The Getting Connected Season 2011 @ The NDT

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EPIC STORIES

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January - May 2011

Getting Connected Season all theatre starts here

REGENT’S PLACE

Photography: Thomas Edwards

Thursday 27th January - Wednesday 2nd February 2011

PRIMARY VOICES Primary Voices is back and better than ever! This January Quicksilver Theatre will present 10 World Premieres - all written by local ten and eleven year olds.

For the last four months professional playwrights, actors and theatre makers have been working with Year Six school children all across Camden.

As a result over one hundred and fifty brand new plays arrived from these young playwrights.

Now, after fierce competition, here are the best ten in their first fully professional productions: a perfect and thrilling start to 2011.

Creative Team

Director Guy Holland Set Designer Jo Paul Lighting Designer Chloe Kenward Playwrights Adhom Miah, Aiyshah Faruque, Anisa Hirad, Caitlin Johnston-Fleming, Fatima Erreg, Flora Price, Kaynath Shahid, Lauren Butcher, Mariam Mohamed, Omayma Ejlilou, Rahim Ali, Sabrin Nunow, Sara Benyoucef, Sarah Francisco, Seema Jaff, Shakera Begum, Shereha Begum and Sultan Ullah

Performances

Weekdays @ 10:30 & 13:30 Sat @ 14:00 & 17:00

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Quicksilver has been at the forefront of bringing children’s theatre into the mainstream for over thirty years. Based in London, the work of Quicksilver has been presented all over the UK and internationally. www.quicksilvertheatre.org

For best priced tickets please visit www.newdiorama.com

Tuesday 8th - Saturday 26th February

STRINDBERG’S APARTMENT “Everybody business...”

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everyone

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The World Premiere of a bold and breathtaking production that weaves five of Strindberg’s mini-masterpieces, The Ghost Sonata, Storm, After the Fire, The Pelican and The Black Glove, into one exhilarating spectacle in a radical new adaptation by Simon Reade.

Sit right at the heart of the action in an apartment block without walls on a Dogvillestyle architect’s plan that occupies the full space of the auditorium.

Simon Reade’s plays include Ted Hughes’ Tales from Ovid and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children for the Royal Shakespeare Company. His many adaptations of the work of Philip Pullman and Michael Morpurgo include the award-winning Private Peaceful.

The faction theatre co. return to the New Diorama Theatre as an Associate Ensemble following the recent success of Schiller’s The Robbers. Artistic Director Mark Leipacher directs a company of 17 actors in a visually stunning evocation of lost love, death, desire and arson.

Thursday 10th February 2011 POST SHOW Q & A WITH SIMON READE

Director Mark Leipacher interviews Simon Reade about his ideas for Strindberg’s Apartment and the process of adapting five one-act plays for the stage. He also discusses his long and varied career including his work for the RSC, The Gate, Bristol OId Vic, Theatre Royal Bath and Filter.

Simon Reade was Artistic Director of the Bristol Old Vic and formerly Literary Manager and Dramaturg of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Creatives

Writer Simon Reade & August Strindberg Director Mark Leipacher Lighting Matthew Graham Music Thomas Whitelaw

Performances

Tues - Sat @ 19:30.

Sat Matinee @ 15:00

Ticket Prices £14 / £10

Every Tuesday

2 full price tickets for the price of 1 every Tuesday.

Tickets must be booked in advance of the day of performance and are subject to availability.

Special Events

Wednesday 9th February 2011 OPENING NIGHT PARTY

Help us celebrate the opening of our eighth production with this post-show party with members of the cast and creative team. Enjoy the party atmosphere with stalls selling pea soup, vodka and traditional Swedish meatballs.

Wednesday 16th February 2011 THE GHOST SUPPER GALA

Make your reservations immediately for an extraordinary evening of food and theatre with a three course meal including post-show desserts and coffee with members of the cast and creative team. Tickets cost £45 and include a ticket for the evening performance.

The Faction Theatre co. is an independent theatre company dedicated to innovative revivals of classical texts. www.thefaction.org.uk

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Tuesday 1st - Saturday 12th March Scratch Built Productions Present

BABY BOOMERS Start from nothing, become Creative Team everything then simply pop, wither Director John Wright or float away.

Performers Nick Ash & Becky Kitter A stunning piece of physical theatre, Baby Boomers substitutes language for balloons, blending mask, puppetry and extreme balloon modelling to tell this poignant story of love, loss and regret.

Performances

Tues - Sat @ 19:30 Matinee Sat @ 15:00

Double Bill

See 2 new shows for the price of 1. Baby

From acclaimed director John Wright co- Boomers will be performed nightly as part of a double bill with The Confetti Maker founder of Trestle and Told by an idiot, (details overleaf).

