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FRINGE THEATRE NOTES

Theatremonkey has been asked to mention the following Fringe productions and theatres outside the West End of London.

If you are a fringe company who would like to tell us about a production, click here.

www.shakespeares-globe.org for the Globe Theatre. Look under "Booking" on their website for a full pictorial layout and photographs of the auditorium. 


Choose your Theatre / Venue by scrolling through the list below:

 
Above The Stag Theatre

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Above the Stag Public House, 15 Bressenden Place London SW1E 5DD
Box Office: 0844 478 0030
Online:
www.abovethestag.com
How to get Here:
Victoria (Victoria, Circle, District and Mainline) is the nearest station.

Tuesday 2nd until Sunday 28th March 2010
Press Night: Wednesday 3rd March 2010

Peter Bull for Above the Stag Theatre presents:

MAURICE
by Roger Parsley and Andy Graham
from the novel by E. M. Forster
directed by Tim McArthur

. . . a tale of passion, bravery and defiance.

A theatrical adaptation of EM Forster’s classic novel, Maurice – a story of passion, bravery and defiance set against the repressive and hypocritical attitudes of Edwardian England.

It’s also a story of identity and expectation. Maurice’s future is mapped out from childhood. Only when he goes to Cambridge does he start to question the expectations imposed upon him – by his family, by the British class system, by a restrictive society and by the legal and social taboos around homosexuality.

His personal struggle to recognise his true self and accept ‘the love that dare not speak its name’ nearly breaks him. But this is more than a gay coming-of-age story. It explores our deepest insecurities – the need to fit in, having the courage to stand out and suddenly seeing society from the outside.

Maurice was written almost a century ago in 1914 but unpublishable until 50 years later in 1971, a year after Forster died and only 4 years after the legalisation of homosexuality. It was an intensely personal tale which, during his lifetime, he shared only with trusted friends, including D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, T. E. Lawrence, Lytton Strachey, and Paul Cadmus. The final happy ending where Maurice and his lover ‘walk off into the sunset together’ flew in the face of contemporary expectation then and even in 1971 when it was published.


Cast includes : Laura Armstrong, Gavin Dobson, Jonathan Hansler, Persia Lawson, Adam Lilley, Leanne Masterton, Stevie Raine, Rob Stott, Gil Sutherland
 


Performance Times:

Tuesday to Saturday at 7.30pm
Sundays at 6pm
NO MONDAY PERFORMANCES


Seat Prices:
2nd until 7th March 2010: All tickets £12
9th until 28th March 2010: All tickets £14
 



Albany Theatre 

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Douglas Way, Deptford, London, SE8 4AG
Box Office: 020 8692 4446
Online: www.thealbany.org.uk
How to get Here:
Deptford Station (mainline) is 2 minutes walk away. Deptford is a 6 minute journey from London Bridge Station / 20 minutes from Charing Cross.

In the Red Room from
Wednesday 24th until Friday 26th March, 2010

Sweet or Sour presents:


BODY TALKS

by Tonny A

A new piece performed by French performance maker Tonny A as part of the Albany’s Director’s Lab season.

Body Talks is Tonny A’s first sharing of his research on physicality and the disabled body. Described as a study of human anatomy, Body Talks explores through performance the evolution of the body, its language and image. Drawing inspiration from our current obsession with age, Tonny investigates on the physical reactions to our obsessive quest for youth, pondering, from being a walking autobiography, whether the body hasn’t become a false representation of our state of mind. Based on the results of a public online consultation he has recently launched, Tonny will be conceiving snapshots of interdisciplinary performances which cross over contemporary dance, live art and poetry on screen.

Body Talks is performed in the Albany’s Red Room, a versatile studio space which offers Tonny A. a perfect opportunity to design a minimal but intimate set which, at times, create the illusion of being in a gallery space.

Tonny A. has a degree in History and Politics from Paris’s legendary university La Sorbonne. Having travelled for many years around Eastern Europe and the United States, Tonny first pursued a career in journalism before becoming a performance artist while settling in London. Based on his personal experiences related to his disability, Tonny’s work primarily deals with identity, sexuality and physicality of the disabled body, often combining dance, spoken word and moving images. Tonny has showed his pieces
In numerous platforms and fringe theatres including GFest 08/09, Chelsea Theatre and recently The Blue Elephant theatre.
 

Performance Times:
Wednesday to Friday at 7pm


Seat Prices:
All tickets: £5
 



Almeida Theatre 

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Almeida Street, London, N1 1TA
Box Office: 020 7359 4404
Online: www.almeida.co.uk
How to get Here:
Nearest underground Highbury and Islington (Victoria Line) or Angel (Northern Line), Essex Road or Highbury and Islington Main line station. Buses: 4, 19, 30, 43.

 



The Archangel

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11-13 Kensington High Street W8 5NP
Box Office: 020 7938 4137 for information only. See under individual productions for booking.
Online: www.archangelw8.com for information only. See under individual productions for booking.
How to get Here: High Street Kensington (Circle and District Lines) is the nearest underground station.

 



Arcola 1 Theatre 

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27 Arcola Street, London, E8 2DJ
Box Office: 0207 503 1646
Online: www.arcolatheatre.com 
How to get Here:
Nearest underground Highbury and Islington (Victoria Line), then Silverlink to Dalston Kingsland Main line station. Buses: 38 from West End, 149 from London Bridge or 30, 56, 67, 76, 243, 277.
Access: If you require accessible transport, you might find it easiest to take bus number 149 from Liverpool Street Station and get off at Princess May Primary School (at the end of Arcola Street, a few hundred yards from the theatre).

Tuesday 6th until Saturday 24th April 2010
Press Night: Wednesday 7th April 2010

Attic Theatre Company presents:

1936
A play about the Berlin Olympics
by Tom McNab
directed by Jenny Lee

World-class athletics coach and award-winning novelist/ playwright Tom McNab depicts the lead up to one of the most controversial sporting events in history, using the unusual marriage of drama and sport to explore the events that helped to place Hitler’s Germany firmly in the centre of the world stage.

Performed by a 9-strong cast, the play conjures up the conversations and conflicts leading up to the Games, as seen through the eyes of American Journalist William Shirer. Placing scenes between Hitler and Goebbels next to debates in the International Olympic Committee and the American Amateur Athletics Union, the play reveals the controversies surrounding the event, portraying political and cultural tensions and the stories of the athletes involved, with Jesse Owens at the centre. 1936 is dynamic and fast-paced, crossing continents with ease.

The Berlin Games were the first time that the Olympics were used as a powerful political tool for propaganda. Despite Hitler’s treatment of the Jews and Jewish athletes, no boycott was ever achieved. Could the cancellation of the Games have changed World History? Through raising this issue 1936 reminds us of Olympics that have taken on a political dimension since then, from the Civil Rights ‘Black Power’ salute of 1968, to the murders at Munich in 1972, and the human rights protests outside the Beijing Bird’s Nest.

The evening concludes with an excerpt from Leni Riefenstahl’s film Olympia, touched on in the play, and a debate led by Tom McNab. Look out for the eminent athletes who have been invited to join the panel! (including Linford Christie, Tony Jarrett, Geoff Capes and Dorothy Tyler – 1936 silver medalist).

London-based ATTIC Theatre Company has produced ten premieres in twelve years including Markings by Dom Francis and the first UK tour of Knives In Hens by David Harrower.

www.attictheatrecompany.com is the company website.



Cast includes: Jim Creighton, David Baron and Rolan Bell.

 

Performance Times:
Monday to Saturday at 8pm
Extra performance Saturday 24th April 2010 at 3pm
 

Seat Price:
All tickets £
16 (£10 concessions) EXCEPT
Tuesdays are "Pay What You Can" Nights (tickets subject to availability)
 



Arcola 2 Theatre 

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27 Arcola Street, London, E8 2DJ
Box Office: 0207 503 1646
Online: www.arcolatheatre.com 
How to get Here:
Nearest underground Highbury and Islington (Victoria Line), then Silverlink to Dalston Kingsland Main line station. Buses: 38 from West End, 149 from London Bridge or 30, 56, 67, 76, 243, 277.
Access: If you require accessible transport, you might find it easiest to take bus number 149 from Liverpool Street Station and get off at Princess May Primary School (at the end of Arcola Street, a few hundred yards from the theatre).
 


Arcola 3 Theatre 

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27 Arcola Street, London, E8 2DJ
Box Office: 0207 503 1646
Online: www.arcolatheatre.com 
How to get Here:
Nearest underground Highbury and Islington (Victoria Line), then Silverlink to Dalston Kingsland Main line station. Buses: 38 from West End, 149 from London Bridge or 30, 56, 67, 76, 243, 277.
Access: If you require accessible transport, you might find it easiest to take bus number 149 from Liverpool Street Station and get off at Princess May Primary School (at the end of Arcola Street, a few hundred yards from the theatre).
 


Arcola K Theatre 

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27 Arcola Street, London, E8 2DJ
Box Office: 0207 503 1646
Online: www.arcolatheatre.com 
How to get Here:
Nearest underground Highbury and Islington (Victoria Line), then Silverlink to Dalston Kingsland Main line station. Buses: 38 from West End, 149 from London Bridge or 30, 56, 67, 76, 243, 277.
Access: If you require accessible transport, you might find it easiest to take bus number 149 from Liverpool Street Station and get off at Princess May Primary School (at the end of Arcola Street, a few hundred yards from the theatre).

 



Arts Depot

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5 Nether Street, Tally Ho Corner, London N12 0GA
Box Office: 020 8369 5454
Online: www.artsdepot.co.uk
How to get Here:
West Finchley and Woodside Park (Northern Line) are the nearest underground stations. Buses 134, 263, 82, 125, 134, 221 and 460 stop at the complex.
 



Arts Workers Guild

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6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT
Box Office: 020 7278 3009 (INFORMATION ONLY)
Online:
www.artworkersguild.org
How to get Here:
Nearest underground Russell Square or Holborn (Piccadilly Line).

Lectures, various dates until Tuesday 18th May 2010

The Society for Theatre Research present:

STR 2010 LECTURE PROGRAMME

The Society for Theatre Research (STR) are pleased to continue their exciting Lecture Programme, which includes free events - all open to the public.

Programme highlights include Gregory Doran (Associate Director, Royal Shakespeare Company) discussing directing Shakespeare; award-winning playwright and actor Kwame Kwei-Armah discussing contemporary Black British drama and the Playwright's Relationship to Heritage, Representation and Legacy; and the annual address, which will this year be given by former Evening Standard theatre critic and playwright Nicholas de Jongh.

Programme:

Changing Your Nation and Changing Your Station: the Playwright's Relationship to Heritage, Representation and Legacy
22 March 2010, 7.30pm.
Discussion between Kwame Kwei-Armah, Michael Bhim and Dr Deirdre Osborne
This discussion will focus upon the transformations of perception wrought by 'changing your nation and changing your station,' which draws on history, the present and the reception abroad of contemporary dramatists and the ways in which they seek to project their work beyond the UK.
NB. This event takes place at the National Theatre Archive, NT Studio 83-101 The Cut London SE1 8LL.

Stephen Joseph versus the Establishment
20 April 2010, 7.30pm.
Presented by Paul Elsam
The Pat Forster Memorial Lecture. The focus for this lecture will be theatre manager Stephen Joseph's relationship with 'the Establishment' during his adult life within British professional theatre. Drawing on fresh archival and oral history research, Paul Elsam will be examining public and private disagreements between Joseph and members of the so-called Establishment.

The Annual Address
18 May 2010, 8.15pm.
Presented by Nicholas de Jongh
Nicholas de Jongh retired in 2009 from the post of chief theatre critic for the London Evening Standard, a position which he had held since 1991. As he has never been one to mince his words, we can expect a lively and controversial evening in his company.

The Society for Theatre Research (STR) was founded in 1948 to encourage research into past and present British theatre practice and campaigning to save historic theatres and preserve memorabilia. It is the oldest society of its type in the English-speaking world, with a membership that is international.

www.str.org.uk has full information on this programme.
 

Performance Times:
as stated under each lecture above.

Seat Price:
All tickets
FREE and no booking is required. Refreshments are available.

 



Ashcroft Theatre

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Fairfield Halls, Park Lane, Croydon, Surrey, CR9 1DG.
Box Office: 020 8688 9291 (with booking fee)
Online: www.fairfield.co.uk (with booking fee)
How to get Here:
East Croydon (mainline) is the nearest station.

 



The Bakehouse Theatre 

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11 Blackheath Village, Blackheath, London, SE3 9LA
Box Office: see under individual production.
Online: see under individual production.
How to get Here:
Blackheath (mainline) is the nearest station.

 



Barons Court Theatre 

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The Curtain's Up Public House, 28A Comeragh Road, London W14 9HR
Box Office: 020 8932 4747
Online:
http://www.offwestend.com/index.php/theatres/shows/42
How to get Here: Barons Court (District and Piccadilly Line) is the nearest underground station.

Tuesday 9th until Sunday 14th March 2010

Gable Productions present:

TRIBUTE - AGES OF MAN

Longtime leading character actor George Innes takes the audience on a memorable, often humorous, journey with his one man show "Tribute".

From the youthful Romeo to the aging Lear, Innes has chosen a selection of best known and well loved Shakespearean soliloquies and sonnets from Sir John Gielgud's original 'Ages of Man'.

Interwoven with the Bard's words are Gielgud's thoughts and letters to family, friends and colleagues, as he reflects on the final phases of his own life.

The show is highlighted by music by Stephanie Feeney from the British Lute Society.

www.georgeinnes.com is the company website.


Cast: George Innes.
 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Sunday at 8pm


Seat Prices:
All tickets £1
0 (£8 concessions)
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Tuesday 16th until Saturday 20th March 2010

THE WAY OF THE WORLD
by William Congreve
directed by David Phipps-Davis

A comedy of elegance, class, manners and deception, set in a fashionable London society that really has money and sex at the heart of its concerns.

Mirabell and Millamant love each other, but they endlessly deceive other people, and each other, in order to achieve that love.

This revival has a cast of 13 and is helmed by veteran director David Phipps-Davis.

 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Saturday at 7.30pm


Seat Prices:
All tickets £1
2 (£10 concessions)
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Tuesday 23rd until Sunday 28th March 2010

Mack Creations present:

VIRTUAL REALITY
by Alan Arkin

De Recha is an uptight aspiring spy. His big test is an unspecified job in a warehouse, and success hinges on his truculent partner Lefty, a plumber he has never met before. But it turns out Lefty is also being tested. Who is pulling the strings, and why?

Paris-based Mack Creations bring the comic, paranoid world of US actor and author Alan Arkin to London.

 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Sunday at 7.30pm


Seat Prices:
All tickets £1
0 (£8 concessions)
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Tuesday 30th March until Sunday 4th April 2010

Nadine's Window presents:


THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
by Oscar Wilde
directed by Nadine Hanwell

A glorious comedy of mistaken identity, which ridicules codes of propriety and etiquette and exposes all the characters as living double lives.

Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff are two men both pretending to be someone they are not. Jack is in love with Gwendolen, but Gwendolen is in love with Ernest... Algernon is in love with Cecily, but Cecily is in love with Ernest...

Lady Bracknell interviews Jack to determine his eligibility as a son-in-law only to find he was found in 'a handbag!' Famous quotations abound, such as 'To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness!'

Oscar Wilde continues to entertain audiences with his dazzling wit that made his plays 'revolutionary in the theatre of their time'. An absolutely umissable production.

Nadine's Window returns to the Barons Court Theatre after their successful transfer of Daisy Pulls it Off at the Arts Theatre.

Cast: Michael Aucott - Algernon; Andrew Glen - Jack;


Natalie Ames - Cecily (above);


Anna Keeble - Gwendolen (above); Jeryl Burgess - Lady Bracknell; Kate Sandison - Miss Prism; Richard Ward - Rev Chasuble; Kevin Halliwell - Lane/Merriman

 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Saturday at 7.30pm
Sunday at 7pm


Seat Prices:
All tickets £1
2 (£10 concessions)
 



Battersea Arts Centre

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Lavender Hill, Battersea, London SW11 5TN
Box Office: 020 7223 2223 (booking fee may apply)
Online: www.bac.org.uk (booking fee may apply)
How to get Here: Clapham Common (Northern Line), at 20 minutes walk away, is the nearest underground station. Clapham Junction (from Victoria or Waterloo), at 5 minutes walk away, is the nearest mainline station. Buses 345, 77, 77A, 156 and G1 stop right outside.

Tuesday 2nd until Thursday 25th March 2010
Press Night: Wednesday 3rd March 2010

Polarbear, mac and BAC in association with The Albany present the world premiere of:

RETURN
written by Polarbear
directed by Yael Shavit

'Return’ tells the story of Noah, who comes back home after realising that his new life in London does not feel right. The narrative follows him as he faces the people he left: dealing with each relationship in turn and discovering along the way that there are things he can control and just as many that he can't.

BAC launches a season of work devoted to the art of storytelling with this one man show by one of Britain’s leading spoken word artists, Polarbear. In his distinctive Birmingham lilt, Polarbear unfolds his narrative of return, loss and memory, borrowing from the language of film-making to conjure a bold visual landscape in his audience’s imagination.

Polarbear came to national prominence as part of Apples & Snakes’ Exposed tour and through performances at the summer festivals. His work has featured on BBC Radio 1, 3, 4 and 6 and he has performed around the world from Glastonbury to Kuala Lumpur, Koko to California. He leads writing and performance projects up and down the country. His hour-long performance story, If I cover my nose you can’t see me, toured nationally in 2008/09 and closed the London Literature Festival with a sell out two night run at The Purcell Room, Southbank Centre.

On Thursday evenings throughout the run, ‘RETURN’ will be performed in unusual spaces around the building- from a small room with a fire to the enormous grand hall - as Polarbear explores the changing dynamics of the piece and the possibility of creating intimacy in different spaces.

Developed at BAC. Commissioned by Live Literature Consortium.

www.homeofpolar.com is the performer's website.

Designed by Marie Blunck.
Script Development by Yael Shavit

Cast: Polarbear.


Performance Times:

Tuesday to Saturday at 7.30pm
No performances 22nd, 23rd or 24th March 2010.

Runs 1 hour approximately.
 

Seat Prices:
All tickets: £12 (£7 concessions)
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Tuesday 2nd March until Saturday 10th April 2010

BAC presents:

THE BIG STORY

Pull up a chair, take a place beside the fire and get comfortable, as BAC begins a season of work devoted to the age old art of storytelling.

Programme:

Little Bulb Theatre 2 to 20 March (Tuesday to Saturday, except Friday 5th), 9.30pm
Sporadical
Join Little Bulb Theatre (Crocosmia) and the young Welles-Ferrys for a delightful hour of arias, sea shanties, ballads, and beat poetry as they host this year's family reunion.
Be greeted by the quirky bunch, grab a drink, and enjoy this Epic Folk Opera where mermaids rot in brine, and sea captains sport beards and bravado. Raise your glass in a toast as the threads of family history meet up in a puppeted climax!
Created and performed by Little Bulb.
£5 (£3)
Suitable for 12+

Jon Haynes 4-20 March (Thu-Sat), 8pm
The Poof Downstairs
When Jeremy moves back into his parents' home he finds little has changed. He is still dominated by a nagging mother, and bewildered by a distant father who dreams of going fishing. In the conflict that follows Jeremy becomes the focus of his parents' struggle for supremacy.
A circuitous and ambiguous black comedy; this is the first play by the co-founder & joint Artistic Director of the award winning Ridiculusmus.
Created and Performed by Jon Haynes, with Charles Millington and Patrizia Paolini.
£10 (£6)

Ryan Stevens (Nick Ryan and Tassos Stevens) 9 and 10 March, 7.45pm
SCRATCH: Jimmy Stewart, an anthropologist from Mars, analyses love and happiness in humans (and rabbits)
Jimmy Stewart wants to know what love is. It happens between humans. And rabbits too, possibly.
£5 (£3)

a smith and Amund Sjølie Sveen 9 March, 8.45pm
where are you?
A special show about where we come from and what we do that has visited schools in Norway, Russia, and now Wandsworth as part of BAC’s Schools Programme.
£5 (£3)

David Gale Unit 5: 11, 12, 13 March, 7.30pm
Dash Dash Dash
Dash Dash Dash is a grand theatrical experiment consisting of six short shows and an omnibus, each having no apparent narrative links or, indeed, apparent narratives. Themes abound, however, in this fractured, startling, hilarious and blood-soaked tribute to the end of the world as we know it.
Written and directed by David Gale, alongside designers from Wimbledon College of Art.
£5 (£3)

The River People 16, 17 March, 8pm
Lilly through the Dark
An intimate and macabre story inspired by real events using a unique style of puppetry, live music and poetic language.
£10 (£6)
Suitable for 12+

Andy Field 16, 17 March, 8.45pm
SCRATCH: This Show was Born at the End of The World
A reconstruction of the end of the world as witnessed by the audience.
£5 (£3)
Suitable for 16+

Dom Lawton 18, 19, 20 March, 6.45pm
The Raun Tree
"There's a tree in the middle of my room and I can hear it singing. Or maybe it's me singing."
An apocalyptic fairy-tale with crunky banjos and haunted songs.
£5 (£3)

Ventriloquist 19, 20 March, 8.45pm
The Lost Menagerie
A peculiar, beautiful mix of poetry, science fiction, fantasy adventure and cinematic electronic score by Riaan Vosloo (Nostalgia 77).
£8 (£5)

Inspector Sands 29 March to 10 April (except 4 and 5 April), 7.30pm, Matinee April 3rd at 2.30pm
If That’s All There Is
A couple are teetering on the brink of marriage. As the happiest day of their lives approaches, the panic begins to rise. And everybody’s watching. Through the eyes of a jaded therapist and an awkward teenage girl we witness a surreal and hilarious case study of longing, envy, disappointment and violent urges. Inspired by the Peggy Lee song Is that all there is? The award-winning Inspector Sands present their award winning sell-out hit from Edinburgh Fringe 2009.
£10 (£6)


Performance Times:

See under individual events.

Seat Prices:
See under individual events. For those entitled to them, concession prices appear in brackets after the main prices.
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Wednesday 24th until Saturday 27th March 2010

BAC presents:

IF I RULED THE WORLD…

With the 2010 general election only months away young people from across the country take over Battersea’s Old Town Hall with a festival of challenging, playful and thought provoking work offering fresh visions of the future. Through performance, beatboxing, film, discussions with local parliamentary candidates, slam poetry, sleepovers and a manifesto, the theatre artists of tomorrow ensure their voices are heard.

BAC’s YPT (Young People’s Theatre) have been working alongside leading theatre artists including Little Bulb, Gerry Pilgrim, Lundahl and Sietl and Hannah Ringham of Shunt to create three original works on show as part of the festival, each responding to the stimulus: If I Ruled The World.... Beatbox Academy Showcase will share the results of young people’s work with UK champion beatboxers Shlomo, MC Zani and Jester.

Elsewhere, parliamentary candidates will face up to tough questioning from local young people, emerging MCs and musicians will share their work and an open invitation goes out to all to contribute to the youth manifesto proclaimed across the BAC rooftops. From open mic nights to slam, flash mobs to hustings, this is activated theatre.


Programme:

Performance
J'taime
24 March, 7pm and 25 March, 8pm
Devised by BAC YPT’s 12 – 14 year olds
Directed by Little Bulb
You've just had your five minute call, the lights are dimming the curtains are opening and everyone's waiting for you... Join us as we enter the world of performance, go back stage, side wing and out front as you enter the mind of the performer.
£5 (£3)

What I Want to Shout About
24 March 7.30pm and 25, 26, 27 March, 7pm
Devised by BAC YPT’s 14 – 16 year olds
Directed by TdC
We’re taking centre stage and we’re taking our time. We are ready to tell you the story of our lives that needs to be heard.
£5 (£3)

YPT3
Scratch
24 to 27 March, 9pm
Devised by BAC’s YPT3’s 17 – 25 year olds
Journey through BAC’s most unusual hidden spaces and see a series of brand new performance pieces and original ideas. These shows are being developed right infront of your eyes and we’d like to ask for your personal thoughts, opinions and feedback. All the scratches are created by 17 – 25 year olds who have been given a series of rules and provocations by artists at the forefront of experimental theatre including Lundahl and Seitl, Gerry Pilgrim, Al Nedjari and Hannah Ringham (Shunt).
£5 (£3)

Political Hustings
25 March, 5pm
Young Producers
A hustings with a difference! A chance for the younger residents of Battersea and Wandsworth to challenge their parliamentary candidates on issues that will directly affect them over the course of the next five years and in so doing kick start thought processes, debate and policy for elections to come.
FREE

BAC
Beatbox Academy Showcase
26, 27 March, 7.30pm
Created by 11 – 19 year olds
Prepare to be dazzled as Britains first Beatbox Academy take the art of beatboxing into territories you never thought possible.
Directed by the UK champs SHLOMO, MC ZANI and JESTER BAC’s young academy reveal their skills!
£5 (£3)

Young Persons’ Manifesto
27 March, 6pm
Young Producers
Huge scrolls climb the walls of BAC’s old town hall and council chamber. Come and read and contribute to this collection of young, persuasive political activism. The entire scroll will be shouted from our roof top at 6pm on Saturday 27 March.
FREE

Junction 25
BAC welcomes two performances from Junction 25, Glasgow's acclaimed company of teenage performers and devisers. These two heart-warming shows are examples of some of the best work by young people in the UK.
I Hope My Heart Goes First: 26 March, 8pm
A youthful exploration of the curious workings of the human heart from love to Madness to cardiac arrest.
£8 (£5)
From Where I’m Standing: 27 March, 8pm
A tender, funny and energetic exploration of family dynamics as the company perform alongside their own parents.
£8 (£5)

Café Live
Every night, various times and artists
Young Producers
The streets, clubs and bus shelters of London have been upturned to find the very best musical, lyrical, rhyming and rhythmical young talent around. Come and see them perform each night in the BAC’s café with a variety of open mic and jams each evening. The search hasn’t ended – if you think you’ve got what it takes come and join us!
FREE

Rave in a Box
Every night, various times and artists
Young Producers
Come and experience a live intimate audio experience just for you. Get your sweat on!
FREE

Letters to the Future Prime Minister
Young Producers
A growing installation of letters addressed to the incoming PM. All under 25’s will be invited to add their words and ideas and when the festival is over, and the new PM is in residence, all will be invited to deliver their letters en masse to Number 10. Inspiring? Dramatic? A bit intimidating? We hope so!
FREE

 

Performance Times:
See under individual events.

Seat Prices:
See under individual events. For those entitled to them, concession prices appear in brackets after the main prices.

EXTRA OFFER: Buy more than one ticket, and get the cheapest one for £1.
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Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd April 2010

THE FOREST FRINGE MICROFESTIVAL

Cult Edinburgh producing outfit Forest Fringe, winners of numerous awards including the 2009 Peter Brook Award, a Scotsman Fringe First and a Herald Angel, and named in The Stage’s 100 most influential people in theatre, are bringing their unique brand of theatre to BAC: and some of their favourite artists are coming with them.

Audience members buy one ticket for the whole night and wander the building, discovering intimate encounters, audio tours, works-in-progress and more from some of the most innovative theatre artists in the UK.

The Microfestival will feature one-on-one performances from Brian Lobel, Mel Wilson, Emma Benson and Tania El Khoury, as well as installations created by Forced Entertainment’s Tim Etchells and artist Charlotte Jarvis. SHUNT’s Mischa Twitchin will be staging a performance in the basement and legendary East London collective Stoke Newington International Airport will be taking over the bar and running it in their own, inimitable style.

