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At a Glance
Fringe & Other shows playing now or in the near future.

2,000 FEET AWAY
Bush Theatre
by Anthony Weigh
Eldon, Iowa is a tiny community in the heartland of America. Its Deputy Sheriff is charged with enforcing the new state law banning sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of schools..When the deputy is compelled to evict his neighbours' son the new law hits home.
(from 11 Jun 08 to 12 Jul 08)
ALCHEMY OF FLESH, THE
Old Red Lion Theatre
by David Hauptschein
A disturbed woman stages a bizarre suicide using her answer phone. Her jealous lover ends his life with a bottle of pills and a fifth of whisky. But his corpse vanishes.
(from 6 May 08 to 24 May 08)
ANYTHING YOU CAN YOU
Greenwich Playhouse
Featuring the music of Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein and Irving Berlin
A light hearted journey through many of the worlds most popular shows and songs, with a promise of several rather more obscure musical numbers thrown into the mix.
(from 5 Aug 08 to 24 Aug 08)
ASH GIRL, THE
Bridewell Theatre
By Timberlake Wertenbaker
With her mother dead and her father away, fighting his own demons, the Ash Girl lives huddled deep in the protection of the ashes in a big old house with her stepmother and two stepsisters.
(from 23 Jul 08 to 26 Jul 08)
BEAU JEST
Hackney Empire
by James Sherman
Mr and Mrs Goldman want the best for their teacher daughter Sarah, including her beau. They will be happy with whoever she chooses as long as he is good Jewish boy...
(from 7 May 08 to 1 Jun 08)
BETWIXT
King's Head Theatre
Book, music and lyrics by Ian McFarlane
Fantasy novelist Bailey Howard and his flamboyant friend Cooper Fitzgerald are magically transported to the world of the In-Between. Their arrival fulfills the ancient prophecy that the oppressed land and its kidnapped Prince Haydn will be rescued by a conquering hero and a great queen.
(from 6 May 08 to 22 Jun 08)
BIRD SANCTUARY, THE
Rosemary Branch Theatre
by Frank McGuinness
After several years without leaving the family house, concern grows for artist Eleanor. Set next to a bird sanctuary at 'the loveliest house in Dublin', the Henryson family gather to discuss the future of their inherited house and of one another. Instead, their long awaited reunion becomes a platform for family and national politics.
(from 29 Apr 08 to 18 May 08)
BIRTHDAY PARTY , THE
Lyric Hammersmith
By Harold Pinter
About the destruction of individual identity
(from 8 May 08 to 24 May 08)
BREATHING CORPSES
Hen and Chickens Theatre
by Laura Wade
Amy's found another body in a hotel bedroom. There's a funny smell coming from one of Jim's storage units. Kate's losing it after spending all day with the police. There's no going back after what they've seen.
(from 6 May 08 to 24 May 08)
BULGING SEAHORSE & OTHER GREY MATTERS
Barons Court Theatre
by Simon Magnus
Root Experience Theatre create an imaginary world of story telling and mischief, in which brains have been tampered with and memories adjusted - so why does this world keep smiling?
(from 27 May 08 to 21 Jun 08)
CAN YOU SEE ME YET?
Brockley Jack Theatre
by Timothy Findley
1938, a world about to go mad with war; an asylum for the insane seems to offer sanctuary for its patients, but as Cassandra Wakelin stands in the heart of the asylum, confusing her fellow inmates with members of her own ill-fated family, we are forced to ask the question, 'Can anyone find sanctuary anywhere?'
(from 11 Jun 08 to 29 Jun 08)
CASANOVA: THE TRUE STORY
Greenwich Playhouse
Book, Music and Lyrics by Philip Godfrey
Based on the actual memoirs of this legendary lover, the new musical, Casanova offers a snapshot of his adventurous and extraordinary life and affairs, as 11 actors and 3 musicans romp through18th century Europe.
(from 14 May 08 to 8 Jun 08)
CELIA
New Players Theatre
by Richard Nyeila, inspired by Melton A. McLaurinûs biography Celia Slave
In 1855 a young woman finds herself on trial for murder. She claimed the victim was trying to rape her and had succeeded in doing so repeatedly for several years. The sympathy of the court and the ensuing verdict should have been assured, but this woman was black and the man she killed her owner.
