The Space announces jam-packed Spring Season
The shows WILL go on!
Through the tiers, lockdowns and stop/starts of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Space bring you their bright, new 2021 spring season. We’ve had unprecedented challenges, and after listening to our creative teams and audiences, we have invested in dynamic solutions to the times we face.
We’re hosting a season of shows that are designed to be livestreamed as well as for ‘in-a-theatre’ audiences, so whether audiences are coming to see us or staying at home, we’ve got some exciting and topical shows lined up. With our new, ACE funded livestreaming kit, we’re building on our 2020 successes, keeping theatre affordable and accessible and reaching further than ever to our growing local and international digital audiences.
Artistic Director Adam Hemming says, “We’ve designed this season to appeal to a wide range of people and to engage a large number of theatre-makers. We want to keep those links we’ve made with national and global audiences and be there to provide for our local audience as soon as we can have them back in the venue. We’re finding new ways to make connections between those who write, direct and perform and those who watch and engage.
Whilst the building is currently closed, due to London COVID levels, and we’re aware that some of the shows in the season may only be livestreamed or may need to be rescheduled, we’re committed to hosting these brave and brilliant theatre-makers.” No less broad is our range of shows: We’ve got new writing showcases (Soldiers Arts Academy Showcase, Pass It On!, Scratching The Servers); gig theatre (A Place To Fall To Pieces); a new musical (Raft); dark classics (Poe’s The Black Cat); dark new dramas (Outside, Helium); epic Roman comedy (Aaron & Julia); feminist Chinese pirates (A Game Not Lost); family friendly shows (The Fantastical Tale of The Boy on The Run); shows about family (being a ‘cool mum’: The Cloak of Visibility and autobiographical story of being a test-tube baby: Don’t Ask Don’t Get, Baby) and of course, emerging theatre companies (Pursued by A Dragon return to the Space with Try Harder and 2020 graduates Two Flats Theatre debut A Blue Something). To kick off our digital/in-person hybrid season and meet the creatives involved, join us on Friday the 15th of January for an online season launch parties. Pour a glass of something fizzy and see just what this brave new year has in store for the Space! The performance details are (dates subject to change):-
Spring Season Launch Night
15th January – live online, via Zoom
Join the Space for a Spring Season like no other, sharing extracts and meeting the companies behind our hybrid Online and (hopefully) In-A-Theatre 2021 season!
Soldiers’ Arts Academy Showcase
30th January – livestreamed on YouTube
An international showcase of six new, short plays written by those most deeply affected by the trauma of military service – veterans themselves and their families.
Pass It On
4th-6th February – premiere watch party on YouTube and post-show Q and A on Zoom Pass It On. Let them know. No woman left behind.
Join us for 3 evenings of new writing, presenting the work of 15 emerging writers, performers, and directors.
A Place to Fall to Pieces
9th-13th February
On a sinking island a musician searches for a place to put her bones. A story (and a song) about magic, memory and earth. A musical quest for the meaning of Home.
Outside
16th-20th February – livestreamed on YouTube
Willa has never left her house alone, until now and she finds herself in a witness protection suite. Is revenge ever justified?
The Fantastical Tale of the Boy on the Run – premiere watch party on YouTube and post-show Q and A on Zoom Date TBC
A theatre show in a book! A miniature world of magic with a giant storyteller.
Try Harder
24th-27th February – livestreamed on YouTube
Three young adults, desperate for money, take on a peculiar new job with a boss from hell. A surreal comedy drama that asks: When is your good, good enough?
A Game Not Lost
2nd-6th March
Sit down for a game of Mahjong with one of the most feared and powerful women of all time, Ching Shih. With each wrong move, Ching recounts a small part of her history.
Cloak of Visibility
9th-13th March
Meet ‘cool mum’, Amy. She’s popular, successful and has mastered the ‘slut drop’. A humorous, compassionate one-woman show about being seen to have it all.
Aaron and Julia
16th-21st March
Caerleon, a small harbour town in the south of Wales, feels very far indeed from the epicentre of the vast, sprawling Roman Empire.
The Black Cat
23rd-26th March
An online retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s macabre masterpiece. An alcoholic is driven insane by his addiction. On the eve of his death, he decides to tell us his story…
A Blue Something
30th March – 1st April
A deer killer, a pregnant woman, an unsuccessful actor and a man awaiting permission to die are stuck in a waiting room together, connected by a blue something.
Helium
13th-16th April Five lives have collided in the wake of a tragic accident. If you’re already close to the edge, sometimes all you need is a little push…
Raft
22nd-24th April Trapped by reality. Freed by imagination. Four women, seemingly trapped on a raft in the middle of the ocean, hunted by a merciless sea-monster. Is all we see what is truly there?
Don’t Ask Don’t Get, Baby
27th April – 1st May
Growing up isn’t easy. Alice’s persistent questioning teaches her more than she thought there was to know. Join her as she muses about nature, nurture and everything in between.
Venue and Tickets
All tickets can be booked online:www.space.org.uk
Box Office: 0207 515 7799
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Tube: Jubilee Line to Canary Wharf, change at Canary Wharf for a bus: D7, 277 or 135 (from Bus Stop H)
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