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TOGETHER, courage to face the truth When her mother SURPRISED,CONNECTED,TOGETHER, TOGETHER, Using wireless headphones, TOGETHER, of who you are. is murdered for TOGETHER,TOGETHER, 360 degree binaural sound protesting corporate and design and sometimes Set against the collapse governmental corruption, complete darkness, the real of the economic bubble in ENTERTAINED. 2008, Hidden is a love story Milagros finds herself words of ex-servicemen ENTERTAINED.ENTERTAINED. with only a bloodstained ENTERTAINED.ENTERTAINED. about invisible disability ENTERTAINED. are cut with the text of ENTERTAINED. list of those responsible. ENTERTAINED. in difficult times. Chris is a Shakespeare’s Macbeth Determined to make to investigate the return city lawyer; Jess is a PhD them pay, Milagros home from conflict student. On the surface, they’re embarks on a passionate zones. Projection, scent, just two ordinary people in quest for justice, no light and dance convey a relationship who want to matter the cost. these experiences for the get on with their lives. But audience, giving them the there’s something unsaid; “Powerful.” engulfing and emotionally undiscovered. êêêê THE TIMES Find us online intense sensation of ‘being’ When their son is born, “Admirable.” 3 for 2 offer Banquo. everything changes… êêêê THE STAGE marlowetheatre.com/studio Book two selected shows and enjoy 3for 2 TICKETS: £13.75 TICKETS: £13.75 TICKETS: £13.75 Blog: themarlowetheatre.wordpress.com a third for free! Book in person or by DISCOUNTS: Friends pay £10.50 DISCOUNTS: Friends pay £10.50 DISCOUNTS: Friends pay £10.50 @marlowestudio calling 01227 787787. Visit our website Concessions £12.75 Concessions £12.75 Concessions £12.75 themarlowestudio for a full list of shows in the offer. Discovery Tickets £10 Discovery Tickets £10 3for2 Discovery Tickets £10 @marlowetheatre Groups 10+ £8.75 Groups 10+ £8.75 Groups 10+ £8.75 THE MARLOWE AND WISE WORDS FESTIVAL PRESENT / 5 / 4 Made by Warrior Poets The Marlowe TUE 2 MAY 1PM-9PM THEATRE THEATRE THEATRE THEATRE WED 3 MAY 1PM-6PM A magical installation experience. Warrior Poets brought tears, joy and inspiration to the hundreds of people in Canterbury who saw it last year. It now returns to our theatre as part of the 2017 Wise Words Festival. Inspired by poetry written by local children in care and young refugees, Artistic Director Lemn Sissay, poets Joelle Taylor and Alex Vellis, artist Greg Stobbs, musician Richard Navarro and projection artists Butch Auntie THE MOLINO GROUP PRESENTS have created a moving and immersive experience. Much Further Out “A moment in time to stop, look, listen, and applaud courage.” AUDIENCE MEMBER SOHO THEATRE AND JACK ROOKE PRESENT Than You Thought FREE TUE 9 MAY 8PM SUPPORTED BY THE MARLOWE Jack Rooke: 3for THEATRE DEVELOPMENT TRUST 2 Shining a light on the human Good Grief cost of war. Exploring The Possibilities FRI 5 MAY 8PM Lance Corporal James Randall left tours of duty in Helmand six years ago, but Of Forgiveness Through Rooke’s critically acclaimed debut. Helmand is still far from leaving him. With a coffin full of sympathy snacks, On Remembrance Sunday he delivers a Real Stories Jack Rooke and his 85-year old Nan Sicely birthday message to his son from his living Hosted by Lemn Sissay invite you to the happiest town in Britain, room in south London; a last-ditch attempt where Dad’s dead and the only thing to eat to reconcile their broken relationship. WED 3 MAY 7PM is lasagne. Surrounded by action figures and Warrior Poets provides a stage for Celebrating finding happiness after tragedy, boyhood memorabilia, James unfolds a conversations that explore the arts as a Good Grief blends comedy and storytelling to fragmented story of fathers and sons, catalyst for change – a subject close to explore how we treat the bereaved. heroes and failures, in which the worlds of artistic director, Lemn Sissay’s heart. Jack Rooke is a comedian, writer and regular civilian Britain and frontline Afghanistan In 2011 Jacob Dunne killed a man in an panellist on BBC Radio 1’s The Surgery. He has catastrophically collide. unprovoked attack. At this event Lemn presented a BBC Radio 4 comedy adaptation Winner of the IdeasTap/Underbelly Sissay will be talking to both Jacob of Good Grief. Award 2015. Dunne and to Joan Scourfield, the TICKETS: £13.75 TICKETS: £13.75 mother of the man he killed. They will DISCOUNTS: Friends pay £10.50 DISCOUNTS: Friends pay £10.50 share with us how meeting through