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Wednesday 7th May - Saturday 10th May, 7.30pm
Written & Directed by Luke Leonard
The story of a young teenage couple who deliberately encase themselves in a giant concrete box. As people on the outside try to force their way in, Jess and James make the walls thicker, and the two explore their own stories, their thoughts and feelings about love, and the terrifying and traumatic events that lead them to build 'the box'. A dark, macabre and often grotesque story about how sometimes love will always prevail, even if it means isolation, and possible death.
Written & Directed by Nick Moran
Breakfast television talk shows are dull, lifeless and insipid, that is one thing that is beyond certain. And even the long suffering cast of 'Good morning and Goodbye' - Britain's 'most cheery way to start the day' - forced to live in a never-ending Prozac-laced world of pseudo-happiness, would not disagree with any accusation of blandness. However, today is a day unlike any other. A tremendous romp featuring religious cultists, celebrity chefs finally getting their due, and the truth about cold freezing, 'Good Morning and Goodbye' promises to deliver a slew of laughs and maybe even more...
Sponsored by KPMG.
by Arthur Miller
Wednesday 30th April - Saturday 3rd May, 7.30pm
Whats some hearts desire, they must posess.
What they cannot posess, they must destroy.
In a world ruled by fear, all it takes to be condemned is to be accused.
Directed by Cal Lewis.
Wednesday 23rd - Saturday 26th April, 7.30pm
Written and directed by Tom Warren
Jacob has hit a wall in his work. Frustratingly unable to complete a short story, he embarks on a desperate search for inspiration. However, as his personal pursuit for insight gains ground, Jacob finds himself increasingly alienated from the people around him. Despite this, he sees a conclusion in sight, although it's not quite what he had imagined...
Written by Charlie & Ben Brafman, directed by Charlie Brafman
Dave was playing with a lighter and a pumpkin, and he found himself with a white ash-like powder. He tried snorting it, but it stung the crap out of his nose. He tried smoking it, but ended up with the runs. Eventually he tried sprinkling it on his food... and it was remarkably delicious. With the help of his two housemates, this new condiment looks set to take over the world, although Thom sees it as a potential cure for third world debt, whilst Dan sees it more as the route to personal millions...
From the writing team behind 'Cast Aside' (Selected for NSDF '07, Edinburgh Festival Official Sell-Out show 2006, ***** Edinburgh Guide) and 'Dearly Deported' (Shorlisted for NSDF Edinburgh '07 Competition, and Amnesty International Award '07. ***** British Theatre Network).
by Tom Stoppard
Wednesday 16th - Saturday 19th April, 7.30pm
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is both a comedy and a tragedy that focuses on the story of the two neglected courtiers in Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'. With the action of Hamlet colliding regularly with their own story, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern struggle to see why they are there, what they're doing and who they really are before it is too late.
Directed by Andy McNamee
Tuesday 11th - Friday 14th March, 7.30pm
Directed by Ed Hancock
In essence this is a romantic tale with a twist. "A lively and captivating production, skilfully performed by a very talented cast of nine... Pure enjoyment."
The play was created by last year's National Student Drama Festival's comedy award winning team.
by Robert Jones
A romantic comedy for the socially inept, The Dragon Botherers charts the fortunes of three harmless eccentrics content to while away their days discussing Star Wars and playing Dungeons & Dragons - until an encounter with a low-price women's magazine changes their lives forever. Greed, ambition and tiny little dice collide in a tale which will warm the heart of your inner geek.
Directed by Robert Jones
by Ray Cooney
Wednesday 5th - Saturday 8th March, 7.30pm; Friday 7th march matinee, 2pm
It's 1991. Richard Willey MP is a member of the Conservative Cabinet. He is at the Westminster Hotel seducing Jane Worthington, one of the Leader of the Opposition's secretaries. Her suspicious husband, Ronnie, has been having her followed by a private detective, and is out to catch the man she's playing away with. Richard's secretary, George Pigden, comes to save the day, but accidentally gets married. On top of all this, Richard's wife turns up and ends up having a fling with George by mistake, but not before Ronnie has a break-down and admits his inadequacies...
