Free Theatre Tickets! For under 26's: A Night Less Ordinary

Forthcoming:

• We Can Be Heroes

  October 20th 2009 - October 22nd 2009

  • Physical theatre

  We Can Be Heroes Written and performed by Company FZ

  20 – 22 October Directed by Flick Ferdinando

  What you’ll love…a hard-hitting, hilarious story of meteoric success from the award-winning Company FZ, makers of Throat, Loser and Cabaret Besame Mucho

  We are delighted to welcome the award winning extraordinary Company FZ back to The Nuffield with their new show. Company FZ defies convention, wittily and emotionally interweaving physical skills with dark comedy. For this show they add film and music to create a profound, funny, beautiful and heartfelt story.

  WE CAN BE HEROES reaches into the heart and mind of a man who fears his life without change. Having been an only child and living in arrested development he employs an older brother thinking this will help. It does. They embark on a journey together which shifts from a simple contract to a story of commitment, emotional responsibility and psychological danger.

  “A fabulous piece of work, as passionately executed as it was beautifully conceived” The Times on Throat

  Times 7:30pm Ticket Prices £10 - £16 (Price 2) Events & Offers Meet the Cast, Young Person, Student

• How It Ended

  October 22nd 2009 - October 24th 2009

  • Drama
  • Physical theatre

  22 - 24 October Conceived and directed by Emily Watson Howes Devised by the cast

  How it Ended You Need Me

  HOW IT ENDED, the debut piece from physical theatre company You Need Me, is a tender and tragic exploration of marriage in an era of uncompromising expectations. Staged in the round with live music, a company of international actors play with traditional storytelling techniques to explore a true story of cultural alienation and loneliness. The focus shifts from Wales during the Second World War to France in the immediate aftermath of liberation, keeping at its centre the fierce fading of a wartime romance.

  A hauntingly initmate story of love in decline.

  Nominated for The Stage Awards and the Total Theatre Awards at Edinburgh Fringe 08.

  Time 7:45pm Ticket Prices £10 (concessions £8)

• Whingerella

  October 24th 2009 - October 24th 2009

  • Children

  24 October Myths & Legwarmers Whingerella

  The Fairy Tale Inspector is urgently called to one of the oldest and most revered Fairy Tales in the Kingdom - Cinderella. Cinderella is refusing to wear her glass slippers, and the Fairy Godmother would be better described as the Scary Godmother. With the Ball only a few weeks away, AND a new apprentice to train, this will be the Fairy Tale Inspector’s greatest challenge…

  With wonderful songs, silliness and shenanigans, come join the show and help the Fairy Tale Inspector try to save the tale once more!

  MAIN HOUSE Aimed at ages 5+ Times: 11am & 1pm Duration: ? Tickets: £7.50

• Phil Kay

  October 25th 2009 - October 25th 2009

  • Comedy

  The Comedy Bar Phil Kay

  Stand-up comedy’s answer to spontaneous human combustion; a rare, explosive and always surprising phenomenon that simply cannot be contained in a box or represented on a cathode tube. Phil tours Britain constantly and is a firm favourite at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where he performs yearly to sell-out crowds and critical acclaim.

  “One of the greatest comedic odysseys ever witnessed” Time Out

  With support from Colin Owens and resident MC Chris Mayo

  Time 8pm (doors 7pm) Ticket Prices £9 (concessions £7)

• Coral

  October 27th 2009 - October 31st 2009

  • Drama

  27 - 31 October Written and directed by Russ Tunney

  Coral Nuffield Theatre Company

  When teenager Coral awakes, she finds herself unexpectedly on a small island, which she quickly names Coral’s Island. She has no idea how she got there and even less idea of how to get back. She is equally surprised when two strangers join her; one climbs out of the earth beside her, the other is washed in by the tide. Thrown together in a battle for survival and meaning, to discover how to get home they must first discover why they are there.

