5 Nether Street, Tally Ho Corner, London N12 0GA
Box Office: 020 8369 5454
Online: www.artsdepot.co.uk
How to get Here: West Finchley and Woodside Park (Northern Line) are the nearest underground stations. Buses 134, 263, 82, 125, 134, 221 and 460 stop at the complex.
 

Fairfield Halls, Park Lane, Croydon, Surrey, CR9 1DG.
Box Office: 020 8688 9291 (with booking fee)
Online: www.fairfield.co.uk (with booking fee)
How to get Here: East Croydon (mainline) is the nearest station.
 

Tuesday 11th until Sunday 30th June 2013

LE MALADE IMAGINAIRE
by Moliere

THIS PRODUCTION IS PERFORMED IN FRENCH.

A new production of this classic, injecting new life into it by stripping it of its seventeenth-century context without trapping the play’s timeless message in any other period, historical or modern.

'Le Malade Imaginaire' was Molière’s last play - a biting satire inspired by personal experience of a criminally incompetent medical professon. The comedy of the piece also depends in large measure on the ridiculous figure of a man with too much money for his own good, obsessed with imaginary ailments.


 

Urgent Breath Theatre present:

MISTRESS JULIE
by August Strindberg

An innovative adaptation of Strindberg's "Miss Julie", set the Deep South of the U.S.A. in 1926.

A servants Independence Day party in full swing at a plantation in the heart of the Mississippi Delta. The heat of the cotton fields is heightening the passion and lust of the partygoers, no one is effected more than the young Miss Julie. She wants to dance with just one man, be loved by just one man, but does she realise how dangerous her choice of lover is?

This adaptation focuses on the racial upheaval in the southern states known as the "Great Migration" and the struggle between power and love in this seminal theatrical work.


 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Saturday at 7.45pm
Sundays at 6.45pm
Extra performance Saturday at 3pm

Seat Prices:
All tickets: £10 (£8 concessions)
 

Lavender Hill, Battersea, London SW11 5TN
Box Office: 020 7223 2223 (booking fee may apply)
Online: www.bac.org.uk (booking fee may apply)
How to get Here: Clapham Common (Northern Line), at 20 minutes walk away, is the nearest underground station. Clapham Junction (from Victoria or Waterloo), at 5 minutes walk away, is the nearest mainline station. Buses 345, 77, 77A, 156 and G1 stop right outside.
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Monday 15th July until Friday 9th August 2013

BAC present:

JULY / AUGUST COOK UP

with comedy and theatre with previews from the likes of Stewart Lee and the return of David Rosenberg thrilling audio experience Ring.

As they limber up for the rigours of Edinburgh, the comedy elite come to Battersea Arts Centre to  preview their latest musings and observations for our amusement. As a precursor to the season, Stewart Lee returns with his new show Much A- , a mixed stew of unrelated ideas in preparation for his 2014 TV series.

For details see www.bac.org.uk.

Performance Times:
See website above.

Seat Prices:
See website above.
 

Sunday 16th until Wednesday 19th June 2013

Paul Martin presents:

MURDER ON THE BATTERSEA BARGE

Murder on the Battersea Barge sees the cream of London cabaret cavort on the Battersea Barge, solving the dastardly murder of Lady Pinchsnuff with the help of monocles and tap shoes. There will be

murder, there will be dancing, there may be “acting” and there definitely won’t be a fourth wall.

Following 12 years of sold-out pantomimes, the team behind Alice in Poundland, Red Riding Hoodie and Cinderella and the Glass Ceiling brings you an outrageous cabaret production in the Summer! “There aren’t any pantomimes in June,” we hear you say. Thankfully, there will be a 1920s murder-romp featuring Dusty Limits, Laurie Hagen, Champagne Charlie, Tricity Vogue, Jamie Anderson, Paul L Martin, and the voice of Sarah-Louise Young, on June 16, 17, 18 & 19, plugging the “it’s behind you!” hole in your life.

 

Box Office for this Production:
http://paullmartin.com/
 

Town Hall Approach Road, London N15 4RX
Box office: 020 8365 5450
Online: www.berniegrantcentre.co.uk
How to get Here: Seven Sisters (Victoria Line) is the nearest underground station.
 

23 to 27 Wadeson Street, London E2 9DR
Box office: 020 8983 7900 (information only)
Online: http://bistrotheque.com
How to get Here: Bethnal Green (Central Line) is the nearest underground station.
 

One reader in October 2007 wrote,
"The play war ruined by the noise from the elsewhere in the building. If you mention this theatre it is worth drawing attention to the fact that UCL do not cancel the evening classes in piano-moving upstairs."

Tattooed Potato present:

THE NIGHTMARE DREAMER
directed by John Michael MacDonald

What happens when we give away our darkness?

Suppose you had nightmares. Terrible nightmares. Every night. Night after night. Exhausted and distraught, where could you turn for rest and relief?

Suppose there were someone who could dream your nightmares for you, so you could have deep sleep and sweet dreams. That someone is the Nightmare Dreamer.

Tattooed Potato presents a piece of devised physical theatre exploring the internal places we would rather not visit. Those who use the Nightmare Dreamer’s help get a good night’s sleep, but their waking lives change in ways they hadn’t imagined.

The Nightmare Dreamer is Tattooed Potato’s first London production, re-imagined and re-worked following a run in Washington in 2012 where it created “vivid ways into the netherworld of distressed slumber” (The Washington Post).

Post-show discussions: Tuesdays 18th and 25th June 2013.


Cast includes: Gerard Alvarez, Téo Ghil, Leonor Lemée, Txema Pérez and Louise van der Post

 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Saturday at 8pm

Seat Prices:
All tickets: £12 (£10 concessions, £8.50 Southwark residents)
Previews 11th and 12th June 2013: all seats £8.50
 

Wednesday 10th until Saturday 27th July 2013

This is the second time Sedos has produced a Summer Festival, one of a series of recent initiatives designed to cement and further the ties the society has with the Bridewell Theatre and St Bride’s Institute.

 

Performance Times:
All productions:
Tuesday to Friday at 7.30pm
Saturday at 2.30pm and 7.30pm
Extra performance on 14th July 2013 at 2.30pm.

NO 7.30pm performances on 9th and 14th July 2013.

Box Office For This Production:
Online: www.sedos.co.uk
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Tuesday 2nd until Saturday 6th July 2013

Wednesday 9th until Saturday 26th October 2013
Press Night: Friday 11th October 2013

The World Premiere of:

THE WHITE WITCH OF ROSE HALL
by Simon James Collier
directed by Omar F. Okai

Set in nineteenth-century West Indies, against a backdrop of the abolishment of slavery, Voodoo, murder, betrayal and lust; ‘The White Witch of Rose Hall’ is the legendary Jamaican story inspired by ‘true’ events of the time, of a love triangle between plantation owner Annie Palmer, her newly arrived English Book-Keeper Robert Rutherford and a young island girl named Millie. All of which leads to a brutal and terrifying end!

From the award-winning creative team that brought you ‘Purlie’, ‘The Remains of the Day’, ‘1888’, ‘Collision’ and ‘The Smilin’ State’…





Staged: Omar F. Okai
Set and Costume Design: David Shields
Associate Director and Casting: Josephine Melville
Lighting Design: Ciaran Cunningham
Music: Renell Shaw
Graphics: Adam Dechanel
Production Photographs: Michael Brydon
Produced by Joseph Jeffers


 

310 Uxbridge Road, London, W12 8LJ
Box Office: 020 8743 5050
Online: www.bushtheatre.co.uk (no charge for tickets collected at box office)
How to get Here: Nearest Underground Station is Shepherd's Bush Market on the Hammersmith and City Line.

Tuesday 18th June 2013

DAVID SERERO

David Serero, baritone - has received international recognition and critical acclaim from around the world. This true showman brings his electric repertoire (Opera, Broadway, World Music and Comedy) to the UK.

David Serero is 32 years old and was born deaf. However, after many operations he began to hear/ speak when he was twelve. David started playing the piano when he was 13 years and singing at the age of 16.

Serero, has already performed more than 600 concerts and performances throughout the world. Some of those have been broadcast on worldwide TV to an average audience of 30 millions of viewers. He has performed concerts at The Budapest Opera conducted by Placido Domingo, Opera Garnier Paris; L'Olympia; The Eiffel Tower; the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, concert at the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam to name a few. He also performed and produced the world premiere of ‘Beggar’s Holiday’ - Duke Ellington’s only musical in Paris to critical acclaim. Last year, David Serero played a sold-out concert at the Dominion Theatre.


He also brings to the UK for the first time - the London Musical Film Festival (LMFF) - dedicated entirely to musical films. This takes place at the Bush Hall on 15th and 16th June 2013 (tickets: £10 per film or £30.00 includes six films plus David Serero’s concert). David founded the Musical Film Festival in Paris in 2012 to huge success.

