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.

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

 

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.
 

Lectures, various dates until Tuesday 18th May 2010

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

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.

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.

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.

Mack Creations present:

VIRTUAL REALITY
by Alan Arkin

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

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.

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.

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.
 

Tuesday 13th April until Saturday 8th May 2010
Press Night: Thursday 15th April 2010.

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
 

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

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.

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.
 

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
ScotteeImage above: © Scottee and Ellis Scott.

Eyholive.blogspot.com has all the details.

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

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.

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.
 

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

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

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
 

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.

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

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.

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

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.
 

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.

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.
 

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.

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.

 

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 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. 

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
 

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

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.

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.

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

Cast: Dave Cohen.

 

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 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.

TWELFTH NIGHT
by William Shakespeare
directed by Bryn Holding

THE CHERRY ORCHARD
by Anton Chekhov
directed by Bruce Jamieson

AN IDEAL HUSBAND
by Oscar Wilde.

Monday 29th until Wednesday 31st March 2010

MY LIFE AS A FOOTNOTE
by Dave Cohen

Cast: Dave Cohen.

 

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

www.makingtheatrework.com is the event website.

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

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

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

Tuesday 23rd February until Saturday 13th March 2010

MATRYOOSHKA
by Tomas Hirst
directed by Oliver Lyttleton

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.

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

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

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.
 

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

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.

Tuesday 2nd until Sunday 28th March 2010

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.

 

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

STILL HERE
written and directed by Stephen Edwards

Cast: Stephen Donald and John Giles.

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

www.modernloveplay.com is the production website.


Cast: Genna Foden, Mostyn James.
 

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

BARE DOLLAR

Cast: Luke Courtenay-Smith, Emeka Ene.

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

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)
 

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
 

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.
 

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

SQUARE(D)
by David Furlong
directed by Francesca Seeley

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

 

Performance Times:
Wednesday to Saturday at 7.45pm


Seat Prices:
All seats £10
 

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

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

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)

Sunday 28th March 2010

LOST SUPPER: DANIEL KOEK

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
 

Tuesday 23rd February until Sunday 14th March 2010

LOST SOUL MUSIC
words by Chris Bush
music by Ian McCluskey

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)
 

Saturday 20th and Monday 22nd March 2010

MY LIFE AS A FOOTNOTE
by Dave Cohen

Cast: Dave Cohen.

 

Tuesday 9th until Saturday 13th March 2010

CP Theatre Productions present:

ROUND AND ROUND THE GARDEN
by Alan Ayckbourn

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

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)

 

Tuesday 2nd until Sunday 21st March 2010

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

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.
 

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.

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.
 

Until 27th March 2010

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)

Every second Thursday each month until 9th December 2010:

LET'S GET QUIZZICAL!

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.
 

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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)

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.

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)
 

Tuesday 9th until Saturday 13th March 2010

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

 
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
 

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

MERCURY FUR
by Philip Ridley
directed by Frances Loy

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
 

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

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.

Seat Prices:
£15.50 (£12.50 concessions)
 

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.

 

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.

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.

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

RELAX
by Robert Farrar
directed by Phil Setren

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
 

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

Cast includes: Joy Constantinides, Sam Curtis.

Performance Time:
8pm


Seat Prices:
All tickets £12.50
 

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 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

THE DOUBLE
by Dostoevsky, adaptation for the stage by Kate McGregor
directed by Kate McGregor

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

GIFTED
by Peter Billingham
directed by Chris Loveless

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 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.

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.

Other theatres worth noting for a range of productions include:

www.edwardalderton.org Edward Alderton Theatre, Bexleyheath

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