October 2014
Two Gents Productions – Taming of the Shrew
The Taming of the Shrew The Contention starts here! After their ground-breaking success at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2012 and a World Tour in 2013, Two Gents Productions are back touring the UK in 2014 … and this time they mean business. Two Gents is launching The Complete Shakespeare Project – performing and touring all of Shakespeare’s Plays in Chronological Order. After Two Gentlemen of Verona, they now tackle The Taming of the Shrew. “uproariously entertaining” The Guardian "a lightness of…
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Chanje Kunda
The play is adapted from her own book of poems, Amsterdam, and is a unique experience: part autobiography, part travelogue, part lyrical drama. Chanje has a massive crush on a charming Surinamese guy living in Amsterdam. She met him on holiday. She didn’t mean to meet him; she didn’t plan to meet anyone. Her life back home in rainy Manchester isn’t easy. So, she’s catching a flight to meet her fate. What will become of this 21st century, passionate, long…
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Finger & Thumb Theatre
THE UGLY DUCKLING Drew Colby, Finger and Thumb Theatre, is the only professional hand shadow puppeteer in Britain and an internationally recognised artist. He has paired up with cellist Penny Callow and has created a spellbinding, poetic and funny interpretation of the Hans Christian Andersen classic “The Ugly Duckling”. Everyday objects including plastic spoons and kitchen colanders become beautiful landscapes and shimmering fish; combined with, live music and breath-taking hand shadows this is a magical hour long show for the…
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Ian Keable
THE SECRET WORLD OF CHARLES DICKENS: MIRTH, MARVELS AND THE MYSTERIOUS In this humorous and mystifying show, Ian Keable reveals Dickens's journey to becoming a magician, and recreates his favourite tricks and the spooky practises of the Victorian psychics. The first half of the show follows how Dickens became a magician and why he gave up magic. It ends, as Dickens ended his own show, with the production of a fruit cake - which is consumed by the audience in…
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