Does it all make sense in the end? Of course not! Out of Order is one of Ray Cooney's best loved comedies, and was the winner of the 1991 Olivier Award for Comedy of the Year.
Directed by Johnny Steer
by Patrick Marber
Wednesday 27th February - Saturday 1st March, 7.30pm
1945 and as the Labour Party rise to victory in the general election, Miss Julie is busy in her family mansion's kitchen; drunk and seducing her father's chauffeur. Sexual power becomes a weapon as the characters carve into the tension in an attempt to break out of their class, status and gender.
It's the first play of the season guys, and a really good chance to see some of New Theatre's most faithful before they disappear off to drama school! Let's really start the new season with a full house!!
Directed by Anthony Lau
With yet another ridiculously ambitious season planned, eleven major Productions (six of them new writing), a New Writing Festival, the annual Stars in Their Eyes Fundraiser, a Postgrad Project production (during Undergrad exams) and a 24hr play, you can't help but get your thesp fix this semester!
by Student Improv Nottingham
Wednesday 13th - Saturday 16th February, 7.30pm
Do you like murder, intrigue and suspense? Do you like to control events and imagine yourself as some sort of all-powerful demi-God? If so then we think you might enjoy this...
Student Improv Nottingham presents an intriguing twist upon the classic murder-mystery; an unfinished tale, governed not by reason or logic, but YOU, the audience. Part written, part improvised, you decide the culprit - and then we improvise the rest.
A gripping story, replete with lonely soliloquies, clueless characters and gaping plotholes, The Cranberry Chamber promises to be a compelling comic caper, deadly fun for all the family or co-habiting student household.
Who dunnit? You decide...
by Ali Blackwell
Wednesday 6th - Saturday 9th February, 7.30pm
Theatrical Theatrics Productions proudly presents TwinSS, an almost-modern day Comedy of Errors by third year undergraduate Ali Blackwell.
A hilarious spy farce set during the peak of World War Two, this is 'definitely a show you will be telling all your friends about... a fantastic production' (Three Weeks ****).
George Batenberger is an MI5 taskmaster in charge of a German spy ring. His evil twin Helmet Batenberger is an SS Zuper-Uber-Fuhrer and Hitler's top assassin. Tracked by Fritz Acchengrubber, a gay Nazi spy with a disarming penchant for pink fishnet stockings, Helmet parachutes into the country on a mission to impersonate his brother and assassinate Winston Churchill, therefore winning the war for Germany. A flatulent Colonel, a pissed-up nun and the original James Bond are some of the other characters in this unpretentious romp.
by Nic Harvey
Friday 1st February
Rob, a typically bloke-ish alpha male lives with aspiring writer Lucy, but their relationship is at breaking point. Believing that work isn’t work without the lifting of heavy objects, he can’t see the merit in making up stories for a living.
After another heavy 'discussion' Rob heads for the local to free his mind a little. There he meets a mysterious stranger who thinks he can solve Rob's sensitivity issues with an ancient spell… the results, however, are not to everyone’s liking. With no recollection of the previous night, Rob wakes up with a nasty headache and a brand new voice.
A lyrical look at male/female communication and the grisly nature of change, the play was first presented by The Television Workshop in Nottingham on 3rd July 2007. From there it travelled to Leeds' Carriageworks theatre in November and returns home for its final performance on February 1st.
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4th - 7th June
The pilgrimage tradition is turned on its head in this spectacular production as two jaded American women take a trip to India. Plagued by their pasts, Katherine Brynne and Margaret Civil travel the length and breath of the country looking to 'heal' their souls. In their adventures, they are accompanied by none other than the elephant-headed God, Ganesh! Fluid in his guises, he appears before them in different forms-from a Japanese tourist to a leper-until a breathtaking release arrives for both women at his hands.
Doors 7.15pm
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