To coincide with the LMFF and his solo concert - David Serero will be releasing a new album 'All I Care About Is Love' released June 3rd on DSM Prod Records. The album will feature Broadway musical classics: Fiddler On The Roof (English and French versions); *Man Of La Mancha (performed in French and adapted by Jacques Brel) Chicago; Ol’ Man River. **A duet with Jermaine Jackson ‘Autumn Leaves’. Plus Russian songs such as Katyusha; Dark Eyes and Jazz Standards to name a few.

www.davidserero.com is the performer's website.
 

Box Office for this Production:
By telephone: 020 8222 6955
By email: notes(insert the @ symbol here)bushhallmusic.co.uk
 

Every Sunday until 8th September 2013 (CLF Art Cafe)
 

Tangram Theatre Company presents:

FUENTE OVEJUNA
by Lope De Vega

Written in 1612 and set in 1472, Lope’s account of the true story of rising up of the villagers of Fuente Ovejuna against the sexual tyranny of its overlord Fernán Gomez is regarded as one of the great classics of Golden Age Spanish Theatre.

More relevant than ever in the wake of the Arab Spring and London Riots , this new production smashes down the fourth wall to invite the audience to become one of the villagers of Fuente Ovejuna. Will the audience rise up to destroy the tyrant? And in rising up as a mob, where does individual responsibility for collective violence lie?

Mashing together Lope’s classic text with modern day pop songs, audience participation, excerpts from Shakespeare, and a Richard and Judy-style King and Queen of Thpain, Daniel Goldman’s poor theatre adaptation invites audiences to discover Lope’s pastoral tragicomedy in all its bucolic slapstick humour and gut-wrenching brutality.

Each performance will feature a different combination of eleven performers selected from a working collective of twenty-plus performers. Furthermore, a different live band will perform a bespoke soundtrack to each performance as Fuente Ovejuna’s local wedding band.

 

Performance Times:
Sundays at 5pm except:
NO PERFORMANCES ON SUNDAYS 21st July and 25th August 2013,

Box Office for this Production:
Online: www.clfartcafe.org 
 

11 St. Martin's Court, London. WC2N 4AJ
Box Office: see under individual event.
Online: see under individual event.
How to get Here: Leicester Square (Northern and Piccadilly Lines) is the nearest underground station.
 

39 London Road, Enfield, EN2 6DS
Box Office: 020 8807 6680 (booking fees apply)
Online: www.dugdalecentre.co.uk (booking fees apply)
How to get Here: Enfield Town (Main line) is the nearest station.

Saturday 20th until Sunday 27th July 2013

Finger in the Pie and Dugdale Centre present:

MIMETIC 2013

The annual festival of international puppetry, cabaret and visual theatre returns for the second year.

Enfield’s second annual celebration of the wilder side of performance returns to the Dugdale Centre with a lineup of over 30 performances spanning a range of art forms with artists from across the UK and around the world.

Finger in the Pie has commissioned two pieces of theatre to headline the programe: Pinocchio by Pants on Fire, and No Place Like by Le Mot Juste. Award winning actor-musician company Pants on Fire set the adventures of the little wooden fibber in a 1950’s Sci-Fi Horror B-Movie, with a barbershop dubstep mash-up soundtrack, man-size puppets, original live songs and flamboyantly lo-tech extravagant storytelling, and No Place Like celebrates the everyday experiences and lifelong memories of an older generation living in care homes. Other theatre includes the retelling of classics with Paper Cinema’s highly acclaimed The Paper Cinema’s Odyssey and Finger in the Pie’s Moby Dick. German company Sparkle and Dark present Killing Roger, a story of an unlikely friendship told through puppetry and music, and Spanish company Teatro En Vilo’s stage their award-winning show Interrupted.

A varied programme of cabaret includes everything from burlesque, basques and boys in girls’ clothes to sock puppets, spoofs and strange men rummaging in bins from artists such as Chalk Dust Cabaret, Myra Dubois, EastEnd Cabaret and Michael Twaits.

The comedy programme is presented by Such Small Portions, who will be sharing their picks of the Edinburgh Fringe Comedy, including Jay Forman, Rachel Parris, Jonny and the Baptists, Luisa Omielan, Chris Dangerfield and Tony Law.

For the first time at Mimetic 2013, One Stop Arts will be running awards for the Best Ensemble, Best Director, Best Music, Best Design, Best Cabaret Performance, Best Performance by a Puppet, Best Emerging Company, Mimetic First (Best Premiere), and Outstanding Contribution, as well as Best Family Show, Best Cabaret and Best Theatre Show judged by the audience. The Onesies will be a celebrating of the best of the festival, and will be awarded on the 26th July.

www.mimeticfest.com / @The_Dugdale / #MIMETIC2013 is the online presence.

Programme:
Funded by ACE

COMEDY
Presented by Such Small Portions
Jay Foreman Sat 20 July 7.30pm
Fresh from supporting Dave Gorman, expect masterfully crafted songs, poems, a hilariously melancholic viewpoint and description-defying musical wizardry. BBC’s New Talent Pick of The Fringe.
Mimetic Above @ The Dugdale Centre | £7-£10 | 60 mins

Rachel Parris Mon 22 July 7.30pm
Member of the acclaimed troupe Austentatious, Rachel brings an hour of finely-tuned musical comedy mayhem
on everything from Glee kids to reaching 30.
Mimetic Above @ The Dugdale Centre | £7-£10 | 60 mins

Jonny and the Baptists Tues 23 July 7.30pm
Jonny and his Baptists – he’s a guy called Paddy – bring a blend of satirical songs and raucous rock. As heard on both The Now Show and The Gadget Show.
Mimetic Above @ The Dugdale Centre | £7-£10 | 60 mins

Luisa Omielan Wed 24 July 7.30pm
Following her huge breakthrough show What Would Beyonce Do? see Luisa’s latest show Am I Right, Ladies.
Mimetic Above @ The Dugdale Centre | £7-£10 | 60 mins

Chris Dangerfield Thurs 25 July 7.30pm
Says Chris: “Every day I reach a new level of emotional decay meaning you’ll get a half-arsed and last minute, cobbled together ‘story’ about events I can barely remember.”
Mimetic Above @ The Dugdale Centre | £7-£10 | 60 mins

Tony Law Fri 26 July 7.30pm
Multi award-winning Mr Tony Law presents a deeply hidden, powerfully meaningful show: he’s been travelling through time and space to bring you Nonsense Overdrive.
Mimetic Above @ The Dugdale Centre | Tickets £7-£10 | 60 mins


CABARET

Finger in the Pie Cabaret Thurs 11 July 9pm
A very special Finger in the Pie Cabaret, featuring some of the very finest cabaret and comedy Mimetic 2013 has to offer all hosted by the fabulous Michael Twaits. Come and celebrate the launch of Mimetic 2013 with style, panache and just a little bit of Finger in the Pie naughtiness.
Nationality: UK
Mimetic Below @ The Dugdale Centre | £9-£13.50 | 2hrs

Moving Images by Cabaret Artists by Burn Sat 13 July 9pm
From music videos to art films, high-concept gags to experiments in light, video-interactive live work to low-budget features, the moving image is being embraced by the underground as never before. Created in 2010 by Time Out London cabaret editor Ben Walters, Burn is a place for these sparks to combust. Tonight’s eclectic line-up includes music, comedy, documentary and live appearances from Iberian troubadour Wilfredo and irreverent mess maker Scottee.
Nationality: UK
Mimetic Below @ The Dugdale Centre | £9-£13.50 | 90 mins

OneTaste Cabaret Sun 14 July 7pm
OneTaste Cabaret will be taking Mimetic to the Edmonton Festival to join in this year’s fairy themed Magical Menagerie. They will be enchanting audiences with exceptional physical theatre, dance and pop-up performances throughout the parade and park.
Nationality: UK/South African/Israeli
Parade and park | FREE | 2hrs

Damsel in Shining Armour by Damsel Sophie Thurs 18 July 7.30pm
The Damsel in Shining Armour stares daringly into the dark depths of uncensored lust and melodrama. Brandishing her weapon of choice (the selected works of Celine Dion) the damsel slays inner dragons, awakens sleeping beauty and claims her rightful place.
Nationality: UK
Mimetic Below @ The Dugdale Centre | £9-£13.50 | 50 mins

Calamitous Liaisons by Tricity Vogue Fri 19 July 9pm
Cheeky diva Tricity Vogue strums some ukulele tunes and dishes some dirt in a preview of her upcoming Edinburgh Fringe show, Calamitous Liaisons. Big-hearted cabaret siren Tricity Vogue has written a song for every one of her calamitous liaisons, and now has enough dirty laundry for an entire show... which either deserves commiserations or congratulations, depending on your point of view.
Nationality: UK
Mimetic Below @ The Dugdale Centre | £9-£13.50 | 60 mins

