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Enter the world of the Slippery Soapbox and feast your eye(s) and ears on a cohesive comedy sketch show of epic proportions!
When Warren loses his best friend, his job, and his dignity he embarks on a quest to find the Spotbanded Skat. Along the way he'll encounter rapping pirates, humous addicts, Lion King enthusiasts, and the fearless Captain Bluetooth.
Last year, having been embraced by a wide range of Festival goers (while simultaneously being dropped slowly but decisively by Jim Davidson fans), The Slippery Soapbox became a cult success, achieving SELL-OUT status.
And now, accompanied by one new recruit, Nottingham-based company, shutYOface, have reunited to create this year's most imaginative comedy: entirely new sketches, blended with an epic storyline, and drizzled with pioneering music and fresh beats.
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'Infectious Madness' Three Weeks
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'Hilarious... a guaranteed laugh out loud production!' edfringe.com
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'A huge hit with the audience... book a ticket now!' Broadway Baby
The New Theatre has programmed the most ambitious season in its history. With twelve in-house productions this season, and at one point ten days of straight theatre (Proof 14-17th, Can't Stand Up For Falling Down 18th-20th, Lonesome West 21st-24th November), there's bound to be something at New Theatre for you to come and enjoy.
by John Godber
24 - 27th October
Two hilarious pieces of theatre which speak to "a generation of clubbers". Bouncers & Shakers focuses on four misunderstood doormen, four weary cocktail waitresses and their rowdy customers, following them through the glitz and glamour of a nightclub. "Absorbing, yet revealing, modern comedy… you’ll laugh until they throw you out!"
Directed by Jackie Lee & Adam Paulden
31st Oct – 3rd Nov
by Jean Paul Satre
One of Jean-Paul Sartre’s most ground-breaking works delving into ideas of self-deception and human responsibility. Three characters from socially disparate backgrounds find themselves in Sartre’s unique perception of hell. What follows is a tense and dramatic depiction of possibly the cruellest form of torture – the human imagination. Each of the characters soon realise that they themselves are the instruments of hell, and it is each other who will force them to reveal their deepest and darkest secrets.
Directed by Meir Adler
…followed by…
by Sarah Kane
Set in an unnamed city from which voices and images spring, Crave charts the disintegration of a human mind under the pressures of love, loss and desire. Four nameless characters tell their tales, with poetic dialogues that meet, converge and move apart with balletic grace.
Directed by Fu Baxter
7th – 10th Nov
Written & Directed by Anthony Lau
The average time it takes for the emergency services to respond to a collision, Seven Minutes Thirty-one explores the moments immediately after a car crash all the way up to the eventual arrival of the police. The play tackles the thoughts and feelings of each character involved with the incident, from the driver’s recollection and regret to the desensitisation of events from emergency response teams. An exciting and fresh piece of drama which will challenge and provoke both actor and audience.
...followed by…
Written & Directed by Nicholas Moran
The stage can be a harsh mistress some say, and Jennifer, a newcomer to the Crawford Theatre Company is soon to discover just how unforgiving it can be. A hilarious, iconoclastic romp through the little seen world of backstage Under The Blacklight poses very few questions and answers far fewer.
by David Auburn
14th – 17th Nov
Proof premiered in 2000 and in 2001 it won the Tony Award for Best Play along with twelve other awards in the same year. Proof is a "gripping but witty drama" which explores the unknowability of love as much as it does the mysteries of mathematics. "All four characters – whether loving, hating, encouraging or impeding one another – are intensely alive, complex, funny, and human." John Simon, New York.
Directed by Guy Unsworth
by Richard Cameron
18th – 20th Nov (In Lincoln Library)
A series of intertwining monologues exploring the past and present of three women who have never met yet are all deeply connected through the suffering that they have endured at the hand of one man. These poignant, partial perspectives reveal hidden strength despite the oppressive force of abuse, cruelty and loss.
Directed by Caroline Collier & Briony Gittins
by Martin McDonagh
21st – 24th Nov
The play combines manic energy and physical violence in a way that is both hilarious and viscerally exciting" - "Daily Telegraph". Valene and Coleman, two brothers living alone in their father's house after his recent death, find it impossible to exist without the most massive and violent disputes over the most mundane and innocent of topics. Only father Welsh, the local young priest, is prepared to try to reconcile the two before their petty squabblings spiral into vicious and bloody carnage.
Directed by Maia Gibbs
by Arthur Miller
28th Nov – 1st Dec
Salesman Willy Loman is in a crisis. A slave to the capitalist system for so many years in continuous search of achieving the American dream, he is about to lose his job. He can't pay his bills, his sons don't respect him, and he never realised his potential. He wonders what went wrong and how he can make things up to his family.
Directed by Cal Lewis
by William Shakespeare, adapted by James Phillips
5th – 8th Dec
A fast paced punchy and powerful adaptation from award winning playwright and director James Phillips. It premiered to great acclaim at the Sheffield crucible. Entirely in the original Shakespearean language, but cut to last just over an hour, the parts are divided between 4 actors, all playing multiple roles.
Directed by Charlie Brafman
by Enda Walsh
11th-14th Dec
Pig and Runt are two 17 yr olds who share everything: birthday, language, world views – and that moment when pop songs and life changing orgasms flash by and last forever. On the evening of their 17th birthdays we set out with them to celebrate through the nightclubs of Cork, a city lost in pounding rave rhythms. Disco Pigs is an involving tale of survival providing extremely challenging work and great opportunities for two serious actors.
Directed by David Betz-Heinemann
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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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