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Spring/ Summer 2015

For full shows listings visit our website:

platformtheatre.co.uk @theatreplatform

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Tickets You can now book tickets for all of our shows online.

Visit our ticket site platformtheatre.co.uk, click on Buy Tickets, pick your seats and then follow the instructions to pay.

You can now also call 0844 888 9991 to book your tickets.

Alternatively you can buy tickets on the door (cash only) subject to availability.

Large group bookings and school group discounts are available – please email us for more information.

THEATRE PROGRAMME Spring/Summer 2015

Welcome Platform is a venue, a hive of creativity, a company of performers and technicians and a hub for learning and skills development.

Although most of all Platform is for creative and aspiring young artists eager to embrace the world of performing arts.

Housed within the City College Norwich main Ipswich Road

campus, Platform has been running accredited courses for the last 15 years.

Platform aims to embrace vocationalism and offers a realistic working environment to emerging performing arts practitioners whilst studying on their industry relevant courses.

The Platform Company produces and tours

work in a range of performance mediums including music, dance, musicals, straight plays, site specific performances and outreach work. The company’s creative ethos explores and adapts existing works as well as devising exciting and original performances.

To find out more about Platform and for most uptodate show listings visit platformtheatre.co.uk

New Youth Dance

at City College Norwich

Commercial Dance

Street Dance

For 5 to 7 year olds Tuesdays – 4.30-5.30pm Using dance games and creative play to generate fun and funky routines inspired by your favourite Pop stars.

For 8 to12 year olds Tuesdays – 5.30-6.30pm An energetic and fun class where you can learn routines inspired by your favourite Pop stars.

Jazz Dance

For ages 13 and over Wednesdays – 5-6pm These classes will cover traditional Jazz, musical theatre and lyrical styles. You will be taught jazz technique as well as learning fun and energetic routines.

only £45 for a 10 week term Email platform@ccn.ac.uk or call 01603 773 354 to find out more

For ages 13 and over Thursdays – 5-6pm A modern dynamic class allowing for creativity and artistic flair.

Creat ive Contemporary For ages 13 and over Thursday – 6-7pm An energetic class which encourages creativity and physicality.

WHEN YOU WHEN CURE YOU ME CURE

BY JACK THORNE

BY JACK THORNE

A young executive reaches breaking point and decides to disappear.

He pays a visit to a master of the craft in the form of a seafront fortune teller in Southend.

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Friday 20th February 7.30pm

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your tickets online: platformtheatre.co.uk Telephone: 0844 888 9991 Or buy your tickets on the door (Subject to availability)

The performance contains language and themes that some people may Þnd offensive!

The performance contains language and themes that some people may Þnd offensive!

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The Tale of a Nai

By Nicholas Richards

An educational performance aim ed at children aged between 7 -11 years old.

Mr Gauche, an acci dent prone man injures himself and then goes o n a journey of dis covery as he lear n s how the body fi ghts infection.

Available to book for your school now.

Only ÂŁ60 per performance.

For more information or to book please email gemma.conlon@ccn.ac.uk

How to disappear completely and Never be found

by Fin Kennedy A young executive reaches breaking point and decides to disappear.

in association with Nick Hern

He pays a visit to a master of the craft in the form of a seafront fortune teller in Southend.

Haunted by visitations from a pathologist who swears he is already lying flat out on her slab, he begins a nightmarish journey to the edge of existence that sees him stripped of everything that made him who he was.

Wednesday 11th March 2015 at 7.30pm Performed by Level 3 Acting Tickets – £5.50 / £3.50 concessions

Buy your tickets online: platformtheatre.co.uk Telephone: 0844 888 9991 Or buy your tickets on the door (Subject to availability)

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This exclusive workshop, delivered by qualified industry professionals, will give you a taste of what it’s like to study Dance here at ich City College Norw

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metamorphosis by steven berkoff

Thursday 12th March 2015 at 7.30pm Performed by Level 3 Acting (year 2) Tickets – £5.50 / £3.50 concessions

Kafka’s fable of a man who wakes up turned into a large insect

Buy your tickets online: platformtheatre.co.uk Telephone: 0844 888 9991 Or buy your tickets on the door (Subject to availability)

by Jez

Butterw in assoc orth iation w ith Nick On St Geo Hern local coun rge’s Day, the mor n t waster an ry fair, Johnny ‘Roo ing of the d Lord of s t e r’ Byron, Misrule, is a wanted man.

