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Above the Stag Theatre
Above the Stag Pub,15 Bressenden Place, London SW1E 5DD , (Behind the Victoria Palace Theatre)
Tube: Victoria
Tel: 07562 748 599
SLEEPING WITH STRAIGHT MEN
by Ronnie Larsen
| Location | London |
Genre | Comedy |
| Previews from | 11 Jan 2012 |
| Opens | 11 Jan 2012 |
| Booking to | 26 Feb 2012 |
| Closes | 26 Feb 2012 |
| Time | Tue to Sat at 7.30pm; Sun 6pm |
| Price | £12-£15, (£20 gala night 13 Jan). |
| Performers | Amy Anzel (Jill), Andrew Beckett (Brian), Wesley Dow (Stanley), Adam Isdale (Lee), Martin Milnes (Sally, from 14 Feb Greg Airey takes over role), Jill Regan (Karen), Julie Ross (Mom) and Hannah Vesty (Judy) |
| Director | Paul Taylor-Mills |
| Design | David Shields |
| Lighting | Richard Lambert |
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| Costume | David Shields |
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| Producer | Peter Bull for ATS (Above the Stag Theatre) |
| Synopsis | Stanley always falls for unavailable men. His best friend Sally the local drag queen tries to warn him but he simply won't be told. He also wants to be famous. So, when the chance comes up to reveal his secret crush on Jill Jones prime time TV chat show, the boy from small town America leaps at the opportunity. The fiercely heterosexual Lee wants to be famous too but has no idea that Stanley is his secret admirer.. And no-one, Stanley, Jill or Lee himself, could have been prepared for Lee's reaction. Inspired by the Jenny Jones talk show in 1995 in the USA when they invited guests to reveal their secret crushes, in person, to the unsuspecting objects of their affections. |
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Arcola Theatre Studio 1
24 Ashwin Street, London E8 3DL
Tube: Dalston Kingsland/ Dalston Junction Overground
Tel: 020 7503 1646
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
by Anthony Burgess
| Location | London |
Genre | Drama |
| Previews from | 21 Mar 2012 |
| Opens | 27 Mar 2012 |
| Booking to | 21 Apr 2012 |
| Closes | 21 Apr 2012 |
| Time | Mon - Sat 7.30pm, mats Sat 2.30pm |
| Price | £18 |
| Performers | Paul Coldrick, Kyle Edward-Hubbard, Alex Moran, Mairi Phillips, Billy Rayner |
| Director | Paul Davies |
| Design | Gudny Sigurdar |
| Lighting | Jack Ramplin |
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| Producer | Volcano |
| Synopsis | 50 years after Anthony Burgess’s landmark novel was published, its portrait of a corrupt state, a bankrupt civil society, and a populace in fear of feral youth seems urgently familiar. In a world like this, how are the nation's young people to behave? A nasty little shocker, or a profound exploration of state power and free will? This production stays true to Burgess's original in its cut-throat inventiveness and in its insistence on the question of whether it is better to be forced to be good, or to be free to do evil. |
| Length | 1hr 15min |
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| Other Info | Music by Simon Thorne, film by Mariko Montpetit, movement by Catherine Bennett.= |
Arcola Theatre Studio 1
24 Ashwin Street, London E8 3DL
Tube:
Tel: 020 7503 1646
PITCHFORK DISNEY, THE
by Philip Ridley
| Location | London |
Genre | Drama |
| Previews from | 25 Jan 2012 |
| Opens | 01 Feb 2012 |
| Booking to | 17 Mar 2012 |
| Closes | 17 Mar 2012 |
| Time | Mon to Sat at 7.30pm, Mats Sat at 2.30pm |
| Price | £22.50 |
| Performers | Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Chris New, Mariah Gale. |
| Director | Edward Dick |
| Design | Bob Bailey |
| Lighting | Malcolm Rippeth |
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| Sound | Richard Hammarton |
| Producer | Danielle Tarento |
| Synopsis | Ten years ago something terrible happened to Presley and Haley. Since then they have lived alone in their dead parents' house. But one night their safe isolation is shattered by the arrival of Cosmo Disney, who confronts them with the scariest question of all... what exactly happened to their parents? |
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Arcola Theatre Studio 2
24 Ashwin Street, London E8 3DL
Tube:
Tel: 020 7503 1646
FREEDOM
by Rick Limentani
| Location | London |
Genre | Drama |
| Previews from | 25 Jan 2012 |
| Opens | 25 Jan 2012 |
| Booking to | 18 Feb 2012 |
| Closes | 18 Feb 2012 |
| Time | Mon to Sat at 8pm, Mats 3pm on 11 & 18 Feb |
| Price | £16 |
| Performers | Rebeca Cobos, Indranyl Singharay, Rian Perle. |
| Director | Rick Limentani |
| Design | Miguel Cobos |
| Lighting | Andrew Brook, Paul Micah |
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| Costume | Raul Amor |
| Sound | Paul Micah |
| Producer | Rebeca Cobos and Parlon |
| Synopsis | This is a story divided between Tajikistan and England, told in split screen, following three characters forced to choose between their own freedom and each others: there’s Benham, an opium farmer, desperately trying to prove a lie he told to his gangster masters; his son, Fariad, who reluctantly travels to England as part of his father’s scheme, only to find that he likes the western way of life; and Jennifer, a damaged girl who falls for Fariad’s unorthodox charms. |
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Arcola Theatre Studio 2