Baby Boomers tells the heart-warming story of a young couple from their first Ticket Prices meeting and follows them through the £12.50/£10.50 Each ticket will allow entry to both of the performances life they make together. in the double bill.

But a tragic loss threatens to consume their lives forever.

Special Events

Saturday 5th - Sunday 6th March

Acting Without Bullshit “A lovely little romance that will appeal to anyone with a heart and an imagination”.

The Scotsman “ridiculous, engrossing and hilarious”.

Three weeks “Stunningly beautiful”.

The List

with Director John Wright The great paradox in acting is that it has to mean everything and nothing to you - at the same time.

Turning aside from conventional approaches to acting this course examines the extent to which you can be credible and playful at the same time through the use of masks and noses. For more detials please visit www.newdiorama.com £100 per participant.

For best priced tickets please visit www.newdiorama.com

Tuesday 1st - Saturday 12th March Frank Wurzinger Presents

THE CONFETTI MAKER

Frank Wurzinger’s new solo show, The Confetti Maker, is a day in the life of a full-time confetti factory worker.

Full of optimism, he pursues his profession: making confetti - cutting, perforating, shredding - all day, every day - but he has ambitions, dreams and fears far beyond the factory life – romance … love … family The Confetti Maker is a highly visual piece. It combines slapstick, puppetry, absurd storytelling, improvisation and, of course, lots of small bits of paper, which are expertly woven into a humorous, yet poignant show.

Creatives

Director John Wright Performer Frank Wurzinger

Performances

Tues - Sat @ 19:30.

Sat Matinee @ 15:00

Double Bill

See 2 new shows for the price of 1.

The Confetti Maker will be performed nightly as part of a double bill with Baby Boomers (details on previous page).

Ticket Prices £12.50/£10.50

Each ticket will allow entry to both of the performances in the double bill.

Special Events

Saturday 5th - Sunday 6th March

“Frank Wurzinger is hilarious” The Stage “Wurzinger created a truly unique performance that had me laughing and smiling throughout... awkwardly brilliant” Remotegoat

Acting Without Bullshit

with Director John Wright The great paradox in acting is that it has to mean everything and nothing to you - at the same time.

Turning aside from conventional approaches to acting this course examines the extent to which you can be credible and playful at the same time through the use of masks and noses. For more detials please visit www.newdiorama.com £100 per participant.

For best priced tickets please visit www.newdiorama.com

TIME IS FAST RUNNING OUT

Operation begins 7th March

OPERATION: SKY HIGH Something sinister is happening in the tunnels under the New Diorama Theatre.

Creative Team

A group of operatives are hatching a dark plan. Luckily, one of their operatives is a mole who has started to send out emails full of codes, clues and cryptic hints.

To take part simply send an email introducing yourself to skyhigh@newdiorama.com.

We need your help. If you fancy yourself as a codebreaker, spy or just the ultimate nosy neighbour, drop us an email to partake. Adult, child or a bit of both - feel free to join in.

There are clues everywhere.

Quicksilver

To Take Part

Quicksilver has been at the forefront of bringing children’s theatre into the mainstream for over thirty years. Based in London, the work of Quicksilver has been presented all over the UK and internationally. www.quicksilvertheatre.org

Time is fast running out...

For more information please visit www.newdiorama.com

Wednesday 16th - Saturday 19th March Transport and Central School of Speech & Drama present

THE EDGE “There is something about the edge: the edge of the land and water, of habitation and wilderness of safety and danger. Here possibilities abound that don’t exist in the security of the interior.” Sunand Prasad

Creatives

Taking narratives of channel swimmers, migrants clinging on to the fringes, stories of the flood and the formation of the English Channel 200,000 years ago, The Edge is a new project in development that explores the place where the sea meets the land and where we position ourselves within this epic relationship.

Wed - Sat @ 19:30 Fri & Sat Matinees @ 14:30

Devised by 3rd Year BA (Hons) Acting (Collaborative and Devised Theatre) students with Transport.

Douglas Rintoul has directed for Transport, Barbican, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Salisbury Playhouse, Dundee Rep. and the New Wolsey Theatre and has also been an associate director to Simon McBurney and Deborah Warner.

Director Douglas Rintoul Designer Clement Garritty Lighting Designer Kieran O’Brien Video Designer Anna Mesterhazy

Performances

Ticket Prices £12.50/£10.50

Groups Bookings

To enquire about special rates for large groups please call 020 7419 2000.