The event will also see the launch of the Forest Fringe Travelling Sounds Library, an archive of audio performances, made from recycled hardback books and mp3 players and featuring original work by Stan’s Café, Unlimited Theatre, poet Ryan Van Winkle, amongst others.

Forest Fringe, which resides in an unconverted church hall at the heart of the Edinburgh Festival, has been widely celebrated for providing a unique space for risk and experimentation, allowing artists to try new ideas and formats free from the usual financial strains associated with producing work on the festival fringe. 2009’s programme included one-on-one encounters, audio walks, installations, workshops, daredevil stunts, epic folk operas, performance poetry, games, stories, parties and much more besides.

BAC has strong ties with Forest Fringe, and has supported the work of this artist led community since its inception in 2007. These dates are the beginning of a month long tour for the Forest Fringe team, taking in The Arches, Glasgow (16th and 17th April), National Theatre Wales’ Assembly Programme (23rd and 24th April) and the Bristol Old Vic as the opening of Mayfest.
 

Performance Times:
Friday and Saturday at 7pm

Runs 3 hours approximately.
 

Seat Prices:
All tickets: £10 (£6 concessions)
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Monday 29th March until Sunday 10th April 2010
Press Night: Wednesday 31st March 2010

Inspector Sands presents:

IF THAT’S ALL THERE IS
created by the company.

Seen through the eyes of a jaded therapist and an awkward teenage girl, the play focuses on the increasing panic of a couple who are about to get married. The work continues the company’s interest in the 21st century mindset following their Total Theatre award winning debut Hysteria, a dissection of ordinary lives in the modern age of anxiety.

Inspired by the Peggy Lee song, If That’s All There Is is a case study of longing, envy, disappointment and violent urges, stamped with Inspector Sands’ trademark surreal wit and physical performance style. Multi award winning theatre company Inspector Sands bring their latest work to the theatre following a sell out run as part of the Traverse’s Edinburgh Festival programme 2009, finding a perfect home in BAC’s The Big Story season.

Inspector Sands was formed in 2005 by Ben Lewis, Giulia Innocenti and Lucinka Eisler, and has created two shows, Hysteria If That’s All There Is, which have toured extensively in the UK and to countries around the world, including dates in China, Russia, Armenia and Romania. Inspector Sands are committed to creating outstanding theatre which fully embraces its live medium, incorporating visual, sound, textual and physical elements into a strongly integrated whole. Thematically, they are interested in exploring how global events and trends inform everyday lives. The show signals a welcomed return to the building for the company, who began life developing their first show Hysteria at BAC in 2006.

www.bac.org.uk/www.inspectorsands.com/  is the event website.

Associate Director: Lu Kemp
Set Designer: Yukik Tsukamoto
Associate Set Designer: Gabriella Geraldics
Lighting Designer: Jack Knowles
Sound Designer: Carolyn Downing
Associate Sound Designer: Elena Pena

Cast: Lucinka Eisler, Giulia Innocenti, Ben Lewis.

 

Performance Times:
Daily at 7.30pm
Extra performance 3rd April 2010 at 2.30pm
No performances 4th and 5th April 2010.

Runs 1 hour 10 minutes approximately.
 

Seat Prices:
All tickets: £10 (£6 concessions).
A small number of free tickets are available under the "A Night Less Ordinary" scheme for those aged under 26. Contact the box office for details.
 



Battersea Barge

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The Battersea Barge, Nine Elms Lane, SW8 5BP (behind the Fed Ex building)
Box Office: see under individual productions
Online: www.batterseabarge.com for information only. See under individual productions for booking.
How to get Here: Vauxhaull (Victoria and main Line) is the nearest station. Use Exit 6. Buses 44 and 344.

 



Bedford Pub's Globe Theatre 

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The Bedford Public House, 77 Bedford Hill, London. SW12 9HD
Box Office: see under individual event. 
How to get Here:
Balham (Northern Line and mainline) is the nearest station.

 



Bedford Pub's Tavistock Room

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The Bedford Public House, 77 Bedford Hill, London. SW12 9HD
Box Office: see under individual event.
How to get Here:
Balham (Northern Line and mainline) is the nearest station.

 



Bernie Grant Arts Centre

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Town Hall Approach Road, London N15 4RX
Box office: 020 8365 5450
Online: www.berniegrantcentre.co.uk
How to get Here: Seven Sisters (Victoria Line) is the nearest underground station.

 



Bloomsbury Theatre

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15 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AH
Box Office: 020 7388 8822 (Monday to Friday 10 am to 6pm, Saturday 12 noon to 6pm)
Online: www.thebloomsbury.com 
How to get Here: Warren Street, Euston and Euston Square are the nearest underground Stations. Buses: 10, 18, 24, 29 73 and 91 all stop nearby. Car Parking: Euston Station, also limited on-street parking when restrictions are not operating.

One reader in October 2007 wrote,
"The play war ruined by the noise from the elsewhere in the building. If you mention this theatre it is worth drawing attention to the fact that UCL do not cancel the evening classes in piano-moving upstairs."

Events here include ('concs' means concessionary pricing is available for those entitled to claim it):

THEATRE

Jonzi D Productions
Markus the Sadist
Monday 17 - Thursday 20 May 8pm
(plus 2pm matinee on 19 May)
£17.50, £14 (concs), £10 (schools - matinee only)
Markus Wright just wants to be an emcee and will sacrifice his true voice for that dream contract... Rap, grime and jazz collide in explosive fashion in an original Hip Hop theatre production exposing the darker side of the music industry and celebrity culture, created and directed by Jonzi D (Breakin’ Convention). Starring top UK emcee/actor Bashy as Markus, new music by Soweto Kinch alongside a cast of critically acclaimed artists from the UK urban music and Hip Hop theatre scenes.

Interanimation Theatre Company
On The Borderline
by Sally Wyatt and Clara Armand
directed by Clara Armand
£17, £13 (concs: under 16s and over 60s)
Thursday 27 May 7.30pm
Friday 28 May 7.30pm
Saturday 29 May 2.30pm & 7.30pm
It all happens during the night of a charity do. A pair of strangers arrive to make people do the unexpected. A tough businessman spends hours dreaming, a feisty streetwise girl, whose main source of income has been blackmailing, throws the money she has earned in the sea, and a hitman hits the wrong target.

 

MUSIC

Fyfe Dangerfield
Tuesday 27 April 7.30pm
£15
Fyfe Dangerfield performs an intimate solo show at the Bloomsbury Theatre in support of his stunning debut solo album 'Fly Yellow Moon'.

Eric Bibb
Monday 10 and Tuesday 11 May 7.30pm
£25
Eric Bibb performs songs from his album Booker’s Guitar, the first recorded representation that accurately mirrors his magnetic and charismatic acoustic live shows, true to tradition and yet uniquely his own.

The Claude Bolling Trio
Saturday 15 May 7.30pm
£20
As a pianist, composer, arranger and orchestra conductor, Claude Bolling is presently without a doubt one of the most reputed French musicians in the world, in different fields
from jazz to variety and music for films.

Evan Christopher’s
Django à la Créole
Saturday 5 June 7.30pm
£17, £15 (concs)
Django à la Créole is two guitars and double bass, weaving sultry rhythms around the soaring clarinet of arguably the current number one on the instrument, Evan Christopher. The magic comes from the fusion of Gypsy swing with hot rhythms from the streets of New Orleans, the Caribbean and Brazil.

 

COMEDY

Robin Ince’s School For Gifted Children
Holiday Special
Monday 29 March 7.30pm
£18.50, £15 (concs)
The best lecture you ever had, but all splintered and haphazard, like the popular children’s magazine of knowledge, Look and Learn. Like a Show and Tell, with less dinosaurs and more words. And some of those words will be songs. A whole curriculum of wit and accidental profundity.
The following are confirmed to appear, and further guests may be added:
Stewart Lee, Alan Moore, Joanna Neary, Bridget Christie, Kevin Eldon and Jim Bob.

BBC Comedy Presents
Wednesday 31 March 8pm
7pm
One of the hottest nights in the comedy calendar. Acts to be announced!

Time Out Live
Laugh Out Loud
Wednesdays 7th April, 9th June and 7th July 7.30pm
£20, £17.50
Another series of eclectic nights with some of the most talented comedians currently playing the circuit. The opener features Shooting Stars’ Angelos Epithemiou, Hackney Empire New Act winners Abandonman, Holly Walsh, Kevin Eldon and Miles Jupp alongside the best compere currently working in Kiwi Jarred Christmas, and all headlined by Shappi Khorsandi.

Zoe Lyons
Miss Machismo
Thursday 8 April 7.30pm
£14, £12 (concs)
In 2008 Zoe Lyons was awarded the inaugural DAVE award for Best Joke at the Fringe for a gag that Germaine Greer described as ‘astonishingly vicious’. Zoe is, of course, grateful
for the compliment. An hour of punchy comedy that explores amongst other things, arming the elderly, human soup, and the Pope’s remarks about the blurring of the genders.
Plus support from Seann Walsh

Bound & Gagged presents
Lucy Porter
Fool’s Gold
Friday 9 April 8pm
£14.50, £12.50 (concs)
In these times of recession, gold is prized more highly than ever, as other forms of currency grow worthless. What’s so special about gold, and why is it that human beings have long been obsessed with the yellow, shiny stuff?

Pappy’s presents a World Record Attempt:
200 Sketches In An Hour (plus bonus sketches and an interval)
Friday 30 April 7.30pm
£12, £10 (concs)
In 2007 “the funniest sketch troupe on the Fringe” (The Scotsman) were nominated for the If.comedy award. In 2008 they won Chortle Best Sketch Act, performed in Australia and
had their own shows on Channel 4 and Radio 4. Join them for a full night of sketches and songs and a chance to see them attempt the impossible. Heroic attempt, or spectacular folly?

Chris Addison
Tuesday 4 and Wednesday 5 May 8pm
£15
At last! Mr. Chris Addison off Bafta Award-winning comedy The Thick of It, In The Loop, Skins and Lab Rats is back with a brand new show of his critically acclaimed stand-up.
Daftness! Whimsy! Jokes! Lies! Smartarsery! Flapping about! All present and correct.

International Alert
Are You Taking The Peace?
Thursday 6 May 7.30pm
£16, £14 (concs)
Following last year’s sell out event, we’re pleased to present another night of superb comedy in aid of International Alert, the UK's leading peacebuilding charity. Comedians include Stewart Lee, Adam Buxton, Tim Key and Al Barrie, with more acts to be announced.

Micky Flanagan
The “Out Out” Tour
Saturday 8 and Monday 24 May 8pm
£13, £10 (concs)
It’s been a great 18 months for Micky – he appeared in BBC1’s Michael McIntyre’s Road Show, his Radio 4 series What Chance Change? was a hit with listeners and critics alike and he is one of a handful of comics to perform their own Comedy Central special. So now it’s time for Micky to hit the road performing the best of his last two Edinburgh shows. It’s not just time to go out, it’s time to go Out Out.

Stewart Francis
Friday 14 May 7.30pm
£15
Great comedians come in cycles. As seen on Mock the Week, Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow and 8 out of 10 Cats.

Terry Alderton
Friday 21 May 8pm
£13, £10 (concs)
Perrier Award nominee and Royal Variety performer Terry Alderton holds the record for the most consecutive encores at the world famous Comedy Store. He’s first call for all the comedy club bookers in the country, but following a little chat with a certain Eddie Izzard he’s been persuaded to take to the road.

Hans Teeuwen
Smooth and Painful
Thursday 3 and Friday 4 June 8pm
£17.50
Dutch superstar, comedian, jazz singer and defender of free speech and probably the most exciting comedian to hit the British stage in years, Hans Teeuwen returns to London for two extra shows due to public demand. His phenomenally surreal, critical acclaimed cabaret was rated five stars by the Guardian and Metro at last year’s Fringe and described by Stewart Lee as “the best stand-up I’ve seen in ages”.

Dr Phil’s
Rude Health Show
Wednesday 8 June 7.30pm
£15, £12 (concs)
If you only see one doctor this year, make it Dr Phil...
Phil Hammond is a GP, writer, broadcaster and possibly the only comedian to have appeared at a public inquiry. He is rude about everything (politicians, doctors, death, drugs, sex, himself) but in a funny way. Free swabs and sick notes for all.

Russell Kane
Human Dressage
Thursday 10 June 8pm
£15, £12, £10
Fresh from his sell-out 2009 tour ‘Gaping Flaws’ and one month residency at the prestigious Melbourne comedy festival, Russell returns with his highly anticipated new show.

Richard Herring
As It Occurs To Me
Mondays 28 June and 5 July 7.30pm
£15, £12 (concs)
A new internet stand up and sketch show written and performed by the star of BBC2’s Fist of Fun and TMWRNJ, Radio 2’s That Was Then This Is Now. All material generated that week from topical events and what’s been going on in Richard’s ridiculous life. Untested and uncensored.
 



Blue Elephant Theatre

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59a Bethwin Road, Camberwell, London. SE5 0XT (Entrance on Thompson Avenue)
Box office: 08700 600 100 or in person from 7pm on the evening at the venue.
Online: www.blueelephanttheatre.co.uk / www.ticketweb.co.uk (booking fee may apply)
venue information: www.myspace.com/blueelephanttheatre 
How to get Here: Nearest Underground Station is Oval on the Northern Line.
Access Information: Fully wheelchair accessible. Induction loop available in auditorium.

Tuesday 16th until Saturday 20th March 2010

Theatre Témoin and Grafted Cede Theatre present:


NOBODY'S HOME
A Modern & Physical Retelling of The Odyssey
(Work-in-progress)
directed by Ailin Conant

Turbulent storms and fantastical monsters stalk Ulysses at every port; what should be a joyous voyage — his homecoming — becomes a nightmare more torturous than the war he is returning from.

This modern and physical retelling of The Odyssey paints a dreamscape of post-war trauma through the story of a combat veteran fighting a psychological battle to get ‘home’.

Post-show discussion: Tuesday 16th March 2010.

 www.theatretemoin.com is the company website.


Cast: Will Pinchin and Dorie Kinnear

Time: 8pm
Tickets: £6 (£5 concessions, £4 Southwark residents). FREE for those aged under 26 (subject to availability).

 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Saturday at 8pm
NO SUNDAY OR MONDAY PERFORMANCES.
 

Seat Prices:
All seats £6 (£5 concessions, £4 Southwark Residents).
This production also takes part in the "A Night Less Ordinary" scheme - offering free seats to those aged under 26, subject to availability. Contact the box office for details.
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Tuesday 13th April until Saturday 8th May 2010
Press Night: Thursday 15th April 2010.

Lazarus Theatre Company Present:


OTHELLO
by William Shakespeare
directed by Ricky Dukes

Shakespeare’s classic story of Love, Betrayal and Jealousy comes to the London Fringe in this new production presented by Lazarus Theatre Company. Othello, general to the Duke of Venice is commissioned to drive the invading Turkish fleet from Cyprus, his embodied Love and passion for wife Desdemona is driven to ultimate destruction during the war for Freedom, Survival and Pride.

This sweeping and dramatic production will use text, movement and music to bring one of Shakespeare’s most famous Love stories to life. A large ensemble of fifteen actors will bring the society and sexual power of the court of Venice and the destructiveness of a weak, war-torn Cyprus to the stage in what promises to be an explosive and epic production.

Othello marks the first production of Lazarus Season 2010 and a return to The Blue Elephant Theatre. www.lazarustheatrecompany.webs.com is the company website.

FREE post-show discussions: 20th and 27th April and 4th May 2010


Movement by Ria Whitton and Ricky Dukes
Designed by Ricky Dukes
Assistant Director – Justin Lucero
Music and Sound Design by Sebastian Willan
Lighting Design by Heather Doole
Production and Stage Manager - Nicola Murphy
Assistant Stage Manager and Head of Carpentry – Suzanne Snook
Costume Design by Nicki Martin-Harper,
Assistant Costume Designer – Eloise Smith
Production Image by Liam Welton
Press and Production shots by Tina Engstrom

 


Performance Times:
Tuesday to Saturday at 8pm
 

Seat Prices:
All seats £12.50 (£10 concessions) EXCEPT
Previews: Tuesday 13th and Wednesday 14th April 2010: all seats £10.
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Tuesday 11th until Saturday 29th May 2010
Press Night: Friday 14th May 2010

Sebastian Rex Dance Group and Acting Like Mad present:

NAUGHTY!

Reflecting the Blue Elephant’s cross-art-form programming, writer/director/choreographer Sebastian Rex returns with Naughty!, a double-bill of contemporary dance and new writing, exploring the last decade’s process of individualisation.

Modern Romance: a full-length contemporary dance piece by Sebastian Rex Dance Group examining gender politics and the effect of the re-definition of identity on our modern interpretations of love and romance. With a soundtrack buzzing with songs from the Noughties, this promises to be an exciting and engaging piece.

$ellebrity: a very short play about commodities. This dark comedy asks a very simple question – if celebrities sell themselves to the public – who owns them?

 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Saturday at 8pm
NO SUNDAY OR MONDAY PERFORMANCES.
 

Seat Prices:
All seats £9 (£6.50 concessions, £4.50 Southwark Residents) EXCEPT
Previews: Tuesday 11th, Wednesday 12th and Thursday 13th May 2010: all seats £7.50 (£6.50 concessions, £4.50 Southwark Residents).
This production also takes part in the "A Night Less Ordinary" scheme - offering free seats to those aged under 26, subject to availability. Contact the box office for details.
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Thursday 3rd until Saturday 5th June 2010

THE BOOK OF DISQUIET
adapted from the work of Fernando Pessoa by Mark O’Thomas.
directed by Nicholai La Barrie

Listed as one of The Guardian’s top 100 books of all time, Fernando Pessoa’s Book of Disquiet was discovered in a trunk in his apartment in Lisbon after his death in 1935. Part novel, part memoir, part philosophical meditation on the futility of living, Pessoa’s Livro defies definition and endures as a testament to modernist writing.
Have you ever thought how invisible we really are to one another?

How little we really know about each other?
We look but do we really see?
We listen but what we hear is our own voice inside.

In the 75th anniversary year of his death, The Book of Disquiet is here newly translated and re-imagined across three cities in three different moments in time by writer Mark O’Thomas.

This work-in-progress marks the beginning of an investigative process which explores the legacy and continuing relevance of this masterpiece by Portugal’s greatest writer of the Twentieth Century.
 

Post-show discussions: Friday 4th and Saturday 5th June 2010.

bookofdisquiet.wordpress.com is the production blog.

Translation/Adaptation: www.markothomas.com
Lighting Designer: Pablo Fernandez Baz
Electronic composer: Jo Thomas

 

Performance Times:
Thursday to Saturday at 8pm
 

Seat Prices:
All seats £6 (£5.50 concessions, £5 Southwark Residents)
This production also takes part in the "A Night Less Ordinary" scheme - offering free seats to those aged under 26, subject to availability. Contact the box office for details.
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Monday 7th until Friday 11th June 2010

SPARK: LONDON

A Story-telling Club Night.

Everyone has a story in them. The Blue Elephant will be putting that to the test in a week dedicated to storytelling. Based on the sell-out shows at the Canal Cafe Theatre, a specially selected group of Londoners will tell their extraordinary stories of life in this fine city, based on a different theme each night. With live music, and a change of line-up every night, it's "Britain's first true-storytelling club night" (The Guardian).

Themes:
Monday 7th June: ‘Animal Magnetism
Tuesday 8th June: ‘Guts
Wednesday 9th June: ‘Home
Thursday 10th June: ‘Special Delivery
Friday 11th June: ‘Close Calls’ – OPEN MIKE: come on the night and sign up! Those with a story to tell - and happy to share it - should contact blueelephant@sparklondon.com.

 

Performance Times:
Monday to Friday at 8pm
 

Seat Prices:
All seats £8 (£6 concessions, £5 Southwark Residents) EXCEPT
Friday 11th June 2010: all seats £5 and
SPECIAL OFFER: see one show, get the rest for half price.
This production also takes part in the "A Night Less Ordinary" scheme - offering free seats to those aged under 26, subject to availability. Contact the box office for details.
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Tuesday 15th June until Saturday 10th July 2010

Stepping Out, Fallen Angel Theatre and Simon James Collier, in association with The Blue Elephant Theatre present:


STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
by Steve Hennessy
directed by Chris Loveless

Cheops’ Pyramid. Egypt. 2,700 B.C.

The biggest, most terrifying and dangerous construction site the world has ever known.

A hundred thousand men will haul two and a half million limestone blocks weighing a total of six million tons up a building the size of a skyscraper using nothing but human muscle.

On his first day working on the pyramid, one young man has to adapt quickly to a new life in a work gang where intense friendships and hatreds are forged in a feverish furnace of desert heat, brutal humour, backbreaking work, horrific accidents, drink, sex and death.

And as the ghosts of dead workmates and visions of Amun Ra the Sun God elbow their way into Makhthon’s dreams, something strange is happening just out of sight, on the higher ledges of the pyramid, where the workers are never allowed.

Where does the stairway really lead?

The London premiere of this darkly funny, strangely contemporary, intense and visionary journey to another world …

Steve Hennessy’s other plays include ‘Moonshadow’ and the ‘Lullabies of Broadmoor’ trilogy.

A post-show discussion follows the performance on 16th June 2010.

www.fallenangeltc.com, www.okaicollier.co.uk and www.steppingouttheatre.co.uk are the production companies' websites.



Performance Times:
Tuesday to Saturday at 8pm
NO SUNDAY OR MONDAY PERFORMANCES.
 

Seat Prices:
All seats £10 (£8 concessions, £7 Southwark Residents) EXCEPT
Previews: Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 16th June 2010: all seats £7
This production also takes part in the "A Night Less Ordinary" scheme - offering free seats to those aged under 26, subject to availability. Contact the box office for details.

 



The Brickhouse

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152C Brick Lane, London, E1 6RU
Box Office: 020 7247 0005 (information only - for booking see individual events)
Online: www.thebrickhouse.co.uk (information only - for booking see individual events)
How to get Here:
Nearest underground Aldgate East (Hammersmith and City and District Lines) and Liverpool Street (Hammersmith and City, Metropolitan, Circle and Main lines).

Friday 26th March 2010


EAT YOUR HEART OUT
The Return of the Yuppy?

After a turbulent 12 months we're back with our first show of 2010. We've moved home, we're open later and ready to take on a new plight...

The Return of the Yuppy?

2010's optimism was quickly beaten out of us when the Conservative führer visually raped us with his corporate bill boards, communicating his policy to 'the street'. By the end of the Summer we could be looking up to David Cameron for financial support and bracing ourselves for the return of the Yuppy!

Tonight our performers get all punk and spit in the face of politics, we're aware you're not supposed to discuss such things around the dinner table but if you don't like it - F*ck off. We will also be deciding weather 'C*nt' is an acceptable word for the stage by ballot, starting a twitter campaign to keep the blue brigade at bay and giving free milk back to the kids.

Beware of the iron lady in aluminum.

Live:
Masumi Tipsy
Scottee
Ryan Styles
Nando Messias
Daniel Somerville
Miss Annabel Sings
Myra Dubois
Absolut Queer
100 Margaret Thatchers

Interactive:
The C**t Ballot
Alexander6 Visuals
Felicity Hayward's 'Twinset & Pearl Jumble'
Myra's career advice
& Free Milk

Soundscape by:
Ktron (Calling All Tribes / All You Can Eat)
Dog Shit Face
Scottee
Image above: © Scottee and Ellis Scott.

Eyholive.blogspot.com has all the details.

 

Performance Times:
10pm until 3am. First show begins 10.30pm
 

Seat Prices:
All seats £7 (£5 NUS Student Card holders)

Or try the "Eat Your Heart Out Donor Card and Pin Club":
We do not rely on ticking boxes for the Arts Council.
We believe in creating work that we believe in, not work that has been pre-politically
examined and approved by a panel of middle class white people called Tarquin.
Eat Your Heart Out ethos is to create a space without limitations.
We embrace intergenerational and interactive work without boundaries from all disciplines.,
a world where avant-garde, forward thinking, political performance is common place.
We believe light entertainment need not be frivolous or fickle nor must performance art be poncey or pretentious.
To continue our work in London, Bristol, Brighton and beyond we have set up two schemes: 'Pin in the ♥ Club' - at just £4 a year we make your life easier - cheaper entry, advance booking, members only tickets a recorded message of thanks, a fancy badge and more. 'Donor Card' - to make our life easier - offering you free entry, advance booking, members only tickets, birthday perks, a donor card, a fancy badge, a personal letter from a member of our company and more as well as being vital to our survival.
eyho.bigcartel.com has the details.


Box Office for this Production:
Online: eyholive.blogspot.com
 



Bridewell Theatre 

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Bride Lane, off Fleet Street, London EC4Y 8EQ
Box Office: See under each production as each company has differing arrangements.
Online: www.bridewelltheatre.org for information only.
How to get Here:
Nearest underground is Blackfriars (District and Circle Line - 3 minutes to Theatre) and St. Paul’s (Central Line - 7 minutes to Foundation). Bus Routes are on Fleet Street (4, 11, 15, 23, 26, 76) and New Bridge Street (45, 63, 172). Nearest rail link is City Thameslink (2 minutes to Theatre).

Tuesday 9th until Saturday 13th March 2010

The Tower Theatre Company present:

MOJO
by Jez Butterworth
directed by Colette Dockery

Set in Soho, Mojo centres on a group of small-time gangsters trying to make it big in London’s clubland. Jez Butterworth’s stunning debut hurls us into 1958 gangland Soho. Brutal, with fast and at times hilarious dialogue, this has been described as "combining the verbal menace of Harold Pinter and the physical violence of Quentin Tarantino". It won the Olivier award for Best New Comedy in 1996 and a clutch of awards for Most Promising Playwright.

According to Jez Butterworth…”the three people I always used to send my plays and screenplays to first were Harold Pinter, Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack”. It is, perhaps, an interesting coincidence that his play Mojo joins a powerful Tower season that includes productions from both Pinter and Minghella.

 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Saturday at 7.45pm
Extra performance Saturday at 3pm


Seat Prices:
All tickets £11 (£9 concessions)


Booking For This Production:
Online through www.towertheatre.org.uk/boxo.htm
By phone: 020 7353 1700
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Tuesday 23rd February until Friday 19th March 2010

C COMPANY presents:

TWELFTH NIGHT
by William Shakespeare
directed by Aileen Gonsalves and Susan Bracken

Top Hats and Tap Dancing at Lunchtime...

Shakespeare meets Hollywood’s Golden Age as one of Shakespeare’s great comedies becomes a grand 1930’s musical. "If Music be the Food of Love, Play on". With such musical gems as “Cheek to Cheek”, “Let’s Face the Music and Dance” and “They Can’t Take That Away From Me”, we are doing just that.

Fresh from several sell-out shows, C Company is scheduled for an extended run of 4 weeks at The Bridewell Theatre, giving dedicated followers and new fans more lunchtime treats. C Company has pioneered the Meisner acting method in London, guaranteeing surprise and authenticity for actors and audiences alike, and now bring this magic to Shakespeare's sublime 'Twelfth Night. '

C Company’s 2010 Shakespeare season looks at Romantic Love; starting with Twelfth Night where people fall in love with lightning speed, Cymbeline where love brings a world of pain to the faithful and A Midsummer Night’s Dream where crossing the fine line between love and hate turns everything on its head.

C Company’s co-directors have collaborated on all aspects of this production.

www.ccompany.cc is the company website.

As ever, audiences are welcome to bring their lunches to consume during the performance.

 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Friday at 1pm

Runs 45 minutes approximately.



Seat Prices:
All tickets £5 if bought in advance OR
£6 on the day of performance.