24 Ashwin Street, London E8 3DL
Tube: Dalston Kingsland/ Dalston Junction Overground
Tel: 020 7503 1646
PURGE
by Sofi Oksanen, English translation by Eva Buchwald
| Location | London |
Genre | Drama |
| Previews from | 22 Feb 2012 |
| Opens | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Booking to | 24 Mar 2012 |
| Closes | 24 Mar 2012 |
| Time | Mon to Sat at 8pm, (7pm 24 Feb), mat Sat 3pm |
| Price | £16 |
| Performers | |
| Director | Elgiva Field |
| Design | Rosemary Flegg |
| Lighting | Josh Pharo |
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| Producer | Borealis Theatre in association with Oblique House |
| Synopsis | Narrated through multiple story lines, Purge moves back and forth across time. We witness Aliide’s past, a period of night-time interrogations, when thousands of families were shipped to Siberia and partisans hid in the forests. In the present, Zara is trapped in a world ruled by corruption, sexual exploitation and organised crime. As the two women get to know each other a tragic and complex family drama of rivalry, lust, and loss starts to unfold - a story that reveals the worst years of Soviet oppression and the danger of political instability. |
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Arcola Theatre Studio 2
24 Ashwin Street, London E8 3DL
Tube: Dalston Kingsland/ Dalston Junction Overground
Tel: 020 7503 1646
WARSAW MELODY, THE
By Leonid Zorin. Translated by Franklin D. Reeve
| Location | London |
Genre | Drama |
| Previews from | 28 Mar 2012 |
| Opens | 30 Mar 2012 |
| Booking to | 28 Apr 2012 |
| Closes | 28 Apr 2012 |
| Time | Tues-Sat at 8pm, Sat matinees at 3pm |
| Price | £ 16 |
| Performers | Oliver King, Emily Tucker |
| Director | Oleg Mirochnikov |
| Design | Agnes Treplin |
| Lighting | Howard Hudson |
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| Producer | Belka Productions |
| Synopsis | Set during the heyday of the Soviet bloc. Follows the blossoming relationship between a Russian boy and a Polish girl and their struggle against the public and social institutions that explicitly forbid the existence of their love. |
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Barons Court Theatre
28a Comeragh Road, West Kensington, London, W14 9HP
Tube: Barons Court
Tel: 020 8932 4747
SLEEPING DOGS
by Brenda Gottsche
| Location | London |
Genre | Drama |
| Previews from | 31 Jan 2012 |
| Opens | 03 Feb 2012 |
| Booking to | 18 Feb 2012 |
| Closes | 18 Feb 2012 |
| Time | Tue - Sat 7.30pm, Sun 6.30pm, mat Sat 2.30pm |
| Price | £12 |
| Performers | Gregory Cox (Leo), Joel Dyer (Alex), Barbara Hatwell (Roz), Joel Dyer (Alex), Andrew William Robb (Andy), Fiona Watson ( Anna) |
| Director | Scott Williams and Dominique Gerrard |
| Design | Philip Lindley |
| Lighting | Luke Girling |
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| Costume | Rachael Smith |
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| Producer | Drowning Fish Productions and The Impulse Company |
| Synopsis | 'Let sleeping dogs lie...' We all have times when we take that option and hope those hounds stay put. Dr Roz was one of those people. She is a famous, hugely popular radio psychologist who fixes people's problems. Her husband, Leo, is a bestselling crime writer. Just when it seems she’s set to become Britain’s Oprah Winfrey, a letter arrives revealing juicy information they were hiding from the world and each other. The ‘sleeping dogs’ awake and cause chaos. Their son, a member of a radical religious group, the man who is blackmailing them, and the eccentric psychiatrist who is addicted to designer shoes all join in the chaos. |
| Length | 2hrs |
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Barons Court Theatre
28a Comeragh Road, West Kensington, London, W14 9HP
Tube: Barons Court
Tel: 020 8932 4747
ANNA KARENINA
by Leo Tolstoy, adapted by Connie Stephens
| Location | London |
Genre | Drama |
| Previews from | 21 Feb 2012 |
| Opens | 21 Feb 2012 |
| Booking to | 03 Mar 2012 |
| Closes | 03 Mar 2012 |
| Time | Tue - Sat 7.30pm |
| Price | £12 |
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| Producer | Myriad Productions |
| Synopsis | The unfolding tragedy of the Oblonsky family and how their happiness is shattered when Anna Karenina unwisely falls in love with a dashing cavalry officer, Count Vronsky. |
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Barons Court Theatre
28a Comeragh Road, West Kensington, London, W14 9HP
Tube: Barons Court
Tel: 020 8932 4747
VAMPIRE
by Snoo Wilson
| Location | London |
Genre | Drama |
| Previews from | 06 Mar 2012 |
| Opens | 06 Mar 2012 |
| Booking to | 11 Mar 2012 |
| Closes | 11 Mar 2012 |
| Time | Tue - Sat 7.30pm, Sun at 6.30pm |
| Price | £12 |
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| Director | Michael Moxham |
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| Producer | CP Theatre |
| Synopsis | Don't expect this fast, funny fantasy to bring you a parade of pale- skinned monsters with protruding teeth, however. This play explores a century of social vampires who bleed our way of life to death and the women who try to stop this happening. 'It's high-camp, quite surreal and it may scare you out of your skin but you'll die laughing!' |
