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25 April 2013
- 27 April 2013
**Did you hear what happened? A car. An explosion. In the city.**
A crime is committed. A town paralyzed with fear. The main character in Jonas Hassen Khemiris new play is lost in a landscape of paranoia trying to act as normal. But what is normal? Who ...
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17 April 2013
- 20 April 2013
2013\. Has there ever been a better time to be witty, pretty and gay?
OUTBOX have been collecting stories and experiences from LGB people, of all ages and across the country, and would like to share them with you. Following on from the success of OUTB ...
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13 April 2013
- 14 April 2013
Fringe! is a film and arts festival rooted in London’s queer creative scene and welcoming everyone. We’re not-for-profit and run by a team of passionate volunteers.
From feature films to experimental art, workshops to lectures and parties, Fringe! ...
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27 March 2013
- 04 May 2013
A new play adapted from Herman Melville’s novel
From the company that created *The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari*
*Nominated for a Peter Brook Empty Space/Equity Ensemble Award*
Nantucket.1851. Centre of a whaling industry that transformed blubber in ...
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27 March 2013
- 20 April 2013
**Gibraltar** is based on the highly contentious shooting of three unarmed Provisional IRA terrorists by the SAS in 1988. It analyses a television documentary which looked into the shootings and the vicious press backlash following the programme. Hear how ...
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21 March 2013
- 23 March 2013
**Performed in Dutch with English surtitles**
Elsewhere Land (Eldersland)
*Not a Fairytale*
A son inherits a piece of family land, which has been passed on from father to son for many generations.
He is torn between his familiar life in Amst ...
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12 February 2013
- 16 March 2013
**A new play inspired by the cult film**
"Shadows, dreams, they're all around us, they're everywhere!"
Franzis Gruber, a lowly bureaucrat, lives a neat and ordered life in a sleepy, provincial German town. When a travelling fair arrives, full of clo ...
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29 January 2013
- 09 February 2013
Follow dashing Victorian adventurer Phileas Fogg as he embarks on an epic journey across the globe, aiming to complete the feat in record time. Little does he know that hot on his heels is Scotland Yard's finest - the unstoppable Fix of the Yard. Travelli ...
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22 January 2013
- 16 February 2013
Elka is the sinister Mare Rider, in myth she haunts new mothers and rides bareback through mountains and across the plains of Anatolia.
Selma is about to give birth at Homerton Hospital in Hackney, Elka takes her on a fantastical journey, probing the s ...
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11 January 2013
**Nu Park**'s music can be described as electronic indie rock and their shows are unique in the way that they incorporate improvisation and theatrical elements. At the end of 2012, Nu Park recorded their first EP with Mike Nielsen, who has worked with suc ...
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10 January 2013
- 11 January 2013
**PİPPA**
Performed in Turkish with English Surtitles
Two Italian performance artists, Pippa Bacca and Silvia Moro, hitch-hike from Milan to the Middle-East to promote world peace and trust in other people, symbolically wearing wedding dresses ...
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09 January 2013
- 26 January 2013
“The only way not to be a heroine, a martyr, a victim, is to make myself an accomplice, a collaborator.”
Communist. Jew. Revolutionary. Lover. Mother. Olga Benario’s story is a searing tale of survival as alongside her fellow prisoners she stru ...
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07 January 2013
- 08 January 2013
**PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOND OUR CONTROL WE HAVE HAD TO CANCEL PERFORMANCES OF ODA VE ADAM (THE ROOM AND THE MAN). WE APOLOGISE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE**
**The Room and The Man**
**Oda ve Adam**
Performed in Turkish with English S ...
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05 January 2013
**Büyük Ev Ablukada** was formed in 2008 in Cihangir, İstanbul. Canavar Banavar and Afrodisman Salihins released their songs online which they recorded at home, and became a huge success. Büyük Ev Ablukada has reached thousands, staging numerous co ...
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03 January 2013
- 04 January 2013
**It Felt Empty When the Heart Went at First But It's Alright Now**
**Önce Bir Bosluk Oldu Kalp Gidince Ama Simdi Iyi**
Performed in Turkish with English Surtitles
*'I know exactly how much I am worth. I am worth three thousand dollars becau ...