Booking For This Production:
Online through www.ccompany.cc
By phone: 020 7353 3331
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Tuesday 16th until Saturday 20th March 2010

The Tower Theatre Company present:

BLOOD WEDDING
by Frederico Garcia Lorca, adapted by Tanya Ronder
directed by Lara Muth


Feuding families, star-crossed lovers, Romeo & Juliet – gone wrong...

The Groom has proposed. The gifts are exchanged. The Bride longs for the wedding night. But what of the horseman who loved her first? Lorca wrote his classic romantic tragedy in 1932, after fellow-artist Salvador Dali completed his dripping watches landscape. Harsh, surreal, the play conjures cameos from the Moon and Death. The soundtrack: the percussion of the blood.

A sultry night, a crescent in the sky. In the end, who will claim the Bride?

When Blood Wedding premiered in 1933, Lorca was a celebrated poet, but had not yet had a major theatrical success. On opening night, the capacity audience in Madrid’s Teatro Beatriz included Spain’s leading intellectuals, artists, and critics. The play was an outstanding success, interrupted many times by extended applause, and Lorca was compelled to emerge twice during its course to take a bow.
 

Assistant Director: Neal Roberts
Costume Design: Zoë Thomas-Webb
Lighting Design: Phil Bentley

Cast: Mark Simmonds, Emmeline Winterbotham, Deepa Sutherland, Ian Hoare, Paul Billing, Nadra Shah, Niki Mylonas, Emma Spence, Louisa Norman, Aoibhéann McCann, Maria-Teresa Lander, Evan Regueira and Leslie Smith.

 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Saturday at 7.45pm
Extra performance Saturday at 3pm


Seat Prices:
All tickets £11 (£9 concessions)


Booking For This Production:
Online through www.towertheatre.org.uk/boxo.htm
By phone: 020 7353 1700
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Tuesday 23rd March until Friday 16th April 2010
Press Night: Tuesday 23rd March 2010 at 1pm

‘a single leaf’ and The Bridewell Theatre present:


THE WAY OF THE WORLD
by William Congreve, adapted by Jo Kennedy
directed by Jo Kennedy

Restoration Comedy with a 1980s twist!
310 years after it first premiered at Lincoln’s Inn Fields The Way of the World is back in a new slick, sexy, hedonistic 1980s setting.


From Flashdances to furious flirting this ‘bitesized’ version of the classic Restoration comedy promises… Maverick, Maxwell and mullets, The Pretenders, with denim, aviators and leg-warmers; Come on Eileen!… take this chance to pogo back into this deliciously, decadent decade and watch the chaos that ensures as men and women lie, cheat and fall in love. Most Excellent.

The play follows the lovers Mirabell and Millamant. In order for the two to get married and receive Millamant's full dowry, Mirabell must receive the blessing of Millamant's aunt, Lady Wishfort. However, her hatred of Mirabell means she is opposed to it and wants her nephew, Sir Wilful, to marry Millamant. As Mirabell endeavours to trick Lady Wishfort and win Millamant, double crossing, mistaken identities and humour arises.
 

Assistant Director: Lorna Shaw
Designer: Katherine Bower
Sound Design: Ben Lawrence
Production Manager: Holly Meechan
 

 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Friday at 1pm (no performance 2nd April 2010)

Runs 45 minutes approximately.



Seat Prices:
All tickets £5 if bought in advance OR
£6 on the day of performance.


Booking For This Production:
Online through www.asingleleaf.com or www.stbridefoundation.org 
By phone: 020 7353 3331
 



Broadway Theatre and Studio Theatre

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Catford Broadway, Catford, London SE6 4RU
Box Office: 020 8690 0002 (£1 per ticket booking fee)
Online: www.broadwaytheatre.org.uk (50p per ticket booking fee)
How to get Here:
Lewisham is the nearest DLR line station, then a short bus ride to Catford. Buses: N36, N47, 75, 124, 138, 160, 171, 181, 185, 202, 208,136,284 and 660 all stop close to the Theatre. Car: The Theatre is on the corner of Rushey Green and Catford Road on the South Circular. There is a large patrolled car park in Holbeach Road behind the Theatre. Evening parking is also available in the car park behind Laurence House, entrance in Canadian Avenue.

Events include:

Friday 26th February until Sunday 21st March 2010
Press Night: Tuesday 2nd March 2010


HOBSON’S CHOICE
by Harold Brighouse
directed by Thom Southerland

This funny, intelligent and tender play centres on Henry Hobson and his eldest daughter, Maggie. Set in 1880, Henry owns a successful boot-making business, but leaves the running of it to Maggie while he goes out drinking with his friends all day. Maggie's plan to find a husband for herself and her two sisters forms the basis of this well-loved play which has been delighting audiences for generations and is certain to continue doing so for many more.


This new production rediscovers this classic of British Theatre with a daring, challenging but faithful adaptation.

 

Performance Times:
Wednesday to Saturday at 7.30pm
Wednesday and Thursday at 2pm and 7.30pm
Sundays at 3pm only
NO MONDAY AND TUESDAY PERFORMANCES.
 

Seat Prices:
Wednesday Evenings and Wednesday and Thursday Afternoons: All seats £10 (£8 concessions).
All other performances: All seats £13.50 (£10 concessions).

 



Brockley Jack Studio Theatre

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410 Brockley Road, Brockley, London, SE4 2DH
Box Office: 0844 847 2454
Online: www.brockleyjack.co.uk / www.lastminute.com (no booking fee)
How to get Here: Honor Oak Park and Crofton Park are the nearest mainline stations.
Buses 171, 172, 122 and P4 stop in front of the theatre.

Tuesday 16th March until Saturday 3rd April 2010

Simon James Collier and Fallen Angel Theatre in association with Brockley Jack Studio Theatre present:


BLAVATSKY'S TOWER
SUITABLE FOR THOSE AGED OVER 14 ONLY.
by Moira Buffini
directed by Chris Loveless

Three hundred feet in the air, the Blavatsky’s live their lives with their heads firmly stuck in the clouds. Whilst Dada sees angels all around, Roland endlessly watches soaps and Ingrid gardens on the roof. Moira Buffini takes dysfunctionality to a whole new level with the Blavatsky’s who choose to shun the modern world and live their lives at the top of the tower block built by their tyrannical father architect and visionary, Hector. Although blind and bed ridden, he rules his odd little brood with an iron fist. Sanity enters in the form of an outsider, or one of “the crushed” as they refer to the rest of civilisation. But is letting light into the darkness always a good thing?

Produced by Simon James Collier, Chris Loveless, Kate Bannister and Karl Swinyard

www.fallenangeltc.com and www.okaicollier.co.uk are the company website.

 

Cast:
Ingrid - Annabel Bates, Audrey Blavatsky - Emily Bowker, Roland Blavatsky - Anthony Hoskyns, Hector Blavatsky - Oliver Hume, Doctor Tim Dunn - Robert Wilson
 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Saturday at 7.45pm
NO SUNDAY AND MONDAY PERFORMANCES.
 

Seat Prices:
All seats £12 (£9 concessions)

 



Bull Theatre 

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68 High Street, Barnet, Hertfordshire. EN5 5SJ
Box Office: 020 8441 5010 for information. For booking, see under individual events.
How to get Here:
High Barnet (Northern Line) is the nearest station. Buses 184, 326, 263, 234, 107, 307, 34 and Night Bus N20 run nearby.

 



Bush Theatre 

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Shepherd's Bush Green, London W12 8QD
Box Office: 
020 7610 4224
Online: www.bushtheatre.co.uk (no charge for tickets collected at box office)
How to get Here:
Nearest Underground Stations are Shepherd's Bush or Goldhawk Road on the Hammersmith and City Line.

 



Cable Street Studios

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566 Cable Street, London E1W 3HB
Box Office: 020 7790 1309‎ (information only) see under individual event for bookings.
Online: none. See under individual event for bookings.
How to get Here:
Nearest station is Limehouse (DLR and mainline).
 


The Camden Head

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100 Camden High Street, London NW1 0LU
Box office: see under individual event.
Online: see under individual event.
How to get Here: Camden Town (Northern Line) is the nearest underground station.

Sunday 4th April 2010

Muso's Guide and Broken Glass Theatre Company present:

BEYOND THE CURVE

An all-day programme showcasing award-winning poetry, cutting-edge theatre, short film, found-sound DJing, dark theatre cabaret and acclaimed folk-noir.

The day's programme - hand-picked by Muso's Guide and Broken Glass - represents the shared ambition to bridge the gap between different types of performance and open up new audiences to an array of diverse talent.

Drawing on their broad-ranging expertise as journalists, gig-promoters, DJs, playwrights, directors, photographers and artists, the two companies present an ambitious programme offering a tantalising taster of emerging acts heading to London fringe venues and festivals in 2010.

Programme:
3pm: Lisa Wells Turner: 'The Opposite of Waiting'
A one-woman  show pushing the boundaries between theatre and song, blending physical theatre and classical music, premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2009. "Thought-provoking" (ThreeWeeks), "an intelligent, thoughtful exploration of reality" (What's On Stage).

3.45pm: Marcus Orlandi: 'Never Better'
- The London performance artist and writer presents a time-lapse narrative choreographed to digitalised sound, premiered at Scenepool 2009 at Camden People's Theatre.
4.30pm: Poetry, curated by award-winning poet Helen Mort (five-time Foyle Young Poet of the Year, winner of the Eric Gregory Award, and most recently the 2010 Cafe Writers' Prize)
- Helen Mort, reading from Poetry Book Society Choice for Spring 2010 'A Pint for the Ghost'
- Ashna Sarkar, nominated one of 21 Poets for the 21st Century
- Kerri French, Best New Poet in the 2008 collection of the acclaimed US publication
- Lizzy Dening, whose recent publications include The Times and The Rialto
- Rebecca Varley-Winter, commended by Foyle Young Poet of the year, winner of the 2007 T.R. Henn Prize
- Benjamin Morris, Pushcart-nominated and National Poetry Award-commended, selected for Menagerie Theatre Company & BBC East New Writers workshop

5.45pm:
Broken Glass Theatre Company: 'Scenes From The City'
A short radio play from the critically-acclaimed London fringe company, accompanying a series of projections as part of an exhibition of Ben Lambert's surreal illustrations for the short story by Vicky Flood, following a shifting perspective of city-life. The illustrations will also be displayed alongside original photography by David Reece, re-ordered and re-arranged throughout the exhibition to demonstrate the changing nature of the piece's connections.

 

6.30pm: The Monroe Transfer and Gemma Burditt: 'I Dreamt I Was A Hammer And Everything Was Glass'
A 20-minute animation using photocollage, drawings and After Effects to visually interpret the slow strings, visceral intent and exhilaration of 'I Dreamt I Was A Hammer And Everything Was Glass'. Gemma Burditt makes music videos for the BBC and EMI, and The Monroe Transfer produce meticulously crafted "fabulous waves of orchestral sound" (Drowned In Sound).

7pm: Short film
-  '57 Ways'
- a short film by experimental video artist Sharlene Bamboat, exploring disporia, queerness and the body
ShortsAmorpha - films by Damon Lee aand Nicolas Wiese, accompanied by live music and found-sounds

7.30pm: Thom Ashworth
A solo set from Thom Ashworth, lead singer of dynamic post-rock savants Our Lost Infantry, using a combination of pre-recorded found-sounds with live instrumentation and a live voiceover. The pieces mix dark with light starkly, taking cues from Steve Reich, Tortoise and Godspeed! You Black Emperor.

8.15pm: Ruby Corset: Cellist, Singer, Serial Killer...
Theatre cabaret from a reclusive aristocrat with a penchant for Rohypnol. From the highest echelons of British society comes a darkly comic set of beautifully gruesome songs and hilariously murderous musings. Ruby Corset was nominated as one-to-watch in the Nivea Funny Women’s Award 2008.

9pm:
Robin James
Finger-picked acoustic guitar, boundless despair and a fragile, peculiar falsetto mixing tenderness with extraordinary control form Robin James' "helium-tinged Nick Drake" (God Is In The TV), a dark, sometimes oblique humour introducing personal anecdotes with the exposed honesty of Nick Drake.

9.30pm: The Peryls
Dark, lyrical and enchanting folk-noir is inspired by Russian animation, forgotten London crime figures, the British Empire and White Album era Beatles. The Peryls dress in their finest Victorian garb, concealing a sinister grin behind a respectable top hat and cane.

10.30pm - late:
Muso's Guide DJs

Muso's Guide DJs will be playing a variety of songs to keep you on your toes until the bank holiday Monday rises, along the lines of Electrelane, The Radio Dept., M83, Lykke Li, and Memory Tapes.

Established in 2003, Muso's Guide is an independent music website loved for its passionate, honest approach to music and run by a team who care more about trying to talk in the readers than impress the trend-charts. Broken Glass have performed to packed houses in London, Edinburgh and Cambridge. Formed in 2007 by director Alex Buckingham and writer Vicky Flood, the company are dedicated to producing cutting-edge original drama and revitalising overlooked classics.

 

Performance Time:
Sunday at 3pm until late.

 

Seat Prices:
All seats £8 (£6 concessions)

Box office details for this event:
Book Online at: www.wegottickets.com/event/74842
 



Camden People's Theatre

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58 to 60 Hampstead Road, London NW1 2PY
Box office: 08444 77 1000 (Ticketweb - booking fee may apply)
Online: www.cptheatre.co.uk (Ticketweb - booking fee may apply)
How to get Here: Warren Street (Northern and Victoria Lines), Euston Square (Metropolitan, Circle, Hammersmith and City Lines) and Euston (Northern and Victoria Lines and mainline) are the nearest stations.

Thursday 4th until Sunday 28th March 2010
Press Night: Friday 5th March 2010

SPRINT FESTIVAL 2010

This annual festival of live art and performance is an excellent London platform for the theatrical avant garde and 2010 is no exception. Featuring live art speed dating from Stoke Newington International Airport, an immersive piece from Rotozaza, Total Theatre Award nominated Idle Motion and a mother and baby multimedia performance Under The Covers, Sprint once again pushes the boundaries of what is possible on stage.

Events schedule: (concession ticket prices in brackets, where applicable)

GuruGuru Rotozaza
4th until 28th March
Times and dates vary, see www.cptheatre.co.uk for details
£10 (£6) 1 hr
Five participants enter a brightly lit room. Five chairs are positioned around a TV. A session begins, and as each audience member follows different instructions via headphones, they begin to understand 'who they are'. Proceedings are led by an on-screen, animated character whose twin roles of marketing and spiritual Guru are confused by his reliance on untested and accident-prone technologies. The overproduced, digital sheen of our focus-group world cracks open into a colourful volcano of boiling absurdity. A hilarious chaos develops, exposing today's consumer-mad inability to distinguish between what we want, and what we need.

Elephants
Jon Hicks
9th and 10th March 7.30pm (30 mins)
£6 (£4)
This is one man’s quest for spiritual enlightenment, through feats of amazement with toy elephants. Mr Hicks’ meditational and delusional obsession has created a highly trained coterie of toy elephants that, under his guidance, perform stunts, illusions and acts of beauty. A silent comedy performed to music.

Jack Pratchard
Jonathan Storey
9th and 10th March 8.30pm, (1hr)
£10 (£6)
Jack Pratchard is the tale of a man who dies and discovers just what is on the other side of life. This is a charming and strange new story, told through a cardboard model theatre, conceived and created by Jonathan Storey. With his rickety 'machine', he reveals an ever-changing series of beautifully coloured scenes and characters, creating a world that resembles an animated painting.

Asphyxia
Natasha Davis
11th and 12th March, 8pm, (1hr)
£10 (£6)
WORLD PREMIERE
Asphyxia is a new solo performance using photography, film, sound, stories and poetry about suffocation, voicelessness, being trapped, memory, hearts in boxes, strawberries in jars and a few difficult questions. Natasha’s previous piece, Rupture, was presented at the Spill National Platform.

Live Art Sped Date
Stoke Newington International Airport
Sat 13th March, 8pm
Just back from the Britisb Council National Showcase in Japan, and first performed at Forest Fringe in August 2009, Live Art Speed Date returns, presenting a theatre full of the finest artists, theatre makers and performers commissioned to create a private one-on-one, four minute date. Upon arrival guests are given a Date card (like an old fashioned Dance Card), which you will fill with 'dates'. The dates are distributed through a trading mechanism which resembles a busy day at the NY Stock Exchange, only sexier. Get excited and trade up your date for the one you want. When not engaged in an official date, you may explore all manner of Auto Dates, fringe dates, and other games that will all end, hopefully, in love. Or something like.

Borges & I Idle Motion
15th and 16th March, 8pm. (50mins)
£10 (£6)
Driven by his love of words, Jorge Borges constantly questioned and translated the world around him, bringing forth images of labyrinths, tigers and a universe of libraries. Total Theatre Award nominated Idle Motion explore the parallels between Borges’ life, his stories, and his readership, taking you on a journey where books transform from a flock of birds, to a city, to an airplane. As these worlds collide, a vivid portrait of a man emerges during which we witness the aspirations of a librarian and love found in a book group.

Work in progress double bill
£8 (£6)
Keepers The Plasticine Men 16th and 17th March 8pm (double bill with Living Canvas)
Two hundred years ago, twenty-two miles out to sea, two men live and work in a wooden box fifteen feet across, seventy feet above the dark ocean... Based on a true-story, Keepers tells in dark and poetic detail a tale of sudden loss of life, and drawn out loss of sanity. Using little more than a ladder and a pair of creaky chairs, the two performers and live musician playfully construct the confines of the infamous Smalls Lighthouse.
The Living Canvas Filskit Theatre 16/17th March 8pm (double bill with Keepers)
Filskit Theatre invite you to join them at their latest work in progress showing as part of their Living

Canvas Project
An ongoing investigation into the relationship between the live performer and recorded image. Filskit’s blend of physical performance with projected image takes the audience on a journey through the private lives of four characters. Fleeting images appear and disappear offering a glimpse of truth in a world stripped of social masks. A violin morphs into a spider, a feather floats and teases out distant memories and a lost love.

Under the Covers
Zoo Indigo
19th and 20th March 8pm (55mins)
£10 (£6)
WORLD PREMIERE
In an interactive media performance Zoo Indigo virtually bring their new born babies into the auditorium (via Skype) so they can perform while the audience baby sit. Combining autobiography and cutting edge technology, the performance duo attempt to re-enact the movie star roles they aspire to with help from two flat pack daddies, but the day-to-day-ness of their real lives keeps interrupting. Under the Covers is an intimate, tender and humorous meditation on the way in which artists juggle the work they make with the lives they choose to lead. In re-visiting real-life in the making of their latest work Zoo Indigo marks a return to performance after a pregnant pause.

The Jetsam Pellegrino
21st and 22nd March
£10 (£6)
WORLD PREMIERE
Take a deep breath as Pellegrino descend beneath the www.waves to trawl the Internet's rotten, salty undertow. From the tangled rigging of a shipwrecked theatrical space, watch lonely creatures venture from the depths, and reckless surfers drift out of theirs. One man’s online obsession with piracy weaves a tale of perversion, walking planks and plankton.

Of Women and Horses I Have Known
Slip of Steel
23rd and 24th March, 8pm (1hr)
£10 (£6)
WORLD PREMIERE
‘The most unpleasant woman I have ever known’. How do you become a story? An anecdote?
A generation that fell out of the war and onto the turf. A couple that bred the most successful racehorse of the twentieth century. A woman addicted to speed who drank a bottle of gin a day.
A story of gambling, violence, extravagance and word play. An international company with a cast of twelve bring you this very English, very equine story, and try to unscramble how someone becomes the person they are thought to have been.

Dean Gibbons and the Knowledge of Death Inconvenient Spoof
25th and 26th March, 8pm (1hr)
£10 (£6)
Performed by Rotozaza’s Silvia Mercuriali and directed by Ridiculusmus’s David Woods, Dean Gibbons… is based on the claims of evolutionary psychology and set amidst the twin threats of ‘peak oil’ and climate change, Dean Gibbons… combines expert physical performance, delicate puppetry, a fact-packed text and striking visual effects in a work of social-science-fiction. By conveying current scientific research within a compelling fictional narrative, Inconvenient Spoof present an accessible, informative and enlightening show that engages a varied public with fresh perspectives on the nature of our predicament. Contains long sentences.

Grafting & Budding
Sheila Ghelani
27th and 28th March, 8pm, (40mins)
£10 (£6)
Associate artist of Blast Theory and Pacitti Company, Sheila Ghelani examines ideas surrounding race and heritage, mixing and playing with ideas and actions borrowed from surgery, science, cookery and alchemy by sculpting apples in front of the audience into a collection of motley hybrids. Originally made in 2005 this piece was the first outcome of a series of investigations Sheila has been carrying out into crossings, blood, skins, skinning, carefully controlled experiments, well-oiled machinery, colour, genetics, joining and love.
 

Performance Times and dates:
See under individual events above.
 

Seat Prices:
See under individual events above.
 



Canal Cafe Theatre

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above the Bridge House Public House, Delamere Terrace, Little Venice London, W2 6ND
Box Office: 020 7289 6054
Online: www.canalcafetheatre.com
How to get Here:
Warwick Avenue (Bakerloo Line) is the nearest station.

 



The Castle

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above The Castle Public House, 34-35 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6DB
Box Office: on the door
Online: none
How to get Here:
Farringdon (Metropolitan, Circle, Hammersmith and City Line) is the nearest station.

 



Charterhouse Bar

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38 Charterhouse Street, West Smithfield, London, EC1M 6JH
Box Office:  07963 680 859
Online: www.gethappycomedy.com
How to get Here:
Barbican and Farringdon (Circle, Metropolitan, Hammersmith and City lines) are the nearest stations. Farringdon is also a mainline station.

 



Chestnut Grove Theatre

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Chestnut Grove School, 45 Chestnut Grove, Balham, London, SW12 8JZ
Box Office:
See under individual production listings.
Online:
See under individual production listings.
How to get Here: Balham (Northern Line, also mainline) is the nearest station. 

 



The Churchill Theatre

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High Street, Bromley, Kent BR1 1HA
Box Office: 0870 060 6620 (£2.75 per booking, not per ticket fee is charged).
Online: www.churchilltheatre.co.uk (£2.75 per booking, not per ticket fee is charged).
How to get Here: Bromley South or Bromley North (mainline) are the nearest stations.

Thursday 4th until Saturday 13th March 2010
LAUGHTER IN THE RAIN
From the producers of smash hit rock ‘n’ roll musicals including Dreamboats and Petticoats, The Roy Orbison Story and Elvis The Musical, comes Laughter In The Rain, a brand new show based on the rise, fall and rise again of pop music’s ultimate survivor… Neil Sedaka.
Laughter In The Rain is a remarkable story of triumph against the odds.
Monday to Saturday 7.45pm
Thursday and Saturday 2.30pm
Tickets: £21 to £29

Tuesday 16th and Wednesday 17th March 2010
DANZA CONTEMPORANEA DE CUBA
World famous, but rarely seen outside of Cuba, this breathtaking company of 21 dancers bring the heat and passion of Cuba to the stage with an electric mix of contemporary dance fused with Afro-Caribbean and Spanish styles.
This is a rare chance to catch this passionate, visually stunning and beautiful company on tour.
Tuesday and Wednesday 7.45pm
Tickets: £22

Thursday 18th March 2010
JANE MCDONALD
A magical evening of music and laughter, starring Britain’s best loved diva, international recording artiste and television star Jane McDonald.
Join us for a warm and compelling evening’s entertainment which is proving a smash hit throughout the UK. Jane, together with her brilliant musicians and backing singers, brings the audience to their feet night after night.
Thursday 7.30pm
Tickets: £31.50 to £33.50

Friday 19th and Saturday 20th March 2010
THE SORCERER by Gilbert and Sullivan
John Wellington Wells, the celebrated dealer in ‘magic and spells’, spreads chaos and havoc in an unsuspecting country village when he places a powerful aphrodisiac in the village teapot. The resulting revelations are indeed ‘a marvellous illusion, a terrible surprise!’
Fun, funky and full of frolics, don’t miss this fresh production of what is probably the most rarely performed of all Gilbert and Sullivan’s operettas.
Friday and Saturday 7.45pm
Tickets: £17 to £21

Tuesday 23rd March until Saturday 10th April 2010
EVITA
Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Extraordinary musical Evita brings to life the dynamic, larger-than-life persona of Eva Peron, wife of former Argentine dictator Juan Peron. Evita tells the story from her young and ambitious beginnings to the enormous wealth and power she gained and her ultimate rise to sainthood,
This brand new production of the smash hit musical promises to be the theatrical event of the year.
Monday to Saturday 7.45pm
Thursday and Saturday 2.30pm
Tickets: £18 to £33
STAGETEXT Performance Wednesday 7 April 7.45pm
Audio Described Performance Thursday 27 March 2.30pm

Tuesday 13th until Saturday 17th April 2010
FOOTLOOSE
Ravensbourne Light Operatic Society returns to the Churchill Theatre with this Broadway and West End hit musical.
Footloose tells the story of city boy Ren who moves to small town America where dancing is banned. Pulsating with energy this fast paced musical gets audiences on their feet.
Tuesday to Saturday 7.30pm
Thursday and Saturday 2.30pm
Tickets: £16 to £19

Tuesday 29th until Saturday 24th April 2010
THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE
Paul Nicholas stars in this lively rendition of one of Gilbert and Sullivan’s most popular comic operas supported by a full cast and orchestra.
Elegantly recreating the original period settings and costumes, this acclaimed production combines Sullivan’s ever-popular and sparkling score with what has to be the most topsy-turvy of all Gilbert’s plots. Venture with us into the swashbuckling world of Frederic the pirate apprentice who - born on February 29th in a leap year - won’t ‘come of age’ until he is 84!
Monday to Saturday 7.45pm
Thursday and Saturday 2.30pm
Tickets: £17 to £27

Sunday 25th April 2010
KATY BRAND’S BIG ASS TOUR
Join the British Comedy Award Winner and star of ITV2’s Katy Brand’s Big Ass Show, Have I Got News For You and Peep Show, for an evening of anarchic comedy, celebrity satire, musical spoofs and much, much more.
Suitable for 14+ years.
8.00pm
Tickets: £19.50

Tuesday 27th April until Sunday 2nd May 2010
THE HOBBIT
Bilbo Baggins, a quiet and contented Hobbit, has his life turned upside down when he is chosen by Gandalf the Sorcerer on a quest to reclaim a lost kingdom and treasure.
Enjoy the sights, sounds and excitement of the best-selling fantasy novel ever written, in this fresh, spectacular live theatre production with sparkling new magical effects- perfect for Hobbit fans both young and old.
Tuesday to Saturday 7.30pm
Thursday 1.30pm
Saturday and Sunday 2.30pm
Tickets: £18 to £25

Monday 3rd until Saturday 8th May 2010
WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION
The Agatha Christie Theatre Company is proud to present Witness For The Prosecution.
In a world where everyone seems to be harbouring a dark secret, this gripping courtroom drama will keep you guessing until the final fatal moment.
Monday to Saturday 7.45pm
Thursday and Saturday 2.30pm
Tickets: £19 to £26

Tuesday 11th until Saturday 15th May 2010
THE FULL MONTY
West Wickham Operatic Society return to the Churchill to present this most daring of all muscials.
All the characters, laughter and tenderness of the film that the whole world fell in love with are brought vividly to life in this triumphant stage musical.
Warning: This production contains strong language and brief nudity!
Tuesday to Saturday 7.45pm
Thursday and Saturday 2.30pm
Tickets: £17 to £19

Wednesday 19th until Sunday 23rd May 2010
SNOW WHITE ON ICE
The world famous Russian Ice Stars will take you on a magical journey to the heart of the best-loved fairytale of all time, Snow White.
The original story of an enchanted mirror, a beautiful girl, the ultimate prince charming and a shiny red apple comes to life on ice, with ballet, gymnastics and aerial acrobatics to create a breathtaking and mesmerising experience.
Wednesday to Saturday 7pm
Thursday, Saturday and Sunday 2.30pm
Tickets: £18 to £27

Tuesday 1st until Saturday 5th June 2010
GEORGE’S MARVELLOUS MEDICINE
Presenting Roald Dahl’s amazing story about a young boy who makes a marvellous new medicine to cure his grandmother of her terrifying temper, but when his grandmother drinks his special new potion, the most incredible things start to happen, and George’s adventure has just begun!
Tuesday to Saturday 7pm and
Wednesday to Saturday 2pm
Tickets: £11 to £16

Friday 3rd December 2010 until Sunday 9th January 2011
ALADDIN
Aladdin, the most mystical pantomime of all, flies into Bromley on a magic carpet this Christmas. Aladdin will be doing all he can to win the heart of the beautiful Princess, but the evil Abanazar will be trying to thwart his plans.
This years truly traditional pantomime promises all that is expected, glittering sets and costumes, amazing song and dance routines, romance, comedy, bags of audience participation, a magic carpet and the most important ingredient of all – a sprinkling of pantomime magic.
Times: Please contact the venue for details
Tickets: £18 to £25

 



The Cobden Club

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170 Kensal Road, London W10 5BN
Box Office: 020 8960 4222
Online: www.ticketweb.co.uk (with £1 per booking, not per ticket, fee for box office colletions / £1.65 for postage if time allows).
Venue Website:
www.cobdenclub.co.uk
How to get Here:
Nearest underground Westbourne Park (Hammersmith and City Line), then 6 to 7 minute walk at most. Buses: 23, 28, 31, 328.

