La'al Marra "Soaked" Theatre & Performing Arts

It’s Wine O Clock! When do you stop?

That’s how they unwind, how they party, how they deal with the stresses of life; young children, high powered jobs. But after twenty years of drinking to excess, Imogen is having second thoughts. She’s tired of waking up with an unexplained bruise, tired of beating herself up when she’s drunk too much, tired of being tired, but is it enough? When life has become so intertwined with the powerful nectar is it easy to break away, or do relationships start to unravel? Perhaps a wake -up call is all she needs? Filled with humour and drama ‘Soaked’ seeks to unnerve.

Showcase audience response

It was a really great show, can’t wait to find out what happens next. I found it increasingly uncomfortable to watch as it felt disturbingly familiar. Elaine Wise

Naturalistic, truthful dialogue with a light touch, I was interested in all the characters. Joe Sumsion

The show will open at Rosehill Theatre on Saturday 30 September 2017

Emma Rydal’s first play True chronicled the relationship of a volatile mother/daughter relationship through the decades. It won The Audience Award for Best Production and an Equity Award at Manchester’s 24.7 Theatre Festival in 2011. It was nominated for a Manchester Theatre Award.

Praise for True: Rydal milks comedy from the banal and the everyday rather like a young Victoria Wood.

British Theatre Guide Rydal’s script takes a very ordinary situation; a mother daughter relationship and through beautiful dialogue shows its passion, vulnerability, strength and evolution without the need to add sex, drugs or rock and roll.

Emma’s first play True won The Audience Award for Best Production and an Equity Award at Manchester’s 24:7 Theatre Festival in 2011. It was nominated for a Manchester Theatre Award. ‘Rydal milks comedy from the banal and the everyday rather like a young Victoria Wood’. (David Chadderton- British Theatre Guide) The play went on a successful Rural Tour of West Cumbria as well as playing to sell out audiences at The Kirkgate Centre and The Gregson Centre in Lancaster.

Emma has been a professional actor for twenty years working consistently in television, theatre and radio. She featured in the Brit Flick hit ‘East is East’ playing Stella Moorhouse. Emma has recently been seen playing the part of ‘Celia’ in Ruth Jones’ comedy drama ‘Stella’ on Sky One. Even more recently, Emma has toured the West Cumbrian halls again in the show ‘Beyond The Boards’ playing the part of Cassandra.

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