Reduced to Clear Cabaret by The Late Night Shop Sat 20 July 9pm
An all new show from those “ambient weirdos” (Time Out), of the Cabaret scene, who have cast off the shackles of a “variety show” structure in an attempt to realise a fully mimicked Cabaret. Featuring performancesfrom The Late Night Shop’s working repertoire of clowning, burlesque and cabaret acts, join the shop for a full hour of compare-less variety.
Nationality: UK
Mimetic Below @ The Dugdale Centre | £9-£13.50 | 60 mins

Un Cas de Nostalgie by Alex Luttley Sat 20 – Sat 27 July 4.30pm
Meet Pi. His head in the clouds and his feet firmly half way up in the air, Pi cannot help but dream. With his suitcase of memories, which accompanies him wherever he goes, his imagination goes wild at that which is inside. A bottle. A balloon. A cloth. Each item sparks a reaction in his mind, sending it to stormy seas, through endless forests and over soaring mountains. Pi doesn’t live in this world. Care to join him in his?
Nationality: UK
Mimetic Above @ The Dugdale Centre | Tickets £7-£10| 45 mins

Memoirs of a Slutsky by Zoe Charles Sat 20 – Sun 27 July 6pm
Burlesque artist, storyteller and comedienne Zoe Charles, founder of the Award winning Cheek of it! School of Burlesque gives us a guided tour behind the glamour. We travel back in time to a small suburban town in the late 1980s, 3 mums, 2 dads, 8 kids, 5 cats, 3 gerbils, 2 rabbits and one council house! A charming, cheeky and downright hilarious personal tale of a girl in search of normal and finding naughty.
Nationality: UK
Mimetic Above @ The Dugdale Centre | £5-£8 | 40 mins

The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre by UT Productions Sun 21 July 8.30pm
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre’s hilarious new show is Socks In Space. Spoofing everything from Star Wars to Dr Who via David Bowie and Vinny Jones, it’s already earned 5 star reviews. Nationwide tour includes a month at the Edinburgh Fringe in August.
Nationality: UK
Mimetic Below @ The Dugdale Centre | £9-£13.50 | 60 mins

Royal National Theatre of Fools – Episode One by The Royal Theatre of Fools Mon 22 July 9pm
Cartoon collides with clown theatre as three idiots try and put on a variety show. The company is about to fall apart but everything changes when a big shot impresario is spotted in the audience. Based on the cult South London variety club of the same name and starring some if it’s regular turns The Royal National Theatre of Fools - Episode one fuses comedy/variety acts with a simple tale of jealousy, blind ambition and revenge.
Nationality: UK/Irish
Mimetic Below @ The Dugdale Centre | £9-£13.50 | 50 mins

Service with a Sneer by Myra Dubois Tues 23 July 9pm
Acid tongued, award winning cabaret sensation Myra DuBois returns to the Fringe with her own particular brand of anarchic comedy following her critically acclaimed 2012 debut. With a career more comfortable under the pier than at the end of it, Myra presents a no holds barred story of her journey from the Pubs and Clubs of Rotherham with her trademark razor wit. Performed within stumbling distance to a fully stocked and licenced bar.
Nationality: UK
Mimetic Below @ The Dugdale Centre | £9-£13.50 | 60 mins

Pie Eyed by Chalk Dust Cabaret Tues 23 – Wed 24 July 9pm
Fancy a quiet mid-week pint? Thought you could escape your local? Not tonight! Chalk Dust Cabaret brings Pie Eyed to Mimetic Festival, following sold-out performances at the Roundhouse and Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club. Have you seen that strange man rummaging through the bins? A rowdy girl’s just entered, hoops bigger than the ash trays. And who ordered the cheeky stripper? Pie Eyed is an interactive cabaret show musing on booze culture where punters collide with the complete unexpected.
Nationality: UK/German/Serbian/Singaporean
Mimetic Above @ The Dugdale Centre | £7-£10 | 90 mins

Peter Antoniou - Comedium by Peter Antoniou Wed 24 July 9pm
Join the psychic comedian, Peter Antoniou, as he fondles frontal lobes and tickles funny bones. More accurate than a psychic, just as funny as a stand-up. Whether you’ve pondered what the future holds, facts about the past, secrets of the universe, or just how a psychic spends his day, Peter has answers for you. It’s like he has been possessed by the spirit of a cosmic Google. So just think of your question, sit back and enjoy the answers.
Nationality: UK
Mimetic Below @ The Dugdale Centre | £9-£13.50 | 60 mins

EastEnd Cabaret by EastEnd Cabaret Thurs 25 July 9pm
Deviant diva Bernadette Byrne and half-moustachioed musician Victor Victoria are the multi award-winning
EastEnd Cabaret: international purveyors of playfully perverse musical comedy. From ping-pong ball exploits in Thailand to dealing with unexpected hangovers and attempting to deflower virgins, the duo’s raucous mix of salacious original songs and ‘jaw-achingly funny character comedy’ (Backstage Pass ) has titillated andcaptivated crowds everywhere.
Nationality: UK
Mimetic Below @ The Dugdale Centre | £9-£13.50 | 60 mins

Le Flop by Le Flop Thurs 25 – Fri 26 July 9pm
Murder. Love. Disaster. And other themes far too profound to mention. Six idiots with silliness bubbling in their stomachs are here to give you a night you will not forget - particularly if you have a sharp memory. Imaginative and completely out there, but accessible for anyone who wants to laugh at the pure stupidity of humanity.
Nationality: UK/New Zealand/Italian
Mimetic Above @ The Dugdale Centre | £5-£8 | 50 mins

Michael Twaits – The Red Shoes by Michael Twaits Fri 26 July 9pm
Well the shoes weren’t red... In an evening of song and stories, one of London’s treasured cabaret scenesters explores an unexpected journey... thanks to a pair of heels. Standing somewhere between theatre, cabaret and performance art, Twaits brings a full length cabaret show to Mimetic 2013.
Nationality: UK
Mimetic Below @ The Dugdale Centre | £9-£13.50 | 90 mins

Jody Kamali: Livewire Sat 27 July 6pm
Step into the world of Frank Von Nippleman. A man that is lives his life between reality and fantasy. Everything Frank sees reminds him of his past. A past that may or may not have happened. Beautiful, yet bizarre, Livewire is part clown, part buffoon, part character comedy.
Nationality: UK
Mimetic Below @ The Dugdale Centre | £9-£13.50 | 60 mins

Perilous Escapade by Flabberghast Theatre Sat 27 July 9pm
Puppetry’s Balkan bad-boys return with the sequel to end all sequels! Become enthralled as these tatterdemalion rogues recount their tribulations in the underworld. Marvel as they improvise and burlesque their way through this epic tale of companionship and separation. One hour continuous flow of amusement with a dark and twisted heart. Once again expect riotous exploits, malarkey, molestation and mirth of a magnitude hitherto unseen! (since last year.)
Nationality: UK
Mimetic Above @ The Dugdale Centre | £7-£10 | 60 mins



THEATRE
The Paper Cinema’s Odyssey by Paper Cinema Thurs 11 July 9pm
Raging storms and supernatural forces prevail over one man’s almighty quest to get home. Immerse yourself in a journey through the high seas, soak up the adventure, encounter danger and exhilaration. Homer’s cornerstone of literature is vividly told with beautiful illustration and masterful puppetry. Cinematic projection and cunning tricks transform a suitcase full of cut-out paper puppets into an array of living characters and striking landscapes. A silent film is created before your eyes, set to a captivating live score from exceptional musicians.
Nationality: UK
Mimetic Below @ The Dugdale Centre | £9-£13.50 | 75 mins

Moby Dick by Finger in the Pie Fri 12 – Sat 13 July 7pm
Finger in the Pie present a showing from their current work in progress: Moby Dick. Join them as they take you on a musical voyage in a chaotic hunt for Melville’s iconic White Whale. The event will feature a concert performance of the aural exploration they have undertaken into the classic text, which will become the backbone of the final theatrical production of the show in 2014.
Nationality: UK
Mimetic Below @ The Dugdale Centre | £9-£13.50 | 55 mins

Kubrick Cubed by New Diorama Theatre Sat 20 July 7pm
Alan Conway: failed businessman and unsuccessful homosexual decides his life might improve if he just tells people he’s award-winning film director Stanley Kubrick. What could possibly go wrong? Frenetic, funny, absurd, unnecessary, stupid, unbelievable (and totally true) – Kubrick3 delights in the complexities of a compulsive fantasist in this ridiculous comic play.
Nationality: UK
Mimetic Below @ The Dugdale Centre | £9-£13.50 | 55 mins