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Barons Court Theatre
28a Comeragh Road, West Kensington, London, W14 9HP
Tube: Barons Court
Tel: 020 8932 4747
WEIR, THE
by Conor McPherson
| Location | London |
Genre | Drama |
| Previews from | 13 Mar 2012 |
| Opens | 13 Mar 2012 |
| Booking to | 18 Mar 2012 |
| Closes | 18 Mar 2012 |
| Time | Tue - Sat 7.30pm, Sun at 6.30pm |
| Price | £12 |
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| Director | Frances Bodiam |
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| Producer | CP Theatre |
| Synopsis | Set in a bar in rural Ireland, barman Brendan and three of his regulars try to spook newcomer Valerie with ghostly tales, only to be frightened themselves when she tells her own story. |
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Blue Elephant Theatre
59a Bethwin Rd, Camberwell, SE5 0XT (entrance on Thompson Ave)
Tube: Oval
Tel: 020 7701 0100
FANTASIST, THE
by Theatre Temoin and Cie. Traversiere. A re-working of Barbe Bleue,
| Location | London |
Genre | Drama |
| Previews from | 28 Feb 2012 |
| Opens | 01 Mar 2012 |
| Booking to | 17 Mar 2012 |
| Closes | 17 Mar 2012 |
| Time | Tues - Sat 8pm |
| Price | £9.50 |
| Performers | |
| Director | Ailin Conant |
| Design | Moss and Giorgio Ritucci |
| Lighting | Allan Ramsay |
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| Costume | Kirsten Fletcher |
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| Producer | Theatre Temoin and Cie. Traversiere |
| Synopsis | A blend of physical theatre, puppetry and original music tells the story of a woman's battle with the swirl of extreme moods. Struggling with the tricks her mind plays on her, Louise yearns for sleep. Instead, she must take a strange journey with a surprise visitor in this exploration of bipolar disorder. |
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| Other Info | Puppet Director: Robin Guiver |
Blue Elephant Theatre
59a Bethwin Rd, Camberwell, SE5 0XT (entrance on Thompson Ave)
Tube: Oval
Tel: 020 7701 0100
WOMAN OF TROY
by Lazarus Theatre Company, after Euripides
| Location | London |
Genre | Drama |
| Previews from | 20 Mar 2012 |
| Opens | 22 Mar 2012 |
| Booking to | 14 Apr 2012 |
| Closes | 14 Apr 2012 |
| Time | Tues - Sat 8pm (Wednesday matinees at 4pm on 4 and 11 April) |
| Price | £12.50 |
| Performers | |
| Director | Ricky Dukes |
| Design | Ricky Dukes |
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| Costume | Emily Stuart |
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| Producer | Lazarus Theatre Company |
| Synopsis | Amidst the slaughter and ruins of Troy, the women wait to be handed out to the victors. Hecuba, Queen of Troy, must confront both a bleak future and Helen, the woman who brought this humiliation to them all. |
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Blue Elephant Theatre
59a Bethwin Rd, Camberwell, SE5 0XT (entrance on Thompson Ave)
Tube: Oval
Tel: 020 7701 0100
CONCERTTHEATRE - SONATA MOVEMENTS
by ConcertTheatre
| Location | London |
Genre | Entertainment |
| Previews from | 17 Apr 2012 |
| Opens | 19 Apr 2012 |
| Booking to | 05 May 2012 |
| Closes | 05 May 2012 |
| Time | Tues - Sat 8pm |
| Price | £13 |
| Performers | |
| Director | DaDiow Lin and Jude Christian |
| Design | Gary Thorne |
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| Costume | Nadia Malik |
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| Producer | ConcertTheatre |
| Synopsis | Sonata Movements is a collective of short pieces, like the repertoire of a concert, exploring the potential form of ‘ConcertTheatre’. ‘ConcertTheatre’ combines classical music and theatre. |
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Blue Elephant Theatre
59a Bethwin Rd, Camberwell, SE5 0XT (entrance on Thompson Ave)
Tube: Oval
Tel: 020 7701 0100
MACHINES FOR LIVING
by Let Slip
| Location | London |
Genre | Drama |
| Previews from | 22 May 2012 |
| Opens | 24 May 2012 |
| Booking to | 16 Jun 2012 |
| Closes | 16 Jun 2012 |
| Time | Tues - Sat 8pm |
| Price | £13 |
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| Design | Christina Hardinge |
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| Producer | Let Slip |
| Synopsis | A husband and wife, both architects, believe that the ideal home size is nine square metres and design a tower block accordingly. But as the estate they build falls into disrepair and becomes a notorious no-go zone, riot is in the air and the blame falls on them. |
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| Other Info | Machines For Living is a provocative production about housing, communities and segregation, inspired by the architects of the sixties and seventies who believed tower blocks would create urban utopias. It asks urgent questions about social housing, segregation and the urban landscape. Is the problem the buildings? Or the people in them? |
Blue Elephant Theatre
59a Bethwin Rd, Camberwell, SE5 0XT (entrance on Thompson Ave)
Tube: Oval
Tel: 020 7701 0100
FANTASTICAL ADVENTURES OF [NOT] BEING WITH YOU, THE
by Justen Bennett
| Location | London |
Genre | Drama |
| Previews from | 19 Jun 2012 |
| Opens | 21 Jun 2012 |
| Booking to | 07 Jul 2012 |
| Closes | 07 Jul 2012 |
| Time | Tues - Sat 8pm |
| Price | £12.50 |
