two very funny, irresistable short Chekhov comedies The Bear and The Proposal

Sept 15th – Oct 2nd @ Tues – Fri @1pm

Tickets £5 in advance £6 on the door.

ONLINE BOOKING  www.bridewelltheatre.org

Staring: Sophie Rickman, Nick Danan, John Bateman, Susan Bracken, Brenden Lovett

Reclaim your lunch hour. Don’t sit at your desk dropping bits of sandwich in your keyboard – get out and about and explore your local area. You might end up watching a 45min version of Two Gentlemen of Verona.

That’s what happened when The Guardian’s Xan Brooks when he popped in to London’s Bridewell Theatre.

This year's Shakespeare Season is about to kick off with Macbeth.

It runs Tuesdays to Fridays from 26th May to the 12th June.  It’s a lunch time show, so bring your packed lunch for 1pm at The Bridewell Theatre, Bride Lane (off Fleet Street)

Cast includes:

Edward Nelson Emma Powell Jason DenyerBrenden Foster Claire Kaplan   :   Sophie Rickman

   

The Country Wife – The Stage

Published Tuesday 28 October 2008 at 18:50 by Gerald Berkowitz

Skilfully cut to a sprightly lunch hour, C Company’s modern dress version of Wycherley’s comedy of wit and seduction eliminates some subplots and secondary characters and in the process surprisingly shifts the comic centre. Wycherley’s core premise, of a rake who feigns impotence to attract women and disarm their husbands, is reduced to a bare mention, somewhat marginalising what was meant to be the central figure and turning the prime butt of Wycherley’s satire, a jealous husband trying to keep his wife from city ways, into a more sympathetic, if still comic character.

James Holmes skilfully underplays the husband, finding all the laughs without over-punching them. Nicci Holtby is particularly delightful in capturing the country wife’s not-so-innocent excitement at discovering the temptations of the town, and Joanna Nuttall blends comedy with some serious comment in a surviving subplot, as the one sensible character watching her self-absorbed fiance blindly let a friend steal her from him.

 Remotegoat by Jill Lawrie

Bitesize take on Wycherley satire 

Tucked away just off Fleet Street, this delightful playhouse offers lunch box theatre to a wide and varied audience, ranging from city slickers to the curious tourist. 

‘The County Wife’, sandwiched into a lunchtime slot, was performed by the small but passionate C Company made up of some twenty five writers, actors and directors who offer high quality and challenging theatre to their audiences.

Directed by Aileen Gonsalves, much of the sexiness of the original tale is lost and the fact that Mr Horner is masquerading as a eunuch plays second fiddle to the jealous husband/brother Mr Pinchwife attempting to keep the women in his life away from temptation! 

Despite being reduced to a bit player the charming Royce Cronin excels as the roguish lothario (Mr Horner) who steals the heart of the naïve country wife Mrs Pinchwife endearingly played by Nicci Holtby.  Her husband Mr Pinchwife (James Holmes) won the audience over with his comic paranoia ~ culminating in a hilarious and enraged attempt at demolishing an orange!  The lively flamboyant Sparkish was convincingly played by Matthew Burton.

These half dozen performers brought together a most entertaining bitesized package much enjoyed by some eighty or so enthusiastic and appreciative supporters.

The annual Christmas party is the setting for Simon Warne’s sparkling new comedy premiere; While your letting your hair down keep your guard up! Loose lips, revealed pay slips, unexpected guests and a paid bar – oh yes it’s that time of year again…

C Company are pleased to announce they are now the resident company following on from their sell out Shakespeare season. Come and see what all the queues are about!

Company’s artistic director Aileen Gonsalves has recently directed the first RSC Youth Ensemble production. Assistant director on Midnights Children and All’s Well That Ends Well (both RSC). As well as 5 previous sell out shows at the Bridewell.

What the press said about our last comedy “The Country Wife”

“a most entertaining bitesized package”

“finding all the laughs without over-punching them.”

CAST:

Sophie Rickman, Nicci Holtby, Caroline Colomei, Chris Crocker, and introducing new graduates Will Cartwright and Francis Ortega

DATES: Dec 2nd – Dec 19th

TIMES: 1pm Tues – Fri (running time 45 minutes)

TICKETS £5

BOX OFFICE: 0207 353 3331