4938 01 Nst Autumn2018 Brochure V7[1]
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September – February Season Brochure 1 023 8067 1771 nstheatres.co.uk NST City, Southampton’s new theatre opened with a bang earlier this year and you attended in record crowds. That’s why we’re not only delighted to welcome film starTom Burke to star in Don Carlos, comediennes Shappi Khorsandi and Jenny Contents Éclair as part of a very talented company of writers for brand new musical comedy Women in Power, and the world premiere of David Walliams’ much-loved Bilionaire Boy, but the return of Southampton’s very own story The Shadow Factory to mark Support Us 02 – 03 One Night Only our one-year anniversary. Film: NT Live 30 – 31 That’s not the only anniversary we’ll be commemorating. To NST Productions Comedy 32 – 33 mark 100 years since women won the right to vote, we’ve Talks and Events 34 – 35 curated The Bungalow Café, a dynamic festival named after Women in Power 04 – 05 the home of Southampton suffrage, whilst the Olivier-award The Bungalow Café Festival 06 – 07 winning play The Mountaintop marks the centenary of Martin The Mountaintop 08 – 09 Amateur Groups Luther King’s death. Don Carlos 10 – 11 And Then There Were None 36 The season also welcomes some of the country’s leading Billionaire Boy 12 – 13 Sister Act 36 artists to Southampton with the likes of Kneehigh, Frantic Humbug! The Hedgehog Who Couldn’t Sleep 14 – 15 Assembly, 1927 Productions and Hofesh Shechter lighting The Shadow Factory 16 – 17 NST Get Involved up our stages this autumn. Medusa 18 Laboratory 37 We look forward to seeing you here. How to Disappear Completely and Connect: Events 38 Never Be Found 19 Youth Theatre 39 Sam Hodges, Director Visiting Shows NST Information Circus: inTarsi 20 Corporate Partnerships 40 The Unreturning 21 How to Book 41 FUP 22 Visit Us 42 The Animals and Children Took to the Streets 23 Food and Drink 43 Dance: Hofesh Shechter SHOW 24 Seating Plan: City 44 SIX 25 Seating Plan: Campus 45 Studio Theatre/Spoken Word 26 Access 45 Season Diary 46 – 49 Children’s Theatre Studio Children’s Theatre 27 Nuffield Southampton Theatres run two venues; Tidy Up 28 NST City and NST Campus. Please see pages Room on the Broom 29 42 – 45 for more details. Photo: Luke Macgregor 2 023 8067 1771 nstheatres.co.uk Support Us NST Season Saver Becoming a Friend is now twice as nice. NST is a registered charity. We rely on the generous support of members, donors and funders to help produce new work, nurture the next generation of artists and deliver our community and youth programmes. Joining as a member gives you access to special benefits* across both our theatres, NST City and NST Campus, and helps support all our work. To find out more visit nstheatres.co.uk/support-us. *Full membership terms and conditions can be found on our website nstheatres.co.uk/terms-conditions. £35 Good Friend £250 Donor Wall Patron Join now and take advantage of priority booking, Take your place in history! Buy a name plaque on : photo The Other Richard free drinks vouchers across both our theatres, our beautiful new donor wall at NST City! special offers and events. £500 Founding Friend A Streetcar Named Desire £125 Best Friend Help us celebrate the opening year at NST City. Join now and receive all the benefits of a good Enjoy a whole host of exclusive events, Our Season Saver is the easiest way to see a selection of shows at the opportunities to meet the cast, director and friend and come behind the scenes for backstage best possible price!* tours and an invitation to a technical and dress creative teams, invitations to technical and dress rehearsal. rehearsals, and get your name on our beautiful Book 5 shows: Save 20% Book 3 shows: Save 15% new donor wall! FRIENDS SAVE AN EXTRA 5% ON TOP – JOIN TODAY Plus save even more – Season Saver ticket holders get access to further exclusive offers. Season Saver productions include: Women in Power, The Mountaintop, Don Carlos, Billionaire Boy, The Shadow Factory, inTarsi, The Unreturning, FUP, The Animals and Children Took to the Streets, Hofesh Shechter SHOW, SIX. photo Manuel Harlan Season Saver productions are clearly marked throughout this brochure on applicable shows. Season Saver: Save up to 20% The Shadow Factory: *The Season Saver is not valid on £10 seats and is only applicable when booking the same number of tickets in the same transaction. This offer is subject to availability. 