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| Director | Justen Bennett |
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| Producer | Blue Elephant Theatre |
| Synopsis | Join A and B as they embark on 'us', a love story told through games and make-believe. With just two suitcases of props and playful ingenuity, the two men share their cherished, childish and even churlish moments of romance. |
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Bridewell Theatre
Bride Lane, off Fleet Street, London, EC4Y 8EQ
Tube: Blackfriars or St Paul’s
Tel: Tower Theatre 020 7353 1700
DAMAGES
by Steve Thompson
| Location | London |
Genre | Drama |
| Previews from | 21 Feb 2012 |
| Opens | 21 Feb 2012 |
| Booking to | 25 Feb 2012 |
| Closes | 25 Feb 2012 |
| Time | Tues-Sat at 7.45pm, Sat matinees at 3pm |
| Price | £ 12 (£ 14 on door) |
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| Director | Martin South |
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| Producer | Tower Theatre Company |
| Synopsis | Set in a tabloid newspaper office this play sets the scene of a team of ruthless tabloid hacks with the scent of a story in their nostrils. Three journalists desperate for the big headline have a scoop involving salacious shots of a Children's TV presenter. As the clock ticks against them, the pace heats up, the temperature rises and the race is on to print the red-hot sexy story or…. decide that just because it may interest the public… is it really in the public interest? |
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Bridewell Theatre
Bride Lane, off Fleet Street, London, EC4Y 8EQ
Tube: Blackfriars or St Paul’s
Tel: Tower Theatre 020 7353 1700
THREE SISTERS
by Anton Chekhov, adapted by Nicholas Wright
| Location | London |
Genre | Drama |
| Previews from | 28 Feb 2012 |
| Opens | 28 Feb 2012 |
| Booking to | 03 Mar 2012 |
| Closes | 03 Mar 2012 |
| Time | Tues-Sat at 7.30pm, Sat matinees at 2.30pm |
| Price | £ 12.50 (Gala Night, Friday 2 March Tickets £ 15) |
| Performers | Emily Lake (Irina), Aurora Bowkett (Masha), Claire Boynton (Olga), James Saunders (Andrey), Jill Ruane (Natasha), Anthony Green (Kulygin), Ed O'shaughnessy (Tuzenbach), Bernard Doogan (Chebutykin), Simon Roberts (Vershinin), Richard Watkins (Solyony), Andrew Silverman (Fedotik), Paul Isaacs (Rode), Bob Hough (Ferapont), Alison Liney (Anfisa), Ruth Anthony (Maid) |
| Director | Roger Beaumont |
| Design | Phil Lindley |
| Lighting | Robin Snowdon |
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| Costume | Abigale Lewis |
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| Producer | SEDOS |
| Synopsis | Four young people are left stranded in a provincial backwater after the death of their father, an army general. They focus their dreams on returning to Moscow, a city remembered through the eyes of childhood as the capital of complete happiness and fulfillment. |
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Bush Theatre
The Old Shepherd's Bush Library, 7 Uxbridge Road, London , W12 8LJ
Tube: Shepherds Bush
Tel: 020 8743 5050
CHALET LINES
By Lee Mattinson, Dramaturg: Che Walker
| Location | London |
Genre | Comedy Thriller |
| Previews from | 06 Apr 2012 |
| Opens | 12 Apr 2012 |
| Booking to | 05 May 2012 |
| Closes | 05 May 2012 |
| Time | Mon - Sat 7.30pm, Mats Wed & Sat at 2.30pm (12 Apr at 7pm) |
| Price | £ 24 |
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| Director | Madani Younis |
| Design | Leslie Travers |
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| Producer | Bush Theatre, In association with Live Theatre Newcastle |
| Synopsis | Butlins Skegness, Chalet Number 12 where the Walker women have been holidaying since 1961.This year it's Nana Barbara's seventieth and everyone's airing their dirty laundry. Loretta's had too many camp cocktails, Jolene's fallen tits over teeth for a Redcoat, Abigail's seeking comfort from a dead end marriage in a suitcase full of toys, and Nana Barbara has a fifty year old secret to share. 'A shockingly funny journey through five decades of birthdays, weddings and hen dos which asks do all women inevitably become like their mothers?' |
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Bush Theatre
The Old Shepherd's Bush Library, 7 Uxbridge Road, London , W12 8LJ
Tube: Shepherds Bush
Tel: 020 8743 5050
ENCOUNTERS: YOU'RE NOT LIKE THE OTHER GIRLS CHRISSY / DRY ICE (Double Bill)
by Caroline Horton / by Sabrina Mahfouz
| Location | London |
Genre | Drama |
| Previews from | 08 May 2012 |
| Opens | 08 May 2012 |
| Booking to | 11 May 2012 |
| Closes | 11 May 2012 |
| Time | Mon - Sat 7.30pm, Mats Wed & Sat at 2.30pm (8 May at 7pm) |
| Price | £ 24 |
| Performers | Caroline Horton (You're Not Like the Other Girls Chrissy ) / Sabrina Mahfouz (Dry Ice) |
| Director | Omar Elerian and Daniel Goldman / David Schwimmer |
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| Producer | Commissioned by China Plate, Warwick Arts Centre, mac / Developed with David Schwimmer, High Tide, Genesis Lab, New Wimbledon Fresh Ideas |
| Synopsis | Both based on true stories, You're Not Like Other Girls Chrissy was inspired by Horton's discovery of her grandmother's war time correspondence; and Dry Ice, by Mahfouz's experience of working in a strip-club.