 



Cochrane Theatre 

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Southampton Row, London WC1B 4AP
Box Office: 020 7269 1606
Online: www.cochranetheatre.co.uk (with form for booking enquiries)
How to get Here:
Holborn (Central and Piccadilly Lines) is the nearest underground station. Euston is the nearest mainline station. Buses: 1, 8, 19, 25, 38, 55, 59, 68, 168, 171, 188, 242, 521. Car parking at Bloomsbury Square Car Park. Reduced rates may be available for Cochrane theatre ticket holders.



Cockpit Theatre 

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Gateforth Street (Off Church Street), London, NW8 8EH
Box Office:
020 7258 2925 (Reservations can be recorded. Ticket holders then pay on night by cash, cheque or credit cards only, no debit cards)
Online: www.cockpittheatre.org.uk (no booking available online)
How to get Here:
Nearest underground Marylebone (Bakerloo Line and Mainline) or Edgware Road (Bakerloo, Circle, District and Hammersmith Lines). Buses: 6, 16, 18, 98, 414.

 



The Cock Tavern Theatre 

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125 Kilburn High Road, London, NW6 6JH
Box Office: 08444 771 000 (Ticketweb)
Online: www.cocktaverntheatre.com
How to get Here: Kilburn (Jubilee Line) or Kilburn Park (Bakerloo Line). Five minutes from Tricycle Theatre.

Until 15th May 2010

OperaUpClose Presents:


LA BOHÈME
by Giacomo Puccini, in a new translation by Robin Norton-Hale
directed by Robin Norton-Hale

"A whole new genre: pub opera. Don't bet against it being a terrific success." TIME OUT

LA BOHÈME is transported to the gritty realism of vibrant modern day North London from 1830s Bohemian Paris. The inspirational experience of Puccini’s music is brought to an intimate staging with a young cast and chorus. This production has been conceived to make LA BOHÈME as visceral, funny, accessible and emotionally engaging for audiences as its first performance in 1896.

The timeless story of LA BOHÈME begins on Christmas Eve and revolves around Mimi and Rodolfo, profoundly in love but unable to find a way to make their relationship succeed. Mimi has moved to England from Romania and is working as a cleaner. She lives alone in a North London bedsit, amid a group of middle-class boys who are indulging in a carefree, artistic, Bohemian lifestyle; spending the little money they have on nights out and parties. When Rodolfo falls for Mimi, the group discover the complexity of living for love and art. Puccini’s score is a rollercoaster of human emotion that juxtaposes comedy with deep love and underlying tragedy.

This is the inaugural production from OperaUpClose who are dedicated to presenting new, difficult and classic operas in intimate spaces using young world-class trained singers and directors. Artistic Director Adam Spreadbury-Maher formed the company to bring opera to life for new audiences, and to offer the extraordinary opportunity to experience the dramatic and musical event of opera up close.

Conductor: Andrew Charity
Set and Costume Design by: Kate Guinness and Lucy Read

Transfers to the Soho Theatre in July 2010.

Performance Times:
Until 20th March 2010

Saturday 13th March at 2pm
Sunday 14th March at 7.30pm
Monday 15th March at 7.30pm
Saturday 20th March at 2pm

From 23rd March until 15th May 2010
Tuesday to Saturday at 7.30pm
Sundays at 3pm
NO MONDAY PERFORMANCES.

 

Seat Prices:
All seats £15 (£10 concessions)
A LIMITED NUMBER OF £5 TICKETS AVAILABLE EVERY NIGHT
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Saturday 27th March until Saturday 17th April 2010
Press Night: Monday 29th March 2010

Good Night Out Presents the World Premiere of:

A MODEL FOR MANKIND
by James Sheldon
directed by Blanche McIntyre

A Russian journalist published a political bombshell at the peak of the Cold War in 1979 when he claimed he had transcribed Dmitri Shostakovich’s memoirs. It shattered his image as “a loyal son of the Communist party” by describing his embittered hatred of Soviet power and his denial of Communism. Soviet authorities reacted by vehemently attacking its authenticity.

In this play, Shostakovich’s confidant of 50 years is arrested and pressured to give evidence to reaffirm that the composer was a devoted Soviet supporter. He reveals Shostakovich as a man who lived for love, friendship and his art, who struggled to maintain a normal life under Stalin’s rule. As the Communist regime intensified, his work was increasingly controlled by censorship and he faced agonising choices.

Based on the life and times of one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century; a new play that explores the conflict of personal morality against artistic ambition, friend against friend and memory against history.

Playwright James Sheldon is based in New York; this is his first full-length play. The Cock Tavern Theatre is proud to be premiering his work as part of their commitment to new writing and support of new talent.

Designer: Lucy Read
 

Performance Times and Dates:
Saturday at 3pm
Sunday and Monday at 7.30pm


Seat Prices:
All seats £12 (£10 concessions)
A LIMITED NUMBER OF £5 TICKETS AVAILABLE EVERY NIGHT.
 



The Colourhouse Theatre

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Merton Abbey Mills, London, SW19 2RD
Box Office: 020 8542 5511
Online: www.colourhousetheatre.co.uk
How to get Here: Colliers Wood, South Wimbledon (Northern Line) are the nearest underground stations.
 


Courtyard Theatre

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40 Pitfield Street, London, N1 6EU
Box Office: 0871 297 0740 (To contact the theatre directly, for enquiries only, call 020 7729 2202 from 6.30pm to 9.30pm Tuesday to Sunday only)
Online: www.thecourtyard.org.uk (via See Tickets with 10% per ticket booking fee and £1.50 per transaction handling charge).
How to get Here:
Old Street (Northern Line and mainline) is the nearest station. King's Cross and Waterloo for National Rail services. Buses: 21, 43, 55, 76, 141, 205, 214, 243, 271, N35, N55, N76

 



Dalston Superstore 

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Dalston Superstore, 117 Kingsland Road, London, E8 2PB
Box Office: 020 7254 2273
Online: www.facebook.com
How to get Here:
Dalston Kingsland (mainline) is the nearest station. Buses: 67, 76, 149, 243.

 



The Old Debating Chamber, County Hall

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Opposite the entrance to the Movieum of London, County Hall, South Bank, London SE1 7PB
Box Office: see under individual production information.
Online: see under individual production information.
How to get Here: Waterloo (Northern, Bakerloo and Jubilee Lines, also mainline) and Westminster (Jubilee, District and Circle Lines) are the nearest stations. Buses 211, 77 and 381 stop nearby.

 



Drill Hall

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16 Chenies Street, London, WC1E 7EX
Box Office: 020 7307 5060
Online: www.drillhall.co.uk (a small booking fee applies).
How to get Here:
Goodge Street (Northern Line) is the nearest underground Station. Buses: 10, 24, 29, 73 and 134 all stop nearby. By rail: The nearest rail station is Euston. Car Parking: Non-metered parking is available in Chenies Street after 6.30pm Monday to Saturday and all day Sunday. There are disabled parking bays directly outside the Drill Hall.

 



Etcetera Theatre 

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above the Oxford Arms Pub, 265 Camden High Street, London NW1 7BU
Box Office: 
020 7482 4857 or Ticketweb 08444 77 1000 (with postage fee if required)
Online: www.etceteratheatre.com or www.ticketweb.co.uk (with postage fee if required)
How to get Here:
Nearest Underground Station is Camden Town on the Northern Line.

Tuesday 23rd until Sunday 28th March 2010

MY LIFE AS A FOOTNOTE
by Dave Cohen

A true story of love, music, and Phil Collins.

Comedian, Perrier nominee, founder member of the Comedy Store Players, and creator of the world’s greatest Jewish heavy metal band Guns’n’Moses - in the 1980s and 90s Dave Cohen was Britain's Most Averagely Successful Stand-Up Comedian.

Now he’s back with My Life As A Footnote, his first new one-man show in 15 years, a true and epic poem of disastrous love and lust set around the first ever WOMAD Festival of 1982.

He has written for Have I Got News For You and Not Going Out, while co-creating hit radio series 15 Minute Musical – winner of the UK Writers’ Guild Radio Comedy of the Year Award

If you can remember the 80s, you’re at least 39...

This production also plays the Poetry Cafe on 20th and 22nd March and the Hens and Chickens Theatre on 29th, 30th and 31st March 2010.

http://davecohen.squarespace.com/ is the performance website.

Cast: Dave Cohen.

 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Saturday at 9.30pm
Sunday at 8.30pm


Seat Prices:
All tickets: £7 (£5.50 members)
 



Finborough Theatre

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Above The Finborough Public House, 118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED
Box Office: 0844 847 1652
Online: www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk  
How to get Here: Earl's Court (District and Piccadilly Lines) is the nearest underground station.

Tuesday 2nd until Saturday 27th March 2010
Press Night: Thursday 4th March 2010

The Finborough Theatre presents the World Premiere of:

A DAY AT THE RACISTS
by Anders Lustgarten.
directed by Ryan McBryde.

“Cos we made the Labour Party, do you know what I mean? Froze our bollocks off on picket lines, went on strike and lived off fresh air and fuck all for six months at a time. And now we’ve turned to dust in their eyes, ain't we? We’re the f*cking problem now: chav scum, ASBO meat. A source of laughter. Prime time TV entertainment. I hate them for it. I bloody hate them for it.”

Pete Case used to be something – a leading Labour Party organiser in the local car factories. Now he struggles to get by as a decorator as immigrant workers undercut his best mate’s firm, his son Mark can’t get a job or onto the housing list and nobody, from his Labour MP to his granddaughter’s teacher, seems to care.

Then Pete finds unexpected hope: Gina is young, mixed race and standing for Parliament on a platform of helping the local community. She is standing for the British National Party.

As Pete’s rage and despair gradually overcome his longstanding loathing of the BNP, he is drawn into the world of Gina’s campaign and finds himself entangled in a nightmare of political machinations that pit his closest relationships – son, best mate, lover – against his longest-held beliefs and newfound aims.

Set in the very Barking constituency that BNP leader Nick Griffin is to stand for in the forthcoming General Election, 'A Day at the Racists' is a uniquely brave and perceptive work that both attempts to understand why people might be drawn to the BNP and diagnoses the deeper cause of that attraction – the political abandonment and betrayal of the working class by New Labour.

A stunning new piece of political theatre from Finborough Theatre Pearson Playwright-in-Residence Anders Lustgarten.

Post-Show Discussions: Free to all same-day ticket holders, these take place directly after the 7.30pm performance. The dates and panel on each date are:
Thursday 18 March: Anders Lustgarten with Patrick Neate, Karena Johnson, Dan Rebellato and Justin Baidoo.
Wednesday 24 March: Dan Rebellato with Margaret Hodge MP, Andi Osho, Justin Baidoo, Anders Lustgarten.

Designed by Mila Sanders.
Lighting by Dan Hill.
Sound by George Dennis.
Produced by Charlie Payne.

Cast includes: Zaraah Abrahams. Vanessa Havell. Nick Holder. Thusitha Jayasundera. Julian Littman. Gwilym Lloyd. Sam Swainsbury. Trevor A Toussaint.
 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Saturday at 7.30pm
Extra performances Saturday and Sunday at 3pm (Saturday afternoon performances begin on the second week of each run)

Runs 2 hours approximately, with no interval.


Seat Prices:
Weeks 1 and 2:
All seats £13 (£9 concessions) EXCEPT
Tuesdays: All seats £9
Saturday Evenings: All seats £13

Weeks 3 and 4:
All seats £15 (£11 concessions) EXCEPT
Tuesdays: All seats £11
Saturday Evenings: All seats £15

Under 30's can buy tickets for £5 for the first week of this production when booking online only via the venue website.
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Sundays 7th, 14th and 21st and Mondays 8th, 15th and 22nd March 2010
Press Night: Monday 8th March 2010

The Finborough Theatre present the European Premiere of:

YOU MAY GO NOW - A MARRIAGE PLAY
by Bekah Brunstetter.
directed by Ellie Browning.

Dottie has trained Betty to be the perfect 1950s housewife: to cook, to clean and to warm her husband’s slippers. Now Betty turns eighteen and it’s time for her to be released into the big wide world, except the world is that of 2010 – vast, complex, dirty – and quick to throw up ghosts from their past. Now the biscuits are burning, there’s blood on the Linoleum, and the twisted reality beneath the sugar coating is just about to reveal itself.

Kitsch and comic, You May Go Now is a gingham-clad take on the more sinister side of marriage from one of America’s most exciting new playwrights, Bekah Brunstetter.

Designed by Joe Schermoly.
Lighting by Jacob Mason-Dixon.
Sound Design by George Dennis.
Costume Design by Katy Mills.

Cast includes: Ryan Early. Florence Hall. Ryan Hawley. Lucy Newman-Williams.

Performance Times:
Sunday and Monday at 7.30pm

Runs 2 hours approximately.


Seat Prices:
All tickets: £13 (£9 concessions)
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Tuesday 30th March until Saturday 24th April 2010
Press Night: 1st April 2010

The Steam Industry and Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre presents
by special arrangement with The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee
The London Premiere of:

THE NOTEBOOK OF TRIGORIN
by Tennessee Williams
directed by Phil Willmott

A 'free adaptation' of Chekhov’s The Seagull.

“Two corresponding obsessions – two people devoted to art – But I have to escape them if I’m ever to accomplish my life . . . Surely you understand. What don’t you understand?...”

Boasting a callously bisexual Trigorin, a particularly ferocious Arkadina and an especially long suffering Constantine, Tennessee Williams’ The Notebook of Trigorin is an intensely personal response to Chekhov’s The Seagull that has more to say about the highs and lows of a lifetime in American Theatre then 19th Century Russia.

Chekhov’s masterpiece is the story of an actress, her family and estate. Beginning with her son’s attempts to win respect it charts his eclipse of the fading careers around him, the emotional deterioration of their household and culminates in disillusionment and tragedy.

As a struggling young writer Tennessee Williams was haunted by The Seagull and throughout his life he often spoke of adapting it. Just two years before his death, he finally realised his dream when the University of British Columbia sponsored a production of The Notebook of Trigorin at the Vancouver Playhouse in 1981 – at a time when Williams was at war with the critics and wracked by the drink and drugs he used to ward off loneliness and despair. Award-winning director Phil Willmott roots the action of 'The Notebook of Trigorin' in Tennessee Williams’ world, providing an intimate insight into a great playwright’s life-long love affair with one play and reflecting a career that gave him everything, broke his heart and left him in pieces.

Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Anton Chekhov, the production is complemented by 'Three Seagulls', a series of three staged readings on Saturday afternoons in April.

Designed by Kim Alwyn and Aimee Sajjan-Servaes.
Lighting Design by Peter Bragg.
Costume Design by Penn O’Gara.

Cast includes: Carolyn Backhouse. Stephen Billington. Richard Franklin. Andrea Hall. Rob Heaps. Morgan James. Samara Maclaren. Daniel Norford. Elizabeth Uter.
 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Sunday at 7.30pm


Seat Prices:
Weeks 1 and 2:
All seats £13 (£9 concessions) EXCEPT
Tuesdays: All seats £9
Saturday Evenings: All seats £13

Weeks 3 and 4:
All seats £15 (£11 concessions) EXCEPT
Tuesdays: All seats £11
Saturday Evenings: All seats £15

Under 30's can buy tickets for £5 for the first week of this production when booking online only via the venue website.
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Tuesday 27th April until Saturday 22nd May 2010
Press Night: Thursday 29th April 2010

The European Premiere of:

DREAM OF THE DOG
by Craig Higginson

A vision of old and new South Africa.

Cast includes: Janet Suzman.

 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Sunday at 7.30pm
Extra performances Saturday and Sunday at 3pm (Saturday afternoon performances begin on the second week of each run)


Seat Prices:
Weeks 1 and 2:
All seats £15 (£11 concessions) EXCEPT
Tuesdays: All seats £11
Saturday Evenings: All seats £15

Weeks 3 and 4:
All seats £18 (£15 concessions) EXCEPT
Tuesdays: All seats £15
Saturday Evenings: All seats £18
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Tuesday 25th May until Saturday 19th June 2010
Press Night: Thursday 27th May 2010

The World Premiere of:

THE MAN
by James Graham

A blackly comic and uniquely interactive storytelling event – a different actor, telling a story in a different order, selected at random, every single night.

 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Sunday at 7.30pm
Extra performances Saturday and Sunday at 3pm (Saturday afternoon performances begin on the second week of each run)


Seat Prices:
Weeks 1 and 2:
All seats £13 (£9 concessions) EXCEPT
Tuesdays: All seats £9
Saturday Evenings: All seats £13

Weeks 3 and 4:
All seats £15 (£11 concessions) EXCEPT
Tuesdays: All seats £11
Saturday Evenings: All seats £15

Under 30's can buy tickets for £5 for the first week of this production when booking online only via the venue website.
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Saturdays 10th, 17th and 24th April 2010

THREE SEAGULLS

A series of three staged readings on Saturday afternoons:

10th April 2010: The Seagull. Thomas Kilroy’s version of The Seagull which relocates the drama to nineteenth century Ireland

17th April 2010: His Greatness. The European premiere of a play by celebrated Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor, inspired by the ‘potentially true’ story of Tennessee Williams’ writing of "The Notebook of Trigorin."

24th April 2010: Pieta. A contemporary reimagining of "The Seagull," by Patrick Marmion.
 

Performance Times:
Saturdays at 3pm


Seat Prices:
All tickets: £8
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Sundays 4th, 11th and 18th April 2010; and Mondays 5th, 12th and 19th April 2010
Press Nights: Sunday 4th and Monday 5th April 2010

Chequered Blue Theatre in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre presents the London Premiere of:

THE NORTHERNERS
by Harold Brighouse
directed by Tim Newns

Lancashire, the 1820’s. In the grip of a post-war recession, the workers are on the brink of revolt, the Luddites are burning the new machinery and the employers are doing everything possible to maximise their profits, regardless of the human cost.

When a weaver’s beautiful daughter agrees to wed the boss’s son for the good of the family, she quickly becomes entangled in a perilous game of love as she is torn between the factory owner’s son and her ex-lover, the leader of the workers rebellion. As the price of bread rises, wages fall and families starve, mills and looms are engulfed in flames as Matthew and his fellow weavers fight a hopeless and desperate battle against the ever-expanding factory.

As we approach a General Election, The Northerners is a sobering and relevant reminder of the struggles endured by the working class to maintain their independence and livelihoods in the face of advancing industrialisation, and a poignant heart-breaking tale of the ordinary people caught up in forces beyond their control.

A honest, dark and powerful drama from the creator of "Hobson's Choice," "The Northerners" now receives its London premiere after nearly a hundred years, and only its third ever production in the UK, following its original production at the Gaiety Theatre, Manchester in 1914, and a revival at the Bolton Octagon in 1979.
 

Designed by Trudi Molloy.
Lighting by Josh Carr.
Costume Design by Penn O’Gara.

Cast: Peter Broome. Tomos James. Patrick Knowles. William Maxwell. John Rawnsley. Laurence Saywood. Adam Stevens. Stephanie Thomas. Joe Wredden. Louise Yates.

 

Performance Times:
Sunday and Monday at 7.30pm


Seat Prices:
All tickets: £13 (£9 concessions)
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Sundays 2nd, 9th and 16th May 2010; and Mondays 3rd, 10th and 17th May 2010
Press Night: Sunday 2nd May 2010

NAGGING DOUBT
written by Jack Klaff

Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Sharpevillle Massacre and the centenary of the Union of South Africa with the first revival in 25 years of a play first seen at the Donmar Warehouse and the Almeida Theatre, then filmed for Channel Four and PBS.
 

Cast: Jack Klaff

Performance Times:
Sunday and Monday at 7.30pm


Seat Prices:
All tickets: £13 (£9 concessions)
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Tuesday 25th May until Saturday 19th June 2010

VIBRANT 2010 - AN ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL OF FINBOROUGH PLAYWRIGHTS

A celebration of our 30th anniversary year, featuring 30 new plays by 30 UK and international playwrights, discovered, developed or championed by the Finborough Theatre, including world premieres of brand new work from some of the hundreds of playwrights who began their careers with us.
 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Saturday at 9pm
Sunday and Monday at 7.30pm
Extra Friday performances at 3pm


Seat Prices:
All tickets: £4

 



Green Man

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above The Green Man Public House, 36 Riding House Street, London W1W 7ES
Box Office: on the door
Online: none
How to get Here:
Oxford Circus (Central, Bakerloo Line) or Goodge Street (Northern Line) is the nearest station.

 



Greenwich Playhouse

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Greenwich Station Forecourt, London SE10 8JA
Box Office: 0208 858 9256
Online: www.galleontheatre.co.uk (or www.ticketweb.co.uk, both with same booking fee)
How to get Here:
Greenwich is the nearest mainline and DLR station.

Tuesday 16th February until Sunday 14th March 2010
Press Night: Thursday 18th February 2010

Sell a Door Theatre Company present:

TWELFTH NIGHT
by William Shakespeare
directed by Bryn Holding

“Love sought is good, but given unsought is better”

Award winning Sell a Door Theatre Company unleash William Shakespeare’s tale of Love, mischief, desertion and entanglement in this dynamic new production.

Shipwrecked on a stormy night in Illyria, the beautiful young Viola disguises herself as a man and manages to find employment as a page in the court of the lovesick Duke Orsino. But, just as Viola finds herself falling for the Duke, Olivia – whom Orsino has been constantly pursuing, finds herself falling for Viola. Meanwhile the chaos is only deepened when servant Maria and the drunken Sir Toby Belch plot against Olivia’s servant, Malvolio.

Twelve actors bring this outrageous comedy to life as Shakespeare’s most indelible comedic characters and side splitting situations rocket onto stage in this tale of wild infatuation and mistaken identities.

A special treat this St Valentine’s season…

www.selladoor.com is the company website.

Produced by David Hutchinson
Designed by David Woodhead and Nadia Tahari

 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Saturday at 7.30pm
Sundays at 4pm
NO MONDAY PERFORMANCES.

Runs 2 hours 15 minutes approximately (including interval).
 

Seat Price:
All tickets £
12 (£10 concessions)
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Tuesday 30th March until Sunday 25th April 2010
Press Night: Thursday 1st April 2010

Galleon Theatre Company Ltd present:

THE CHERRY ORCHARD
by Anton Chekhov
directed by Bruce Jamieson

The Cherry Orchard opens with the return of an aristocratic Russian woman and her family to their estate, which includes a large cherry orchard, and just before it is auctioned to pay the mortgage. Even though, they are presented with opportunities to save their home the family fail to act and the play ends with the property being sold to the son of a former serf, and with them leaving to the sound of the cherry orchard being destroyed.

The Cherry Orchard exposes both the failure of the aristocracy to maintain its status and the ineptitude of the bourgeoisie to find a purpose within their newly found materialism. The play further reveals the socio-economic forces at work in Russia at the turn of the 20th century, such as the rise of the middle classes after the abolition of serfdom (mid-19th century) and the annihilation of the aristocracy.

The Cherry Orchard is Chekhov’s most autobiographical play as it resembles the author’s own financial and domestic troubles. It further echoes Chekhov’s love of the land and his passion for his own cherry orchard, which after returning to Yalta where he had gone due to ill heath; he was devastated to find cut down by its new owner.

The Cherry Orchard shares familiar social and political themes with the writer’s earlier plays but above all it is pertinent to contemporary environmental issues because its concern with industrial deforestation. This led to Chekhov being regarded one Europe’s first significant ecological writers.

Following two exceptional decades of presenting internationally acclaimed theatre, Galleon Theatre Company (resident at the Greenwich Playhouse) celebrates the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Chekhov’s birth with an elegant production of his last play.


Produced by Alice de Sousa
Set Design by Sara Gianfrate
Costume Design by Eleanor Wdowski
Lighting Design by Robert Gooch
Scenery and Props Designer - Sara Gianfrate

Cast includes: Maggie Daniels (Ranyevskaia); Ashley David (Yasha); Jason Denyer (Gayev); Nik Drake (Trofimov); Suzanne Goldberg (Varia); Tara Hart (Charlotta); Nicholas Karpenko (Yepihodov); Clare McMahon (Ania); Robert Paul (Lopakhin); Fleur Shepherd (Dooniasha); Richard Unwin (Pishchik).
 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Saturday at 7.30pm
Sundays at 4pm
NO MONDAY PERFORMANCES.
 

Seat Price:
All tickets £
12 (£10 concessions)
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Tuesday 27th April until Sunday 23rd May 2010

CandyKing Theatre presents:

AN IDEAL HUSBAND
by Oscar Wilde.

Wilde’s near to the knuckle masterpiece, a dazzling comedy about political corruption and blackmail, set in London high society. Awash with Wilde’s trademark wit, and his greatest dramatic plot, acerbic characters and brilliant fops, it is one of his finest theatrical pieces.

 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Saturday at 7.30pm
Sundays at 4pm
NO MONDAY PERFORMANCES.
 

Seat Price:
All tickets £
12 (£10 concessions)
 



Hackney Empire Studio 

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291 Mare Street, London E8 1EJ
Box Office: 020 8985 2424 (50p per ticket booking fee applies - maximum £5 per booking). Open 10am to 6pm (Monday to Saturday) or until the end of the interval on performance nights. On Sunday performance days opens at noon (telephone only). Accepts Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Switch and Solo.
Online: www.hackneyempire.co.uk
How to get Here: Hackney Central is the nearest mainline station.
Buses: 30, 38, 48, 55, 106, 236, 242, 253, 254, 276, 277 , 394, D6, W15, N38,
N55, N106, N253.

EVENTS AT THIS VENUE - see www.hackneyempire.co.uk for more details.

