A big date looms for the film industry: The International Awards for Cinematic Excellence ('The Ickies'), this year to be held in a top location in London-town. Hundreds of fabulous filmic folk are invited, to quaff champagne, mingle with friends, bitch about enemies, and witness a parade of clips of the best movies of the year, as voted for by a panel of fussy film-buffs (big bribes gratefully received).
 
In the weeks before the red carpet is rolled out, we drop in on a cast of colourful characters - the stars and their retinues, the film-makers, the critics, the fans and the unrecognised staff of the Big Night, who cater to the ludicrous whims of the famous...and the wannabees.
 
Who will host the ceremony, and will they make it or break it?
Who will get the YUK Award for worst frock?
What backstage traumas will ruffle feathers (and endanger sanity)?
Who will win the top prizes (and who will win Best Upholstery in a Period Drama)?
 
The Red Carpet is musical theatre taking on the movies and producing a show with comedy, pathos, visual thrills, musical range and a look at larger-than-life human beings. Brace yourself for a night of Glamour, Gossip and Shattered Egos. It's real life, only more so. Roll camera.....

THE COMPANY

Cast
Aisha Abubaskar, Francesca Anderson, Melanie Aristidou, Tori Bailey, Alice Barber, Kyle Bennet, Gabriella Birss, Tim Bradbeer, Bianca Calamassi, Emily Conboy, Laura Dukes, Francesca Dunning, Rebecca Fullerton, Ross Goodman, Phoebe Hale, Isobel Hall, Edel Joyce, Sarah Laing, Cassandra Lansdell, Jennifer Leach, Vhonani Manugeni, Katya Merchie, Katherine Milligan, Louise Moore, Terry Ni-Odoi, Hannah Nuttall, Kayleigh O'Flynn, Fiona Roberts, Gustavo Silva Navarro, Laila Smith, Charlotte Solomou, Daniel Turrell, Samuel Turrell, Belinda Ward, Daniella Weduwer, Rebecca White.

Pastoral Staff & Arrangements

Head Chaperone: Paul Byrne
Chaperones: Dawn Bryan, Nicola Curtis, Robert Gavin.

Contact phone number: Number

Rehearsal venue and dates:

Accommodation for the studio will be at the Rotherhithe Youth Hostel, 20 Slater Road, London SE16 5PR.

Rehearsals will be at Bacon's College, Timber Pond Road, Rotherhithe, London, SE16 6AT.

The performance will be at Greenwich Theatre, Croom's Hill, London, SE10 6AT.

Dates and times:  31 July - 5 August 2006.  Performance 2pm 5 August 2006.

Other important information: Participants should arrive at the Rotherhithe Youth Hostel  between 1.00 and 1.30pm on 31 July for registration.  Rehearsals begin promptly at 2.00pm. The project ends at approximately 4.00pm (following the performance) on 5 August.

Travel Information: The Rotherhithe Youth Hostel is at 20 Salter Road, London SE16 5PR .  

 The nearest tube station is Rotherhithe which is on the North London Line (marked orange on the tube map). From the station, turn left as you exit. Walk along Brunel Road over the bridge (the road then turns into Salter Road). The Youth Hostel is on the left hand side. The Hostel is also within easy reach of Canada Water tube station on the Jubilee Line (marked grey on the tube map). The 381 bus (from Waterloo and London Bridge) and the 225 (from Lewisham or Bermondsey) stop outside the Hostel.

Click here for a map of the area.

Bacon's College is at Timber Pond Road, Rotherhithe, London SE16 6AT. It is within easy reach of Rotherhithe, Canada Water and Surrey Quays (East London Line) tube stations.  Click here for a map showing the route from the tube stations to the College.

The Greenwich Theatre is at Crooms Hill, London, SE10 8ES.  Click here for details of how to reach the theatre.

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