YOU'RE NOT LIKE THE OTHER GIRLS CHRISSY: January 1945. Paris has been liberated. Christiane, an eccentric and acutely myopic Parisian waits at Gare Du Nord for a ticket to England to be reunited with her fiance. Whilst she waits, this gloriously irrepressible mademoiselle recounts the story of her love affair with Cyril, a tongue-tied English teacher from Staffordshire. From a chance encounter at Cheadle tennis club, their story takes us to cosmopolitan 1930s Paris before war interrupts their unlikely romance.
DRY ICE: Meet Nina, a 24-year-old stripper on the edge; her half-art-half-drug dealing boyfriend, and 18 other eccentrically entertaining characters from the world of surreal, sleazy, velvety strip-clubs and gentrified London dinner parties. |
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Bush Theatre
The Old Shepherd's Bush Library, 7 Uxbridge Road, London , W12 8LJ
Tube: Shepherds Bush
Tel: 020 8743 5050
BELOVED, THE
by Amir Nizar Zuabi
| Location | London |
Genre | Drama |
| Previews from | 21 May 2012 |
| Opens | 25 May 2012 |
| Booking to | 09 Jun 2012 |
| Closes | 09 Jun 2012 |
| Time | Mon - Sat 7.30pm, Mats Wed & Sat at 2.30pm (25 May at 7pm) |
| Price | £ 24 |
| Performers | Jonthan Bukshapen, Makram Khoury, Rami Heuberger, Rivkle Noiman, Taher Najib, Sivan Sason, Samaa Wakeem. |
| Director | Amir Nizar Zuabi |
| Design | Jon Bausor |
| Lighting | Jackie Shemesh |
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| Producer | A ShiberHur / Bush Theatre / KVS Brussels/ Young Vic co-production (Part of World Stages London) |
| Synopsis | When Abraham returns home from a journey with his son, his wife is troubled by the boy's state of mind. What took place on the mountain that day is the beginning of a lifetime of suffering for his son and the dawn of a new age for millions. |
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Bush Theatre
The Old Shepherd's Bush Library, 7 Uxbridge Road, London , W12 8LJ
Tube: Shepherds Bush
Tel: 020 8743 5050
FEAR
by Dominic Savage
| Location | London |
Genre | Drama |
| Previews from | 18 Jun 2012 |
| Opens | 21 Jun 2012 |
| Booking to | 14 Jul 2012 |
| Closes | 14 Jul 2012 |
| Time | Mon - Sat 7.30pm, Mats Wed & Sat at 2.30pm (21 June at 7pm) |
| Price | £ 24 |
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| Director | Dominic Savage |
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| Producer | Bush Theatre |
| Synopsis | When a late-night robbery goes wrong, a young banker's life ends and his attacker's takes a dramatic turn. |
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Bush Theatre (Studio Space)
The Old Shepherd's Bush Library, 7 Uxbridge Road, London , W12 8LJ
Tube: Shepherds Bush
Tel: 020 8743 5050
MAD ABOUT THE BOY
by Gbolahan Obisesan
| Location | London |
Genre | Drama |
| Previews from | 28 May 2012 |
| Opens | 28 May 2012 |
| Booking to | 02 Jun 2012 |
| Closes | 02 Jun 2012 |
| Time | Mon - Sat 8pm (Late Showings: 31 May, 1 & 2 June 9.30pm ) Saturday matinee 3pm |
| Price | £ 15 |
| Performers | |
| Director | Ria Parry |
| Design | James Button |
| Lighting | David W Kidd |
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| Producer | An Iron Shoes prod uction in association with the Unicorn |
| Synopsis | Boy wants to be bad like the rest. Dad wants the best for the Boy. Man wants the Boy to do what's best. A lyrical tussle of will and minds. |
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| Other Info | In the Studio Space |
CLF Art Cafe, Bussey Building
133 Rye Lane, Peckham, London, SE15 4ST
Tube: Peckham Rye Railway Station
Tel: Tickets
www.pantareitheatre.com
ROCINANTE! ROCINANTE!
