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

Forthcoming:

• [FEVER] by MIKS and guests

  June 11th 2010 - June 11th 2010

  • Drama

  MIKS investigate performance as both an art form and a social meeting point. Working collectively, and exploring the edge of performance-making, MIKS creates work which is stimulating, communicative and entertaining.

  With a focus on interpretation and translation, the three members of MIKS (Anaïs Bouts, Sara Lindström and Ida Uvaas) have invited four artists from different parts of Europe to challenge their creative process and share a common song track as a springboard for creation. [FEVER] is the result of their collaboration: 5 individual responses to a single starting point; 5 cover versions, with performance as their medium of expression.

• StopGAP Dance Company

  June 17th 2010 - June 17th 2010

  • Dance

  A double-bill by two internationally recognised male choreographers. Thomas Noone’s Splinter,directed by Rob Tannion (Stan Won’t Dance) is dance theatre that strikes at the heart of the struggle. Driven by Jim Pinchen’s thunderous Japanese soundscape StopGAP’s five dancers split at the seams, hungrily devouring the dance. Thrown into another world will the group subsist or splinter? StopGAP’s performances have inspired audiences across Europe.

• Monologueslam

  July 5th 2010 - July 5th 2010

  • Drama

  Monologueslam is the ultimate actors showcase- up to 30 actors compete in 3 rounds of competition in front of an industry panel of judges. The actors perform monologues of their choice in 1 minute - with a 2 minute improv added in to get the audience involved! A great night of performance from some of the UK's hidden acting talent to reveal one overall winner! For further information please visit www.monologueslam.com.

• Revolution! by Shoreditch Youth Dance Company

  July 6th 2010 - July 6th 2010

  • Dance

  Shoreditch Youth Dance Company is a contemporary based performance company that offers 14 to 20 year olds the opportunity to work with professional teachers and choreographers. As well as encouraging creative skills within dance we provide guidance and advice on individual progression routes.

  Situated in the diverse East end of London (boroughs of Hackney and Tower Hamlets) SYD was founded in January 2010 by artistic director Lee Smikle.

• Justin Fashanu In Extra Time

  July 8th 2010 - July 10th 2010

  • Drama

  Born in 1961, Justin Fashanu was brought up by foster parents and by the children’s charity Barnardos. At 14 he signed schoolboy forms with Norwich City FC, where he progressed through the ranks and played for the first team when he was in his late teens. His 1980 volley against Liverpool was the goal of the season and still claims its place in football’s all time great moments. The following year, he was signed by Brian Clough and joined Nottingham Forest for one million pounds. He would go on to find fame and notoriety as the first openly gay black million pound footballer. Sadly, he would end his own life at the age of 37.

• Shatterbox: Fair Trade

  July 22nd 2010 - July 25th 2010

  • Drama

  Directed by Lotte Wakeham, Fair Trade bears witness to the remarkable lives of two very different female survivors of the sex slave trade. The story of their journeys - from their separate home countries to London - is told in a powerfully honest and unsentimental way.

  Fair Trade was inspired by the ‘Journey Against Sex Trafficking’ campaign, aimed to help bring the reality of the sex trade industry to the forefront of social consciousness and empower people to take action against it. Interviewing two incredible survivors of trafficking deeply affected both Anna Holbek and Shelley Davenport (who together founded Shatterbox and wrote Fair Trade). The company have developed a play that not only honestly tells the survivors’ stories, but that also uses humour, music and dance to bring emphasis to the subject matter, thus creating a genuinely exciting but thought-provoking piece of theatre.

• Call Mr Robeson: A life, with songs

  July 29th 2010 - July 31st 2010

  • Drama
  • Musical

  “They say I’m meddling in the foreign affairs of the foreign affairs of the United States Government. Now, that’s too bad, cause I’m going to have to continue to meddle...”

  Paul Robeson is a world famous actor, singer and civil rights campaigner.

  When over the years he gets progressively too radical and outspoken for the establishment's liking, he is branded a traitor to his country, harassed, and denied opportunities to perform or travel.

  Just as physical, emotional and mental stress threaten to push him over the fine line between genius and madness, he is summoned to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee, to give the most difficult and important performance of his career.

  The play is a roller coaster journey through Robeson’s remarkable and eventful life, and highlights how his radical activism caused him to be disowned and disremembered, even by the leaders and descendants of the civil rights movement. It features some of his famous songs and speeches, including a dramatic rendition of Ol’ Man River.

• Monologueslam

  August 2nd 2010 - August 2nd 2010

  • Drama

  Monologueslam is the ultimate actors showcase- up to 30 actors compete in 3 rounds of competition in front of an industry panel of judges. The actors perform monologues of their choice in 1 minute - with a 2 minute improv added in to get the audience involved! A great night of performance from some of the UK's hidden acting talent to reveal one overall winner! For further information please visit www.monologueslam.com.

• ResurGENTs – The Reappearance of Hope!

  August 5th 2010 - August 7th 2010

  • Drama
  • Dance
  • Physical theatre

  Goldrush Entertainment’s GETheatre Collective brings you...ResurGENTS – The Renaissance of Hope! From New York USA!

  For the past three years the Choreopoem, "Black Man Rising" has been touring and performing (4 Audelco Awards for Black Theatre Excellence and two time Mainstage Performers, 2007 & 2009 at the National Black Theatre Festival in Winston Salem. USA)

  The Creative team that brought you "Black Man Rising" is back with a new choreopoem, "ResurGENTs". This Choreopoem explores the rise of the Renaissance Black Man and his place in the world in the geo-political era of President Barack Obama. In the vein of Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls who have considered suicide when the Rainbow is enuff"; Poetry, monologues, singing and dancing the highs and lows of the new Black Male , (who really isn't that new at all), from Slavery to the present, in his relationships, politics, leaving a history and weaving a legacy, ResurGENTS expands and tackles our world at large.

• Vakomana Vaviri ve Zimbabwe or Two Gentlemen of Verona

  August 13th 2010 - August 14th 2010

  • Drama

  From Verona to Milan, via Harare and Bulawayo, two great friends, Valentine and Proteus, vie for the love of the same woman. When Valentine is banished, their friendship is threatened and only through disguise, deception and intrigue are they reconciled.

  In a broad, loud, triumphantly energetic 'township' style the two actors slip into all of the play's fifteen characters ? from amorous suitors to sullen daughters, depressed servants and even a dog!

  Using little to no props, a few items of clothing and a set that consists of no more than a trunk, the actors explore the text's nuances from a distinctly Zimbabwean perspective, bringing Shakespeare's verse to life in new and unfamiliar cadences.

  With a watchful eye, great intuition and comic timing, the actors draw the audience into the action and create a soulful and engaging theatrical experience not to be missed.