 



Hackney Empire Theatre 

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291 Mare Street, London E8 1EJ
Box Office: 020 8985 2424 (50p per ticket booking fee applies - maximum £5 per booking). Open 10am to 6pm (Monday to Saturday) or until the end of the interval on performance nights. On Sunday performance days opens at noon (telephone only). Accepts Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Switch and Solo.
Online: www.hackneyempire.co.uk
How to get Here: Hackney Central is the nearest mainline station.
Buses: 30, 38, 48, 55, 106, 236, 242, 253, 254, 276, 277 , 394, D6, W15, N38,
N55, N106, N253.

EVENTS AT THIS VENUE: see www.hackneyempire.co.uk for full details.

 



Hen and Chickens Theatre

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Above the Hen and Chickens Public House, St Paul’s Road, London N1 2NA
Box Office: 0207 704 2001
Online: information www.unrestrictedview.co.uk ( For booking, with fee, via www.ticketweb.co.uk / www.lastminute.com)
How to get Here:
Highbury and Islington (Victoria and Mainline) is the nearest station. 

Monday 29th until Wednesday 31st March 2010

MY LIFE AS A FOOTNOTE
by Dave Cohen

A true story of love, music, and Phil Collins.

Comedian, Perrier nominee, founder member of the Comedy Store Players, and creator of the world’s greatest Jewish heavy metal band Guns’n’Moses - in the 1980s and 90s Dave Cohen was Britain's Most Averagely Successful Stand-Up Comedian.

Now he’s back with My Life As A Footnote, his first new one-man show in 15 years, a true and epic poem of disastrous love and lust set around the first ever WOMAD Festival of 1982.

He has written for Have I Got News For You and Not Going Out, while co-creating hit radio series 15 Minute Musical – winner of the UK Writers’ Guild Radio Comedy of the Year Award

If you can remember the 80s, you’re at least 39...

This production also plays the Poetry Cafe on 20th and 22nd March and the Etcetera Theatre from 23rd until 28th March 2010.

http://davecohen.squarespace.com/ is the performance website.

Cast: Dave Cohen.

 

Performance Times:
Monday to Wednesday at 9.30pm


Seat Prices:
All tickets: £7 (£5.50 members)
 



The Horse

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124 Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7XG
Box Office: 07917157748
Online: www.makingtheatrework.com
How to get Here: Lambeth North (Bakerloo Line) and Waterloo (Northern, Bakerloo, Jubilee and main lines) are the nearest stations.

 



The Horse and Groom

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The Horse and Groom Public House, 26 Curtain Road, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 3NZ
Box Office: 0871 984 1312 (information only - for event details see individual listing)
Online: www.thehorseandgroom.net (information only - for event details see individual listing)
How to get Here: Old Street (Northern and main lines) is the nearest station.

Tuesdays 30th March; 27th April; 25th May; 29th June 2010.

msft present:

SPEECHMOTION

The Monthly Platform for Performance and Shorts in Shoreditch.

SpeechMotion, the latest addition to the msft events portfolio, promotes the work of original storymakers and offers a platform where a unique mix of performance and film can co-exist, every last Tuesday of the month at The Horse and Groom Bar in Shoreditch.

A mixture of films, poetry and comedy not only offers a platform for unique and emerging artists but also provides audiences with an all round entertaining night.

www.makingtheatrework.com is the event website.

 

Performance Time:
7pm
 

Seat Price:
All tickets £4 (£3 concessions)
(open mic / screen performers / filmmakers get in FREE).



Box Office details for this production:
Pay on the door.
www.makingtheatrework.com has information on the event.

 



Hoxton Hall

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130 Hoxton Street, London N1 6SH
Box Office: see under individual event.
Online:
www.hoxtonhall.co.uk (information only)
How to get Here:
Old Street (exit 2 from the Northern Line and Mainline) or Liverpool Street (Circle, Metropolitan, Hammersmith and City and Mainline) are the nearest stations. Rail: Dalston Kingsland (then bus). Bus: From Liverpool Street heading North 149 & 242 Stop at Geffrye Museum. From Hackney towards Central London 242, 243, 149, 67. Stop at Geffrye Museum. From Angel (City Road) 394 stops at Hoxton Street.

 



Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen

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2 to 4 Hoxton Square, London, N1 6NU
Box Office: see under individual events
Online:
www.hoxtonsquarebar.com (venue information only)
How to get Here:
Old Street (Northern and Mainline) is the nearest station.

 



Humble Theatre 

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Above the Prince Edward Public House, 73 Princes Square, Bayswater, London W2 4NY
Box Office: 0870 80 30 156
Online: www.humbletheatre.com (information only). Email: boxoffice@humbletheatre.com
How to get Here:
Notting Hill Gate (Central, District and Circle Lines) and Bayswater (District and Circle Lines) are the nearest underground stations.

 



Jacksons Lane Theatre 

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269a Archway Road, Highgate, London, N6 5AA
Box Office: 0208 341 4421
Online:
www.jacksonslane.org.uk (booking via Ticketweb with postal charge)
How to get Here:
Highgate (Northern Line) is the nearest underground station. Buses 43, 134, 263, N20, N134 and N43 stop outside or near the theatre.


Kenneth More Theatre 

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Oakfield Road, Ilford, Essex IG1 1BT
Box Office: 0208 553 4466
Online: www.kenneth-more-theatre.co.uk  (online booking not available).
How to get Here:
Ilford is the nearest Main line station. 
 


King's Head Theatre 

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115 Upper Street, Islington, London. N1 1QN
Box Office: 0844 209 0326 (Seatem Agency)
Online Bookings: www.kingsheadtheatre.org
How to get Here:
Highbury and Islington (Victoria line / mainline) and Angel (Northern Line) are the nearest stations.

Tuesday 2nd until Saturday 10th April 2010
Press Night: Thursday 4th March 2010

Theatre North presents:

LORD ARTHUR’S BED
written and directed by Martin Lewton

In 2008 Donald and Jim are celebrating their civil partnership. In 1868, wealthy young cross-dressers Ernest (Stella) and Fred (Fanny) are celebrating Stella's 'marriage' to Lord Arthur Clinton MP. In Fanny and Stella's extraordinary and comical story which leads to an appearance in court, two modern men find a hidden history and some uncomfortable truths that threaten to wreck their new life together.

This new play weaves the two stories of Donald and Jim two modern-day city slickers with a farcical trial which gripped the nation 25 years before the downfall of Oscar Wilde.



Cast: Ruaraidh Murray and Spencer Charles Noll


Performance Times:
Tuesday 2nd until Sunday 21st March 2010:

Tuesday to Sunday at 7.30pm
Extra performances Saturday and Sunday at 3.30pm

Tuesday 23rd March until Saturday 10th April 2010
Tuesday to Saturday at 10pm

 

Seat Price:
All tickets £16 (£12.50 concessions) except
"Premium Tickets": £19.50

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Tuesday 2nd until Sunday 21st March 2010
Press Performance: Wednesday 3rd March 2010 at 1pm

Tricolore Theatre Company presents:

THE CONDOR & THE MAIDEN
by Dermot Murphy
directed by Simone Vause

Set in South America, the story follows the lives of a daughter and her mother. Disputes over land and family loyalty become entwined in their daily struggle to scrape a living, while the mother tries to ensure a better future for her child.

How hard will she fight back when she finds out how her daughter is threatened?

This engaging play portrays many of the issues that people who live below the poverty line in the developing world face daily, but which are relevant to us all. Tricolore Theatre are a company dedicated to the promotion of international culture, literature and language.

Design by Moi Tran

Cast: Jennifer Jackson, Nadia Ostacchini, Christopher Rees, Phil Gerrard, Lindsey Readman, Michael Tomsu


 

Performance Time:
Tuesday to Sunday at 1pm
 

Seat Price:
All tickets £7 (£5 concessions)

 



Landor Theatre

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70 Landor Road, Clapham, London SW9 9PH
Box Office: 020 7737 7276 
Online: www.landortheatre.co.uk 
How to get Here:
Clapham North (Northern Line) is the nearest underground station.

Tuesday 23rd February until Saturday 13th March 2010

MATRYOOSHKA
by Tomas Hirst
directed by Oliver Lyttleton

Locked in an increasingly acrimonious divorce battle, a couple are compelled to hire two ambitious lawyers (Charlotte and Leo) to help resolve the impasse.

Instead of offering the solution, however, the warring pair drag their legal counsel into the fraying web of their relationship.

While the legal game plays out Luke, the bipolar son of Charlotte's cleaner [Sue], decides to wean himself off his medication. With his state of mind unravelling his mother is forced to act as he progressively becomes isolated from those around him.

As the six manoeuvre around each other, each tries desperately to keep control of their own worlds and all risk fuelling the chaos. And as the divorce case darkens the lawyers have to decide how far they can go before they too are implicated.

Director Oliver Lyttelton and writer Tomas Hirst mark their reunion following the success of their first collaboration In Parallel, which showcased at the Arcola Theatre last year. Matryoshka aims to illustrate the conflicting humanity and brutality at the heart of a seemingly cold and aloof legal system, and its effects on those within it.

http://www.matryoshkaaplay.co.uk/ and http://twitter.com/matryoshkaaplay are the production websites.

 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Saturday at 7.30pm
 

Seat Prices:
All tickets £10 (£8 concessions)

 



Lauderdale House

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Highgate Hill, Waterlow Park London N6 5HG
Box office: 020 8348 8716 10.30am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday. Personal callers at the box office are also welcome during these hours. Cheque and SAE postal applications are also accepted. A £2 administrative fee is charged.
Online: www.lauderdalehouse.co.uk (information only)
How to get Here: Archway (Northern Line) is the nearest underground station. Buses : 210, 143, 271 all run direct to House.
Please note that sadly this venue is not wheelchair accessible.

Sundays 7th, 21st and 28th March 2010

Lauderdale House and Trilby Productions present:

CABARET IN THE HOUSE

The 19th season of London’s longest running West End style cabaret, spend an afternoon in the company of a glittering array of West End stars! 

Hosted by Valerie Cutko, with performances accompanied by Stephen Hose, this event is programmed by Tim McArthur and regularly attract audience members from the business - in the past Maureen Lipman, Sian Phillips and Liz Smith amongst others have been spotted.


Programme:

March:

Sunday 21st: Jessie Buckley
supported by John Jack
Jessie Buckley, who first came to public attention in BBC1's I'D DO ANYTHING and was recently seen on the West End in the Menier Chocolate Factory's production of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC comes to Lauderdale House with a programme of her superb interpretations of the Great American Songbook.

Sunday 28th: Nicola Sloane
supported by Paul Brangan
A versatile performer, Nicola has just returned from filming Season of the Witch alongside Nicholas Cage. Her West End stage credits include A Little Night Music, The Sound of Music, Acorn Antiques: The Musical, and Les Misérables.
 

 

Performance Time:
Sundays at 4.30pm
 

Seat Price:
All tickets £13 (£11 concessions)
 



Liberties Bar

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100 Camden High Street, London, NW1 0LU
Box office: 08444 77 1000 (Ticketweb - booking fee may apply)
Online: www.camdenfringe.org
How to get Here: Camden Town (Northern Line) is the nearest underground station.

 


Lion and Unicorn Theatre

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Above the "Lion and Unicorn" Public House, 42 to 44 Gaisford Street, London NW5 2ED
Box Office: Ticketweb on 08444 77 1000 (booking fee may apply) or Off West End Theatres on 0871 594 3123. Theatre direct number 020 7485 9897 (enquiries only)
Online: www.giantolive.com (theatre website)  www.ticketweb.co.uk (booking fee may apply via both).
How to get Here: Kentish Town (Northern Line) is the nearest underground station.

 

Tuesday 2nd until Sunday 28th March 2010

Giant Olive Theatre Company presents the World Premiere of:


THE TULIP WARS

by Mark R Giesser
directed by Ray Shell

A contemporary comedy about two rival plant breeders developing either the perfect black tulip or the perfect botanical weapon of mass destruction.

Based on 'How To Build a Better Tulip' by Mark R. Giesser, and 'The Black Tulip' by Alexandre Dumas.

Photographs above, by Andrea Hooymans, show: (left) Edward Kingham as Adrian Vanderpol, Beth Thompson as Perci Braddock and Donna King as Audrey Braddock; (right) Donna King as Audrey Braddock and Peter Gerald as Carolus Hoofdorn.

 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Saturday at 7.30pm
Sunday at 3.30pm

Seat Price:
All tickets £12 (£10 concessions)
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Tuesday 6th until Sunday 11th April 2010

Giant Olive Theatre Company presents 'Sheen Piglets' production of:


STILL HERE
written and directed by Stephen Edwards

A darkly comic play exploring themes of love, loss, sanity, belief and truth.

Two men appear to have been trapped in a room for a very long time...but are they also being WATCHED?

One sees NO ESCAPE... but the other has FAITH. The conflict begins!

As they are stripped of any external distractions, they are forced to confront the true nature of themselves and their own sense of REALITY.

Cast: Stephen Donald and John Giles.

 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Saturday at 7.30pm
Sunday at 3.30pm

 

Seat Price:
All tickets £8
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Saturday 3rd until Monday 26th April 2010

Authority Productions, in association with Giant Olive Theatre Company presents:


MODERN LOVE
written and directed by David J Collyer

It’s a tale any boy who’s ever met a girl will know, and every girl who’s ever met a boy will be familiar with.

A new short play by David J Collyer, ‘Modern Love’ is the story of two young Londoners who meet in dramatic circumstances. Told from their two distinct viewpoints, they embark on a relationship which is by turns confused, funny and poignant.

David J Collyer is an accomplished writer, entrepreneur and swordsman. A journalist by trade, ‘Modern Love’ is his fifth play and the first to be seen by anyone.

www.modernloveplay.com is the production website.


Cast: Genna Foden, Mostyn James.
 

Performance Times:
Saturdays at 3.30pm
Sunday and Monday at 7.30pm (26th April at 7pm)

Seat Price:
All tickets £8 (£6 concessions)
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Mondays 26th April, 3rd, 10th and 17th May 2010

The Marvellous Dorians and Giant Olive Theatre Company present:


BARE DOLLAR

Peggy, the Nigerian Prince, and Toby, the ex-public schoolboy, are skint and not because of something as passé as the credit crunch. Peggy never had any money in the first place and Toby has no talent for fiscal matters. With the threat of eviction hanging over them, Peggy is forced into some good, old-fashioned skulduggery and starts up his own classic Nigerian 419 scam. Meanwhile, Toby gets lucky as a wealthy benefactor offers him a substantial amount of money in return for his bank details.

Coincidence? Who knows? Can they pay the rent before their amorous landlord comes a-knocking? Come find out as The Marvellous Dorians struggle to get Bare Dollar.

After performing to a sell-out homecoming crowd in Sheffield, Eddie Award-winning duo The Marvellous Dorians have returned to London and teamed up with Giant Olive Theatre Company to bring you Bare Dollar.
 

Cast: Luke Courtenay-Smith, Emeka Ene.

 

Performance Times:
Mondays at 8.30pm

Seat Price:
All tickets £7 (£5 concessions)
 



Little Angel Theatre (the Home of British Puppetry)

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14 Dagmar Passage, London N1 2DN
Box Office: 020 7226 1787 (£1.50 per booking, not per ticket, fee for credit / debit cards)
Online: www.littleangeltheatre.com (£1.50 per booking, not per ticket, fee for credit / debit cards)
How to get Here: Nearest Underground Station is Angel on the Northern Line, and Highbury and Islington on the Victoria Line and mainline.
Special Note: This theatre offers various puppet clubs for both adults and children. For more details, see their website or contact the box office.

Wednesday 10th until Sunday 14th March 2010

Banyan presents:

PRINCESS AND THE PEA

Once upon a stormy night, while the wind and the rain were howling outside, the Royals were all tucked up warm in bed. Suddenly there came a knock at the door and a very wet, very untidy girl was brought inside. This quirky and inventive adaptation of Hans Andersen's bedtime tale is played out among sheets and blankets with puppets, objects and dreamlike projections.

Following the sell-out production at Polka and Little Angel last spring, Banyan presents this intimate and visually beautiful one-person show. Suitable for age 2-5.

www.banyantheatre.com is the company website.


Performance Times:
Wednesday and Thursday at 10am and 1pm
Friday at 1pm and 5pm
Saturday and Sunday at 11am and 2pm
Thursday and Sunday 11am are 'baby friendly' performances.

Runs 45 minutes approximately.


Seat Prices:
All tickets £8 (£6 children and concessions)
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Sunday 21st March until Sunday 25th April 2010

Puppettellers present:

VIDEK'S SHIRT

After last spring's sell-out performances this much loved Slovenian children's story by Fran Levstik returns to Little Angel.

Videk is a small boy who is very friendly with all the animals in the countryside. One day the wind blows away his raggedy shirt. Videk is cold - who can help him? Come with Videk on a journey with his animal friends and learn how the sheep's wool is made into a lovely new warm shirt.

"Videk's Shirt" is an intimate interactive storytelling piece. It is 45 minutes long and involves storytelling, puppetry, traditional live music, and lots and lots of joining in.

See www.puppetellers.co.uk for more info about the company.

Videk's Shirt is presented by The Puppetellers, part of the spring visitors season at Little Angel. Suitable for age 2-5.


Performance Times and Dates:
Sundays 21st and 28th March, Saturday 3rd, Monday 5th, Saturday 17th and Sunday 25th April 2010 - at 10am, 11.30am and 1.30pm.

Baby Friendly performances at 10am on Sundays 21st and 28th March, Monday 5th April and Sunday 25th April 2010.


Seat Prices:
All tickets £8 (£6 children and concessions)
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Wednesday 7th until Sunday 11th April 2010

Freehand Theatre presents:

WHO'S BEEN SITTING IN MY CHAIR?

A delightful and playful interpretation of a well-known tale – with porridge and bears and one-two-three chairs. A tale that’s not too BIG and not too small but just right. Mind you, telling this story is not so easy when it's wintertime and the bears won't wake up – Zzzzzzzzz – what do bears dream about? But spring in the air puts a spring in all our steps and one little girl with golden hair is always a step ahead. And when Small Bear gets lost, we all have to go on a bear hunt!

With original music, this play is for everyone who can count to three – especially if you’re aged 3 to 7!

Who's Been Sitting in my Chair? is presented by Freehand Theatre, part of the spring visitors season at Little Angel. Suitable for age 3-7. Duration: 50 minutes

www.freehandtheatre.co.uk is the company website.
 


Performance Times:
Wednesday and Thursday at 11am and 2pm
Friday at 2pm and 5pm
Saturday and Sunday at 11am and 2pm
Thursday and Sunday 11am are 'baby friendly' performances.

Runs 50 minutes approximately.


Seat Prices:
All tickets £8 (£6 children and concessions)
 



London Bubble Theatre 

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Performing in their tent in London parks throughout the summer. See their website for details.
Box Office: 020 7237 1663
Online: www.fanmadetheatre.com
How to get Here:
See their website for details.

 



The Lost Theatre 

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208 Wandsworth Road, London, SW8 2JU
Box Office: 0844 847 1680 (Ticketweb, with booking fee); 0207 622 9208 (enquiries only)
Online: www.losttheatre.co.uk
How to get Here:
5 minutes walk from Stockwell Tube (Victoria Line and Northern Line); 10 minutes walk from Vauxhall Station (Overground trains, Victoria Line). Bus routes 88, 2, 77, 87, 196, P5, N87.
 


The MacOwan Theatre 

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Logan Place, London' W8 6QN
Box Office: 0844 847 0550 (12 noon until 5pm Monday to Friday)
Online: www.lamda.org.uk
How to get Here: Earl's Court (District and Piccadilly Lines) is the nearest underground station.

 



Millfield Arts Centre

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Silver Street, Edmonton N18 1PJ
Box Office: 020 8807 6680
Online: www.millfieldtheatre.co.uk
How to get Here:
Silver Street (mainline) is the nearest station. Buses 34, 102, 144 and W6 stop nearby. Tube stations (all Piccadilly line) include Turnpike Lane Tube then buses 144, 217 or 231, Arnos Grove then 34 bus, Bounds Green then 102 bus, Wood Green then 144 bus.

2010 events include:

The Ugly Duckling
Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 April 12.30 and 3.30pm
£10 (£7 concessions)
Follow the Ugly Duckling on his eventful journey – based on the well-loved tale by Hans Andersen. Meet Mother Duck, the nasty hunters, the Farm Cat, Drumstick the Turkey and many more. This captivating show includes colourful costumes, comedy, music and surprises – with plenty of joining in. You’d be quackers to miss it!
Great fun for all the family from 3 to 93 – Granny included!
Runs 1 hour 35 minutes (including one interval).

RUBY WAX – LOSING IT?
Wednesday 26 May 8pm
£20
Ruby Wax and acclaimed musician Judith Owen combine their talents in a new show for one night only, prior to the West End.
Ruby had it all – career, dream house, husband, kids - but people soon realised something was wrong when she painted her house the same colour ‘beige’ for the 47th time! There was only one thing for it –send her to the Priory!
Told with wit, humour and a lot of heart, this is Ruby at her belting best – when she’s losing it!
“Ruby Wax is on razor sharp form. I laughed and I cried…. Don’t miss it”
Sunday Express

Thursday 1 July 8pm
MORECAMBE: The Man What Brought Us Sunshine
£18 (£16 concessions)
Direct from the West End, Bob Golding's extraordinary smash-hit portrayal commemorates the 25th anniversary of Eric Morecambe's untimely final curtain, celebrating the wonderful life of Britain's best loved comic.
A moving portrait of an affectionate lad with funny bones; penned by the brilliant Tim Whitnall and directed by solo-maestro Guy Masterson, the multi-talented Bob Golding was born to play the affectionate perfectionist. This really is a must-see for all fans of classic British comedy.
Come laugh, come cry, and celebrate "the tall one with glasses" who had that twinkle in his eye and shared it with us all.

Jack and the Beanstalk
Thursday 25 November 2010 – Sunday 2 January 2011
Times and prices vary – see box office for details
 



Monto Water Rats

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388 Grays Inn Road WC1X 8BZ
Box Office: 08444 771 000
Online: www.ticketweb.co.uk
How to get Here:
Nearest station is King's Cross (Northern, Metropolitan, Circle, Hammersmith and City, Piccadilly, Victoria and main line).

 



New End Theatre

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New End Theatre, 27 New End, London NW3 1JD
Box Office: 0870 033 2733
Online: www.newendtheatre.co.uk 
How to get Here: Hampstead (Northern Line) is the nearest underground station.

 



New Wimbledon Theatre

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The Broadway, Wimbledon, London, SW19 1QG
Box Office: 0870 060 6646 (£2.50 per booking, not per ticket fee is charged).
Online: www.ambassadortickets.com (£2 per ticket plus £2.75 per booking, not per ticket fee is charged).
How to get Here: Wimbledon (District Line, Tramlink and mainline) station is 5 minutes walk from the theatre - turn left on the Broadway after leaving the station. South Wimbledon (Northern Line) is the next nearest underground station. Buses 57, 93, 131,163, 164, 200, 219, 493.
 



New Wimbledon Theatre Studio

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The Broadway, Wimbledon, London, SW19 1QG
Box Office: 0844 871 7627 (£1.30 per ticket plus £2.75 per booking, not per ticket fee is charged).
Online: www.ambassadortickets.com (£1.30 per ticket plus £2.75 per booking, not per ticket fee is charged).
How to get Here: Wimbledon (District Line, Tramlink and mainline) station is 5 minutes walk from the theatre - turn left on the Broadway after leaving the station. South Wimbledon (Northern Line) is the next nearest underground station. Buses 57, 93, 131,163, 164, 200, 219, 493.

Wednesday 10th until Saturday 13th March 2010

Echange Theatre presents a new play, as part of the "Fresh Ideas" season:


SQUARE(D)
by David Furlong
directed by Francesca Seeley

Square(d) is a comedy first. It tells the story of four thirty-something who come to realise over one evening that they have the same material comfort, the same meaningless life-purpose and even the same mistress ! In one evening, they need this unbelievable event to make their life take a U turn and question themselves. And as farces are also the most chaotic form of theatre, Square(d) really takes us deep into the chaos of the situation.

But it's also a play about today’s young adults, a generation facing doubts. In the time of a credit crunch, what are we running for? What kind of life are those four guys working for? Why is there the feeling that the ideals and the goals we have been sold by a consumerist society are not really fulfilling?

Very influenced by "In yer face theatre" from playwrights like Martin McDonagh, Square(d) is an edgy and funny way of looking at questions that people ask themselves today.

David Furlong is the artistic director of Echange Theatre which translates and produces rare plays and bring them to the London stage.

www.exchangetheatre.com is the company English Language website.

Production designer: Mike Lees
Producer for Exchange Theatre: Fanny Dulin

Cast: Duncan Barrett, David Furlong, Toby Manley and Stephen Leask.

 

Performance Times:
Wednesday to Saturday at 7.45pm


Seat Prices:
All seats £10
 



North London Tavern 

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Upstairs at The North London Tavern, 375 Kilburn High Rd, London, NW6 7QB
Box Office: see under individual productions.
Online: see under individual productions.
How to get Here:
Nearest Underground Station is Kilburn (Jubilee Line)

Every last Thursday in the Month

Kayla Forde hosts:

KAYLAS COMEDY

Last Thursday of the month comedy venue, with a relaxed atmosphere. Bar and food available.

www.kaylascomedy.co.uk is the company website.


Performance Time:
8.30pm (doors open 8pm)

Runs 1 hour approximately.

Check with venue that event is happening before travelling.


Seat Prices:
All seats £6
 

Box Office for this production:
Online: www.wegottickets.com
Telephone: 07773 951 099

 


 
Octagon Hall

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Old Lilian Baylis School, Lilian Baylis Old School Site, Lollard St, SE11 6PY
Box Office:  020 7582 7680 (Oval House Theatre)
Online: www.ovalhouse.com
How to get Here: Lambeth North (Bakerloo Line) is a 7 minute walk. Buses: 3, 59, 159, 360

 



The Old Abattoir

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187- 211 St. John's Street, Clerkenwell, London. EC1V 4LS
Box Office: see under individual event.
How to get Here:
Farringdon (Metropolitan, Circle, Hammersmith and City Lines and mainline) is the nearest station.

 



Old Red Lion Theatre 

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418 St John Street, London EC1V 4NJ
Box Office: 020 7837 7816
Online: www.oldredliontheatre.co.uk
How to get Here:
Angel (Northern Line) is the nearest Underground station. Buses 4, 19, 30, 38, 43, 56, 73, 153, 214, 341.

 



Oval House Theatre 

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52-54 Kennington Oval, London SE11 5SW
Box Office: 020 7582 7680 (3pm to 10pm Tuesday to Saturday)
Online: www.ovalhouse.com 
How to get Here: Nearest Underground Station is Oval on the Northern Line or Vauxhall (Victoria Line and BR). Bus: 3, 36, 59, 133, 155, 159, 185, 436
Access: Full ground floor access. Downstairs theatre, cafe, foyer, and toilets are wheelchair accessible. Induction loop. Disabled drivers are welcome to use our staff car park. Escorts accompanying wheelchair users come in free. All shows performed in the Upstairs theatre will also be broadcast live to the wheelchair accessible auditorium downstairs (to right of Box Office). Full S.A.D. access code available on request.

Wednesday 10th until Saturday 27th March 2010
Press Night: Thursday 11th March 2010
BSL Interpreted Performance: Thursday 25th March 8pm
Audio Described Performance: Friday 26th March 8pm
Video-Link Auditorium (Free, live video broadcast from our Upstairs Theatre for wheelchair users): Friday 19th March 8pm

MEMOIRS OF A HERMAPHRODITE
by Sarah Leaver
directed by Denise Evans and Tanushka Marah

“I am a fable. I am a freak. I am a word used in jest or in books. I exist twice and yet not at all.”