by Panta Rei Theatre Collective
| Location | London |
Genre | Drama |
| Previews from | 10 Feb 2012 |
| Opens | 15 Feb 2012 |
| Booking to | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Closes | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Time | Mon - Sat 8pm |
| Price | £10 |
| Performers | |
| Director | Chiara D’Anna |
| Design | Nadia Malik and the ensemble |
| Lighting | Cis O’Boyle |
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| Costume | Nadia Malik |
| Sound | Steve Mason |
| Producer | Panta Rei Theatre Collective |
| Synopsis | At night, Don Quixote arrives in a cemetery with his old horse Rocinante accompanied as ever by Sancho Panza and Donkey. They stumble upon Hamlet’s gravediggers, involved in alchemical experiments as they debate the meanings of life, death and everything in between. But this garden of souls is not all that it appears, and rational laws disappear to make way for something absurd, surreal and grotesque. |
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Charing Cross Theatre (formerly New Players Theatre)
The Arches,Villiers Street, London WC2N 6NL
Tube: Charing Cross or Embankment
Tel: 020 7907 7075
PAJAMA MEN - IN THE MIDDLE OF NO ONE, THE
| Location | London |
Genre | Comedy |
| Previews from | 09 Jan 2012 |
| Opens | 10 Jan 2012 |
| Booking to | 03 Mar 2012 |
| Closes | 03 Mar 2012 |
| Time | Mon - Sat 7.30pm, Fri Sat mat 5.30pm |
| Price | £21.50-£25.50 |
| Performers | Shenoah Allen Mark Chavez (The Pajama Men) |
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| Producer | David Johnson and John Mackay in association with Soho Theatre |
| Synopsis | In The Middle of No One sees a lone explorer leave his wife and child behind in search of things most people have never seen, let alone know about. Meanwhile a dimwitted and affable, genius space-man (who discovered timetravel in a morally confusing way) struggles to make the right decision by doing exactly the wrong thing. You'll also meet; some vicious housewives, a gigantic sea monster known only as the Ice Beast, an unhelpful robot, a very rare bird and more, as the Pajama Men jump from character to character in the blink of an eye. Note: This show description is subject to change: Completely. |
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Charing Cross Theatre (formerly New Players Theatre)
The Arches,Villiers Street, London WC2N 6NL
Tube: Charing Cross or Embankment
Tel: 020 7907 7075
NAKED BOYS SINGING
Conceived by Robert Schrock
| Location | London |
Genre | Musical comedy revue |
| Previews from | 27 Jan 2012 |
| Opens | 27 Jan 2012 |
| Booking to | 19 May 2012 |
| Closes | 19 May 2012 |
| Time | Fri & Sat 10pm |
| Price | £15-£22.50 |
| Performers | Matt Beadle, Davis Brook, Michael Cotton, Rudi Last, David Malcolm, Daniel Slade, Will Stokes, Nathan Taylor. |
| Director | Phil Willmott |
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| Choreography | Andrew Wright |
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| Producer | Steven M Levy and Sean Sweeney and Canonbury Productions |
| Synopsis | This 70-minute review‚ features eight good-looking and talented male actors‚ celebrating the glories of the naked male body through a series of catchy, pithy cabaret numbers, both funny and poignant. Savour the anticipation as the snappily dressed guys audition for the show's all-naked finale. Who would you pick and will they live up to your expectations when their clothes come off. |
| Length | 1hr 10min |
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| Other Info | Contains full frontal male nudity‚ (recommended age 16+) |
Charing Cross Theatre (formerly New Players Theatre)
The Arches,Villiers Street, London WC2N 6NL
Tube: Charing Cross or Embankment
Tel: 020 7907 7075
BOWL OF CHERRIES, A
devised by Andrew C Wadsworth, book by Carolyn Pertwee, music by David Martin.
| Location | London |
Genre | Musical |
| Previews from | 06 Mar 2012 |
| Opens | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Booking to | 31 Mar 2012 |
| Closes | 31 Mar 2012 |
| Time | Mon - Sat 7.30pm, Sat mat 4.30pm, |
| Price | £24.50-£29.50 |
| Performers | Gary Wilmot, Clare Buckfield. |
| Director | Andrew C Wadsworth |
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| Producer | Julie Samuel for Loose Cannonz Productions. |
| Synopsis | A Bowl of Cherries is a musical revue that looks at life through a cycle of plays and songs, as observed by two wartime ghosts. Penny Riddle and Albert Farthing are trapped in the theatre between this world and the next. Albert is tired of being in limbo and wants to move on but is held back by Penny who is in denial, believing she is still alive and waiting for her big theatrical break. Their story unfolds through the evening, concluding with a dramatic denouement. |
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Charing Cross Theatre (formerly New Players Theatre)
The Arches,Villiers Street, London WC2N 6NL
Tube: Charing Cross or Embankment
Tel: 020 7907 7075
TALE OF TWO CITIES, A
Based on novel by Charles Dickens. Music by David Pomeranz, book by Steven David Horwich and David Soames, lyrics by Steven David Horwich.
