THE OLIVIER AND DORFMAN THEATRES TO REOPEN IN JUNE 2021 WITH DYLAN THOMAS’S MASTERPIECE UNDER MILK WOOD AND NEW PLAY BY JACK THORNE AFTER LIFE
– Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas staged in the Olivier theatre, directed by Lyndsey Turner, with additional material by Siân Owen. Opening on 16 June with cast including Michael Sheen, Karl Johnson and Siân Phillips
– After Life based on the film by Hirokazu Kore-eda and written by Jack Thorne with concept by Bunny Christie, Jeremy Herrin and Jack Thorne to reopen the Dorfman theatre on 2 June, a co-production with award-winning theatre company Headlong
The National Theatre today announces plans to reopen in June, welcoming audiences back to the South Bank for the first time since closing last December.
The Olivier theatre will reopen on 16 June with Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas, additional material by Siân Owen, directed by NT Associate Lyndsey Turner. Michael Sheen leads the acting company which includes Susan Brown, Ifan Huw Dafydd, Alan David, Michael Elwyn, Kezrena James, Karl Johnson, Gaynor Morgan Rees, Anthony O’Donnell, Siân Phillips and Cleo Sylvestre. Set and costume design is by Merle Hensel, lighting design by Tim Lutkin, movement by Imogen Knight, songs composed by Edward-Rhys Harry, and sound design and additional compositions by Donato Wharton.Tom Bellerby is staff director. The production will be performed in-the-round in the transformed Olivier theatre. The theatre will remain in this configuration for further productions until early 2022.
The Dorfman theatre will reopen on 2 June for the first time since February 2020 with the previously announced co-production with Headlong, After Life written by Jack Thorne and directed by Jeremy Herrin. Based on the film by Hirokazu Kore-eda, with concept by Bunny Christie, Jeremy Herrin and Jack Thorne, After Life is a surreal and powerfully human look at the way we live our lives, asking who you would choose to live with for eternity.
Initial casting includes Olatunji Ayofe, Danielle Henry, Maddie Holliday, Togo Igawa, Anoushka Lucas, Kevin McMonagle, Simon Startin, Luke Thallon, June Watson and Millicent Wong. Set and costume design is by Bunny Christie, lighting design by Neil Austin, movement direction by Shelley Maxwell, video design by Max Spielbichler andsound design by Tom Gibbons. TD Moyo is staff director.
Both productions will run until 24 July, with socially-distanced seating for the entire run of the productions. Tickets go on sale to the public on 30 April.
Rufus Norris, Director of the National Theatre, says: “It’s been an incredibly difficult year for theatre, but I’m delighted to be able to confirm our reopening plans today and to be sharing the news of our first two productions that will reopen the National Theatre in June. In our transformed Olivier theatre, Lyndsey Turner will share her new staging of Dylan Thomas’s masterful Under Milk Wood with Michael Sheen joining the company. We’re also very excited to reopen the Dorfman theatre for the first time since February 2020 with Jack Thorne’s new adaptation of the film After Life, with concept by Bunny Christie, Jeremy Herrin and Jack Thorne. Both shows will play to socially-distanced audiences and we look forward with cautious optimism to welcoming back larger audiences across our theatres soon. Sharing our work online and on television over the last year has enabled us to reach millions of people and continue to keep culture alive, but the magic of live theatre is what we can now begin to look towards: to creating work with our freelance artists and colleagues, to supporting young people’s creativity, and to bringing joy to audiences and communities through imaginative and inspiring live performance.”
The Olivier theatre will have a capacity of approximately 500, whilst the Dorfman capacity will be 120. For Under Milk Wood over 200 tickets will be available at £20, whilst nearly half the house for After Life will be at £20. Tickets will be available to purchase as singles, pairs or in threes or fours and with social distancing measures in place. There will also be a number of Access performances for each production. Full information on these and how to book can be found here.
Further programming, including information on previously announced productions, The Normal Heart and Death of England: Delroy, will be announced at a later date.
Supported by the Garfield Weston Foundation through the Weston Culture Fund.
Today (Thursday 25 March 2021) the Royal Shakespeare Company announces the Company’s first in-house podcast, Interval Drinks, bringing together members of the RSC’s 2020/21 acting company with inspirational personalities from the Company’s history. The series is supported by Darwin Escapes.
Interval Drinks is an opportunity to learn more about the life of the RSC from those at the heart of the Company. The Podcast offers audiences a rare insight into the professional journeys of these RSC artists, as well as a chance to explore the craft of modern theatre and discuss some of the biggest issues facing the theatre industry today.
Each episode of the seven-part series will be available to download for free via the RSC website, as well as multiple podcast platforms, including Spotify and Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes). A new episode will be made available to download every Thursday and will include a captioned vodcast episode, available via video supporting platforms and the RSC YouTube channel.
The first two episodes of Interval Drinks are available to download now. Episode one features actor and comedian Miles Jupp in conversation with singer/songwriter, Tim Minchin, who this year joins the RSC in celebrating a decade since Matilda the Musical, for which Tim wrote both music and lyrics, opened in the West End. Episode two features Mogali Masuku in conversation with playwright, actor and political activist John Kani, who recently wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed RSC production of Kunene and the King, which premiered at the Swan Theatre before transferring to the Ambassadors Theatre in London last year. The show’s run was ended prematurely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The series’ guests also include Adjoa Andoh (Netflix’s Bridgerton, RSC’s Troilus and Cressida) Charlotte Arrowsmith (RSC’s As You Like It and The Taming of the Shrew), Justin Audibert (RSC’s The Taming of the Shrew 2019/20) Paul Chahidi (BBC’s This Country, Death of Stalin) and Juliet Gilkes Romero (RSC’s The Whip).
Joining Miles and Mogali from the RSC’s 2020/21 acting company are Kemi-Bo Jacobs, Hal Chambers, Greg Haiste, Avita Jay and Bea Webster.
The music is ‘Oberon’s Theme – King of Shadow’, originally composed by Sam Kenyon for A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2016).
Theatres Trust director Jon Morgan comments on upcoming World Theatre Day (27th March) in light of the pandemic:
This World Theatre Day in 2021 will be a bittersweet one with theatres across the UK unable to open. Before the pandemic hit, theatres played an important role in communities everywhere. More than 34million people attend theatres in the UK each year, generating £1.28bn in ticket revenue and contributing £7bn to the wider economy.
