Touring Drama Festival Production
Anyone Can Dance
1 March
– 30 September 2017
By Sean Baker
The play explores whether soulmates truly exist by asking what might have happened if the main couple had met earlier in life—as children, teenagers, or university students.
The play explores whether soulmates truly exist by asking what might have happened if the main couple had met earlier in life—as children, teenagers, or university students.
Set entirely in a messy bedroom/apartment, the narrative centres on Joe and Samantha, a 30-something couple together for roughly six months. As they talk in bed, quick vignettes use snappy dialogue, lighting cues, and rapid transitions to re-enact fictional past encounters at different ages, balancing humour with occasional darker tones of despair.
The play won the following awards on the Drama Festival Circuit:
Sawston Drama Festival
Second Place
Best New Pay - Sean Baker
Cambridge Drama Festival
Second Place
Best New Play - Sean Baker
Best Actor - James Inman
Best Lighting
All England Theatre Festival English Finalist - Bridgwater, Somerset