| Location | London |
Genre | Musical |
| Previews from | 05 Apr 2012 |
| Opens | 17 Apr 2012 |
| Booking to | 12 May 2012 |
| Closes | 12 May 2012 |
| Time | Mon - Sat at 7.30pm, Sat matinee at 4.30pm (17 Apr at 7pm) |
| Price | £24 -£29.50 |
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| Director | Paul Nicholas |
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| Producer | PNPF Associates Ltd in association with Ovation |
| Synopsis | Depicts one man’s ultimate sacrifice for love, set against the backdrop of the French revolution and the comparative calm of the 18th Century London society. |
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Etcetera Theatre
Above the Oxford Arms Pub, 265 Camden High Street, London, NW1 7BU
Tube: Camden Town
Tel: 020 7482 4857
THREE OF HEARTS
by Sarah Goddard
| Location | London |
Genre | Drama |
| Previews from | 31 Jan 2012 |
| Opens | 31 Jan 2012 |
| Booking to | 19 Feb 2012 |
| Closes | 19 Feb 2012 |
| Time | Tue - Sat 7.30pm, Sun 6.30pm |
| Price | £11.50, (£16 in a double bill with The Lift) |
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| Producer | Five One Productions |
| Synopsis | The tragic tale of three people, tangled together by fate. A mother, a man and a lover shed light on the young boy that connects them all. A poignant and heartbreaking look into the boundaries of society. |
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Etcetera Theatre
Above the Oxford Arms Pub, 265 Camden High Street, London, NW1 7BU
Tube: Camden Town
Tel: 020 7482 4857
THE LIFT
by Kieran O’Rourke, Andy McLeod and Lawrence Russell
| Location | London |
Genre | Comedy |
| Previews from | 31 Jan 2012 |
| Opens | 31 Jan 2012 |
| Booking to | 19 Feb 2012 |
| Closes | 19 Feb 2012 |
| Time | Tue - Sat 9pm, Sun 8pm |
| Price | £11.50, (£16 in a double bill with Three of Hearts) |
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| Producer | Five One Productions |
| Synopsis | An Englishman, an Irishman, and a Jew get trapped in a lift... Funny, intelligent and moving look at what happens when life takes everything out of your control. Three men, one box and a lifetime of choices! |
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Etcetera Theatre
Above the Oxford Arms Pub, 265 Camden High Street, London, NW1 7BU
Tube: Camden Town
Tel: 020 7482 4857
LONDON SPRING, THE
by Francis Beckett
| Location | London |
Genre | Drama |
| Previews from | 06 Mar 2012 |
| Opens | 06 Mar 2012 |
| Booking to | 25 Mar 2012 |
| Closes | 25 Mar 2012 |
| Time | Tue - Sat 7.30pm, Sun 6.30pm |
| Price | £12 |
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| Director | Christine Kimberley |
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| Synopsis | Michael, a prosperous American doctor, is in London for the first time. On Waterloo Station, a pretty girl steals his wallet, a tramp sells him a square of toilet paper for five dollars, and precious and dangerous drugs are stolen from him. Trying to get them back, he’s plunged into the darkness and despair that is London in the 2020s. |
| Length | 1 hr |
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Etcetera Theatre
Above the Oxford Arms Pub, 265 Camden High Street, London, NW1 7BU
Tube: Camden Town
Tel: 020 7482 4857
DAVE COHEN: SONGS IN A FLAT
by Dave Cohen
| Location | London |
Genre | Drama |
| Previews from | 06 Mar 2012 |
| Opens | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Booking to | 25 Mar 2012 |
| Closes | 25 Mar 2012 |
| Time | Tue - Sat 9.30pm, Sun 8.30pm |
| Price | £7 |
| Performers | Dave Cohen |
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| Synopsis | Blending songs and stand up, |
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| Other Info | Dave Cohen is a Comedian, Perrier nominee, founder member of the Comedy Store Players - in the 1980s and 90s Dave Cohen co-wrote songs for 'Spitting Image' with Pete Sinclair and worked as an ‘averagely successful stand-up comedian’. In recent years he has become a leading comedy writer, having written for Have I Got News For You and Not Going Out, and as a comic songwriter, co-creating the Radio 4 hit 15 Minute Musical and writing loads of songs for the hit BBC Childrens' Show Horrible Histories. |
Finborough Theatre
Above The Finborough Pub, 118 Finborough Rd London, SW10 9ED
Tube: Earl's Court or West Brompton
Tel: 0844 847 1652
OUTWARD BOUND
by Sutton Vane.