  CORAL is a beautiful and haunting contemporary parable about the delicate balance of man and nature with moments of visual beauty and original music. It is the tale of one girl’s discovery that no matter how much we think we are alone, we are always connected, not just to other people, but to the earth itself..

  Time 7:30pm Ticket Prices £10 (concessions £8)

• Bleak Expectations

  October 31st 2009 - November 1st 2009

  • Comedy
  • Children

  31 October - 1 November Nuffield Theatre Company Bleak Expectations

  A delicious romp through Victorian London in the 1800s! Marvel at the exploits of young Pip Squeak, who survives both a terrible orphanage and an equally cruel workhouse before making his fortune in a series of astonishing and death defying adventures. Along the way he must battle his cruel guardian (Sir Angel Darkdeeds), the rise of the industrial north, the progress of science and many other period obstacles.

  Will the dastardly French try to invade again? Will he lose his family home in Yorkshire (Withering Slopes)? And will that peasouper of a fog ever lift?

  MAIN HOUSE Aimed at ages 5+ Times: 11am & 1pm Duration: 50 mins Tickets: £7.50

• Sean Lock

  November 1st 2009 - November 1st 2009

  • Comedy

  1 November Main House

  Sean Lock

  Described by Ricky Gervais as ‘one of the most influential British stand ups of the past 10 years’ and winner of the coveted British Comedy Award for Best Live Performer, Sean can currently be seen as team captain on Channel 4’s 8 Out Of 10 Cats, BBC2’s QI, Dave’s Argumental and star of Radio 2’s Museum of Curiosity.

  His stand-up is a unique mix of hyperactive imagination, surreal imagery and insightful observations on the human condition.

  Time 7:30pm Ticket Prices £15 (concessions £13)

• What if...?

  November 3rd 2009 - November 4th 2009

  • Circus
  • Physical theatre

  What if...? Created and performed by Layla Rosa presented by Crying Out Loud

  3 - 4 November Creative support by Rose English and Laura de Nercy Presented by Crying Out Loud in association with La Breche, lower Normandy’s Centre for Circus Arts

  What you’ll love… aerial performance, music, visual art and theatre combine in this ground breaking and thought provoking performance

  An original and ground-breaking performance combining circus theatre and visual installation. On the ground and in the air this is a compelling mixture of aerial movement, moving image and video projection accompanied by a specially devised sound-scape.

  This new show is Layla’s search to know her identity. As one of the UK’s most established contemporary circus and live art performance artists, She grew up not knowing her Saudi Arabian father, but what if her life had been different and she had been a woman of Islam?

  Layla Rosa is a founding member, artistic director, performer and choreographer of acclaimed performance collective Shunt. After a year of research with the Muslim community groups at Oxford House, Bethnal Green, Layla tries to answer some of her own questions. Join her in this visual and thought-provoking journey.

  Times 7:30pm Ticket Prices £10 - £16 (Price 2) Events & Offers Meet the Cast, Young Person, Student

• The Family

  November 5th 2009 - November 6th 2009

  • Drama
  • Musical
  • Physical theatre

  The Family Rogue Theatre

  5 – 6 November Directed by Angelina Boscarelli Writing by Anna Maria Mruphy Design by Ollie Oakenshield Music played live by THE THIEVES

  What you’ll love… stories, dark secrets and intrigue, with live music from The Thieves

  Inspired by Hammer Horror

  An eccentric family live in an isolated mansion deep in the forest. As the evening erupts into a revelation of astonishing stories and secrets the party atmosphere is disturbed by a haunting, and a figure in the shadows. Is this the family’s greatest fear? Has truth finally come to dinner? With tales of piracy, voodoo and lost fame woven together with gothic poetry THE FAMILY promises a world of escape which mixes powerful narrative, vibrant spectacle, fantasy, the supernatural, horror and cabaret.

  Introducing Rogue Theatre’s newest creation The Thieves; a theatre band which combines the passion and euphoria of gypsy music and the melancholy and nostalgia of tango with cabaret, bump and grind, jazz and blues!

