Shoreditch Town Hall Sets 2016 Autumn Season

With Shoreditch Town Hall preparing for next month's UK première of Andrew Schneider's highly acclaimed YOUARENOWHERE, the venue today announces an eclectic autumn season of high quality, cutting edge theatre, performance, music and comedy.

The climax of the season takes place during September when the venue hosts an extensive programme of new and award-winning theatre including the London première of Spymonkey's The Complete Deaths which comes to Shoreditch following a national tour; and the RSC production of Alice Birch's acclaimed award-winning play Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. which transfers following a run in Edinburgh and at The Other Place Festival in Stratford-upon-Avon.

The London première of Ross Sutherland's dark dystopian comedy Party Trap also transfers in September, as does Shoreditch Town Hall commission Tell Me Anything from On The Run, following the company's acclaimed debut So It Goes. A second Town Hall commission, Analogue's Sleepless, also debuts in Shoreditch. Inspired by the true story of an Italian family plagued by a rare genetic sleep disorder and the race to discover what lies behind the terrible and shameful curse, this commission continues an ongoing relationship with Analogue who are artistic associates of the Town Hall.

This September also sees the first Electronic Voice Phenomena session by Mercy & Penned in the Margins, commissioned by the Town Hall and Bluecoat, Liverpool, with further performances taking place in November and December.

In October the venue hosts the première of Phone Home by Town Hall associates Upstart Theatre alongside Highway Productions (Athens) and Pathos München, margate/dreamland by Nigel Barrett & Louise Mari with AK/DK, a show from five-piece comedy jazz ensemble The Horne Section and the 2015 BBC Folk Awards winners Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker. This is followed in November by several shows from the EFG London Jazz Festival, the capital's biggest music festival, including Nell Bryden and Kansas Smitty's House Band, with further acts to be announced soon.

Shoreditch Town Hall today also announces The Wardrobe Ensemble as an Associate Company following its recent successful run of 1972: The Future of Sex, and a new production with the Almeida Young Company which will produce From The Ground Up, an immersive, site-specific production created in collaboration with Joeri Smet from Ontroerend Goed.

Shoreditch Town Hall director Nick Giles said today "As our wonderful building continues to develop, with greater in-house technical and production capabilities matched by higher audience capacities, so does our artistic programme. At the heart of our autumn season is a collection of original, bold theatre at home in our non-traditional spaces, including work commissioned or supported by the Town Hall, alongside new strands of live music and comedy gigs in our revamped 750-seat Assembly Hall. We are particularly thrilled to be building on relationships with the Royal Shakespeare Company, EFG London Jazz Festival and Almeida Theatre over the coming months, as well as the peerless Spymonkey, who I first worked with fifteen years ago. Alongside our ongoing new theatre development programme, London transfers and community events, this is our most eclectic season to date, and one which in its scope and particular mix continues our mission to explore and celebrate the enormous potential of Shoreditch Town Hall as a distinctive contemporary arts space in London."

For full details on all the events in the season please see the listings below. Tickets are now available from www.shoreditchtownhall.com.

LISTINGS SHOREDITCH TOWN HALL

Almeida Young Company

FROM THE GROUND UP

The Ditch

August
Further information and booking details to be announced shortly

In August, the Town Hall will welcome the Almeida Theatre, to present an exciting new production entirely conceived, produced and performed by young people aged 16-25. The project, entitled From The Ground Up, will be an immersive, site-specific performance staged in The Ditch - created in collaboration with Joeri Smet from acclaimed Belgium theatre collective Ontroerend Goed.

Royal Shakespeare Company
REVOLT. SHE SAID. REVOLT AGAIN.

BY ALICE BIRCH

Council Chamber

Wed 31 Aug - Sat 17 Sep
£15 (full price); 5 tickets at £5 available for each performance as part of the BP 16-25 Tickets Scheme

Alice Birch's Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. transfers to Shoreditch Town Hall following runs in Edinburgh and at The Other Place Festival in Stratford-upon-Avon. Winner of the 2014 George Devine Award, this acclaimed play examines the language, behaviour and forces that shape women in the 21st century and asks what is stopping us from doing something truly radical to change them. Directed by RSC Deputy Artistic Director Erica Whyman.

Analogue
SLEEPLESS

Assembly Hall

Thu 1 - Wed 14 Sep
£15

A woman lies awake. Pupils like pinpricks, skin saturated in sweat, the odd jerk of a muscle. She hasn't slept for 3 months. She knows what is happening to her and there's nothing she can do.

Francesca Trevisan's body is discovered in her car in the North Sea. Her neighbours say she had been acting strangely. Her daughter and a doctor she has never met are left to discover what drove her to commit such an act. Set against the backdrop of an unfolding mad cow crisis, Cosima and Dr Graham go on a journey through history and a race against time to find the cause and cure of a rare disease before its commercial interest wanes.

