Category: Theatre
TOMBOY BLUES – THE THEORY OF DISAPPOINTMENT BY MARRS.TARRAB
Have you ever felt a bit different? Have you ever wondered if you really fit into the crowd . . . into your social circle . . . into your own skin even? If you have – then this is a show for you. Rachel Mars and nat tarrab have created a performance that examines [...]
TEENAGE KICKS AT PLYMOUTH DRUM THEATRE
Rebellion! That’s the word that we’re told to associate with our teenage years. It’s time where we shouldn’t just accept the world we find ourselves in but instead question who you are and where you fit in the scheme of things. The young cast of Teenage Riot take rebellion a step further. They may not [...]
YES PRIME MINISTER AT PLYMOUTH THEATRE ROYAL
The world is now a very different place from the 1980s and much of 247’s readership probably wouldn’t be old enough to remember the popular sitcom “Yes Prime Minister”. Yet so much of what was popular in that decade is current again today. The A Team has been reinvented for the big screen, Duran Duran [...]
CREATIVE COW THEATRE COMPANY PREVIEWS LOOK BACK IN ANGER IN DEVON
The Devon-based theatre company Creative Cow will preview their latest production, Look Back In Anger, in Tiverton before taking it on the road for a nationwide tour. The play, written by John Osborne, is performed by a cast of talented actors, including Piers Wehner, who played Jude in The Archers. A spokesman for the company [...]
THE SUMMER HOUSE AT PLYMOUTH’S DRUM THEATRE
It’s not always easy being a guy . . . and this is a theme that will be being explored at the Drum Theatre in Plymouth this week in The Summer House by the company Fuel. 247 spoke to actor/creator, Matthew Steer, about the play and why he felt it had meaning for today’s theatre [...]
REVIEW: TOMBOY BLUES – THE THEORY OF DISAPPOINTMENT AT PLYMOUTH BARBICAN
If this were a love story…Before we can decide if we are in love with someone else, we need to consider just how far we love ourselves. This is the journey that the actors in Tomboy Blues find themselves on in the Mars.tarrab production. Before they can truly address the distinct possibility that they are [...]
REVIEW: DANCING AT LUGHNASA AT BRISTOL CANTEEN (25/03/11)
You’ve gotta love the way Bristol puts it’s unique spin on things and with theatre, there are an increasing number of non-typical venues getting involved in hosting plays. The Ala Tavern pub in Clifton has been doing it for years and now the Canteen in Stokes Croft is getting in on the act. Remarkably, the [...]
WIN TICKETS TO DANCING AT LUGHNASA PLAY AT BRISTOL CANTEEN
This month The Canteen in Stokes Croft, Bristol, is hosting a production of Brian Friel’s play Dancing at Lughnasa and we’ve bagged a pair of tickets to give awa. Directed by Adam Elms and Ryan Hutching and with a cast of up and coming actors, the play will run from Friday March 25 until Monday [...]
AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON AT PLYMOUTH DRUM THEATRE
Plymouth’s Drum theatre is currently playing host to the “Told by an Idiot” company. Formed in 1993, they have developed a unique and innovative style towards comedic productions and “And the Horse you Rode in On” pushes these boundaries even further. 247 Magazine spoke to director, Paul Hunter, about unique vision for the show as [...]
DRUM THEATRE NOMINATED FOR OLIVIER AWARD
The Drum Theatre, Plymouth has been nominated for one of the most sought after awards in theatre. It’s been nominated for an Olivier Award in the category of Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre for its production The Empire, working with The Royal Court Theatre. The Olivier Awards are among the most highly regarded in [...]
BRISTOL CINEMA DE LUX LINKS LIVE TO LONDON FOR SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Who says you need to live in the Big Smoke for all the biggest and best events? Showcase Cinema de Lux in Bristol is upping its game and hosting some special live link ups with London. On Wednesday 19 January at 7.15pm, the Cabot Circus cinema will present one of the greatest and most popular [...]
GET FREE THEATRE TICKETS
If you don’t already know about this scheme and fancy doing something different, but cultural, then this is for you. It’s very simple, if your under 26, sign up at www.anightlessordinary.org.uk pick a show you want to see and go and see it, all for free! No catches, no strings attached, just free and discounted [...]
BARBERSHOP OPERA AT PLYMOUTH’S DRUM THEATRE
The Drum theatre, Plymouth, is doing Christmas a bit differently . . . . as regular visitors to the theatre would expect. Barbershopera comes to Plymouth with a fine history behind it, exploding out of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2008, 2009 and 2010 along with a West End run. The original show has spawned [...]
FLOOD WARNINGS AT DRUM THEATRE, PLYMOUTH
From 23rd November to the 27th November, The Drum theatre is looking to transport its younger audience to the city of New Orleans at the time of Hurricane Katrina. With performances at different times during the day and evening, Lisa Evans’ play seeks to show how young lives were affected on The Day the Waters [...]
CHEKHOV AT PLYMOUTH’S DRUM THEATRE
Plyouth’s Drum theatre is this month hosting a historical figure. Dan Rebellato’s new play awakens Anton Chekhov, playwright and mirror to Russian Society, around a century after his death and thrusts him into 21st century Britain. Directed by the theatre’s own artistic director, Simon Stokes, the play promises to provide its audience with a new [...]
WIN TICKETS TO BRISTOL INBETWEEN TIME FESTIVAL
Inbetween Time Festival takes place in Bristol from December 1-5 and we’ve teamed up with the organisers to give away a pair of tickets to the exclusive festival party on December 3 at Bridewell Island. This year’s Inbetween Time Festival of Live Art and Intrigue will be pervading streets, sites and art spaces across the [...]
BE COUNTED AT PLYMOUTH’S DRUM THEATRE
Election fever grips The Drum Theatre, Plymouth from 26th October to 30th October as it presents “Counted”, the new play from Look Left Look Right who previously brought the sell out The Caravan to the Drum. As in their previous work, the company has created the piece through “verbatim” theatre meaning that they have recorded [...]
PUNK ROCK IS MAKING A COMEBACK AT PLYMOUTH’S THEATRE ROYAL
Teenage rebellion is making a comeback at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth from 26th October to 30th October, 2010. Punk Rock tells the tale of group of teenagers at the prepare themselves for the end of term and the end of the school lives. As they consider what comes next they find that life on the [...]
LOVE LOVE LOVE AT PLYMOUTH’S DRUM THEATRE
Plymouth’s Drum Theatre is this month playing host to a very special play, Mike Bartlett’s Love, Love, Love, which is being premiered to Plymouth audiences and takes them on a journey with a young couple, who fall in love during the 1960s, and then spend the next forty years attempting to reconcile themselves to that [...]
PLYMOUTH’S DRUM THEATRE HOSTS MOVING PLAY IVAN AND THE DOGS
Audiences of The Drum theatre in Plymouth are being invited to experience the very different real life childhood of Ivan Mishukov. At four years of age, Ivan walked out of his Moscow apartment and spent the following two years living on the streets where he was adopted by a pack of wild dogs. 247 spoke [...]
