Photos of the Fragments of Ash production 2012 by Claire Cousin.

Fragments of Ash is an electrifying new play. Intelligent, physical theatre that addresses the news agenda and explores the domestic impact of war after war after war.  A love story, measured in tragedies, which asks a shocking question: what would it take to make an ordinary British mother become a suicide bomber? The...

Tracey was last seen playing the eccentric Brenda Hulse in CALENDAR GIRLS produced by David Pugh Ltd, where she had the opportunity to work alongside Lynda Bellingham, Gemma Craven, Jan Harvey, and Sue Holderness, to name but a few. Other theatre work includes: BLUE REMEMBERED HILLS at Cheltenham Everyman, JANE EYRE at York...

Sam graduated from Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London in 2011. His credits since leaving include EMOTICON in the Brockley Jack Theatre’s new writing festival, THE ART OF CONCEALMENT at the Brighton Fringe Festival, MACBETH with Lazarus Theatre Company, SPRING AWAKENING with Completely Productions, DARK ANGELS...

Dick Bradnum read English at the University of Birmingham and then went on to train at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Institute of Education, UCL. He was a founder member of the Custard Factory Theatre Company. Dick’s acting credits, in a career spanning over 20 years, include ROMEO AND JULIET and MACBETH...

Rebecca trained at Central. Theatre includes: ALLO ALLO! for Calibre Productions,  JEFFREY BERNARD IS UNWELL for Bath Theatre Royal,  NATASHA’S DREAMS for Sputnik at Soho Theatre, TECHNIQUES OF BREATHING IN AN AIRLOCKED SPACE for Sputnik at The Old Red Lion, CRESSIDA AMONGST THE GREEKS at the White Bear, THE ENGINEER OF...

Theatre includes: FRAGMENTS OF ASH (Edinburgh Festival 2011), ROMEO & JULIET (Black Rat Productions), KATE (Harlow Playhouse, Theatre Royal Norwich), SALOME (Chesterfield Pomegranate), Miss Julie in MISS JULIE (Café Theatre, St Martin’s Lane), Inez in Jean Paul Sartre’s IN CAMERA / NO EXIT (London Fringe), KISSING ONLY...

Combining physical theatre and naturalism, Notional Theatre takes a devastating look at the Home Front of modern British warfare. Clêr Stephens plays Eleanor, a widowed single mum by the time she was 18. Now, with her boy Ash grown up and gone, she appears to have a hostage in her front room. It’s a brilliantly...

Fragments of Ash at Venue 13 from Wales’s Notional Theatre registers a visceral anti-war message. A domestic living room, a middle-aged Welsh widow and a bound and hooded hostage raise startling questions from the start of Terry Victor’s play. Slowly, through retelling her life story to her victim we find a woman...

Spine-tingling and intense, this striking piece of new writing and moving production will have audiences gripping their seats from the first second. It focuses on the parallel stories of two mothers’ experiences of war. Clêr Stephens gives a stunning performance as Eleanor, whose narrative is cleverly interwoven with scenes...