LEVIATHAN follows Ahab, a ship captain hell-bent on capturing the white whale: Moby Dick, a beast as vast and dangerous as the sea itself, yet serene and beautiful beyond all imagining. Ahab’s crew are drawn into the unhinged charisma of their captain, blindly following him on his perilous adventure towards almost certain destruction.
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Clouds of haze and crumbling walls of transcendent noise, KISSING THE SHOTGUN GOODNIGHT is a neo-noir fever dream and 120 decibel suicide note. A juggernaut of music-theatre. Three musicians, piano corpses and the sci-fi poetry of a disembodied voice. A nocturnal meditation crooned into the swollen abyss. Soothing drones and crushing metal, swamps of feedback and pools of reverb, clattering rhythms and throbbing bass. A return to the womb for those who wish they could crawl back inside mother to hide.
Supported by Arts Council England. Originally commissioned by Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Cambridge Junction, Ovalhouse, Theatre in the Mill, and Theatr Iolo. With thanks to Hackney Showroom.
WhatsOnStage ★ ★ ★ ★
‘a hallucinatory journey of dark intensity…a total, immersive sensory experience…a burning-up roar’
The Stage ★ ★ ★
‘a thumping industrial noise-scape, a sensory onslaught…’
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Izindava is dynamic, bold and breath-taking to watch.
Bawren Tavaziva’s new work explores human fragility within our changing world.
Beautiful yet haunting and provocative, Izindava unearths raw emotions that are unsettling and unforgettable.
Bawren’s unbridled and intricate movement synthesises ballet, contemporary and African dance styles and is performed by a cast of stunning dancers with a film-scape of street life in Harare.
Izindava translates as ‘news’ in the Zimbabwean language Shona.
The dancers are DYNAMITE
The Guardian, Africarmen
Tavaziva’s facility for devising hot, liquid motion is indisputable… His seven strong cast is sharp, swift and superbly fit
The Times, Africarmen
Former Cando and Jasmin Vardimon Company dancer Victoria Fox Marciewkz previews her new work Still I Rise. Raw and energetic dance combined with instinctual physicality inspired by the powerful and defiant words of Maya Angelou’s poem of the same name.
Five daring female dancers begin a journey of simmering unison, restless duets and tender solos all performed with a gut-wrenching power. Pounding rhythms drive the movement and create an intense stark world where hope dies last. Falling down, gathering up…we rise.
visceral and fearless, this is uncommonly intelligent work
Kate Larsen
packed with both physical invention and emotional intensity
Sanjay Roy
Supported by Arts Council England Grants for the Arts
We Are Brontë is a piece of comic visual theatre inspired by the real and imaginary worlds of Yorkshire’s literary siblings, presented in Publick Transport’s playful and irreverent style. Physical theatre collides with stand-up, clowning and improvisation as two performers deconstruct not only gothic themes of love, madness, repression and revenge, but also themselves. Part play, part enquiry into the act of putting on a play, this promises to be no ordinary Brontë adaptation.
Created and performed by Angus Barr and Sarah Corbett.
Directed by Ed Rapley.
a mini comedic masterpiece…ambitious, risk-taking, edgy, just downright different.
★★★★★ StageTalk Magazine
masters of their art
★★★★ The Scotsman