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Aug 31 - Sep 4 |
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An adaptation of Ernest Hemmingway's world renowned novella.
4 days, 2 gladiators, 1 death.
Hemingway's Pulitzer Prize winning novel adapted for the stage. A swaggering tale full of so much yearning that you can hear it squeak.
Awarded an Argus Angel for Artistic Excellence at the Brighton Festival Fringe.
The most wonderful visual piece of theatre to hit this y... |
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Sep 2 - Sep 25 |
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A hopeful young man, a teacher in love, a pregnant woman, A fearful policeman, a boy on a mission, a pianist in the rain.A wounded man, a grandmother…And Vincent.
Nine lives fractured by the events of one tragic day.
David Watson’s thrilling new play tells the story of Vincent, a man estranged from his family and adrift in London. Reunited temporarily with his lost love, he finds hims... |
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Sep 7 - Oct 2 |
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“By what right do you burn my art?” Egon Schiele.
Reclining Nude with Black Stockings portrays the extraordinary and perverse trial of the young painter and genius, Egon Schiele, for allegedly seducing his 13 year old model.
Gustav Klimt, his mentor, guides us through the world of decadent Vienna as it rushes towards the butchery of the Great War. The failed landscape artist, Adolf Hi... |
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Sep 18 - Sep 19 |
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Euro-Japan Theatre and Theatre Du Signe present two performances of Shakespeare’s comedy The Merchant of Venice. Best remembered for the character Shylock the Moneylender and the ‘pound of flesh’, this production will be performed entirely by Japanese performers, in Japanese with English subtitles.
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Sep 28 - Oct 23 |
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“There’s not a limit to what can be said, only a limit to how honest we are prepared to be”
A doctor and his wife move to the country with their children to start a new life, but their rustic idyll is shattered one night by the discovery of an unconscious stranger. Who is the stranger and why was she brought to the house?
Fraught with suspense, Martin Crimp’s darkly humorous and compe... |
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Oct 26 - Nov 20 |
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“I’m beginning to think that it’s the greatest sin of our time. Knowing, and pretending that we don’t know”
Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Judith Thompson’s astonishing and much-acclaimed play about Iraq receives its London premiere in a new production directed by Jessica Swale (director of The Rivals, Southwark Playhouse and Bedlam, Shakespeare’s Globe).
In America, a ... |
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Oct 27 - Nov 20 |
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Joe Penhall’s multi-award-winning Blue/Orange is a contemporary classic. Tiata Fahodzi’s radically new all-female production delivers a uniquely African perspective.
Blue/Orange is a passionate, witty and ultimately devastating exploration of institutional politics, mental health and race. Unfolding like a game of human chess the drama centres on a patient alternately bewildering and be... |
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Nov 23 - Dec 18 |
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'Why don't you write a piece about all kinds of prostitution – the press, the church, the courts, the arts, the whole system?' – Bertolt Brecht to Marc Blitzstein
This play with music, set in 'Steeltown, USA', The Cradle Will Rock tells the story of Larry Foreman and his attmepts to unionise and battle the villainous businessman Mr. Mister.
Originally directed and conceived by... |
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Nov 24 - Dec 18 |
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Fed up with a lifeless marriage, Asha escapes to the India of her imagination. When Mahatma Gandhi and friends suddenly arrive for tea and jelabies, she is inspired to transform herself and reignite her relationship. As her confused husband struggles to keep the wife he once had, this playful, surprising and moving play asks if it’s better to be sane or happy?
‘Most enjoyably inventive pie... |
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