Theatres also make a contribution to their local areas that is harder to put a price on – making our towns and cities more vibrant and attractive, boosting pride in local areas, as places where people can come together, be inspired and feel part of a greater collective. Although most have been unable to welcome live audiences for the past year, theatres have still played a vital role in their communities during the pandemic. Showing enormous resilience and creativity, theatres have pivoted into community response hubs, foodbanks and vaccination centres, connecting with audiences in new ways and reaching out into the wider community.
This is too precious to risk losing and Theatres Trust has worked resolutely to help the UK’s valued theatres survive the pandemic. We secured important changes to planning law to protect theatres falling vacant due to Covid and have been pleased to be able to support more than 300 organisations through our free advice service and webinar programme, around 80 theatres through the #SaveOurTheatres Crowdfunder campaign and 75 theatres with grants to help with reopening costs. In total we have raised almost £2m to support theatres at this challenging time.
Theatres Trust will continue to support theatres to navigate the challenges ahead so they can play an important part in the UK’s recovery, economic and social, as we come out of lockdown.
CURVE TO BRING A SENSATIONAL CHRISTMAS TO LEICESTER WITH PRODUCTION OF BROADWAY MUSICAL
A CHORUS LINE
Performances 3 – 31 December
PLANNED PERFORMANCES OF THE WIZARD OF OZ POSTPONED TO CHRISTMAS 2022 DUE TO 2023 NATIONAL TOUR
Curve is set to bring one singular sensation to Leicester this Christmas with a new Made at Curve production of the legendary Broadway musical A Chorus Line, running Friday 3 to Friday 31 December.
The iconic show will be directed by Curve’s Artistic Director Nikolai Foster, whose recent productions includeSunset Boulevard – at Home (“A game changer”, The Telegraph), West Side Story (“A superb production”, The Sunday Times)and White Christmas (“Dazzling, joyous”, The Stage). Full casting and production team will be revealed in due course.
The news comes as Curve also announces its production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Wizard of Oz has now been postponed until Christmas 2022, due to plans for a national tour of the musical in 2023 following its run at Curve. All ticket-holders for The Wizard of Oz will be contacted by Curve’s Box Office team in the coming weeks and full refunds and exchanges will be available.
Curve’s Chief Executive Chris Stafford and Artistic Director Nikolai Foster said:
“We have wanted to present A Chorus Line at Curve for many years and emerging from the pandemic, this feels like the perfect moment to produce this mighty Broadway show, the ultimate backstage musical and celebration of theatre itself. A Chorus Line is a love letter to theatre, celebrating the exceptional lives of the performers who make it all possible. It gives a voice to the blazing talents and extraordinary experiences of the people who devote their lives to the performing arts. Through the music of Marvin Hamlisch, A Chorus Line reaches that ecstatic place only musicals can hit and we cannot wait for it to explode onstage in Leicester.
“Christmas at Curve is always a special time, but as we re-open our theatre and come together, this year promises to be the most joyous, life-enriching and singularly sensational Christmas at Curve so far. And whilst the road to OZ might be a little longer than any of us could ever have imagined, we know it will be well worth the wait. We look forward to finally reaching the Emerald City in 2022 and working with the team at Really Useful Group and our co-producer Michael Harrison on a UK tour in early 2023. As ever, thank you to our incredibly loyal audiences for your patience and navigating these extraordinary times alongside us with such understanding.”
With a book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, music by Marvin Hamlisch and lyrics by Edward Kleban, A Chorus Line features iconic songs including ‘One’, ‘I Hope I Get It’, ‘Nothing’ and the hit ballad ‘What I Did For Love’. A Chorus Line revolutionised the Broadway stage, with creator Michael Bennett using real-life testimonies from late night recording sessions with chorus dancers, to amplify and celebrate the lives of theatre’s unsung heroes.
New York City. 1975. On an empty Broadway stage, 18 performers are put through their paces in the final, gruelling audition for a new Broadway musical. Only eight will make the cut. The audition takes an unexpected turn as the director, Zach, invites the performers to open up about their lives and what brought them into theatre. What follows are searing stories of ambition, childhood, shattered dreams and what it means to follow your dreams onto the stage. The emotional stakes are heightened when Zach’s ex-lover Cassie, fresh from an attempt to make it in Hollywood, wants to audition for the chorus line.
Sensational choreography, some of the greatest songs ever written for the Broadway stage and heart-wrenching personal stories combine to create one singular sensation and musical theatre’s most unforgettable finale.
Tickets for A Chorus Line at Curve will be on sale to Curve Friends from Mon 29 Mar, Supporters from Tue 30 Mar, to Members and Groups from Thu 1 Apr and on general sale from Thu 8 Apr, all at 12 noon. Tickets can be purchased online at www.curveonline.co.uk.
Gyles Brandreth and Gary Wilmot to star in online reading of Charley’s Aunt Live streaming, 7.30pm, Sunday 11th April 2021
Featuring an all-star cast, Proud Haddock presents a virtual table reading of popular farce Charley’s Aunt, which will raise money for the Equity Charitable Trust. Gyles Brandreth will perform alongside Gary Wilmot MBE and renowned singer and actress Issy van Randwyck (The Boyfriend, Meniere Chocolate Factory; Blithe Spirit, StudioCanal).
Performing with them will be current Hamilton star Karl Queensborough (Hamilton, Victoria Palace Theatre; Enterprise, BBC), Ruby Bentall (Poldark and Lark Rise to Candleford, BBC), Will Hislop (Military Wives, BBC; Gangs of London, Sky) and Oliver Beamish (Coronation Street, ITV; War Horse, National Theatre). Skye Hallam (The Skin Game, Proud Haddock; Intrigo: Samaria, Enderby Entertainment;) will also perform in the reading with Ed MacArthur (Murder for Two, The Other Palace; Ed MacArthur: Humoresque, Edinburgh Fringe) and Katie Okehurst (Pride and Prejudice, RADA).
The acclaimed farce by Brandon Thomas (adapted by Paul Thain) follows two Oxford undergraduates, Jack and Charley who, in an attempt to woo two girls, invite them over for lunch to meet Charley’s aunt. However, when they learn that her visit has been postponed last minute, they persuade their fellow student Lord Fancourt to dress up and impersonate the aunt
The reading of Charley’s Aunt will be streamed live on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/dz1GPKlu9E. While providing a hilarious streamed evening of entertainment, the reading will also be raising funds for the Equity Charitable Trust, which provides financial support to those in need in the theatre industry.
