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Compact Failure - Clean Break - Two friends go way back in a place
where friendships are rare, then one leaves and a third woman arrives,
and Chelle tries to make a bondwith her, but will it survive? Commissioned
from Jennifer Farmer (Breathing) by Clean Break.
Review - Touching,
funny and heartbreaking.
Tour begins
Tour Oct to Dec 2004 in England and Scotland.
The Chair Women - Scarlet Theatre - with artistic partners Pan
Pan (Ireland) and director Katarzyna Deszcz (Poland). A new translation
of Werner Schwab's comedy in which you the audience play the leading role.
Three women watch the Pope on TV and as they start to drink they start
to fantasise. Will be videod, but tapes will be erased immediately afterwards.
Trav 2.
Review -
"Why didn't I see that coming?"
Toured to England and Scotland, Ireland and Poland in Autumn 2004.
Us - Tim Miller - Glasgay! - European Premiere - Inserts Broadway
musicals into memories of an American boy's past.
Review - Fabulously
frothy, bitingly acerbic.
Article about Tim
Miller, his work and his show.
Toured to Glasgow & London in Nov 2004.
Bloody Mess - Forced Entertainment - Scottish Premiere of a work
marking their 20th anniversary of making theatre which up to the edges
of the form and over them.
Review - Highlighting
the pretence of Theatre.
Toured in UK and Germany Oct - Nov 2004.
Zero Degrees and Drifting - Unlimited Theatre - A co-production with
Sheffield Theatres, additional support from Newbury's Corn Exchange. Set
on a remote English town's disappearing cliff edge, with a couple in a
lighthouse, a pirate DJ and a beautiful stranger washed up on a beach.
From the always interesting Unlimited Theatre. World Premiere Trav 2.
Review - Haunting.
Toured in England and Scotland Oct - Nov 2004.
Season's Greetings - Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in asso with the Stephen
Joseph Theatre - Written and directed by Alan Ayckbourn and starring
Lisa Goddard and Matthew Kelly - The Bunkers prepare for Christmas the
usual family mayhem and then something really disasterous occurs....
Review - In
the cast this play excels.
Toured in England and Scotland Oct - Dec 2004.
Hard Times - Love&Madness - Set
in modern times but respecting Charles Dickens original text. Globalism,
education controls and the industrial crisies of the 70s are all drawn
on.
Review - Loses
too much Dickens in making modern fable.
All performances are evening except *evening and matinée and +matinée
only.
Toured in England, Wales and Scotland in Autumn 2004.
The Crucible - Birmingham Rep - Directed by Jonanthan Church Arthur
Miller's renowned play where suspicion and paranoia lead to a community
in crisis set in the times of the Salem Witch Trials.
Review - Very
freshness of the performance.
Toured Autumn 2004 in UK.
The 2004 RSC Newcastle season includes 10 Plays. The Tragedies
at the Theatre Royal - Hamlet 1-6 November, Macbeth 9-13 November
and King Lear 16 - 20 November. Plus Tynan 10-12 November. The Spanish
Golden Age at The People's Theatre 8 - 27 November - 4 Plays in repertoire
- Tamar's Revenge, The Dog in the Manger, House of Desires and Pedro,
the Great Pretender. RSC's first ever New Work Festival at Live Theatre,
Midwinter and Nowhere to Belong 2 - 6 Nov.
Review Two RSCs
in Newcastle?
Season in Newcastle in Nov of RSC plays also done in Stratford and London.
Alladeen - motiroti / The Builders Association
co-production - The tale of Aladdin and his magic lamp inspires
Alladeen directed by Marianne Weems. This vibrant cross-media collaboration
between New York based ensemble The Builders Association and London based
motiroti explores modern-day cultural interaction. Set in Bangalore, New
York and London, a circular narrative seamlessly merges video, live performance
and club music. (Suitable age 14+)
Review - High
tech multi-media feast?
International tour 2003 -2004. Production website www.alladeen.com
for more details.
