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  • Archived Events/ Spring 2019

    Figs in Wigs

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    Often on Stage

    Thu 28 Feb 7.30pm | Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 16+

    Figs in Wigs are often onstage but how did we get here and how do we leave?

    Often Onstage is an offbeat facetious romp that explores the ins and outs of theatre through the medium of dance. Expect nods to the new, bows to the bard, blood baths and drag kings. With one step forward and two hundred steps back, this choreographic exercise in comings and goings gleefully disrupts traditional theatrical conventions.. unearthing dormant anxieties about life choices along the way.

    What if the only thing keeping you going are inspirational quotes and a subsidised income from your side project as a Backstreet Boys tribute act? It’s only a matter of time before we sell out, and we don’t mean tickets.

    “There is a life-affirming joyfulness to their routines, which fuse a happy daftness with more formally complex and layered repetitions.”
    Total Theatre

    “Colourful, irreverent and unashamedly daft”
    “pitch-perfect mimicry and humorously questionable dancing”
    Exeunt

    www.figsinwigs.com

    Image credit: Rosie Collins
  • Archived Events/ Spring 2019

    Lîla Dance

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    The Hotel Experience

    Thu 14 Mar 7.30pm | Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 12+

    A man checks into a hotel the night before his wedding, unaware that things may not be as they seem.

    As the clock ticks the walls around him seem to blur and dissolve. As fragments of his memories begin to tumble into the room, the hotel staff are transformed into past friends and lovers as they step through the walls and into his Hotel Experience. They fall from the ceilings, crawl out from under the bed and step out of wardrobes to face him once more with full force and in vivid colours. His stay becomes a night of doubt, hope, crisis, and unexpected encounters. When the sun rises, he has an important decision to make.

    Check-in to your local venue to watch your friends and family guest star alongside our four mesmerising dancers in this extraordinary night of dance. Come and find out why Lîla Dance are rapidly becoming one of Britain’s fastest growing dance companies, with a reputation for redefining community involvement in professional productions.

    www.liladance.co.uk

    Image credit: Dougie Evans
  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2018

    Liz Aggiss

    Liz Aggiss - SLAP & TICKLE

    Slap and Tickle

    Thu 27 Sep 7.30pm | Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 16+

    Maverick, anarchic, indomitable and fearless: all words that have been used to describe performance artist Liz Aggiss. Born in an era when children were seen and not heard, Liz never had a clue what she wanted to do. She just knew she wanted to be seen and heard.

    Slap and Tickle is an award winning, dark and ribald physical commentary on cultural mores and sexual taboos: a disorientating display of interpretations and contradictions about women, girls, mothers, bitches and senior citizens. Beating a path through the personal and historical, Aggiss creates a feminist soup that lurches from spoken word to expressionist movement, from music hall to radio nostalgia, from costume change to prop manipulation. SLAP AND TICKLE won a Total Theatre Award Edinburgh Festival 2017. Come on everybody lets have a party!

    BOOK NOW

    “The hilarious tickle never undermines the serious slap in this solo – sheer brilliance”

    Mary Brennan, The Glasgow Herald

    “Slap and Tickle is a pointed and bawdily funny exploration of what it means to refuse to act your age”

    Lyn Gardner, theguardian.com

    www.lizaggiss.com

    Image credit: Joe Murray
  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2018

    Rachel Mars

    Rachel Mars

    Our Carnal Hearts

    Thu 11 Oct 7.30pm | Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 16+

    A Welcome! To you and to me and our spikey, sticky, shameful bits!

    With a raucous chorus of original music, award-winning theatre maker Rachel Mars and four belting female singers bring you a gleeful, dark show about the hidden workings of envy. Part symphony, part exorcism, Our Carnal Hearts is a thrilling and murky celebration of desire, competition and all the times we screw each other over. Performed with a surround-sound choral score by Louise Mothersole, Our Carnal Hearts comes to the ShowRoom after sell outs across the UK and US and a Total Theatre Award.

    BOOK NOW

    “Wickedly funny… soothing and sharp-edged at the same time” ★★★★

    The Stage

    “Not just honest… very funny, too, and streaked with regret” ★★★★

    Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

    “Deeply engaging… beautifully blends together mundane normality and phantasmal spectacle” ★★★★

    Broadway Baby

    WINNER: Total Theatre Award 2017

    www.rachelmars.org

    Image credit: Claire Haigh