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20 December 2012
- 22 December 2012
Humans replace puppets but the story remains the same.
For the first time in the show's 350 year history, Punch & Judy combines four original scripts to show Mr. Punch as he really is. Descending from playful pantomime through satire to pure horror, t ...
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18 December 2012
- 22 December 2012
**Kali Talkback Festival**
**Shared Memories**
*What makes Dalston so hip?*
An atmospheric light, glass and sound installation created by a glass artist, lighting designer and sound designer will be animated by performers from the Arcola 60+ Comp ...
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16 December 2012
The improvised movie live on stage. Oscar has every movie ever made... every film you could ever imagine. Join Oscar for a magical Christmas movie from his festive collection!
The movie is created before your very eyes, complete with awesome action seq ...
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11 December 2012
- 22 December 2012
**KALI TALKBACK FESTIVAL**
Kali celebrates 21 years of cutting edge theatre by South Asian women with a festival of rich and diverse contemporary plays by some of the most original voices in theatre writing. Come and help Kali celebrate their birthday! ...
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07 December 2012
- 09 December 2012
Danish production company Dialogbox presents Danish Dramatics 2012 at Arcola Tent.
Showcasing acclaimed Danish playwright Line Mørkeby, Danish Dramatics 2012 stages two of her most poignant and critically acclaimed plays, Paradise and Bliss Bear, fo ...
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04 December 2012
- 08 December 2012
**KALI TALKBACK FESTIVAL**
Kali celebrates 21 years of cutting edge theatre by South Asian women with a festival of rich and diverse contemporary plays by some of the most original voices in theatre writing. Come and help Kali celebrate their birthday! ...
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03 December 2012
- 04 December 2012
Fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe, **Rémy** is stepping foot in the capital city.
Rémy is French, lives in a prison cell, and isn't quite sure how old he is. He's good at gardening and once tried to somersault off the back of a galloping horse. Best of ...
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03 December 2012
- 22 December 2012
**Kali Talkback Festival**
**Talkback 2012 Readings**
Readings of seven rich, bold and provocative new plays
Kali celebrates 21 years of cutting edge theatre by South Asian women with a festival of rich and diverse contemporary plays by some of ...
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25 November 2012
The improvised movie live on stage. Oscar has every movie ever made... every film you could ever imagine. Join Oscar for a thrilling murder mystery special. The movie is created before your very eyes, complete with awesome action sequences, captivating p ...
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21 November 2012
- 24 November 2012
There was meant to be a play. About Paul Renner. About Futura typeface. The moon landing. Historicism. The Weimar. The rise of mechanization. Nazis. The future. But this play does not exist.
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15 November 2012
Celebrating the launch of Sam Berkson's debut poetry collection, *Life in Transit*, Influx Press are hosting an amazing poetry and spoken word showcase.
Featuring:
**Dizraeli** - 2 x UK Slam champion and MC with The Small Gods
**Zena Edwards** - ...
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13 November 2012
- 18 November 2012
Following their Sell out smash at the Edinburgh Fringe and hoping to capitalise on their seven five star reviews, puppetry's Balkan bad boys Boris & Sergey; Simply the greatest vaudevillian double act ever conceived for the small stage, present for your v ...
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09 November 2012
- 22 December 2012
**Music** Marvin Hamlisch
**Lyrics** Craig Carnelia
**Book** John Guare
Based on the novella by Ernest Lehman and the MGM/United Artists film with a screenplay by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman
**British Premiere**
1952, New York’s ...
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04 November 2012
- 05 November 2012
Money…Marriage…Mothers….Multi-Tasking…Madness…Magasines….Media…Mistakes...Muffs….Menopause…Men….MakeOvers…
How & Where do women share their stories, information, facts, myths, truths, wisdom, old wives tales & secrets? And why do ...
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31 October 2012
- 01 December 2012
America. 1970. Black Vietnam veteran Beau Willie Brown is held in custody, accused of a heinous crime. A story comes to light that sticks in the throat, a story murmured between dark dreams.
*"beau come back from ’nam with empty eyes and hands like ...