Killing Roger by Sparkle and Dark Sun 21 July 1pm & 6pm
“Could you kill someone, Billy? I mean really, could you? What if they asked you to?” Billy, a conscientious, opinionated teenager, meets Roger, a chain smoking, chair-ridden, sharp tongued old man. An unlikely friendship forms and Billy must decide what it means to truly care about someone. Genuinely moving and
humorous with striking visual imagery, award-winning Sparkle and Dark’s new writing combines puppetry and live music.
Nationality: UK/South African
Mimetic Below @ The Dugdale Centre | £9-£13.50 | 60 mins

Onwards, Upwards, Sideways by The Mostly Everything People Mon 22 July 6.30pm
The Mostly Everything People are coming to the Mimetic Festival with a bang: “Onwards, Upwards and Sideways” is a mixed bill of strange performance and media. You will be seeing their latest work, My Way/This Way, a baffling and nonsensical piece of physical theatre with live music which tells the story of four people trapped in a vague and unsettling place. You will also be treated to contemporary clown Dan Hernandez, choreographer Seke Chimutengwende, and an award-winning film from Joseph Pierce.
Nationality: UK/Italian
Mimetic Below @ The Dugdale Centre | £9-£13.50 | 70 mins

Interrupted by Teatro En Vilo Mon 22 – Fri 26 July 6pm
If you’ve got everything under control, then you’re not going fast enough. Teatro En Vilo present their international award-winning show Interrupted. A stressed-out comedy about crashing.
Nationality: UK/Spanish
Mimetic Above @ The Dugdale Centre | £7-£10 | 60 mins

The Various Lives of Infinite Nullity by Clout Theatre Tues 23 July 7pm
“Truth is an odd number and death is a full stop.” Blasphemous underwater saints, a man born at the age of 25 and de Selby’s famous scientific experiments are encountered by a trio of nameless vagabonds stumbling drenched yet thirsty through a landscape of pub snugs and human bicycles. Award winning Clout Theatre cannibalise the literature of Flann O’Brien in this absurdist, biting show where we are all lying in the cosmos but some of us are looking down at the gutter.
Nationality: Scottish/Turkish/Russian/French
Mimetic Below @ The Dugdale Centre | £9-£13.50 | 60 mins

Goodbye Gunther by Frank Wurzinger Weds 24 July 7pm
After the success of the Confetti Maker, Frank Wurzinger has teamed up again with award winning theatre director John Wright (Trestle, Told by an Idiot) to create this hilarious one man physical comedy about life, death and afterlife. Goodbye Gunther plays with one of our biggest fears and taboos - dying. The ever optimistic protagonist finds humour in even the darkest moments. Slapstick, clowning, irreverent improvisation and object play help this clown to rehearse the end of his life.
Nationality: UK/German
Mimetic Below @ The Dugdale Centre | £9-£13.50 | 55 mins

No Place Like by Le Mot Juste Thurs 25 July 7pm
Forbidden cake, a sunset remembered in gouache, and a pigeon that was really an owl. Inspired by real conversations, No Place Like celebrates the everyday experiences and lifelong memories of an older generation living in care homes. As playful and poetic as the voices that inspired it, this new, devised piece asks how we might reconnect with a generation which feels increasingly distant.
Nationality: UK
Mimetic Below @ The Dugdale Centre | £9-£13.50 | 60 mins

Pinocchio by Pants on Fire Fri 26 – Sat 27 July 7pm
Award winning actor-musician company Pants on Fire follow their international 5 star hit Ovid’s Metamorphoses with a unique take on Carlo Collodi’s original tale about a wooden fibber. Setting the adventures in a 1950’s Sci-Fi Horror B-Movie, with a barbershop dubstep mash-up soundtrack, man-size puppets, original live songs and flamboyantly lo-tech extravagant storytelling, all traces of Disney are obliterated in this gloriously dark account of the marionette with behavioural problems.
Nationality: UK
Mimetic Below @ The Dugdale Centre | £9-£13.50 | 75 mins



FAMILY
The Bridge by Page One Theatre Sat 13 July 12 noon
Page One Theatre is an exciting young company making devised theatre for children. Combining puppetry and projection with expressive movement, they create vivid and atmospheric experiences for children and families. The Bridge tells the story of Lucien, a lonely city rat who watches the pigeons from under Waterloo Bridge and wishes he could join them in the sky. One day he spots the most beautiful pigeon and follows her into the lights of the big city…
Nationality: UK
Mimetic Below @ The Dugdale Centre | £7-£10 | 45 mins | Suitable for under 7s and families

Mess by Foan & Fortune Sat 20 July 11am
Come and join Foan & Fortune on a journey like no other. Watch as discarded objects spring to life and share their stories with you. An exciting blend of movement, music and puppetry – for everybody, everywhere of all ages who delights in the joy of making a mess.
Nationality: UK
Mimetic Below @ The Dugdale Centre | £7-£10 | 50 mins | Suitable for ages 4+

Goldiocks and the 3 Bears by Skewbald Theatre Thur 25 – Sat 27 July 11.30am
Skewbald Theatre presents…Goldilocks and the 3 Bears. If you go down to the woods today you’re sure of a big surprise! Join Skewbald Theatre as they take young audiences on an adventure into the woods in their playful new version of Goldilocks and the 3 Bears. There’s comedy, dancing, songs and puppetry squeezed into a show that’s perfect for everyone aged 2-6 years and you can even bring along your own bear.
Nationality: UK/Irish
Mimetic Above @ The Dugdale Centre | £7-£10 | 50 mins | Suitable for ages 2-6

Danny and his Amazing Balloons by Circo Ridiculoso Thur 25 July 12 noon
Danny & his Amazing Balloons is a unique and fantastic show for everyone. Seamlessly combining comedy, balloons, mayhem and daftness, Danny entertains with timeless skill and incredible balloon stunts of stupidity. Original routines ensure this is a show to delight any audience. Relax and enjoy as Danny is a master balloonsmith and an internationally acclaimed award winning balloon entertainer.
Nationality: UK
Mimetic Above @ The Dugdale Centre | £5-£7 | 45 mins | Suitable for ages 4+

Grimm Sweet Grimm by Skewbald Stories Thur 25 – Sat 27 July 2.30pm
Join Skewbald storytellers in a world of books and shadows as they bring to life a collection of gripping and amusing Grimm fables. Skewbald puts an atmospheric twist on both famous and unexplored stories such as the Frog Prince, Little Red Cap, Paper Dress & The Star Money using an exciting blend of music, song and puppetry to celebrate the 200 year anniversary of the Grimm Brothers book.
Nationality: UK/Irish
Mimetic Above @ The Dugdale Centre | £7-£10 | 60 mins | Suitable for ages 6+

Storm in a Tea Cup by Horse & Bamboo Theatre Fri 26 July 12 noon
It’s not always easy making friends, especially when you live in a lighthouse surrounded by dangerous rocks, towering waves and trouble-making seagulls. An exciting opportunity for a tea party with a friend arises when the supply boat comes, but the lighthouse keeper’s nervousness turns what could have been a delight into a disaster. Is it just a storm in a teacup? It is only when a storm blows in and real disaster looms that he can find the courage to save the day and rebuild his friendship.
Nationality: UK
Mimetic Below @ The Dugdale Centre | £7-£10 | 45 mins + 15 mins Q&A

Superhero Snail Boy by Vertical Line Theatre Sat 27 July 12 noon
Calling all superheroes... both little and large. Be brave and join us on our journey through the dark, to a place where hope grows in the form of enormous flowers and breakthroughs are found in the smashing of plates – it isn’t as scary as you think! Vertical Line Theatre are supported by Greenwich Theatre. Superhero Snail Boy was shortlisted for LineUp, Vertical Line’s new writing showcase, and transfers to the Edinburgh Festival this Summer.
Nationality: UK
Mimetic Below @ The Dugdale Centre | £5-£8 | 60 mins | Suitable for ages 8+


 

above the Oxford Arms Pub, 265 Camden High Street, London NW1 7BU
Box Office: 020 7482 4857 or Ticketweb 08444 77 1000 (with postage fee if required)
Online: www.etceteratheatre.com or www.ticketweb.co.uk (with postage fee if required)
How to get Here: Nearest Underground Station is Camden Town on the Northern Line.
 

Park Lane, Croydon, CR9 1DG
Box Office: 020 8688 9291
Online: www.fairfield.co.uk
How to get Here: Nearest Station is East Croydon, a 3 minute walk away and West Croydon station is about a 12 minute walk. Buses to Croydon Centre stop within easy walking distance of Fairfield (Routes 50, 60, 64, 75, 109, 119, 154, 166, 194, 197, 198, 250, 264, 312, 367, 403, 405, 407, 409, 410, 412, 455, 466, 468, 726, 729, T33). The Tramlink stops at East Croydon, George Street and Wellesley Road are all 3 minutes walk away.
 

above The Green Man Public House, 36 Riding House Street, London W1W 7ES
Box Office: on the door
Online: none
How to get Here: Oxford Circus (Central, Bakerloo Line) or Goodge Street (Northern Line) is the nearest station.
 