2 023 8067 1771 nstheatres.co.uk 3 023 8067 1771 nstheatres.co.uk 6 – 29 Sep CITY Women in Power A Musical Comedy 350 BC. Athens. A World Premiere Based on The Assemblywomen by The country is in political turmoil. Recent wars and alliances Aristophanes have left Athenians no option but to take the most extreme Written by Wendy Cope, action. The most radical: a government of women! Jenny Eclair, Suhayla El-Bushra, Praxagora masterminds and leads a daring coup d’etat, Natalie Haynes, Shappi Khorsandi, outlining her utopian vision of total equality to her crowd of and Brona C Titley cross-dressing collaborators. A world where power imbalance Dramaturg Clare Slater is eradicated and with it debt, greed and theft. But this has Director Blanche McIntyre unintended and hilarious consequences. A raucous new comedy and a reimagining of the original A Nuffield Southampton Theatres by a team of leading female writers from the world of production in association with Oxford Playhouse poetry, broadcasting, theatre and stand up. Combined with an exceptional comic cast and led by our own NST Times Associate Blanche McIntyre (Tonight at 8.30, Noises Off, See diary pages 46 – 49 Nuffield Southampton Theatres, The Norman Conquests, Events Chichester Festival Theatre and The Writer, Almeida Theatre) Post-show Q&A: 20 Sep Aristophanes’ Women in Power is turned into a celebration of Stage Insight: 27 Sep / 17:00 sketches with songs, dance, music and women taking BSL Interpreted and Audio Described: the lead. 29 Sep / 14:30 Age recommendation: 12+ Season Saver: Save up to 20% 6 Sep – 13 Oct The Bungalow Café Festival A celebration of 100 years of votes for women. See pages 6 – 7 for events. Image: feast creative 4 023 8067 1771 nstheatres.co.uk 5 023 8067 1771 nstheatres.co.uk Production 6 Sep – 13 Oct The Bungalow Café Festival A festival of theatre, music, dance and film to celebrate 100 years since the first British women won the right to vote. The Bungalow Café once stood on 157 Above Bar Street, Southampton, opposite where NST City now stands. It was the local home of women’s suffrage before becoming a much-loved music venue. It was destroyed in the Blitz. Theatre CITY STUDIO Music CITY STUDIO 17 Sep 22 Sep Luca Rutherford’s Political Party The Gateway Session: Frau DJs Director Alex Swift The immersive all-girl party collective are throwing a high energy and Luca is throwing a party. A political party. There will be music, glitter-infused musical celebration. Come ready to dance the night away. dancing and eggs! You are invited! Tickets £10 / Time 19:45 Tickets £14/£10 concessions / Time 19:45 Film CITY STUDIO CITY 20 – 21 Sep BULLISH 10 Sep The Audit Writer and director Lucy J Skilbeck (or Iceland, a modern myth) HHHH “A radical message in a populist Writer and director Andrew Westerside show, wringing new meanings from an ancient Proto-type Theater tell the story of how a nation 12 Sep Salon Du Cinema 3 Oct NT LIVE: Julie myth.” WhatsOnStage raised their voices in protest, and how collective Celebrate the trail blazing icon that was Mae West By Polly Stenham Tickets £14/£10 concessions / Time 19:45 power can move a mountain – even if only a little. in an evening of film, live performance and music See page 30 Tickets £14/£10 concessions / Time 19:45 Tickets £14/£10 concessions / Time 19:45 Tickets £17.50 / Time 19:00 18 Sep Experiment See page 37. Tickets £5/£4 for Lab members / Time 19:45 Talks CAMPUS 11 – 13 Oct 29 – 30 Sep Medusa Ruby Wax: How To Be Human Created by Laboratory Creative Associates. See page 34. See page 18. Plus! Talks, workshops, scratch performances and more... 6 023 8067 1771 nstheatres.co.uk 7 023 8067 1771 nstheatres.co.uk 26 Sep – 6 Oct CITY STUDIO The Mountaintop “I am a man, I am just a man.” By Katori Hall Director Roy Alexander Weise An intimate look into the life of Martin Luther King. The Mountaintop chips away at the myth of the great man Designer Rajha Shakiry exposing his fears about his family, country and the ever- looming threat of a violent death. A Nuffield Southampton Theatres, Set during the height of America’s Civil Rights Movement on Reading Rep Theatre and Desara the night before his death, Katori Hall’s sharp and powerful Productions co-production. play confronts the legend and his legacy. Are we really free or Originally presented at the do we live in a world of false liberation? Young Vic Roy Alexander Weise (Nine Night, National Theatre), winner of Times the JMK Award 2016, directs this revival of the Olivier Award- See diary pages 46 – 49 winner about King’s last night on earth. Events HHHH “Weise directs with bounce and brio.” Post-show Q&A: 5 Oct Evening Standard Stage Insight: 3 Oct / 17:15 HHHH “Riveting performances from Gbolohan Obisesan and Ronke Adékoluejo.” The Times Season Saver: Save up to 20% Age recommendation: 14+ Image: © Ernest C.