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HAMPSTEAD THEATRE
Eton Avenue
Swiss Cottage
LONDON NW3 3TU
BOX OFFICE: 020 7722 9301
website: www.hampsteadtheatre.com
for what's playing !!
THE BUSH THEATRE
Shepherds Bush Green, London W12
BOX OFFICE: 020 7610 4224
e-mail: info@bushtheatre.co.uk
www.bushtheatre.co.uk (no booking fee)
The Bush Theatre is above the O'Neill's pub on the corner of
Shepherds Bush Green and Goldhawk Road W12
The Bush box office is on 020 7610 4224. Online booking at www.bushtheatre.co.uk
THE LYRIC THEATRE
King's Street
Hammersmith
BOX OFFICE: 08700 500 511
Spring/Summer 2008 Season at the Lyric Hammersmith
This spring, we're delighted to announce a fresh and thrilling international season as we celebrate two of the great radicals of 20th century European theatre, Bertolt Brecht and, in a unique birthday anniversary, Harold Pinter, and team up with today's most pioneering companies and artists from the UK, Zimbabwe, Iceland and the USA. Throughout the programme The Lyric continues to reinvent theatre and explore what the live experience can be.
Season highlights include:
· Lyric Artistic Director David Farr and Zimbabwean actor Lucian Msamati join forces to reinvent Brecht's hilarious and terrifying The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui in modern-day Africa
· 50 years to the day after Harold Pinter's masterpiece The Birthday Party premiered at the Lyric, David Farr directs a special fiftieth anniversary production
· After the smash hit success of Metamorphosis, Vesturport's Gísli Örn Gardarsson returns to the Lyric to present Love - a joyous romantic musical set in an old people's home with modern love songs
· A major hit in New York in 2006, The Seven is American writer Will Power and choreographer Bill T Jones' thrilling new version of Aeschylus's The Seven Amongst Thebes set on the gangland streets of a modern city
· Founder member of Shunt, David Rosenberg creates Contains Violence - a unique site-specific performance on the Lyric terrace using breakthrough audio-technology and buildings on the Hammersmith skyline
· In the Studio, multi-media theatre company Lightwork present Sarajevo Story, based on real-life events from the Bosnian war crimes court. DJ and performer Charlie Dark joins forces with B-boy theatre pioneer Benji Reid in Have Box Will Travel and Cartoon de Salvo blend storytelling, script-defying impro and live music to create Hard Hearted Hannah & Other Stories
· Following the launch of last season's Sunday Comedy Nights, Richard Herring returns to host another stellar line-up of stand-up comedians
In this acclaimed, spine-tingling production, Kafka's world of mental aberration and social alienation is conjured with daring aerial physicality, combining a mind-bending, gravity-defying split-level and original score by world-renowned musician and lyricist, Nick Cave and long time collaborator Warren Ellis.
Contains Violence
By David Rosenberg
27 March - 26 April
Press night: Wed 2 April, 8pm
Behind each lit window there will be some tragedies. Most of these we claim no responsibility for, but there are two windows we should not ignore.
Contains Violence is a contemporary Hitchcock-style thriller where events unfold in windows on the Hammersmith skyline, seen and heard from the Lyric terrace.
This unique site-specific performance uses breakthrough audio-technology, through which audience members hear each whisper, secret and threat just as clearly as if they were in the same room. Part mystery, part peepshow, Contains Violence is a dark and surreal snapshot of the secret lives of others.
David is a founder member of Shunt, whose work includes Dance Bear Dance, Tropicana and Amato Saltone.
The Seven
Created by Will Power after Aeschylus
9 April - 3 May
Press night: Wed 16 April, 7.30pm
Cursed by their father, two inseparable brothers are forced to fight for the throne of Thebes. But are they strong enough to avoid bloodshed on the city's streets and to take fate into their own hands?
The Seven was a huge hit at the New York Theatre Workshop in 2006. American spoken word artist Will Power creates a vibrant new version of Aeschylus's The Seven Amongst Thebes - a story of a family at war and the arrival on the streets of gang warfare.
The Seven fuses together rap, 1970's funk, R&B, gospel, the blues and choreography from the legendary Bill T Jones to produce a compelling, high-octane performance that speaks of gang warfare in American cities today.
The 50th Anniversary production of
The Birthday Party
By Harold Pinter
Directed by David Farr
8 - 24 May
Press night: Mon 12 May, 7.30pm
On May 19th 1958 Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party premiered at the Lyric Hammersmith - and received almost universally negative reviews, playing to empty houses for just eight performances. Only one critic, Harold Hobson, praised the piece and celebrated Pinter as a voice for the future.
Fifty years later the play is now regarded as one of the undisputed classics of post-war drama, and Harold Pinter is considered as the world's greatest living playwright, having been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005.
The Lyric celebrates the birthday of The Birthday Party in a new fiftieth anniversary production directed by Artistic Director David Farr, which coincides with the exact dates of the original.
Stanley is lying low at a run-down Guest House on the South Coast, with the slightly unwelcome attentions of his landlady as his only distractions. Then the house receives a visit from two men - Goldberg and McCann - who have come to fetch him back.
Harold Pinter's mastery of quiet menace is already in full evidence in this early masterpiece as The Birthday Party grows in suspense to an ultimately terrifying conclusion.
Love
Written by Vesturport's Gísli Örn Gardarsson and Vikingur Kristjánsson
Adapted by David Farr
Directed by Gísli Örn Gardarsson
28 May - 21 June
Press night: Tues 3rd June, 7.30pm
'It started with a kiss…never thought it would come to this…'
The team behind the smash hit Metamorphosis return with something very different - a heart-warming romantic musical set in an old people's home. Love celebrates the passion of two elderly people who find love right at the end of their lives, and sing about it!