Artistic Director Jimmy Walters says, We are so excited for this wonderful cast to read Charley’s Aunt. It is one of the most popular comedies of all time and the perfect play for now. We are also delighted to be raising donations for the Equity Charitable Trust; a wonderful charity that offers care and financial support to those in our industry who really need it. Your collective support is appreciated beyond words. Thank you.
A documentary about the ups and downs of producing theatre during a global pandemic.
Doppler’s cast and creatives in Gifford Community Woodland, August 2020
Edinburgh-based, award-winning Grid Iron Theatre Company is pleased to announce the release of its long-awaited film, Doppler: The Story So Far, which tells the fascinating story of producing an outdoor theatre show during the global pandemic of Covid-19 in 2020.
Using interviews with the cast, creatives and some of the key arts figures in Scotland, the documentary charts the journey of Doppler, a theatre show Grid Iron had planned to present in August 2020 as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, only to have to pivot to a filmed version in light of the Covid-19-related restrictions before finally having its filming schedule thwarted by Storm Francis.
Judith Doherty, Chief Executive and Co-Artistic Director of Grid Iron Theatre Company said: “Doppler had been in our plans for a couple of years and when Covid-19 hit, we really thought that given our track-record of producing outdoor shows coupled with the ability this production would give us to physically distance the cast and crew, we had a good chance of making at least a clutch of live performances happen towards the end of August.
“Unfortunately, it wasn’t to be and we had to go with our plan B which was a film. What we hadn’t bargained for, however, was the wonderfully timed arrival of Storm Francis! Fast forward a few months and here we are, presenting Doppler: The Story So Far, which we hope gives a great insight into all the ups and downs of producing a theatre show in a global pandemic. And we were delighted to be able to feature in it four leading arts figures in Scotland who share their views on the show but also on the wider state of the theatre industry.
“We hope our audiences enjoy the behind-the-scenes access the film offers. It was such a privilege to be able to work together during Covid, even online but especially in-person, and we hope the joy and pride that we take in work that we do is evident in the film.”
Doppler: The Story So Far features in-depth interviews with Doppler’s director and producer, Ben Harrison and Judith Doherty respectively, as well as its cast, most of them Grid Iron regulars: Sean Hay, Itxaso Moreno and Keith Fleming who is known to wider audiences from Outlander, and Doppler’s creative team, including, among others, David Pollock who composed music and foley for the show and costume and set designer Becky Minto.
Showing great passion for their work, and resilience in light of mounting time pressure, the Doppler team navigate the ever-changing challenges of Covid with admirable commitment and humour. From Zoom rehearsals to puppets disintegrating under a touch of disinfectant-soaked hands, they share fascinating and often astounding tales of the process of adapting Doppler. This documentary is a testament to their creativity, skills and undying love for theatre. It also showcases the profound and devastating impact the pandemic had on the theatre industry.
Director of Doppler and Grid Iron’s Co-Artistic Director Ben Harrison said: “What an extraordinary adventure Doppler has been so far. It gave concrete evidence once again of the remarkable resilience and creativity of theatre artists, able to improvise and react to a rapidly-changing situation. To meet up in real life at this time, to practice those theatre-making muscles which were in danger of getting slack, was joyous.
“Doppler chose his self-isolation, whilst we are all of course forced into it. So to come together, alas so far without an audience, the critical component of theatre, was extraordinary, both online, in open-air rehearsal, and on a film location. By the accident of our history as a theatre company, we were well resourced to ride the wave of the pandemic; but that is not to say that it wasn’t at times extremely hard. It was only through the collective endeavour, and the wonderful commitment of our team, that we came as far as we did. We can’t wait to share the live production with our audiences later this year.”
Doppler: The Story So Far features a range of key figures on the Scottish arts scene, including the country’s leading theatre critic, Joyce McMillan, Festivals Edinburgh’s Director Julia Armour, Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s Chief Executive Shona McCarthy and ex- Director of the Federation of Scottish Theatre, Jude Henderson.
In their interviews, Jude Henderson said: “I think it’s also leadership, and that’s one of the things that Grid Iron really demonstrated here actually – it was really brave leadership.” while Joyce McMillan commented: “…we were beginning to know that being outside in outdoor locations was much less risky than doing anything indoors as far as Covid’s concerned. And so as soon as I knew that, who was I going to think of but Grid Iron?”
Doppler is an adaptation of a satirical novel by a Norwegian writer Erlend Loe, translated to English by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw. It focuses on Doppler, a man who, following the death of his father, decides to abandon his family and move to the forest on the outskirts of Oslo. He is determined to live a life as far removed from his previous as possible but struggles to maintain his isolation as his existence garners a lot of unwanted attention.
Doppler: The Story So Far is available to watch on Grid Iron Theatre Company’s website from 7pm on Friday, 26 March. It will also host a captioned and a BSL-interpreted version of the film. In a tribute to Erlend Loe and Grid Iron’s Norwegian fanbase which has been growing since 2008 – the year Grid Iron produced Tryst for Stavanger2008 European Capital of Culture and found many fantastic and loyal friends among the Norwegian team – the Company has also produced a version of the film with Norwegian subtitles.
Access to the documentary is free but donations are welcome and can be done via the Company’s website. The documentary will be available to audiences until midnight on Friday, 9 May.
Grid Iron Theatre Company hopes to be able to bring a live version of Doppler to Edinburgh audiences later this year.
SUSPECTS ANNOUNCED! JASON MANFORD LEADS THE CAST FOR UK PREMIERE OF NEW EPISODIC MURDER MYSTERY MUSICAL A KILLER PARTY ALONGSIDE OSCAR CONLON-MORREY, DEBBIE KURUP, CEDRIC NEAL, AMARA OKAREKE, LUCAS RUSH, EMMA SALVO, ASHLEY SAMUELS, HARRIET THORPE AND RACHEL TUCKER.
TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW FOR A KILLER PARTY WHICH WILL BE STREAMED IN 9 EPISODES DIGITALLY ON-DEMAND FROM 26 APRIL – 23 MAY 2021 ON STREAM.THEATRE
WITH BOOK BY FOUR-TIME EMMY AWARD-WINNER RACHEL AXLER AND KAIT KERRIGAN, LYRICS BY NATHAN TYSEN AND MUSIC BY GRAMMY AWARD-WINNER JASON HOWLAND, EACH EPISODE IS FILMED INSIDE THE PERFORMERS’ HOME AND CAN BE PURCHASED AS ONE PACKAGE FOR £25 OR INDIVIDUALLY AT £2.99 PER EPISODE.
THIS RIOTOUS MUSICAL WHODUNIT IS PRODUCED BY KATY LIPSON FOR ARIA ENTERTAINMENT, TANISHA SPRING FOR BLUE MAHOE PRODUCTIONS, AND ILAI SZPIEZAK FOR UPSTAGE CREATIVE.
Casting has been announced for the UK premiere of A Killer Party which will be released as a series of 9 episodes to watch on-demand, at home or on the go, bringing the very best of British stage and screen directly into your living room. Please note, the dates have now changed from the previous announcement to 26 April – 23 May.
The cast includes Oscar Conlon-Morrey (Only Fools and Horses, Nativity The Musical) as Shea Crescendo, Debbie Kurup (The Prince of Egypt, Sweet Charity) as Vivika Orsonwelles, renowned comedian, actor and presenter Jason Manford (Curtains,Sweeney Todd, The Producers) as Varthur McArthur, Cedric Neal (The Voice, Motown The Musical) as George Murderer, Amara Okareke (Les Misérables, The Boyfriend) as Lily Wright, Lucas Rush (The Merry Wives of Windsor, Les Misérables) as Clarke Staples, Emma Salvo (Come From Away, The Toxic Avenger) as Justine Case, Ashley Samuels (Motown The Musical, The Book of Mormon) as Cameron Mitchelljohn, Harriet Thorpe (Wicked, Les Misérables) as Detective Case and Rachel Tucker (Come From Away, Songs From a New World) as Joan McArthur.
This side-splitting new musical, fueled by a contemporary pop score, will be available to watch on stream.theatre from 26 April – 23 May. A Killer Party was a hit in the US last year, where it was written and developed in response to the closure of theatres. Filmed entirely in each artist’s home, viewers are invited to experience the joy of theatre in an entirely new way.
The show has been adapted for UK audiences and will be directed by Benji Sperring (The Toxic Avenger, Night of the Living Dead – Live!, An Act of God and Shock Treatment) with a Book by Rachel Axler (four-time Emmy award-winner as a writer on Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show” and supervising producer on “Veep”) and Kait Kerrigan, Music by Jason Howland (Grammy Award winner for Best Musical Theatre album of “BEAUTIFUL: The Carole King Musical”, Broadway musical “Little Women”) and lyrics by Nathan Tysen. The show is produced by Katy Lipson for Aria Entertainment, Tanisha Spring for Blue Mahoe Productions and Ilai Szpiezak for Upstage Creative.
When Varthur McArthur, failed West End actor and current artistic director of Blackpool’s smallest regional theatre, calls a read-through for his latest murder mystery play, the cast of local actors arrive at the party with anything but theatre on their minds. But when Varthur ends up face down in his soup (a gluten-free cheese bisque), it’s up to Traffic-Police-Officer-turned-Detective Justine Case to piece together what happened. If only the ensemble of suspects would stop singing…
Battersea Arts Centre launches spring season, Wild Times, with new, universal Pay What You Can pricing model
New season of groundbreaking and playful work from April – July 2021 #WildTimes2021 #PWYC
All Battersea Arts Centre performances and events now Pay What You Can
New ways to share experiences and live differently explored by exciting artists including Selina Thompson, Hofesh Shechter, Brownton Abbey and Jo Fong
Audiences welcomed back to the Grand Hall with Lucy McCormick, and young creative leaders support Wandsworth residents to reconnect in outdoor festival
Booking now open to friends and members, on general sale from Friday 26 March via bac.org.uk/wild-times
Battersea Arts Centre today announces a season of groundbreaking and playful work (April to July 2021) which explores fresh ways of living differently and sharing experiences. After a year of continual change and rapid adaptation, Wild Times brings together some of the UK’s most exciting creative voices to reimagine the future together; experimenting with theatrical films and cutting-edge 360° technology, intimate online performance and even a life-size outdoor board game. Tickets are now available to friends and members, with booking open to the public from 10am on Friday 26 March via bac.org.uk/wild-times
Every performance in Battersea Arts Centre’s artistic programme, starting with Wild Times, will now be available as part of the new, universal Pay What You Can pricing model. The goal is to reach and re-connect as many people as possible after such a challenging year. Pay What You Can marks another step for Battersea Arts Centre towards becoming more inclusive, as it continues to remove barriers to provide a creative welcome to everyone that wants to take part.
The new pricing structure has been a long-term ambition for the cultural community hub. It was amidst the disruption caused by COVID-19 that the team identified the opportunity to make the change, needed now more than ever. The move comes a year into embodying the Relaxed Venue approach, a methodology following the principles of Relaxed Performances which was developed by Touretteshero in partnership with Battersea Arts Centre. The cultural community hub launched as the world’s first Relaxed Venue in February 2020, aiming for access, inclusion and empowering positive social change to be at the heart of every decision.
Tarek Iskander, Artistic Director and CEO of Battersea Arts Centre, says:
“Our topsy-turvy world continues to transform at a rapid pace, and like the artists, young people and communities who are the creative engines of Wild Times, at Battersea Arts Centre we are determined to be part of a better future for everyone. The remarkable and diverse works in this programme exemplify people adapting, reimagining themselves, doing things differently. They don’t shy away from the hard truths but are also full of joy and the thrill of future possibilities. It’s proof that even a pandemic can’t stop our collective determination to connect, collaborate and be creative.
“The Wild Times season also marks a major landmark for Battersea Arts Centre as we move to a universal Pay What You Can model. So from now on, as well as being relaxed, every BAC performance, live or digital, should be financially accessible to everyone. As the times demand, it’s important that we are all supported to come together now, whatever our financial means or personal circumstances, and do the exciting creative thinking needed to refashion our communities and the ways we relate to each other and our world.”
Battersea Arts Centre welcomes back audiences to the Grand Hall in July for a thrilling week of in-person celebration with Lucy McCormick’s Life: LIVE! (8-15 July). Originally programmed for last year’s (interrupted) Going Global season, the subversive pop concert spectacular amplifies what it means to perform ‘live’ in a new, acoustic production. Now accompanied onstage by a live band, the gig straddles stardom, self care and redemption in a hilarious, crumbling, extravaganza to showcase Lucy’s debut album of original music.
