Fags in the Fast Lane
Sophie Rivers teamed up with Harpy Productions, adding to all the other creatives who worked to keep the arts alive during the COVID-19 pandemic. For one night only, a variety of artistic creators cam…
Fags in the Fast Lane
Sophie Rivers teamed up with Harpy Productions, adding to all the other creatives who worked to keep the arts alive during the COVID-19 pandemic. For one night only, a variety of artistic creators came together to stream original theatrical works - all of which were themed around the Apocalypse and the end of days. This subject (swaddled in real anxiety) was engaged with satire, dark humour, and hope. The crew looked to emphasise the voices and interesting perspectives in the diverse Theatre industry. All money raised from ticket sales for this event went to the Samaritans Organisation. Theatre Pieces performed are as follows: The Music A spoken word piece set a generation ahead. A passing of time from mother to daughter through music and memory. There are Two Wolves Mid-lockdown. A World War II bomb is being deactivated down the street. Alex is worried about being blown up. Justin is more concerned with a story about wolves he's found in a copy of Spirituality Weekly. The script concerns various methods of coping, more and less overt, and how fear manifests and communicates itself. Holly Willoughby is Dead Manchester suffers a Nuclear attack. Brothers Curtis and Lol consider themselves 'Preppers'. Continually annoying each other, the dynamic is disturbed when a business man enters their underground bunker. A dark comedy, the play examines how people withstand each other's idiosyncrasies when trapped in a room together, oblivious to the terror and destruction of the world outside. The Apocalypse Kit When Government broadcast announces that everyone has five days to pack their bags and evacuate to the quarantine zone north of Canada, three friends across three countries figure out what in the world they are going to do. Happy Doomsday to You Under lockdown, a great prophet of the rapture is live-streaming his disciples when he is interrupted by an ex-girlfriend. Are we really living through the end times? Or is this just a bad breakup? Fire The world is ending in fifteen minutes. Michael stands alone, watching the fire until a flame from a lifetime ago lets herself in to his apartment. In the last few minutes on earth, they discuss whether anything really matters or anything ever mattered at all. It is inspired by the idea that we often, as human beings, tend to prioritise the idea of 'tomorrow' over 'today'. If the world was ending, what would be the last thing that you did? Who would you want to see? Dire Straits Four survivors of the apocalypse find themselves in dire straits. They have run out of food and are in physical decline. The elderly Judith is nominated by the others as a 'sacrifice, but tables are turned when Judith overhears their conversation. The Beginning of Everything Cindi and Dell are on a long and important mission to find a planet on which to scatter the last seeds of humanity and foster a new civilisation. But after being out in space a hundred years longer than anyone anticipated, on Cindi's 400th birthday, she is beginning to give up hope. Standing on the observation desk, just a thin barrier between atmosphere and the void of space, she holds all that is left of humanity in a little takeout-style container. Dell questions Cindi's motives and the two begin to fight over the container and the meaning of life itself.
Fags in the Fast Lane
Action,Adventure,Comedy
Film Details
Sophie Rivers teamed up with Harpy Productions, adding to all the other creatives who worked to keep the arts alive during the COVID-19 pandemic. For one night only, a variety of artistic creators came together to stream original theatrical works - all of which were themed around the Apocalypse and the end of days. This subject (swaddled in real anxiety) was engaged with satire, dark humour, and hope.
The crew looked to emphasise the voices and interesting perspectives in the diverse Theatre industry. All money raised from ticket sales for this event went to the Samaritans Organisation. Theatre Pieces performed are as follows: The Music A spoken word piece set a generation ahead.
A passing of time from mother to daughter through music and memory. There are Two Wolves Mid-lockdown. A World War II bomb is being deactivated down the street.
Alex is worried about being blown up. Justin is more concerned with a story about wolves he's found in a copy of Spirituality Weekly. The script concerns various methods of coping, more and less overt, and how fear manifests and communicates itself.
Holly Willoughby is Dead Manchester suffers a Nuclear attack. Brothers Curtis and Lol consider themselves 'Preppers'. Continually annoying each other, the dynamic is disturbed when a business man enters their underground bunker.
A dark comedy, the play examines how people withstand each other's idiosyncrasies when trapped in a room together, oblivious to the terror and destruction of the world outside. The Apocalypse Kit When Government broadcast announces that everyone has five days to pack their bags and evacuate to the quarantine zone north of Canada, three friends across three countries figure out what in the world they are going to do. Happy Doomsday to You Under lockdown, a great prophet of the rapture is live-streaming his disciples when he is interrupted by an ex-girlfriend.
Are we really living through the end times? Or is this just a bad breakup? Fire The world is ending in fifteen minutes. Michael stands alone, watching the fire until a flame from a lifetime ago lets herself in to his apartment. In the last few minutes on earth, they discuss whether anything really matters or anything ever mattered at all.
It is inspired by the idea that we often, as human beings, tend to prioritise the idea of 'tomorrow' over 'today'. If the world was ending, what would be the last thing that you did? Who would you want to see? Dire Straits Four survivors of the apocalypse find themselves in dire straits. They have run out of food and are in physical decline.
The elderly Judith is nominated by the others as a 'sacrifice, but tables are turned when Judith overhears their conversation. The Beginning of Everything Cindi and Dell are on a long and important mission to find a planet on which to scatter the last seeds of humanity and foster a new civilisation. But after being out in space a hundred years longer than anyone anticipated, on Cindi's 400th birthday, she is beginning to give up hope.
Standing on the observation desk, just a thin barrier between atmosphere and the void of space, she holds all that is left of humanity in a little takeout-style container. Dell questions Cindi's motives and the two begin to fight over the container and the meaning of life itself..