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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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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Five Names is the world premiere of this unpublished Howard Barker play where figures in five landscapes across history and mythology struggle against the circumscriptions of their identities. The performance seeks and wrestles for meaning within the challenging matrix of morality, sexuality and death which the theatre alone can offer.
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An original adaptation of Ryan Mecum’s book, Zombie Haiku follows the survivors of a zombie apocalypse through ruined houses, decimated cities and abandoned airports as they try to stay alive.
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Biologist Robert attempts to deliver a sex education lecture with his colleague, Christie, after a regular lecturer is involved in a traffic collision. Neurotic Robert struggles to cope with Christie’s cold, dismissive manner and the lecture hall’s lazy and apathetic technician, Julian. Robert’s naivety, uninformed perceptions of the opposite sex and perverse curiousness about ‘doing it’ gradually lead him towards an inevitable meltdown…
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It isn’t Stanley Webber’s birthday. At least, he’s pretty sure it isn’t. But if it isn’t his birthday, why have two strangers arrived to celebrate with him? What is this ‘guest house’ in Brighton, really? Is he really a pianist? Above all, who watered the wicket at Melbourne?
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