For centuries the concept of the hermaphrodite has been shrouded in mystery, and feelings towards them have ranged from prophet to freak. Inspired by the true story of Herculine Barbin, Sarah Leaver brings us a remarkable story of joy, shame, humour, loneliness and of the struggle of an individual born between genders.

Raised as female in the bittersweet safety of a nunnery, the young Herculine's true identity as a hermaphrodite is discovered when she falls in love with a girl. Forced to move to the city, she is pushed to the fringes of society and the dark, seedy underworlds and freak shows of 19th century Paris.

Herculine's poignant and enchanting story is performed with humour, passion and pathos by Sarah Leaver, weaving her own evocative, poetic writing with a dynamic physical performance and Jason Pegg's new musical score.

Cast: Sarah Leaver.

 

Performance Times:
Wednesday to Saturday at 8pm

 

Seat Prices:
All tickets £12 (£6 concessions)
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Thursday 24th February until Saturday 13th March 2010
Press Night: Thursday 24th February 2010

Oval House Theatre presents the Magnet Theatre of South Africa production of:


EVERY YEAR, EVERY DAY, I AM WALKING
created with the Company
directed by Mark Fleishman

Aggie and Ernestine are best friends. Playing together in their rural idyll, life couldn’t be happier. That is, until their lives are shattered by violence.

Aggie and her mother are forced to flee their homeland, leaving behind the rest of their family, and to Aggie’s despair, Ernestine. Travelling from their central-African village, they make their way to the Promised Land – South Africa and its metropolitan hub, Cape Town.

Two actresses trace the story of Aggie and her mother as they travel across Africa to an alien environment. Using little, but multi-lingual spoken dialogue, the story is told through physical images and through the evocative musical text: a drawing of the pastoral village is burnt by hooded militia; pairs of shoes in the actors’ hands trudge across sprinkled sand; and Cape Town’s skyline is revealed in wire mesh.

'Every Year, Every Day, I Am Walking' is a piece about dislocation, about what home means. It explores what it means to lose the safety and security of home as a result of war and the consequences of that irrevocable loss in the life of a young girl. It traces the story of a young girl who loses family and home brutally and irrevocably and is forced to journey to a new place through many dangers and uncertainties. An uplifting piece of theatre that celebrates the ability of human beings to heal through the power of the imagination.



Set design by Julia Anastasopoulos
Music composed and performed by Neo Muyanga

Cast: Jennie Reznek and Faniswa Yisa

 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Saturday at 7.45pm

Seat Prices:
All tickets £12 (£6 concessions)
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Wednesday 24th until Saturday 27th March 2010

Half Moon Presents:

BEGIN / END
by David Lane
directed by Angela Michaels

“Sometimes things just end
Not like in films and on TV
Not with explosions and music and fights
They just dissolve and disappear and you don’t know why.”

Lili pounds out her anger and uncertainty, one length at a time, in the swimming pool. Yaz won’t become what others want and aspires to a life elsewhere.

The birth of their friendship sparks two inseparable years of adventure; a gang of two, they breathe freedom, possibility and ambition.

But something unspoken grows between them. Lili develops feelings that push the boundaries of their friendship too far.

“I want to plunge her fist into my ribcage. Wrap her hand around my heart so she can feel what it’s made of.”

It is the beginning and the end of everything.

A multimedia performance featuring VJing and a contemporary soundtrack by one of Britain’s freshest new composers.

Each show is followed by an interactive Q&A with the cast.

Half Moon has established itself as one of the foremost companies producing/presenting new plays by emerging writers for young audiences. Plays are developed with young people ensuring they speak to and represent diverse audiences.

 

Performance Times:
Wednesday to Saturday at 7.45pm

Extra performance Thursday 25th March 2010 at 4.30pm

 

Seat Prices:
All tickets £12 (£6 concessions)



Oxford House

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Derbyshire St, Bethnal Green, London E2 6HG
Box Office: 020 7739 9001 (information only) For bookings, see under individual listings.
Online: www.oxfordhouse.org.uk (information only) For bookings, see under individual listings.
How to get Here:
Bethnal Green (mainline) and Bethnal Green (Central Line) stations are nearby. Google Map.

 



Pentameters Theatre 

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Three Horseshoes, 28 Heath Street, London, NW3 6TE.
Box Office:
020 7435 3648
Online:
www.pentameters.co.uk
How to get Here: Hampstead (Northern line) is the nearest Underground Station. Bus: 46 and 268

 



People's Show

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Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
Box Office: as stated under listings.
Online: as stated under listings. www.peopleshow.co.uk for information only.
How to get Here:
Bethnal Green (Central Line) is the nearest underground station.


 



Pizza On The Park

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11-13 Knightsbridge, London, SW1X 7LY
Box Office: 08456 027 017 (option 6)
Online: www.pizzaexpresslive.co.uk
How to get Here:
Nearest underground Hyde Park Corner (Piccadilly Line) - use exit 4.


Sunday 28th March 2010

In conjunction with MMP Ltd and as part of Paul L Martin's Lost Supper series, Pizza in the Park present:


LOST SUPPER: DANIEL KOEK

With rave reviews as “Tony” in the 50th Anniversary production of 'West Side Story,' which won The Stage Awards “Best Musical Revival, and with high acclaim for his debut CD “Self Titled Tenor”, Daniel has put together this intimate show exclusively for Pizza on the Park.
Featuring songs from the album as well as songs you know and love.

Daniel is delighted to announce an intimate cabaret evening at Pizza on the Park.


www.danielkoek.com is the artist's website.

 

Performance Time:
8pm (doors open 6.30pm)


Seat Prices:

All seats £15
 



Pleasance Theatre

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Carpenters Mews, North Road, LONDON N7 9EF
Box Office: 020 7609 1800
Online: www.pleasance.co.uk
How to get Here:
Nearest underground Caledonian Road (Piccadilly Line). Kings Cross and Caledonian Road & Barnsbury are the nearest mainline stations. Buses: 10, 17, 91, 259, 274
Wheelchair Access: Yes

Tuesday 23rd February until Sunday 14th March 2010

White Rose Theatre present:


LOST SOUL MUSIC
words by Chris Bush
music by Ian McCluskey

A 'Talking Heads' for the Burlesque generation, a series of six darkly intimate and devilishly funny new shows each offering a unique theatrical treat and original toe-tapping score. Whether sold for a song, sacrificed for love or simply lost in the post, we’re sure you’ll never look at your soul in quite the same way again. These deliciously different tales of dalliance and damnation range from one-man monologues to musical spectaculars; some comic, some tragic, all entertaining, we’re sure you’ll find nothing else like them.

The shows:

The Devil You Know: Everyone has demons of their own: only Helen’s answer back. She’s come to tell her sorry tale of suffering and self-sacrifice, while they’re here to remind her the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

Simon Says: A simple tale of unrequited love, and the sacrifices a man will make to gain his heart’s desire. How much of yourself would you give up to be with your beloved? [Commended for both script and performance in Spotlight’s Emerging Artists Awards 2008]

Fisher of Men: All of life can be found down by the river – everything’s there if you look close enough. It’s here that Johnnie finds his purpose, his plan. There by the bank side at the tender age of seven and three quarters, he finds his life’s calling.

Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Henry Horatio Swann has a problem – he’s lost something, you see – lost it in the post, as it happens, and if he can’t get it back he’s not quite sure what he’ll do. A bittersweet tale of love, devotion and sorting offices.

All the Best Tunes: A story as old as the hills: Boy meets girl. Boy loves girl. Boy sells his soul for a song in order to win her heart. Because the boy is an idiot, naturally.

Soldier of Fortune: In the heat of battle a frightened soldier opts for ignoble life over a glorious death. What follows is his story, taking us from the walls of Troy to the fall of Baghdad as he attempts to pay off his debt.

White Rose Theatre is a new writing company based in York, best known for their 2007 satirical smash 'TONY! The Blair Musical.' 'Lost Soul Music' debuted at the Edinburgh Festival in 2008. Now significantly reworked and recast, it is ready to take London by storm.


Casts:
The Devil You Know: Kristin Atherton, Alex Forsyth, Roxanna Klimaszewska
Simon Says: James Duckworth
Fisher of Men: Alex Forsyth, Roxanna Klimaszewska, James Duckworth
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Laurence Pears
All the Best Tunes: Ian McCluskey, James Duckworth, Kristin Atherton
Soldier of Fortune: Alex Forsyth, Kristin Atherton, Roxanna Klimaszewska

 

Performance Times and Days:
Tuesday 7.30pm, Friday 7.30pm, Saturday 8pm: The Devil You Know / Simon Says
Wednesday 7.30pm, Saturday 5pm, Sunday 8pm: Fisher of Men / Signed, Sealed, Delivered
Thursday 7.30pm, Saturday 2pm, Sunday 5pm: All the Best Tunes / Soldier of Fortune

 

Seat Prices:
All tickets £12 (£10 concessions) OR
All six shows for £30 (£25 concessions)
 



Poetry Cafe

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22 Betterton Street. Covent Garden London WC2H 9BX
Box Office: information 020 7420 9887 (for bookings see under individual event)
Online: information www.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/cafe/ (for bookings see under individual event)
How to get Here:
Covent Garden (Piccadilly Line) or Holborn (Piccadilly and Central Lines) are the nearest underground stations. 

Saturday 20th and Monday 22nd March 2010

MY LIFE AS A FOOTNOTE
by Dave Cohen

A true story of love, music, and Phil Collins.

Comedian, Perrier nominee, founder member of the Comedy Store Players, and creator of the world’s greatest Jewish heavy metal band Guns’n’Moses - in the 1980s and 90s Dave Cohen was Britain's Most Averagely Successful Stand-Up Comedian.

Now he’s back with My Life As A Footnote, his first new one-man show in 15 years, a true and epic poem of disastrous love and lust set around the first ever WOMAD Festival of 1982.

He has written for Have I Got News For You and Not Going Out, while co-creating hit radio series 15 Minute Musical – winner of the UK Writers’ Guild Radio Comedy of the Year Award

If you can remember the 80s, you’re at least 39...

This production also plays the the Etcetera Theatre from 23rd until 28th March and the Hens and Chickens Theatre from 29th to 31st March 2010.

http://davecohen.squarespace.com/ is the performance website.

Cast: Dave Cohen.

 

Performance Times:
Saturday and Monday at 8pm


Seat Prices:
All tickets: £5
 

Box Office for this production:
Advance bookings: email mylifeasafootnote@yahoo.co.uk
 



Proud Cabaret

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No.1 Mark Lane, London, EC3R 7AH
Box Office:  020 7283 1940 (information only). For booking details see under individual event.
Online: www.proudcabaret.com (information only). For booking details see under individual event.
How to get Here: Aldgate East (District and Hammersmith and City Lines) or Fenchurch Street (mainline) are the nearest stations.

 



Proud Camden

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The Horse Hospital, Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AH
Box Office: 0207 482 3867 (information only)
Online: www.proudcamden.com is the venue website.
How to get Here: Camden Town and Chalk Farm (Northern Line) are the nearest underground stations.
 


Pump House Theatre

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Local Board Road, Watford, Hertfordshire, WD17 2JP
Box Office: 01923 772320
Online: www.pumphouse.info
How to get Here:
Watford High Street and Bushey are the nearest mainline stations. Buses 142 and 258 stop near Local Board Road.

 



Putney Arts Theatre 

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Ravenna Road, Putney, London SW15 6AW
Box Office: 020 8788 6943 or as stated under listings.
Online: www.putneyartstheatre.org.uk or as stated under listings.
How to get Here:
Putney (District Line) is the nearest underground and mainline station.

Tuesday 9th until Saturday 13th March 2010

CP Theatre Productions present:

ROUND AND ROUND THE GARDEN
by Alan Ayckbourn

In the garden of a large family home in West Sussex, during a weekend in July, three siblings, Reg, Annie and Ruth, can barley be in the same room as each other, let alone their spouses. But when a fumbled and shoddily planned affair is in the offing they are brought together, whether they want to be or not.

Round and Round the Garden was first presented by the Library Theatre Company in Scarborough in 1973 as the third of three dovetailed accounts of events at a country house over one weekend. Collectively The Norman Conquests trilogy, the first two plays being Table Manners and Living Together, Alan Ayckbourn’s three comic masterpieces have been revived many times, most recently at the Old Vic, London, in 2009.

http://www.cp-theatre.org.uk is the company website.

 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Saturday at 7.45pm


Seat Prices:
All tickets
£10 (£8 concessions)
 

Box Office for this production:
Online: boxoffice@cp-theatre.org.uk
by telephone: 07506 919227



Rich Mix 

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35 - 47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA
Box Office:
020 7613 7498
Online: www.richmix.org.uk
How to get Here: Nearest underground Liverpool Street (Central, Circle, Metropolitan and Hammersmith and City Line and Mainline) or Old Street (Northern and Mainline). 

In addition to events listed below, the venue also has a packed programme of film, dance, music and education projects for young people. See their website www.richmix.org.uk for details.

Concession prices in brackets.

Monologueslam
Mondays 29 March and 26 April at 7.30pm in the bar.
Monologueslam is the ultimate actors showcase- up to 30 actors compete in 3 rounds of competition in front of an industry panel of judges. The actors perform monologues of their  choice in 1 minute - with a 2 minute improv added in to get the audience involved!! A great night of performance from some of the UK's hidden acting talent to reveal one overall winner!!
Tickets £7 (£5)

Moonfleece
Tue 2 - Sat 13 March (except Sun 7 and Mon 8 March) at 7.30pm in Venue 1
Sun 8 March at 6pm
Sat 6 and Sat 13 March at 3pm and 7.30pm
Thu 11 March at 2pm and 7.30pm
An abandoned home. A lost brother. An East End tower block. A secret love story.
In award-winning East End playwright Philip Ridley’s play, families and friendships are
splintered by the politics of race, sexuality and money as a new generation encounters a world torn apart by the adults.
£15 (£12)
Moonfleece related events at Rich Mix:
Followed by a series of post-show discussions and debates with the company to explore
issues raised by Moonfleece. Entry is free for all and the talks will be held after the performances on 5, 9, 10 and 12 March. Various projects for young people will run alongside the production, for information or to get involved, contact Ben Monks: ben@supportingwall.com or 07789 962 725.
Philip Ridley will also host a reading session of his unpublished Poetry pieces (Lovesongs for Extinct Creatures, Sun 7 March) and an In Conversation event (Mon 8 March).

Play/Rave
by Breaking Through Productions
Sat 20 March at 8.30pm in Venue 1 / £12 / £10
A funky, fresh performance written, directed by and starring the hottest UK talent. Then rock and rave with the actors and fellow audience members to the phattest, pumping sounds courtesy of the best D.J’s in town. A night like no other!
£12 (£10)

The Afterlife of Slavery
by Pyramid Youth Theatre
Fri 9 and Sat 10 April at 7.30pm in Venue 1
Devised by Pyramid Youth & Development Project under the direction of Suzann McLean. First performed in March 2007 The Afterlife Of Slavery looks at how far people of African heritage have come since the abolition of the Transatlantic slave trade 200 years ago. Juxtaposed with the rise of modern knife crime the play asks for its audience to learn from the past and mould a better future.
£10 (£8)

The Rape of Lucrece
directed by Gareth Armstrong
Fri 16 April at 7.30pm in Venue 1
Following an acclaimed run at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe, Olivier award nominee and RSC actor Gerard Logan brings his tour de force solo performance of Shakespeare's great narrative poem to Rich Mix. Theatre at its purist: a single actor, an empty stage - and the torment of rapist and victim spring brilliantly to life.
£12 (£10)

Knife Edge
by Hard Graft
Fri 30 April at 7.30pm in Venue 1
directed by Judith Barker
“In January my son was stabbed on his way home from work. He died on the pavement before the ambulance arrived. There were many witnesses but not one had the courage to stand up in court. We all know who is responsible. Therefore I have no alternative. I challenge John Stefanovich to a duel to the death here on 30th April 2010
Yesterday I was an ordinary printer. Today I am Judge, Jury and Executioner.
Brian Shelton
Bethnal Green”
£12 (£10)


 



Riverside Studios

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Crisp Road, London W6 9RL
Box Office: 020 8237 1111 (with a per ticket booking fee)
Online: www.riversidestudios.co.uk (with a per ticket booking fee)
How to get Here: Nearest underground station is Hammersmith (Piccadilly, District and Hammersmith & City lines). 

 



Rosemary Branch Theatre 

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2 Shepperton Road, London N1 3DT
Box Office: 020 7704 6665
Online: www.rosemarybranch.co.uk
How to get Here:
Highbury and Islington (Victoria and mainline), Old Street (Northern and mainline) and Angel (Northern Line) are the nearest stations. Buses 76, 141, 21, 271,
38, 56, 73, 171A all run nearby.

Tuesday 2nd until Sunday 21st March 2010

Second Skin Theatre present the World Premiere of:

SHAKESPEARE INC.
by Don Fried
directed by Andy McQuade

Hilarious, controversial and uncannily plausible, Scond Skin Theatre break from their tradition of dark and intense theatre at The Rosie and take a wild romp through Elizabethan England. Prize-winning American author, Don Fried, finally lifts the lid on who really wrote those immortal classics. Shakespeare will never be quite the same again…

 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Friday at 7.30pm
Saturday and Sunday at 7pm
NO MONDAY PERFORMANCES.


Seat Prices:

All seats £12 (£10 concessions)
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Tuesday 23rd March until Sunday 11th April 2010

THE ALCHEMIST
by Ben Jonson
adapted and directed by Scarlett Plouviez Comnas

'That Alchemy is a pretty kind of game...to cheat a man with charming'

Jonson's ruthlessly comic satire of greed, gullibility and confidence trickery!

Three con artists take over a London house and set about trying to cheat, charm and scam their way to riches. First performed in 1610, The Alchemist has a wonderfully rich and varied stage history. Bursting with physical comedy and witty dialogue, Jonson's characteristic comedy is as exciting and relevant as ever.

This fresh new adaptation by Scarlett Plouviez Comnas finds its setting somewhere between the filthy gutters of Jacobean London and the flash con culture of the Noughties.
 

 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Friday at 7.30pm
Saturday and Sunday at 7pm
NO MONDAY PERFORMANCES.


Seat Prices:

All seats £12 (£10 concessions)
Group and school discounts available.
 


 
Rose Theatre 

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56 Park Street, London SE1 9DT
Box Office: 020 7261 9565
Online: www.rosetheatre.org.uk
How to get Here:
London Bridge (Northern and Mainline) is the nearest station.

 



Roundhouse Theatre 

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Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 8EH
Box Office: 0844 482 8008
Online: www.roundhouse.org.uk
How to get Here:
Chalk Farm (Northern Line) is the nearest underground station.

 



Royal Vauxhall Tavern

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372 Kennington Lane, London, SE11 5HY
Box Office: 020 7820 1222
Online:
  www.ticketweb.co.uk or email: bookings@rvt.org.uk
How to get Here: Vauxhall (Victoria Line) is the nearest underground station.

See their website for details of scheduled events. www.rvt.org.uk

EVENTS INCLUDE:

Every 2nd Friday of the month.
KIMONO KRUSH
www.myspace.com/kimono_krush
Doors 9pm - 2.30am
Entry: £5 to RAMI (Darling Bears) and you are in

Every Sunday

S.L.A.G.S / Chill-Out
Huge dance anthems and commercial house from the DJs Simon Le Vans, Andy Almighty & Sean Sirrs.
2pm ‘til Midnight. The genius of The D. E. Experience (aka Jonathan Hellyer) on stage at 5.30pm.
Entry £7
Photograph shows Alison Jiear singing with The D.E. Experience.

3rd Friday of the Month
LATE EVENING : Boogaloo Stu presents... SPLOSH-A-RAMA!
A brand new night with veteran showbiz entertainers Boogaloo Stu, Le Gateau Chocolat and Princess Knickers - in celebration of the pie-fight as art form, a monthly Sploshfest of crazy cabaret antics culminating in the inevitable Food Fight on da stage in da house.
10.30pm - late
Entry £5

Every Tuesday
Bar Wotever - where Queer talents meet every Tuesday!
About Bar Wotever: Bar Wotever features an open stage for up and coming queer talents to show off, open decks where you can play your own music plus dancing into the night. The people are friendly, mixed across ages, ethnicities, genders and sexualities. Over the past 4 years. Bar Wotever has hosted some of the best queer stars including Rae Spoon, Aliens Ate My Schnitzel, The Ballet, David Mills, Timberlina, Dorian Wood, Lazlo Pearlman, The Wau Wau Sisters & Scottee. It has also been responsible for premièring early works by Josephine Wilson, Jet Moon, Mr Meredith and many more. With Bar Wotever relocating to the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, you can expect new up and coming queer performers and artists as well as established names from all over the world, secret gigs, film screening nights (for the first time) and a host of , other events including benefit nights, fashion shows, birthdays, leaving dos and weddings.
For the night's performers see www.rvt.org.uk.
Doors 6pm - Midnight
Entry FREE
All Welcome

Wednesdays
Comedy Bear Pit At the RVT
A fun and off the wall mix of stand up comedy, cabaret and daft skills that will have you rocking with laughter, a perfect mid week brightener. Be there or be not amused.
Host: Miss Cathy P. See www.rvt.org.uk for weekly performers list.
Cathy P loves making people laugh and has been doing so since she was a nipper, but then being brought up in Hull she has found a lot to laugh at in life.
Though trained as an actress, she soon left that behind to begin her stand up/performing career as one of the first ever turns at RVT’s Duckie working in the acclaimed duo The Divine Feud with Chris Green (Tina C and Ida Barr)
Door 7pm, Show 8.30pm, open ‘til 12.
Tickets £6.00

3rd FRIDAY OF THE MONTH
Alparet
After his sell-out success at the Leicester Square Theatre Basement, Alp Haydar brings his signature rabble-rousing and up-beat performance style to The Royal Vauxhall Tavern. Accompanied by his musical partner, multi-talented composer and accompanist Richard Link, Alp croons his way through Christmas songs old and new, steering a nostalgic and giddy sleigh ride through the frozen wastes of the North Pole straight onto Santa's lap.
Doors 7pm, Show 7.30 - 8.30pm
Entry £5

Wednesdays 10th, 17th, 24th March 2010
David Mills - '...AND I AM TELLING YOU!'
Straight from his sell-out show in San Francisco, sharp, scathing and hilarious, David Mills - the hardest-working cabaret personality in show business (self-proclaimed) -- is back!
David Mills' '...AND I AM TELLING YOU!' is a hilarious, vitriolic rant with pop song interludes and special guests. See why Time Out has said 'His talent for whip-cracking one liners is audaciously thrilling!'
Sex clubs, Obama, the Naavi and your favourite celebrities are all in the firing line. Come and enjoy as they get a good kick in the shins!
Doors 7:00pm / Show 8:00pm
£7.00, tickets available on www.ticketweb.co.uk, www.lastminute.com, on the night, on the door, always.

Thursday 11th March 2010
Myra Dubois and Miss Annabel Sings present 'Cracked Actress'
Celebrated faces from the London Cabaret Scene Myra DuBois and Miss Annabel Sings present an evening of live art themed mostly around the concept of 'themselves'. Well what's new? They're performers; it's their prerogative. Expect dramatics, theatrics and histrionics as they delve into life, love and careers.
Miss Annabel Sings (“Divine... Powerful”, Time Out) is the dark chanteuse of the London performance scene; specializing in video and song as live art. She can also be seen every month as resident performer and assistant director of Eat Your Heart Out (12 consecutive Time Out Critics Choices), London's premier progressive performance party.
Myra DuBois (“Hotly pursued” The Stage) is an actress, socialite and showgirl known for her quick wit and acid tongue. As well as a monthly residency at Soho's Madame JoJos she has produced and performed in her own critically acclaimed show 'Soiree'; a conceptual Cabaret based on her Northern roots.
Music from Lush (Marvelous, Duckie) until closing
Tickets £5, tickets available on www.ticketweb.co.uk, www.lastminute.com, on the night, on the door, always.
Doors 7pm, Show 8.30pm, Open to midnight.

 



Shaw Theatre

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100-110 Euston Road, London NW1 2AJ
Box Office: See under individual event.
Online: See under individual event. www.shaw-theatre.com (venue website)
How to get Here:
Euston Square (Circle, Metropolitan and Hammersmith and City Lines) is the nearest Underground station. Kings Cross (Victoria, Piccadilly, Northern, Circle, Metropolitan and Hammersmith and City Lines, also mainline) and Euston (Northern and Victoria Lines, also mainline) stations are also close by. Bus routes 10, 30, 73, 91, 205, 390 and 476.
 



Shunt

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42-44 Bermondsey Street, London, SE1 3UD
Box Office: 0207 378 7776
Online: www.shuntmoney.co.uk 
How to get Here:
London Bridge (Mainline, Jubilee and Northern lines) is the nearest station. Entry to the venue is via the blue gates into the open bar area.

Until 27th March 2010

Shunt present:

MONEY

In a tobacco warehouse by London Bridge sits the giant centrepiece of our great industrial exposition - an abandoned relic of Victorian technology .

The original purpose of the machine is unknown. If it were built today it would probably fit into the palm of your hand but, in that Golden Age, colossal bulk was the plat du jour.

The future is behind us. The end of the empire is just around the corner

MONEY takes place in an extraordinary three-storey set built in the centre of an empty warehouse in Bermondsey Street. The audience are led inside, where the action unfolds around, above and below them.

But all is not well with the machine. It hisses steam; over-stressed gears throb and grind beneath our seats. The lights keep going out and the jukebox is on the blink. Meanwhile a strange, feral child is stalking the ventilation ducts...

Inspired by Émile Zola's novel L'Argent - which was in turn inspired by the events surrounding the collapse of the Union Générale - a nineteenth century French banking fiasco.

Dispensing with most of the text, Shunt reshape the work in their inimitable aesthetic of fractured narrative, electrifying imagery and all-out sensory assault.

MONEY is loud, disorientating and absurd - a unique theatrical experience that puts the audience in the thick of it.
 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Saturday at 7.30pm (doors open at 6.30pm)
Thursday, Friday and Saturday late shows at 9.45pm (doors open at 9pm)

Performance runs 1 hour 30 minutes approximately.


Seat Prices:
All tickets: £20 (plus £2 per ticket booking fee)

 



Shunt Vaults

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Joiner Street, London Bridge, London, SE1 9RL.
Entrance is through the door on Joiner Street, SE1.
Box Office: 0207 378 7776 (information only)
Online: www.shunt.co.uk
How to get Here:
London Bridge (Mainline, Jubilee and Northern lines) is the nearest station.
 


The Social 

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The Social, 5 Little Portland St, London, W1W 7JD
Box Office: 020 7636 4992 (information only)
Online: www.thesocial.com (information only)
How to get Here:
Oxford Circus (Bakerloo, Central and Victoria Lines) is the nearest underground station.

Every second Thursday each month until 9th December 2010:

Holestar (Hot Mess / NYC Downlow) and Tom Oke (Edit / DJ Hero re-mixer) present:


LET'S GET QUIZZICAL!

Since the producers all love pop music, immature silliness, useless trivia and dancing. They put their heads together and present……

A monthly club mixing dancing with a traditional pub quiz made up of questions about music, pop trivia, gossip, song lyrics, TV and film. Interjected with audience participation, random guest performers, random DJs and random prizes.

For fans of Smash Hits, THE FACE, Top of the Pops, Vice, popbitch and Holy Moly. Competitive general knowledge quiz experts will be disappointed....

www.facebook.com/#/group.php?v=info&ref=ts&gid=73191651744 and
www.myspace.com/letsgetquizzical have further details.

