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Tortoise in a Nutshell with Cumbernauld Theatre

Feral

Thu 9 Oct | 7.30pm | Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 12+

Combining puppetry, immersive soundscapes and multimedia technology, the multi award-winning company Tortoise in a Nutshell build an entire world in front of the audience’s eyes. With barely a word spoken, Joe looks back at his childhood home and traces its journey from idyllic seaside town to community gripped by anarchy. Feral is a Fringe First Award winner, Total Theatre Award nominee and Edinburgh Festival sell-out show.

Supported by Arts Council England

“Mesmeringly inventive… technically, visually, aurally and politically, it’s a tremendous show”
★★★★ The Scotsman.

www.showandtelluk.com/feral

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Sleeping Trees

MAFIA?

Thu 25 Sep | 7.30pm | Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 15+

Last year John and Josh of Sleeping Trees, realised James had never watched The Godfather. After watching parts one and two in quick succession, James then decided he was going to leave the world of theatre to become a real life Sicilian gangster.

This show is the compromise.

Award winning comedy-theatre makers Sleeping Trees, join forces with Brighton based Physics House Band to create a live gangster film, complete with an unrelenting live score, soundscape fuelled shoot outs and lashings of hair cream.

“Through hysterical repetition, this show teaches you one thing: there’s a common theme in gangster films, and that is that everyone seems to spend most of their time killing each other. Luckily for us, in this show we spend most of our time killing ourselves laughing instead”
Jesse Thompson, IdeasTap 2014.

www.sleepingtreestheatre.co.uk

Archived Events/ Autumn 2014

Action Hero

Hoke’s Bluff

Thu 16 Oct | 8.00pm | Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 16+

Everything rests on this one free throw. On this one last shot. On this power play. On these last few seconds. Action Hero have got their game faces on. Bring it.

With a nostalgic yearning for the simplicity of a world that never really existed, Hoke’s Bluff meets its audience on the bleachers and tells them an underdog story that’s been told a million times before. By shifting and rearranging the trite narratives of high school storylines and inspiring locker room speeches, Action Hero use hackneyed formulas and cheap sentimentality to find out what it means to be a winner (on the inside).

Co-produced by China Plate and Warwick Arts Centre. Co-commissioned by Bristol Old Vic Ferment. Funded by Arts Council England. Action Hero are supported by Theatre Bristol’s Company Producer.

“The key to the show’s success is that it is all done with love. A very clever piece of theatre; a cracking night out”
Total Theatre

www.actionhero.org.uk,

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Archived Events/ Spring 2014

Dancing for Tony 2014

A Contemporary Dance Gala

Sunday 18 May 2014, 3.30pm

Cakes, Raffle and a Collection for St Wilfrid’s Hospice.

Tickets: £15 (Concessions £5).

Programme Includes:

Tanc: Volta
Bournonville: Flower Festival at Genzano pas de deux
Slaughter: inspired by ‘Life of Pi’
Aggiss: Cut with a kitchen knife
Chinese Folk Dance: film
Susan Legg, mezzo-soprano: Songs for the Spirit

Archived Events/ Spring 2014

mapdance

mapdance14

Thu 8 May 7.30pm Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 16+

An exciting company of young, dynamic dancers recruited nationally and internationally mapdance performs diverse repertoire by renowned and upcoming contemporary choreographers. This year the company is performing new commissions from Gary Clarke, Kerry Nicholls, Liz Aggiss, Hagit Bar as well as re-staging a work by artistic director Yael Flexer. This mixed bill offers a unique/refreshing combination of dance theatre, fast-paced athleticism and wry humour.

“A disarming potency, and an unapologetic, almost desperate yet liberating desire to hit
us between the eyes, in the heart, the gut or lower down and, when possible, all at once”
Donald Hutera – londondance.com on XX by Nigel Charnock, mapdance 2013.

www.mapdance.org

Archived Events/ Spring 2014

Sam Halmarack

Sam Halmarack & The Miserablites

Thu 1 May 6.00pm & 8.30pm | Full £10 | Conc £6 | Limited spaces | Standing performance | Age 16+

Located somewhere between a theatre show and a stadium pop concert, Sam Halmarack & The Miserablites are the bombastic pioneers of interactive pop. Get ready for handclapping anthems and electro music to move and inspire. With songs, stories and a little help from you we will all come together to offer a unique take on what it means to be redeemed by music.

“Halmarack’s vulnerable little gem of a show drips with courage, comedy and open-handed honesty. A hero in the making”
Venue Magazine.

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Archived Events/ Spring 2014

GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN

Number 1, The Plaza

Thu 24 Apr 7.30pm Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 18+

Red front door. Gold number 1. Tiny peephole. Take a look around.

GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN want to open up and let you in. Right in. So you can really get a feeling for what it’s like on the inside. It’s an ‘evening with’ – conversation, songs, shit like that. Someone’s left a passive aggressive note on the kitchen table; it’s about entitlement, property and privacy. Welcome to the show home, everyone. Number 1, The Plaza is a souvenir album from a joyride through extravaganza, cabaret, reality, live art, theatre and filth.

Co-produced by: PACT Zollverein (Essen), Colchester Arts Centre and Cambridge Junction . Supported by: Arts Council England, wpZimmer (Antwerp), Almeida Theatre (London), The Performance Centre (Falmouth), The Point (Eastleigh), Cambridge Junction, Tom Thumb Theatre (Margate), New Wolsey (Ipswich), Roehampton University (London).
GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN is a 2013/14 Artsadmin Associate Artist.

This new show from GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN follows the huge success of Big Hits:
“Super-smart…and a willingness to push its terms to an extra level…I couldn’t take
my eyes off it” Matt Trueman, Culture Wars.