Dead and Kicking at Camden People's Theatre
Dates: (4/3/2025 - 4/5/2025 )
Camden People's Theatre |
Mulch Productions
58-60 Hampstead Road, London, NW1 2PY
London,
Tickets: £12-£18
Mulch Productions returns to Camden People’s Theatre with their genre-defying, pitch-black tragicomedy based on the true story of a woman: very much alive, declared legally dead.
In 2016, when a woman experiences a series of unexplained inconveniences - a rejected passport application, cheques that keep bouncing, her attempts to fill her prescriptions being denied - she shakes it off as a strange coincidence, a wrinkle that will soon be ironed out. It is only when a letter arrives at her house, addressed to her husband, declaring her deceased that she realises something is seriously wrong. Dead and Kicking tells the unbelievable true story of a person on an absurd mission to prove something that should be painfully obvious: she is very much alive.
Greedily burning through theatrical styles and genres, we use verbatim text, original music, dance and clowning to delve into this puzzling story and ask: can you really exist if the system thinks you’re dead?
Previous development at LAMDA ColLab23, MishMash Festival, MishMashx503 Takeover and CPT SPRINT Festival 2024.
Supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
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Cast and Creative team for Dead and Kicking at Camden People's Theatre
Cast
Camilla Anvar
Jeanne
Tilly Botsford
Troupe
Rosa Collier
Troupe
Larissa Crafford-Lazarus
Troupe
Ezra Saifie
Troupe
Creative Team
Camilla Anvar
Mulch Productions
Camilla Anvar (she/her) is a Central Asian / BESEA actor and artist from SE London. She holds a BFA in Sculpture from the Edinburgh College of Art and an MFA in Acting from LAMDA. Exhib includes Fruitmarket Gallery, Talbot Rice Gallery.
She is an alumnus of the Old Vic Theatre Makers ‘20, Traverse Young Writers.
Most recently: Bark Bark at Summerhall EdFringe 2024 and The Mosinee Project at New Diorama 2025.
Martha Barnett
Mulch Productions
Martha Barnett (she/her) is a theatre maker who works both directing and devising theatre. She has a BA in English Literature and Theatre from the University of Leeds and an MA in directing from LAMDA. Her work is multi-sensory, experimental and whimsically fun. She explores form, what it is that makes theatre theatre and the continually evolving and imperative relationship between stage and audience. She is interested in non-traditional theatre spaces and how physical locations are not separate to the work, but a living part of it. She has previously addressed issues such as the gaping holes in the UK care system and food poverty.
Tilly Botsford
Mulch Productions
Tilly Botsford (she/her) is an actor and musician from South London with a BA in Social Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh and MFA in Acting from LAMDA. Most recently Kitty in The Welkin (Off-Broadway) with Atlantic Theatre Company.
Rosa Collier
Mulch Productions
Rosa Collier (she/her) is a British-Hungarian actor and musician. After studying English at UCL, she trained at LAMDA, graduating in 2023 with an MFA in Professional Acting. Her theatre experience includes Our Man in Havana (Spies Like Us) at Edinburgh Fringe 2017 & 2018, Hong Kong ArtisTree Festival 2019, and Vault Festival 2020; Woyzeck (Spies Like Us) at Edinburgh Fringe 2018 and Bristol NSDF Festival 2019; and Folly to be Wise (Scallywag) at Hen & Chickens Theatre in 2024. Alongside acting, she plays piano and percussion.
Larissa Crafford-Lazarus
Mulch Productions
Larissa Crafford-Lazarus (she/her) is a SW London based South African actor. She holds a BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA from LAMDA. She teaches short courses in Shakespeare for The British International School and works as a music consultant for emerging singer-songwriter Elmarie. Favourite theatre credits include the anarchic rock musical The Dream Engine in Amherst, Massachusetts, Spring Awakening in New York City and Wolfie at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond.
Upcoming: A Girl Called Owl (Calaringe Productions) in South Africa and The Experiment (Elegy) at the Golden Goose.
Ezra Saifie
Mulch Productions
Ezra Saifie (she/her) is a South Asian actor and voiceover artist from SE London with a BA in Philosophy and Psychology from the University of Leeds, and an MFA in Acting from LAMDA.
Credits include The Small Things at the Orange Tree Theatre, Pinch Perkins and the Midsummer Curse, and Pinch Perkins and the Nightmare Tree (Harper Collins).
Upcoming: The Serial Killer Support Group (Harper Collins).
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