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DOORWAY kapı aralığı
DOORWAY kapı aralığı
Jan 24 - Feb 28

A one act play devised by the company.In Turkish and English.Ala-Turka’nın yarattığı tek perdelik oyunTürkçe ve İngilizce dilinde sahnelecek.

Directed by / Yönetmen: Serdar Bilis

How many doors have you been through today? Or yesterday, last week, month, last year, all your life? How many doors have you hopelessly waited to open for you? How many door st...


KNIVES IN HENS
KNIVES IN HENS
Feb 2 - Feb 27
Passionate and lyrical, the play maps a mythic journey from ignorance and innocence to knowledge and power. His world is there, in front of my eyes. All I must do is push names into what is there, the same as when I push my knife into the stomach of a hen. Director Serdar Bilis Set & Costume Designer Hannah Clark Lighting Designer Ian Scott Sound Designer Elena Pena Associate Designer David Woodhe...

HELDENPLATZ
HELDENPLATZ
Feb 10 - Mar 6

By Thomas Bernhard Translated by Meredith Oakes and Andrea Tierney Directors Annie Castledine and Annabel Arden Associate Director Delyth Jones Assistant Director Tarek Iskander Designer Iona McLeish Design Assistant Lucy Sierra Lighting Designer Ben Payne Sound Designer Andrew Pontzen Cast: Hannah Boyde, Paul Brightwell, Daniel Curshen, Andrew Hawkins, Caroline Horton, Petra Markham...


CENTRAL SCHOOL OF SPEECH AND DRAMA STUDENT SHOWCASE
CENTRAL SCHOOL OF SPEECH AND DRAMA STUDENT SHOWCASE
Mar 3 - Mar 6
YOU ALWAYS FORGET SOMETHING & THIN MAN, FAT MAN

Written by Virgilio PiñeraDirected by Grainne ByrneTranslated by Kate Eaton

A Virgilio Piñera double bill.

These two short absurdist plays are British premiers translated by Kate Eaton. Both are fascinating for different reasons, yet both explore the distortion of our modern values. You Always Forget Something is a highly energised p...


THE SANCTUARY LAMP
THE SANCTUARY LAMP
Mar 10 - Apr 3
Written and Directed by Tom Murphy Designed by Monica Frawley

Three people locked in a Catholic Church for the night: An ex-circus strongman who prays to the Sanctuary Lamp for strength, a run-away waif haunted by her past and an Irish blackguard...

Tom Murphy directs this revival of his own play for b*spoke theatre company. Described by the Guardian as one of Irish Theatre's "proudest possess...


1936
1936
Apr 5 - Apr 24
Written by Tom McNabDirected by Jenny Lee

A thrilling take on the run up to the Berlin Olympics in 1936, seen through the eyes of American journalist William Shirer.

The stakes were high, the game played out on the world stage. Hitler craved power and the German Jews were under threat. America was uneasy and the International Olympic Committee was dangerously out of touch….

It all rested on...


ME, AS A PENGUIN
ME, AS A PENGUIN
Apr 27 - May 22
Written by Tom WellsDirected by Chris Hill

Stitch is hitting the gay scene of Hull. Or at least dipping his toe in the water while staying with heavily pregnant sister Liz and her shabby sofa loving partner Mark. But why won’t Stitch let anyone into the bathroom even though Liz is dying for a pee? And who is the man in the giant penguin costume?

A comedy of knitting, penguins and Battenber...


THE ROMAN BATH & THE TITANIC ORCHESTRA
THE ROMAN BATH & THE TITANIC ORCHESTRA
Apr 28 - May 15
The Roman BathBy Stanislav StratievIn a version by Justin Butcher

The Titanic OrchestraBy Hristo BoytchevIn a version by Steve King(playing in rep)

Director: Russell BolamDesigner: Jean ChanComposer: Gary YershonCasting: Lucy JenkinsSound Designer: Tom GibbonsMovement Director: Kate Hewitt

Ivan returns from a trip to the seaside to find his home torn apart. Builders have unearthed a lost tre...


PANDORA
PANDORA
May 18 - Jun 12
Written by Jennie BuckmanDirected by Alex CliftonCast to include: Thusitha Jayasundera, (War Horse, Holby City, The Bill) Sophie Stone (RNT, Mother Courage)

Box? No, no, no: it was a jar, and I had absolutely no idea what was in it. But curiosity was one of my gifts wasn’t it, so it’s Not My Fault. Found out too late it was chock full of all the rubbish they didn’t want in heaven: and that inc...


COMING HOME
COMING HOME
Jun 8 - Jul 3
Written by Athol FugardDirected by Cordelia Monsey

Veronika Jonkers left her beloved Grandfather's farm to pursue the dream of a singing career in Cape Town. Carrying a painful secret and a heart filled with disappointment she returns after his death and strives to plant the seeds of a new life for her infant son. Fugard once again tell a story that finds hope in human relationships and in the...


THE ROAD TO MECCA
THE ROAD TO MECCA
Jun 15 - Jul 10
Writer: Athol FugardDirector: Russell BolamDesigner: Ruth HallMovement Director: Laila Diallo Composer: Gary YershonCasting: Lucy Jenkins.

Starring Linda Bassett as Miss. Helen

Helen has spent fifteen years transforming her house into a haven of light and colour against the desolate South African plains. But, following an accident, a darkness is setting in. The deeply religious community, who...


INTO THE BLUE
INTO THE BLUE
Jul 6 - Jul 24
Written by Beverley HancockDirected by Deborah Paige

A play exploring the tentative re-building of a relationship between a mother and her daughter who has Down’s syndrome.

A Arcola Theatre production...


LIGHT SHINING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
LIGHT SHINING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
Jul 14 - Aug 7
Written by Caryl ChurchillDirected by Polly Findlay

‘Fear, and the pit, and the snare are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth’

For ten years in the middle of the seventeenth century, England was governed by radical extremists. Fuelled by unshakeable religious conviction, soldiers killed the king believing that Christ would come to replace him. Theirs was a war to establish he...

 

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