Greenwich Theatre, Crooms Hill, London SE10 8ES
Box Office:  020 8858 7755 (£1.50 per booking transaction fee, plus optional 50p per booking postage if required and time allows)
Online: www.greenwichtheatre.org.uk (with 50p per ticket booking fee)
How to get Here: Greenwich is the nearest mainline and DLR station.
 

A Hampstead Theatre Production, the UK Premiere of:

RACE
by David Mamet
directed by Terry Johnson

“We’re going to give them a surprise. Sufficient to get whosoever’s on the jury, to put aside all the nonsense they think they’re supposed to think about race. And rule on the facts.”

A hotel room in disarray - lamps broken, cigarette butts, liquor bottles - a red sequin dress, and a man accused of rape... The accused is white, the accuser black. Two lawyers, one black and one white, must uncover and sift the facts of the case. Is the man guilty? And, irrespective of that, can his case be won?

Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet's searing drama is a topical detective story about the perceptions and realities that colour our world - and the subtle shades between being a victim and being victimised.


Designed by Tim Shortall
Lighting by Mark Henderson
 

Performance Times:
Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm
Extra performances on Wednesday at 2.30pm and Saturdays at 3pm

Seat Prices:
All tickets: £29 (£18 concessions) EXCEPT
Mondays and afternoon performances: all tickets £22 (£18 concessions, £15 for senior citizens)
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Thursday 20th June until Saturday 20th July 2013
Press Night: Wednesday 26th June 2013

Made by Brick and Hampstead Downstairs presents:

RESPONSIBLE OTHER
by Melanie Spencer
directed by Melanie Spencer

I have realised that what I want most of all is for Daisy's life to be. Just. Uncomplicated. An uncomplicated life. What a gift.

Daisy is sixteen. She was normal. Now she is just an ill person with a disease no one has heard of. When the hospital tells her father Peter that she must travel regularly to London for specialist treatment, he worries about how he will manage. But there is only one person he can ask for help.

Melanie Spencer directs her debut play, a moving and intimate study of a family fractured by illness and struggling to understand that which cannot be understood.

Responsible Other has been supported by Guys & St Thomas' Charity, Wellcome Trust and Breathe AHR.

Designed by Emma Tompkins
Lighting by Katherine Graham
Sound Design by Tom Hackley

Cast includes: Danielle Bux, Andrew Frame, Tricia Kelly, Candassaie Liburd and Alice Sykes; further casting to be announced.

Performance Times:
Monday to Saturday at 7.45pm
Extra performances on Wednesday at 2.30pm and Saturdays at 3pm

Seat Prices:
All tickets: £12 (£10 concessions, £10 seniors - afternoons only, £6 access) EXCEPT
First five performances: all tickets £5
Groups: buy 9 tickets, get 10th ticket free.
 

Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX
Box Office: 0844 847 9910 (with booking fee)
Online: www.southbankcentre.co.uk (with booking fee)
How to get Here: Waterloo (Jubilee, Bakerloo, Northern and mainline) is the nearest station.
 

The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
Box Office: 020 7930 3647
Online: www.ica.org.uk
How to get Here: Charing Cross (Northern, Bakerloo and main lines) is the nearest station.
 

Trinity Buoy Wharf, 64 Orchard Place, London E14 0JW
Box Office: 020 7503 1646 (via the Arcola Theatre)
Online: www.arcolatheatre.com (via the Arcola Theatre)
How to get Here: Canning Town (Jubilee and DLR lines) is the nearest station.
 

Tuesday 2nd until Saturday 20th July 2013
Press Night: Friday 5th July 2013
 

MEASURE FOR MEASURE
CONTAINS ADULT SCENES. NOT SUITABLE FOR THOSE AGED UNDER 16 OR THE EASILY OFFENDED.
by William Shakespeare

A city on the brink of self-destruction.

Brothels flourish, corruption is the only currency, and vice reigns in a city where incompetent leadership has handed power to the masses and is now powerless to stop the spread of immorality.

The powers that-be turn to the seemingly righteous Angelo, desperate for order to be restored. However, a danger of a very different kind is about to terrorise the city when appearances prove to be deceptive and power falls into the wrong hands.

Following their Off West End-nominated production of Julius Caesar, Immersion Theatre are thrilled to return to the Jack Studio to present one of Shakespeare's darkest comedies in their unique and gritty style.

Contains scenes of a sexual nature. Ages 16+.
 

Wednesday 29th May until Saturday 22nd June 2013
Press Night: Friday 31st May 2013

MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS GOT HER HEAD CHOPPED OFF
by Liz Lochhhead
directed by Robin Norton-Hale

Exploring the rivalry and mutual fascination between Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I, Liz Lochhead (Scotland's National Poet) re-tells this murky tale of political and sexual intrigue with ferocious wit and innovation and examines Mary's legacy through the eyes of Corbie, a carrion crow who is her unseen attendant through life and death.

Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off could not be more timely in an age when the question of Scottish Independence is back at the top of the political agenda. The play makes the link between contemporary Scottish sectarianism and the power politics of the French Catholic Mary and the English Protestant Elizabeth, the virgin queen. and examines the way contemporary Scotland’s sense of identity has been forged by the myths of its history.

Previously only seen in London for one week at the Donmar Warehouse in 1987, it will get its first full London season, 25 years after its Scottish premiere.



Set and Costume Designer: Katie Bellman.

Cast: Nora Wardell (Mary), Sarah Thom (Elizabeth), Shelley Lang (La Corbie), Sean Hart (Darnley), Jamie Laing (Bothwell), Prentis Hancock (Knox), Michael Longhi (Riccio).




 

Wednesday 7th August until Saturday 14th September 2013
Press Night: Monday 12th August 2013

[TITLE OF SHOW]
by Hunter Bell
music and lyrics by Jeff Bowen
directed by Robert McWhir
musical direction by Michael Webborn.


Three Weeks. Two friends. One original musical. [title of show] is a wickedly hilarious musical comedy about Hunter and Jeff, two struggling writers who decide to create a new musical for the inaugural New York Musical Theatre Festival. With a three week deadline looming but nothing to lose, they decide to try and create the show of their dreams, but soon realise that their mad dash to put pen to paper is infinitely more entertaining than the show they are writing. Their struggle to write a hit becomes the subject of the show, and so [title of show] is born, taking its name from the ominous space on the festival’s application form. Chronicling its own creation and the real life story of Hunter and Jeff’s journey to seeing their musical produced, [title of show] is a love letter to musical theatre, following your dreams, and daring to believe that you can actually get paid to do what you love.

[title of show] was first produced by the New York Musical Theatre Festival, where it premiered in 2004. It subsequently ran Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre in 2006, before opening on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre in 2008 where it received a Tony Award nomination for Best Book of a Musical. After plans to open in the West End in 2011 and again in 2013, [title of show] is now making its journey to London in a brand new production at the Landor Theatre.

 

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Friday at 7.30pm
Saturday at 3pm and 7.30pm
Sunday at 3pm

Seat Prices:
All tickets: £18 except:
Previews 7th to 11th August 2013: all tickets £15
 

Highgate Hill, Waterlow Park London N6 5HG
Box office: 020 8348 8716 10.30am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday. Personal callers at the box office are also welcome during these hours. Cheque and SAE postal applications are also accepted. A £2 administrative fee is charged.
Online: www.lauderdalehouse.co.uk (information only)
How to get Here: Archway (Northern Line) is the nearest underground station. Buses : 210, 143, 271 all run direct to House.
Please note that sadly this venue is not wheelchair accessible.
 

100 Camden High Street, London, NW1 0LU
Box office: 08444 77 1000 (Ticketweb - booking fee may apply)
Online: www.camdenfringe.org
How to get Here: Camden Town (Northern Line) is the nearest underground station.
 

Saturdays until 14th September 2013

CRAFTERNOON CABARET CLUB

Come and join the Crafternoon Cabaret Club! We hold monthly events at The Library Pub in Islington. Get creative, watch cabaret: the perfect Saturday afternoon!

* Get creative making vintage inspired pieces
* Develop your craft skills
* Make something personal and unique to take away with you
* Watch performances by exciting new and established acts on the cabaret and comedy scene.

All materials provided with handy how-to cards and guidance from our Crafternoon Crew, and you take away what you make.

Set in The Library; Upper Street's cosiest crafting destination, where hungry crafters can purchase food and drinks to keep you going throughout the session.

Performance Time:
2pm until 4pm

Seat Prices:
All tickets £10

Box Office for this Production:
Online at: www.wegottickets.com
Tickets also available at the door on the day.
 

Sadler’s Wells, Rosebery Avenue, London EC1R 4TN
Box office: 0844 412 4300  (booking fee applies)
Online: www.sadlerswells.com (booking fee applies)
How to get Here: Angel (Northern Line) is the nearest underground station.
 

