Notes on Chai is a collection of snippets of everyday conversations interwoven with abstract sound explorations that attempt to relocate our relationship with the quotidian.
Courtesy of the Southbank Centre.
Target Theatre Company work with emerging artists and communities across the UK. They encourage a range of opportunities to get involved through open rehearsals, workshops, pre and post show talks and digital broadcasts. On this occasion, they have supported their associate artist Ikhtisad Ahmed of his work in development Made.
Courtesy of Mark Douet.
30,000 views and increasing. Naked photos of an 18-year-old girl are flooding the Internet. She sits in shame, exposed and vulnerable. Her sister channels anger from every pore, but what can she do except vent her frustration. This is just one of the stories from Charlotte Josephine’s Blush; a painful insight into the lives of those affected by revenge porn.
Flip Fabrique are the exciting circus fresh faces from Canada, which has brought us many sensational circus acts such as Cirque Du Soleil and Les Doigt. The company was created in 2011 by graduates of Quebec City Circus School. They performed extensively with esteemed companies around the world such as Cirque du Soleil and Cirque Éloize.
The company adopts a creative and collaborative approach developed entirely by its artists and director. This approach spotlights each performer’s qualities and strengths.
Beware of anyone who tries to sum up this stage version of Robert Anton Wilson‘s book Cosmic Trigger by Love and Will Productions because to get too much of a handle on this genuinely strange and wonderful production would diminish it. A play peopled by the likes of Aleister Crowley, William Burroughs, theatre pioneer Ken Campbell, the goddess Ishtar (summoned at the beginning of the play), and Timothy Leary is always going to promise something out of the ordinary. And it delivers in spades.
Courtesy of Cockpit Theatre.
The Pulitzer Prize is renowned for celebrating pieces of work that not only capture a moment or movement but endure the test of time. The Color Purple is one of those novels. Penned by Alice Walker in the early 80s, Walker’s pivotal work, tackling a multitude of otherwise swept aside topics, still resonates today.
Courtesy of Scott Rylander.
Tony Kushner combines realism and the supernatural in his gay fantasia about community, identity and migration in the late 20th century. Consisting of two parts that add up to approximately eight hours running time, Angels in America has the scope of a great American novel. It is intensely political whilst focusing on the effect of AIDS on the gay community in the 1980s and the passivity of society and the political forces. Reagan only acknowledged the severity of the epidemic when his long-time friend Rock Hudson died of AIDS.
Courtesy of Helen Maybanks.
York International Shakespeare Festival is off to a cracking start this year, with performances scattered all across this historic city enticing local folk to indulge in a slice of dramatic culture. York Theatre Royal of course lead the way in this endeavour, displaying two of Shakespeare’s most iconic plays, the tragic story of Romeo and Juliet and the frightfully comedic Twelfth Night.
Courtesy of York Theatre Royal.
A two-pronged storyline creates greatness and confusion in similar measure. Euripides’ Medea: A barbarian princess has married the hero Jason after aiding his quest for the Golden Fleece; is abandoned by him for a more royal match and, in revenge, accomplishes the murder of Jason’s new wife, and Medea’s own children.
Courtesy of Bristol Old Vic.
Classical ballet at its finest! The Birmingham Royal Ballet’s three part performance selection is smart, well thought out and engaging for all to enjoy. After a long anticipated return to the York Theatre Royal stage, the space is packed full of enthusiastic audience members, who can’t help but applaud after every second bar. A grand affair!
Courtesy of York Theatre Royal.