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October 2016
Lempen Puppets
Semi famous puppeteer Frank Stein is busy rehearsing his new show “George the Dragon Slayer” but he’s finding it really difficult with his badly made puppets! He’ll never be famous because his puppets keep falling apart! Taking inspiration from the scientist Dr Frankenstein, and with the help of the audience he creates a new real live puppet that is destined to change this life forever! Creature George emerges from the workshop – innocent and willing to learn, but Frank is…
Find out more »Panta Rai
I Wish Her Well is an intricate performance, combining storytelling, high tempo energy and an evocative sound score by British composer Nathaniel Reed that infuses the performance with melody and atmosphere. It is a captivating production that seeks to move and engage. Act one is based on the stories of four women who are closely related to the dancers, whilst act two is based on the diaries of a 16 year-old girl. She is now an 85 year-old woman who…
Find out more »Red Moon Road
Red Moon Road, the Winnipeg folk trio is known for surviving adversity, spinning stories into songs and, stunning musicianship. They formed in 2012 by Daniel Jordan, Sheena Rattai and Daniel Peloquin-Hopfner. They have toured extensively, to 7 countries in Europe and North America with ‘Sorrows and Glories’ (their third album, released in Autumn 2015). It has already spent three weeks at number one on the Earshot! National Folk/Roots/Blues Charts and has delighted listeners world wide. Live, Red Moon Road makes…
Find out more »Lempen Puppets
Semi famous puppeteer Frank Stein is busy rehearsing his new show “George the Dragon Slayer” but he’s finding it really difficult with his badly made puppets! He’ll never be famous because his puppets keep falling apart! Taking inspiration from the scientist Dr Frankenstein, and with the help of the audience he creates a new real live puppet that is destined to change this life forever! Creature George emerges from the workshop – innocent and willing to learn, but Frank is…
Find out more »Red Moon Road
Red Moon Road, the Winnipeg folk trio is known for surviving adversity, spinning stories into songs and, stunning musicianship. They formed in 2012 by Daniel Jordan, Sheena Rattai and Daniel Peloquin-Hopfner. They have toured extensively, to 7 countries in Europe and North America with ‘Sorrows and Glories’ (their third album, released in Autumn 2015). It has already spent three weeks at number one on the Earshot! National Folk/Roots/Blues Charts and has delighted listeners world wide. Live, Red Moon Road makes…
Find out more »November 2016
Lempen Puppets
Semi famous puppeteer Frank Stein is busy rehearsing his new show “George the Dragon Slayer” but he’s finding it really difficult with his badly made puppets! He’ll never be famous because his puppets keep falling apart! Taking inspiration from the scientist Dr Frankenstein, and with the help of the audience he creates a new real live puppet that is destined to change this life forever! Creature George emerges from the workshop – innocent and willing to learn, but Frank is…
Find out more »Lempen Puppets
Semi famous puppeteer Frank Stein is busy rehearsing his new show “George the Dragon Slayer” but he’s finding it really difficult with his badly made puppets! He’ll never be famous because his puppets keep falling apart! Taking inspiration from the scientist Dr Frankenstein, and with the help of the audience he creates a new real live puppet that is destined to change this life forever! Creature George emerges from the workshop – innocent and willing to learn, but Frank is…
Find out more »Lempen Puppets
Semi famous puppeteer Frank Stein is busy rehearsing his new show “George the Dragon Slayer” but he’s finding it really difficult with his badly made puppets! He’ll never be famous because his puppets keep falling apart! Taking inspiration from the scientist Dr Frankenstein, and with the help of the audience he creates a new real live puppet that is destined to change this life forever! Creature George emerges from the workshop – innocent and willing to learn, but Frank is…
Find out more »Oliver Meech
Oliver meddles with forces we barely understand, in a comedy magic show for the QI generation. His magic combines with other interesting things to create work that is “fascinating and different to other magicians”. His one-man magic shows have sold out month-long runs at the Edinburgh Fringe in both 2013 and 2014, as well as sell-out performances in London, Brighton Fringe, Buxton Fringe, Green Man Festival and Manchester Comedy Festival. Oliver’s shows have toured across England and Wales, to both…
Find out more »Townsend Productions
Commissioned by the International Brigades Memorial Trust, the play’s tour will coincide with the 80th anniversaries of the creation of the International Brigades in October 1936 and the Battle of Jarama in 1937. The drama centres on the contrasting lives of International Brigaders Clem Beckett and Christopher Caudwell. Beckett, a Lancashire blacksmith and famous star of the speedway track, and Caudwell, a renowned writer, poet and philosopher, were killed together at Jarama in February 1937, having become friends as members…
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