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28 October 2012
The improvised movie live on stage. Oscar has every movie ever made... every film you could ever imagine. Join Oscar for a special Halloween movie night to watch a never before seen, never to be seen again horror film!
The movie is created before your ...
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23 October 2012
- 10 November 2012
The Alchemist Theatre Company transfer their critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe hit SEALAND to Arcola Tent. Co-produced with the Fringe First award winning Sell A Door Theatre Company.
Ted and his son escape from broken Britain to create a perfect ...
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15 October 2012
- 20 October 2012
EVERYTHING BEGINS BY LOVING SOMEBODY
(Bir İnsanı Sevmekle Başlar Her Şey)
**Performed in Turkish with English surtitles.**
Modern Türk hikâyeciliğinin öncülerinden olan Sait Faik (1906 - 1954) kendine özgü dili ve üslubuyla Tür ...
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10 October 2012
- 12 October 2012
**CRYPTED**
*Crypted* tells the story of Alan Turing, the mathematician who cracked the Enigma code during the Second World War, and who ended his life having been arrested and chemically castrated by the state.
"Stunning... this wonderful, emotiv ...
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03 October 2012
- 03 November 2012
**UK PREMIERE**
An abandoned dance hall. Six young people desperate for fame, fortune and next week’s rent. An unscrupulous promoter. A ravenous audience and a stranger with a past he’s trying to hide.
Out of the real-life phenomenon of 1930s ...
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12 September 2012
- 30 October 2012
See Arcola Theatre News for renovation updates
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09 September 2012
**"Magnificent...inspired...hugely compelling"** - Broadway Baby
A children's tragedy.
Wedekind's savage, beautiful masterpiece: adolescence, education and desire examined in a stripped-down, physical staging with searing new music by Brendan Ashe ...
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07 September 2012
- 08 September 2012
In October 1962, President John F. Kennedy uncovered Soviet missiles on the island of Cuba. The days that followed were the closest the world has ever come to being wiped out by nuclear war. This powerful new musical follows the lives of three lovers, thr ...
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05 September 2012
- 06 September 2012
Heritage Opera bring their critically-acclaimed production of Verdi's dark masterpiece to Grimeborn, a tale of passion, kidnap, curses, seduction and murder!
The debauched Duke of Mantua makes a habit of seducing young maidens, and his eye is taken by ...
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03 September 2012
- 04 September 2012
Heritage Opera follow their 2011 Grimeborn hit Mansfield Park with a brand new translation of Mozart's sunniest comedy. Ravishing melodies accompany a farcical story centring on the wedding day of Seville’s favourite barber, Figaro, to the winsome Susan ...
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31 August 2012
- 01 September 2012
TRIPLE BILL
**LA VOIX HUMAINE**
Composer **Francis Poulenc**
Librettist **Jean Cocteau**
Director **Ilan Reichel**
Scenic Elements **Miguel Guzman**
Soprano **Katerina Mina**
Pianist **Jean-Yves Cornet**
Actors **Men in Blue**, **James Rice ...
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29 August 2012
- 30 August 2012
*DOUBLE BILL*
**HANDEL FURIOSO**
A Music‐Drama with Music by George Frideric Handel
with Anna Starushkevych (Winner of the 2012 Handel Singing Competition) and Robyn Allegra Parton
Designed by Jemima Robinson (Linbury Design Prize Winner 20 ...
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27 August 2012
- 28 August 2012
*DOUBLE BILL*
**BASTIEN & BASTIENNE**
by Mozart
Translated by David Eaton
**and**
**SUSANNA'S SECRET**
Composer Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Translated by David Eaton
Following three sell-out successes at Grimeborn, Nina Brazier directs ...
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24 August 2012
Opera at Home are presenting **Hansel and Gretel**, one of the most famous operas for children. The idea for the opera came about when Humperdinck's sister asked him to write some music for Christmas songs she had written for her children based on the sto ...
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23 August 2012
- 25 August 2012
From the isolation of a mythic forest to the buzzing Tokyo metropolis, *The Sound of a Voice* weaves together two stories of Modern Japan. Haunted by the ghosts of the past, two couples try to free themselves from a lifetime of longing and loss.
Pre ...
