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Sea-change Theatre Company are currently working on reviving the popular play, Raising the Wreck, by Sue Frumin. Raising the Wreck was originally commissioned by Gay Sweatshop and was a launch pad for many well known creatives, including booker Prize winner, Bernardine Evaristo, and TS Eliot awardee, Joelle Taylor. 

 

If you are a theatre and arts venue and you are interested in working with us, please do drop us a line.

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Info@sea-changetheatre.com

Tel: +44 7711910894

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Sea-change Theatre believe it is important to make art accessible to everyone, our company is inclusive of disability, age, class, nationality, race, sexuality and gender.

 

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  • Promote a vibrant, feminist and LGBTQIA theatre. 

  • To give female actors the opportunity to play strong characters. 

  • Allows professionally trained artists to live, work and create theatre. 

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“I remember Raising the Wreck as a ground-breaking drama bringing lesbian lives to the fore. It’s fitting that it should be reintroduced to a new audience forty years after it was first produced.” Bernardine Evaristo- writer, author, original cast member, and the first black woman to win The Booker Prize

Raising the Wreck
 

Coming soon...

By

Sue Frumin

How it all began..

 

In 1985, Gay Sweatshop commissioned Sue Frumin to write Raising the Wreck. The play is set in a sunken galleon where four long dead women seafarers tell a modern woman about their experience. The performers were all female, and for the first time in the companies history the play had a multi-racial cast.here four long dead women seafarers tell a modern woman about their experience. The performers were all female, and for the first time in the companies history the play had a multi-racial cast.

In 2017, extracts of this popular play were performed at The Arcola Theatre with The Arcola Queer Collective, and in 2023 the full play was resurrected by Paul Green for Bijou Stories (https://bijouhistory.com/2023/08/03/raising-the-wreck/) and a rehearsed reading was produced by Susan Croft for Unfinished Histories (www.unfinishedhistories.com) at Newington Green Meeting House.
'In the heart of a sunken pirate ship, where four fierce female pirates, long since dead, recount their stories to a woman who has fallen into a timeslip from 1980s London, where she is one of the women running a pirate radio station. Originally commissioned from Sue Frumin in 1985 by Gay Sweatshop's women's company for the first time in the company’s history the play had a multi-racial cast. Moving, funny and insightful, the piece is based on the true stories of legendary women pirates including Grace O'Malley, Mary Read and Ching Pan Twu.''
Cast and Crew: "Directed by Runa Augdal with Charly Faye, Blair Heinz, Catherine Mieses, Cicely Halkes-Wellstead, Elise Xiaqi and Emma Louise-Price.

Audience members said: ‘'The actresses were so good… Not only did they create such compelling characters but they had a great chemistry and a fast banter. The play was sparking with jokes and the ensemble got the timing exactly right for the audience to laugh.'’

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The original 1985 Gay Sweatshop cast and crew:

Writer: Sue Frumin

Director: Paddi Taylor
Cast: Bernadine Evaristo, Hazel Maycock, Sara Ridd, Denise Thompson, Marjolein de Vries
Designer: Kate Owen

designed by HKC

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