The Lion and Unicorn Theatre presents the World Premiere of:

LUCK PENNY
by Aisling Foster
directed by Cherry Cookson

STARRING SHEILA RUSKIN & PETER DINEEN

Moscow 1948. Dr Brendan Regan, old friend of Eamon deValera, is on a secret mission to return some Russian Crown Jewels.

The jewels had been taken back to Ireland by deValera in 1920 as collateral for a loan he made to a small party of Bolsheviks who were travelling around the United States trying to raise funds for post-revolutionary Russia. The Irish revolutionaries were
on the same assignment. They raised many millions of dollars while the Russians collected almost nothing.

At the end of the Second World War, both their governments are poles apart, making the friendship and loan an enormous political embarrassment for both sides.

This play is based on real events. Official papers documenting the return of the jewels were released by the Dublin government in 1993.

Cast: Sheila Ruskin and Peter Dineen.

Supported by Giant Olive Theatre Company.
Produced by Luck Penny Theatre Company.
 

Performance Times:
11th until 15th June 2013
Tuesday to Friday at 7.30pm
Saturday at 3.30pm and 7.30pm
NO MONDAY PERFORMANCES.

Then

23rd June until 8th July 2013
Sundays and Mondays at 7.30pm
NO TUESDAY TO SATURDAY PERFORMANCES

Seat Prices:
All tickets: £15 (£12 concessions)
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Tuesday 18th June until Saturday 13th July 2013

El-Alfy Theatre Company present the UK premiere of:

THE COMEDY OF OEDIPUS
by Ali Salem
directed by Ahmed El-Alfy

What if Oedipus lived in Ancient Egypt, killed the Sphinx, and became a personality cult - his face on the cover of the Time magazine?

'The Comedy of Oedipus' is Egyptian playwright Ali Salem’s hilarious, surreal, but relevant version of Sophocles’ classical tragedy in the Thebes of Ancient Egypt - only this land of pharoahs and pyramids has popularity contests and papparazzi,
too, and however hard Oedipus tries to modernise his people’s thinking, they only worship him more.

Ali Salem’s 1970 satire not only captures the absurdities and incongruities of mass communication, it throws a strong dimension into today's Egypt and its challenges and dreams for the future.

Ali Salem is famed throughout the Arab world as a brilliant comic playwright, whose best-known work is ‘Madraset Al Moshaghbeen’ (The Trouble Maker’s School). In ‘The Comedy of Oedipus’ is ‘Pythonesque’ vision of a world determined to go
mad.

El-Alfy Theatre Company is a new International Theatre Company based in London as part of Star Brands International Group. Its objective is to produce provocative and innovative Theatre in the UK with a cultural twist. Its Founder, Ahmed El Alfy, is an Egyptian Theatre Director from Cairo.

Part of the Shubbak Festival 2013.

Producer: Karim Salem
Stage Manager: Claire Charlesworth
Set Design - Jenny Gamble
Lighting Design - Christopher Nairne
Costume Design - Libby Everall

Cast: Oedipus – Elliott Pritchard; Jocasta – Caroline Ginty; Creon – Matthew Eaton; Tiresias – Buchan Lennon; Hormoheb – Adrian Relph; Awalih – Harry Belcher; Onah – Timothy George; Kami – Miranda Menzies; Senefru – Manos Koutsis; Police Officer – Jack Badley; Nefer – Natasha Karp; Kaiit – Tom Phillips; Chorus - Miranda Menzies; Natasha Karp; Tom Phillips; Jack Badley; Miranda Menzies.

Performance Times:
Tuesday to Friday at 7.30pm
Saturday at 3.30pm and 7.30pm
Sunday at 2.30pm
NO MONDAY PERFORMANCES.

Seat Prices:
All tickets: £19 (£13 concessions)
 

Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London, NW1 7AY
Box Office: see under individual event.
Online: www.localism.org.uk
How to get Here: Camden Town (Northern Line) is the nearest underground station.
 

Lower Space, 443 New Cross Road, SE14 6TA
Box Office: 0208 694 1888
Online: www.thelondontheatre.com
How to get Here: New Cross (Overground) is the nearest station.
 

Wednesday 31st July until Saturday 17th August 2013
Press Night: Thursday 1st August 2013

The LOST Theatre presents the World Premiere of:

LULU - A S*X TRAGEDY
a new adaptation by Oliver Jack and Patrick Wilde.
based on Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box by Frank Wedekind
directed by Oliver Jack

Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box, first seen in 1895 and 1904, trace the story of a sexually-enticing dancer, Lulu, who rises in German society through her relationships with several wealthy men, but who later falls into poverty and prostitution. The story has been interpreted many times since - often combined into one script - on TV and radio, as plays, musicals, operas and even on the 2011 album Lulu, a collaboration between rock musician Lou Reed and heavy metal band Metallica.

Commissioned by LOST Theatre Artistic Director Mark Magill, Lulu - A S*x Tragedy strives to re-ignite the popularity of the original story while presenting it in a new format for a modern day audience.





 

THE SECOND FACE TO FACE FESTIVAL

celebrating the very best in solo theatre, with writers performing their own work.

Among the many highlights, Claire Dowie will be performing her extraordinary award-winning solo play Why Is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt?, an Edinburgh Fringe classic that premiered 23 years ago at the Traverse Theatre. Claire appeared in last year’s Face to Face Festival and then went on to win the Grand Prix Prize at the MonoAkt Festival in Kosovo and another award at the Thespis International Monodrama Festival in Germany.

Other outstanding performers invited back from the 2012 festival include storytelling theatre genius Jack Klaff, superb physical theatre/cabaret performer Peta Lily, inspirational PR guru Mark Borkowski, outstanding verbatim theatre artist Louise Wallinger and visionary theatre poet Kay Adshead.

The week’s programme features:
Monday July 1: Stephen Oxley as Tristram Shandy
Tuesday July 2: PR guru Mark Borkowski & Nineties Woman Rosie Wilby
Wednesday July 3: Verbatim Theatre artist Louise Wallinger
Thursday July 4: Jewish comedian Ivor Dembina
Friday July 5: Seminal soloist Claire Dowie & Theatre Poet Kay Adshead
Saturday July 6: Physical performer Peta Lily & Verbal virtuoso Jack Klaff

Every night there will be a full supporting programme of short pieces by outstanding new performers, including talented new performers discovered during the 2012 festival.

Sunday July 7: The festival finale is a day devoted to new solo performances for audiences of just 1 - unique one-to-one encounters with many of the featured headline performers and special guests. You will get four experiences out of a possible eight in an unforgettable hour. These include The Dylan Tarot by Claire Dowie and The Dream Teller by Louise Wallinger.

Over the past 30 years, Face to Face Theatre Festival Director Colin Watkeys has specialised in producing and directing solo theatre and writers who perform their own work. He is now part of a world movement that recognises that solo performance possesses a unique quality of vision in theatre. The Face to Face Festival celebrates the very best in solo theatre and nurtures future solo performers, new and emerging artists perform alongside experienced professionals. Exciting new work plays opposite classic solo pieces. There are also training opportunities for new performers to take part in workshops and both create and present their first solos.

Colin Watkeys first created Solo Theatre on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Nica Burns in Dulcima in 1982 (originally there was another non-speaking role later cut) Since then he has worked with Young Writers at the Royal Court Theatre and solo performers at the Finborough Cabaret from 1982 – 1988. He directed all of the solo theatre created by award winning performers Claire Dowie and the legendary Ken Campbell as well as work by Stephen Oxley (Tristram Shandy); Guy Dartnell; Jeremy Stockwell; Peta Lily and Jack Klaff (the award-winning Jack the Knife).

This is the second year that the Face to Face Festival has been supported financially by Arts Council England.


 

Seat Prices:
All tickets £10 (£8 concessions)
 

Lyric Square, King Street, London, W6 0QL
Box office: 0871 22 117 29
Online: www.lyric.co.uk
How to get Here: Hammersmith (Hammersmith and City, Circle, District and Piccadilly Lines) is the nearest underground station.
 

The Broadway, Wimbledon, London, SW19 1QG
Box Office: 0870 060 6646 (£2.85 per booking, not per ticket fee is charged). Groups Line: 0844 871 796. Access Booking Line: 0844 871 7677.
Online: www.atgtickets.com (a per ticket booking fee, and a per booking, not per ticket transaction fee is charged).
How to get Here: Wimbledon (District Line, Tramlink and mainline) station is 5 minutes walk from the theatre - turn left on the Broadway after leaving the station. South Wimbledon (Northern Line) is the next nearest underground station. Buses 57, 93, 131,163, 164, 200, 219, 493.

