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    The Tricycle Theatre aims to be a successful and accessible theatre, cinema and art gallery providing an artistic programme of the highest quality that attracts and reflects the culturally diverse local community; as well as supporting socially inclusive educational programmes.

    Since it opened in a converted Forester’s Hall in 1980, the Tricycle has become one of London’s most respected and loved theatres. It produces a challenging and innovative programme of theatre, cinema and visual arts attracting the local community and audiences from far beyond its home on the Kilburn High Road.

    Under its director Nicolas Kent the theatre has earned a reputation for presenting work which reflects the cultural diversity of its neighbourhood, in particular plays by Irish, African-Caribbean, Jewish and Asian writers, as well as responding to contemporary issues and events with its ground-breaking ‘tribunal plays’.

    In 2006, the Tricycle was presented with a Laurence Olivier Award for “outstanding achievement ” for BLOODY SUNDAY.

    The most recent play in the Tribunal series was CALLED TO ACCOUNT, which also broadcast on BBC Radio in July 2007.

    The Tricycle has clubbed together with 11 of London’s most exciting theatres to offer you and your mates lots of ‘nights less ordinary’ across the capital.

    The Almeida Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre, Bush Theatre, Donmar Warehouse, Greenwich Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith, Royal Court, Soho Theatre, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Tricycle Theatre and the Young Vic have joined up to offer under 26’s a huge choice of truly great nights out at the theatre.

    Through this group, you can discover some of the best performances that London has to offer, from up-and-coming new talent and stage and screen’s most famous faces. These theatres also have some of the most stylish cafes and buzzing bars in town - great for hanging out with your friends, people-watching and star-spotting.

    There will be free tickets on offer for at least one of the theatres in the group almost every night of the week. Once you’ve taken up a free ticket at one of the theatres, you can either:

    a) Get a free ticket at another of the theatres listed in this group b) Take advantage of the theatre’s other special offers for young people. c) Or take advantage of the discounts for people 25 and under available at all of these theatres – which will be no more than £10 each and as little as £3 at some.

    Address:269 Kilburn High Road
    London

    Currently showing:

    • Karoo Moose

      June 16th 2009 - July 11th 2009

      • Drama
      • Musical
      • Physical theatre

      Winner of 14 top South African Awards, including Best New South African Play and Best Production by South Africa’s Naledi Theatre Awards

      In a remote and impoverished village in the Karoo, a young girl, Thozama, struggles to survive. A violent, terrifying incident and a chance encounter with an escaped moose change her life for ever. Karoo Moose by Lara Foot Newton is a story of pain, redemption and hope, combining traditional African story-telling and magical realism.

      Press

      ‘A gem of a play from South Africa….touching, imaginative and blessed with a unique flavour of its own. … There is spellbinding South African singing, and the movement is almost balletic. The cast play a wide variety of roles with panache but Chuma Sopotela is outstanding as Thozama, beautifully communicating the character’s pain and moments of fierce joy…. this deeply felt, constantly imaginative production richly rewards alert attention.’ Daily Telegraph

      ‘Lara Foot Newton’s play is a 90-minute miracle…(she) directs her play with vigour, delicacy, and a mastery of storytelling and a sense of harsh but benevolent humour…Six actors, bristling with versatility, play all the parts telling and acting their story, and Patrick Curtis’s set uses primitive objects with beautiful sophistication. Real and magical’ Sunday Times

      “Karoo Moose is certainly funny (and fun), generously energetic yet also disturbing and soulful….the whole cast is strong” Evening Standard

      ‘A vibrant and physical African export worth seeing’ London Paper

      ‘Mixes African storytelling with magic realism in a way that is fresh, immediate and often delightful’ The Guardian

    Forthcoming:

    • KOOS SAS: Last Bushman of Montagu - a David Kramer Musical

      July 14th 2009 - August 1st 2009

      • Drama
      • Musical

      Performed in Afrikaans with English surtitles

      David Kramer’s Koos Sas tells the story of the notorious and infamous Khoisan, Koos Sas who was accused of murdering a shopkeeper in Montagu, South Africa in 1917.

      In this musical work, Kramer re-imagines Koos Sas as a rebellious hero – a thorn in the side of the farmers and the state – who refused to accept that the veld where his ancestors had lived for thousands of years could belong to anyone. Shot as an outlaw, he was the last of what the authorities considered to be “bushmen robbers” of the previous century. It is a love story played out against the background of racism and subjugation, in a time when European trade in human remains was commonplace.

      From the award winning company that brought you Kat and the Kings and Ghoema: Spice Drum Beat.

      ‘Inventive, layered and beautifully executed work.’ Fleur du Cap Awards ‘Gutsy… movingly celebrates pre-industrial innocence. Kramer preserving treasures of musical anthropology.’ The South African (UK)

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