Fri 12th May 5:30 - 7:30 Alec Clegg £Free Come and see our Year 3 Theatre and Performance students’ refreshing and vivid intercultural interpretations of scenes from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘King Lear’. Expect a mid-West USA barn dance where Lear divides up his kingdom and find out how women’s rights in Poland relate...
Iron Moon by Shuwen Guo, Fan Zhang, Qianrui Zhang, Varna Raghunath Knock, knock, what's that knocking? Rust, dust, and ore builds our world and the people who built it barely listened to carefully, unsung. It’s time to hear their stories. Content warning: Depiction of pneumoconiosis
'Convection' by Yixin, Tong, Peanut, Yifan, Laura Gliding and colliding and now the temperature is rising. We invite you to become a part of Convection and explore the link between raging forest fires and rising sea levels. Thurs 9th March Alec Clegg 5pm & 6:30pm £PWYF
THE MONSTER by Chenyi Wang, Shengyi Chen, Xinyue Yao, Shengyao Lei, Daniela Portillo Come to meet THE MONSTER. An ironic game that reflects the reality that our planet lives today. Please note, this is a participatory performance. Please attend with comfortable clothes and shoes. Ideally wear pants and not skirts, as you will be invited...
Reverse Evolution by Yeru, Xiaoshan, Ziwen, Tami We are all evolving, They are also evolving. What is the end point of evolution? it is assimilation. Will we all become one kind of person? Will they become the same? Welcome to the journey of reverse evolution, Hopefully, after the performance, We can all stay real to...
'A World in Glacial Memory' by Yuan Zhong, Xinyi Zhong, Anqi Zhu, Preethika Paulini Jones Design led performance with a spin on a Guam folklore about climate change, bringing audience into a space allowing them to relax in this artistic glacial world to feel and be immersed in this world where global warming has started...
In 1965 Marshall McLuhan said ‘There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew’. In this festival of design-led performances, students from the MA Performance Design programme present original performances that explore the interconnections and interdependencies between people and environments in the context of climate crisis. Full Programme TBC Mon 06 - Fri...
Step into a forest full of wonder and watch the magic unfold in a ‘genie’-us re-imagining of 1001 Arabian Nights. Immerse yourself in stories of sellers, tales of traders and mysteries of merchants. With princes, paupers and puppets, and terrifyingly low prices.
Forget the malevolent ambition to seize the throne of Scotland.
Think smaller, much smaller…
This is the darkly comic story of one man’s ruthless ambition to usurp his unappreciative boss and take over the business but does he have the ingenuity to succeed?