No Comment - Needcompany (Belgium) - Dance Theatre, Visual Art
and performance focus on the fate of four women performed by Grace Ellen
Barkey, Viviane De Muynck, and Carlotta Sagna with a solo dance piece
by Tijen Lawton. Suitable for 16+.
Review - Delivers
more than just spectacle.
Toured to Scotland in October 2004.
Audiology - Pacitti Company (UK) - Scottish Premiere - Part of
Glasgay! - Performed by an international cast with songs and Max Richter's
Memoryhouse recordings. From a company with a reputation for their visual
performance style. From Joan of Arc to Howard Hughes internal voices and
external paranoias.
Review - Mesmerising
images.
Toured to Scotland in October 2004.
Cats - The amazing musical inspired
by T S Eliot's poem featuring purrfectly amazing face make-up and lots
of fantastic fun fur.
Review when seen in Edinburgh in 2003 - Fake
fur fun.
UK dates linked from review.
Suddenly Last Summer - Sheffield Theatres Production - Tennesse
Williams' play set in New Orleans. A mother plots a revenge on the girl
she thinks stole her dead son. Directed by Michael Grandage and starring
Diana Rigg in Williams' strong and fascinating play.
Review - Gripping,
uneasy energy.
Toured in England and Scotland in Spring 2003, then to London's West End.
Taboo - Fiery Angel, The Lowry and Clear
Channel Entertainment by arrangement with Adam Kenwright - Boy George's
hit musical about the era in the 1980s with Mark Little as Leigh Bowery
with the songs you remember and 20 new ones written by Boy George.
Review - Excessively
entertaining, like its characters.
2004 Tour UK dates in review.
Pugilist Specialist - The Riot Group - Chantal Arts + Theatre in
association with Soho Theatre Company presents Triple Fringe Award winners,
The Riot Group in Pugilist Specialist by Adriano Shaplin. Four highly-trained
American marines who are assigned the task of eliminating a troublesome
Middle Eastern leader.
Review - Razor
sharp, funny, hypnotic and dangerous.
toured in the UK and Ireland in Spring 2004 and opened 14 Sept in New
York for a month at the new off-Broadway E59E
Theatre in September for the company's US debut.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea - Walk The Plank - A theatrical retelling
of the Jules Verne undersea novel staged on MV Fitzcarraldo Theatre Ship
in a version by Peter Grimes for families nautical and theatre
fans. Tickets to reserve 0845 458 9709. Pay on the ship on the
night.
Review - Riveting
show in riveted metal theatre.Tour begins
2 June - 30 August 2004 in UK.
The Chaingang Gang - Cartoon de Saivo - This Surrey based visual
and physical theatre company aim to change the way people feel about going
to the theatre, so their work is openly accessible and fun. The Chaingang
Gang is five fugitives' attempt at an impossible escape.
Review - Five
go wild in chalk scenery.
Tour in England & Scotland Spring/June 2004.
Bison & Sons - Theatr Iolo (Wales) - Three brothers wait bickering,
taunting and trying to give each other comfort while your father pleads
with the bank manager to keep the family business going. Play about love
and rivalry. 50mins/Age 12+.
Review - Sizzling
with energy and explosive power.
31 May - 11 June 2004 in England & Scotland.
The Straits - Paines Plough - The Straits proved a hit at the Edinburgh
Festival 2003. Drawing on his experience, Gregory Burke has written a
coming-of-age tale of life; love and loss over a long hot summer in Gibraltar
in 1982. Trav 1.
Review - Tries
to be too many things.
6 April - 12 June 2004 in England & Scotland.
Markings - Attic Theatre Company - Peggy Ramsaay Award winner Dominic
Francis's play where four inheritors support and betray one another. Trav
2.
Review - Son's
painful fragile journey touches.
