Voice Project Choir Will Perform New Show Around Antony Gormley Installation
by Stephi Wild - Jun 25, 2024
The groundbreaking Voice Project Choir have announced their new event The Lie of The Land. This will find the massed voices of the community based, open access ensemble create a promenade choral theatre show around Antony Gormley's installation Time Horizon at Houghton Hall on 13 and 14 July.
Review: MAY CONTAIN FOOD MAY CONTAIN YOU, Woolwich Works
by Kat Mokrynski - Apr 18, 2024
May Contain Food May Contain You, devised and performed by Sonya Cullingford and Simon Palmer, is Protein’s “scaled-down rural touring version” of May Contain Food, which was originally devised and performed by Cullingford, Carl Harrison, Matthew Winston and Rachele Rapisardi.
James Dacre Launches New Company - Living Productions
by Stephi Wild - Dec 12, 2023
Following a celebrated decade as Artistic Director at Royal & Derngate, James Dacre has announced the launch of a new production company – LIVING PRODUCTIONS – which will champion exceptional writers, composers, actors and creatives by developing and producing their work.
The Edge of the Universe Players 2 Present A NUMBER By Caryl Churchill
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 24, 2022
On the heels of creating two audio plays during the pandemic (The Marriage Proposal, featuring Kimberly Gilbert, Jamie Smithson and Cody Nickell, and Laughter in the Shadow of the Trees, featuring Sarah Marshall, Holly Twyford and David Bryan Jackson), The Edge of the Universe Players 2 return to in-person producing with Caryl Churchill's A NUMBER.
Le Gateau Chocolat Brings Brand New Operatic Show To King's Head Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Sep 15, 2021
Exploring the bittersweet richness of the dark, with the creamy decadence of the light, Le Gateau Chocolat joins forces with King's Head Theatre to create a brand new show. Each night, a specially curated operatic song cycle will offer a meditation on where do we go and who do we become when we lose our anchor?
Royal & Derngate Announces Further Productions For Its 2021/22 Made In Northampton Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 14, 2021
Royal & Derngate today announced four further productions to complete its 2021/22 Made in Northampton season. A new production of Joe Penhall's biting contemporary satire Blue/Orange is brought to the stage this autumn by the producing team behind Ralph Fiennes' hugely successful Four Quartets which is soon to transfer to the West End.
The Voice Project Choir Announce Arc Of The Sky Film Screenings
by Stephi Wild - Sep 16, 2020
In March 2020, the choirs fell silent, just as Norwich's multi award-winning Voice Project had planned to start rehearsing a new show. Arc of the Sky takes its inspiration from Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh and the landscape it sits in, the Blyth estuary and the nearby coastline. The 130 strong choir planned to present the work, exploring themes of flight, perspective, scale, solitude and connection, in the 15th century 'Cathedral of the Marshes', in July.
The Voice Project Choir Takes Summer Project Online
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 22, 2020
Multi award-winning Voice Project Choir announced their new summer project just a month before the lockdown was imposed and have now revealed plans to take the rehearsal process online. They also aim to create a film of the resulting performance as well as (hopefully) performing it live once the restrictions are lifted.
Royal And Derngate Announce Cast And Creative Team For ALONE IN BERLIN
by Stephi Wild - Jan 16, 2020
Royal & Derngate Northampton and York Theatre Royal, in association with Oxford Playhouse, today announced that their world premiere of Alone in Berlin, translated and adapted for the stage by Alistair Beaton from Hans Fallada's acclaimed novel, will feature illustrations by Jason Lutes, from his epic graphic novel Berlin and songs by Orlando Gough performed by cabaret singer Jessica Walker.
Roger Allam And Colin Morgan Will Lead Caryl Churchill's A NUMBER At The Bridge Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Nov 12, 2019
Polly Findlay will direct Roger Allam and Colin Morgan in Caryl Churchill's play A Number at the Bridge Theatre. Previews begin on 14 February 2020 with the opening night on 19 February and final performance on 14 March 2020. Booking opens today to Bridge Priority members; public booking opens at 10am on 22 November 2019.
Photo Flash: Inside Rehearsal For OUR TOWN at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
by Stephi Wild - May 9, 2019
Birth; marriage; death. And everything in between. As day breaks on another ordinary day, the townsfolk of Grover's Corners go about their business: newspapers are delivered; people go to work; gardens are tended to. And a boy and girl fall in love. But as life's events unfold and a community comes together, one question remains: 'do any human beings ever realise life as they live it? Every, every minute?'