  This is a feast of entertainment… come join us!

  Times 7:30pm Ticket Prices £10 - £16 (Price 2) Events & Offers Post-show Party, Young Person, Student

• Beneath the Banyan Tree

  November 7th 2009 - November 7th 2009

  • Children

  7 November Theatre Hullabaloo and Theatre Direct Beneath The Banyan Tree

  Everyone has a story to tell. Every person, every animal, every tree has a story to tell. Not all stories have words. Anjali's story begins in India.

  An aspiring dancer, Anjali travels between two worlds: the cold reality of trying to adjust to life in the UK and her imaginary in which the colourful animal characters from the Indian fables of the Panchatantra come to life. Anjali's journey to find the courage to be herself, told through a vibrant fusion of theatre, traditional Indian (Bharatanatyam) and Western dance, puppetry and music.

  Aimed at ages 5+ Times: 11am & 1pm Duration: 50 minutes Tickets: £6

• Kahani Sapnon Ki

  November 7th 2009 - November 7th 2009

  • Musical

  Kahani Sapnon Ki (Our Dream Story) Hathi Productions

  7 November A new musical by Jez Simons Directed by Sâmir Bhambra

  What you’ll love…a compelling and inspirational new musical

  Set in India in the early 1940’s, KAHANI SAPNON KI - OUR DREAM STORY tells the inspiring story of three young people determined to follow their dreams. Parvati; wants to become a respected story teller, Pavan yearns to be a pilot and Pushpa seems born to be a dancer.

  The Anglo influenced girls enrol at the Hirambi Dance Academy, where Pavan works as Mr Fix it; “Give me a piece of string, a cog and a screw and I’ll fix anything mechanical”. The girls arrive to discover a rundown school owned by a fading 1920’s Hollywood star and the place filled with girls from the street eagerly working their way through training; “we are here to be part of History, not just history”.

  With these words they embark on an exhilarating journey through show business. Unaware at first of the approaching storm reality strikes when Singapore falls and the Japanese threaten Eastern India.

  Times 7:30pm Events & Offers Young Person, Student Ticket Prices £10 - £16 (Price 2)

• Andy Parsons

  November 8th 2009 - November 8th 2009

  • Comedy

  8 November Main House

  Andy Parsons- Citizens

  From BBC 2’s Mock the Week & QI, BBC1’s Live At The Apollo, and Radio 2’s Parsons and Naylor’s Pull-Out Sections, Andy Parsons is back with a brand new show for 2009.

  This is political comedy without the leaflet, satire without the lecture, ridicule without the sanctimony - all brushed with a bit of showbiz glitter. You will leave fulfilled, energised, emotionally uplifted and, maybe, a little bit giddy – come on, you owe it to yourself.

  Time 7:30pm Ticket Prices £15 (concessions £13)

• Buy Little, Buy Less

  November 9th 2009 - November 9th 2009

  • Drama

  9 November

  Buy Little, Buy Less Claire Dowie

  We are delighted to welcome Claire Dowie back to The Nuffiled after her last production From H to He. Claire’s work combines the hypnotic intensity of an inspired story teller and the audience rapport of a stand up comic - so we strongly recommend her new production BUY LITTLE, BUY LESS.

  In a shop, suddenly, without warning, a young woman chewing gum, humming and chatting to her mates, goes pale, stops chewing, stops humming, stops chatting, looks at the frou-frou top she’s been pondering, looks hard at it... then puts it back on the rail, replaces all the stuff she’s been collecting to try on. Her mates watch concerned. The young woman looks genuinely confused and not a little bit frightened: “I’ve got tops! I don’t need tops! I’ve got tops I’ve never worn.”

  Claire Dowie’s new piece examines our obsession “to buy or not to buy” in a comical Kafkaesque world which is both familiar and unexpected.

