PHOTO CREDIT: Marialena Maranda
Nottingham Playhouse Young Company performance
WHITE FEATHERS DATE/TIME: Fri 23 May (9.30am, 11am, 1pm & 2.30pm) FREE VENUE: Stonebridge City Farm PRICE: FREE - Tickets required WHAT IS IT? Theatre SUITABLE FOR: Children aged 9+ (and their families) RUNNING TIME: 50 mins
The piece moves around the farm so the audience will be standing throughout. Photo: Marialena Maranda
This interactive play explores the theme of World War 1 through a promenade performance made especially to be seen at Stonebridge City Farm. Members of a fictional family work on the farm during the war, sharing their stories and inviting the audience to help with the daily dilemmas they face.
Truth is Stranger Than Fiction present:
BLOODY SILLY BUSINESS DATE/TIME: Fri 23 May (7pm) VENUE: Waverley Theatre, PRICE: £3
Nottingham Trent University WHAT IS IT? Theatre This is a promenade performance
A devised puppetry, video and spoken word performance by final year Theatre Design Students at Nottingham Trent University. The show features WWI stories taken from interviews with the last surviving participants in the Great War, combined with contemporary soldiers’ tales from Afghanistan and Iraq.
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⊲ FRI 23 MAY
THE MOST BRIGHT THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE IN MY LIFE — Alan Rickman
Dance4 present:
MARIA HASSABI — PREMIERE
GENERATION JEANS
DATE/TIME: Fri 23 May (8pm) VENUE: Djanogly Theatre, Lakeside Arts Centre PRICE: £16 (£14 concessions, £11 restricted view) WHAT IS IT? Dance / Performance SUITABLE FOR: 12+ RUNNING TIME: 1 hr 15 mins
DATE/TIME: Fri 23 May (7pm),
A premiere is a highly anticipated event, representing the first meeting with the audience: the viewer and critic. PREMIERE explores the transformative appeal of this over-emphasized moment that validates the existence of any creation as a “work of art.” On stage five dancers perform solos at the same time. The work unravels through impossibly slow movement, with attention fixed on the intricacies of every shape, shift and negotiation of space. PREMIERE is a co-production of Dance4, The Kitchen, Performa (New York), Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Kaaitheater (Brussels), steirischer herbst (Graz).
Belarus Free Theatre
Sat 24 May (2.30pm & 6pm) VENUE: Neville Studio at Nottingham Playhouse PRICE: £16 (£14 concessions)
For three performances only, Belarus Free Theatre bring back their critically acclaimed duologue between an actor and a DJ, about jeans, rock music and freedom. The story begins in the Soviet Union. Denim and rock ‘n’ roll were prohibited. Selling jeans meant certain arrest by the KGB. It then moves to the current days of the last dictatorship in Europe – Belarus.
BOOK TICKETS ON: 0115 941 9419
WHAT IS IT? Theatre SUITABLE FOR: 12+ RUNNING TIME: 1hr 20 mins
Very limited availability, book early
Bringing to life stories of arrests, kidnappings and living in a country controlled by fear, Generation Jeans is an ode to the people who speak out about repression and censorship in their countries and who fight for freedom everywhere. “You go to the theatre to hear a story; you end up having met a man who, in his mixture of self-mockery and seriousness, shows a spiritual resilience that makes dictatorship look even more inflexible and absurd”. — The Guardian
EUROPEAN THEATRE: THEN & NOW DATE/TIME: Fri 23 May (9pm) VENUE: Neville Studio at
Nottingham Playhouse PRICE: FREE - Tickets required WHAT IS IT? Discussion SUITABLE FOR: All RUNNING TIME: 1 hr
Hosted by the Telegraph’s Dominic FREE Cavendish our panel discussion will feature artists and directors from across Europe debating how European theatre has changed over the past 100 years and the challenges it faces currently.
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