Good news for Punchdrunk fans!
"The Doctor Who immersive theatre experience, The Crash of the Elysium is to be recreated at the Ipswich Arts Festival from 15th June to 8th July 2012, as part of the London 2012 Festival celebrating the Olympic Games taking place in the summer."
http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2011/12/dw ... ng-in.html
http://www.2012crash.co.uk/
This time there will be performances for adults as well!
Site Specific Theatre
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superhero
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I would love to go and see Punchdrunk's latest show but it's in Ipswich 
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It's an hour and 15 minutes by train from London :). Very do-able. It had great reviews last year.superhero wrote:I would love to go and see Punchdrunk's latest show but it's in Ipswich
Tickets go on sale on 20 January 2012 http://www.wolseytheatre.co.uk/
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The Lion KIng which has been playing at the Lyceum Theatre in London for 13 years, will begin its first UK tour at the Bristol Hippodrome, with previews from August 31 and press night on September 6.
After an 11-week season in Bristol, it will be performed at Manchester’s Palace Theatre where it will play a Christmas season. In total, the company will visit 10 cities in the UK and Ireland over two and a half years. Further dates are yet to be announced. Disney is producing the tour.
After an 11-week season in Bristol, it will be performed at Manchester’s Palace Theatre where it will play a Christmas season. In total, the company will visit 10 cities in the UK and Ireland over two and a half years. Further dates are yet to be announced. Disney is producing the tour.
preferred locations Shepherds Bush, Westfield, Notting Hill, Central London, Wimbledon, Islington, Wandsworth thanks
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Octopus
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Daaamn I really want to see it. Anyone has seen it? It looks so amazing. The costumes, the dancers, everything.
It looks expensive, too.
It looks expensive, too.
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I saw TLK a couple of years ago. Maybe longer. It's AMAZING. We were in the second row, and a giraffe almost touched me. Not sure why I haven't been again. Seriously amazing.
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Preferred cinemas: Most Central London, Finchley Road, Swiss Cottage, Islington, Holloway and West India Quay, Greenwich (O2 / Odeon only) or Stratford City if there is nothing else!
Seen free in 2012: Jan: Margin Call; J. Edgar; Like Crazy; Carnage; Young Adult. Feb: The Muppets; The Best Extotic Marigold Hotel; Safe House; Project X; Beginners. March: 21 Jump Street; We b*ght a Zoo; Wild Bill; John Carter; Wanderlust; Street Dance 2;The Hunger Games; [The King's Speech]. Apr: The Hunger Games; Battleship; Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. May: What To Expect When You're Expecting; MIB3. June: [We Will Rock You] July: Ted; Seeking a Friend for the End of the World; The Dark Knight Rises; Brave. Aug: The Bourne Legacy. Sept: Lawless
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Re: Site Specific Theatre
I would absolutely love to go watch TLK (and yeh Octopus, it is expensive as they are always full price - never seen it on offer). I promised a friend that I will go with him but his work is so busy (bloody lawyer) that this promise has been hanging for over 12 months!
Watched Shrek The Musical on Friday night. We had terrific centre seats in the stalls although the theatre did seem a bit too overcrowded and everyone was pretty much sitting on top of everyone. As my friend is rather tall, it seemed obvious for him to sit in between me and the kid next to him as the guy sitting next to me was equally tall which meant their knees would be grazing had he sat there. Only problem with that was the guy in front of me was also very tall so I kept having to lean in to my friend's view (sorry friend!) and the guy on my side to see anything!! Arghhh! And I was so frustrated by the two women behind me who would not shut their f**king trap. They talked all throughout the first Act!
There were loads of kids around too but the majority were well behaved except one behind my friend who thought it was fun to repeat every sentence!
