The Bread & Roses Theatre announces its Spring Season 2017
April – June 2017 – www.BreadandRosesTheatre.co.uk
68 Clapham Manor Street, SW4 6DZ Clapham, London
The Bread & Roses Theatre is ready for an exciting springtime!
Following 5 star reviewed productions of ‘Miss Julie’ in 2015 and ‘Low Level Panic’ in 2016, this year The Bread & Roses Theatre is putting on a revival of dirty butterfly (25th April to 13th May, Tue-Sat), the debut play of Olivier-Award-winning playwright and BAFTA-Award-winning screenwriter debbie tucker green, directed by Artistic Director Tessa Hart. Painting a harrowing image of domestic violence in an intimate, yet so distant environment, dirty butterfly confronts the audience with themes of voyeurism, power and guilt through lives that interlock but never connect.
Stones Theatre Co. also return this season with a revival of Philip Ridley’s recent hit play Radiant Vermin (14th to 17th June). A darkly humourous play that asks the question: just how far you would go to get on the property ladder? Another returning company are SISATA who present their touring success show Shakespeare’s Othello adapted & directed by Charmaine K Parkin (22nd to 24th June), in a fast-paced telling of jealousy, love and ambition, four actors play multiple roles in this masterful debate on the human condition.
The season also features a line-up of exciting new writing and opportunities to discover brand new work:
· Yes! Because… by Flloyd Kennedy [with William Shakespeare] (4th to 8th April), a solo show of cabaret, clown and classical theatre all rolled into one, which has toured the UK and Australia;
· Teaching a dillo to cross the road by David Moberg (11th to 15th April), which throws us into a world of volatile uncertainty, sex, violence, alcohol, death and unspoken tragedy;
· Cream Tea and Incest by Benjamin Alborough (20th to 22nd April), a knockabout farce that blends the traditions of comedy theatre with the anarchy of live comedy in a unique, energetic style;
· Metamorphoses (15th to 20th May, except 17th), London’s first ever festival of visual & physical theatre inspired by Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’;
· The Anomaly written & directed by Martin T Hart (23rd to 27th May), an astounding Telepathy Magic Show with ‘WOW-Factor’;
· A Curse of Saints written & directed by Polis Loizou (30th May to 3rd June), a chilling tale set in 19th century Cyprus, where a shepherd – who since the arrival of the British, come to colonise his motherland, has been having visions of crooked saints and nightmares of the evil eye – reveals his own suspicions on a boy’s death.
· The Investigation by Peter Weiss (6th to 10th June), a dramatic re-construction of the Frankfurt war crime trials which dealt with the atrocities committed at the concentration camps of WWII such as Auschwitz.
Short running events include in-house cabaret and burlesque night The Roses Cabaret (20th April), improvisational theatre show Clowns Are Not Funny (7th May), Eddie Farmer’s The Magic Show (14th May), in-house new writing scratch night The Platform (11th to 13th June), and two-handed, multi-rolling farcical extravaganza Going Awol (20th & 21st June), set in 1966, a tale of 2 women who accidentally on purpose murder their boss and go on a wild and wonderful adventure around Europe disposing of his limbs.
Opportunities for theatre-makers this season include our usual Playwrights Circle, (22nd May) and Networking Event (5th June), as well as a Clown Actor Workshop with Flloyd Kennedy (5th April).
For details on all listings and more head to www.breadandrosestheatre.co.uk