(from 6 May 08 to 24 May 08)
CHERRY DOCS
King's Head Theatre
By David Gow
Caught between his career and his principles, Jewish lawyer Danny must defend Mike, an aggressive and violent skinhead accused of a vicious racist murder.
(from 9 Sep 08 to 19 Oct 08)
CINDERELLA
Shaw Theatre
Will the Ugly Sisters ever be beautiful? Will Cinderella get to the Ball? Will she find her Prince?
(from 9 Dec 08 to 3 Jan 09)
CLOCKED
Warehouse Theatre
by Neil Flynn
The story of three men whose lives and relationships affect and inflict one another in the most deadly of ways.
(from 2 May 08 to 25 May 08)
COMMON PURSUIT, THE
Menier Chocolate Factory Theatre
By Simon Gray
Charts the progress of a group of Cambridge undergraduates who launch a literary publication.
(from 9 May 08 to 20 Jul 08)
CONQUEST OF THE SOUTH POLE, THE
Oval House Theatre
By Manfred Karge
Four disabled friends decide to stave off the dole-queue blues by re-enacting Amundsen's famous 1911 expedition to the South Pole.
(from 20 May 08 to 24 May 08)
COUNTRY, THE
Tabard Theatre
By Martin Crimp
Corinne has spent a blissful day in her rural idyll. But now her husband's scrubbing himself in the shower, his boss is speaking Latin, the water tastes funny and there's a young woman comatose in the upstairs bedroom. Is this how they do things in the country?
(from 27 May 08 to 21 Jun 08)
DANGEROUS CORNER
Pacific Playhouse
by J.B. Priestley
Set in 1932, the play sees Freda and Robert Caplan play host to their 'snug little group' of friends and colleagues at their country home. Before long, though, a cigarette box and a chance remark spark off a relentless series of revelations as we are asked to consider whether it really is best to let sleeping dogs lie?
(from 13 May 08 to 31 May 08)
DE MONFORT
Orange Tree Theatre
By Joanna Baillie
De Monfort is tormented by his hatred of Rezenvelt. He is in the grip of an all-consuming passion over which he seems to have little control...
(from 30 Apr 08 to 31 May 08)
ELECTRA
Camden People's Theatre
by Euripides
Set in a climate of racial tension and political unrest in modern day Zimbabwe, Electra, daughter of Agamemnon conspires with brother Orestes to take bloody revenge on their Mother for murdering their father
(from 11 Aug 08 to 13 Aug 08)
ELEGIES FOR ANGELS, PUNKS & RAGING QUEENS
Greenwich Playhouse
Book & Lyrics by Bill Russell Music by Janet Hood
Elegies tells its story through free-verse monologues complimented by a strong blues, jazz and rock score. Each individual monologue represents a character that has died from HIV/AIDS
(from 15 Jun 08 to 19 Jun 08)
ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER, THE
Little Angel Theatre
by the brothers Grimm, adapted by Violet Philpott
This well-known story is brought to life with glove puppets and music.
(from 17 May 08 to 29 Jun 08)
ETTA JENKS
Bridewell Theatre
By Marlane Meyer
Etta Jenks arrives in Los Angeles hopeful, homeless and eager to become a movie star.her dreams and ambitions rapidly fade into memory.
(from 27 May 08 to 31 May 08)
FACADES
Riverside Studios
by The Stage Company
Spring 1787 and the empress, Catherine the Great, is making a royal progress, inspecting her New Russia. Prince Potemkin, her former lover, needs to impress. He is pouring his fortune into building towns along the route, but how can he do it fast enough?
(from 18 May 08 to 29 May 08)
FALSTAFF
Warehouse Theatre
By Robert Nye
A portrait of Shakespeare's great comic character exploring the man and the myth.
(from 18 Jun 08 to 13 Jul 08)
FANSHEN
295 Regent Street(a disused workshop )
by David Hare
Depicts the labour, struggle and fight of a society on the cusp of revolution.
(from 1 Jul 08 to 2 Aug 08)
FAST LABOUR
Hampstead Theatre
by Steve Waters
A hard-hitting play dealing with the complex moral issues of illegal immigration, people-trafficking and exploitation in the UK.
(from 30 May 08 to 21 Jun 08)
FOREVER PLAID
Upstairs at the Gatehouse Theatre
by Stuart Ross
There were these four guys, Sparky, Jinx and Francis and Smudge who loved to sing. They all met in high school around 1956. Discovering that they shared an affection for music and entertaining, they got together and dreamed of becoming like their idols...