Neville is 80 and slowly wasting away in an unremarkable care home in a small English town. His life seems to be heading for a predictable end until Margaret is brought into the home by her son for a short stay. Margaret, 78 and terrified of what will happen to her, meets Neville over tea and singing, and their lives change forever. Then Neville suggests they escape for a night out on the town…
With tunes from modern pop songs, Love is a joyous and touching summer celebration of the timeless rejuvenating power of romantic passion.
In the Studio
Sarajevo Story
Created by Lightwork
26 Feb - 15 March
Press night: Thurs 28 Feb, 8pm
Barbara is an American judge serving in the Bosnian war crimes court in Sarajevo. Her husband is a London based artist who has recently been commissioned to create a soundscape for the Charles Bridge in Prague. Discovering unheard recordings from the trials he is caught in a moral dilemma that will push the boundaries of their relationship and test the realms of truth and justice.
Based on real life circumstances, Lightwork create a multimedia epic spanning the fault-lines of cultures, international politics and personal histories though video, sound and dance. Sarajevo Story is Lightwork's latest production following the acclaimed Here's What I Did with My Body One Day.
Have Box Will Travel
Written & performed by Charlie Dark
Created by Benji Reid
15 April - 3 May
Press night: Thurs 17 April, 8pm
Charlie Dark's new show is a rites of passage story of a music geek: from a bedroom in South London, round the world, and back again, with life changing tracks and slick direction from B-boy and hip hop theatre pioneer Benji Reid.
A dynamic part of the UK's poetry and performance scene as a writer, producer and DJ, Charlie Dark fuses Hip Hop beats, live on-stage mixing and hilarious stories about growing up as a struggling B-boy.
Hard Hearted Hannah and Other Stories
Created by Cartoon de Salvo
15 May - 7 June
Press night: Tues 20 May, 8pm
Part-gig, part-theatre, and a complete voyage of discovery, Cartoon de Salvo revive the lost art of the 'jug band', using souped-up washboards, guitars, banjos and cider jugs for bass. As audience members choose songs from a playlist, the Salvos will spin a yarn inspired by them. Every performance of this improvised show will be entirely unique.
One of the UK's most exciting theatre companies, Cartoon de Salvo have captivated audiences with their giddying cocktail of storytelling, script-defying impro and live music over the past 8 years. Hard Hearted Hannah and Other Stories is the latest freewheeling antic from the team behind hit comic romance Meat and Two Veg and 2005's outdoor theatre event, The Sunflower Plot.
Lyric Children
The Lyric presents a full line up of school holiday and Saturday shows in the Lyric Studio for very young children (from 3 months) through to 8 year-olds. Highlights this season include:
· Shadow Play 19 - 23 Feb
The internationally acclaimed Travelling Light creates a brand new show for young children. Inspired by the way children use play to investigate and understand the world around them, Shadow Play melds together a vibrant mix of music, dance, mime and design, taking audiences on a wondrous journey through a world of endless possibilities and infinite inspiration.
· Circus Minimus 8 - 12 April
Every family is a circus in lots of ways: toddling clowns, teenage lions, mums who spin plates and dads who fly by the seat of their pants. Growing, eating, sleeping and dreaming have all the fun of the fair. The innovative Lyngo Theatre puts everyday life in the spotlight, from the front garden and dining room and then to bed, diving into dreams and flying up to the stars and beyond.
· Little Red Things 28 - 31 May
A hit at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Gomito Productions bring together puppetry, live music, ensemble storytelling and dozens of Little Red Things in a theatrical storybook for children with insatiable imaginations. A fast paced magical adventure for anyone who wants to know where stories come from.
· Following the success of last years' event, the Lyric throws open its doors again on Saturday 12 July for the Summer Party - a free theatre festival for all the family.
Lyric Firsts 20 March - 21 June
The Lyric continues with its season of new works by theatre artists in their first stage of development, featuring Beachy Head from Analogue, the company behind the award-winning Mile End and Lifted from Hawaii-born performance artist Stacy Makishi. Lyric favourites, Anglo-Brazilian company Dende Collective return to the Lyric with a new stage adaptation of Macunaima and Sophie Woolley begins work on her latest show, Fight Face.
FULL DETAILS / TIMES OF PERFORMANCES / TICKET PRICES AND AVAILABILITY FROM
THE LYRIC BOX OFFICE: (020) 8741 2311
TRICYCLE THEATRE
269 Kilburn High Road
London NW6
BOX OFFICE: 020 7328 1000
SPRING 2008 AT THE TRICYCLE THEATRE
OUT OF JOINT PRESENTS DAVID EDGAR’S LATEST PLAY
TESTING THE ECHO
DIRECTED BY MATTHEW DUNSTER
SALLY KNYVETTE DIRECTS A COMPANY OF
PROFESSIONAL BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS AND JUDGES IN
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
THE LONDON THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS DYLAN THOMAS’
UNDER MILK WOOD
DIRECTED BY MALCOLM TAYLOR
TOBACCO FACTORY PRODUCTIONS AND IMAGINEER PRODUCTIONS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE TRICYCLE THEATRE PRESENT
CAROLINE HUNT’S PRODUCTION OF RON HUTCHINSON’S
TOPLESS MUM
MUSLIM AND JEWISH ARTS PRESENT
MUJU UPSTARTS FESTIVAL
PLUS
CLIVE STAFFORD-SMITH, VANESSA REDGRAVE, & PHILIPPE SANDS QC IN
FUNDRAISING EVENT
FOR REPRIEVE AND THE MEDICAL FOUNDATION FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE
OUT OF JOINT PRESENTS DAVID EDGAR’S LATEST PLAY
T E S T I N G T H E E C H O
Out of Joint will present David Edgar’s latest play, Testing the Echo, directed by Matthew Dunster. Testing the Echo runs at the Tricycle from 1 April – 3 May, with press night on 4 April. Designs are by Paul Wills with lighting by Philip Gladwell and sound by Ian Dickinson.
