What's On Theatre - Spring '19

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SPRING PERFORMANCES 2019

W H AT’S ON Birmingham City University

T H E AT R E

WELCOME TO ROYAL BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATOIRE THEATRE COMPANY’S SPRING ‘19 SEASON

ABOUT ROYAL BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATOIRE

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire is a multi-disciplinary institution of music and acting offering an even greater range of performances from world-class professionals and emerging talent.

Formerly known as Birmingham School of Acting, we are now part of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. With roots as a drama school going back to 1936, we retain the professional outlook and commitment to contemporary training that has seen our acting courses consistently rated amongst the best in the UK.

Comprised of final year students from our acting courses, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Theatre Company has established a reputation as one of the city’s most exciting outfits. The Company’s composition changes every year, so our seasons are highly eclectic, presenting a wide range of works – some challenging, some moving, some witty, but all with a freshness that comes from working with emerging professional actors.

The Company is supported by an energetic and creative production department consisting of a professional Stage Management Team, Property Master, Set Designer and Wardrobe Mistress. Each year, the Theatre Company is directed by professionals who present work nationally and internationally, ranging from productions in the West End to those for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

As You Like It at the Patrick Studio, December 2018 by Aimee Spinks

For more information on Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and its courses, come to an Open Day or visit www.bcu.ac.uk/bsa/opendays

We look forward to welcoming you to our performances.

To find out what’s on visit www.bcu.ac.uk/events

Julian Lloyd Webber Principal of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Stephen Simms Vice Principal (Acting)

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We also train the associated disciplines of Stage Management and Applied Performance, which provides the perfect learning environment to launch your career as a performance industry professional.

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The Trojan Women at The Crescent Theatre, December 2018 by Charlie Kirkpatrick

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Event

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The Terror

Crescent Theatre Main House

Wed 13 Mar: 7.30pm Thu 14 Mar: 7.30pm Fri 15 Mar: 2.30pm & 7.30pm Sat 16 Mar: 5pm

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Wed 13 Mar: 7.30pm Thu 14 Mar: 2.30pm & 7.30pm Fri 15 Mar: 7.30pm Sat 16 Mar: 5pm

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Wed 20 Mar: 7.30pm Thu 21 Mar: 7.30pm Fri 22 Mar: 2.30pm & 7.30pm Sat 23 Mar: 5pm

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Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Theatre Company presents…

THE TERROR

THE TERROR

Revolution will Eat its own Children Directed by Stephen Simms

Laburnum Grove

Picnic

Blue Orange

Crescent Theatre Main House

An exciting new physical theatre production.

Othello

Blue Orange

Thu 21 Mar: 7.30pm Fri 22 Mar: 2.30pm & 7.30pm Sat 23 Mar: 5pm

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Tin Men and the Telephone

Eastside Jazz Club @ Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Thu 7 Feb: 6.30pm

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Spring Opera: The Magic Flute

Crescent Theatre Main House

Thu 7 Mar: 7pm Fri 8 Mar: 7pm Sat 9 Mar: 2pm & 7pm

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Wed 1 - Sat 4 May

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...Until Proven Guilty

The Lock Up, Steelhouse Lane

Choreography by Maria Blundell-Palethorpe ‘The Terror’ is the name historians give to the darkest and most bloody part of the French Revolution, whose leaders were eventually murdered by their own followers: a pattern which has repeated across the centuries.

This production mixes film, music and live action, as characters and events from history crash into each other.

What happens when revolutionary barbarity and media celebrity collide? Will Marie Antoinette marry, snog, or kill President Kennedy? What terrors unfold when truth and lies are the same thing, and the ugly sisters drown Cinderella?

Visually stunning, this original production is unsettling, funny and beautiful.

Crescent Theatre Main House Wed 13 Mar: 7.30pm Thu 14 Mar: 7.30pm Fri 15 Mar: 2.30pm & 7.30pm Sat 16 Mar: 5pm

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Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Theatre Company presents…

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Theatre Company presents…

LABURNUM GROVE

PICNIC

By J.B. Priestley

By William Inge

Directed by Tony Bell

Directed by Danièle Sanderson

Priestley weaves a web of intrigue in sleepy suburbia with this companion piece to An Inspector Calls. A classic crime thriller or rallying cry for socialism that pre-dates the Welfare State; Laburnum Grove sounds a bell, ringing loud and clear into the 21st Century.