(from 24 May 08 to 22 Jun 08)
FRENCH PASTE
Shaw Theatre
by Richard Gallagher
Celebration of human relationships and how far society has moved since the late 'eighties.
(from 1 Jul 08 to 5 Jul 08)
GODIVA
King's Head Theatre
Book & lyrics by Guy Bolton, Music by Vivian Ellis
Lady Godiva, the Earl's wife in all but the eyes of the church, won't go to bed with him unless he pays his penance to the local Bishop.
(from 9 Dec 08 to 25 Jan 09)
GRAND SLAM
King's Head Theatre
By Lloyd Evans
Comedy two-hander about a failed British tennis player and the unscrupulous man hired to act as her bodyguard.
(from 24 Jun 08 to 27 Jul 08)
HANNAH AND MARTIN
Courtyard Theatre
by Kate Fodor
In 1920s Germany, Hannah Arendt, a young Jewish student catches the eye of professor Martin Heidegger, a brilliant mind and philosopher. Enchanted by her, the married teacher becomes her mentor and lover and they embark on a tumultuous love affair. But as the Nazis rise to power, Hannah flees to America and becomes a political writer.
(from 27 May 08 to 22 Jun 08)
HARD HEARTED HANNAH AND OTHER STORIES
Lyric Hammersmith Studio
Created by Cartoon de Salvo
A new improvised adventure every night !
(from 15 May 08 to 7 Jun 08)
HIDE AND SEEK
Blue Elephant Theatre
by Tal Jakubowiczova
A woman and her memories of the past scavenge amongst the ruins and devastation of the world she once knew. The woman discovers a baby amongst the ruins and the things that matter the most become obvious as a result of the discovery.
(from 29 Apr 08 to 17 May 08)
KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE, THE
Greenwich Playhouse
by Frank Marcus
Actress June Buckridge enjoys a successful career as the beloved Sister George on the popular 1960's radio serial Applehurst. In reality, June is a hard-drinking, cigar-smoking, egotistical and sadistic lesbian who heaps endless insults and humiliations on her partner, Alice.
(from 22 Jul 08 to 27 Jul 08)
LADY FROM THE SEA, THE
Arcola Theatre
by Henrik Ibsen, adaptation by Frank McGuinness
Is it better to suffocate on dry land or drown in the freedom of the sea? Trapped in an unhappy marriage with stepdaughters who dislike her, Ellida is consumed by her longing for the sea.
(from 29 Apr 08 to 31 May 08)
LAST RESORT, THE
Camden People's Theatre
by Strangeface
Satire about greed, ambition and redemption.
(from 20 May 08 to 25 May 08)
LEAD US INTO TEMPTATION
Old Red Lion Theatre
by Christopher Hanvey
Meet Jackie Finch... Poet... Rock Star... F**ked up Messiah...What is the price we pay for blind faith?
(from 27 May 08 to 14 Jun 08)
LEAVING
Orange Tree Theatre
By Vaclav Havel
Concerns the leaving of office of Chancellor Rieger and his eviction from the state villa which has been his home.
(from 19 Sep 08 to )
LIFE & DEATH OF VINCENT VAN GOGH
Etcetera Theatre
by Marcus Dilly
A journey through the life of the artist
(from 17 Jun 08 to 22 Jun 08)
LIPSTICK AND LOLLIPOPS
Drill Hall
By Charlie Swinbourne
follows Isabel, a Deaf teenager who moves with her mother from the security of the northern town where she has grown up to London. Unsettled, Isabel finds herself with a new set of friends who encourage her to rebel. She escapes to a late-night party and as the night unfolds, she confronts the past she has been hiding for so long.
(from 10 Jun 08 to 21 Jun 08)
LOVE - THE MUSICAL
Lyric Hammersmith
by Gisli Orn Gardarsson and Vikingur Kristjansson, adapted by David Farr
Neville is 80 and slowly wasting away in an unremarkable care home. His life seems to be heading for a predictable end until Margaret arrives for a short stay...
(from 29 May 08 to 21 Jun 08)
LOVING ART
Landor Theatre
Book and Lyrics by Barry Fantoni, Music by Barry Booth & Barry Fantoni
Loving Art is less a parody of Sixties musicals, more of a celebration of the rock and roll revolution that changed the world of popular music forever.