March:

Guests are the legendary Cartel Communique (the men behind infamous club 'B*stard') and pop star Alexander Price adds some sauce with his dazzling dancers.
 

Performance Times:
Doors Open 7pm
Quiz starts at 8.30pm
Dancing follows until 1am


Seat Prices:
Free Entry and Free to enter the quiz.

 



Soho Revue Bar 

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11-12 Walkers Court, Brewer Street, Soho, London, W1F 0ED
Box Office: 020 7439 4089
Online: www.Seetickets.com or www.ticketweb.co.uk
How to get Here:
Nearest underground station is Piccadilly Circus (Piccadilly and Bakerloo line).

 



Soho Theatre

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21 Dean Street, London W1D 3NE
Box Office: 020 7478 0100
Online: www.sohotheatre.com
How to get Here:
Nearest underground station is Tottenham Court Road (Northern and Central lines).

Tuesday 27th July until Saturday 4th September 2010

OperaUpClose Presents:


LA BOHÈME
by Giacomo Puccini, in a new translation by Robin Norton-Hale
directed by Robin Norton-Hale

"A whole new genre: pub opera. Don't bet against it being a terrific success." TIME OUT

LA BOHÈME is transported to the gritty realism of vibrant modern day North London from 1830s Bohemian Paris. The inspirational experience of Puccini’s music is brought to an intimate staging with a young cast and chorus. This production has been conceived to make LA BOHÈME as visceral, funny, accessible and emotionally engaging for audiences as its first performance in 1896.

The timeless story of LA BOHÈME begins on Christmas Eve and revolves around Mimi and Rodolfo, profoundly in love but unable to find a way to make their relationship succeed. Mimi has moved to England from Romania and is working as a cleaner. She lives alone in a North London bedsit, amid a group of middle-class boys who are indulging in a carefree, artistic, Bohemian lifestyle; spending the little money they have on nights out and parties. When Rodolfo falls for Mimi, the group discover the complexity of living for love and art. Puccini’s score is a rollercoaster of human emotion that juxtaposes comedy with deep love and underlying tragedy.

This is the inaugural production from OperaUpClose who are dedicated to presenting new, difficult and classic operas in intimate spaces using young world-class trained singers and directors. Artistic Director Adam Spreadbury-Maher formed the company to bring opera to life for new audiences, and to offer the extraordinary opportunity to experience the dramatic and musical event of opera up close.

Transfers here from a successful run at the Cock Taven Theatre earlier in 2010.

Conductor: Andrew Charity
Set and Costume Design by: Kate Guinness and Lucy Read

 

Performance Times:
Monday to Friday at 7.30pm
Thursdays and Saturdays at 3pm and 7.30pm

 

Seat Prices:
Monday Evenings and Thursday and Saturday Afternoons: All seats £15
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday Evenings: All seats £20 (£17.50 concessions, £18 Westminster Resident Card Holders)
Friday and Saturday Evenings: All seats £25 (£22.50 concessions, £23 Westminster Resident Card Holders)
 



South London Theatre

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2a Norwood High Street, West Norwood, London, SE27 9NS
Box Office: 020 8670 3474
Online: www.southlondontheatre.co.uk
How to get Here: West Norwood (mainline) is the nearest station. Buses 2, 68, 196, 315, 322, 432 and 468.

 



Southwark Playhouse

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Shipwright Yard, (Corner of Bermondsey Street and Tooley Street), London SE1 2TF
Box Office: 0844 847 1656 (Ticketweb, with postage fee if required)
Online: www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk (Ticketweb, with postage fee if required)
How to get Here: London Bridge (Northern and Jubilee Lines, also mainline) is the nearest station.

 



St Mary's Church

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Stoke Newington Church Street, London N16 9ES
Box Office: See under each production as each company has differing arrangements.
How to get Here: Buses 73 and 476 stop nearby.

 



St Stephen's

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St Stephen’s, Rosslyn Hill, Hampstead, London NW3 2PP
Box Office: 0870 230 5540
Online: www.anticdisposition.co.uk
How to get Here:
Belsize Park (Northern Line) is the nearest station.

 



Stratford Circus 

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Theatre Square, Stratford, London, E15 1BX
Box Office: 0844 357 2625
Online: www.stratford-circus.com
How to get Here:
Stratford (Jubilee and Central lines) is the nearest Underground Station. This station also has mainline services from Silverlink, and is connected to the Docklands Light Railway (DLR). 
 


Sway Bar

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61-65 Great Queen Street, London, WC2B 5BZ
Box Office: on the night at the venue.
Online: www.ticketweb.co.uk in advance.
How to get Here: Holborn (Piccadilly and Central Lines) is the nearest tube station.
 


Tabard Theatre

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2 Bath Road, London W4 1LW
Box Office:
08448 472 264 (Ticketweb. Booking fees may apply). Enquiries: 020 8995 6035
Online
: www.tabardtheatre.co.uk (via Ticketweb. Booking fee may apply)
How to get Here:
Turnham Green (Piccadilly and District Lines) is the nearest tube station. Buses: 27, 94, 267, 337, 391, E3, H91

Tuesday 23rd March until Sunday 11th April 2010
Press Night: Wednesday 24th March 2010

The Tabard Theatre present the world première of:

PRECIOUS FRIENDS: SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS STAGED
from the material by William Shakespeare, adapted by Simon Reade
directed by Mark Leipacher

Taken all together The Sonnets are a testament to Shakespeare's poetic power. Individually, each poem is an intimate and personal masterpiece, though their true origin will remain a mystery.

With striking imagery and an inventive adaptation Precious Friends weaves an intoxicating narrative thread through a selection of the most dramatic poems and charts the complex love triangle between a celebrated playwright named Will, his increasingly distant wife Winter, and the young and mysterious Mr W H and their quest for immortality as they encounter Time and Death.

This production unlocks the themes of love, lust, loss, grief, sex and sexuality and blends rich visuals with some of Shakespeare's most famous lines.

This dramatic staging is adapted by a former Literary Manager of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and directed by the Artistic Director of 'thefaction' theatre company who have earned a reputation for physically innovative staging of classical texts.
 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Saturday at 7.30pm
Sunday at 4pm only
NO MONDAY PERFORMANCES


Seat Prices:
All tickets: £14 (£12 concessions)
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Wednesday 14th April until Sunday 9th May 2010
Press Night: Thursday 15th April 2010

Cerberus productions Ltd and Pulling Focus Ltd for the Tabard Theatre presents the world premiere of:


STIFFED!
by John Higginson and Clodagh Hartley
directed by Christopher Loscher

A riotous satire giving a sneak peak on the inner workings of parliament, the press and politicians in the wake of the Whitehall expenses scandal.

The tale follows progressive Quentin Dellaware who has just picked up a Tory seat in a landslide by-election. Keen to make a difference, he is swiftly shown the status quo by his old school chum George Moore-Lys. Meanwhile, Labour front-bencher Paula Stiff is pressing for a fairer Britain with the help of her husband-cum-aide Marty whose real passion is toy trains. Which would all be politics as usual except that young Sally Pauper, an aspiring journalist, aims to make her mark by uncovering the biggest parliamentary story since the gunpowder plot.

John Higginson is Political Editor for Metro and been working inside parliament since Gordon Brown took office. He had the scoop on exposing the notorious shoe bomber, first to tell the world that Britney Spears was married (for a second time) and wrote an expose that forced Elanor Laing MP to repay back £20,000 in expenses. Clodagh Hartley is Whitehall Editor for the Sun and been based in the House of Commons before, during and after the expenses scandal. Together, they have pooled their inside knowledge and written an hilarious account of the breaking of the scandal and how all sides of the political divide tried to cope.

With a general election looming, there has never been a better time to reflect on the political scandal that engulfed our democratic state last year. We may have read the receipts but we haven't heard the full story and certainly not like this.


Performance Times:

Tuesday to Friday at 7.30pm
Saturday at 4pm and 7.30pm
Sunday at 4pm only
NO MONDAY PERFORMANCES


Seat Prices:
All tickets: £14 (£12 concessions)



Tamesis Dock

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Albert Embankment, Vauxhall, London, SE1 7TP
Box Office: on the door. Information: 020 7582 1066
Online: none. Information: www.tamesisdock.co.uk
How to get Here: Vauxhall (Victoria and Main Line) is the nearest station.

 



Tara Studio

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356 Garratt Lane, London SW18 4ES
Box Office:
0208 333 4457
Online
: www.ticketweb.co.uk (booking, with £1.65 per booking postage fee / £1 for collection at venue), www.tara-arts.com (venue)
How to get Here:
Earlsfield is the nearest Mainline station.

TARA Studio is a unique and intimate theatre in South London. Our pioneering cross-cultural programme offers a varied blend of cutting edge, live performances.

New this Season is the "Shakespeare RE-MIXED Festival" from 17th February until 7th March 2010 - Exciting Shakespeare for all ages!

2010 Events include:

MARCH

Dance
Thursday 11th and Friday 12th March
Quincy Charles presents
Namastute
Kathak Dance
Intricate, beautiful and hypnotic, Kathak is the classical dance style of Northern India. Kathak expert Quincy Charles has performed around the world in India, the West Indies and Europe.
7.30pm
£9 (£6 concessions - ANLO tickets available*)

Theatre (storytelling)
Saturday 13th March
Vayu Naidu Company presents
Daily Denials of Wisdom
Storytelling theatre by Vayu Naidu, for ages 12+
Vayu Naidu offers a new selection of tales that will take you travelling to the familiar unknown, or - the Daily Denials of Wisdom. There are wisecracks, witty lovers, scoundrels and saints in her enchanting collection of stories inspired by a Sufi way of being. Watch out – she has a crafty knack of telling!
Vayu’s ‘performance has the knock-your-socks-off effect’
- Times of India
7.30pm
£9 (£6 concessions)

Music
Thursday 18th March
Ancient Futures
Performed by Tunde Jegede and Maya Jobarteh
An evening of African Classical Music with the composer and Kora Maestro, Tunde Jegede and the gifted, young guitarist and vocalist, Maya Jobarteh. The concert follows a journey through the meditative and haunting music of the Kora (21 stringed Harp-lute) from the ancient to the contemporary, drawing from their beautiful recent album, Still Moment.
7.30pm
£9 (£6 concessions - ANLO tickets available*)

Music
Saturday 20th March
Guildhall School of Music & Drama presents
Sezenyum
A truly international ensemble, Sezenyum combines the musical traditions of its members with new influences from around the globe in a fusion of sounds and styles. Expect to hear Balinese gamelan melodies seamlessly woven into African rhythms, in an eclectic performance from this emerging young band.
7.30pm
£9 (£6 concessions)

Theatre
Tuesday 23rd until Saturday 27th March
Mustardseed Theatre Company present
That Face
By Polly Stenham
…you left me here all by myself. So I did what I thought you should have done. Taken care of her.
Set in a dysfunctional upper-middle-class family, with an alcoholic mother, an inappropriately adored son and a neglected daughter, That Face is the critically acclaimed debut play by the astonishing new writer Polly Stenham. Winner of the 2008 Evening Standard award for Most Promising Playwright, Stenham wrote That Face at only 19. Performed by a company of recent graduates from Roehampton University.
7.30pm
£9 (£6 concessions - ANLO tickets available*)

APRIL

Children’s Theatre
Sat 10 April
Moby Duck presents
Once Upon a Tiger
4+ years, for children and families
A flying tiger skin rug with a built in pizza oven – a dream tree – a bad-singing squirrel ─ these are just some of the ideas dreamt up by children in Korea and the UK for this story.
Blogging and skyping over six thousand miles, they have inspired a unique show bursting with storytelling, physical theatre, live music, puppetry and wild, exuberant Korean humour ─ the captivating mixture that makes Moby Duck’s unmissable performance style.
10:30am & 1:30pm, 60 minutes
£7.50 (£6.50 children/concessions)

Theatre
Thurs 15 - Sat 17 April
Company of Angels and ALRA present
Iphigenia and This Child
The freshest new writing from Europe; this double-bill examines the tensions between children and their parents.
Iphigenia - ‘strong-born’ - is brought to her father to be sacrificed to pacify the gods. In this beautifully frank and lyrical reworking of Euripides’ tale, we see even the most powerful of families will unravel under the pressure of Fate.
This Child is played out through a series of vignettes- glimpsing into the dense thicket of family life. We get the chance to peer through the tangled branches and roots of a family tree, following fathers, daughters, sons and mothers as they push for understanding between each other.
Post show Q&A Thursday
7:30pm
£9.50 (£6.50 concessions)

Theatre
Wed 21 - Sat 24 April
The Newstagers presents
How to Disappear Completely and Never be Found
What makes you who you are? A name? An address?
When a young executive reaches breaking point and decides to disappear, he pays a visit to the master of the craft in Southend. Haunted by visitations from a Pathologist who swears he is already lying on her slab, he begins his nightmarish journey to the edge of existence.
7:30pm
£9.50 (£6.50 concessions)

MAY

Theatre
Sat 1 May
TARA’s ArtsBeat and Group 64 present
The 24 Hour Play!
TARA’s young people’s theatre group ArtsBeat are teaming up with Group 64 from Putney Arts Theatre to create a play in a day! Yes, that’s a full performance in just 24 hours.
The two groups aged 14-23 have never met before, but both are known for their dynamic and fresh performances. What will come out of this exciting collaboration? We can only wonder...
9pm
£3.50

Theatre
Wed 5 - Thurs 6 May
Spare Tyre presents
Safe
by Pete Lawson
directed by Arti Prashar
Spare Tyre proudly present their latest play. But wait. Is this a performance, or a hazard?
Affecting, exasperating, hilarious. Safe questions how far we should go to eliminate risk. In a climate that thrives on box-ticking, risk-assessing and safe-guarding, we desperately try to create a “safe” environment. But have we stopped listening to those we are trying to protect?
Post show Q&A after every performance
Wed 2pm & 7:30pm, Thurs 7:30pm
£9.50 (£6.50 concessions)

Theatre
Fri 7 - Sat 8 May
Anglo Sikh Heritage Trail ASHT present
Maharajah and Kohinoor Diamond
recommended for 8+ years
A dramatisation of the remarkable story of Maharajah Duleep Singh for families and young audiences.
Duleep Singh, Maharajah of Lahore and King of the Sikh Empire, was deposed by the British at the age of eleven and sent to England. Not only was he separated from his mother, but his most prized possession, the Kohinoor, the world’s largest diamond was taken away. The Maharajah immediately became a court favourite of Queen Victoria, however, injustices and insincere intentions eventually drove him into the arms of exploitative meddlers.
7:30pm
£9.50 (£6.50 concessions)

Children’s Theatre
Sat 8 May
Tam Tam Theatre presents
The Hippo and His Magic Pen
3+ years for children and families
For his birthday Little Hippo received lots of beautiful presents, but it is Daddy Hippo’s present that Little Hippo prefers, a red pen. Inside the red pen are the most beautiful things in the world, but how to get them out...?
In this interactive version of the the enchanting story Petit Hippo et son stylo maqique, by West African writer Alain Serge Dzotap from Cameroon, children will be invited to make their own use of Little Hippo’s pen.
10:30am & 1:30pm, 50 mins
£7.50 (£6.50 children/concessions)

Theatre
Tues 18 - Wed 19 May
Roehampton University Showcase
New Approaches to Performance
Final year students from Roehampton University’s Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies BA programme will present a range of short performances and play readings.
Tuesday evening will feature rehearsed readings of plays written by Year 3 Playwriting students. Wednesday evening will include reflective solo performances about recent community projects with local youth clubs, theatre companies & homeless shelters.
Post show Q&A Tues & Wed
7:30pm
£7(£5 concessions)

Roehampton University presents
Passion and Journey to Starland
A double bill, combining Passion, a brief live art presentation by Ernst Fischer, conceived as a personal response to the excesses of religious fundamentalism, and Journey to Starland, a dramatisation of Soheila Ghodstinat’s autobiography, which tells the story of an Iranian woman’s battle for independence in 1980’s Teheran.
Post show Q&A Thurs
7:30pm
£7, £5 concessions

Theatre
Thurs 20 - Fri 21 May
Shishukunj South Kendra Present
Shishukunj Has Got Talent
The Children’s Entertainment Showcase.
Written, directed and performed by children for children - the kids are back in town!
It is with great pleasure that we present the comeback tour of all the participants of Shishukunj has got talent. The variety of skills presented for your entertainment will leave you only slightly less amazed than the age of those performing them. There will be smiles, laughs and a lot of fun to be had for everyone.
7:30pm
£3.50

Music
Wed 26 May
Sohini Alam and Labik Kalam in Concert
This exciting musical collaboration will bring the sounds of modern and classical Bengali music to TARA Studio.
Vocalist Sohini Alam has performed worldwide as a soloist, with her bands Khiyo, Lokkhi Terra and After Art, with Amra Kojon and Drishtipat Creative.
Labik Kalam is a vocalist, composer, songwriter and producer who has collaborated with the highly acclaimed jazz pianist, Zoe Rahman and Kishon Khan. His band Ajob, are currently working on their second album.
7:30pm
£9.50 (£6.50 concessions)

Music
Thurs 27 May
Guildhall School of Music and Drama present
Jetsam
Formed in Singapore in 2008, Jetsam create and perform original and commissioned works as well as contemporary repertoire. Their first performance was an exploration of protest music combining elements of folk music from Chile and Japan.
With backgrounds in classical music, dance/electronic music, and song writing, the band’s unique sound seeks to blend these influences with their shared experiences from around the world. This year Jetsam have been invited to be ensemble in residence at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and plan to record their debut album.
www.myspace.com/jetsam
7:30pm
£9.50 (£6.50 concessions)

Theatre
Sat 29 May
ALRA presents
Loveplay
by Moira Buffini
directed by Andrew Hall
‘Here. You. Now. This.’
From the Dark Ages to dating agencies, Loveplay is a romp through history. On one patch of land we see bite-sized scenes of love across the ages. Love in all its forms, from the touching to the sublimely daft, from brute torture to tortuous manipulation. Each fragment is handled with Moira Buffini’s classic lightness of touch.
This production contains strong language and scenes of a sexual nature. Recommended for 18+ years.
7:30pm
£9.50 (£6.50 concessions)

JUNE
Children’s Theatre
Sat 5 June
The Krazy Kat Theatre Company presents
Growing, Growing... Gone!
The story of Jack and the Beanstalk
directed by Robbie Jones with Caroline Parker
Can two actors and a watering-can cover this tall tale? Krazy Kat present an imaginative and unpredictable storytelling extravaganza with magic tricks, original music, silly puppets and a rather cross giant!
For all four to 4-8 year olds and grown-ups too, this work features fully integrated Sign Language.
10:30am. 50 minuntes
£7.50 (£6.50 children/concessions)

Theatre
Tues 1 - Sat 5 June
TARA presents
The Demon’s Revenge
- The Slaying of Meghnad

directed by Mukul Ahmed
TARA Studio will be transformed by this Bengali classic into a heroic world where gods, demons and kings grace our intimate stage.
“I should be able to see everyone and everything but no one should be able to see me. I should be able to kill whoever I please,” Meghnad.
Meghnad was the much feared son of King Ravana. He contested gods, kings and demons with his terrifying power. Ravana had total faith in the supremacy of his son and believed that if Meghnad was fighting with him he could never lose in battle. But blind confidence is not enough - one false move and all is lost in love as in war.
Based on Michael Madhusudan Datta’s epic version of the Ramayana story in which Ravana, not Rama is the hero. The show will be accompanied by live musicians.
7:30pm
£9.50 (£6.50 concessions)

Theatre
Thurs 1 - Sat 3 July
Four Portraits of Mothers
by Arnold Wesker
Four finely drawn miniatures for one actor, through interaction with unseen characters, Ruth, Naomi, Miriam and Deborah reveal their emotional responses to motherhood. We share the highs and lows of the un-married mother, the mother who never was, the failed mother and the earth mother.
Jacquie Crago has collaborated with pianist Robert Lind to give these characters a voice.
Post show Q&A Thursday
7:30pm Thurs & Fri / 2:30pm & 7:30pm Sat
£9.50 (£6.50 concessions)

JULY

Comedy
Fri 16 - Sat 17 July
Seabright Productions presents
Hardeep Singh Kohli
Edinburgh preview
What is a chat show? A show with chat, evidently. But in this day and age when guests are increasingly controlled and controlling there is seldom genuine insight into the real guest. Hardeep Singh Kohli wishes to change that.
How, I hear you ask. With food. He will feed his guests. They will eat his food and then, marvelling at his subtle and inventive blend of spices and ingredients, they will chat. And chat. And chat. And that’s the show.
7:30pm
£10


 

ALSO
Friday 19th March, 9th and 30th April, 14th and 28th May, 11th and 25th June and 9th July 2010
Cracking Comedy at TARA

Cracking Comedy at TARA is a regular stand up comedy night at TARA Studio, showcasing the very best performers from around the UK including new, emerging talent alongside established acts from the world of TV and radio. Please check the website for line-ups.
8.30pm (doors open 7.45pm)
All tickets: £10

Performance Times:
vary by production - see individual listings above
for details.

Seat Prices:
vary by production - see individual listings above
for details.

A Night Less Ordinary tickets are available for shows marked with a *. ANLO tickets are FREE TICKETS FOR UNDER 26s! Limited tickets are available for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night performances. They can be booked over the phone through our box office (maximum of 6 tickets per booking).

 



Thameside Theatre

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Thameside Complex, Grays RM17 5DX
Box Office: 0845 300 5264
Online: www.thurrock.gov.uk/theatre
How to get Here:
Grays Station (mainline) is 200 metres walk away.

16th March 2010

THEATRE IS… presents:

TEN YEARS FROM NOW

One year after BNP leader Nick Griffin used a stage in Thurrock, one of the organisation’s “very best areas”, as a launch pad for the party’s European and local election campaign, the young people of the town take the same stage to imagine an alternative vision of the future for Thurrock

Two years after Emma Colgate was elected BNP councillor with nearly 40% of the Tilbury Riverside and Thurrock Park vote, with the 2010 general election looming this culturally diverse young company of teenage Thurrock residents strive to celebrate the pride they take in building a better future for their community.

The young company have asked themselves and their peers what would the future of Thurrock be Ten Years From Now? What part would they play in creating that future? Indeed do they see a future for themselves in the Thames Gateway, one of Europe’s fastest regenerating regions?

Made in collaboration with artists from THEATRE IS… and Throwdown UK, employing hip hop art forms, spoken word, break dancing and body popping, their response is captured in a new piece of theatre with ideas and language formed from a series of conversations and interviews with a number of young Thurrock residents.

The production is the result of an ongoing collaboration between THEATRE IS… and international hip hop artists from Throwdown UK, with support from Thurrock Borough Council and the Thurrock Thames Gateway Development Corporation. This began in September 2009 when the artists took their road show to schools across Thurrock, sharing their skills with over 1,900 young people. 150 were selected to take part in workshops in October, with 55 going on to perform at a slam night on 29th October at the Thameside Theatre. 20 of the most talented were then auditioned to work together as an events team to learn how to create and produce their own work. The process has begun to introduce the company to the creative and entrepreneurial skills required to make their own hip hop theatre, and to share their knowledge with their peers through future self orchestrated workshops and performances.

THEATRE IS… ignites the artistic leadership of the 21st Century, focussing on the young people of the East of England and placing them at the heart of the decision making process. Participants have the chance to learn new skills and work with new technologies, developing as artists and creative entrepreneurs in their local community. THEATRE IS…’ unique, uplifting performances take inspiration from the culture of the young people that create them.

www.theatreis.org and www.itsourtheatre.com are the venture's websites.
 

Performance Time:
7.30pm

Seat Prices:
All tickets £5 (£3 concessions)
 



Theatre 503

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Above the Latchmere Pub, 503 Battersea Park Road, London SW11 3BW.
Box Office: 020 7978 7040 or email  info@theatre503.com.
Online: www.theatre503.com
How to get Here: Sloane Square (District and Circle lines) is the nearest underground station, then bus 319. Alternatively South Kensington (Piccadilly, District and Circle lines) then bus 49 or 345. By rail: Clapham Junction (from Victoria or Waterloo) then 10 minutes walk or bus 49, 319, 345 or 344. By bus: 44, 49, 319, 344, 345, N19. Local free parking on street after 5pm.

Tuesday 2nd until Saturday 27th March 2010
Press Night: Friday 5th March 2010

Theatre503 presents the UK premiere of:

PETER AND VANDY
by Jay DiPietro
directed by Tim Roseman

“A part of you has to die in a relationship, and maybe you’re confusing that with me trying to kill you.”

The author says of his 'love story in disorder,'

“A few years back I wrote a scene about a man and a woman and had some actors read it. After the actors read it, a friend said, - You should keep writing about these characters,- and before he could finish the sentence I knew exactly what I would write: I would write the story of this couple, Peter and Vandy, and tell it out of sequence… and in doing so, make their story that much clearer.

In that moment I saw the scenes – the first I love you – arguing about ordering Chinese food – splitting up – seeing each other on the street… but what really excited me was idea of playing these scenes against one another. All of the funny inconsistencies and hypocrisies and truths would be emboldened. I imagined getting to know this couple intimately… and then seeing their first date. I imagined seeing them falling in love… and then seeing them call each other every name in the book.

And what’s more… I imagined how all of these scenes illuminated each another. All of the clues to who they become are there when they fall in love. It may feel, at first, like they just go from “innocent lovers” to “grizzled couple.” But the more you get to know them, the more we see that they are setting up who they become, even in the most romantic of scenes. By first seeing their future, we can fully understand what is happening in the past… and vice versa.”

Jay DiPietro (Director/Writer/Producer) is a New York City playwright and a filmmaker. Peter and Vandy was his film directorial debut.


Design by Libby Watson
Lighting by Richard Howell
Sound by Fergus O’Hare

Cast: Kirsty Bushell (Vandy), Joseph Chance (Peter).
 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Saturday at 7.45pm
Sundays at 5pm
NO MONDAY PERFORMANCES.



Seat Price:
All tickets £14 (£9 concessions)
except
Tuesdays are "pay what you can" evenings.
Save £2 per ticket by booking before 2nd March 2010.
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Tuesday 6th April until Saturday 1st May 2010
Press Night: Friday 9th April 2010

Theatre503, Latina Pictures and Indiskarf present

P*RN THE MUSICAL
music by Boris Cezek and Kris Spiteri
book and lyrics by Boris Cezek, Malcom Galea and Kris Spiteri
directed by Paul Robinson

‘This musical will widen your eyes and make you throb with delight.’

When young Stefan’s tranquil life on the island of Malta is shattered by his fiancée’s slutty revelation, he goes off to the US in search of a new life. There he finds an exciting group of friends in an industry that takes some getting used to.

Po*n the Musical is a highly original, anarchic and hilarious musical featuring such catchy numbers as ‘Many Ways To Do It,’ ‘I’ll Stick To You Like H*rpes’ and ‘The Song Where Everybody Bit*hes’.

Cast includes: David Burt, Ahmet Ahmet, Brendan Cull, Alain Terzoli, Jody Peach, Malcom Galea and Sophia Thierens.

 

Choreography by Ally Holmes
Design by Rachael Canning
Lighting by Phil Hewitt
Sound by Mike Walker
 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Saturday at 7.45pm
Sundays at 5pm
NO MONDAY PERFORMANCES.



Seat Price:
All tickets £14 (£9 concessions)
except
Tuesdays are "pay what you can" evenings.
 



