FOUR AMAZING SHOWS
FEATURING THIRDSPACE CREATIVES
THIS IS YOUTH LED THEATRE IN ACTION!
23rd – 26th May
ROB MCCLOSKEY
CODY THACKER
JAMIE JOHNSON
SARA ENGELI-RUTGER
ZOE ALEXANDER
Tip of your Tounge
An original supernatural horror-romance in 1950s New York, a young singer tries to make it big in the city, and meets a strange man lurking in the shadows… as the mystery of their romance unfurls they find themselves trapped between their love and their true natures.
Inspired by early horror cinema, and using image-led storytelling, with originally composed live music, movement, song, and slapstick; Split Hairs takes you on a journey into the seductive and the macabre.
This event is the winner of Applause Create Tour Connect Bursary.
A must see show. Perfectly achieved physical theatre, minimal in construction, immensely evocative
– Fringe Review – Review for previous work, ★★★★
I was in awe at the casts ability… the characterisation was exceptionally strong.
– Voice Mag – Review for previous work, ★★★★★
25th May – 1st June
KATYA SCHWARZ
King Lear is Dead
“The wheel is come full circle. I am here.”
King Lear is a big house, full of locked doors and strange sounds. It’s an uncomfortable family dinner. It is, as they say in the theatre, intimate. It’s warm, oddly so, like it might be alive, like it’s breathing, or is that just the storm? It’s downstairs at a pub on St James Street – it always has been, rimming the glasses, dripping from the taps, glaring from the lights, eating away at the carpets. You know it. It’s not unfamiliar to you. You have always known it.
The king is ready to split his kingdom between his daughters in preparation for his old age, but not for them to defy his expectations. This production of Shakespeare’s masterpiece is an eerie pitch-black tragicomedy all about family. For some difficult conversations, a little murder, and a lot of rain, join us in the haunted world of an abandoned basement theatre, where the houses of Lear and Gloucester are just beginning to crumble…
28th May
OCEANA BERTINO-KAVADELLAS
El Viaje
Based on interviews with my grandmother, Abuela, El Viaje uses storytelling and song as devices to share her exciting, and heartbreaking, journey from Cuba to Puerto Rico, to North America.
A journey that immerses audiences in the captivating history of my Cuban family, set against the backdrop of Cuba’s political and cultural history, accompanied by original live music. Using prose, comedy, movement, and my guitar, I recount my family’s extraordinary history. From my Bisabuelo (great-grandfather) fighting in the Cuban rebellion against Fulgencio Batista’s regime, to my Abuela’s incredible journey: escaping a dictatorship, winning a scholarship to study electrical engineering, and then becoming a prominent advocate for refugees throughout the Syrian crisis.
This show vividly animates the challenges and triumphs of mine and my Abuela’s family. It is an honest and engaging account with themes of courage, empowerment, feminism, and justice echoing throughout.
This event is the winner of Applause Touring.
31st May – 1st June
ZOE ALEXANDER
Talking to Marjory
When the medieval mystic Margery Kempe stumbles into a 21st century student’s bedroom, a dynamic, humorous, and moving dialogue across the centuries begins.
This new theatrical work, being developed by writer/director Zoë Alexander, is inspired by the incredible woman behind ‘The Book of Margery Kempe’, thought to be the first autobiography in English.
Using bold visuals and physical theatre, ‘Talking to Margery’ explores the value of historical knowledge and experience to present-day lives.
