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Comedy and comics
Constance
Constance Genre: Comedy Drama Venue: King’s Head Theatre 115 Upper St Islington LONDON N1 1QN Low Down ...
Theatre Festival
Lost Theatre’s One Act Festival
The Lost Theatre’s twenty-six-year history of producing its one-act festival marks its importance as a company that has tirelessly supported the development of new writing and young performing artists. The process that begins in March and leads onto the Winner’s Week in September is quintessential ‘fringe theatre’ in its nurturing of young talent.
Physical Theatre
The Amazing Vancetti Sisters
The Amazing Vancetti Sisters Genre: Drama Venue: Tristan Bates Theatre 1A Tower St, Covent Garden WC2H 9NP Low ...
Featured Into Shakespeare
The Tempest
Antic Disposition’s Tempest marks the 400th anniversary of the first recorded performance of the play before James I at Whitehall Palace in 1611. While that venue now no longer exists, the Middle Temple Hall’s direct link to another first performance of a Shakespearean play, Twelfth Night, in 1602, is crucial for maintaining historic and artistic links between the 2011 production and the Elizabethan theatre.
Comedy and comics
The Conspirators
The Conspirators Genre: Comedy Drama Venue: Orange Tree Theatre, 1 Clarence Street, Richmond, Surrey TW9 2SA Low ...
Comedy and comics
Wittenberg
Wittenberg Genre: Comedy Drama Venue: The Gate Theatre (Above the Prince Albert Pub) 11 Pembridge Road, London, W11 3HQ ...
Audience Development
Seemingly Invisible
Seemingly Invisible Genre: Puppetry Venue: Blue Elephant Theatre 59a Bethwin Rd (entrance in Thompson’s Ave) Camberwell London SE5 0XT ...
Children's Theatre
Snow White
Camden Fringe 2011 Genre: Children’s Theatre Venue: Shaw Theatre 100-110 Euston Road. London NW1 2AJ ...
Musical Theatre
Mae Naak
Opera Siam’s European premiere production of Mae Naak at the Bloomsbury last night, by composer and librettist Somtow Sucharitkul (aka S. P Sowtow), proves that it continues to engage audiences all around the world. First staged in 2003, it is a stunning work that fuses a European operatic style with Thai folkloric music. Arguably, such a synthesis reflects the global experiences of S. P. Sowtow himself, whose English scholarship (he was educated at Eton and Cambridge) and links to English musical traditions seems to have been successfully negotiated with his role as founder of the Bangkok Opera and the Siam Philharmonic.
Comedy and comics Featured
Waiting for Godot, Haymarket Theatre 2009
As an unknown theatre historian who had come to London to re-think her own place in teaching, researching and creating theatre, I am excited at the prospect of seeing the 2009 production of Waiting For Godot. The £47 I spend on the tickets is the most I’ve ever spent on tickets. I read the reviews and seeing the favourable reactions, I conclude that it must be a monumental interpretation of a most challenging play. I so set off to see how four notable performers deal with the central problem which the play presents for actors of not acting, of doing nothing but wait.