Transport is a theatre company based on the south-east coast of England that exists to make work which celebrates the diversity of the human experience, engages the imagination and promotes new theatrical forms and collaborations www.transport-theatre.eu

For best priced tickets please visit www.newdiorama.com

Tuesday 22nd - Saturday 26th March The Movement presents

THE TEMPEST Join the critically acclaimed Movement Theatre Company as they tour their beautiful rendition of William Shakespeare’s final tale.

Creative Team

Drawing on the narrative styles of the Commedia Dell’Arte and combining stunning masks, live music, dance and puppetry, this promises to be a fantastic evening’s entertainment suitable for all the family.

Tues - Sat @ 19:30 Matinee Sat @ 15:00

Winners of Cambridge University’s Thomas Nashe award, and TCS ‘Play of the Year 2009’ this young company have drawn comparison with the RSC and have been recently featured by the Arden Shakespeare. Book early to avoid disappointment.

“To rival the RSC” The Stage ***** “Utterly brilliant in conception and performance. See this!” Cambridge Tab **** “Something new and wonderful” Broadway Baby

Writer William Shakespeare Director Ben Blyth

Performances

Ticket Prices £12.50/£10.50

School Bookings

To enquire about special rates for school and college groups please call 020 7419 2000. This performance may be of particular interest to those studying devised theatre.

The Movement are an exciting new theatre company comprised of recent graduates from the University of Cambridge. Heavily influenced by the works of Grotowski, Artaud, and Brecht, ‘The Movement’ specialises in adapting classical theatre for the modern audience in challenging, inventive and accessible ways

www.themovement.co.uk

For best priced tickets please visit www.newdiorama.com

Photography: Ludovic Des Cognets

Tuesday 29th March - Saturday 2nd April

Company FZ present

HORSE The award-winning Flick Ferdinando seamlessly moves from hilarity to tragedy unleashing a stable of unstable characters in a deliciously dark physical comedy.

Prepare to reassess how far one woman’s passion for all things equine can go, in a show where the horse obsessed become the horse possessed.

HORSE is visually arresting, hilarious and just a little bit risqué.

If you like ‘The League of Gentlemen’ with a bit of ‘Carry On’ this is definitely the show for you “Expect to be entertained, expect to be disturbed and expect to laugh a lot.”

Three Weeks, Edinburgh “Delightfully wrong... refreshingly subversive” The Scotsman

Creatives

Perfomer Flick Ferdinando Director David Bernstein

Performances

Tues - Sat @ 19:30

Ticket Prices £12.50/ £10.50

Group Bookings

To enquire about special rates for large groups please call 020 7419 2000.

Company FZ are Flick Ferdinando and John-Paul Zaccarini. This unique partnership creates work that is challenging, sensitive and passionate. The work is human and compelling to watch. It is a true synthesis of Design, Theatre, Physicality and Circus Arts. This is visual theatre for the 21st Century. www.companyfz.com

Illustration: ForRoss best priced tickets please visit www.newdiorama.com Tony

Tuesday 5th - Saturday 30th April Charm Offensive presents

WIFE TO JAMES WHELAN Head-hunted for a plum job in Dublin, James Whelan turned his back on his hometown of Kilbegan and on Nan, the love of his life.

Creative Team

Seven years later, flush with status and success, James returns to Kilbegan determined to share his good fortune and find a bride.

Tues - Sat @ 19:30 Matinee Sat @ 15:30

Writer Teresa Deevy Director Gavin McAlinden

Performances

Ticket Prices £15.50/£12.50

This warm, funny and moving play by Abbey Theatre playwright Teresa Deevy, lost for over 70 years, now receives its British Premiere directed by Gavin McAlinden.

“Never less than compelling.”

New York Times “Lost Irish play comes to light.”

Time Out NY Critics’ Choice

Charm Offensive’s previous productions include You Can’t Take It With You by Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman, The Gigli Concert by Tom Murphy and the British Premiere of Gates of Gold

by Frank McGuinness. www.charmoffensive.org.uk

charmof fensive For best priced tickets please visit www.newdiorama.com

Friday 6th - Sunday 8th May Trestle Unmasked in association with the Unicorn Theatre presents Oscar Wilde’s

BIRTHDAY OF THE INFANTA Adults and young people alike are invited by the Infanta, the Spanish princess, to her twelfth birthday party.

Creative Team

Director Emily Gray Composer: Laurence Kaye Dramaturg: Carl Miller Designer: Jean Chan Lighting Designer: Anna Watson Producer: Jo Salkilld

This is the only day of the year she is allowed to play with other children, but mixing with those not of her own rank comes at a price.