  Time 7:30pm Ticket Prices £10 (concessions £8)

• The Hypochondriac

  November 10th 2009 - November 14th 2009

  • Comedy

  The Hypochondriac A new adaptation by Roger McGough after Molière English Touring Theatre and Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse

  10 – 14 November Directed by Gemma Bodinetz Designed by Mike Britton Lighting by Charles Balfour Music by Conor Linehan Sound by Jason Barnes

  Cast: Leanne Best, Neil Caple, Simon Coates, Toby Dantzic, Clive Francis, Jake Harders, Chris Porter, Lucinda Raikes, Brigid Zengeni

  What you’ll love… Molière’s scathingly funny lampoon on hypochondria and the ‘quack’ medical profession, adapted by one of Britain’s best-loved poets. Un tour de farce..!

  Laughter is the best medicine…

  Argan is a perfectly healthy and wealthy gentleman, convinced that he is seriously ill. So obsessed is he with medicinal tinkerings and tonics that he is blind to the goings on in his own household. However, his most efficacious cure will not appear in a bottle or a bedpan, but in his sharp-tongued servant, who has a cunning plan to reveal the truth and open her master’s eyes…

  Britain’s favourite and Liverpool’s Poet Laureate, Roger McGough, dips his magic quill by adapting Molière’s sublime comedy.

  English Touring Theatre presents potent, vivid and vital productions of new and classic plays. Here they join forces with Liverpool’s Everyman and Playhouse Theatres, whose programmes have received critical acclaim in Liverpool and around the UK!

  “A tonic guaranteed to lift your spirits and keep them high… Hilarious scenes aplenty… McGough bumps up the fun with ribald rhyming couplets, pumped with puns, packed with teasing possibilities and sprinkled with Scouse…” Mail on Sunday

  Times 7:30pm & 3pm Sat 14 Nov Ticket Prices £10 - £18 (Price 1) Events & Offers Pay What You Can, Meet the Cast, Post-show Party, Young Person, Student Access STAGETEXT Captioned Thurs 12 Nov

• Oshima and the Big Sea

  November 14th 2009 - November 14th 2009

  • Children

  14 November Angel Heart Theatre Oshima and the Big Sea

  Every day Oshima goes fishing in his little tub boat. He hopes he will catch a really big fish… But he never does. Maybe it’s because Oshima is just too busy day-dreaming about what it must be like under the Big Sea… One day Oshima gets the chance to find out!

  With lovingly-made puppets and engaging performances Angel Heart Theatre offer this uplifting show for hearts young and old. With amazing sea creatures, shadow puppetry and live music, OSHIMA AND THE BIG SEA is where warm-hearted humour swims with big-eyed wonder… Dive in!

  Aimed at ages 3+ Times: 11am & 1.30pm Duration: 50 minutes Tickets: £6

• Rhod Gilbert

  November 15th 2009 - November 15th 2009

  • Comedy

  15 November Main House

  Rhod Gilbert & The Cat That Looked Like Nicholas Lyndhurst

  The Welsh Wonder is back on the road with a brand new show. Last year, he punched a shop-assistant over the duvet tog-rating system and went berserk over a mince pie. This year Gilbert’s given his show a ridiculous title just to annoy someone in Canterbury. Is he, as he believes, a visionary in a sea of closed minds, or has he, as everyone else believes, got anger management problems?

  “ Comedy mania from heaven* Independent

  Time 7:30pm Ticket Prices £15

• In the Shadow of Picture Frames

  November 17th 2009 - November 20th 2009

  • Physical theatre

  17 - 20 November

  In the Shadow of Picture Frames Green Eyed Zero

  A young couple move into their new apartment. However, all is not as it seems. As they settle into their new life unusual things start to happen. Noises coming from upstairs, an old phone left in the apartment ringing randomly, a notebook depicting some odd situations. Obsession grows and soon our couple drift apart desperately trying to piece together the clues left behind to solve the mystery…

  Told through video projection, text and physical action, the audience enter a world where the characters dance with objects, climb, swing and suspend off a steel structure and push their physical limits. A dark and playful exploration of the fragility of human emotion.

