There’s Always The Stars

This production at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art is set in 1888 and based on true events and people. The script and the characters were all devised by the cast themselves and the performance was split into two different stories that overlap and were combined into one.
The play takes you around the world with Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland and gives you a look inside a Victorian boarding house.

Liz was originally based on a mix of three women who were murdered by Jack the Ripper, then altered for dramatic purposes.

Liz is a young, but very rich prostitute working illegally from the boarding house, which is owned by Mary Jane – Nellie Bly’s mother. Liz comes across as a very cold and self-centered woman and has many enemies, but throughout the play we also get to see her more human side as she bonds with Alexandra about her tattoo and her past. In a dramatic and chaotic final scene, she gets caught trying to lure a clueless 15-year old girl into working in prostitution for her, and she is kicked out of the boarding house.

Cast & Crew

Crew
Alexadra – Cast ‘The Boarding House’	Ines Bally
Annie ET – Cast ‘The Boarding House’	Annabel Marlow
Annie M – Cast ‘The Boarding House’	Molly Marr-Johnson
Bill – Cast ‘The Boarding House’	Issam Al Ghussain
Charlie- Cast ‘The Boarding House’	Charlotte Tilley
Hermann – Cast ‘The Boarding House’	Matthew Grainger
Katherine – Cast ‘The Boarding House’	Pauline Kehlet Schou
Lee – Cast ‘The Boarding House’	Jasmín Dúfa Pitt
Liz – Cast ‘The Boarding House’	Emilia Moscovich
Margaret – Cast ‘The Boarding House’	Kathryn Lincoln Manwaring
Mary Jane – Cast ‘The Boarding House’	Jessica Whiley
Maureen – Cast ‘The Boarding House’	Oriana Buckland
Sarah – Cast ‘The Boarding House’	Courtney Spencer
Susan B. Anthony – Cast ‘The Boarding House’	Emily Shanks
Tillie – Cast ‘The Boarding House’	Siobhana Healy
Unknown – Cast ‘Around The World’	David Abécassis
Unknown – Cast ‘Around The World’	Zoë Birkbeck
Unknown – Cast ‘Around The World’	Natasha Du Prez
Unknown – Cast ‘Around The World’	Abi Dyson
Unknown – Cast ‘Around The World’	Caitlin Harvey
Unknown – Cast ‘Around The World’	Alistair Nwachukwu
Unknown – Cast ‘Around The World’	Charlie Ridgeway
Unknown – Cast ‘Around The World’	Ruby Smiles
Unknown – Cast ‘Around The World’	Miranda Spencer-Pearson
Unknown – Cast ‘Around The World’	Louis Starkey
Director	James Kerr
Director	Donnacadh O’Briain
Isabella – Cast ‘The Boarding House’	Grace Martin
Unknown – Cast ‘Around The World’	Matilda Bailes
Unknown – Cast ‘Around The World’	Emily Brown
Unknown – Cast ‘Around The World’	Harry Butcher
Unknown – Cast ‘Around The World’	Molly Marr-Johnson
Unknown – Cast ‘Around The World’	Tommy Moore
Unknown – Cast ‘Around The World’	Dan Morris

Added by Violet.

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