The cast is Teresa Banham, Kirsty Bushell, Sushil Chudasama, Farzana Dua Elahe, Ian Dunn, Robert Gwilym, Syrus Lowe and Sirine Saba.
Secretly, Tetyana wants to escape her marriage. Mahmood gets kidnapped for his own good. And the motley crew in Emma’s English class are all looking for something, whether it’s a passport – or a fight. As the day of their citizenship ceremony approaches, Emma’s students begin to challenge some of her dearest-held beliefs.
Max Stafford-Clark’s Out of Joint Company has played on six continents and has premiered plays by writers including Mark Ravenhill, David Hare, Alistair Beaton, Caryl Churchill, Sebastian Barry and Timberlake Wertenbaker.
SALLY KNYVETTE DIRECTS A COMPANY OF PROFESSIONAL BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS & JUDGES
T O K I L L A M O C K I N G B I R D
Sally Knyvette returns to the Tricycle to direct a company of professional barristers, solicitors and judges in Christopher Sergel’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird for six performances only. Running from 7 – 10 May, To Kill a Mockingbird will be presented as Benefit performances for the Tricycle’s new writing and education programmes. The designer is Rhiannon Newman Brown.
1930’s America and in a small town in the Deep South, lawyer Atticus Finch defends Tom Robinson, a man accused of rape. Atticus shows himself a man of integrity and risks his own and his family’s safety to do the right thing in the face of racism. His children, especially his daughter Scout, make a journey of discovery about their father, their neighbours and the community they live in.
Harper Lee’s novel has become a modern classic read by millions. It was made into a major motion picture in 1962, starring Gregory Peck, for which he won an Academy Award. To Kill a Mockingbird deals with racial prejudice, injustice and humanity.
Actor, director and teacher Sally Knyvette has previously directed the Tricycle Lawyers in Inherit the Wind, Twelve Angry Men and Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? She is best known on television for playing Kate Sugden in Emmerdale.
The cast includes Sir Michael Burton, High Court Judge, Royal Courts of Justice and Grahame Gordon, Solicitor/Senior Partner of Lowe &Gordon Seminars as well as Timothy Akers, Sarah Awa, Rachel Barker, Mark Boulle, Mirelle Burridge, Rodney Campbell, Joanna Corr, Annabel Dearing, Bernard George, Seaton Gordon, Janet Grant, Peter Herbert, Peter Hill, Leon Kerr, Colin Manning, Justin Michaelson, Rita Murphy, Maggie Robson and Helena Ross.
THE LONDON THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS DYLAN THOMAS’
U N D E R M I L K W O O D
Malcolm Taylor will direct Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood which runs at the Tricycle from
12 –24 May, with press night on 14 May. Casting will be announced shortly.
Under Milk Wood, Dylan Thomas’ most famous and enduring work was first performed by six actors in the Kaufman auditorium in New York in May 1953 with Thomas himself reading the First Voice. Originally intended for radio – it was broadcast with Richard Burton in January 1954 – it has delighted theatre audiences for more than half a century. Funny, bawdy, sad and sensual, it captures twenty-four hours in the loves – and dreams – of the inhabitants of Llareggub, an imaginary, small seaside town in south Wales.
To coincide with performances of Under Milk Wood, on Sunday 11 May (7.30pm) Dylan Thomas’ daughter, Aeronwy Thomas, will talk to Director Malcolm Taylor about her father. Accompanied by a presentation of private photographs and audio extracts, tickets for the talk will be £12 and £10 reductions.
TOBACCO FACTORY PRODUCTIONS & IMAGINEER PRODUCTIONS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE TRICYCLE THEATRE PRESENT RON HUTCHINSON’S
T O P L E S S M U M
Following the sell-out run of Ron Hutchinson’s Moonlight and Magnolias last year, the Tricycle Theatre along with Tobacco Factory Productions and Imagineer Productions, will present Hutchinson’s Topless Mum directed by Caroline Hunt. Performances are from 28 May – 28 June, with press night on 2 June. Designs are by Conor Murphy with sound by John O’Hara. Casting will be announced shortly.
When a soldier returns home after serving in Afghanistan he tempts a newspaper editor with personal photos that seem to expose outrageous acts of brutality. But when their authenticity is questioned, how far can the story be spun to stop the real truth leaking out…
Topless Mum, Hutchinson’s topical satire on tabloid journalism, was premiered at the Tobacco Factory Theatre, Bristol in 2007.
Ron Hutchinson’s plays include Says I, Says I, The Dillen, Rat in the Skull, Burning Issues, Head/Case, Eejits, The Curse of the Baskervilles, Lags and Moonlight and Magnolias. In addition he adapted Mikhail Bulgokov's Flight for the National Theatre. Moonlight and Magnolias received its World premiere at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago before transferring to the Manhattan Theatre Club in 2005. His screen writing credits include Vertical Limit, Blue Ice and Red King, White Knight and television writing credits include Traffic, The Pentagon Papers, Naked and the Dead, Prisoner of Honor, The Josephine Baker Story, The Marksman and Bird of Prey.
MUSLIM AND JEWISH ARTS
M U J U U P S T A R T S F E S T I V A L
On Sunday 2 March between 1pm and 8pm the Tricycle will present theatre, film, food, art, comedy and music by artists from Muslim and Jewish backgrounds who have been working together inspired by the late Ester Gluck, a founding member of the Muju Theatre Group.
The day will include award-winning films by Sanchita Islam, Yoav Segal and Dan Susman; spoken word performances by Khaleel Muhammed, Wasim Hussein, Jonathan Schneider and Dan Silverstein; theatre by Muju; a screening of Knowledge is the Beginning with Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said; video installations by Guler Ates; live mural-making by Aerosol Arabic and Shesh; music from hip-hop collective Emunah, acoustic performances by Jonny Berliner and Theo Bard; fashion by YesNoMaybe; comedy by Joe Bor and Prince Abdi and food from David’s Deli.
