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Wednesday 7th and Thursday 8th May at 7.30pm
In Central Studio
SONGS FROM SHOWS
An unmissable evening of extracts from the world of Music Theatre featuring a full range of dynamic entertainment, performed by our Year 1 BTEC Performance Students.
Tickets £5 full, £4 children & students
Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th May at 7.30pm
In Central Studio
SWEENEY TODD a new adaptation.
BTEC Award students present a new adaptation of the infamous Demon Barber of Fleet Street story based on the original “String of Pearls” novel, published in 1846. This new adaptation gives a flavour of the original “Penny Dreadfuls” (weekly serials published by Edward Lloyd, depicting tales of horror) from which the story of Sweeney Todd evolved. It was considered one of the earliest detective stories and became an important source for Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
Tickets £5 full, £4 children & students
Wednesday 14th and Thursday 15th May at 7.30pm
In Central Studio
VINEGAR TOM by Caryl Churchill
The BTEC Award students present for their Final Major Project, Caryl Churchill’s seminal work on the persecution of women in the name of witchcraft - showing how fear of female sexuality is one of the motor forces behind the witch hunts. With its ‘modern’ songs, the play challenges the audience to examine its own attitudes to women and sexuality.
Tickets £5 full, £4 children & students
Friday 23rd May 2008 at 7.45pm
Central Studio
HEY GRINGO! THROUGH PERU
"Holds the audience spellbound. This is the show every traveller would love to be able to give." Evening News****
He bought a ticket, jumped on a plane and set off. No Rough Guide in the world could have prepared him for the consequences...
With no props, save his malleable face, Searles transforms the bare stage into a wild and explored landscape. From the palm fringed lagoons of the Caribbean, he takes us on a roller coaster ride up & over the Andes, down unknown tributaries of the Amazon, through crumbling cities, numerous bars and into the depths of the most brutal prison of the world.
A catalogue unfolds of close scrapes and surprise encounters - drug-smugglers, Dutch airline hostesses, Carmelite Monks, Maoist guerrillas, Mancunian ornithologists, Amazonian Indians and a French Shaman - not to mention crocodiles, jaguars and giant poo-eating centipedes.
www.makinprojects.co.uk
Tickets £9 full, £7.50 concessions £6 children & students
Tuesday 3rd and Wednesday 4th June at 7.30pm
In Central Studio
JOSEPHINE AND THE ANGEL / ALADDIN
Josephine the Angel is a stylized play that tells the true story of New York Fire Brigade Ladder Company 6. On September 11th 2001, they are called to fight the fire in the World Trade Centre. As Part of their duties, they have to escort a woman down stairs to safety. On the way down the women stops and refuses to go any further; at that moment, the building collapses. Everyone is saved because they have stopped in the only stairwell that does not get crushed. The crew dub the woman, Josephine, their guardian angel because, by her actions, she saved their lives.
Aladdin This is a short version of the well known pantomime story in rhyming couplets. The original story of Aladdin is a middle-eastern folk tale. It concerns an impoverished young ne’er-do-well called Aladdin who is recruited by a sorcerer to retrieve a lamp from a booby trapped cave. After the sorcerer attempts to double cross him, Aladdin finds himself trapped in the cave.
Tickets £5 full, £4 children & students
Monday 9th and Tuesday 10th June at 7.30pm
In Central Studio
BENT by Martin Sherman
BTEC National Diploma students present for their Final Major Project “Bent” by Martin Sherman. In 1930s Berlin Max and his lover/flatmate Rudy begin a nightmare odyssey through Nazi Germany, which placed homosexuals on a lower scale than Jews. Max refuses to abandon Rudy and soon they’re caught. En route to Dachau, Rudy is killed and Horst, another homosexual prisoner, warns Max to deny Rudy, which he does. Max opts for the label ‘Jew’ rather than queer but he and Horst are attracted to each other; when Horst is callously killed Max declares himself before committing suicide.
Tickets £5 full, £4 children & students
Wednesday 11th and Thursday 12th June at 7.30pm
In Central Studio
THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA
by Federico Garcia Lorca
BTEC National Diploma students present for their Final Major Project “The House of Bernarda Alba” by Federico Garcia Lorca. Although fully grown, with the older ones approaching middle age, the five daughters of Bernarda are kept under strict subjection, prevented from marrying because no suitors appear who are of the right class. Accused by her old servant of blindness towards her children, Bernarda refused to relent. All the daughters suffer from her repression, and the youngest, Adela, suddenly rebels against it. Her attitude, however, leads to dissension among them and eventually to tragedy.
Tickets £5 full, £4 children & students
Wednesday 18th - Friday 20th June at 8pm
The Proteans present
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
1600 to 2000, ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ remains one of Shakespeare’s most enduring and exhilarating plays on stage. From romantic leads, to comic counterparts, this short version by the Proteans, the talented workshop company and adult drama group affiliated to Proteus is not to be missed. Don your Jon’s, depart for Messina , and be prepared to laugh lots!
Tickets £4 full, £3 concessions
Monday 23rd to Thursday 26th June at 7.30pm
In Central Studio
TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES
adapted from the novel by Thomas Hardy.
The first year BTEC National Diploma students present Thomas Hardy’s celebrated novel. Using a Chorus in the style of Greek tragedy and songs to counterpoint and underline the action, this adaptation provides a clear and thrilling fascinating re-evaluation of a familiar text.
Tickets £5 full, £4 children & students
Central Studio Youth Theatre Summer Festival.( Festival is until end of The Wizard Because!)
Tuesday 1st & Wednesday 2nd July at 7pm
Central Studio Monday Youth Theatre present
ANIMAL FARM Adapted from George Orwell's novel by Peter Hall
Orwell's enduring political satire, originally adapted for the stage in 1984 tells the tale of the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm. When they oust the drunken farmer, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Too soon, however, the pigs, who consider themselves superior in intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "Pull the rings from your noses,/Tear the saddle from your back./Bit and spur shall rust forever,/Cruel whips no more shall crack."
Tickets £4 adults, £3 children
Thursday 3rd & Friday 4th July at 7pm
Central Studio Wednesday Youth Theatre present
ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE
Lisa and David are two hopeful actors in search of an audition. But when they find it, they are thrust into a play they cannot escape. When all the world's a stage, it's always time for your next scene.
Tickets £4 adults, £3 children
Tuesday 8th – Wednesday 9th July at 7pm
Central Studio Youth Dance present
LOOK AT US!
A culmination of all our hard work over the year here is an insight into what makes us dancers tick! As you will see we love all sorts, from the more abstract contemporary style to the street style where we can pretend we are on MTV for a brief moment. So come and watch us and hopefully you will enjoy it twice as much as we do.
Tickets £4 adults, £3 children
Thursday 10th – Friday 11th July at 7pm
Central Studio Bitesize present
THE WIZARD BECAUSE!
Dorothy is bored, very bored! But with the help of three rather unusual narrators, the classic story of ‘The Wizard of Oz’ comes to life in a rather odd way. What happens when Auntie Em and the rest of the family follow Dorothy to Oz? Why is Dorothy walking down the green brick road? Why is Toto called Potato? What else could go wrong? And most importantly, how will they all get back from Oz? Tune in to the Bitesize Youth Theatre’s production and see the story unfold as you have never seen it before.
Tickets £4 adults, £3 children