Wild Times also features bold and universally acclaimed artists embracing the enforced pause in live touring, who reimagine their compelling stage works for the screen. Award-winning artist Selina Thompson premieres salt: dispersed (22-27 June), adapting her prescient show about grief, Black British identity and colonialism in an intimate film experience. Shot in Battersea Arts Centre during lockdown, Hofesh Shechter’s POLITICAL MOTHER: The Final Cut (UK premiere, 2-4 July) is an exhilarating short film and dance piece. Shechter directs this innovative and theatrically thrilling re-staging inspired by the iconic original production, immersing audiences into a fragile world where individuals struggle against society’s complex structures.
Inspiring voices will share wildly different perspectives in further digital work throughout the season. Revered for their transcendental, Afro-futurist performance parties, the Brownton Abbey collective will host a radically inclusive online gathering made by and centering disabled queer artists of colour. Brownton Abbey:Talk Show (18-20 June) will include exclusive screenings of brand new digital performance commissions from the Brownton Abbey Universe, infused with frank and open conversations led by the collective. Katherine Kotz curates The Motherhood Project (world premieres, 19-25 April); fifteen exciting short films from contributors such as Juno Dawson,Suhayla El Bushra, Hannah Khalil,Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, Irenosen Okojie, Lemn Sissay MBE, and Athena Stevens, exploring the guilt, joy, absurdity and taboo surrounding motherhood.
Battersea Arts Centre continues to support artists to push the boundaries between live and digital work, and explore the future of performance. In a pioneering residency and commission programme, Chisato Minamimura, Brian Mullin, N2P, Poltergeist Theatre and RashDash will combine one of their new or popular stage works with cutting edge digital technologies. Using techniques like 360° filming, they will help us make sense of the world through new, immersive kinds of storytelling. In the five world premieres, audiences will be able to experience the experimental performances simply through their mobile phones or laptops.
Wild Times gives Battersea Arts Centre an important opportunity to bring the local community back together. Young people will take the lead, as five alumni Agents (who have all been through Battersea Arts Centre’s flagship creative entrepreneurship programme for 15-25 year olds, The Agency) present Free Up Fest (3 July). Outdoors, in the heart of Battersea, the festival will celebrate the diversity, creative talent and innovation in the area, including a specially created life-sized version of the crime-prevention board game Life Is What U Make It by alumni Agent Osmond Gordon Vernon. What will people need? is a new durational commission led by Jo Fong, an artist and gardener whose award-winning work explores ways of connecting people. The art installation and online archive of voices will encourage the depth and legacy of communities, a vital source of support for so many over the past year, and coincides with Battersea Arts Centre welcoming local residents and NHS staff as the Community Vaccination Centre for Wandsworth.
Battersea Arts Centre is delighted to announce some major funding news this spring. This includes a generous grant from Garfield Weston Foundation’s Weston Culture Fund, to support the creative development of ten early and mid-career artists, while Bloomberg Philanthropies have confirmed another two years of critical support. For over a decade this collaboration has underpinned significant developments to the building, the artistic programme and work with the local community.
Especially at this exceptional time of great challenges for the sector, Battersea Arts Centre thanks all of its supporters and partners, in particular Arts Council England and Wandsworth Borough Council. Battersea Arts Centre would also like to acknowledge the importance of funding from the Culture Recovery Fund Round I. The Culture Recovery Fund is delivered by Arts Council England using funds provided by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
The Motherhood Project Mon 19 – Sun 25 Apr 2021 15 short videos available via 1 ticket, available at all times during these dates #MotherhoodProject #WildTimes2021 @KatherineKotz @driftstudio_ldn
The Motherhood Project is an online festival of dramatic monologues and real-life reflections by leading UK artists and thinkers. Fifteen short films explore the guilt, joy, absurdity, pressure and taboo surrounding motherhood, offering a fascinating cross-section of perspectives.
Curator Katherine Kotz invited writers, artists and technicians to join forces in response to the pandemic, creating exciting new pieces of work with the aim of supporting those affected.
Writers and contributors include E.V Crowe, Juno Dawson, Suhayla El Bushra, Jodi Gray, Hannah Khalil, Katherine Kotz, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, Irenosen Okojie, Anya Reiss, Naomi Sheldon, Lemn Sissay MBE, Athena Stevens and Joelle Taylor. The directors are Maria Aberg, Annabel Arden, Caroline Byrne, Akinola Davies Jr, Tim Hoare, Sam Phillips, Anya Reiss, Elin Schofield and Jennifer Tang. The actors are Landry Adelard, Emmanuella Cole, Tsion Habte, Tom Rhys Harries, Zainab Hasan, Katherine Kotz, Jenni Maitland, Sarah Niles and Naomi Sheldon.
50% of ticket sales will be donated to Refuge.
Produced by Katherine Kotz in association with Drift Studio
This panel discussion will explore the realities of being an artist and a mother, the division of labour pre and post-COVID-19, and what individuals, policy makers and organisations can do to address some of the challenges. Panel members include the playwright and creator of EmiliaMorgan Lloyd Malcolm, the award winning author Irenosen Okojie, actor, writer and co-host of The Pleasure Podcast Naomi Sheldon, and Lakuta vocalist Siggi Mwasote.
Chaired by Katherine Kotz, creator of The Motherhood Project
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D&D Satellite: Time to Vent and ReviveA Conversation for Parents and Carers Working in the Arts During the Pandemic Wed 28 Apr, 1pm – 4.30pm
A chance to come together, to share stories of the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright maddening times you have been through. Come and grieve the projects that did not happen, laugh at the crazy schooling-at-home days that did, and feel less alone. Let’s see if we can support each other in recovering our practice, our spirits, our hope, and tease out any precious silver linings from this stormy and challenging year.
Children welcome too – inside you, beside you, or ‘zoom bombing’ your screen.
Online conversation hosted by Improbable, in partnership with Mothers Who Make and PiPA.
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Wayne Steven JacksonFrom Me To UsMon 10 – Sun 16 May Available at all times during these dates #FromMeToUs #WildTimes2021 @waynesjackson
The law changes all the time. A continuous catalogue of amendments, acts, and appeals, and just one more signature on yet another piece of paper. But, in 2019 something shifted. The law in the UK changed to allow for single father surrogacy. From one small piece of legislation, an impossible story grew.