Performances

Thurs - Sat @ 19:30 Matinee Sun @ 15:00

Adapted from the bittersweet story by Oscar Wilde and performed in Trestle’s unique physical style, The Birthday of the Ticket Prices Infanta captures a transitional moment £12.50/£10.50 of choice when the heart could melt or School Bookings freeze.

Drawing on the passion and rythmns of Spain, Trestle Unmasked takes you on a compelling journey, through the constraints of social hierarchies to the price paid for love.

To enquire about special rates for school and college groups please call 020 7419 2000. This performance may be of particular interest to those studying devised theatre.

Trestle collaborates with UK and international artists to create physical storytelling theatre with diverse cultural expression and has been touring devised theatre across the UK and abroad since 1981 www.trestle.org.uk

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Illustration: Tony Ross

Tuesday 10th - Saturday 28th May True Heart Theatre presents

73A A bus journey. A conversation Creative Team between mother and son. An ending Writer Yat Yau and a beginning.

Director Wing Hong Li A Mother and Son take a 45 minute Performances bus journey to visit the dying father. Tues - Sat @ 19:00 & 20:30

Matinee Sat @ 14:30 & 16:00

Written by award-winning Hong Kong 10th - 14th & 24th - 28th May 19:00 English, 20:30 Cantonese. playwright, Yat Yau, and directed by - 21st May Wing-Hong Li, Co-Artistic Director of 17th 19:00 Cantonese, 20:30 English.

True Heart Theatre. This funny, poignant insight into the lives of Hong Kong people Ticket Prices is a mirror to family relationships all over £8.50/£6.50 for one part, either the world.

English or Cantonese. £14.50/£10.50 for both parts.

The same play is performed in two language versions each day: English School Bookings and Cantonese.

To enquire about special rates for school and college groups please call 020 7419 2000.

True Heart Theatre is a Londonbased Chinese-led theatre company with the capacity to work multi-lingually - in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin - to produce performances giving insight into the life of the Chinese in Britain and encourage crosscultural integration. www.trueheart.org.uk

For best priced tickets please visit www.newdiorama.com

Illustration: Tony Ross

Friday 27th May Spare Tyre presents

TROJAN WOMEN Spare Tyre returns to the New Diorama Theatre after the success of the Spare Tyre Festival in Autumn 2010.

Creative Team

Bring your sandwiches to a free outdoor performance for passersby. Have a laugh while you eat your lunch.

Performances

Troy has been violently defeated by the Greeks. The men have been murdered.

The women are dragged from their homes to become life-long slaves.

FREE

And Athena has to go to three different shops just to find plain Hob Nobs for Poseidon. Yes three!

This is the HotPot’s telling of Euripides’ Trojan Women, who bring comedy, singing and humanity to the tragic tale.

Director Isaac Ngugi Devising Company HotPots (Spare Tyre’s company of artists aged 60+)

Friday @ 13:00, 13:40, 14:20 Each performance lasts 20 minutes.

Ticket Prices

Spare Tyre uses and makes theatre that enables voiceless communities and individuals to share and celebrate their untold stories, transforming lives and challenging prejudice.

HotPots are Spare Tyre’s company of artists aged 60+.

They are skilled artists tackling issues that affect their own community and projecting their voices to a wider audience. www.sparetyre.org

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Tuesday 31st May - Saturday 4th June Rannel Theatre Company and makin projects, in association with Swindon Dance and Redbridge Drama Centre present

FLHIP FLHOP Take a whole bag full of classic comedy routines, shake them up and update them for the hip hop age and you have the exhilarating and hilarious Flhip Flhop.

Two painter-decorators are doing a job in a friend’s flat, but in traditional slapstick manner things go wrong. In a dynamic display of one-upmanship, they compete to out-do each other with moves essentially unchanged from the time of Marx Brothers - hat swapping, leg lifting - and an utterly brilliant police chase acted out to increasingly ludicrous sound effects.

Outrageously talented performers, Matt Bailey and Joey D combine witty dialogue, slapstick, laughter, breakdance, beatbox and Dj’ing to create an energising comedy for all.

“Wonderfully fresh and fine comic actors… superb funky moves and breaking.

A comedic gem.” ***** Scotsman

Creative Team

Performers Matt Bailey (DJ Baila) & Joey D

Performances

Tue - Sat @ 19:30.

Sat Matinee @ 15:00

Ticket Prices £12.50/£10.50

Group Bookings

To enquire about special rates for large groups please call 020 7419 2000.