Asides that, I really enjoyed the musical. It might not be the best but very well worth seeing and definitely worth the money we spent on the tickets. A bit of adult humour in between which I don't think the children would have understood however was still really good. Donkey was awesome and the songs were quite catchy. No Puss in Boots though
except a little prop of PiB walking by in one of the scenes but I guess he doesn't appear in the very first movie anyway. Shrek and Fiona were good but not as good as I would have expected it to be. Fiona was very much a damsel in distress sort of character which isn't how she is in the movie (or how I remember her to be 
). Lord Farquaad was hilarious! Stage and props were excellent and I absolutely loved the dragon. It flew above us in the stalls! Ended with some decorations thrown on everyone in the stall. Definitely would recommend watching. 8/10
Watched Shrek The Musical on Friday night. We had terrific centre seats in the stalls although the theatre did seem a bit too overcrowded and everyone was pretty much sitting on top of everyone. As my friend is rather tall, it seemed obvious for him to sit in between me and the kid next to him as the guy sitting next to me was equally tall which meant their knees would be grazing had he sat there. Only problem with that was the guy in front of me was also very tall so I kept having to lean in to my friend's view (sorry friend!) and the guy on my side to see anything!! Arghhh! And I was so frustrated by the two women behind me who would not shut their f**king trap. They talked all throughout the first Act!
There were loads of kids around too but the majority were well behaved except one behind my friend who thought it was fun to repeat every sentence!Asides that, I really enjoyed the musical. It might not be the best but very well worth seeing and definitely worth the money we spent on the tickets. A bit of adult humour in between which I don't think the children would have understood however was still really good. Donkey was awesome and the songs were quite catchy. No Puss in Boots though
except a little prop of PiB walking by in one of the scenes but I guess he doesn't appear in the very first movie anyway. Shrek and Fiona were good but not as good as I would have expected it to be. Fiona was very much a damsel in distress sort of character which isn't how she is in the movie (or how I remember her to be ). Lord Farquaad was hilarious! Stage and props were excellent and I absolutely loved the dragon. It flew above us in the stalls! Ended with some decorations thrown on everyone in the stall. Definitely would recommend watching. 8/10Member No. 2 of the "100 free films in 2015" club. 3 seen, 97 to go!
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4) Odeon Greenwich or Odeon Surrey Quays
Realistic target: 5
Preferred cinema list:
1) Cineworld: West India Quays or Greenwich, 02, Vue Westfield - Stratford City or Picturehouse Stratford
2) Picturehouse Greenwich
3) Any central London cinema including Islington (excluding Shepherd's Bush, and Whiteleys unless it's some super duper cool film)
4) Odeon Greenwich or Odeon Surrey Quays
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superhero
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Mark Storor: a tender subject
16 - 31 March 2012
London
Photograph by Tas Kyprianou
The thought of the act of crying. The terror of, and need to, attach a smile to someone.
These are the quiet and tender moments imagined by men whose lives are not seen to be their own.
A culmination of three years' work with gay prisoners and prison officers, Mark Storor’s a tender subject is a twilight world where questions about who we are as human beings, and why we react and judge the way we do, are posed in a promenade performance that explores the relationship between fragility and brutality, tenderness and violence.
Audiences visiting a tender subject will be transported from a central London location to a secret space where they will be escorted by prison officers along a guided route, encountering performance and installations that tell the stories and experiences of the project’s collaborators.
The men performing the roles of prisoners in the production are working with Artangel through a collaboration with Only Connect creative arts company.
Booking information
For aged 16 and over.
Tickets are £20 (£15 concs)
Dates: 16 – 31 March (excluding Monday 19 and Monday 26 March)
Times: 6.30pm, 7.15pm, 8.45pm, 9.30pm
Admission: £20 (£15 concessions)
Meeting Point Address: ticket holders will be informed on Friday 9 March.
Public Enquiries Telephone: +44 20 7713 1400
a tender subject is generously supported by the City Bridge Trust, with thanks to the City of London.
Artangel is supported by Arts Council England, Special Angels and The Company of Angels.
http://www.artangel.org.uk//projects/20 ... er_subject
16 - 31 March 2012
London
Photograph by Tas Kyprianou
The thought of the act of crying. The terror of, and need to, attach a smile to someone.
These are the quiet and tender moments imagined by men whose lives are not seen to be their own.
A culmination of three years' work with gay prisoners and prison officers, Mark Storor’s a tender subject is a twilight world where questions about who we are as human beings, and why we react and judge the way we do, are posed in a promenade performance that explores the relationship between fragility and brutality, tenderness and violence.
Audiences visiting a tender subject will be transported from a central London location to a secret space where they will be escorted by prison officers along a guided route, encountering performance and installations that tell the stories and experiences of the project’s collaborators.
The men performing the roles of prisoners in the production are working with Artangel through a collaboration with Only Connect creative arts company.