From Me To Us is a playful and poignant performance letter to a future child from their future father. In his latest piece, Wayne Steven Jackson (Now/Then, Hull City of Culture 2017) deftly combines theatrical and film storytelling techniques. He provides the space for discussions about parenthood, whilst documenting the political change against a backdrop of autobiographical experiences.
With videography by Ben Horrigan for Studio 91 Media and music composed by BAFTA and Academy Award winner Chris Benstead (Gravity).
Supported by Arts Council England, Contact, hAb, Word of Warning and Brilliant Beginnings.
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Brownton Abbey Brownton Abbey: Talk Show (BATS) 8pm Fri 18 Jun, available to stream until 12am Sun 20 Jun #BrowntonTalkShow #WildTimes2021 @BrowntonAbbey
Brownton Abbey is an evolving international performance collective which centers and celebrates the intersectional perspectives of disabled queer people of colour. Revolutionary, kaleidoscopic events investigate and reclaim the traditions of ritual and spirituality from within these communities.
The Afro-Futures themed performance parties have exploded in demand across the UK since 2018, with both radical inclusion and exclusion. They have transformed venues such as Southbank Centre, Brighton Dome (Brighton Festival) and Glasgow School of Art (Take Me Somewhere), with a growing international audience (Toronto’s Cripping the Stage festival).
Since the pandemic, the collective has adapted its work for a digital landscape. BATS is an online space for people to gather from the safety of their own homes. Frank and open conversation will be shared with Brownton Abbey artists, infused with exclusive screenings of brand new digital performance commissions.
Brownton Abbey is created by Tarik Elmoutawakil and Creatively Produced by Rob Jones. Brownton Abbey: Talk Show is a Brownton Abbey event, supported by Unlimited and Marlborough Productions.
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Selina Thompson salt: dispersed Tues 22 – Sun 27 June 2021 Available to stream at all times during these dates #saltdispersed #WildTimes2021
A journey to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
In February 2016, two artists got on a cargo ship, and retraced one of the routes of the Transatlantic Slave Triangle – from the UK to Ghana to Jamaica, and back. Their memories, their questions and their grief took them along the bottom of the Atlantic and through the figurative realm of an imaginary past. It was a long journey backwards, in order to go forwards. This show is what they brought back.
salt. has received critical acclaim in Brazil, Australia, Canada, USA and across the UK, but the world live tour was cut short. Selina Thompson adapts her award winning show about grief, Black British identity and colonialism for this moment of global reckoning, in a powerful and intimate screen experience.
Original stage performance directed by Dawn Wilson, commissioned by Yorkshire Festival, Theatre Bristol and MAYK. Supported by the National Theatre Studio. Part of the British Council Showcase 2017. Funded by Arts Council England and 200 kind and generous supporters who donated towards their voyage across the Atlantic.
The film presentation is funded by Arts Council England, supported by Battersea Arts Centre.
Internationally celebrated choreographer Hofesh Shechter has created a new short film with dancers from apprentice programme Shechter II, who represent the very best of the next generation of contemporary dance.
Directed, choreographed and filmed by Hofesh Shechter, Political Mother: The Final Cut combines Hofesh’s boldly innovative, often playful and always compelling choreography with his own original percussive, cinematic score set against a backdrop of Shay Hamias’ digital animation.
Shechter brings the striking iconic architecture of the venue centre stage – from the elegance of the Grand Hall, and the atmospheric intimate spaces to the labyrinthine gothic corridors creating this extraordinary film and dance piece which is at once emotionally complex, powerfully significant and theatrically thrilling.
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Inside-Out Collective Free Up FestSat 3 July 2021 #FreeUpFest #WildTimes2021 @FreeUpFestival
A chance to get back to community living. FREE UP FEST is a culmination of events in response to the Black Lives Matter movement, mental health and COVID-19.
The festival boasts a full day of creative art activities, paint & sip, live podcast discussions on pertinent issues, films featuring community experiences, interactive workshops and Life Is What U Make It, a life-sized crime prevention board game by alumni Agent Osmond Gordon Vernon, followed by performances. The festival, run by five local change makers, aims to bring back a sense of community which has been widely affected by regeneration, lockdown and crime.
Free Up Festival will take place in the heart of Battersea, celebrating and platforming young creatives and showcasing the diversity and innovation in the area.
Created with support from Wandsworth Arts Fringe, Arts Council England, Culture Seeds, Wandsworth Crime Prevention Panel & Battersea Arts Centre.
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Lucy McCormick Life: LIVE! Thu 8 – Thu 15 Jul 2021, 8pm (no Sunday show) Press Night: Friday 9 July at 8pm #LifeLIVE #WildTimes2021 @lucy_muck
Following smash hits Post-Popular (2019) and Triple Threat (2016), Life: LIVE!is the latest show from artist and provocateur Lucy McCormick, as she forefronts her aspiration to be a famous pop star.
Originally programmed for Battersea Arts Centre’s (interrupted) 2020 Going Global season, the subversive pop concert spectacular amplifies what it means to perform ‘live’ in a new, acoustic production. Now accompanied onstage by a live band (Dave Page and Nadine Lee), the gig straddles stardom, self care and redemption in a hilarious, crumbling, musical extravaganza.
The DIY cross-genre performance fuses sculpture, comedy and performance art to showcase Lucy’s debut album of original music, and features shonky-spectacular, stadium-chic visuals created on stage by artist Morven Mulgrew. The show comically meanders through some of life’s big questions whilst the despair and damage of false dreams seep through the cracks of B&Q timber.
Co-commissioned by Fierce, Teatro do Bairro Alto and Cambridge Junction with support from Alkantara, Tramway, Civic House Glasgow and Battersea Arts Centre.
Funded by Arts Council England.
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Jo Fong What will people need?Durational, installation at Battersea Arts Centre and online #WildTimes2021
What will people need? is about connecting. We’re definitely not through this and there is no doubt that there are more difficult times to come. We’re living in and out of hope, yet the seasons keep coming. This moment has scrapped so many versions of stability and yet there is an opportunity to re-think.
In these times, what is success? Getting to 2022 with grace perhaps? Or can we do this together? Or are there things we will need to start again and do differently?
