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The season recommences with a Nottingham-Student written play - in essence a modern take on a period drama, with a darkly comic undertone and unsettling twist.
Through the two dominant female characters, Jill Kensington and her mother, the play considers the virtue of seeking personal happiness, and whether this should be emotionally or materially motivated. A backdrop of 1920s rural England provides the perfect setting in which to explore other aspects of the play, such as the fallacies of high society, and a woman's role within it.
This is an ambitious production, and one that promises to raise some questions about the world we live in today, and the one we have inherited. New writing should be actively encouraged, so please come and support.
The Seagull centers on the romantic and artistic conflicts of an ensemble cast of diverse and fully developed characters. Most centrally the aspiring actress Nina, the fading leading lady Irina Arkadina, her son the experimental playwright Konstantin Treplyov, and the famous middlebrow story writer Trigorin. This is a play about the pain of unrequited love and the power and problems of art. It provides roles which will stretch more experienced actors and provide opportunities to those new to the theatre.
Nobody can ignore the fact that Myra is dying, but in the meantime life goes on. As a mother researches burial spots and biodegradable coffins, her family is finally forced to communicate with her, and each other, in this character driven play about life, death, and everything in between.
From Brecht's series of twenty-four interconnected playlets, describing events which took place in ordinary Germany households in the 1930s. They dramatise with clinical precision the suspicion and anxiety experienced by ordinary people, particular Jewish citizens, as the power of Hitler grew.
Five sisters all live in the same house as their dominating mother. With strict rules and little freedom, the girls pine for love and excitement in their lives. Upon the discovery that one sister is to marry, a family rivalry develops causing adultery, betrayal and resentment.
Edward Albee's ground-breaking one-act play - lyrical, abrasive, daring and witty in theme and form. Two strangers meet in Central Park, and the ensuing dialogue, with a shocking ending, brings into question many of the values - family, friendship, security, ownership - that shape our lives.
With ironic humour and unrelenting dramatic suspense, the play explores themes of isolation, loneliness, social disparity and dehumanization in a commercial world.
One of Beckett's less well known pieces explores his common themes as two men ruminate on the meaning of existence, impending death and whether the life of the man in the window is really worth it. Flashes of humour intersperse the faltering bond between the men as they struggle with the question of whether the other will or won't jump.
Rough for Theatre II is a darkly comic play about the futility of life and the ways in which we manage to survive it.
For reservations call 07983326708
Tonight Matthew I'm going to be… Stars In Their Eyes is here again!
This annual Edinburgh Fringe Fundraiser promises to be entertainment at its
best, with song, dance, comedy and fabulous impersonations.
For tickets call 07941 479249
Talking to Terrorists, written by Robin Soans and originally commissioned by the Royal Court and Out of Joint Theatre Company, is the result of 12 months of meetings with peacemakers, politicians, journalists, hostages, psychologists and, perhaps most importantly, with those who've crossed the line themselves. The basic question? What makes ordinary people do extreme things?
A highly topical, politically invigorating and dramatically electric project, Talking to Terrorists will challenge a lot of your misconceptions about what and who terrorists - and their victims - are.
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Talking to Terrorists will be entered into the National Student Drama Festival.
Talking to Terrorists is a joint production presented by People at Play and ttproductions.com. More details can be found at ttproductions.com/terrorists.
Call 07763 119109 to reserve tickets.
Matinee on Saturday 17th at 2.00pm.
Musicality, the University's musicals society, present My Fair Lady. Based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, it tells the story of Henry Higgins, an arrogant, irascible professor of phonetics who boasts to fellow linguist Colonel Pickering that he can train any woman to speak so properly that he could pass her off as a duchess, including Eliza Doolittle, a poor girl with a decidedly Cockney accent whom he encountered selling flowers in Covent Garden. Pickering is intrigued by Higgins's boast and wagers that he cannot make good on his claim; Higgins takes on the challenge and begins an intensive make-over of Eliza's speech, manners and dress in preparation for her appearance at the Embassy Ball. Complicating matters is Eliza's father Alfred, a cheerfully amoral and drink-loving dustman who shows up, supposedly to save his daughter's virtue, but in reality hoping to extract money from Higgins.
Made famous by the film starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison, this is the tale of a girl taken from rags to riches, featuring such classic songs as 'Wouldn't it be loverly', 'On the street where you live' and 'Get me to the church on time'. Expect extravagant Ascot hats and an abundance of cockney jigs...
Call or text 07989 212592 for tickets.
A poignant and hilarious tour of the last frontier, the ultimate forbidden zone, The Vagina Monologues is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. In this stunning phenomenon that has swept the nation, Eve Ensler gives us real women's stories of intimacy, vulnerability, and sexual self-discovery. The Vagina Monologues has inspired a dynamic grassroots movement--V-Day--to stop violence against women. All proceeds from this production will go towards A Prostitute Outreach group here in Nottingham.
Witty and irreverent, compassionate and wise, Eve Ensler's Obie Award-winning masterpiece gives voice to women's deepest fantasies and fears, guaranteeing that no one who reads it will ever look at a woman's body, or think of sex, in quite the same way again.
Click here to view photos from the production.
Click the above image to see it full size. It's really cool, honest...
A pretentious director, moronic cast and a gender-bending, meta-theatrical mess of a production of The Merchant of Venice, merge in this satirical antidote to everything waffling, affected or ostentatious about the Stage - just what the doctor ordered, darling.
Cast Aside, by New Theatre's very own Charlie Brafman, enjoyed a sell-out run at last year's Edinburgh Fringe. They got a four star review from Three Weeks, a major Fringe review newspaper: click here to read the review. Some proceeds from ticket sales will go towards the New Theatre Edinburgh Fringe fund.
Willy - Magnus McCullagh
Dave - Edward Hancock
Dan - David Stephenson
Sophia - Frances Brennand Roper
Rosie - Alice Sander
Smires - Will Ralton
Cast Aside is a production by Ankle Productions
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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
For tickets please text/call 07871359841
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Lenton Boulevard is Nottingham's own URN Student Radio Comedy drama AND PODCAST SHOW - set in Derby Hall and on Lenton Boulevard! This year promises to be the best yet with plots that will intrigue you and one liners that will have you doubled over in stitches. All delivered by a cast picked from over 70 auditions, and comprised of lots of New Theatre Members.
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