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A-F Actors Church - St. Paul's Church
Bedford Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 9ED
Tube Covent Garden
Telephone 08700 600 100 OUR ELLEN
by Richard Osborne | Location | Other London | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 14 Oct 08 | | Opens | 14 Oct 08 | | Booking to | 19 Oct 08 | | Closes | 19 Oct 08 | | Time | Tues - Sat 7.30pm, Sun at 3pm, plus Tues Matinee at 2.30pm | | Performers | Tina Gray (Ellen Terry) | | Director | Richard Osborne | | Design | Trudy Marklew | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Robert Hamlin and Iris Theatre | | Synopsis | For half a century actress Ellen Terry was adored by critics, artists, royalty and theatre-goers alike. She was 'our Ellen' to her adoring public. She celebrated her acting jubilee in 1906 and that's where the play opens, thereafter going back in time to her first appearance on stage at age eight in The Winter's Tale, and chronicling her career, her three marriages, the progress of her two illegitimate children and her professional and personal partnership with the greatest actor of the age, Sir Henry Irving. The play captures the vulnerability, the struggle and the resilience of a woman at odds with Victorian morality. | | B/O Price | £13 | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | Music by Tom Wilson played by Nikki Kristy, cello |
Arcola Theatre
27 Arcola Street, London, E8 2DJ
Tube Victoria Line to Highbury and Islington, then North London line to Dalston
Telephone 020 7503 1646 SMALL CRAFT WARNINGS
By Tennessee Williams | Location | Other London | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 10 Sep 08 | | Opens | 10 Sep 08 | | Booking to | 18 Oct 08 | | Closes | 18 Oct 08 | | Time | Mon to Sat at 8pm | | Performers | John Guerrasio, Greg Hicks, James Hutchinson, Meredith McNeil, Steve Nicolson, John Nolan, Iain Robertson, Jack Shepherd, Sian Thomas | | Director | Bill Bryden | | Design | | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Arcola Theatre | | Synopsis | Quentin, the washed-up queer screenwriter, one of nine castoffs who gather at Monk's seedy bar one foggy night in 1972, Southern California. The doctor is drunk, Violet's hysterical, Leona is leaving and the coast guard have put out a small craft warning. But will they be able to save the unborn baby? A play about searching for the solace of companionship in all the wrong places and finding the truth behind foulmouthed faces. | | B/O Price | £15 (Tuesday what what you can) | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | *In Studio 1 |
Arcola Theatre
27 Arcola Street, London, E8 2DJ
Tube Victoria Line to Highbury and Islington, then North London line to Dalston
Telephone 020 7503 1646 WELCOME TO RAMALLAH
by Sonja Linden and Adah Kay | Location | Other London | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 23 Sep 08 | | Opens | 26 Sep 08 | | Booking to | 18 Oct 08 | | Closes | 18 Oct 08 | | Time | Mon to Sat at 8.15pm | | Performers | John Moraitis (Salim), Shuna Snow (Mara), Christopher Simon (Daoud), Lolly Susi (Nat). | | Director | Sue Lefton | | Design | Adrian Linford | | Lighting | Jenny Cane | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | Emma Laxton | | Producer | iceandfire | | Synopsis | 2008 marks both the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the Israeli state and the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Inspired by the experience of Adah Kay, a British Jew who lived and worked in Ramallah between 2002 and 2006, the play explores an encounter between four people across the Palestine/Israel divide during the course of one evening. Welcome to Ramallah is an intimate exploration of the balance between duty and love which emerged from the desire to understand and convey some of the complexity of the situation of the Occupied Palestinian Territories and the Israel/Palestine conflict. Underpinning the play are events that took place in 1948, with the creation of the Jewish State and the consequent dispossession and displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. It's late afternoon when a Jewish woman arrives at her sister's home in the occupied city of Ramallah. Dusk settles and with the call to prayer come neighbours - an uncle and nephew - to greet the new arrival. As night falls an unexpected curfew prompts the sharing of old stories, which threaten to tear apart the fragile harmony of the sisters' memories. | | B/O Price | £15 (Tuesday what what you can) | | Length | 1hr 40min | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | *In Studio 2 |
Arcola Theatre
27 Arcola Street, London, E8 2DJ
Tube Victoria Line to Highbury and Islington, then North London line to Dalston
Telephone 020 7503 1646 KARAGIOZES EXPOSED