  Time 7:30pm Ticket Prices £10 (concessions £8)

• Daily Echo! The Musical!

  November 21st 2009 - November 21st 2009

  • Comedy
  • Musical

  21 November

  Daily Echo! The Musical! The Maydays

  DAILY ECHO! THE MUSICAL! takes articles cut out by the audience to create a totally improvised topical musical sketch comedy show. With a live pianist, the music, the jokes and the dubious choreography are all original and spontaneous every night. Favourite articles have featured art education on the bus, what constitutes ‘sensible physical contact’ in schools and the headline ‘Ice One, Squirrel’. After all, there’s nowt queerer than folk and the truth is often funnier than fiction.

  Improvised comedy company, The Maydays won Best Comedy Show at Brighton Festival in 2007 following a sold-out run and joyous reviews. The Musical. They have been working together for more than four years to produce critically acclaimed, award winning comedy. Their actors comprise stand-ups, singers, dancers and many other talented folk. Be there, for the first and last performance of DAILY ECHO! THE MUSICAL!

  Time 7:30pm Ticket Prices £7 (concessions £6)

• Andrew Lawrence

  November 22nd 2009 - November 22nd 2009

  • Comedy

  22 November Studio

  The Comedy Bar Andrew Lawrence

  IF.Comedy Award nominee and star of BBC3’s Ideal, Andrew Lawrence is one of the most unique acts on the comedy circuit. He is a regular favourite on the comedy circuit, gigging at all the major clubs across the country and building a base of discerning fans addicted to the bleakly dark comic world he creates.

  “It’s a joy to be in his contemptuous company” The Times

  With support from Gareth Richards and resident MC Chris Mayo

  Time 8pm (doors 7pm) Ticket Prices £9 (concessions £7)

• The Haunted Moustache

  November 23rd 2009 - November 25th 2009

  • Drama

  23 - 25 November Directed by Nicky Haydn

  The Haunted Moustache Other Place Productions

  In the storytelling tradition of Spalding Gray Ken Campbell and Claire Dowie, David Bramwell’s The Haunted Moustache recounts the fantastic but true tale of his surreal inheritance - a hundred-year old moustache in a box.

  The story begins in 1991 when, having been bequeathed this singular item by an eccentric aunt, Bramwell makes it his life mission to uncover the true identity of its former owner, leading him to seances, spiritual churches and (unwittingly) becoming the host of a modern-day freakshow…

  A mischievous performance that mixes humour with pathos and lecture-style slide-shows with theatre, but remains, at heart, a damned good story!

  Time 7:30pm Ticket Prices £10 (concessions £8)

• The Wind in the Willows

  November 26th 2009 - January 9th 2010

  • Drama
  • Children

  The Wind in the Willows The Nuffield Theatre Company By Kenneth Grahame

  26 November - 9 January Directed by Patrick Sandford

  What you’ll love… a classic tale of fun, friendship and fast cars!

  POOP POOP! POOP POOP! MAKE WAY FOR MISTER TOAD THIS CHRISTMAS!

  “Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”

  Mole and Ratty do so love picnics by the riverbank, but watch out! Here comes Mister Toad, zooming past in his brand new Motor Car! Oh No! Bang, Crash, Wallop! The rabbits dive for cover. Oh My! Oh My! Oh My!

  A visit to Mr Badger is called for but he lives in the Wild Wood... and that means weasels and stoats... The adventure begins!

  Come and join in this whirlwind riverbank adventure, which, in traditional Nuffield style will be filled with madcap lunacy, music, and a great story that will delight ‘children’ of all ages!

