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Youth is the gift of nature but age is a work of art by Ruth Parr he Ever HopeFull Rep Season is a collection of theatrical premieres in a pop-up venue in the heart of the city. This four play repertory season of new writing features artists aged 18-80 with the overarching theme being the lives of the over-forties. The Plays American Venus by Leslie Mildiner - Directed by Sarah Berger This Thing Called Love by Shelley Silas - Directed by Ben Caplan Mercy by Claire Whitehead - Directed by Jake Murray The House by Brian Parks - Directed by Keith Myers Jog On by Stephanie Smith Monica Sik Holm - Directed by Charlotte Peters Twain at 70 written by and starring David Patrick Stucky The Golden Age of Theatre - a talk by Nigel Nevinson The So and So Arts Club Founded three years ago the So and So Arts Club is dedicated to connecting artists from all disciplines and ages to foster support collaboration and paid work. The So and So Arts Club is an internet based organisation which has grown to 1200 members in nine different countries. The Club has generated paid work for over 400 actors directors writers and designers in the last three years. Sarah Whitlock appearing in Mercy said Repertory theatre has always been a fabulous way to learn the trade but over recent years it has been replaced by fringe or free performance. The Ever HopeFull Rep. is a great shop window to be seen in and its marvellous fun MERCY By Clare Whitehead directed by Jake Murray Somewhere in the English countryside Helens husband dies. As she ponders life without him she re-examines all she has done - the unhappy love affairs the missed opportunities the small deceptions that became big deceptions - until Dave her first true love walks back into her world. Clare Whiteheads moving and poetic play is a study of lives un-lived regret and second chances and the ever present need for mercy for all of us. 16 THE RIVER AUTUMN 2015 CULTURE EVER HOPEFULL REP The So and So Arts Club Aug 31 at 700pm to Sep 27 at 1000pm 6 Fredericks Place EC2R 8AB Nearest tube Bank Station e sarahberger1gmail.com w www.everhopefullrep.com TICKETS FOR ALL PLAYS ONLY 10 Sarah Whitlock Sarah Berger Director of American Venus