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21 August 2012
- 22 August 2012
*Il Tabarro* is the first opera of Giacomo Puccini's Triptych known as Il Trittico; a sinister story of doubt, revenge and murder amidst solitude, depression, escapism, grief and marital breakdown.
Presented by Aylin Bozok
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31 July 2012
- 04 August 2012
The Giles Foreman Centre for Acting presents two plays - the classical OEDIPUS REX by Sophocles, and the modern ONE MINUTE by Simon Stephens - as an exciting double bill. The casts feature GFCA's Group One Post Graduate Intensive Diploma students at the c ...
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24 July 2012
Micachu & the Shapes will release their second studio album NEVER on 23 July via Rough Trade Records. NEVER was self-produced by the band, recorded at band member Marc Pell's studio in Stratford and mixed by Dillip Harris and the band. It is the follow-up ...
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23 July 2012
Sophie Treadwell's *Machinal* was first performed on Broadway in 1928, and is the highpoint of Expressionism: a whirlwind tale of love, gender imbalance and murder. Helen, headstrong but oppressed, is pressured to marry a man she does not love, is ultimat ...
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27 June 2012
- 22 July 2012
**Created, Performed & Written by Penny Arcade**
Video appearances from Taylor Mead and Ron Vawter (1948 – 1994) reading Lenny Bruce (1925 – 1966)
**Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore!** is one of the most exuberant events ever to emerge from New York ...
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24 June 2012
**DOUBLE BILL** - **LIFE AIN'T NO MUSICAL: THE REMIX ** and **UNDER THE SKIN**
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22 June 2012
- 23 June 2012
Arcola Academy presents
**CLOWN SEX**
by Natasha Sutton Williams
Directed by Owen Calvert-Lyons
Designed by Amy Yardley
Greetings from Mepho the Magnificent. Tremendous wonders are in store for you. Inside the Circus Sinistair you will fi ...
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19 June 2012
- 20 June 2012
**DOUBLE BILL** - **AFTER JULIET** and **BELONG**
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17 June 2012
**DOUBLE BILL** - *Waltham Forest Arts in Education Network (Creating a Buzz Theatre)* and *Greenwich & Lewisham Young People's Theatre*
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05 June 2012
- 16 June 2012
"Every year
Right at the end of summer
Just before the leaves turn brown and
fall from the trees
Esme comes to stay
With her Nanna and Grandad
Every year
Some things stay the same
And some things change."
But this year Nanna ...
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03 June 2012
- 31 July 2012
See Arcola News for updates
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30 May 2012
- 02 June 2012
‘A sharp, impeccably performed and blazingly impassioned piece of theatre…simply terrific’ **** The Times
Fringe First Award winner and hit of the Edinburgh Festival 2011, Release explores the lives of three prisoners in their first months after ...
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27 May 2012
- 02 October 2012
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09 May 2012
- 26 May 2012
**World Premiere**
**Nominated for Best New Play 2012 - Off West End Theatre Awards**
*“You think England is hard? Compared to Nigeria? My dear, you haven’t seen anything yet!”*
On holiday with her streetwise son in Lagos, a British-Nigerian ...
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06 May 2012
Are you willing to see the world through a different set of eyes? If so, will it ever be the same again?
Circles is a multi-media, immersive-theatre, research and development collaboration between former RSC Resident Director Vik Sivalingam, playwrigh ...
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03 May 2012
Just Enough For The Real World is the musical journey based around a songwriter creating his first album. All is going well until he discovers a dark secret on his own door step.
'This is great music by great writer-performers who were inspired by grea ...
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02 May 2012
- 02 June 2012
**“All I want is the England I used to know… When you knew where you were and all the houses had gardens and old ladies could feel safe in the street at night.”**
SEArED in association with the Arcola Theatres stages the first major London reviva ...
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25 April 2012
- 26 May 2012
Best mates – out of work, on benefits, hanging out, and hiding in epic journeys of the imagination. Four young men escape the realities of signing on and missing out by recreating Admundsen’s legendary expedition in a tiny attic room: one London foots ...
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17 April 2012
- 02 May 2012
A new play suggested by the Merchant Ivory film ‘Shakespeare Wallah’ of 1965
Sanju: Do you like acting?