Included is a Q&A at 5pm with distinguished Israeli and Palestinian psychologists who are leading a unique joint effort to build resilience and hope among schoolchildren on both sides affected by political conflict. This is presented by One to One Children’s Fund.
For full details of the Muju Upstarts Festival www.muju.org.uk
CLIVE STAFFORD-SMITH, VANESSA REDGRAVE & PHILIPPE SANDS QC IN
F U N D R A I S I N G E V E N T
On Sunday 18 May at 7.30pm the Tricycle Theatre will host a special performance in aid of Reprieve and the Medical Foundation for the Victims of Torture. Special guests include Clive Stafford-Smith, Vanessa Redgrave, Philippe Sands QC and Mark Thomas.
Reprieve provides frontline investigation and legal representation to prisoners denied justice by powerful governments across the world, especially those governments that should be upholding the highest standards when it comes to fair trials. Founded in 1985, the Medical Foundation for the Victims of Torture provides care and rehabilitation to survivors of torture and other forms of organised violence.
L I S T I N G S I N F O R M A T I O N
On-line www.ticketweb.co.uk
Tickets Testing the Echo, Under Milk Wood, Topless Mum
from £10 - £20 plus reductions, allocated seats available for additional £5
To Kill a Mocking Bird (Gift Aid applies):
Wed, Fri & Sat at 8pm £60 (£10 plus suggested donation of £50)
Sat at 4pm £25 (£4 plus suggested donation of £21)
Thurs at 8pm £75 (£10 plus suggested donation of £65 –
proceeds will be split between the Tricycle and the Corinne Burton Memorial Trust)
Thurs at 2pm £10 (£4 plus suggested donation of £6) /£2.50 schools
All 8pm tickets include interval wine and Indian buffet supper after the performance.
Muju Upstarts Festival - tickets for the whole day are £8 (on door), £5 (in advance) and £1 for under 14’s.
Fundraising event with Clive Stafford-Smith, Vanessa Redgrave & Philippe Sands QC - £50, with allocated seats at £75.
Website www.tricycle.co.uk
Performances Monday – Saturday at 8pm, Saturday matinees at 4pm
Press Nights at 7pm
Midweek matinees:
Testing the Echo Wed 30 April at 2pm
Under Milk Wood Thurs 15 and Wed 21 May at 2pm
Topless Mum Wed 25 June at 2pm
café-BAR
The Tricycle Café-Bar is open from 12.30pm – 3pm and 5.30pm – 9pm, Monday to Friday and 10am – 9pm on Saturday serving food. The Tricycle Bar is open from 12noon – 11pm Monday to Saturday and 2pm – 9pm on Sunday, serving drinks and snacks.
TRANSPORT
Tube: Kilburn (Jubilee Line)
Bus: 16, 31, 32, 98, 189, 206, 316, 328
Train: Brondesbury (London overground)
THE GATE THEATRE
11 Pembridge Road, Notting Hill, W11
BOX OFFICE: 020 7229 0706
www.gatetheatre.co.uk
For more information go to our new website at www.gatetheatre.co.uk
NEW END THEATRE
27 New End
Hampstead
London NW3 1JD
Nearest Tube: Hampstead (Northern Line - 3 mins. walk) Buses: 46, 210 268
wheelchair access and adapted toilet facilities available
New End Theatre is fully air-conditioned - 5 minute walk from Hampstead Tube Northern Line
BOX OFFICE AND CREDIT CARDS:
0870 033 2733
www.newendtheatre.co.uk
New End Theatre presents the London Premiere of
HALPERN & JOHNSON
Written and directed by Lionel Goldstein
Starring Bernard Kay and Ian Barritt
Press Night Tuesday 29 July at 7.15pm
Press Photo call 22 July at 2.30pm
A poignant, witty comedy, HALPERN & JOHNSON was first produced as an HBO special with Sir Laurence Olivier and Jackie Gleason in 1983 and won ACE (Award for Cable Excellence). Since then the expanded stage version has been produced around the world. This is its London Premiere.
The drama opens at the London graveside of Florence Halpern, where her husband of 50 years, Joe, is paying his last respects. He is interrupted by a stranger bearing flowers, Dennis Johnson, a retired accountant who reveals that he was a friend of Halpern’s late wife. Intrigued, Halpern meets Johnson for a picnic in the park where fury, anger, regret, love and loss are digested along with the salt beef sandwich and pickles.
BERNARD KAY’S recent stage credits include: AFTER HAGERTY (Finborough theatre), NOBODY’S FOOL (tour), QUESTION TIME (Arcola) AN INSPECTOR CALLS (Garrick Theatre), PLATONOV (Almeida) and DEATH OF A SALESMAN (Belfast Lyric). Television credits include: DOCTOR WHO (BBC), DOCTORS (BBC), PIERREPOINT (ITV) QUESTION TIME (BBC), CASUALTY (BBC), FOYLE’S WAR (ITV) His recent film credits include: JOY DIVISION and PURITAN - a career two years longer than the run of the Mousetrap.
