As a teen, figuring out who you are is apart of the daily routine. If you’re not questioning yourself about who you are, then you’ll probably find yourself at the receiving end of others questionable opinions about you. Identity is multi-faceted, Natasha Marshall’s Half Breed responds to this complexity.
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CircusFest is big, bright, and bursting with talent, so much so that the standard of shows is very high. However No Show at the Sackler Space in the Roundhouse, seems more like a working progress than a fully polished performance (which, in a way, was their aim; being a show about not being a show, yet it did not live up to its full potential).
Oscar Wilde’s sophisticated and rib tickling drama takes audiences on a skip through country houses, lavish lounges and troublesome aristocrats. The York Theatre Royal is the perfect setting for this historical masterpiece that has survived the test of time, and is truly a tribute to classical theatre as we know it today.
Celebrating the world of modern circus with a diverse range of performances, CircusFest 2018 is not something you want to miss and after a day of lazy sunshine, why not get your blood pumping with some hand to hand acrobatics (don’t panic, I’m not suggesting you start cartwheeling around!), by watching an acrobatic duo such as Nikki and JD performing Knot at The Place.
There are approximately 22,500 Greeks living in Munich, more than in any other German city. Many of them arrived in the 1960s as so-called guest workers or to escape the military regime in Greece between 1967 and 1974. In recent years, the number of Greeks living in Germany has increased again, as a result of the economic crisis in Greece. Co-directors Anestis Azas and Prodromos Tsinikoris have collected stories of Greeks who have made Munich their home and present them in the framework of a documentary project at the Kammer 3, the studio space of the Kammerspiele.
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Seeking inspiration from celebrated restraunteur and author Helen Tse’s (MBE) memoir Sweet Mandarin, In-Sook Chappell’s Mountains: The Dreams of Lily Kwok places a spotlight on Helen’s grandmother, Lily, a woman from modest beginnings in China who would later establish one of the first Chinese restaurants within the UK, located near Manchester. Her legacy lives on thanks to her three granddaughters, including Helen. Read on to find out more about the creation of the play!Mountains: The Dreams of Lily Kwok will shortly start its UK tour, how are you feeling ahead of the run?
I’m really excited that the show will be able to be seen across the country. It’s a fantastic story that hasn’t been told and we’re going to be playing in some great theatres including the Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, which is the theatre I went to as a child.
French director Philippe Quesne began his career in the visual arts. After designing sets for theatre, operas and exhibitions for ten years, he created the Vivarium Studio Company in 2003 and directed his first show, La Démangeaison des ailes . Since 2014 he has been Artistic Director of the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers in Paris and his productions are frequently invited to international festivals. Caspar Western Friedrich is his first production at the Kammerspiele.
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The Roundhouse marks a very special edition of CircusFest, celebrating 250 years of circus as a modern art form, kicking things off with Pirates of the Carabina’s latest show, one that unfortunately fails to live up to such a special occasion.
Before Trump, if you wanted big, wham-bam political sex stories you only needed to whisper the name ‘Monica Lewinsky’. Bill Clinton’s highly documented ‘sexual relations’ with the 22 year old White House intern was the scandal that hooked the western world.
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When an infamous criminal is incarcerated in a London jail, prison guard Tracey knows she shouldn’t be frantically googling the notorious case. But for Tracey, it’s hard to get away from the story that has hooked the nation. Inside the prison walls life is stagnant and slow, making it the perfect playing field for inmate Siobhan to coerce the easily manipulated.