Lizzie: Of course I like it. Well, I mean, I've never known anything else. Only acting and travelling. Travelling and ...
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11 April 2012
- 13 April 2012
**Kitchen to Measure, Ordinary Horror Stories** is based on five short stories by Icelandic author Svava Jajobsdóttir and was produced by the National Theatre of Iceland in 2005 and 2006.
The play takes you on a rollercoaster ride through the absurd, ...
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28 March 2012
- 28 April 2012
Belka Productions is proud to present the UK premiere of this landmark Russian love story, by one of the greatest twentieth-century playwrights.
Love starts to blossom in the hostile terrain of the Soviet bloc when chance brings young Victor to beautif ...
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21 March 2012
- 21 April 2012
50 years after the publication of Burgess's disturbing little masterpiece, its portrait of a corrupt state, a bankrupt civil society, and a populace in fear of feral youth seems urgently familiar. In a nation like this, how should young people behave? The ...
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16 March 2012
**Climate Week Play in a Day** brings together the finest British theatrical talent to put on five original fifteen minute performances in just 24 hours.
*Climate Week* (12-18 March), Britain's biggest climate change campaign, will stage a very specia ...
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13 March 2012
Fresh from its year long destruction of Islington and Edinburgh, fearless comedy night #ACMS marches on in pursuit of hilarious experimentation and noble failure. Basically, if it’s your sort of thing, you’ll love it.
Life-risking comedy from Board ...
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22 February 2012
- 24 March 2012
**UK Premiere**
Zara is on the run. Allide wants to stay hidden. Deep in an Estonian forest their two worlds collide.
Together their survival depends on the one thing that they've learnt to keep secret: the truth.
Revealing the dark history of a ...
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19 February 2012
**A living newspaper about the Occupy movement**
Arcola Tent gets **Occupied** for one night only. Emerging playwrights are the reporters for this living newspaper that will take on the global phenomenon that is the Occupy movement. The night features ...
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17 February 2012
Immediate Theatre's Pop-Up Party celebrates the optimism & creativity of Hackney's young people.
The evening includes the premiere youth performance of Get the Greedy by Jonathan Wright. The show follows the misadventures of a young runaway and the ch ...
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16 February 2012
- 17 February 2012
Premiere performance by Immediate Theatre's Advanced Youth Theatre of **Get The Greedy**. The show follows the misadventures of a young runaway and the characters she encounters in 24 hours on the streets.
Contains strong language and is recommended fo ...
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14 February 2012
The Valentine's Day Special! - The Improvised Movie Live on Stage.
Oscar has every movie ever made…every film you could ever imagine. Join Oscar for a special Valentine's day movie night. The audience chooses what the film is about, where the film i ...
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25 January 2012
- 18 February 2012
*"We're not the troubles we face but how we choose to face them."*
When Tajik farmer Benham is forced to tell a daring lie to protect his farmlands from violent interlopers, he also invents a wild scheme, sending his son, Fariad, to England to find the ...
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25 January 2012
- 17 March 2012
21 years after it came kicking and screaming into the world, **The Pitchfork Disney** has come of age...
*'You know why the ghost train is so popular? Because there are no ghosts. Once you know that you can make a fortune.'*
Ten years ago so ...
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17 January 2012
- 22 January 2012
Kitchen to Measure, Ordinary Horror Stories is based on five short stories by Icelandic author Svava Jajobsdóttir and was produced by the National Theatre of Iceland in 2005 and 2006.
The play takes you on a rollercoaster ride through the absurd, grot ...
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10 January 2012
- 21 January 2012
American Psycho meets V for Vendetta
A private act of revolt becomes an infectious underground movement. A Swiss bank clerk commits the seemingly senseless murder of a colleague. The public prosecutor assigned to the case finds he understands the mur ...
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09 January 2012
- 14 January 2012
Everyone knows the story of The Ugly Duckling. A baby duck was small and ugly, scorned by all, but grew into a beautiful swan. Happy Ending. Or was it?
Lesser known, is the other story, of a baby swan who was also small and ugly, scorned by all and gre ...