  Times Times vary Ticket Prices £8.50 - £15.50 Events & Offers Post-show Party, Young Person, Student Access Signed performances Sat 5 Dec 2:30pm & 7pm, Tue 5 Jan 10:45am Audio Described performances Sat 12 Dec 2:30pm & 7pm, Wed 6 Jan 10:45am

  Please note: Discounts and concessions are not available on performances from 7pm on 18 Dec - 2.30pm on 3 Jan inclusive. Family tickets are available for all performances except 24 Dec, 26 Dec & 1 Jan.

• The BIG gig

  January 16th 2010 - January 16th 2010

  • Comedy

  The Comedy Bar The BIG gig

  The massively popular Big Gig returns once again with our biggest and best line up yet:

  Headliner PHIL NICHOL - winner of the IF.Comedy Award for best comedy show at The Edinburgh Festival in 2006 and as seen on Comedy Shuffle (BBC3) and The Graham Norton Show (BBC1) is joined by ROB ROUSE “A phenomenal performer” (Time Out) and JACK WHITEHALL.

  With MC RUSSELL KANE - star of BBC’s Live at The Apollo and Paramount’s Edinburgh and Beyond - back for the third year running to perform at The Big Gig.

  Time 8pm (doors 7pm) Ticket Prices £15 (concessions £13)

• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

  January 19th 2010 - January 23rd 2010

  • Comedy

  Main House 19 - 23 January

  An Amateur Performance by Southampton Operatic Society A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart

  Playgoers I bid you welcome. The theatre is a temple and we are here to worship the gods of Comedy & Tragedy. Tonight, I am pleased to announce a Comedy.

  Broadway’s greatest farce is light, fast-paced, witty, irreverent and one of the funniest musicals ever written – the perfect escape from life’s troubles. A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM takes comedy back to its roots, combining situations from time-tested, 2000 year old comedies of Roman playwright Plautus with the infectious energy of classic vaudeville.

  Forum tells the bawdy story of a slave named Pseudolus and his attempts to win his freedom by helping his young master woo the girl next door. Southampton Operatic Society’s production is indeed something for everyone: A Comedy Tonight.

  Times 7:30pm & 2:30pm Sat 23 Jan Ticket Prices £12 (concessions £10, available Tues - Thur & Sat mat)

• The Importance of Being Earnest

  January 26th 2010 - January 30th 2010

  • Comedy

  Main House 26 - 30 January

  An Amateur Performance by Southampton University Players The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde Directed by Meri Mackney

  Jack Worthing keeps his town life separate from his country life by pretending to be his own (imaginary) brother, Ernest, when in town. When Jack’s mischievous friend, Algernon, decides to visit Jack’s home posing as Ernest, confusion follows. Mistaken identities can only be resolved through discovering the origins of a large black handbag! Wilde described this play as: ‘exquisitely trivial, a delicate bubble of fancy, and it has its philosophy.... that we should treat all the trivial things of life seriously and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.’

  Southampton University Players’ 45th anniversary production is packed with Wilde’s witty observations on the society of his time and guarantees a laughter-filled evening.

  Times 7:30pm Ticket Prices £12 (concessions £10) Group and school discounts apply

• The Crucible

  February 2nd 2010 - February 6th 2010

  • Drama

  Main House 2 – 6 February

  An Amateur Performance by The Maskers Theatre Company The Crucible By Arthur Miller Directed by Harry Tuffill

  Arthur Miller’s classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - ‘one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history’ - and the McCarthyism which gripped America in the 1950s.

  The story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice, culminating in a violent climax. The events that led to the Witch Trials began with the seemingly inexplicable behaviour of two young girls and culminated in accusation, violence and death.

  By the time the hysteria had spent itself, 24 people had died - nineteen were hanged on Gallows Hill in Salem Town, or died in prison. A powerful drama not to be missed.

  Times 7:30pm Ticket Prices £12 (Concessions £9, Students £6) First Night Special - 2 for 1 offer - Tues 3 Feb 10% off 8 or more full price tickets Wed - Sat 20% off 8 or more concession tickets Wed - Thurs Bar extension Fri 6 Feb