Theatro Technis 

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26 Crowndale Road, London NW1 1TT
Box Office: see under individual productions.
Online: see under individual productions.
How to get Here:
Nearest Underground Stations are Mornington Crescent or Camden Town on the Northern Line. Bus: 24, 27, 29, 46, 134, 214

Tuesday 9th until Saturday 13th March 2010

Fourth Monkey Theatre Company present:

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
by Anthony Burgess
directed by Steven Green

Alex and his vicious teenage gang revel in horrific violence, mugging and gang rape. Alex also revels in the music of Beethoven. The gang communicates in a language which is as complicated as their actions. When a drug-fueled night of fun ends in murder, Alex is finally busted and banged up. He is given a choice - be brainwashed into good citizenship and set free, or face a lifetime inside.

North London’s Fourth Monkey Theatre Company will perform Anthony Burgess’ official stage adaptation of his infamous and controversial ‘A Clockwork Orange’ with their own distinctive style of dynamic and energized theatre. This production is presented in London prior to a run at the Space on the Mile at the Edinburgh Festival in August 2010.

Musical directors: Jacob Dylan Thomas and Andrew Bryant
Choreographer: Holly Rye
 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Saturday at 7.30pm


Seat Prices:
All tickets £10 (£8 concessions) booked in advance OR
All tickets £12 (£10 concessions) at the door.
Concessions are available to those aged under 16, full-time students and senior citizens.


Booking For This Production:
Online through www.ticketweb.co.uk
By phone: 08444 771 000 (Ticketweb)
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Wednesday 24th until Saturday 27th March 2010

UpStaged Theatre Company present:

100
by Diene Petterle, Neil Monaghan and Christopher Heiman
directed By Nick Hooton

With a young, vibrant and skilled cast this play tackles the ultimate question – “What happens after life?” 100 sets the premise that to pass through the void of death and to reach eternity you must first choose a memory from your former life. The memory that you pick will be the one you re-live forever and ever and ever, new to you every time but the memories that you do not select will be deleted from your mind and be as if they never existed to you. You now have only one hour to decide.

From your whole life, from all you've ever done, felt or thought… what is the one thing you treasure most? The characters in 100 are forced to choose and re-enact their memories. We are magically transported to a dramatic French motorbike race, a tropical rainforest and a London tube train as each character in turn tries to capture their memory for eternity. With a gripping plot and some superb work in both physical and absurd theatre, this is a production not to missed. 100 won a Fringe First Award for 'innovation in theatre and an outstanding new production at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2002', where it enjoyed a total sell-out run, so it is with great pleasure and expectancy that the UpStaged Theatre Company bring you this challenging, thought provoking and breathtaking piece of theatre.

This production of 100 will transfer to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the summer of 2010 so catch it this March as it previews at Theatro Technis, Camden and witness how a single gesture can speak volumes about yourself, loved ones and your life.
 

 

Performance Times:
Wednesday to Saturday at 7.45pm

Runs 1 hour approximately.



Seat Prices:
All tickets £9 (£7 concessions)
Group discounts available.


Booking For This Production:
Online through www.centrestageuk.com 
By phone: 020 8886 4264



Theatre Royal, Stratford East

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Gerry Raffles Square, Stratford, London. E15 1BN
Box Office: 020 8279 1160 or 1161
Online: www.stratfordeast.com
How to get Here: Stratford (Jubilee and Central lines) is the nearest Underground Station. This station also has mainline services from Silverlink, and is connected to the Docklands Light Railway (DLR). 

 
MONDAY NIGHT
COMEDY EVENINGS

In the theatre bar.

Programme (always subject to change): see www.stratfordeast.com for schedule.


EXTRA SUNDAY PERFORMANCES: will also be announced soon. See www.stratfordeast.com for schedule.



Performance Times:
Monday performances start at 8pm.


Seat Prices:
Tickets are free, but arrive early to secure a seat... or you could be left standing!

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Friday 19th February until Saturday 20th March 2010
Press Night: Wednesday 24th February 2010
Audio Described performance: 13th March 2010 at 2pm
Sign-Interpreted Performance: 4th March 2010 at 7.30pm
Captioned performance: 18th March 2010 at 7.30pm

Theatre Royal Stratford East presents the World premiere of…

TWO WOMEN
CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE. NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN OR THE EASILY OFFENDED.
by Martina Cole
adapted for the stage by Patrick Prior
directed by
Ryan Romain

The plight of two starkly contrasted female characters - one born to a working class family in the East End of London during the height of gangland activity and the other a bored house-wife accustomed to a life of privilege and money - kick start the debate of how women from different backgrounds are judged by society, tackling domestic abuse and women’s rights. A hard-hitting tale of betrayal, heartbreak, justice and redemption, full of twists and turns.

This explosive new play is based on the novel by Martina Cole - one of the UK’s most popular crime writers. After conquering the world of television with several successful adaptations of her books including the hugely popular The Take (Sky1), Martina Cole has now turned her attention to theatre. Martina is renowned for her gritty and realistic portrayals of East London's underworld and now, for the first time ever, one of her best-selling novels is brought to the stage.


Set and costume design: Yannis Thavoris
Assistant director: Antonio Ferrara
Lighting designer Declan Randle
Sound designer: Theo Holloway

Cast includes: Frances Albery, Victoria Alcock, Marc Bannerman, Michael Bertenshaw, Sophie Cosson, Marcus Ellard, Sheryl Gannaway, Laura Howard, Cathy Murphy, Alison Newman and Sally Oliver.


 

Performance Times:
Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm
Extra performance 13th March 2010 at 2pm


Seat Prices:
All performances EXCEPT Saturday Evenings and previews: £22, £18, £14, £12, £8 (£18, £14, £8 Concessions)
Saturday Evenings: £22, £20, £14, £8 (£18, £16, £10 concessions)
Previews: 19th, 20th and 23rd February 2010: All tickets £10
 



The Space

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269 Westferry Road London E14 3RS
Box Office: 020 7515 7799
Online: www.space.org.uk (via Ticketweb, with booking fee for some productions)
How to get Here:
Nearest underground Canary Wharf (Jubilee Line) and Mudchute on the DLR. Buses: 135, D3, D7, N550.

 



3-4 Picton Place

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3-4 Picton Place, London. W1U 1BJ
Box Office: 07708 740 913 (for same day bookings only)
Online: www.theatredelicatessen.co.uk (for advance bookings - 50p per ticket booking fee)
How to get Here: Bond Street (Jubilee and Central lines) is the nearest Underground Station.

Wednesday 10th February until Saturday 13th March 2010
Press Night: Wednesday 17th February 2010

theatredelicatessen present:

MERCURY FUR
by Philip Ridley
directed by Frances Loy

A London ravaged by gangs, drugs and fear. A group of young men determined to keep each other alive have developed a successful service catering for the darkest fantasies of the rich. Based on real-life situations, it’s a shocking and powerful exposure of the limits of human love.

Theatre Delicatessen are staging Philip Ridley’s most controversial play, Mercury Fur, in a deserted school house in London. Featuring a drugged up child, the play has such horrifying acts of child abuse in it that Ridley’s publishers refused to print it.

Theatre Delicatessen’s new theatrical squat, 3-4 Picton Place W1, provides a harrowing backdrop. A 1920’s school stripped back to its original features, this deserted space ready for the builders and a perfect setting for the desperate wastelands that dominant much of Ridley’s work. With a rapidly growing reputation for producing engaging environmental theatre, Theatre Delicatessen’s staging promises to push as many boundaries as the play itself does.

This production leads a bumper season for Philip Ridley. His spectacular new film, Heartless, opened in February, and in March, Moonfleece, a play that follows a BNP activist confront his prejudices, begins a tour visiting BNP-affected areas.

Don’t miss the violent, tender voice of one of Britain’s most prolific, controversial and relevant artists.


Designed by Will Reynolds
Produced by theatredelicatessen

STOP PRESS: Philip Ridley’s play once again caused controversy after a police raid was narrowly averted by the theatre company’s production team.

Police were ready to storm the stage following a 999 call made by a distressed resident living next door to Theatre Delicatessen’s latest pop-up theatre space, who believed the production’s violent scenes were being played out for real.

Only the quick thinking of actors waiting off stage, and the intervention of Theatre Delicatessen’s producer prevented the police bringing the performance to an abrupt end.

 


Performance Times:
Tuesday to Saturday at 7.30pm


Seat Prices:
All seats: £12 (£10 concessions) except
Previews (10th until 13th February 2010): all seats £8

 



Tricycle Theatre

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269 Kilburn High Road, London, NW6 7JR
Box Office: 020 7328 1000
Online: www.tricycle.co.uk
How to get Here:
Kilburn (Jubilee Line) is the nearest station.


 



Tristan Bates Theatre

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1a Tower Street, London, WC2H 9NP
Box Office: 020 7240 6283
Online: www.tristanbatestheatre.co.uk
How to get Here:
Nearest underground Leicester Square (Piccadilly Line)

Tuesday 23rd February until Saturday 13th March 2010

Divided Sky present:

SUNFLOWERHOUSE

A family in close-up - in a typical East German concrete highrise. Some years after 1989 Micha is making a documentary about his family for film school, and rather unwittingly uncovers a lot. His father was a Stasi informant, his pregnant sister can’t continue university and his best friend is suddenly a Neo-nazi. It may even be that Micha himself was involved in that famous arson attack on the Sunflower House.

Micha’s film forces the different generations to make decisions with regard to their past and future, and becomes a study of constructed individual and collective memory in the wake of the "reunification“.

 

Performance Times:
Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm


Seat Prices:

All seats: £12 (£10 concessions)
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Monday 15th March until Saturday 3rd April 2010

Bruised Sky Productions present:


MANOR
by Martin Murphy
directed by James Kermack

Manor is the brutal tale of three men thrown together by violence and love. Although set in the present day, Manor tells a story which brings Greek mythology and Biblical tales into the classic British gangster genre.

Manor uses a heightened poetic form of language transforming the words of the grimy London underworld into a near musical experience.

While the play is undoubtedly hard hitting Martin Murphy's play finds a real humanity in each of his characters, making the most horrifying bearable whilst transforming the most minor infidelity into an unforgivable sin"

www.bruisedskyproductions.com is the company website.

Cast: Andrew Obeney, Stephen Pucci, Barra Collins, Elspeth Rae.
 

Performance Times:
Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm


Seat Prices:
All seats: £12 (£10 concessions)
 



Troy Bar

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10 Hoxton Street, London N1 6NG
Box Office: 0207 324 5591 (information only)
Online: www.wegottickets.com (with booking fee)
How to get Here: Old Street (Northern Line and Mainline) is the nearest station.

 



Union Theatre

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204 Union Street, London SE1 0LX
Box Office:  020 7261 9876
Online: www.upandcoming.webeden.co.uk
How to get Here: Southwark (Jubilee Line) is the nearest Underground Station.

Wednesday 3rd until Saturday 27th March 2010

Holly Reiss and Joe Fredericks for MokitaGrit Productions and The Steam Industry present the London Premiere of:

ONCE UPON A TIME AT THE ADELPHI
written and directed by Phil Willmott

1930's Liverpool, and the glitz and glamour of Hollywood pour off the luxury liners for their first taste of England: a night in the city's most fashionable hotel.

Amidst all the decadence, no-nonsense Alice from reception has fallen for the dashing Thompson from accounts - but fate, Hollywood, two wars and a dizzying array of staff and guests intervene in an epic love story spanning 60 years.

Phil Willmott's previous musicals include Dick Barton - Special Agent, A Christmas Carol and Around the World in 80 Days. Reuniting many of the original creative team, the show finally arrives in London following a sell-out extended run at the Liverpool Playhouse, a 2008 TMA award for best musical and a Whatsonstage nomination for best regional production.

www.mokitagrit.com is the production company website.

Set Designer - Charlie Cridlan
Musical Supervisor - Elliot Davis
Choreographer - Andrew Wright
Musical Director - Michael Bradley
Costume Designer - Geraldine Spencer
Associate Director - Joe Fredericks


Cast: Rebecca Hutchinson, Jamie Birkett, Lucyelle Cliffe, Ally Holmes, Jodie Michaels, Jon-Paul Hevey, Matt Markwick, Will Stokes, Marc Antolin, Matthew Naegeli, Emma Barr,
Joanna Goodwin, Lucinda Lawrence, Lindsay Scigliano, Emily Barlow, Nicholas Collier, Benjamin Bond, Rudi Last.

 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Sunday at 7.30pm
Extra performances Sunday at 3.30pm


Seat Prices:
£17.50 (premium seats), £15, £12.50
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Wednesday 1st until Saturday 25th September 2010
Press Night: Thursday 2nd September 2010

Simon James Collier, in association with Fallen Angel Theatre and Ben David Productions
presents:


THE REMAINS OF THE DAY
based on the Novel ‘The Remains of the Day’ by Kazuo Ishiguro
Music, Book and Lyrics by Alex Loveless
directed by Chris Loveless

Darlington Hall lies dormant, its prior distinction a passing memory. In the twilight of his life, Stevens, long-standing and devoted butler to the late Lord Darlington struggles to meet the needs of its new owner. Convinced he requires more staff in order to remedy his professional woes, Stevens sets out to meet his one-time housekeeper and bring her back to Darlington Hall. But as his journey progresses, Stevens begins to question his former employer’s convictions and to wonder whether he has lost much more than simply a housekeeper.

The Remains of the Day examines the nature of dignity and the intellectual and emotional servitude of blind devotion.

Alex Loveless’ evocative score combines the immediacy of musical theatre with classical and folk traditions of the early 20th Century to form a compelling through-composed musical drama.

www.theremainsoftheday.com is the production website.

Movement by Omar F. Okai
Instrumental Arrangements by Rowland Lee

 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Sunday at 7.30pm
Extra performances Saturday and Sunday at 2.30pm


Seat Prices:
£15.50 (£12.50 concessions)
 



Upstairs at the Gatehouse Theatre 

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The Gatehouse Pub, junction of Hampstead Lane and North Road, Highgate. N6 4BD.
Box Office: 020 8340 3488 (50p per ticket credit card booking fee)
Online: www.upstairsatthegatehouse.com
How to get Here: Nearest Underground Station is Highgate or Archway on the Northern Line, then bus 143, 210 or 271 up Highgate Hill.


 



Upstairs at the Old Blue Last

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above the Old Blue Last Public House, 38 Great Eastern Street, EC2A 3ES
Box Office: 020 7253 2135 (cash or cheque only for telephone and on the door sales)
Online: www.lightsoflondonproductions.co.uk (via Paypal with 50p charge)
How to get Here: Old Street (Northern and Main Line) is the nearest station.

 



Upstairs at the Wheatsheaf

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above the Wheatsheaf Public House, 25 Rathbone Place, London W1T 1DG
Box Office: 020 7580 1585 (give name, date, number of tickets. Collect by 8.10pm on the night of performance).
Online: see under individual production.
How to get Here: Tottenham Court Road (Northern and Central lines) is the closest underground station.

Every Thursday until 25th March 2010


GRAND THEFT IMPRO

Veteran comedy improvisers Grand Theft Impro are back to their regular weekly show in central London from the start of October. Every Thursday, Phil Whelans, Dylan Emery and Drew Leavy will be creating sketches on the spot from audience suggestions along with special guests from the world of comedy.

GTI generally announces guests a week or so before they are on but the pool of previous guests includes Phill Jupitus, Tony Slattery, Suki Webster, The Penny Dreadfuls, Niall Ashdown, Pippa Evans and Ruth Bratt plus a host of other performers from around the world. Every week is different!

GTI has been a Time Out Recommended Show continuously for the past three years; it has been London Lite's Show to Go and was Jim Sweeney's Comic's Choice.

www.grandtheftimpro.com is the show website.



Performance Times and dates:
Every Thursday until 25th March 2010 from 8.30pm until 10.15pm (doors open 8.15pm)


Seat Prices:
All tickets £5

Booking for this production:
By Telephone on: 020 7580 1585 or email tickets@grandtheftimpro.com.
Give a name, a date and a number of tickets. You must show up by 8pm on the night to pick up the tickets.

 



(Jerwood) Vanbrugh Theatre

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Malet Street, London WC1 6ED
Box Office: 020 7908 4800
Online: http://www.rada.org/events/
How to get Here:
Goodge Street (Northern Line) and Tottenham Court Road (Central and Northern Line) are the nearest stations.

 



Village Soho

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81 Wardour Street W1D 6QD
Box Office: 020 7439 4089 for information only. See under individual productions for booking.
Online: www.village-soho.co.uk for information only. See under individual productions for booking.
How to get Here: Piccadilly Circus (Piccadilly and Bakerloo Lines) is the nearest underground station.

 



Village Underground

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54 Holywell Lane, London EC2A 3PQ
Box Office: online only.
Online: www.nabokov-online.com
How to get Here:
Old Street (Northern Line) and Liverpool Street (Circle, Hammersmith and City, Metropolitan and mainline) are the nearest stations. Buses 8, 388, 149, 55, 67, 47, 216, 35, 242. Car park at Great Eastern Street.

 



Volupte

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Volupte, 7-9 Norwich Street, London, EC4A 1EJ
Box Office: 020 7831 1622
Online: www.volupte-lounge.com (information) reservations@volupte-lounge.com (bookings)
How to get Here:
Nearest Underground Stations: Chancery Lane (Central Line) Farringdon (Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City and Circle Lines.) Nearest mainline station: City Thameslink.

 



Warehouse Theatre, Croydon

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Dingwall Road, Croydon CR0 2NF
Box Office: 020 8680 4060 (enquiries 020 8681 1257)
Online: www.warehousetheatre.co.uk 
How to get Here:
East Croydon is the nearest mainline station. Buses: T33, 64, 119, 130, 194, 196, 197, 312, 367, 466 and 726.

Friday 12th March until Sunday 4th April 2010
Press Nights: Sunday 14th, Tuesday 16th and Wednesday 17th March 2010

London New Play Festival and Psychodrome Present:


RELAX

by Robert Farrar
directed by Phil Setren

Set in the Gemini Lodge Guesthouse, near Weston super Mare, where the kinky guest house owner has a habit of seducing his unsuspecting male guests, but the next morning blaming it on his supposed identical twin brother. Mix in a tarot reading fifty something stoned houseboy and a metrosexual mechanic and the scene is set for a hilarious tale concerning post coital guilt, sexual compulsion and mistaken identity.

This comedy has its roots in the classic French farces of Georges Feydeau and the anarchic gay humour of Joe Orton. It takes a light-hearted look at the difficulties provincial and suburban men face in being honest about their sexuality. The development of Relax was supported by The Peggy Ramsay Foundation.

Designed by Martin Thomas.

Cast: James Holmes (photograph above), Tony Bluto, Nadia Kamil, Donimic Cazenove, Mark Leeson.

 

Performance Times:
Tuesday at 6.30pm
Wednesday to Saturday at 8pm
Sunday at 5pm
NO MONDAY PERFORMANCES.


Seat Prices:
All tickets £14 (£9 concessions on Tuesday Evenings, Wednesday Evenings and Sunday Afternoons)
except
Thursdays: All tickets £10
 



Watford Palace Theatre

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Clarendon Road, Watford, Hertfordshire, WD17 1JZ
Box Office: 01923 225671
Online: www.watfordtheatre.co.uk
How to get Here: Watford Junction and Watford High Street mainline stations are 10 minutes walk from the theatre. A car park is nearby in Clarendon Road.

Wednesday 10th and Thursday 11th March 2010

Kate Flatt Projects and Watford Palace Theatre present

SOUL PLAY
SUITABLE FOR THOSE AGED 14+
by Kate Flatt
text by Anna Reynolds

Soul Play fuses dance and text to ask the question what is ‘the soul’? Following his untimely death, the relationship between a young man and his own soul takes the form of a conversation as his soul teaches him to dance. This brave and contemporary performance is at times harsh but ultimately a tender and funny play.

Watford Palace Theatre Creative Associate Kate Flatt brings Soul Play to Watford as part of a collaboration with The Peace Hospice in Watford. As well as appearing at the Palace Theatre on 10th and 11th March, Soul Play will form the basis of Soul Play and Beyond, a community project between Watford Palace Theatre, and The Peace Hospice. This will bring together bereavement counsellors, palliative care workers and the production’s cast and creative team. The project will introduce movement and theatre practices into end of life care. The project, which is supported by the Rayne Foundation, will also offer post-show discussions and other related events with the performances.

Kate Flatt trained at the Royal Ballet School. Her career currently spans a wide field, nationally and internationally, and includes ballet and contemporary dance works, film, opera and musicals. Notable productions include the creation of the original musical staging for the RSC’s Les Miserables (1985) now at the Queens Theatre and worldwide, and the choreography for Turandot (1984), frequently revived at the Royal Opera and abroad.

A free "Question and Answer" session follows each performance.

Designed by Chloe Lamford
Lighting by Anna Watson
Sound Design by Al Ashford.

Cast includes: Joy Constantinides, Sam Curtis.

 

Performance Time:
8pm


Seat Prices:
All tickets
£12.50
 



Wellcome Collection

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183 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE.
Box Office: see under individual productions.
Online: www.wellcomecollection.org for information only. For booking, see under individual productions.
How to get Here:
Nearest Stations are Euston Square (Metropolitan, Circle and Hammersmith and City Lines) or Euston (Northern and Victoria Lines and Mainline).

Monday 19th April until Wednesday 12th May 2010
Press Night: Thursday 22nd April 2010

On Theatre and The Wellcome Collection present:


PRESSURE DROP
by Mick Gordon
Music and songs by Billy Bragg
directed by Christopher Haydon

Pressure Drop asks a central question: What makes me who I am? It explores the individual, familial, social and political reference points which make a person definable and recognisable to themselves and others.

Part play, part gig, part art installation, Pressure Drop prompts the audience to consider which are the pressured groups in society today – an increasingly topical issue as the General Election approaches.

It presents three generations of a white, working-class English family struggling to define themselves both in relation to one another and within a changing social landscape. At the heart of the event lies a paradox. Our identities are continually in flux; but at the same time, we need a firm sense of rootedness, of belonging to something stable.


The collaboration between Mick Gordon and Billy Bragg came about when Mick read The Progressive Patriot by Bragg and became intrigued by the singer-songwriter’s exploration on what it means to be English in contemporary Britain. In the book, Bragg reflects on his family and their history. He revisits the music that originally inspired him and challenges versions of patriotism proposed by the far right.

A drama of passion and prejudice: part play, part gig, part installation starring Billy Bragg and his band.

For more information please visit: www.wellcomecollection.org/pressuredrop, or see the video trailer at www.youtube.com.

A post-show discussion takes place on Thursday 29th April and Thursday 6th May, (admission free to same day ticket holders only).


Produced by On Theatre and Wellcome Collection
Designed by Tom Scutt
Lighting design by Mark Howland
Sound design by Mike Furness
Sound for the band by Grant Showbiz
Casting by Nadine Rennie

Cast includes: Billy Bragg and his band




Performance Times:
Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm

Runs 1 hour 30 minutes approximately.

 


Seat Prices:
All tickets £20 (£15 concessions)

'Pressure Drop' is a promenade production with a duration of 90 minutes. Seating not provided. Spaces for wheelchair users available by arrangement.

 

Booking For This Production:
Online through www.wellcomecollection.org/pressuredrop.
By phone: 0844 412 4318



White Bear Theatre Club

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White Bear Public House, 138 Kennington Park Road, London SE11 4DJ
Box Office: 020 7793 9193
Online: www.whitebeartheatre.co.uk
How to get Here: Kennington (Northern Line) is the closest underground station. Buses: 133, 159, 109

Tuesday 9th March until Saturday 3rd April 2010
Press Night: Thursday 11th March 2010

Theatre 6 present:


THE DOUBLE

by Dostoevsky, adaptation for the stage by Kate McGregor
directed by Kate McGregor

Dostoevsky’s classic novella explores hapless Golyadkin’s world as it is thrown into turmoil when a man appears in his town who is his double in every respect except by blood. Set in 1848 Russia, a year before Dostoevsky was arrested for treason, the arrival of this man in St. Petersburg turns Golyadkin’s life upside down, threatening his job, home and even his sanity. The battle for survival begins in a time of political unrest where no one is to be trusted, not even your own reflection.

Perhaps the most Gogolesque of Dostoevsky’s works, which have influenced writers as diverse as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Frederich Nietzche. He is also considered a founding father of Existentialism.

Theatre 6 is made up of six young and talented theatre professionals driven to carry a passionate and united vision of theatre making into London, the rest of the UK and internationally. We create dynamic, visual productions; revive modern classics, forge new adaptations and develop imaginative works from new writers.


Composer: Maria Haik Escudero

Cast: Ben Galpin, Freddie Machin, Avril Brady, Daniel Thomas, Ruth Westley, Will Stoney, Robert Rowe, Chris Bearne, Michael Linsey, Kim Vogels, Alexander Moschos.
 

 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Saturday at 7.30pm
Sundays at 5.30pm
Extra performance Saturday 3rd April 2010 at 3pm
NO MONDAY PERFORMANCES

Runs 2 hours approximately, including an interval.



Seat Prices:
All tickets
£13 (£10 concessions)
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Tuesday 27th April until Sunday 16th May 2010
Press Night: Thursday 29th April 2010

Fallen Angel Theatre and Simon James Collier, in association with The White Bear Theatre present:


GIFTED
by Peter Billingham
directed by Chris Loveless

What's the greatest gift you could ever give? Life, or death?

Gifted follows the explosive relationship between a teenage girl and an aged homeless man in their search for justice, love and belonging.

Peter Billingham's challenging new drama examines our increasing isolation and urgent need for meaningful connection in a technologically-mediated world.


 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Saturday at 7.30pm
Sundays at 5pm
NO MONDAY PERFORMANCES

Runs 2 hours approximately, including an interval.



Seat Prices:
All tickets
£12 (£10 concessions)
 



The Wilmington Arms

 

The Wilmington Arms Public House, 69 Rosebury Avenue, Clerkenwell, LONDON. EC1R 4RL.
Box Office: 020 7837 1384 (enquiries only).
Online: www.thewilmingtonarms.co.uk (information only)
How to get Here: Angel (Northern Line) is the closest underground station, around 20 minutes walk away.

 



Yvonne Arnaud Theatre

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Millbrook, Guildford, GU1 3UX
Box Office: 01483 44 00 00 (£1.50 per ticket booking fee is charged).
Online: www.yvonne-arnaud.co.uk (information only - online booking not available)
How to get Here: Guildford (mainline) station is 7 minutes walk from the theatre.

 



Zigfrid Von Underbelly, Hoxton Square

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11 Hoxton Square, London, N1 6NU
Box Office: 08444 771 000
Online: www.ticketweb.co.uk
How to get Here:
Nearest station is Old Street (Northern and main line).

 



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Other theatres worth noting for a range of productions include:

www.edwardalderton.org Edward Alderton Theatre, Bexleyheath

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A comprehensive discussion of the London Fringe may be had at www.fringereport.com

 


"THEATRES FOR THEATRES APPEAL"
Great Ormond Street Hospital is looking for support from amateur dramatic societies, theatres and other budding performers to help raise vital funds towards two Neurosciences operating theatres for our young patients at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

The Appeal aims to raise £4million towards the construction of 2 brand new state of the art operating theatres at Great Ormond Street Hospital to be used for children who require specialist neurosurgery. The neurosciences team treats over 8,000 children each year, with demand for neurosurgery already outstrips current capacity.

 Could your company hold collections for us during your pantomime season? Ask users of your venue to hold a collection for us during their production? Ask patrons if they would like to add a donation to the price of their tickets? Put a collection box on the Box Office Counter?

The Appeal can provide advertising copy, collection buckets and boxes, stickers and paying-in slips, curtain call speeches and other support for your fundraising efforts.

To find out more, or make a donation
visit their website now.

 

 

 

 

 

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