by Open Arts, Music by Antonis Antoniou | Location | Other London | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 23 Sep 08 | | Opens | 23 Sep 08 | | Booking to | 4 Oct 08 | | Closes | 4 Oct 08 | | Time | Mon - Sat 7pm | | Performers | Antonis Tsiotsiopoulos (Puppeteer), Barthelemy Meridjen (Karagiozes) | | Director | Athina Kasiou and Euripides Dikaios | | Design | Pavlos Sideris | | Lighting | Giannis Chatzantoniou | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Open Arts | | Synopsis | When his puppeteer makes a mistake, Karagiozes momentarily tastes the three dimensional world. He revolts against being trapped behind his screen again and resolves to return to this newly found world. Through physical theatre, experimental architecture, live original music and using as a spring board traditional Greek Shadow Puppetry, 'Karagiozes Exposed' challenges the norm and finds itself faced with a new dimension exposing the relationship between puppet and human. | | B/O Price | £15 (Tuesday what what you can) | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | *In Studio 3 |
Artsdepot
5 Nether Street, Tally Ho Corner, North Finchley London, N12 0GA
Tube West Finchley / Woodside Park
Telephone 020 8369 5454 NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, THE
by Adam Bampton-Smith, Music by Shock Productions & Lyrics by Guy Picot | Location | Other London | | Genre | Children | | Previews from | 13 Dec 08 | | Opens | 13 Dec 08 | | Booking to | 4 Jan 09 | | Closes | 4 Jan 09 | | Time | 12 pm and 3 pm on DEC 13, 14, 20,21, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29 30, JAN 2, 3, 4 (19 Dec at 3pm only; 31 Dec at 12pm only) | | Performers | | | Director | Juliet Forster | | Design | Michaela Kemp | | Lighting | Will Evans | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | | | Synopsis | On the night before Christmas Emily stares out of the window, hugs her teddy and waits excitedly for the morning, while in the corner a little mouse called Eddie can't understand why only humans are allowed to celebrate and get presents. So Eddie sets off in search of Father Christmas to find out for himself. Along the way he dodges the family cat, gets directions from a cowardly soldier and is given some unexpected advice from the magical fairy on top of the tree! Will Eddie get an answer? Will Emily get her wish? And what is that funny-shaped present waiting to be opened? | | B/O Price | £10 (£8 Children) | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | *A festive tale for families and children aged 3 -7.
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Barons Court Theatre
28a Comeragh Road, London, W14
Tube Barons Court
Telephone 020 8932 4747 SOMEONE WHO'LL WATCH OVER ME
by Frank Mcguinness | Location | Other London | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 29 Sep 08 | | Opens | 29 Sep 08 | | Booking to | 18 Oct 08 | | Closes | 18 Oct 08 | | Time | Mon - Sat 7.45pm | | Performers | | | Director | | | Design | | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | | | Synopsis | An Englishman, an Irishman and an American are locked up together in a cell in the Middle East. As victims of political action, powerless to initiate change, what can they do? How do they live and survive? | | B/O Price | £12 | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | *Profits from this production will go to the charity Help for Heroes, delivering direct support to other victims of war |
Blue Elephant Theatre
59a Bethwin Rd, Camberwell, London, SE5 0XT (entrance on Thompson Ave)
Tube Oval
Telephone 020 7701 0100 FIRST CLASS
Devised by Amy Nostbakken & Nir Paldi | Location | Other London | | Genre | Physical Theatre Comedy | | Previews from | 7 Oct 08 | | Opens | 9 Oct 08 | | Booking to | 25 Oct 08 | | Closes | 25 Oct 08 | | Time | Tues - Sat 8pm | | Performers | Amy Nostbakken & Nir Paldi | | Director | | | Design | | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Half-Wit Theatre | | Synopsis | A man rediscovers his passion for life in the unlikeliest of places. When Michael Bates makes a routine trip to the post office, he meets Beatrice - an impossibly enthusiastic postal worker, who takes him far beyond the confines of a mail room into the universe of her imagination. Powered by her infectious lust for life, Bea leads Michael on a journey to find something he never knew he had lost. | | B/O Price | £10 | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | |
Blue Elephant Theatre
59a Bethwin Rd, Camberwell, London, SE5 0XT (entrance on Thompson Ave)
Tube Oval
Telephone 020 7701 0100 TOY BOY / LIVING WITH... (Double Bill)