Concessions £12.75 Concessions £12.75 3 restorative justice has brought healing Discovery Tickets £10 Discovery Tickets £10 for2 and helped both of them shape a Groups 10+ £8.75 Groups 10+ £8.75 better future. CONTAINS ADULT THEMES AND LANGUAGE. RECOMMENDED 14YRS+ / 7 / 6 THEATRE THEATRE THEATRE THEATRE PAINES PLOUGH AND PENTABUS PRESENT Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillian with Jonny Donahoe GRIST TO THE MILL PRESENTS TUE 23 MAY 8PM The worldwide smash hit is back The Unknown 3for2 A&E COMEDY PRESENT on tour. VISCERA THEATRE AND ANNA HAIGH PRODUCTIONS PRESENT Soldier You’re seven years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad Enter The Dragons says she’s ‘done something stupid’. She finds In Tents And FRI 19 MAY 8PM it hard to be happy. THU 25 MAY 8PM SAT 20 MAY 3PM & 8PM You make a list of everything that’s brilliant A frank, funny and fearless look at about the world. Purposes A story of comradeship, betrayal the subject of female ageing. Everything worth living for: THU 11 MAY 8PM and of promises made and kept Join us on a surreal, absurd Odyssey following the carnage of World 1. Ice cream through the landscape of the banished. Two years. Two friends. War One. 2. Water fights Beset by challenges, riddles and obstacles, One fortune-teller. Jack stayed on when the guns fell silent, 3. Staying up past your bedtime and being our protagonist must navigate this Game Fresh from sell out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe to search the battlefields for the boys allowed to watch TV Of Crones, guided by mystical creatures and Seers who have gone before. and Soho Theatre, In Tents And Purposes is the that could not go home - for the dead 4. The colour yellow tale of two friends who compete with their egos and the missing, for both enemy and Expect stupid characters, ridiculous 5. Things with stripes to tell a comic, time-hopping story, exploring friend. And amongst the rusty wire and costumes, puppetry, songs, buffoonery 6. Rollercoasters whether our lives are predetermined or shaped unexploded bombs Jack is looking for and many, many wigs. Suitable for anyone by our choices. something – looking for someone. 7. People falling over who is considering ageing. With Roxy Dunn (C4’s Babylon, BBC Three’s He has a promise to keep and a debt A play about depression and the lengths we TICKETS: £13.75 Top Coppers) and Alys Metcalf (Olivier Award- to repay, and now there is this strange go to for those we love. DISCOUNTS: Friends pay £10.50 Concessions £12.75 3for2 winning The Play That Goes Wrong). request from the generals… TICKETS: £13.75 Discovery Tickets £10 DISCOUNTS: Friends pay £10.50 TICKETS: £13.75 TICKETS: £13.75 Groups 10+ £8.75 DISCOUNTS: Friends pay £10.50 DISCOUNTS: Friends pay £10.50 Concessions £12.75 Discovery Tickets £10 3for2 RECOMMENDED 14YRS+, CONTAINS ADULT LANGUAGE Concessions £12.75 3for Concessions £12.75 Discovery Tickets £10 2 Discovery Tickets £10 Groups 10+ £8.75 Groups 10+ £8.75 Groups 10+ £8.75 RECOMMENDED 14YRS+ / 8 / 9 THEATRE THEATRE THEATRE THEATRE The Road To MOTORMOUSE PRODUCTIONS PRESENT 3for2 Finding Home Huntsville God’s Waiting THU 15 JUN 8PM FRI 9 JUN 8PM 3for2 Humour and moving storytelling, Blending fact with fiction to explore Room shining a light on loss. unconventional love, state homicide Stuff WED 14 JUN 8PM A coming-of-age story that maps the and cats. SAT 10 JUN 6PM journey of a girl from a seaside town, to “I’m trying to understand why British women An end of life comedy. city life as a 20-something. fall in love with men on death row. I’m Another kind of love story, maybe Mother is dying slowly, the wait is unbearable, Writer and performer Cecilia Knapp’s corresponding with Jonny, incarcerated everybody’s love story. the pressures insurmountable, the thoughts debut piece is about a lot of things; in Texas. I’m trying to understand how the Stuff is playful, funny, sad and familiar. Lead unbelievable. Surely a gesture towards God’s growing up, Mothers, accidentally death penalty fits into our world. I’m trying clown for Cirque du Soleil, Sean Kempton, bigger plan is needed? Sisters, Stella and shaving off your eyebrows, drinking wine, not to be judgemental.” mixes comedy, mime, clowning and the odd Connie may be different from one another but love and one night stands. But it’s mainly Written and performed by the award- bit of dance in this absurdist show about share a common and profound love for their about losing her brother Leo to suicide winning Stephanie Ridings.