The counc il officials wa an evictio n notice, h nt to serve him is son wan taken to t ts to b he fair, a vengeful fa e wants to g ther ive him a s and a mot erious kicking, ley crew o f mates wants his ample sup ply of drugs a nd alcoho l.

This performance contains language and themes that some people may find offensive

Buy your tickets online: platformtheatre.co.uk Telephone: 0844 888 9991 Or buy your tickets on the door (Subject to availability)

Friday 13th March 2015 at 7.30pm Performed by Level 3 performance Tickets – £5.50 / £3.50 concessions

Bob Fosse

inspired by the work of

LIFE IS JUST A BOWL

OF Tuesday 17th and Wednesday 18th March 2015 – 7.30pm

TICKETS – £5.50 / £3.50 CONCESSIONS Buy your tickets online: platformtheatre.co.uk Telephone: 0844 888 9991 Or buy your tickets on the door (Subject to availability)

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27/03/15 - 7.30pm

at EPIC STUDIOS, nORWICH IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE PETER JONES ENTERPRISE ACADEMY call Epic on 01603 727 727 to book your tickets

Tickets (PER SHOW) £5.50 / £3.50 concessions

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TICKETS (PER SHOW)

Shows start at 7.30pm

£3.50 – CONCESSIONS

£5.50 – FULL PRICE

Buy your tickets online: platformtheatre.co.uk Telephone: 0844 888 9991 Or buy your tickets on the door (Subject to availability)

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by Mike Bartlett

An epic rollercoaster of a play travelling from 1968 to 2525 and back again, driven by an all-pervasive fear of the future and a guilty pleasure in the excesses of the present.

A fast and furious metropolitan crash of people, scenes and decades, as three sisters attempt to navigate their dislocated lives and loves, while their dysfunctional father, a brilliant scientist, predicts global catastrophe.

Performed by Level 3 Acting (Year 1) Visit www.platformtheatre.co.uk for more information

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Performed by Level 2 Performance Wednesday 20th May 2015 2pm TUESDAY 19th May to Thursday 21st May 2015 7.30pm Tickets – £8.50/£5.50 concessions

presented by permission of www.schoolswillrockyou.com

Presented by permission of www.schoolswillrockyou.com Buy your tickets online: platformtheatre.co.uk Telephone: 0844 888 9991 Or buy your tickets on the door (Subject to availability)

Thursday 4th June 2015 at 2pm, 6pm and 8pm Friday 5th June 2015 at 6pm and 8pm Performed by Level 2 and 3 Dance Tickets – £8.50 / £5.50 concessions

ILLUM A conceptual dance performance.

Cutting edge choreography exploring the dimensions of space and light.

Standing only.

Buy your tickets online: platformtheatre.co.uk Telephone: 0844 888 9991 Or buy your tickets on the door (Subject to availability)

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Witches of

Eastwick A musical comedy by JOHN DEMPSEY and DANA P ROWE Originally produced on the London Stage by Cameron Mackintosh This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Ltd. on behalf of Music Theatre International and Cameron Mackintosh Ltd.

When three desperate housewives in small town America wish for the man of their dreams they get far more than they bargain for.

All hell breaks loose – quite literally – when Darryl Van Horne arrives to liven things up!

Wednesday 17th June to Friday 19th June 2015 at 7.30pm Thursday 18th June – 2pm Level 3 Musical Theatre Tickets – £8.50 / £5.50 concessions Buy your tickets online: platformtheatre.co.uk Telephone: 0844 888 9991 Or buy your tickets on the door (Subject to availability)

Great Expectations.

By Charles Dickens Adapted by Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod

A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict forever changes the life of the orphaned Pip. Turning his back on his humble beginnings as a blacksmith’s apprentice, he strives to better himself and become a gentleman, unaware of the hidden dangers that await him. This brilliant dramatisation was the RSC’s mainstage Christmas Show in 2005.