Putting a fresh new twist on HipHop theatre, Rannel Theatre Company continue to tour their acclaimed work Flhip Flhop: Everything Happens on the Break across the UK and international theatre and festivals this Summer and throughout the Autumn of 2010. www.rannel.co.uk

“Rannel Theatre Company throw down an hour of genuinely breathtaking physical comic theatre. This is a genuinely laughout-loud funny show, skilfully executed with razor sharp timing and intrinsic hip hop skills.” ***** The List

For best priced tickets please visit www.newdiorama.com

All Yours Sundays

All this season Quicksilver will be inviting best new and established children’s theatre companies to take over the New Diorama.

Sunday 27th February

Sunday 3rd April

Why The Lion Danced

Night Light

Paper Balloon present

Yellow Earth Present

Celebrate Chinese New Year with Yellow Earth!

Every thirteen moon the dreaded monster Nian pays a visit to the village. The audience, cast in the role of villagers, must protect themselves.

Which animal will save them? Perfect for over 5s. Written by Carey English.

Sunday 6th March AJTC Present

Scarecrow

A story told with music, movement, puppetry and fun. Perfect for over 5s. Written by Mike Kenny and directed by Rosamunde Hutt.

Sunday 13th March Scratch Built Productions (with John Wright)

Baby Boombers

A stunning piece of physical theatre, Baby Boomers substitutes language with balloons, blending mask, puppetry and extreme balloon modelling to tell this poignant story of love, loss and regret.

Sunday 20th March Quicksilver present

Upstairs in the Sky

Two delivery people arrive with a box addressed to the audience - a Make-It-Yourself Story Kit! At first they can’t agree on what story to tell, but once they put their differences aside they tell a fantastical story about family love, loss and the enjoyment of life.

9 year old Marina spends all her time in her room with only her origami creatures for company. The man in the moon sits all alone pulling in the tides with his moon beam fishing rod. When these two meet, everything changes. A magical story full of puppetry and song appropriate for ages 4 and up.

Sunday 10th April Teatro-saurus present

OOK! and the Terrible Thing that happened

New comic, masked play for the whole family. It’s up to Chester, Esther, and OOK to save the world from being gobbled up by the All-Devouring Piggy-Bank of Doom!

Sunday 8th May

Trestle & the Unicorn present

Birthday of the Infanta

Adults and young people alike are invited by the Infanta, the Spanish princess, to her twelfth birthday party. Drawing on the passion and rythmns of Spain, Trestle Unmasked takes you on a compelling journey, through the constraints of social hierarchies to the price paid for love.

Performances

Selected Sundays @ 15:00

All Tickets £6

Check on our website to find out about any extra events that might accompany the following performances.

PAPER

BALLOON

For best priced tickets please visit www.newdiorama.com

Photography: Richard Davenport

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To contact us simply drop an email to hello@newdiorama.com or post a letter to our address which is listed on the back of this brochure.

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HIRING US

The New Diorama Theatre is the perfect location for both corporate and private events.

Our 80-seat theatre and light and airy foyer and bar are ideal for a large range of occasions: so far we’ve hosted conferences, birthdays, book launches and play readings.

To talk to us about your event email us at hire@newdiorama.com.

You can visit the theatre website at www.newdiorama.com for all the latest listings, comedy nights and information.

We’re offically addicted to twitter. Join us @newdiorama for up-to-the-moment news, views and reviews from members of staff.

If you’re a theatre company and would like to come and work with us here at the theatre we’d love to hear from you as well.

To propose a project to us and to start a conversation please drop us an email at programming@newdiorama.com.

We look forward to hearing from you!

FINDING US Euston 7 minute walk

Kings Cross 15 minute walk

Great Portland Street

Warren Street

Euston Square 1 minute walk

SUPPORTING US DONATING

VOLUNTEERING

If you’d like to discuss how you might help us please email hello@newdiorama. com.

Please email us at volunteer@ newdiorama.com for more information.

Our work can only happen with the help and support of generous individuals and organsations.

We need reliable people who would like to give us some of their free time as volunteers.

Book at www.newdiorama.com or on 0844 2090 344

EPIC STORIES intimately told

The New Diorama specalises in the work of performance companies and ensembles and is run and managed by Quicksilver Theatre.

www.newdiorama.com

Guy Holland - CEO & Co-Artistic Director

David Byrne - Theatre & Programme Manager Sophie Wallis - Assistant Theatre Manager Anne Mayer - Press Agent Associate Ensembles:

The Faction Theatre Co

15 - 16 Triton Street, Regent’s Place, London, NW1 3BF Warren Street, Euston Square, Great Portland Street, Regent’s Park

Carey English - Co-Artistic & Education Director Jemima Lee - General Manager Katie Boon - Education Coordinator

Third Party

Trestle Unmasked

Spare Tyre

Wheelchair spaces available for each performance and there is an accessible toilet Guide and hearing dogs are welcome in the auditorium (please inform us when you book)