by Sebastian Rex | Location | Other London | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 11 Nov 08 | | Opens | 13 Nov 08 | | Booking to | 29 Nov 08 | | Closes | 29 Nov 08 | | Time | Tues - Sat 8pm | | Performers | Emma-Rachel Blackman, Ido Gonen, Elizabeth Pinnock, Elena Rossi , Damian Sommerlad | | Director | | | Design | | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | Lauren McCarthy | | Sound | | | Producer | Acting Like Mad | | Synopsis | In TOY BOY we enter a world led by users and abusers dependant on the aid of those who obey. Can real love flourish when kindness is met only with violence? LIVING WITH... tells the story of a man forced to move into a new flat with three hedonistic beings, who torture him and each other. Can he learn to live with his old demons as well as the new? Or will they beat the life out of him? | | B/O Price | £12.50 | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | |
Bridewell Theatre
Bride Lane, off Fleet Street, London EC4
Tube Blackfriars
Telephone www.sedos.co.uk STEPPING OUT
By Richard Harris | Location | Other London | | Genre | Comedy | | Previews from | 30 Sep 08 | | Opens | 30 Sep 08 | | Booking to | 4 Oct 08 | | Closes | 4 Oct 08 | | Time | Tues - Sat 7.30pm, plus Sat Matinee at 3pm | | Performers | Michelle Loader (Mavis) , Lauren Mole (Sylvia) , Sian Richards (Dorothy) , Siobhan Aarons (Rose) , Ruth Huntman (Maxine) , Dario Dalla Costa (Geoffey) , Avril Sand (Lynne) , Penny Mullord (Vera) , Karen Lister (Andy) , Kate Fearnley ( Mrs Fraser) , | | Director | Deryck High | | Design | | | Lighting | | | Choreography | Jane Saunders | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Stock Exchange Dramatic & Operatic Society (SEDOS) | | Synopsis | Set in North London, the story follows the lives of the members of an amateur tap class. Mavis, a professional dancer who didn't quite make it past the chorus line, now runs her own class. A mixed, and otherwise incompatible, group of seven women and one man meet weekly for their tap-dancing class in a dingy North London church hall. Each struggling to conquer either their inhibitions or dance technique, or both! Then the day comes when Mavis breaks the news to the group that they have been invited to perform in front of an audience for a big charity concert. With varying degrees of talent and determination we see how each class member copes with the challenge.but with only a few weeks to learn an impressive tap routine, will they do it in time? Can they make it? Or will they all, literally, fall flat on their faces? | | B/O Price | £12.50 | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | |
Bridewell Theatre
Bride Lane, off Fleet Street, London EC4
Tube Blackfriars
Telephone www.sedos.co.uk RENT
by Jonathan Larson, Inspired by Puccini's La Boheme | Location | Other London | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 13 Nov 08 | | Opens | 13 Nov 08 | | Booking to | 22 Nov 08 | | Closes | 22 Nov 08 | | Time | Tues - Sat 7.30pm, Sat Mat at 3pm (20 Nov at 8pm) | | Performers | | | Director | | | Design | | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Stock Exchange Dramatic & Operatic Society (SEDOS) | | Synopsis | | | B/O Price | £12.50 - £50 | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | *Amateur production |
Brockley Jack Theatre
410 Brockley Road, Brockley, London SE4 2DH
Tube Honor Oak Park Station (10 min walk) or Crofton Park Station (2 min walk)
Telephone 020 8291 6354 SCRIBBLER & SPOUSE
by James Robson | Location | Other London | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 30 Sep 08 | | Opens | 30 Sep 08 | | Booking to | 4 Oct 08 | | Closes | 4 Oct 08 | | Time | Tues - Sat 8pm | | Performers | Alan Meadows, Maria Warburgh | | Director | Chris Wilkinson | | Design | | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Yellow Leaf Theatre | | Synopsis | Promises to lift the lid and paint a warts-and-all picture of the scribbling life. It is an eye-opener on many levels. There are the jokes and the gossip - the affairs, the booze, and the award ceremony parties. But there's also a mature and complex love story of the effect on close relationships of a life that consists of 'sudden gain; sudden loss, money as transient as dew, success and happiness as elusive as fairy gold.' | | B/O Price | £ 11 | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | |
Brockley Jack Theatre
410 Brockley Road, Brockley, London SE4 2DH
Tube Honor Oak Park Station (10 min walk) or Crofton Park Station (2 min walk)
Telephone 0844 847 2454 RICHARD III
by William Shakespeare | Location | Other London | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 14 Oct 08 | | Opens | 17 Oct 08 | | Booking to | 8 Nov 08 | | Closes | 8 Nov 08 | | Time | Tues - Sat 7.45pm, Sunday at 5pm | | Performers | Anthony Acosta, Matthew Burton, Jonny Bussell, Adam Dahrouge, Richard Delaney, Christopher Finn, Gareth Fordred, Austin Hardiman, Mark Leipacher, Fingal McKiernan, Derval Mellett, Danny Millar, Kate Sawyer, Ross Henry Steele, Tom Vickers, Diana Walker, Fiona Watson | | Director | Mark Leipacher | | Design | | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | theFaction | | Synopsis | Storylines of the Houses of York and Lancaster as the rival factions cope with the aftermath of bloody civil war. | | B/O Price | £ 12 | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | |
Camden People's Theatre
