Camille

by Charles Ludlam



9th September 2023
London Performance Studios

“The drawing rooms of Marguerite Gautier. Somewhere in Paris. Sometime in the year 1848. Varville is pacing up and down with a bouquet of flowers.”



Posters by Tom Joyes


After a period of ill-health, the legendary courtesan Marguerite Gautier has returned to nineteenth century Parisian society to take her pick of the city's finest eligible bachelors. But her appetite for luxury is soon tested by the arrival of a handsome, penniless young man named Armand Duval.

This queer melodrama draws on Hollywood cinema and classic French literature to dramatise Marguerite’s tragic downfall in a deliberately ridiculous theatrical style.

The playwright Charles Ludlam wrote, directed and performed in 29 plays for the Ridiculous Theatre Company before his AIDS-related death in 1987. ‘Camille’, which premiered in New York in 1973, is regarded by many as one of his best.  



Charles Ludlam (1943-1987)



Video: Elijah Horne

To learn more about Charles Ludlam and Ridiculous Theatre, visit his author page.



Cast


Sue Gives A Fuck
Paul Hilton 
Rilwan Abiola Owokoniran 
Luke Hornsby 


Holly James Johnston/Orlando 
Jeanie Crystal 
Florence Dobson 
Melissa Saint 

Alistair Hall 
Lauren John Joseph




Director
Alastair Curtis 

Costume and Set
Max Allen & Elliott Adcock 

Sound 
Helen Noir 

Producers
Izzy Parriss 
Katie Byrne and Max Laurie 

Photography
Henry Mills

Commissioned by
London Performance Studios