AUTUMNAUTUMN 20172017 / 3 SOMETHINGSOMETHINGSOMETHINGSOMETHINGSOMETHING TO TOTOTOTO TO THEATRE SOMETHINGMAKE YOU TO FEEL MAKESOMETHINGMAKEMAKEMAKEMAKE YOU YOUYOUYOUYOUYOU FEEL FEELFEELFEELFEEL TO MAKE YOUUPLIFTED,UPLIFTED,UPLIFTED, FEEL UPLIFTED, PLAYFUL,PLAYFUL, PLAYFUL,PLAYFUL, UPLIFTED,WONDER, PLAYFUL, CAPTIVATED, PLAYFUL,WONDER,WONDER,AMAZED,WONDER,WONDER, WONDER, CAPTIVATED, CAPTIVATED, CAPTIVATED,CAPTIVATED, SMOKING APPLES PRESENT MOVED, SURPRISED, In Our Hands CAPTIVATED,MOVED,MOVED,MOVED,MOVED, SURPRISED,SURPRISED,SURPRISED,SURPRISED, MOVED, MON 25 SEP 8PM MOVED, SURPRISED, A striking play which will transport you out to sea. TOGETHER,TOGETHER, Alf is a trawler fisherman. But SURPRISED,CONNECTED,TOGETHER,TOGETHER, TOGETHER, times are changing - will Alf TOGETHER,TOGETHER, adapt in order to survive? Follow a fish’s journey from ENTERTAINED. sea to plate, watch a seagull’s ENTERTAINED.ENTERTAINED.ENTERTAINED.ENTERTAINED. ridiculous attempt to find ENTERTAINED.ENTERTAINED. food and witness a father and son reunite. Award-winning Smoking Apples use innovative puppetry, a striking set and an original score to transport you out to sea and under the ocean. TICKETS: £13.75 Find us online 3 for 2 offer DISCOUNTS: Friends £10.50 marlowetheatre.com/studio Book two selected shows and enjoy 3for2 Concessions £12.75 Blog: themarlowetheatre.wordpress.com a third for free! Book in person or by Discovery Tickets £10 3for2 Groups 10+ £8.75 @marlowestudio calling 01227 787787. Visit our website themarlowestudio for a full list of shows in the offer. @marlowetheatre / 5 / 4 Made by The Marlowe THEATRE THEATRE THEATRE THEATRE HIGHTIDE AND PAUL JELLIS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE MARLOWE AND THE NORTH WALL PRESENTS Kanye VAMOS THEATRE PRESENT The First WED 11-SAT 14 OCT 8PM Finding Joy (& 3PM SAT) WED 4-FRI 6 OCT 8PM “Know what? If you’re a Kanye You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll West fan, you’re not a fan of find joy! me - you’re a fan of yourself.” The funny and fearless sell-out Annie’s not really a fan of herself. production from the UK’s leading full How did she get a life like this? mask company. While her perfect sister poses in hipster hats, she has to take care Joy is 83 today: she’s feisty, loves to of her sick mother. And she keeps dance, and is losing her memory. Her mistaking hot men for her Dad. grandson Danny is rebellious, bright and always getting into trouble. When But what if everyone thought she was Danny decides to look after Joy, they someone else, someone different, discover a shared playfulness and someone better? growing love. But is that enough to A funny and original drama about face the challenges ahead? identity, guilt, contemporary culture and TICKETS: £13.75 the second coming of Kanye West. DISCOUNTS: Friends £10.50 3for2 TICKETS: £13.75 Concessions £12.75 DISCOUNTS: Friends £10.50 Discovery Tickets £10 Concessions £12.75 Groups 10+ £8.75 Discovery Tickets £10 RECOMMENDED 12YRS+ Groups 10+ £8.75 3for2 ACCESSIBLE FOR HEARING AND DEAF BSL ACCESSIBLE PERFORMANCE AUDIENCES ALIKE THU 12 OCT DEVELOPED THROUGH THE MARLOWE’S ROAR PROGRAMME, WHICH IS SUPPORTED BY THE MARLOWE THEATRE DEVELOPMENT TRUST / 7 / 6 THEATRE THEATRE THEATRE THEATRE CONEY PRESENTS Remote WED 25 OCT 8PM A mechanical theatre game, fusing an interactive script with a live and responsive sound design. THE CANTERBURY FESTIVAL PRESENTS Imagine you’re in a theatre of the future, powered by an algorithm. Remote is an interactive live game interrogating the The Masters politics of choice, and decision-making in an immaterial world, saturated with technology. Of Mystery This is a piece of game-theatre that you THU 19-SAT 21 OCT 8PM play sitting down, and it’s entirely led by (& 3PM SAT) you, the audience. As well as just being yourselves – you are also, together, playing a character, and you’ll be asked The world premiere of a new to make choices for her. musical adventure. It’s 2017, and we’re a room full of mostly We’re in England, 1926. Lock and Doc strangers, imagining the future. have been friends since birth and, now both teenagers, they have a gift for “This is immersive theatre, but not as solving unusual crimes. When they arrive you know it… here the entire audience in the town of Nottswood, they are faced make decisions that will shape the with their darkest challenge yet as an evil play’s narrative.” êêêê TIME OUT presence takes over the town. An exciting TICKETS: £13.75 and fast-paced musical from the creators DISCOUNTS: Friends £10.50 of DrumChasers. Concessions £12.75 3for Discovery Tickets £10 2 TICKETS: £15.25 Groups 10+ £8.75 DISCOUNTS: Students £12.25 RECOMMENDED 12YRS+ A MARLOWE SUPPORTED ARTIST / 8 / 9 THEATRE THEATRE THEATRE THEATRE LIVING SPIT PRESENT The Six Wives Of Henry VIII MAKIN PROJECTS LTD PRESENTS THU 2 NOV 8PM Formby PUPPET STATE THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS Two actors. Too many FRI 3 NOV 8PM characters. One big ego. Leaf By Niggle Based on the book by JRR Tolkien Howard Coggins looks like Henry A funny and thoughtful play VIII. There’s no escaping that. Stu about an ordinary man with an WED 22 NOV 8PM McLoughlin doesn’t look like any of the extraordinary talent. An enchanting version of Tolkien’s wives, but he’s going to give it a go. Formby follows George Formby’s rise After their previous work is savaged from awkward stable boy to one of miniature masterpiece. in the press, Howard and Stu are at Britain’s biggest stars. In a unique one- Niggle is a painter. Not a very successful one, their wits end. Then they hit upon an man performance, Ewan Wardrop plays partly because he has so many other things to idea for a show that could change the role of Formby, as well as all the key do. For some time he has been obsessed with everything... But can they make it to characters involved in his life. one particular canvas. The painting keeps getting bigger, but Niggle has a journey to make. He the end without killing each other? This sensational production features doesn’t want to go, but he cannot get out of it… An ill-researched lesson in cross- many of Formby’s classic hits dressing Tudor history that you’ll performed live, including: Blackpool “Enchanting one man show.” never forget. Rock, Leaning On A Lamp-Post, When êêêê THE GUARDIAN “The best 100 minute comedy show I’m Cleaning Windows and many more. “Intricately layered telling of Tolkien’s outside the Edinburgh Fringe.” “A little stick of theatrical dynamite.” short story.” êêêê THE STAGE êêêêê THE WESTERN DAILY PRESS THE DAILY TELEGRAPH TICKETS: £13.75 TICKETS: £13.75 TICKETS: £13.75 DISCOUNTS: Friends £10.50 3for Concessions £12.75 2 DISCOUNTS: Friends £10.50 3for DISCOUNTS: Friends £10.50 Concessions £12.75 2 Concessions £12.75 Discovery Tickets £10 Groups 10+ £8.75 Discovery Tickets £10 Discovery Tickets £10 3for Groups 10+ £8.75 Groups 10+ £8.75 2 THIS TOUR IS PRESENTED BY HOUSE. / 11 / 10 THEATRE THEATRE THEATRE THEATRE FRANCESCA MILLICAN-SLATER PRESENTS ZEST THEATRE AND HALF MOON PRESENT Stories To Tell What Once BROTHER WOLF IN ASSOCIATION WITH HARROGATE THEATRE JOLI VYANN PRESENT PRESENTS Was Ours Jekyll And Hyde In The Middle Of THU 23 NOV 8PM Imbalance SAT 25 NOV 8PM Based on the novella by Robert Louis The Night A powerful new production for Stevenson TUE 12 DEC 8PM young people. Using acrobatics and dance to Adapted and Performed by James explore our relationship with An amusing and gripping collection Katie and Callum couldn’t be any more distant Hyland technology. of short, quirky tales. and disconnected: different heritage, different THU 7 DEC 8PM cities, different opportunities. Except there is Imbalance explores our obsessive Dreamlike and darkly humorous, this live, late one thing they’ll always have in common: Dad. dependence with technology. It is An award-winning one man show. night radio show is inspired by the legendary rare nowadays not to ‘log in’ at every radio shows of Ronnie Wood and Iggy Pop What happens when Callum suddenly turns up During his final lecture on the duality opportunity - the breakfast table, nights and includes tales of everything from love and in desperate need of help? of humankind, the respectable Dr out with friends, even in bed! When and obsession to technology and disconnection. Not Created against the background of Brexit, Jekyll reveals his strange association how do we separate ourselves from the to mention pork pies. What Once Was Ours has been developed with the mysterious Edward Hyde and virtual chaos surrounding us? in consultation with young people across the shocking truth about his identity. This unforgettable production shows that the country, and explores how politics and Ex-stuntman Jan Patzke and ex-gymnast Combining edge-of-your-seat thrills everyone has a story. national values impact on the complex lives Olivia Quayle are Joli Vyann. This with stunning physical theatre, Robert “A beautiful hour of weird and wonderful of one family. dynamic duo use exciting hand-to- Louis Stevenson’s classic “bogey tale” is story telling.” ARTS AWARD VOICE hand acrobatics and dance to explore TICKETS: £13.75 brought chillingly to life in this award- TICKETS: £13.75 contemporary issues. DISCOUNTS: Friends £10.50 winning one-man show. DISCOUNTS: Friends £10.50 3for2 Concessions £12.75 TICKETS: £13.75 3for “The outstandingly talented James Concessions £12.75 Discovery Tickets £10 2 DISCOUNTS: Friends £10.50 Hyland.” êêêêê WHAT’S ON STAGE Discovery Tickets £10 Groups 10+ £8.75 Concessions £12.75 Groups 10+ £8.75 TICKETS: £13.75 RECOMMENDED 12YRS+, CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND Discovery Tickets £10 COMMISSIONED BY BIRMINGHAM REPERTORY THEATRE EMOTIONAL THEMES.