Monday 7th until Saturday 12th October 2013
Press Night: 8th October 2013

Seven Brides Associates present:

SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS
book by Lawrence Kasha and David S Landay
music by Gene de Paul Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
new Songs by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn
directed by Patti Colombo


The story of Adam, the eldest of seven brothers living in the rural backwoods, who goes to town to get himself a wife. Convincing Milly to marry him that very same day, he forgets to mention he has six brothers - all living together in his cabin. Milly decides to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Then, after reading about the Roman capture of the Sabine women, Adam has what he thinks is an inspired solution to his brothers' loneliness - they will kidnap the women they want!

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is packed with 16 timeless classics, including Bless Your Beautiful Hide, A Woman Ought to Know Her Place and Goin' Courtin.' This is part of a national tour.

 

Choreographed by Patti Colombo.

Cast includes: Sam Attwater as Adam Pontipee and Helena Blackman as Milly

Performance Times:
Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm
Thursday and Saturday at 2.30pm and 7.30pm

Seat prices:
£35, £29.50, £25, £19.50, £15, £10.
 

The Broadway, Wimbledon, London, SW19 1QG
Box Office: 0844 871 7646 (£1.30 per ticket plus £2.75 per booking, not per ticket fee is charged). Groups Line: 0844 871 796. Access Booking Line: 0844 871 7677.
Online: www.atgtickets.com (a per ticket booking fee, and a per booking, not per ticket transaction fee is charged).
How to get Here: Wimbledon (District Line, Tramlink and mainline) station is 5 minutes walk from the theatre - turn left on the Broadway after leaving the station. South Wimbledon (Northern Line) is the next nearest underground station. Buses 57, 93, 131,163, 164, 200, 219, 493.
 

2A Norwood High Street, London, SE27 9NS
Box office: 020 8670 3474 South London Theatre is a private members' club. New members are always welcome and joining as a full member entitles you to two free tickets for your first show. The box office opens every Wednesday and the night before each show, between 7pm and 9pm. It is also open one hour before curtain up on every show night. Members can buy tickets at any time, including the night of the show. Non-Members must join or have their tickets bought for them by a member at least 48 hours before a show.
Online: www.southlondontheatre.co.uk (information only)
How to get Here: West Norwood (Main Line) is the nearest station.
 

Old Queen's Head Public House, 44 Essex Road, Islington, London, N1 8LN
Box office: see under individual event.
Online: see under individual event. www.theoldqueenshead.com is the venue website.
How to get Here: Angel (Northern Line) is the nearest underground station. Essex Road is the nearest mainline station.
 

Tuesday 30th July 2013

REBECCA COLE... and Friends, "Back Home"

RebeccaCole, noun. Definition: Pescetarian, obsessive compulsive, optimistic, helpless romantic, recent thrill-seeker, accidental Bridget Jones impersonator, secret greb, Made in Chelsea watching, cocktail guzzling, frizzy-haired loon.

Some of Rebecca's fellow munchkins will be joining her on stage, all boys and girls with magical voices. Rebecca will take you through a tornado of classic and modern musical theatre, with some pop thrown in. You'll be green with envy if you miss it!


 

Seat Prices:
All tickets: £12
 

Royal Over-Seas League, Over-Seas House, Park Place, St James's Street, London SW1A 1LR
Box Office: on the door.
Online: www.rosl.org.uk is the venue website for venue information only.
How to get Here: Green Park (Jubilee, Victoria and Piccadilly lines) is the nearest underground station.
 

34 Hereford Road, London, W2 5AJ
Box Office: 020 7221 6063 / 08444 77 1000 (Ticketweb Agency, booking fee may apply)
Online: www.the-print-room.org (Ticketweb Agency, booking fee may apply)
How to get Here: Royal Oak (Hammersmith and City Line) is the nearest underground station.
 

16 Chenies Street, London, WC1E 7EX (formerly the Drill Hall)
Box Office: 020 7307 5060
Online: www.rada.ac.uk
How to get Here: Goodge Street (Northern Line) is the nearest underground Station. Buses: 10, 24, 29, 73 and 134 all stop nearby. By rail: The nearest rail station is Euston. Car Parking: Non-metered parking is available in Chenies Street after 6.30pm Monday to Saturday and all day Sunday. There are disabled parking bays directly outside the Drill Hall.
 

Tuesday 9th until Sunday 28th July 2013
Press Night: Thursday 11th July 2013

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISSOCIA
NOT SUITABLE FOR THOSE AGED UNDER 13 OR THE EASILY OFFENDED.
by Anthony Neilson
directed by William Seaward

‘Your watch isn't slow Lisa... You are’

Lisa is a troubled young lady; troubled by her life and its imbalance at the hands of her watch - always behind by one hour. When a mysterious gentleman arrives at her door, he brings news from the watch specialist Lisa entrusted with her broken "time piece" and reveals that the watch is in fact intact and that "somewhere in all the temporal confusion" it is Lisa who has lost an hour from her life. He informs her that her only hope of retrieving the hour and restoring balance to her life is to travel to a fantastical land called "Dissocia" where she is sure to find it. But all is not as it seems and as Lisa descends to Dissocia, she encounters some of the strangest individuals in the land, who though they may send her in the direction of her lost hour, do not necessarily want her to find it.

Not seen on a London stage for nearly ten years, join Lisa as she descends to Dissocia in this strange and macabre revival of Anthony Neilson's Dorothy meets Alice style classic. Crammed with dark humour, a witty satire and musical set pieces, this is a theatrical spectacle not to be missed - especially in the intimate setting of The Red Hedgehog Theatre. We all lose time through our day but what would you do if you lost it for good?!


Age Guidance: 13+


www.clatterhousetheatre.co.uk is the company website.
Twitter: @CLATTERHOUSE #dissocia2013
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Clatterhouse

Cast: George Fouracres, Liane Grant, Ben Kavanagh, Charlotte Reid, Abi Tedder.



 

265 Poyser Street, Bethnal Green E2 9RF
Box Office: see under individual event / www.resistancegallery.com venue website (information only)
Online: see under individual event.
How to get Here: Bethnal Green (Central Line) is the nearest underground station.
 

In addition to any events listed below, the venue also has a packed programme of film, dance, music and education projects for young people. See their website www.richmix.org.uk for details.

Thursday 10th October 2013

Tilt in association with Rich Mix presents:

TILT'S LONDON LIMING
NOT SUITABLE FOR THOSE AGED UNDER 14.

Featuring the best of Britain’s spoken word artists from across the UK, in a laidback night of lyricism and music

Tilt’s London Liming transports the atmosphere of Trinidad 'liming' culture to London, in a laid back night of drink, dance, poetry and critically acclaimed performance. London Liming teams up with cutting edge poetry night Chill Pill, in a unique collaboration between two of the capital’s leading spoken word curators in a special, one off show: "London Liming meets Chill Pill, featuring John Agard, Chill Pill founding members & Roundhouse Poetry Collective."

Chill Pill is at the cutting edge of underground poetry. Curated by Mr Gee (host of Radio 4′s Bespoken Word and Rhyme and Reason), Raymond Antrobus, Deanna Rodger, Adam Kammerling, and Simon Mole, Chill Pill is a laid-back night which hosts the finest spoken word acts in the UK, and takes place at the Albany, Roundhouse, and Soho Theatre.

In this unique collaboration with Tilt’s London Liming, Chill Pill founding artists Deanna Rodger, Mr Gee, Simon Mole, Raymond Antrobus and Adam Kammerling take to the stage alongside John Agard, recent recipient of the Queen’s Gold Award for poetry, and the Roundhouse Poetry Collective, 15 gifted poets between the ages of 18-25, who are resident at London’s Roundhouse in Camden.

Tilt is a spoken word company that opens up spaces for speech, performance and satire. They tour writers, performers and raconteurs and curate events, with recent credits including a Spoken Word tour of award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge, presenting talks and discussion on his latest book, Who Are We?.

Suitable for ages: 14+

Web presence: www.ontilt.org / @TiltSpokenWd / #londonliming / www.facebook.com/tilt.spokenword / www.youtube.com/TiltSpokenWord

 

Last Sunday in the month until 21st July 2013

Sunday Cabaret is a delightfully different monthly cabaret night, upstairs at The Round Table in the heart of the West End (last Sunday of every month, except Easter Sunday). An eclectic mix of classical, folk, music theatre, jazz and comedy songs from resident trio Ismena (singer Sara Cluderay, cellist Mayda Narvey and pianist Katharine Woolley), with fabulous special guests.
Delicious food and drink is available.

Tricity Vogue appears at Sunday Cabaret on Sunday 30th June 2013.
Cheeky diva Tricity Vogue strums some ukulele tunes and dishes some dirt from her upcoming Edinburgh Fringe show
Calamitous Liaisons.

Big-hearted cabaret siren Tricity Vogue has written a song for every one of her calamitous liaisons, and now has enough dirty laundry for a show.