IAN BARRITT’S recent theatre credits include: THE LIFE OF GALILEO and THE ALCHEMIST (NT), LITTLE MADAM (Finborough), A CHORUS OF DISAPPROVAL (The Mill at Sonning), KES and SEPARATE TABLES (Royal Exchange), THE MADNESS OF GEORGE III (West Yorkshire Playhouse/Birmingham Rep), RICHARD III and CORIOLANUS (Almeida – London, New York, Tokyo). His television credits include: DR WHO, ATTILA THE HUN, DOCTORS, LIFE ON MARS, OFFICE GOSSIP (BBC), FOYLE’S WAR (Greenlit), THE BRIDES IN THE BATH and A TOUCH OF FROST (YTV) and BEAR BEHAVING BADLY (Thames)
LIONEL GOLDSTEIN, playwright, was born in the East End of London. Due to the War he did not attend school regularly until he was 10 and completed his formal education before he was 15. He did a variety of jobs: hairdresser, antique dealer, taxi driver, electrician, eventually graduating into property development. Lionel began writing in his spare time. He received his first television play commission from the BBC in 1979. Since then he has written numerous plays and scripts for stage: HALPERN & JOHNSON, ANN & DEBBIE (starring Deborah Carr and Claire Bloom), GOLDSMID v BROMER and for TV he wrote episodes for THE BILL, HOWARDS WAY, CROWN COURT, PLAY FOR TODAY and THE EXECUTIONER. He also published short stories, a children’s book and a novel THE MAN BEFORE YESTERDAY in 1991.
For further information please contact
Ahuva Cohen at New End Theatre 020 7472 5800 mobile 07973 197 433 ahuvacohen@newendtheatre.co.uk
Or Emily Lincoln 020 7472 5800 mobile 07765 241 223 email emilylincoln@newendtheatre.co.uk
LISTINGS
HALPERN & JOHNSON
Written and directed by Lionel Goldstein
Starring Bernard Kay and Ian Barritt
A poignant, witty comedy about a husband at the graveside of his wife of 50 years meeting a stranger who reveals that he was a friend of the late wife.
23 July to 31 August
Tuesday to Saturday at 7.15pm
Saturday and Sunday at 3.30pm
Tickets £18 concessions £15
Ticket sales 0870 033 2733
New End Theatre 27 New End, Hampstead London NW3 1JD
www.newendtheatre.co.ul <http://www.newendtheatre.co.ul>
5 minutes from Hampstead tube fully air-conditioned
KING'S HEAD THEATRE
Islington
BOX OFFICE: 020 7226 1916
Underground : Angel (Northern Line)
Highbury and Islington (Victoria Line)
www.kingsheadtheatre.org
Tubes: Angel, Highbury & Islington Buses: 38, 19, 4, 30, 43
www.kingsheadtheatre.org
www.kingsheadtheatre.org online booking 24 hrs www.ticketweb.co.uk
THE UNION THEATRE
204 Union Street
Southwark
London SE1
BOX OFFICE: 020 7261 9876
THE FINBOROUGH THEATRE
The Finborough 'Pub'
118 Finborough Road, SW10
(5 minutes from Earl’s Court & West Brompton Stations)
BOX OFFICE: 0870 4000 838
(Five minutes from Earl’s Court Underground and West Brompton Underground and British Rail)
Box Office 020 7373 3842 www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk
Earl’s Court Tube and West Brompton Tube & National Rail. Buses: 11, 14, 22, 74, 190, 211, 328, C1, C3
More information and book online at www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk
ETCETERA THEATRE
(above Oxford Arms Pub)
265 Camden High Street
London
NW1 7BU
Box Office: 020 7482 4857
Fax: 020 7482 0378
Email: etc@etceteratheatre.com
THE OVAL HOUSE
52-54 Kennington Road, London SE11
(Oval underground)
BOX OFFICE: 020 7582 7680
Oval House Theatre Spring Season
4th March – 21st June 2008
THEATRE DOWNSTAIRS
THEATRE DOWNSTAIRS
Transport: Oval Tube (one-mins' walk Northern Line) or
Vauxhall (BR & Victoria Line, 15 mins)
Access: Induction Loop, Upstairs Theatre is not wheelchair accessible
Car park: for disabled visitors, on-street parking nearby
Café: Open theatre nights for wines, beers and meals
Further information: www.ovalhouse.com
ALMEIDA THEATRE
Almeida Street
London N1 1TA
BOX OFFICE: (020) 7359 4404
2008 AT THE ALMEIDA
RUPERT GOOLD TO DIRECT EUROPEAN PREMIERE OF STEPHEN ADLY GUIRGIS’
T H E L AS T D A Y S O F J U D A S I S C A R I O T
A CO-PRODUCTION WITH HEADLONG THEATRE
ANTHONY PAGE TO DIRECT PAUL HILTON, HELEN MCCRORY AND MALCOLM SINCLAIR IN IBSEN’S
R O S M E R S H O L M
IN MIKE POULTON’S NEW VERSION
CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR ALMEIDA’S FIRST FAMILY SHOW, WILL TUCKETT AND MOIRA BUFFINI’S
M A R I A N N E D R E A M S
MICHAEL ATTENBOROUGH TO DIRECT HAROLD PINTER’S
T H E H O M E C O M I N G
Michael Attenborough, the Almeida’s Artistic Director, will direct a cast including Kenneth Cranham, Neil Dudgeon, Danny Dyer, Jenny Jules, Nigel Lindsay and Anthony O’Donnell in Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming. The Homecoming will open on 31 January 2008 with press night on 7 February and is running until 22 March. Designs are by Jonathan Fensom, with lighting by Neil Austin and sound by John Leonard. The Homecoming is sponsored by Aspen Re which marks their fifth year of support at the Almeida Theatre.
Set in an all male household in North London, Pinter’s play explores the reaction of the family to the homecoming of the eldest son and his wife.
The Homecoming received its world premiere at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1965 directed by Peter Hall. It has subsequently been produced on stage world wide in many languages. In 1969 Hall directed a film version and in March of this year Thea Sharrock directed a production for Radio 3 with Harold Pinter as Max. This Almeida production of The Homecoming coincides with a major revival of the play on Broadway.
