• Archived Events/ Autumn 2017

    Tribe

    Tribe Dance Image Credit – Harry Cauty

    Still I Rise

    THU 5 OCT 2017 | Full £10 Conc £6 | 7.30pm | AGE 14 +

    tribe dance by harry cautyFormer 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

    www.tribecompany.co.uk

    Image Credit – Harry Cauty
  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2017

    Niv Sheinfeld & Oren Laor

    Two Room Apartment photo-gadi-dagon

    Two Room Apartment

    THU 12 OCT | Full £10 Conc £6 | 7.30pm | AGE 15 plus

    Niv Sheinfeld & Oren Laor by gadi dagonTwo Room Apartment brings Sheinfeld & Laor to the stage for a duet that reflects on their relationship as partners in life and as creators. Both personal and political, the work examines boundaries in various contexts: physical borders such as between territories or between two rooms, but also non-physical borders, such as the one between life and performance, and the boundaries that the individual sets for himself. The work uses a simple dance language and a minimalist aesthetic, and explores the notion of life as a framework in which a precise, almost compulsive repetition of customs and behaviours takes place.

    The work suggests a re-imagining of the original performance created by Liat Dror and Nir Ben Gal that premiered in 1987 in Tel-Aviv. It is considered a milestone in the development of independent Israeli choreography.

    Everything is open, accessible. Niv and Oren imbued the work with their intimate relationship and emotions, and the result is fascinating.
    Ora Brafman, Dance Talk

    Image Credit – Gadi Dagon
  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2017

    Publick Transport

    We Are Bronte - image by Alex Brenner

    We Are Bronte

    THU 16 NOV 2017 |Full £10 Conc £6 |7.30pm |AGE 15 plus

    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

    www.chezbarr.f2s.com

    Image credit – Alex Brenner
  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2017

    Jamal Harewood

    Jamal Harewood Word image tara-yarahmadi

    Word

    THU 30 NOV 2017 | Full £10 Conc £6 | 7.30pm | AGE 18 plus

    They’re pretty special. They give a person the opportunity to express themselves. They can be read. They can be heard. They can be spoken. They allow us to communicate. I was always told that it’s not what you say, but how you say it – is this true?

    Become the contestant or host in an audience led gameshow that holds a magnifying glass up to the words we use daily.

    Word is a 2016 Spring Festival co-commission recipient; with additional support from Battersea Arts Centre, Theatre Delicatessen Sheffield, Stratford Circus Arts Centre, the University of Chichester & the Arts Council England National Lottery fund.

    Crucially discomforting
    Megan Vaughan

    www.harewooo.com

  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2016

    Paines Plough and Pentabus Theatre Company

    every brilliant thing

    Every Brilliant Thing

    Thu 22 Sep 7.30pm Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 12+ (limited seating)

    By Duncan Macmillan
    With Jonny Donahoe
    Directed by George Perrin

    You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s ‘done something stupid’. She finds it hard to be happy.
    So you start to make a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world. Everything that’s worth living for.

    1. Ice cream
    2. Kung Fu movies
    3. Burning things
    4. Laughing so hard you shoot milk out your nose
    5. Construction cranes
    6. Me

    You leave it on her pillow. You know she’s read it because she’s corrected your spelling. Soon, the list will take on a life of its own. A new play about depression and the lengths we will go to for those we love. Based on true and untrue stories.

    Tickets:
    Due to limited capacity this performance will only be selling tickets at the box office on the night of the event.

    Every Brilliant Thing is supported by Anne McMeehan and Jim Roberts and was developed with the support of nabokov and the Jersey Arts Trust.

    “Heart-wrenching, hilarious…possibly one of the funniest plays you’ll ever see”
    The Guardian

    www.painesplough.com | @painesplough | www.pentabus.co.uk | @PentabusTheatre