(from 28 May 08 to 21 Jun 08)
MAGDALENE MYSTERIES, THE
Southwark Playhouse
Original text by Jacek Ludwig Scarso
Incorporating theatre, vocal music and contemporary dance, staging the Gospel of Mary Magdalene
(from 14 Jul 08 to 19 Jul 08)
MAN OF LA MANCHA
London Oratory School Theatre
by Dale Wasserman, Music by Mitch Leigh Lyrics by Joe Darion
(from 3 Jun 08 to 7 Jun 08)
MERCHANT OF VENICE
Bridewell Theatre
by William Shakespeare
(from 3 Jun 08 to 20 Jun 08)
MOJ OF THE ANTARCTIC: An African Odyssey
Oval House Theatre
by Mojisola Adebayo, inspired by the true life story of Ellen Craft
inspired by the true life story of Ellen Craft, a 19th century African-American slave woman who escaped to freedom by disguising herself as a white man.
(from 13 May 08 to 17 May 08)
MORE SINNED AGAINST, THE
Wiltons Music Hall
By Alexander Ostrovsky, adapted by Frank McGuinness
A story of abandoned lovers and children, and of the cost of being brought up as a foster child.
(from 28 Oct 08 to 22 Nov 08)
MY FAVORITE YEAR
Bridewell Theatre
book by Joseph Dougherty, music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
(from 4 Jun 08 to 14 Jun 08)
NATURAL SELECTION
Theatre503
by Paul Rigel Jenkins
Three bumbling terrorists cling to their values as the modern world invades the land of their fathers.
(from 6 May 08 to 31 May 08)
NEW BOY
Tabard Theatre
Adapted by Russell Labey from the novel by William Sutcliffe
Story of a school boy crush
(from 22 Apr 08 to 17 May 08)
OFFICE SONG
Etcetera Theatre
by Nick Warburton
Brian, an unassuming office worker, is attempting to escape his firm's Christmas party when he is waylaid in the cloakroom by two of his boisterous colleagues,
(from 20 May 08 to 25 May 08)
OLIVER!
Arts Depot
by Lionel Bart
(from 25 Jun 08 to 29 Jun 08)
ON THE ROCKS
Hampstead Theatre
By Amy Rosenthal
Delves into the lives of D H Lawrence, his German wife Frieda and their close friends John Middleton Murry and Katherine Mansfield
(from 26 Jun 08 to 26 Jul 08)
ONLY GIRL IN THE WORLD, THE
Arcola Theatre
by Glyn Maxwell
A verse play about the final victim of Jack the Ripper
(from 29 Apr 08 to 24 May 08)
OUT OF CHAOS
Blue Elephant Theatre
Devised by Temple Theatre ( Juan Ayala, Lorna Beckett, Beatrice Curnew, Troels Hagen Findsen, Nick Jesper & Tomoko Komura)
Physical theatre comedy blending ancient Greek mythology with modern true stories
(from 20 May 08 to 24 May 08)
PILGRIMAGE OF THE HEART
Etcetera Theatre
Conceived by Shan Ng and Simon Wu
Shanghai, Summer 1935. An outwardly normal family is trapped in a dark web of hidden desire which threatens to destroy them.
(from 3 Jun 08 to 22 Jun 08)
PLUTO
Blue Elephant Theatre
by Jonathan Bonfiglio
About man's relentless struggle to define the world and beyond.
(from 28 May 08 to 15 Jun 08)
POTTED POTTER - THE UNAUTHORISED HARRY EXPERIENCE
Riverside Studios
A Parody by Dan and Jeff
All seven Potter books in seventy minutes?
(from 7 May 08 to 15 May 08)
PRIDE & PREJUDICE
Barons Court Theatre
by Jane Austen
(from 6 May 08 to 18 May 08)
ROCK
Oval House Theatre
by Tim Fountain
Rock Hudson was the biggest screen idol in 1950's LA. The ultimate Hollywood hunk. But his career was perpetually under threat from Confidential Magazine, every queer actor's nemesis...
(from 27 May 08 to 21 Jun 08)
ROMEO & JULIET
Bridewell Theatre
by William Shakespeare
(from 15 Jul 08 to 1 Aug 08)
ROMEO & JULIET
Jermyn Street Theatre
by William Shakespeare
(from 21 Apr 08 to 17 May 08)
SEACHANGE
Chicken Shed
by Chickenshed
Based on a global conversation with children throughout all the continents of the world. Young people are sharing their stories, voicing their concerns, revealing their aspirations and beliefs and telling how they wish to change the future of the world.