Born in 1930 in East London, multi award-winning playwright, screen writer, director, political activist and actor Harold Pinter has written twenty-nine plays including The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, The Homecoming and Betrayal, twenty-one screen plays including The Servant, The Go-Between and The French Lieutenant's Woman, and directed twenty-seven theatre productions, including James Joyce's Exiles, David Mamet's Oleanna, seven plays by Simon Gray and many of his own. In his seventy fifth year Harold Pinter received the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was appointed CBE in 1966 and became a Companion of Honour in 2002. His many awards include the Laurence Olivier Award and the Moliere d'Honneur for Lifetime Achievement. In October 2006 Pinter performed Samuel Beckett’s monologue Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court Theatre.
Kenneth Cranham (Max) was last at the Almeida in Richard Eyre’s production of The Novice. His more recent theatre credits include Gaslight at the Old Vic, Endgame at the Gate Theatre and The UN Inspector at the National Theatre. His other theatre credits include the National Theatre’s productions of Flight, Cardiff East and the title role in An Inspector Calls which he also performed in the West End and on Broadway. He has worked extensively for the Royal Shakespeare Company, most recently he played Sir Peter Teazle in The School for Scandal. His television work comprises Warriors, Hussle, Rome, The Murder of Stephen Lawrence, Our Mutual Friend, Lady Audley’s Secret and the title role in Shine on Harvey Moon. His film work includes Hot Fuzz, Layer Cake, Trauma, Gangster No 1, The Boxer, On Dangerous Ground and Prospero’s Books.
Neil Dudgeon’s (Teddy) extensive theatre credits for the Royal Court include Fewer Emergencies, Mountain Language, Ashes to Ashes, Blasted and Talking in Tongues. His other theatre credits include The Importance of Being Earnest for the Royal Exchange, The Daughter-in-Law for Bristol Old Vic and Closer and Yerma for the National Theatre. His television work includes Roman’s Empire, The Lavender List, Messiah, Tom Jones and Between the Lines. His film work includes Son of Rambow, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason and Prick Up Your Ears.
Danny Dyer (Joey) was previously at the Almeida in Harold Pinter’s Celebration as well as Peter Gill’s Certain Young Men. In 2002 he played Spooner in Pinter’s No Man’s Land for the National Theatre. His television credits include Kiss of Death, Skins, All in the Game, Rose and Malone, Foyles War, Soldier Soldier and Bramwell. On film his credits include Outlaw, Straightheads, The Business, Football Factory, Mean Machine, Borstal Boys and Human Traffic.
Jenny Jules (Ruth) made her Almeida Theatre debut as Ella in Michael Attenborough’s critically acclaimed production of Theodore Ward’s Big White Fog earlier this year. Her other theatre work includes Fabulation, Gem of the Ocean, Walk Hard, The Promise and The Colour of Justice all for the Tricycle Theatre, The Vagina Monologues at the New Ambassadors Theatre, Born Bad at Hampstead and When we are Married at Birmingham Rep. Her television credits include Casualty, Golden Hour, Judge John Deed and I Saw You and her film credits include Red Light Runners, Octane, SW9 and WIT.
Nigel Lindsay (Lenny) returns to the Almeida where he has most recently been seen as Moe Axelrod in Michael Attenborough’s production of Awake and Sing! Previously at the Almeida he was seen in Romance, The Earthy Paradise and The Tower. His other theatre credits include Guys and Dolls at the Piccadilly Theatre, The Woman Before and Push Up for the Royal Court, The Pillowman, Blue Remembered Hills and Dealers Choice for the National Theatre and The Real Thing for the Donmar Warehouse which later transferred to the West End and Broadway. His television credits include Jam and Jerusalem, All About George, New Tricks, My Family, Harbour Lights and Murphy’s Law. His film credits include On A Clear Day, Mike Bassett England Manager and Rogue Trader.
Anthony O’Donnell (Sam) returns to the Almeida where he last played The Fool in King Lear. His other theatre credits include Kings of Hearts for Hampstead Theatre, President of an Empty Room, Cyrano and The London Cuckolds for the National Theatre, Twelfth Night, Uncle Vanya and Glengarry Glen Ross for the Donmar Warehouse, The Weir at the Duke of York’s and many productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company including, most recently, As You Like It and All’s Well That Ends Well. His television credits include Hotel Babylon, Charles II, The Last Detective and Pie in the Sky. His film credits include Match Point, Secrets and Lies, Vera Drake and Robin Hood.
As Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre Company Michael Attenborough’s productions have been The Mercy Seat, Five Gold Rings, Brighton Rock, The Late Henry Moss, Enemies, There Came A Gypsy Riding, Big White Fog and most recently Clifford Odets’ Awake and Sing! On leaving the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he was Principal Associate Director, he was invited to become an Honorary Associate Artist. In 2005 Michael Attenborough directed the world premiere of David Edgar’s Playing with Fire at the National Theatre.
RUPERT GOOLD TO DIRECT EUROPEAN PREMIERE OF STEPHEN ADLY GUIRGIS’
T H E L A S T D A Y S O F J U D A S I S C A R I O T
Rupert Goold will direct Stephen Adly Guirgis’ The Last Days of Judas Iscariot in an Almeida Theatre and Headlong co-production which will open on 28 March 2008 with press night on 3 April and is running until 10 May. Designs are by Anthony Ward, with lighting by Howard Harrison and sound and music by Adam Cork. Casting for this production will be announced shortly.
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a time-bending, serio-comic drama in an imagined world between Heaven and Hell that re-examines the plight and fate of The New Testament’s most infamous sinner. Throughout the play figures ranging from Pontius Pilate to Sigmund Freud are called to testify in a trial of “God and the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth versus Judas Iscariot.” Guirgis’ distinct and utterly contemporary voice uses the violent, chaotic energy of modern America, and particularly of New York, to explore timeless questions of free will and responsibility, of faith and fate.