58-60 Hampstead Road, London, NW12PY
Tube Warren Street
Telephone 08700 600 100 PAPERWEIGHT
by Tom Frankland, Sebastien Lawson, Jamie Wood | Location | Other London | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 7 Oct 08 | | Opens | 7 Oct 08 | | Booking to | 25 Oct 08 | | Closes | 25 Oct 08 | | Time | Tues - Sat 8pm | | Performers | | | Director | Jamie Wood | | Design | | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Top of the World | | Synopsis | The absurd story of two men trapped in mindless office jobs. 'An (almost) silent comedy, of escalating intensity and surprising tenderness. ' | | B/O Price | £10 | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | |
Courtyard Studio Theatre
Bowling Green Walk, 40 Pitfield Street, Hoxton, London N1 6EU
Tube Old Street
Telephone 0870 163 0717 CHAV SCUM KILLS GOD
by Drew Davies | Location | Other London | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 11 Nov 08 | | Opens | 12 Nov 08 | | Booking to | 30 Nov 08 | | Closes | 30 Nov 08 | | Time | Tues - Sun at 7.30pm | | Performers | Bradley Benjamin (Robert), Michael Lindall (The Other) , Des Brittain (Rob Senior) , Jonathan Hansler (Lou) , Sarah Alborn (Kathy/God) . | | Director | Drew Davies | | Design | | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | The Infamists | | Synopsis | When Chaverston Robert Scumthorpe Jnr wakes up dead, he can't imagine his day getting any worse. He's left everything behind him; his girlfriend Kathy, his dreams of finishing Grand Theft Auto 3 and any chance of living a good and decent life. That is, until Robert discovers he's in Hell. After re-uniting with his careerist father, Robert is unwittingly enlisted as a suicide bomber and sent off to free the citizens of Hades by blowing up their greatest oppressor, God. His journey takes him through Purgatory, where Robert befriends Lou, a burnt out hippy with a penchant for card games, before confronting him with the Lord Almighty Himself who, as it happens, is his recently deceased girlfriend Kathy... | | B/O Price | £ 12.50 | | Length | 1hr 30min | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | |
Finborough Theatre
The Finborough, 118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED
Tube Earl's Court
Telephone 0844 847 1652 CRADLE ME
by Simon Vinnicombe | Location | Other London | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 1 Oct 08 | | Opens | 3 Oct 08 | | Booking to | 25 Oct 08 | | Closes | 25 Oct 08 | | Time | Tue ð Sat 7.30pm, Mats Sat & Sun at 3pm | | Performers | Sharon Maughan (Marion), Luke Tredaway (Daniel), Sarah Bedi, Paul Herzberg | | Director | Duncan Macmillan | | Design | Paul Burgess | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | Theo Holloway | | Producer | SAW Productions | | Synopsis | In the aftermath of an unspeakable yet avoidable tragedy, a family finds themselves torn apart by grief and turning for comfort to Daniel, the troubled teenage boy who lives next door. | | B/O Price | £13 (Tues £9) | | Length | 2hrs | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | |
Finborough Theatre
The Finborough, 118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED
Tube Earl's Court
Telephone 0844 847 1652 FOLLOW
by Dameon Garnett | Location | Other London | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 29 Oct 08 | | Opens | 31 Oct 08 | | Booking to | 22 Nov 08 | | Closes | 22 Nov 08 | | Time | Tue ð Sat 7.30pm, Mats Sat & Sun at 3pm | | Performers | Oliver Gilbert, Adam Redmore | | Director | Ken Alexander | | Design | Georgia Lowe | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | | | Synopsis | Blake and Reece are sixteen: two boys from two cities, Liverpool and Portsmouth. The tensions of North and South play out as the boys realise their backgrounds may not be so different after all. Blake is lumbered with a baby he never wanted. His dad, Gary, is struggling to cope as a single parent while teaching his son how to face the responsibilities of being a father. Reece has run away from home, hasn't seen his father in years and is slipping into a criminal underworld from which there appears to be no way back. | | B/O Price | £13 (Tues £9) | | Length | 2hrs | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | |
Footsbarn's Big Top
Victoria Park, Grove Road , London E3
Tube
Telephone 0844 755 0017 MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, A
by William Shakespeare | Location | Other London | | Genre | Comedy | | Previews from | 7 Nov 08 | | Opens | 12 Nov 08 | | Booking to | 30 Nov 08 | | Closes | 30 Nov 08 | | Time | Tues - Sat at 7.30pm, Sun at 5pm, plus Matinees Sat 22 and 29 Nov at 2.30pm | | Performers | | | Director | Paddy Hayter | | Design | | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Footsbar Theatre | | Synopsis | Performed in a circus tent . | | B/O Price | £ 10 - £ 25 | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | |
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