A visual art installation puts a few questions into the air, alongside an online archive of responses. The project guides people to bring their voice to a shared moment of reflection on how they are, what they appreciate and what is missing. On everything from loss, land, relationships, ways of coming together, belonging or protest, to friendships and the role of neighbourhood. A way to look gently to the future and acknowledge what and who we need to remember.
Jo is working with four local conversationalists, with digital artist Lisa Mattocks and she would like to thank artist and friend Sonia Hughes for her contribution.
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In a pioneering residency and commission programme with ‘Extended Reality’ (or XR) company LIVR, and made possible by Arts Council England, Battersea Arts Centre invites five artists/companies to combine one of their new or popular stage works with cutting edge digital technologies. The artists will explore the future of live, digital and immersive performance using techniques such as creating and capturing work in 360 degrees. After the residencies and support from post-production and digital marketing experts, five performances will have their world premiere as part of Wild Times.
From the beginning of the process, the artists will work creatively with LIVR and Battersea Arts Centre teams to remove barriers for anyone who wants to engage with the final pieces. The aim is for all audiences, from anywhere, to have access to the high quality experience of a front row seat, and the ability to interact using a range of devices, including mobile phones and laptops.
Dates, times and tickets will be available soon
The five artists/ companies and their projects are:
Based on Chisato Minamimura’s original research, Scored in Silence uses a unique blend of cutting-edge technology and choreography to unpack the hidden perspectives of Deaf people, using true accounts from the handful who survived the atomic bomb atrocity in Japan 1945.
#ScoredInSilence
Chisato is a Deaf performance artist who often uses mathematical scores to choreograph visual sound. Through her multidisciplinary and intensely collaborative process she has created interactive projects combining projection, smartphone/ tablet apps, electronics, live bodies and physical space. Recent projects include SoundMoves, Chisapp project, Ring the Changes.
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LIVE TO TELL: (a proposal for) The Madonna Jukebox Musical is writer Brian Mullin‘s debut as an autobiographical performer. A brutally honest reflection on re-invention and legacy, Brian looks back at his life as an HIV+ artist and is desperate to make something that will live forever.
#MadonnaJukebox
Originally developed at Pulse Festival and Yard Live Drafts.
Brian Mullin is a playwright, theatre-maker and dramaturg, and has been engaged in queer politics, especially HIV/AIDS activism and advocacy throughout his career. Plays include We Wait in Joyful Hope and the UK/ international hit Our Fathers (as part of international devising ensemble Babakas).
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Helen is a brand new piece from N2P, using virtual reality to tell the story of pioneering astronaut Helen Sharman CME OBE, the first British person in space.
#HelenN2P
Commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre and LIVR in collaboration with Ugly Duck and supported by ACE.
N2P are a theatre ensemble who develop new work, frequently praised for their honest and disarming use of auto/biographical source material and innovative staging. GRIP, N2P’s third original play won the Audience Choice Award at the International Youth Arts Festival in Kingston.
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THE ABDUCTIONS is a 360° experience, inspired by Poltergeist’s 2018 sell-out Edinburgh Fringe Festival hit, Lights Over Tesco Car Park, that puts the audience at the centre of four historic alien abductions.
#TheAbductions
Lights Over Tesco Car Park was originally produced in Association with The North Wall, supported by New Diorama, The Yard and The Pleasance. The Abductions is commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre and LIVR, in association with The Rose Theatre, Kingston and supported by Arts Council England.
Poltergeist Theatre company makes narrative driven work in new ways, collaborating with a live audience. Their debut production Lights Over Tesco Car Park won the Samuel French New Play Award 2018 with a sold-out Run at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, followed a second sell-out hit, the critically acclaimed Art Heist (winner: New Diorama & Underbelly Untapped Award 2019).
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Look At Me Don’t Look At Me is a brand new cabaret about love, art and a legacy. RashDash reclaim the story of Lizzie Siddal, famous throughout history as model and muse for the Pre-Raphaelite painters but an artist and poet in her own right.
#RashDashLookAtMe
RashDash creates exhilarating and political work combining music, dance and theatre to create sensual and cerebral experiences. Theatre credits include THREE SISTERS (Royal Exchange Theatre/ The Yard/ Tobacco Factory Theatres/ The Old Vic/ MAYK/ Cambridge Junction), THE DARKEST CORNERS (a large scale, outdoor, headphone show for Transform Festival 2017) and TWO MAN SHOW (Northern Stage/ Soho Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe First Winner 2016, Stage Award for Acting Excellence).
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Nwando Ebizie Recipient: Adrian Howells Award For Intimate Performance 2021
Adrian Howells (1962 – 2014) was one of the world’s leading figures in the field of one to one and intimate performance. In a year of feeling isolated and unable to meet, touch and be together with people, the idea of intimate performance feels a bit of a distant concept, yet more important than ever.
The Adrian Howells Award for Intimate Performance is an opportunity for a UK artist to develop and present an early staging of a new performance-based project. The Award aims to celebrate the intimate work that Adrian pioneered and excelled at, as well as providing an opportunity to explore new territories in the field of one to one and intimate performance.
This year the commission is awarded to multidisciplinary artist Nwando Ebizie, who will explore intimate performance in an online or remote context. Nwando will develop and share her ideas throughout 2021.
Nwando Ebizie is an Afrofuturist neurodivergent artist. Incorporating music, immersive technologies, Black Atlantic ritual dance, myth-making and performance art, her work frequently explores live, digital and alternate realities. Most recently, she has been artist in residence with Yorkshire Sculpture Network (2020), staged large-scale immersive works such as Distorted Constellations (2019), performed as alter ego Lady Vendredi (a blaxploitation heroine from another dimension!), and seen her compositions for voice and electronics presented across the world. Her work with the Wellcome Collection includes curating an installation for their Lates series exploring the link between neuroscience, sensory perception and creativity, and presenting the podcast series For All I Care, asking what care means for our bodies, communities, the planet and our futures.
Following the success of the debut pilot of TAP THAT last month, the dynamic hosting duo Amy Hart and Paul Taylor-Mills have been commissioned to do a mini-series of the international hit dating show.
Paul Taylor-Mills said “Amy and I had such fun filming the pilot. She’s the ying to my yang and genuinely makes me howl, hopefully it came across that we had a booowl!