| Location | London |
Genre | Drama |
| Previews from | 31 Jan 2012 |
| Opens | 02 Feb 2012 |
| Booking to | 25 Feb 2012 |
| Closes | 25 Feb 2012 |
| Time | Tue to Sat 7.30pm, mats Sat & Sun 3pm |
| Price | £15 (First two weeks of run £2 off) |
| Performers | David Brett. Tom Davey. Derek Howard. Nicholas Karimi. Ursula Mohan. Carmen Rodriguez. Natalie Walter. Paul Westwood. Martin Wimbush. |
| Director | Louise Hill |
| Design | Alex Marker |
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| Producer | Coracle in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre |
| Synopsis | Seven passengers meet in the saloon bar of a ship as it sets sail from an unidentified English port. Socialite Mrs Cliveden- Banks is on her way to join her husband, a Colonel in the army; Mr Lingley has important business in Marseilles; charlady Mrs Midget is making her first passage by sea; Reverend William Duke is looking forward to a holiday, while Tom Prior intends to spend the journey in the ship’s saloon bar. Also on board are Henry and Ann, a young couple who seem anxious for the ship to leave port. But the travellers have more in common than they dare to suspect. Out at sea, an eerie calm settles over the ship as Tom is the first to discover the fate which awaits his fellow passengers… |
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Finborough Theatre
Above The Finborough Pub, 118 Finborough Rd London, SW10 9ED
Tube: Earl's Court or West Brompton
Tel: 0844 847 1652
DON JUAN COMES BACK FROM THE WAR
by Odon von Horvath in a new version by Duncan Macmillan.
| Location | London |
Genre | Drama |
| Previews from | 28 Feb 2012 |
| Opens | 01 Mar 2012 |
| Booking to | 24 Mar 2012 |
| Closes | 24 Mar 2012 |
| Time | Tue to Sat 7.30pm, mats Sat & Sun 3pm |
| Price | £15 (First two weeks of run £2 off) |
| Performers | Charlie Cameron. Laura Dos Santos. Eileen Nicholas. Miranda Pleasence. Sarah Sweeney. Zubin Varla. Leah Whitaker. |
| Director | Andrea Ferran |
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| Producer | Lucy Jackson for Volta Theatre in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre and the National Theatre Studio / The Leverhulme Bursary for Emerging Theatre Directors production. |
| Synopsis | Don Juan’s back from the War and he’s got some catching up to do. Berlin may be crumbling, but after years of abstinence, the Don is ready for more of the debauchery that once made his name. Yet despite his best efforts, the years of excess are beginning to catch up with him. Amidst political upheaval and economic ruin, Don Juan finds himself increasingly at odds with the man he used to be. Is this notorious lothario finally about to experience a sudden change of heart? |
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Finborough Theatre
Above The Finborough Pub, 118 Finborough Rd London, SW10 9ED
Tube: Earl's Court or West Brompton
Tel: 0844 847 1652
AMERICAN CLOCK, THE
by Arthur Miller.
| Location | London |
Genre | Drama |
| Previews from | 27 Mar 2012 |
| Opens | 29 Mar 2012 |
| Booking to | 21 Apr 2012 |
| Closes | 21 Apr 2012 |
| Time | Tue to Sat 7.30pm, mats Sat & Sun 3pm |
| Price | £15 (First two weeks of run £2 off) |
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| Director | Phil Willmott |
| Design | Philip Lindley |
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| Costume | Gregor Donnelly |
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| Producer | The Steam Industry and Neil McPherson at the Finborough Theatre by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Ltd |
| Synopsis | Inspired partly by Studs Terkel's oral history Hard Times, and partly by Arthur Miller's own recollections, The American Clock is a panoramic 'dramatic vaudeville' about the Great Depression of the 1930s. When the stock market crashes, a well-to-do family loses everything and is forced to move from their plush penthouse apartment to the modest home of a relative in Brooklyn... |
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Site-specific tbc
'to be confirmed
Tube: Clapham Junction
Tel: 020 7223 2223
BABEL (part of the World Stages London Festival)
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| Location | London |
Genre | Drama |
| Previews from | 08 May 2012 |
| Opens | 10 May 2012 |
| Booking to | 20 May 2012 |
| Closes | 20 May 2012 |
| Time | Tue-Sun 8.30pm |
| Price | £ 12.50-£25 |
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| Director | Bill Mitchell |
| Design | Myriddin Wannell |
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| Producer | WildWorks and Battersea Arts Centre, in collaboration with the Lyric Hammersmith, Young Vic and Theatre Royal Stratford East. |
| Synopsis | An outdoor show created for an iconic London setting, Babel is staged through a unique partnership between WildWorks and Battersea Arts Centre and will feature a cast of 500 community and professional actors and musicians. |
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The Cockpit Theatre
Gateforth Street, London, NW8 8EH
Tube: Edgware Road/Marylebone
Tel: 020 7258 2925
TWELFTH NIGHT
by William Shakespeare
| Location | London |
Genre | Comedy |
| Previews from | 29 Feb 2012 |
| Opens | 01 Mar 2012 |
| Booking to | 18 Mar 2012 |
| Closes | 18 Mar 2012 |
| Time | Tue - Sun 7.30pm |
| Price | £15 |
| Performers | Tony Wadham (Sir Toby Belch), Aqil Zahid (Orsino), Christian Fontaine (Captain and Priest), Matthew Gibbs (Andrew Aguecheek), David Holmes (Antonio), Eamon Ali (Sebastian), Leo-Marcus Wan (Feste), Anais Alvarado (Olivia), Tibu Fortes (Malvolio), Carolina Main (Viola), Isabelle Rose (Maria). |
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| Producer | Swivel Theatre Company |
| Synopsis | Set in 1940's Morocco, Swivel's unique interpretation will be a feast of live music, traditional dance and laughter. We are producing a modern adaptation of Twelfth Night which is accessible for all ages. |
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