The Play: How to Urn a Living
How to Urn a Living is a comedy set in Fowler’s Funeral home. For generations, Fowler’s Funerals has undertaken the responsibility of lifting the spirits of grieving people, providing everything needed for a special day- from the finest flowers to the best coffins. They also have urns, if you like to think outside the box. But lately business has been dying down… they’ve even tried implementing a ‘buy one, get one free’ offer, but it never took off. What lengths will Fowler, Wisteria, and Lilith go to to keep their beloved shop above ground? This play questions how class, religion, responsibility, traditions, and more impacts relationships to death and begs the question, “is it ok to capitalize on death?”
The Company: Berserk Theatre
Zofia Zerphy
Writer
Vilde Bjorkedal
Director
The Cast of How to Urn a Living
Zofia Zerphy
as Wisteria
Fiona Lotara
as Lilith
Tobias Reymond
as Mr. Fowler
Yolanda Matji
as the Customers
Berserk's story
Berserk Theatre is an international company co-founded by Zofia Zerphy and Vilde Bjorkedal. Hailing from Norway and the United States, we make work that connects to an international audience by exploring and subvertig expectations around universal experiences- like in our first show How to Urn a Living, a comedy centered around death.
Our Goal
This show has already made a successful debut at East 15’s International Festival of Original Work, and we feel it can be successful in the London theater scene as well. Being a brand new theater company, we need to raise funds in order to introduce our work and ourselves to the professional acting industry. Funds raised will allow us to take our show to the Camden Fringe festival summer of 2024 (tickets available on the Camden Fringe website).
Images from our run at east 15's international festival
Photo Credits @AndrewHWilliams
Find us
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Email: berserk.theatre.uk@gmail.com
where your money goes
Insurance: £175
Venue hire: £550
Props: £200
Costumes: £100
If we recieve more funding we can...
Pay the travel costs for actors/artists involved: £300
Marketing: £200
Set: £400
If we receive even more...
We can pay the actors and creatives behind this project a livable wage
Help us succeed!
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- In fact, share it with everyone you know as we think it's a great idea, and the more people who know about it, the more likely we are to make this work out brilliantly.
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