Based on the novel by Klaus Mann, Adapted by Ariane Mnouchkine, Translated by Timberlake Wertenbaker Heart Sleeve Productions, Oxford University, UK Hendrik is an ambitious actor in the cut-throat world of German theatre. As the Nazis gain control life becomes increasingly dangerous for hisPeppermill cabaret with its Jewish and socialist actors. When Hendrik is offered the [...]
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By Dean Graham My Son Tristan, University of Lincoln, UK Violence, vice and dubstep fuel this grimy, urban thriller. A dark, comic journey, illuminated by vibrant characters, vigorous dialogue and a gripping, electric plot. Gaius is trying to make a better life for himself and his drug-addicted girlfriend, Venia, carrying out highwayman-like heists on passing [...]
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By Lucy Flack & Laura White The Miskin Theatre Company, North West Kent College- Dartford, UK We are your Brother, Your Sister, Your Mother, your Father, the man across the street. Wooden racks filled with Suitcases. Men’son the left, Women’s on the right. Labelled and covered with layers of birds droppings. A secret history, untouched [...]
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Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Hugh Wheeler from an adaptation by Christopher Bond Newcastle University Theatre Society, Newcastle University, UK Revenge is a dish best served cold for wronged barber Sweeney Todd, who seeks retribution for the loss of his family. With those who maligned him still at large, Todd sets about [...]
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By Thornton Wilder translated by Irakli Samsonadze Shota Rustaveli Theatre& Film State University, Georgia United States. Years of Great Depression. Two vagrants (man and woman) sneak into abandoned salon. They are preparing for overnight stay. Woman reminiscing about past times, her youth, her mother – town Grover’s Corners in New Hampshire. It’s cold. Man and [...]
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By Juro Miyoshi Bokutachi Watashitachi, New National Theatre Drama Studio Who are the Japanese of today? We went on a search for a hint to answer this big question, motivated also by the tsunami and nuclear disaster of last year. Can we also approach the essence of Man’s nature? Looking into the literature of the [...]
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By Richard Aczel Port in Air, University of Cologne, Germany Two couples, moderately unfaithful, moderately unhappy clash verbally at high speed. Gridlocked in the language of home decoration, they long for something new. It’s time to change the wallpaper, but they live, breathe and speak through its patterns. Every change is just another kind of [...]
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By Nadav Fridman Kibbutzim College, Tel Aviv, Israel Nadav is wounded badly in his military service. What happened to a man who tries to get back to normality when nothing is normal. A rare glimpse to a wounded soul, who struggles getting back to life, especially when intimacy appears. An exciting personal story about dealing [...]
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Allow ‘The Hot Air Ballues’ to take you back in time to their first (and strangest) gig as a trio. The Fenwick brothers have just buried their father, and fraternal tensions are high as they toast his memory in a Dorset country pub.
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If Room Enough transports you into a world where Shakespeare’s play: The Tempest, can be ‘played’ with. It is an intimate and dynamic theatre where characters are suspended in sleep and fall in love in and out of drawers.
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