Rupert Goold is Artistic Director of Headlong Theatre, where his credits include Rough Crossings, Faustus, Paradise Lost and Restoration. His other theatre work includes The Glass Menagerie for the Apollo Theatre, The Tempest and Speaking Like Magpies for the Royal Shakespeare Company as well as Hamlet, Insignificance, Betrayal and Othello all for Northampton Theatre Royal where he was Artistic Director. His production of Macbeth, with Patrick Stewart in the title role, has recently transferred from Chichester Festival Theatre to the Gielgud in the West End.
Stephen Adly Guirgis is a longtime member of New York’s LAByrinth Theatre Company. His plays include Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train directed by Phillip Seymour Hoffman which after completing a critically acclaimed Off-Broadway run, was seen at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Donmar Warehouse and The Arts Theatre in London’s West End. His other plays include Our Lady of 121st Street and In Arabia We’d all Be Kings. His writing for television includes The Sopranos, NYPD Blue, UC Undercover and Big Apple.
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot received its world premiere at New York’s Public Theatre in 2005 with a cast including Eric Bogosian, John Ortiz and Sam Rockwell, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Headlong Theatre (previously Oxford Stage Company) is dedicated to new ways of making theatre. By exploring revolutionary writers and practitioners of the past and commissioning new work from artists from a wide variety of backgrounds they aim constantly to push the imaginative boundaries of the stage.
ANTHONY PAGE TO DIRECT PAUL HILTON, HELEN MCCRORY & MALCOLM SINCLAIR IN IBSEN’S
R O S M E R S H O L M
Paul Hilton, Helen McCrory and Malcolm Sinclair will lead the cast in Anthony Page’s production of Ibsen’s Rosmersholm at the Almeida running from 15 May – 5 July, with press night on 22 May 2008. In a new version by Mike Poulton, set designs are by Hildegard Bechtler and lighting is by Peter Mumford. Rosmersholm is sponsored by Hydro who previously sponsored the Almeida's reopening production of The Lady From The Sea as well as Hedda Gabler in 2005.
For generations the house of Rosmer has been a stronghold of religious and political conservatism, but great changes are taking place at Rosmersholm. The tragic suicide of his wife and the influence of the mysterious Rebecca West bring former clergyman Rosmer’s new libertarian beliefs into the light. But the past won’t easily release him. Written in 1886, Ibsen’s play charts the struggle between freedom and the cruelty of conscience in an age of political division. Isolated by their beliefs and afraid of the force of their love Rosmer and Rebecca’s journey races them to an astonishing conclusion.
The cast includes Paul Hilton (Rosmer), Helen McCrory (Rebecca West) and Malcolm Sinclair (Kroll).
Multi award-winning Helen McCrory returns to the Almeida to play Rebecca West. Her extensive theatre work includes Five Gold Rings, Platonov and The Triumph of Love for the Almeida, as well as Old Times, Twelfth Night, Uncle Vanya and How I Learned to Drive for the Donmar Warehouse, Rosalind in As You Like It at Wyndhams Theatre, Fuente Ovejuna and The Seagull for the National Theatre and Les Enfants du Paradis for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her film and television work includes Casanova, Enduring Love, Charles II, Carla, The Jury, North Square, Anna Karenina and Charlotte Gray. Helen McCrory has most recently played Cherie Blair in Stephen Friers multi-award winning film The Queen as well as Victoria Frankenstein in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein which was shown on ITV earlier this week.
Paul Hilton will play Rosmer. His theatre work includes In Celebration at the Duke of York’s Theatre, On The Third Day at the New Ambassadors Theatre, The Wild Duck for the Donmar Warehouse, The President of an Empty Room, Mourning Becomes Electra and Three Sisters all for the National Theatre, Terrorism and Mountain Language for the Royal Court, The Daughter-in-Law for the Young Vic, Romeo and Juliet, The Cherry Orchard and Richard III all for the Royal Shakespeare Company and The Storm for the Almeida. His film and television his work includes True Dare Kiss, The Relief of Belsen, Dalziel and Pascoe, Trial and Retribution, The Family Man, Wire in the Blood, Silent Witness and Klimpt.
Malcolm Sinclair will play Kroll. He is currently playing Stephen in Patrick Marber’s Dealer’s Choice at the Menier Chocolate Factory. His other theatre credits include The History Boys, Luther, Racing Demon and Richard III for the National Theatre, Journey’s End at the Playhouse Theatre, My Fair Lady at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Privates on Parade for the Donmar Warehouse, Twelfth Night for Sheffield Theatres, Uncle Vanya, The Comedy of Errors and Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Heartbreak House and Cressida, both for the Almeida Theatre Company. His film credits include The Young Victoria, Casino Royale, V for Vendetta, The Statement and Secret Passage. On television his work includes Daphne, Foyle’s War, Hustle, Judge John Deed, Victoria and Albert, Anna Karenina and Pie in the Sky.
Anthony Page was Artistic Director of the Royal Court between 1964 and 1973 where he directed the premieres of five John Osborne plays. For the Almeida he directed Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who is Sylvia which later transferred to the West End. His other West End productions include Ibsen's The Master Builder and A Doll's House, Tennessee Williams’ The Night of the Iguana and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Edward Albee’s The Lady from Dubuque, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Three Tall Women and A Delicate Balance. For the National Theatre he has directed The Rules of the Game, Mrs Warren's Profession, Absolute Hell and Marriage Play/Finding the Sun. He has directed many productions for both British and American television, most recently Middlemarch for the BBC. His films include Inadmissible Evidence, Alpha Bet and Absolution.
Mike Poulton began writing for the theatre in 1995. His first two productions - Uncle Vanya and Fortune’s Fool - were staged by the Chichester Festival Theatre in 1996 and subsequently Broadway. Since then his work has included The Canterbury Tales and St Erkenwald for the Royal Shakespeare Company, a new version of Strindberg’s The Father for Chichester’s Minerva Theatre, a new adaptation of Hedda Gabler for West Yorkshire Playhouse, Three Sisters for Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Don Carlos for the Crucible, Sheffield and in the West End. In 2001 his adaptation of the York Mystery Plays was performed in York Minster. Mike Poulton is currently under commission by the RSC, Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Chichester Festival Theatre.