I’m not going to lie, it’s a thrilling mixture of absolute fear dealing with the live technology! But it also gives you that warm fuzzy feeling knowing that you’re helping someone find love. A big part of me agreeing to film the next episodes was to ensure we try and make sure that the show includes LBGTQ+ representation. With this in mind if you’re looking for love and up for thousands of people helping you, then please do get in touch with the casting team at TapThat.live. It’s super straight forward to apply and there’s a genuine quest to find folk love whilst having a fun old time!”
The TAP THAT UK shows are on Fri 9 April, Fri 23 April and Fri 7 May. For tickets and casting information visit www.TapThat.live
Comedy and experiential production company Face Off Unlimited (BATSU!, Goon River) presented the UK debut of TAP THAT – a new, technology driven dating show, where the voting audience makes the match in real time. The online show has been running successfully in the US and will now be making love matches for the Brits!
TAP THAT is designed to be and is best enjoyed as a multiscreen experience. Viewers watch the live show on a computer or laptop while simultaneously voting and interacting from their smartphone.
TAP THATis presented by Face Off Unlimited (executive producers Jay Painter, Eric Robinson, Joe Tex, Heather Shields) and additional creative team members are Michael Springthorpe, Peter Hargarten, and Emily McNamara.
ABOUT FACE OFF UNLIMITED
Face Off Unlimited is an organization of creative innovators whose work is rooted in the art of improvisation. They are the creators of the live Japanese game show experienceBATSU!, with homes in New York City and Chicago. In addition to producing numerous other live productions such as Laughter Party, FOU teaches improv classes, provides communication and leadership training for Fortune 500 companies through FOLD, develops dialogue for social robots, and creates digital content.
ABOUT GAMIOTICS
Gamiotics reimagines the live entertainment and event experience by giving content creators a powerful new direct-to-audience tool. This innovative web-based software allows for real time audience interaction in any form of entertainment from anywhere in the world. With no app download necessary, audience members are seamlessly engaged as soon as the event begins and throughout the entire experience. They can vote for choices, solve puzzles, win mini games, and more. With the power in the palm of their hand, Gamiotics technology reveals and displays the audiences’ choices live, creating a completely immersive experience. The platform is currently home to Seize the Show, narrative-driven gaming experiences, and has also been used to curate immersive corporate events and by creative producer Face Off Unlimited. Gamiotics: A global engagement solution for audiences and content creators. Learn more at seizetheshow.com
& THEATRE ROYAL BURY ST EDMUNDS PRESENTADRIAN LUKIS IN
BEING MR WICKHAM
LIVE STREAMING ON FRIDAY 30 APRIL & SATURDAY 1 MAY 2021
Original Theatre Company – the production company behind the critically acclaimed lockdown online productions of Sebastian Faulks’s Birdsong Online, Louise Coulthard’s Watching Rosie, Torben Betts’s Apollo 13: The Dark Side of The Moon, Philip Franks’s The Haunting of Alice Bowles and Peter Barnes’s Barnes’ People – and Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds are delighted to present Adrian Lukis in Being Mr Wickham. Written by Adrian Lukis and Catherine Curzon, this one-man play about one of Jane Austen’s most charmingly roguish characters, will be directed by Guy Unsworth, designed by Libby Watson and filmed by Matt Hargraves and his team from North South Culture, who recently worked on the acclaimed streaming of Hymn at The Almeida.
Artistic Director of Original Theatre Company, Alastair Whatley said, “After months spent making work from home, I am delighted to be returning to the beautiful Theatre Royal in Bury St Edmunds with Being Mr Wickham; an apt venue in every way for our first ever live streaming. This stunning regency theatre is the theatre we call home and it could not be better suited to host an evening with Adrian Lukis reprising his acclaimed performance as Mr Wickham.”
Owen Calvert Lyons, Artistic Director of Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, said, “Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds is delighted to be supporting Original Theatre to create Being Mr Wickham. George Wickham is one of literature’s most loved/hated figures and it feels fitting that he should make his return on the stage of the country’s last remaining Regency theatre. That audiences will experience this reinvention of Jane Austen’s story through online streaming is a beautiful fusion of the past and the future.”
The play will be live streamed from the stage of the Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds at 7:30pm on Friday 30 April and at 3pm & 7:30pm on Saturday 1 May 2021 via originaltheatreonline.com. Tickets are on sale now.
“Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends – whether he may be equally capable of retaining them is less certain.”
Pride and Prejudice’s George Wickham is on the eve of his sixtieth birthday and wants to lift the sheets on exactly what happened thirty years on from where Jane Austen left him.
Adrian Lukis said of the production, “I’m thrilled to be reunited with my old friend, George Wickham. Having spent years defending his dubious reputation, I look forward to finally setting the record straight, with the assistance of the immensely talented Original Theatre Company.”
Adrian Lukis starred in the renowned Andrew Davies adaptation for the BBC of Pride and Prejudice. Rarely off the small screen, his most recent TV credits include Channel 4’s Feel Good, the 2019 mini-series A Christmas Carol starring Guy Pearce, Vera, Poldark, Bulletproof, Collateral, The Crown, Red Dwarf, Grantchester, Black Mirror, Blair Toast in Toast of London, Downton Abbey, New Tricks and Death in Paradise. He also stars in the new Netflix series Anatomy of a Scandal, due to be streamed this year. Films include Judy, Dolittle, City Slacker and Bertie & Dickie. Recent theatre credits include The Price (Theatre Royal Bath), The Seagull (Chichester Festival Theatre/ National Theatre), and Versailles (Donmar Warehouse).
Live from the stage of the magnificent Regency Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, the live performances will be followed by a Q&A with Adrian Lukis.
Being Mr Wickham is produced by Alastair Whatley and Tom Hackney for Original Theatre Company and Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds.
@OriginalTheatre
LISTINGS INFORMATION
Being Mr Wickham
by Adrian Lukis & Catherine Curzon
Dates: 30 April – 1 May 2021
Performance Times: 7.30pm 30 April & 1 May*, 3pm 1 May
*a captioned performance is also available on 1 May at 7.30pm
Supporter – £40 (includes digital programme and supporter credit on the film – book by 19 April)
Premium – £100 (includes a signed script by Adrian Lukis, a digital programme and supporter credit on the film – book by 19 April)
Although the production will be streamed live over two days, for anyone who cannot watch on either of these dates, an on-demand version will be released later in the year. To keep up to date on releases, sign up to the Original Theatre Online e-newsletter.
