Archives for July 2015

The Killing of Sister George

 
29th October – 21st November 2015
 Tuesday – Saturday at 7.45pm
Matinees, Saturday and Sunday at 3pm
Tickets: £15/£12

Gin swilling, cigar chomping, overbearing June Buckridge has played the beloved character ‘Sister George’ in the popular BBC Radio Drama, Applehurst, for six years. But being the star doesn’t stop BBC executives deciding to kill her off in an attempt to halt the show’s falling ratings. Furious at the lack of loyalty, June’s precarious personal world heads into a tailspin.

First produced on stage 50 years ago, with the great Beryl Reid as June and giving Eileen Atkins’ her theatre debut as ‘Childie’, this ground breaking dark comedy takes us to the world of BBC television and radio in the1960s where perception is everything and no one is who they say they are.

With the recent revelations surrounding Jimmy Saville, was this iconic play an unwitting glimpse into the tawdy, sordid media world of the 1960s as it really was?

An Artful production The Killing of Sister George by Frank Marcus

Director: Scott Le Crass

Produced by Sarah and Justin Savage for Artful Theatre Productions Limited

 

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The Killing of Sister George
29th October – 21st November 2015

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7.59 on the Northern Line

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Friday 17th and Saturday 18th July
 7.30 pm
Tickets £5
Commuters on all sides. Some with bags, some with children. All too close for comfort. Cramped in this tiny metal cage, how do our habits, complexities and idiocies alter our behaviour when forced into a tiny tube 10 metres under London? We examine authentic accounts of experiences on the underground to explore human behaviour in this uniquely confined environment.

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7.59 on the Northern Line
17and 18 July, 7.30pm

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Parade

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1st to 13th September
Tuesday to Sunday 7.30pm
Matinee Saturday and Sunday 3pm
Tickets £15

For a strictly-limited two week run, this exciting new revival will utilise the intimacy of London Theatre Workshop’s space with a talented and versatile cast of thirteen actors in multiple roles. Originally staged on Broadway and in London at the Donmar Warehouse, the multi-Olivier nominated show features music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, the virtuosic composer of “Last Five Years” “Songs For a New World” “The Bridges of Madison County” and book by Academy Award winner Alfred Uhry, screenplay writer of “Driving Miss Daisy”.

Parade is based on the true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory manager from Brooklyn accused of the murder of a 13 year old employee. Set in Atlanta, Georgia at the beginning of the twentieth century, the story builds around Leo Frank’s trial as it becomes sensationalised by the bigoted, zionistic press, against a backdrop of National uncertainty and change.

The Broadway production of ‘Parade’ was garnered with two Tony awards for Best Book and Best Music as well as the Best New Musical at the Drama Desk and The New York Drama Critic’s Circle Awards. 

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Parade
1 and 13 September, 7.30pm

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7th October-24th October, 2015

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The Tempest

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7th October-24th October, 2015
 Tuesday-Saturday Evenings 7.30
Saturday Matinees 2.30
Tickets £12/ £9 (concessions)

ACT I

SCENE I. On a ship at sea: a tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard.

Shakespeare’s final play, The Tempest, was the culmination of his life’s work and his final act in the theatre. As Prospero hangs up his enchanted cloak, Shakespeare sets down his quill for the last time: “Now my charms are all o’erthrown.” As the horizons of the known world grow larger, through discovery and colonisation of brave new worlds, Shakespeare magics up a prescient and timely tale of power, servitude, and enslavement. Teeming with characters who burst at the seams with vitality and vigour, the Bard creates a play unlike any of his others. An uncharted island, a banished duke turned sorcerer, his “uncivilised” daughter, a begrudging sprite indentured into servitude, and an enraged, enslaved Island native, all are brought to life on the stage.

The ensemble of the London Theatre Workshop have travelled back in time, and distilled that sense of new-found wonder and terror that Shakespeare felt when he set quill to scroll. Every moment of The Tempest bursts to life in surprising, shocking, new and terrifying ways. What results is a visual and aural kaleidoscope of senses, impressions and experiences. Join us as we use music, movement, and the stuff that dreams are made on to breathe new life into this classic play!

Directed by Associate Producer of London Theatre Workshop, Brandon Force, director of 2014’s critically acclaimed Romeo & Juliet.

 

 

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