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WATFORD PALACE THEATRE Presents The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui 4th -
5th October 2007 Tickets £10.00 Box Office: 0870 777 7619 |
After the success of Fear And Misery In The Third Reich,
Mother Courage and Her Children and The Caucasian Chalk Circle,
we are very excited to announce that Watford Palace Theatre will be
returning to the Lytton Theatre on 4th and 5th October 2007 for another
production of Brecht's work.
The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui is one of Brecht's best known plays, a savage allegory of Hitler's rise to power, in which Hitler is portrayed as a Chicago gangster endeavouring to seize the city's fruit and vegetable racket from top-dog Al Capone. Using newly commissioned music, references to Film Noir and Brechtian techniques five actors will play over fifty characters to bring this powerful story to life. Tickets £10 from Lytton Box Office A Percentage of the ticket price goes to the Stevenage Lytton Players |
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OVO Present A Clockwork Orange 23rd, 24th February 2007 Box Office: TBA |
Funny and fast-moving, A Clockwork Orange tells the story of
Alex, who accidentally commits murder; takes the easy way out only to find
it's not so easy; loses himself and finds Beethoven. Burgess' tale of gang
violence, overcrowded prisons and expedient political solutions holds a
distorting mirror up to Britain in the millennium. For More Information Click Here To book tickets or if you want any further information please contact Dave Slade on forbush_2004@yahoo.co.uk |
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WATFORD PALACE THEATRE Presents MOTHER COURAGE & HER CHILDREN 11th - 12th November 2004 Tickets £7.00 (£5.00c) Suitable for children 14+ Box Office: 01438 840519 |
Following the Successes of The Caucasian Chalk Circle and The Crucible (in history), Watford Palace Theatre presents Mother Courage and her Children. One of the most exciting writers of stage and screen, Hanif Kureishi's fast paced adaptation was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1984. Set during one of Europe's bloodiest wars, Mother Courage and her Children is a compelling tale of one woman's strength and determination. Both merchant and mother, she follows the troops across Europe, providing food and drink from her canteen wagon, struggling to ensure her family's survival. |
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From the Royal National Theatre
KEN CAMPBELL
Friday
3rd October 2003 Tickets £10.00 Box Office: 01438 840519 |
Quotes from reviews: Campbell can create that blissful rising hysteria in which virtually anything can seem side-splittingly funny (Time Out) Like any true artist his genius is in his ability to latch on to a subject and then make you see it in a completely new light (What's On) If the ministry of silly walks were to publish a white paper on tap dancing it would have roughly the same feel (The Times) Both describing and demonstrating the transcendental power of comedy. I can't wait for part two (Metro) The funniest solo act in British theatre (Daily Express) KEN CAMPBELL BIOGRAPHY Ken Campbell's productions and exploits in British Theatre, over the last quarter century, as playwright, actor, director and comedian are legendary. He founded first the wildly antic KEN CAMPBELL ROADSHOW and then THE SCIENCE FICTION THEATRE OF LIVERPOOL directing monumental epics such as NEIL ORAM'S record-breaking 22 hour cult play cycle THE WARP, THE WAR WITH THE NEWTS and ILLUMIMNATUS! which opened the COTTESLOE THEATRE at the ROYAL NATIONAL THEATRE. Ken Campbell's theatre shows, all performed at the Royal National Theatre include: THE RECOLLECTIONS OF A FURTIVE NUDIST, PIGSPURT, JAMAIS VU, VIOLIN TIME (or the lady from Montsegur) , THEATRE STORIES, WOL WANTOK/ PIDGIN MACBETH and most recently THE HISTORY OF COMEDY part one: ventriloquism THE BALD TRILOGY (containing THE RECOLLECTIONS OF A FURTIVE NUDIST, PIGSPURT & JAMAIS VU) and VIOLIN TIME (or The Lady from Montsegur) are both published by Methuen. Ken Campbell has also written children's plays: OLD KING COLE, SKUNGPOOMERY and THE CLOWN PLAYS (with F K Waechter) and film and TV scripts: UNFAIR EXCHANGES, YOU SEE THE THING IS, ONE NIGHT I DANCED WITH MR DALTON and THE MADNESS MUSEUM. Ken Campbell has presented three science series for Channel Four Television: REALLITY ON THE ROCKS (a companion piece to MYSTERY BRUISES at the Almeida Theatre) , BRAINSPOTTING and most recently SIX EXPERIMENTS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD. Ken appeared in the long running West End hit ART with Warren Mitchell and John Fortune and created a new x-rated ventriloquial play - LET ME OUT!!! for actress Nina Conti which was premiered at the Edinburgh Festival 2001. He continues to tour his latest show -THE HISTORY OF COMEDY part one Ventriloquism across the UK and also in Europe, Canada and America. His latest project CHILDREN OF BISU has been developed in workshops and performances at the Soho Theatre and the Little Angel Theatre and was premiered at the Brighton Festival in May 2003 Ken`s website is at: www.tentringer.co.uk |
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The Barn Theatre Company present THE LURE OF THE REICHENBACH A One-Act Play by Lesley Bilton Sunday 1st June 2003 Tickets £6.00 on the door |
What is "the lure of the Reichenbach"? It is the term authors use to describe the desire they have to destroy their most successful creations, and stems from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's decision to kill off Sherlock Holmes by sending him down the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland after a final confrontation with his arch-enemy, Professor Moriaty. In Lesley Bilton's one-act play, we learn how the young Arthur Conan Doyle, a struggling general practitioner, came to supplant his meagre income by writing historical novels. They are unsuccessful, so his housekeeper suggests that a murder mystery would be more popular. But who would be his detective? We meet his college professor, Dr Joseph Bell, and his friend and fellow GP, Dr Budd, upon both of whom Conan Doyle bases his creation Sherlock Holmes. The first novel, "A Study in Scarlet'", is a modest success, as is the second, but it is only when Doyle begins to write short stories for the "Strand" magazine that true financial success follows. Doyle is sufficiently encouraged to leave Holmes aside and return to his historical novels of the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, but the public and his publisher clamour for more Holmes stories. Doyle asks for more and more money - and they give it, willingly - until finally Doyle has had enough and decides to kill Holmes off. The uproar is tremendous. "Keep Holmes Alive" societies are formed. But Doyle is adamant - he will not bring Holmes back. So why does he?
Cambridge Drama Festival Bedfordshire Drama Festival South West Herts Drama Festival
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Ken
Campbell’s one-man shows are hilarious and mind-boggling trips into the
bizarre world of a master storyteller. HISTORY OF COMEDY Part One:
Ventriloquism takes the audience on a dazzling journey through the art of
ventriloquism: from schoolboy experiments in the ancient arts of
gastromancy, glossolalia – the gift of tongues – and shamanic Eskimo
ventriloquism to encounters with the “grand-daddy” of modern
ventriloquism, William Shakespeare Berger, who bequeathed his Kentucky
house ‘Vent-haven’ as a final resting place for all “knee pals”
everywhere.