Thursday 25th June to Saturday 27th June 2015 at 7.30pm Friday 26th June 2015 at 1.30pm Performed by Level 3 Acting (Year 2)

Tickets

£8.50/£5.50 concessions Buy your tickets online: platformtheatre.co.uk Telephone: 0844 888 9991 Or buy your tickets on the door (Subject to availability)

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2nd July 2015

By Wil iaemare Shakesp

On tour as part of the Young Norfolk Arts Festival.

See their programme of events or email gemma.conlon@ccn.ac.uk for more information

Apprenticeships

Find out more about specific career sectors at City College Norwich

Sport

Friday 12 March 5pm to 7.30pm StartUp Lounge Ipswich Rd Campus

Retail

Friday 24 April 4pm to 6.30pm Retail Training Suite and ego, Chapelfield

Motor Vehicle and Engineering

Thursday 12 March 6pm to 8pm StartUp Lounge Ipswich Rd Campus

Construction and Electrical

Friday 17 April 2pm to 8pm Ipswich Rd Campus

Saturday 18 April 12pm to 4pm Ipswich Rd Campus

Business

Creative Arts/Media

Friday 24 April 5pm to 8pm StartUp Lounge Ipswich Rd Campus

Wednesday 25th April 9am to 12 noon Creative Arts Building Ipswich Rd Campus

Visit www.ccn.ac.uk/events or call 01603 773 773 to find out more

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SHOWS AT A GLANCE WHEN YOU CURE ME

SECONDSIDE Friday 20th February 2015 – 7.30pm Tickets: £10.00 / £5 concessions

A SHOWCASE

LEVEL 2 MUSIC 20/03/15 – 7.30pm 06/05/15 – 7.30pm Tickets (per show): £5.50 / £3.50 concessions

THE TAIL OF A NAIL

ON TOUR AT SCHOOLS 23/02/15 to 27/02/15 Email gemma.conlon@ccn.ac.uk for more information

HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY AND NEVER BE FOUND

LEVEL 3 ACTING Wednesday 11th March 2015 – 7.30pm Tickets: £5.50 / £3.50 concessions

METAMORPHOSIS

LEVEL 3 ACTING (YEAR 2) Thursday 12th March 2015 – 7.30pm Tickets: £5.50 / £3.50 concessions

JERUSALEM

LEVEL 3 PERFORMANCE Friday 13th March 2015 – 7.30pm Tickets: £5.50 / £3.50 concessions

LIFE IS JUST A BOWL OF CHERRIES

LEVEL 3 MUSICAL THEATRE AND DANCE Tuesday 17th and Wednesday 18th March 2015 – 7.30pm Tickets: £5.50 / £3.50 concessions

ILLUMIN8

LEVEL 2 AND 3 DANCE Thursday 4th June 2015 at 2pm, 6pm and 8pm Friday 5th June 2015 at 6pm and 8pm Tickets: £8.50 / £5.50 concessions

SCHOOLS WILL ROCK YOU

LEVEL 2 PERFORMANCE Wednesday 20th May 2015 – 2pm Tuesday 19th May to Thursday 21st May 2015 – 7.30pm Tickets: £8.50 / £5.50 concessions

THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK

LEVEL 3 MUSICAL THEATRE Wednesday 17th June to Friday 19th June 2015 at 7.30pm Thursday 18th June – 2pm Tickets: £8.50 / £5.50 concessions

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

LEVEL 3 ACTING (YEAR 2) Thursday 25th June to Saturday 27th June 2015 – 7.30pm Friday 26th June 2015 – 1.30pm Tickets: £8.50 / £5.50 concessions

A COMEDY OF ERRORS AMPLIFIED

LEVEL 3 MUSIC 19/03/15 – 7.30pm 27/03/15 – 7.30pm at Epic Studios Tickets (per show) : £5.50 / £3.50 concessions

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ON TOUR AS PART OF THE YOUNG NORFOLK ARTS FESTIVAL 25/06/15 to 02.07/15 Email gemma.conlon@ccn.ac.uk for more information

presented by permission of www.schoolswillrockyou.com