It’s a balmy labour day in the American heartland, and a group of women are preparing for the annual picnic.

Into their backyards walks a young drifter, Hal Carter, whose uncouth manners and titillating charm send the women reeling, especially the beautiful Madge. When Hal is forced out of town, Madge must decide whether their fleeting encounter is worth changing the course of her life.

PICNIC

Picnic is a superb piece of Mid-20th Century American storytelling by William Inge, who along with Tennessee Williams, defined American theatre in the 1950s.

This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Limited.

LABURNUM GROVE 6

Blue Orange

Crescent Theatre Main House

Wed 13 Mar: 7.30pm

Wed 20 Mar: 7.30pm

Thu 14 Mar: 2.30pm & 7.30pm

Thu 21 Mar: 7.30pm

Fri 15 Mar: 7.30pm

Fri 22 Mar: 2.30pm & 7.30pm

Sat 16 Mar: 5pm

Sat 23 Mar: 5pm 7

OTHELLO

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Theatre Company presents…

OTHELLO

TIN MEN AND THE TELEPHONE

By William Shakespeare

Piano and electronics Tony Roe

Directed by Scott Ellis

Drums Jamie Peet

A classic tragedy thick with jealousy, betrayal and deceit – Shakespeare’s Othello begins in the streets of Venice as the secret marriage of Desdemona, the senator’s daughter, and Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian Army is discussed.

Seeds of doubt sown; bait taken; traps laid. Watch men, maddened by jealousy, pushed to the extreme in this tumultuous production.

Tin Men and the Telephone have made a name for themselves with their innovative use of technology and multimedia – and following their four-concert residency with us back in November, the Amsterdam-based jazz giants are back.

Join Tony and the band for what The Times have described as ‘a 21st-century gig in which multimedia gadgetry and a sense of mischief combine to create something fresh and unexpected.’

Blue Orange

Eastside Jazz Club, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Thu 21 Mar: 7.30pm

Thu 7 Feb: 6.30pm

Fri 22 Mar: 2.30pm & 7.30pm Sat 23 Mar: 5pm 8

Bass Pat Cleaver

TIN MEN AND THE TELEPHONE 9

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Third Year Stage Management Students Present...

SPRING OPERA: THE MAGIC FLUTE

SPRING OPERA: THE MAGIC FLUTE

…UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY

Directed by Michael Barry

...Until Proven Guilty is an immersive jail experience, where you the audience member will become one of six suspects of a recent murder.

Conducted by Christopher Bucknall Royal Birmingham Conservatoire presents Mozart’s late masterpiece, The Magic Flute, sung in German with English dialogue. Join Tamino, Pamina and a host of unlikely characters in a quest for redemption through love – a quest which takes them through a broken landscape of betrayal, revenge and murder.

It is your job to decide which of you is the murderer and why, using evidence found and given to you. Use your recreation time wisely, watch out for corrupt guards, and remember not everything is always as it seems...

Crescent Theatre Main House

The Lock Up, Steelhouse Lane

Thu 7 Mar: 7pm

Wed 1 May: 11am, 2pm, 4.30pm, 5,30pm, 6.30pm

Fri 8 Mar: 7pm

Thu 2 May: 11am, 2pm, 4.30pm, 5.30pm, 6.30pm

Sat 9 Mar: 2pm & 7pm

Fri 3 May: 3pm, 4pm, 6.30pm, 7.30pm, 8.30pm

During the experience you may be in a cell by yourself, but it will always be light. Visit www.tagline.org.uk for more information.

Sat 4 May: 11am, 12pm, 2pm 10

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To book, please visit www.bcu.ac.uk/bsa

BOOKINGS

Box Office: 0121 331 5909 www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire

200 Jennens Road, Birmingham, B4 7XR

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Box Office: 0121 643 5858 www.crescent-theatre.co.uk

Sheepcote Street, Birmingham, B16 8AE (Accessible facilities available)

Crescent Theatre

118 Great Hampton Street, Birmingham, B18 6AD Box Office: 0121 212 2643 www.blueorangetheatre.co.uk

Blue Orange Theatre

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