‘BED’….we spend a third of our lives in it…..and much of the rest of our lives on it, around it, making it and thinking about what we can get up to when we are in it. This incredible new musical theatre production ‘Bed’, written by Tim Anfilogoff and Alan Whittaker, will be previewed at this year’s Brighton Fringe ahead of its worldwide premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival’s Gilded Balloon for the month of August.Instead of a honeymoon newlyweds Alice and Ben buy a luxury divan. Is Alice ready to settle down and is Ben’s romantic idealisation of Alice rooted in reality?
‘Bed’ takes us on a journey through over 20 years of married life and all that entails. Joy, anguish, childbirth, housework and the inevitable dirty linen.
BED is writers Anfilogoff and Whittaker’s first sung through musical, having collaborated on several other shows, most recently ‘San Domino’ ‘…poignant story and beautiful, haunting songs’ – What’s On Stage.
The production sees the return of the writers collaboration once more with Director Matthew Gould and Musical Director James Cleeve whom they worked with on their last critically acclaimed production ‘San Domino’ at London’s Arcola Theatre and Tristan Bates Theatre.
CAST:
ALICE – MADELEINE MACMAHON.
Originally from Gloucestershire, she is a Max Turner Prize Winner, BBC New Comedy Award Longlist and Funny Women Semi-Finalist and ‘One To Watch’.
Film/Television includes: Eastenders (BBC); Doctors (BBC); The Freedoms (Amazon Prime); This Little Girl (BFI).
Theatre includes: Breathless (Theatre Royal Plymouth/Soho Theatre/59E59); A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) (Silent Uproar/Tour); 21 Pounds; Cider With Rosie; Beatrix Potter & The Tailor of Gloucester; Great Expectations (Cheltenham Everyman); The Tempest (Creation Theatre); Petticoat Council (Warwick Arts Centre); Hush Now (Feral Productions); Mercury Fur (Middle Child); Kings; Kubrick3; The Dark Room (New Diorama Theatre); Into The Woods (Cockpit Theatre); When Harry Met Barry (Above The Stag); Jack & The Beanstalk; Peter Pan; Sleeping Beauty; Aladdin; Beauty & The Beast; Cinderella; Jason & The Argonauts; Dick Whittington; Hush Now (Hereford Courtyard).
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BEN – JAMES LOYNES.
The Welsh born baritone has a love for inspirational music and has had the opportunity of being invited on several occasions to the United States to record as a guest artist.
His other real passion is music from the shows and after winning The Stage’s “New Voice of Musical Theatre” award, he was invited by Silver Screen Records in London, to sing the Andrew Lloyd Webber classic ‘All I Ask of You’ for their album ‘100 Greatest Musicals’ alongside stars of the West End.
He was invited back in 2011 by film composer Debbie Wiseman and Academy Award-Winning lyricist Don Black, to appear as guest vocalist in the concert “The Magic of Christmas” at London’s Cadogan Hall, performing their song “Nothing Grows On Gold”, accompanied by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and has since been a regular guest at their concerts.
Film/Television includes ITV’s ‘An Act of Faith’ with Donny Osmond.
Theatre includes Charles Miller Cabaret (Union Theatre), Loves Labour’s Lost: A New Musical (LSMT), Girlfriends, (LSMT), Dear Evan Hansen (LSMT) and Nine (LSMT).