(from 2 Jul 08 to 19 Jul 08)
SHADOW MASTER, THE
King's Head Theatre
Adapted from JM Barrie's Dear Brutus, by Stephanie Sinclaire
A dark tragi-comic social satire. A group of people meet at the country residence of the mysterious Lob for a summer house party.
(from 29 Jul 08 to 7 Sep 08)
SHADOW PLAY
Unicorn Theatre
by Travelling Light Theatre Company
(from 11 Jun 08 to 22 Jun 08)
SIX WIVES OF TIMOTHY LEARY
Riverside Studios
By Philip de Gouveia
Spanning the ages of Jazz, Rock'n'roll and Techno, six women meditate on the highs and 'highs' of being married to counter-culture revolutionary and psychedelic messiah, Timothy Leary.
(from 3 Jun 08 to 26 Jun 08)
SMALL CRAFT WARNINGS
Landor Theatre
by Tennessee Williams
Set in a seedy Southern California coastal bar.
(from 20 May 08 to 24 May 08)
STOCKHOLM
Hampstead Theatre
by Bryony Lavery
Physical theatre
(from 13 May 08 to 24 May 08)
STONES IN HIS POCKETS
Theatro Technis
by Marie Jones
Tells the story of the effect on a small rural Irish community caused by the arrival of a Hollywood film crew, and in particular the effect it has upon Sean Harkin and his family.
(from 10 Jun 08 to 14 Jun 08)
STRANGERS
Hackney Empire Studio
by Ninaz Khodaiji, script advisors Tim Supple and Michael Atavar
A mixture of prose, verse, telephone conversations, almost-monologue and nearly-dialogue
(from 23 Apr 08 to 24 May 08)
STREET MAGIC
King's Head Theatre
Book by Lisa Forrell, Music & Lyrics by Brett Kahr
Based on a true story, Street Magic is a moving rite of passage tale, charting the journey of a young girl, Sugar, the daughter of Desdemona, a Brixton brothel owner originally from Jamaica.
(from 21 Oct 08 to 7 Dec 08)
TERRORISM
Greenwich Playhouse
by The Presnyakov Brothers, translated into English by Sasha Dugdale.
A play in six scenes.
(from 24 Jun 08 to 13 Jul 08)
TINDERBOX
Bush Theatre
by Lucy Kirkwood
Saul runs a butchers shop. When Perchik, committed vegetarian and outlaw artist, swims across Hadrian's Channel to England and stows away in a container full of meat, he lands up in Saul's shop.
(from 23 Apr 08 to 24 May 08)
TOPLESS MUM
Tricycle Theatre
by Ron Hutchinson
When a soldier returns home after serving in Afghanistan he tempts a newspaper editor with personal photos that seem to expose outrageous acts of brutality. But when their authenticity is questioned, how far can the story be spun to stop the real truth leaking out.
(from 28 May 08 to 28 Jun 08)
TWELFTH NIGHT
Bridewell Theatre
by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare meets High Society in a musical version of one of his best loved comedies, set on a cruise liner at the height of the roaring twenties.
(from 8 Jul 08 to 12 Jul 08)
TWELFTH NIGHT
Theatro Technis
by William Shakespeare
(from 13 May 08 to 17 May 08)
UG(gly)
Etcetera Theatre
Adrian Gillott and Anna Tobert
A provocative and comic show attacking human weakness
(from 3 Jun 08 to 15 Jun 08)
UNDER MILK WOOD
Tricycle Theatre
by Dylan Thomas
Captures twenty-four hours in the loves - and dreams - of the inhabitants of Llareggub, an imaginary, small seaside town in south Wales.
(from 12 May 08 to 24 May 08)
WHALE'S TOOTH, THE
Unicorn Theatre
by Nottingham Playhouse Roundabout
(from 2 Jul 08 to 20 Jul 08)
WILD GOOSE CHASE, THE
Questors Theatre
by John Fletcher
When Mirabel returns from his travels, the last thing on his mind is settling down to married life. But old flame Oriana has not given up hope of winning back her man.
(from 18 Jun 08 to 21 Jun 08)
WOLVES AT THE WINDOW
Arcola Theatre
by Toby Davies, after Saki
Ten of Saki's best known flippant fables of Edwardian irreverence are brought together.
(from 27 May 08 to 21 Jun 08)

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