COUTTS & CO
The Almeida remains incredibly grateful to its Principal Sponsor Coutts & Co, who are now in their fifth year of support. The Almeida Theatre Coutts & Co partnership took effect when the newly refurbished theatre opened in 2003. The partnership has now become one of the bank’s foremost Arts sponsorships and continues a long tradition of supporting the arts. Coutts has provided vital financial support to the theatre, facilitating greater artistic freedom and enabling the theatre to mount its ambitious programme with security and confidence.
ACCESS PERFORMANCES
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
Thursday 24 April 7.30pm - Sign Language Interpreted performance
Tuesday 29 April 7.30pm - Captioned performance
Saturday 3 May - Audio Described performance & Touch Tour at 1.30pm
Rosmersholm
Thursday 19 June 7.30pm - Sign Language Interpreted performance
Saturday 28 June at 3pm - Audio Described performance & Touch Tour at 1.30pm
Tuesday 1 July at 7.30pm - Captioned performance
Almeida Access Line 020 7288 4999 or email access@almeida.co.uk
BOX OFFICE
Phone 020 7359 4404 (24 hour)
In person 10.00am – 7.30pm, Monday - Saturday
On-line www.almeida.co.uk
Tickets £29.50 - £6.00, concessions available
Priority booking for the Almeida Circle of Supporters 29 October
CAFE-BAR
The Almeida Cafe-Bar is open from 11.30am - 11.00pm, Monday to Saturday, serving food, drinks and snacks
PERFORMANCES SCHEDULES
Monday - Saturday at 7.30pm, Saturday matinees at 3.00pm, Press Nights at 7.00pm.
Extra mid week matinees - The Homecoming 5 and 12 March at 2.30pm, Rosmersholm
8 June and 2 July at 2.30pm
There is a separate performance schedule for Marianne Dreams which includes midweek and Sunday performances. See website for details.
WEBSITE
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PENTAMETERS THEATRE
The Three Horseshoes
28 Heath Street
Hampstead
London NW3 6TE
Box Office: 020 7435 3648
Menier Chocolate Factory
51-53 Southwark Street SE1 1 TE
Box Office: 020 7907 7060
The Menier Chocolate Factory presents
They’re Playing Our Song
Book by Neil Simon
Music by Marvin Hamlisch / Lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager
Directed by Fiona Laird
Designed by Matthew Wright
Musical Supervisor and Orchestrations by Caroline Humphris
Previews from July 25th
Press Night August 4th at 8pm
Final performance September 28th
Starring Connie Fisher and Alistair McGowan
The Menier Chocolate Factory is delighted to announce that Connie Fisher will appear alongside the Olivier-nominated Alistair McGowan in her first full stage role since The Sound of Music.
They’re Playing Our Song is a semi autobiographical story based on the relationship between composer Marvin Hamlisch and lyricist Carole Bayer Sager. This is its first major London revival since the original West End production in 1980 starring Tom Conti and Gemma Craven.
This warm and witty musical romance stars Connie Fisher. Connie shot to fame as the winner of the TV series How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? And then as the star of the West End hit The Sound of Music. This production marks her return to the London stage.
Also starring is the Olivier-nominated Alistair McGowan whose recent West End appearances include Cabaret, The Mikado and Little Shop of Horrors. Other theatre includes The Government Inspector (Chichester) and Art (West End). He is also well known for his BAFTA award winning TV show The Big Impression (BBC).
They’re Playing Our Song is the story of Vernon Gersch, a neurotic and successful composer with a host of awards. He is paired up with the lovably eccentric Sonia Walsk – a young lyricist who is a hopeless time-keeper and dresses in cast off theatre costumes. The unlikely pairing seems destined to falter before it begins; can Vernon’s egotistical bachelor lifestyle cope with Sonia’s ex-boyfriend and her multiple personalities? As their working relationship grows, however, so do their feelings for each other, and romance blossoms.
Director Fiona Laird returns to the Chocolate Factory after the success of The Common Pursuit. Her other credits include Cinderella (Old Vic) and Oh, What a Lovely War! (NT).
Neil Simon’s writing career spans four decades, three Tony awards (The Odd Couple, Biloxi Blues and Lost in Yonkers), and four Oscar nominations for The Odd Couple, The Sunshine Boys, The Goodbye Girl and California Suite.
A one time rehearsal pianist on Funny Girl, Marvin Hamlisch is one of only two men
to have been awarded all five of the major awards in American entertainment. A Tony and a Pulitzer Prize for A Chorus Line, a Grammy and an Oscar for the score for The Way We Were, and an Emmy for Barbra Streisand, The Concert.
Carole Bayer Sager had her first hit as a lyricist with A Groovy Kind of Love in 1965 and has collaborated with Bacharach, Neil Diamond, Bette Midler and Bob Dylan. She co-wrote, with Marvin Hamlisch, the Bond theme Nobody Does It Better, and received an Oscar for Arthur’s Theme from the 1982 Dudley Moore film Arthur.
For further information please contact The Corner Shop on info@thecornershoppr.com or 020 7494 3665
Performance Times:
Tuesday – Saturday @ 8pm (Monday 8pm performance on 4th August) Saturday & Sunday @ 3.30pm (except Sunday 3rd August)
Previews: 25th July – 2nd August
All seats £20 / Meal Deals: £27.50
From 4th August – 28th September
Standard seats (all unreserved) £25.00
Concessions (subject to availability – proof req) £20.00
Meal Deals (limited number per show) £32.50
Groups 8+ £20.00 (excludes Sat eves)
For more details or individual advice/help - email:
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