Booking information
For aged 16 and over.
Tickets are £20 (£15 concs)
Dates: 16 – 31 March (excluding Monday 19 and Monday 26 March)
Times: 6.30pm, 7.15pm, 8.45pm, 9.30pm
Admission: £20 (£15 concessions)
Meeting Point Address: ticket holders will be informed on Friday 9 March.
Public Enquiries Telephone: +44 20 7713 1400
a tender subject is generously supported by the City Bridge Trust, with thanks to the City of London.
Artangel is supported by Arts Council England, Special Angels and The Company of Angels.
http://www.artangel.org.uk//projects/20 ... er_subject
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Macbeth
RUN EXTENDED FOR ONE WEEK ONLY DUE TO OVERWHELMING DEMAND
This performance does NOT take place at Southwark Playhouse.
This is a site-specific performance which takes place at:
The House of Detention, Sans Walk, Clerkenwell, London EC1R 0LT
p*y As You Go Members
Please Note: p*y As You Go members are unable to use their membership for this performance
Allow the strangers your hand and follow as they lead you far below the streets of London into the tunnels and cells of Middlesex Prison. There begin your passage – a nightmarish journey into the mind of one of literature’s greatest serial killers.
This ambitious new production of Macbeth sees Shakespeare’s bloody tragedy mounted by an all-male cast that breathe life into the Scottish King and the three weird sisters that guide him on his path of self-destruction.
Locked away from daylight within a supposedly haunted labyrinth, watch Macbeth as he struggles through delusions and paranoia in this relic of Victorian punishment, bricks built one upon the other with a single purpose, preventing the demons inside from being unleashed.
A prison, a workhouse and a system of underground cells; this is the House of Detention Clerkenwell.
From the award winning company behind The Tartuffe, The Trial, Lorca is Dead, Atrium, Quasimodo and The Boy James, Belt Up Theatre returns to London with the language of Shakespeare, one of the greatest stories ever told and a terrifying new vision…
‘A clever, claustrophobic hour of psychological horror’Time Out on Quasimodo
‘It doesn’t so much inhabit the venue as haunt it, as if what you are witnessing is a terrifying vision conjured from your own warped imagination.’ The Guardian on The Trial
http://southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/archive ... s-macbeth/
RUN EXTENDED FOR ONE WEEK ONLY DUE TO OVERWHELMING DEMAND
This performance does NOT take place at Southwark Playhouse.
This is a site-specific performance which takes place at:
The House of Detention, Sans Walk, Clerkenwell, London EC1R 0LT
p*y As You Go Members
Please Note: p*y As You Go members are unable to use their membership for this performance
Allow the strangers your hand and follow as they lead you far below the streets of London into the tunnels and cells of Middlesex Prison. There begin your passage – a nightmarish journey into the mind of one of literature’s greatest serial killers.
This ambitious new production of Macbeth sees Shakespeare’s bloody tragedy mounted by an all-male cast that breathe life into the Scottish King and the three weird sisters that guide him on his path of self-destruction.
Locked away from daylight within a supposedly haunted labyrinth, watch Macbeth as he struggles through delusions and paranoia in this relic of Victorian punishment, bricks built one upon the other with a single purpose, preventing the demons inside from being unleashed.
A prison, a workhouse and a system of underground cells; this is the House of Detention Clerkenwell.
From the award winning company behind The Tartuffe, The Trial, Lorca is Dead, Atrium, Quasimodo and The Boy James, Belt Up Theatre returns to London with the language of Shakespeare, one of the greatest stories ever told and a terrifying new vision…
‘A clever, claustrophobic hour of psychological horror’Time Out on Quasimodo
‘It doesn’t so much inhabit the venue as haunt it, as if what you are witnessing is a terrifying vision conjured from your own warped imagination.’ The Guardian on The Trial
http://southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/archive ... s-macbeth/
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Chariots of Fire (9 May - 16 June 2012) now booking at the Hampstead Theatre.
Still in the theatre but with it transformed into a stadium of 2 tiers consisting of the Eric Liddell stand, Harold Abrahams stand, South Grandstand and North Grandstand.
Still in the theatre but with it transformed into a stadium of 2 tiers consisting of the Eric Liddell stand, Harold Abrahams stand, South Grandstand and North Grandstand.