Tour begins
11 Feb to 12 June 2004 in UK.
Trio Con Brio's In The Beginning - The National Theatre Of Bergamo
For This Way Up - Raised on a farm in the mountains of Italy, these
three brothers have travelled the world with their tale of love, temptation
and original sin. But theirs is a comedy forged in the intense and bitter
heat of sibling rivalry... so who's going to play 'Eve' this time? A uniquely
chaotic, physical comedy experience& accessible fun for all. &
Spaceman - Blind Summit Theatre Company for This Way Up - A brilliant
new show about space, told by two pieces of chalk, Harry and Betty, who
bring the story alive on a series of blackboards. The show is an imaginative
blend of theatre, drawing and music which leaves children enthusing about
space and clamouring to join the after school art club! For Family 6+
Review Fun
in Science and Bible stories.
Spring 2004 Scotland and England
Matthew Bourne's Play Without Words - The Touring Partnership - inspired
by Joseph Losey's film based on Robin Maugham's The Servant A tale told
through dance of love, sex and class in the heady days of the 60s. Winner
of last years Best Entertainment Olivier Award.
Review - Brilliant
danced homage to the sixties.
23 March to 22 May in UK.
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Northern Ballet Theatre - Their New dance
adaptation of the Shakespeare play set on the London Edinburgh sleeper
in the late 1940's, the passengers a touring dance company. A three act
ballet by Choreographer and Artistic Director David Nixon.
Review - Hilarious
frantic lovers + fantastical logic.Tour begins
Spring 2004 in Scotland and England.
Mandragora:King Of India- Tara Arts - Nirjay Mahindru's witty first
play takes its audience on a thrilling flight of fantasy to India. As
his Queen gives birth to an heir, King Mandragora's kingdom is plagued
by a terrifying series of omens. Flying fish and fiery peacocks can be
explained, but who are the white faced creatures?
Review - Great
intentions not realised.
Tour begins
22 - 15 May 2004 in England, Wales and Scotland.
Operation Wonderland - Point Blank - Following the popular and
critical acclaim of their last show, Nothing to Declare, Sheffield-based
Point Blank present the final instalment of their Making Trouble trilogy
by Liz Tomlin and Steve Jackson.
Review - Is
this our Wonderland? English Dates of tour till 8 May in Review.
1 April - 8 May in England And Scotland.
The Trojan Women - The Women of Owu - Collective Artists/UK Arts International
- Nigerian playwright Femi Osofisan's African version of Euripides
play. Collective Artistes are famed for their unique chorus work.
Review - The
fusion increasingly satisfies.
Tour begins
2 Feb - 27 March 2004 in UK.
Abigail's Party - Theatre Royal Bath and Hampstead Theatre - A
revival of Mike Leigh's memorable play set in the year of the Queen's
Silver Jubilee. Demi Roussos, increasing revelations and cheese chunks,
ah yes I remember it well.
Review when seen in Edinburgh - Grotesque
perfection.
Autumn 2003 - 10 April 2004 in UK,
Taking Sides - Touring Consortium -
Neil Pearson and Julian Glover in Ronald Harewood's play set in WW2. Furtwangler
is interogatted by the American section of the Denazification Tribunal.
Did he collude is the question.
Review - Pearson's
impressive command of the stage.
Toured Oct 2003 - Feb 2004.
Excuses! - ATC & Krampack- From Joel Joan and Jordi Sanchez a vicious
comedy of sexual manners and morals set amongst the commitment-evading
generation of urban dwellers.
Review - High
charged energies superbly handled.
Toured Nov 2003 - Jan 2004.
The Constant Wife - Bill Kenwright
presents Somerset Maugham's comedy in a major revival with Lisa Goddard,
Susan Penhaligon and Sara Crowe. Constance's married a long time to John
and he is having an affair with her best friend.
Review - Throughly
modern Middletons.
Toured 2003 and 2004.
Domestic Affairs II - Théâtre Espace,
- Scottish Premiere From Amsterdam comes this flexible and
inventive company who create visual theatre with mixed media. A journey
through our ordinary domestic lives where object appear in the darkness.
Surprising, delightful and sometimes unnerving.
Review - Masters
of intricate visual spectacles.
10 May 2003 - 29 Feb. 2004.
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