The Me Show

press release: 

Kanopy Dance Theatre in Collaboration with Edgewood College Theatre Department presents:

The Me Show

By Multi Story Theatre Company UK

Friday February 19th at 8.00 pm in the Anderson Auditorium of Edgewood College (Located in Predolin Hall)

This is a free performance open to the general public (Donations to support the Companies are welcome)

This 5-star rated, award-winning production is a moving mix of fairy-tale and political commentary. The Me Show weaves together two stories: a couple from a time past attempt to dig themselves a brighter future whilst a couple from time present face the repercussions of whistle-blowing. Making the world a better place comes face to face with the challenges of working together. Rooted in actual events, The Me Show is a fable, though an accompanying twitter-feed brings in our contemporary world.

This is a physical devised theatre piece, created and performed by Multi Story Artistic Directors Bill Buffery and Gill Nathanson.

Bill Buffery‘s formative years were spent with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, and then with the Nottingham Playhouse and the Royal Shakespeare Company as an actor and director. In 1989 he moved to Devon where he was Artistic Director of Orchard Theatre Company for eleven years

Gill Nathanson is a graduate of Bretton Hall. She started her career as the Head of Drama at Pilton Community College and then went on to perform with Theatr Powys, and Coventry Theatre-in-Education Company. She joined Orchard Theatre Company in 1989 for whom – as a core company member – she played a wide variety of leading roles as well as delivering a comprehensive education and community program and superintending the running of three Youth Theaters. 

As the name implies, Multi Story are centrally concerned with the enduring power of story - and with communicating the richness of the old stories to new audiences, both young and old.