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An Evening of Fringe Previews
Join cult absurdist double act The Lovely Boys along with Chortle Student Comedy Award Winner Joe Kent-Walters and Leicester Mercury Award Nominee Sam Williams for an evening of work-in-progress fringe comedy shows.
Blossoms of Her Selves
This doctoral project researches the intercultural issues raised for a Chinese artist when composing a feminist adaptation of an episode from a Qing dynasty classic (also known as one of the Four Chinese Great Classical Novels) A Dream of Red Mansions for contemporary UK audiences.
Theatre Group Presents Nothing by Lulu Racska
‘Nothing is much more than a series of monologues. It is about – among other things – customer service, crap television, cupcakes, shitting, sex, buses and stalking’. 8 monologues – 9 characters. Tell your story – it’s your duty to make sure it’s heard. The show is never fully finished. Tue 15 – Thur 17th…
Look Sharp Theatre Presents ‘Art’
”My friend Serge has bought a painting. It’s a canvas about five foot by four: white. The background is white and, if you screw up your eyes, you can make out some fine white diagonal lines.”
Theatre Group Presents God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza
God of Carnage is a comedy about two sets of parents who come together one afternoon because the child of one couple has hit the other.
Open Theatre Presents The Crimes of the Armstrongs by Ejiro Raye
When their wealthy father passes away, two siblings battle it out for his inheritance, whilst dangerously falling into the world of crime, assassins and the law.
Open Theatre Presents Road by Jim Cartwright
A Road, a wild night, a drunken tour guide, a journey to the gutter and the stars and back. Jim Cartwright’s first play gives expression to the inhabitants of an unnamed Northern road in Eighties Britain.
PCI Production – Is This Tomorrow
Modern fairy-tale, warped romanticised stories told for generations, culminating in a future world that we created ourselves …
Theatre Group Presents Things I Know to be True by Andrew Bovell
Bob and Fran Price have four adult children: Pip, Mark, Ben, and Rosie. Each child has their own unique struggles and secrets that they try to keep hidden from their parents, but Mother Fran has a knack for knowing what is true in each of their lives.
Open Theatre Presents Beautiful Burnout by Bryony Lavery
They have an affinity with the violence, the balance, the ritual, the grace and the power. They are indestructible. Beautiful Burnout is about the soul-sapping three-minutes when boxers become gods and gods, mere boxers. It’s about the second when the guard drops, that moment when the eyes blink and miss the incoming hammer blow. We…
Zip It
Zip It is an immersive play through which the audience follows the lives of two young women and their experience of gender identity, sexual harassment and domestic violence. The narrative is framed within the setting of a reality dating gameshow and despite the dark themes, is also layered with comedic elements. 25th and 26th April…
Naughty Corner Productions: Sheep
Five friends take a trip to the Lake District to relive their booze and drug-fuelled university days and to escape from their banal and disappointing lives.
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The S Word: Stanislavsky and Gender
The influence of the work and legacy of Konstantin Stanislavsky (1863-1938) endures across the broad field of the performing arts, and his prominence as a male figure receives renewed debate and criticism. In a wider and contemporary context, the proliferation and expansion of the term ‘gender’, continued inequalities and understandings of intersectionality provoke us to…
Inside Yellow Sound
Inside Yellow Sound invites one audience member at a time to animate the world of the play and engage in a series of interactions between different sounds, colours and movements.
GI60 and GI60 Next Gen
Gi60 is back!
Open Theatre Present ‘The Superstore’
A deeply capitalist dictatorship looms… Welcome to The Superstore.
‘Art of Believing’ by Daniel Martínez Flamenco Company
Join us for an evening of stunning flamenco with the Daniel Martínez Flamenco Company.
PCI Production – Tripartite
Tripartite explores the disarray of dreams, morality and instincts that live within the human psyche.
Open Theatre Presents ‘Welcome to Europa’
You have been in cryo-sleep for 60 years. You have 89 missed calls from Earth.
Theatre Group Presents ‘New Labour’
New Labour is a comedy drama about being in debt, being young and dreaming of something better.
Matt Rogers: This Is Live – Live in Stage One and Streamed
This is liveness.
This is authenticity™
This is potentially a very, very bad idea.
Theatre Group Present ‘Bull’ by Mike Bartlett
‘There’s something there, just on your shirt…’