Join Tricity for ukulele tunes and salacious anecdotes.

http://www.tricityvogue.com
 



 

See their website for details of scheduled events. www.rvt.org.uk

EVENTS INCLUDE:

Every Sunday

S.L.A.G.S / Chill-Out
Huge dance anthems and commercial house from the DJs Simon Le Vans, Andy Almighty & Sean Sirrs.
2pm ‘til Midnight. The genius of The D. E. Experience. From Sunday, 7th April 2013,
London’s (and the internet’s) most popular gay cabaret star joins the S.L.A.G.S/Chill-Out team. Charlie Hides will be starting a new weekly residency at 5.30pm each week. Charlie will be building on the huge success of his YouTube channel, CharlieHidestv and his many years as a successful performer on the gay cabaret circuit with his various comic creations.
Charlie Hides is an award-winning cabaret artist, YouTube sensation and man of 1000 faces. Known and loved for his iconic comic creations such as Kandi Kane-Baxter and Laquisha Jonz, as well as his many hilarious viral videos in which he portrays and satirises dozens of celebrities such as Cher, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Liza Minnelli and Lana Del Rey… to name but a few. Charlie will be bringing to the RVT his fast-paced multimedia cabaret show, with an ever changing cast of celebrity impersonations, song parodies and topical comedy as well as new escapades from Kandi and Laquisha.
Entry £7
Photograph shows Alison Jiear singing with The D.E. Experience.

Every Tuesday
Bar Wotever - where Queer talents meet every Tuesday!
About Bar Wotever: Bar Wotever features an open stage for up and coming queer talents to show off, open decks where you can play your own music plus dancing into the night. The people are friendly, mixed across ages, ethnicities, genders and sexualities. Over the past 4 years. Bar Wotever has hosted some of the best queer stars including Rae Spoon, Aliens Ate My Schnitzel, The Ballet, David Mills, Timberlina, Dorian Wood, Lazlo Pearlman, The Wau Wau Sisters & Scottee. It has also been responsible for premièring early works by Josephine Wilson, Jet Moon, Mr Meredith and many more. With Bar Wotever relocating to the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, you can expect new up and coming queer performers and artists as well as established names from all over the world, secret gigs, film screening nights (for the first time) and a host of , other events including benefit nights, fashion shows, birthdays, leaving dos and weddings.
For the night's performers see www.rvt.org.uk.
Doors 6pm - Midnight
Entry FREE
All Welcome

Saturdays
DUCKIE
Post-Poofter Purveyors of Progressive Working Class Entertainment. Hosted by Amy Lamé, music by Readers Wifes.
9pm - 2am.
Entry £6

Every Fourth Friday:
MARVELLOUS
The Infamous Alternative Club Night
Hosted by the inimitable Joan Dairy-Queen.
DJs are the excellent... DJ Lush, Jonny Slut , Wayne Shires and Felix who will be playing all thrills and no fillas, plus visuals and acts that will amaze!
“A STAR RETURNS, again...!”
9pm till 3am
Entry £6

FRIDAYS: Every First Friday in the month.
LIPSINKERS
East London’s pop cultural cabaret ambassadors of alternative drag are back south.
Got that Friday feeling? Want to start your weekend with some lip-synching, high-kicking, prosecco drinking, gender bending live entertainment.
East London’s original quintet of cross-dressing superstars Blanche Dubois, Richardette, John Sizzle, Lisa Lee and Rhyannon Styles return to The RVT.
All the usual topical, trivial, transvestite fun of the show PLUS The LipSinkers Friday night post show party.
Late bar and late doors with DJ Squeaky (Dalston Superstore/Tutti Frutti).
It’s a show, it’s a disco, and you’ll be friggin bonkers to miss it!
Doors 8pm, Show 9.30pm
Tickets £8 / £5 for fans/friends/stalkers

WEDNESDAYS
MYRA DUBOIS is ALIVE! At the RVT!
Quality Pub Entertainment!
Myra DuBois is Rotherham’s finest entertainment export since Paul Shane! ‘Common as muck, sharp as a tack and bold as you like’ (Time Out London), Myra returns from what might well be a gloriously successful Edinburgh Fringe run (It’s hard to tell at the time of writing. July.) to launch her brand new weekly residency at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern!
Myra has been nominated for a 2012 London Cabaret Award (didn’t win), was a New Act of the Year 2012 Finalist (didn’t win) and has graced the stage of the RVT before in the now legendary annual pantomimes, as well as in her own regular one-woman shows!
Now she’ll hold court weekly, welcoming to the stage a stellar line up of top-notch guests including a healthy blend of alt-drag, trad-drag, comedy, music, live art, rock’n’roll variety!
As well as the rotating weekly line up of special guests, the stage will be opening up to aspiring Cabaret performers of any discipline wanting to try out their wares before a live audience! The stars of tomorrow; TODAY!
Part Saturday Night at the Palladium, Part Opportunity Knocks this autumn Myra DuBois is ‘ALIVE! At the RVT!’.
Entry £5
Doors 7pm
Myra DuBois onstage from 8.30pm
www.myradubois.co.uk

FIRST WEDNESDAY of each month.
FITS AND GIGGLES
Starring the wonderful RVT favorite ZOE LYONS and musical comedy wizard ADAM KAY.
RVT’s new comedy night see’s Chris Fitchew and Emma Packer bring on to the RVT stage the delightful Zoe Lyons and Adam Kay. An evening of top notch stand up comedy, sharp sketches and side splitting musical comedy… this will be an action packed evening of gigantic comic proportions.
Doors from 6pm - late
Show 7.30 - 10pm
Tickets £8

WEDNESDAY 19th JUNE
DR SKETCHY
At Dr. Sketchy we want to make life drawing more than nude models and serious sketching.
So we've scoured this great city to find beautiful burlesque performers, bizarre circus acts, and rippling hunks of man-flesh.
Then we let them loose on stage to release the artist in you! In between each round of sketching our larger-than-life models you get a chance to grab a drink get comfortable and take in some of the finest burlesque, comedy, music, poetry and quirky cabaret performances the big smoke has to offer.
Dr Sketchy isn't about being an amazing artist, it’s about having a go! So don't be shy and put pencil to paper, move it around and see what happens – you might be surprised! Materials provided, all you need bring is your enthusiasm!
Doors 8pm - Midnight
Tickets £8.50 advance, £10 on the door.

THURSDAYS 13th JUNE - 18th JULY
DAVID HOYLE'S GUIDING LIGHT
After years in the darkness, David Hoyle thinks he’s seen a light at the end of the tunnel.
The curse of humanity is the conscious mind and today’s climate of political damnation means paranoia, persecution and pain can dominate. We need to find a way to rise above the oppression and set ourselves free.
At David Hoyle’s Guiding Light we will liberate ourselves from the paralysis of ‘austerity Britain’ and together we will find a way to LIVE.
David Hoyle’s Guiding Light runs for six Thursdays to 18 July, with a full supporting cast:
20 June
The Dream Bears
27 June
Ida Barr
4 July
Dusty Limits
11 July
Marcus Reeves
18 July
Frank Chickens
Doors 7pm, Show 8.30pm
Tickets £10 from wegottickets.com

FRIDAY 21st JUNE
HOME GROUND MIDSUMMER KATE BUSH PARTY
with special live set by Cloudbusting
Following the success of last year’s 30th Anniversary HomeGround party, Editors Peter, Dave and Krys are pleased to confirm that there will be another Kate themed party this year on Friday 21st June ~ the Summer Solstice.
We are very pleased to confirm that the night will feature an exclusive live performance from the Kate Bush tribute band, Cloudbusting fronted by long time Kate fan and HomeGround reader, Lisa Oliver.
The band will be performing a special set for the HomeGround party and are asking fans to make suggestions for the Kate songs they would like them to sing on the night, making this a unique event mixing some of Kate’s most well-known songs with fan favourites.
You can email your suggestions to: katebushmydreamthree(insert the @ symbol here)yahoo.co.uk
The night will also feature DJ sets from Paul Burston, Phil Marriot, HG editor Dave Cross and Paul Thomas.
The RVT is a fantastic venue and is celebrating its 150th birthday this year and we are very excited to be hosting this party there, which will be a great night for all Kate fans.
There will be updates to follow plus more information on Cloudbusting and the DJs.
We are also hoping that this will be the launch party for the HomeGround book, now proceeding to proof, itself taking almost as long to produce as a Kate album!
Doors 9pm -3am
Tickets: Advance tickets are £8 and available from the HomeGround page and £10 on the door.
 

Exhibition Road, London SW7 2DD
Box Office: 0870 870 4868
Online: www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/SMLive  
How to get Here: South Kensington (Circle, District and Piccadilly lines) is the nearest underground station.

Monday 22nd July until Saturday 31st August 2013

THE ENERGY SHOW
Suitable for children aged 7 and over.