Inspired by the extraordinary true story of a family cursed with a rare genetic disease that cruelly deprives members of sleep until they die, SLEEPLESS is a story that sits at the crossroads of two cutting edge areas of science: sleep research and prion theory, and begs the broader question: how do we decide the value of a human life?

SLEEPLESS is a new show from Analogue, one of the UK's most exciting companies, who have developed a reputation for their visual performance style that combines powerful storytelling with rigorous scientific research.

An Analogue and Staatstheater Mainz co-production. Commissioned by Shoreditch Town Hall.

Show And Tell presents a play by Ross Sutherland
PARTY TRAP

Large Committee Room

Tue 13 - Sat 24 Sep
£15 (Thu - Sat only) / £12.50 (Tue & Wed only)

A television journalist and a politician clash live on-air. What begins as a traditional interview slowly unfolds into a waking nightmare. A trap has been set: which side will walk into it?

A darkly comic, dystopian glimpse of Britain's near future: experienced entirely in palindromic form.

Written by the award-winning writer and Standby For Tape Back-Up and BBC Radio Four star Ross Sutherland. Directed by Rob Watt (Standby For Tape Back-Up). Original music by Jeremy Warmsley (Summer Camp).

Spymonkey
THE COMPLETE DEATHS

Assembly Hall

Tue 20 Sep - Sat 1 Oct
£13 - £25

There are 74 onstage deaths in the works of William Shakespeare - 75 if you count the black ill-favoured fly killed in Titus Andronicus. From the Roman suicides in Julius Caesar to the death fall of Prince Arthur in King John; from the carnage at the end of Hamlet to snakes in a basket in Antony & Cleopatra. And then there's the pie that Titus serves his guests.

Spymonkey will perform them all - sometimes lingeringly, sometimes messily, sometimes movingly, sometimes musically, always hysterically.

Adapted and directed by Tim Crouch (I, Malvolio, An Oak Tree, Adler & Gibb), The Complete Deaths will be a solemn, sombre and sublimely funny tribute to the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death.

Show and Tell presents a play by On The Run
TELL ME ANYTHING

Large Committee Room

Wed 21 Sep - Sat 1 Oct

£15 (Thu - Sat only) / £12.50 (Mon, Tue & Wed only)

When David was 15, he loved punk, house parties and poetry. But most of all, he loved Kate. They loved each other so much it hurt. Kate has an eating disorder. But David knows he can make her better.

On The Run return following the five-star sell-out success of their debut, with a new show about love, hopeless devotion and growing up. Performed by David Ralfe and directed by Chris Harrisson. Commissioned by Shoreditch Town Hall and supported by The North Wall Oxford, Camden People's Theatre and Arts Council England.

Mercy & Penned in the Margins
THE EVP SESSIONS

Council Chamber

Fri 23 Sep, Sat 5 Nov, Sat 10 Dec
£12.50

Electronic Voice Phenomena returns with a series of electrifying live sessions featuring the best in hauntology, spoken word, glitch art and music.

The EVP Sessions takes its inspiration from Konstantin Raudive's notorious Breakthrough experiments of the 1970s, in which he divined spirit voices from electronic white noise. Each session includes a range of new commissioned work alongside special guests - each performance resonating psychic echoes of technological ruptures and corporeal gasps, peering in at what lies beneath our circuit-boards and screens.

Produced by Mercy & Penned in the Margins. Commissioned by Shoreditch Town Hall and Bluecoat, Liverpool. Supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

Upstart Theatre (London), Highway Productions (Athens) and Pathos München
PHONE HOME

Council Chamber

October
Further information and booking details to be announced shortly

Phone Home is a transnational project inspired by true stories from refugees. One play, performed across three stages in London, Munich and Athens, interlinked by video-conferencing and broadcast live online. Phone Home uses, theatre, dance and digital media to create a truly unique and innovative theatre experience and a powerful reaction to the political and media discourse surrounding the refugee crisis.

Avalon Promotions
THE HORNE SECTION

Assembly Hall

Fri 21 Oct
£18

Following their hit BBC Radio 4 series, and many years of sell-out shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and London's West End, don't miss everyone's favourite Dictionary Corner regulars on 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and the first band to ever host Never Mind The Buzzcocks. Expect a heady mix of spontaneous stand-up, spectacular performance and outlandish musical talent led by the brilliant comedian Alex Horne.

Ten Four Music

JOSIENNE CLARKE AND BEN WALKER

Assembly Hall

Wed 26 Oct
£14

2015 BBC Folk Awards winners Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker are the most acclaimed new artists on the English folk scene. They bring their unique, captivating sound to Shoreditch Town Hall, following the success of their most recent album, Nothing Can Bring Back the Hour.

Nigel Barrett & Louise Mari with AK/DK

MARGATE/DREAMLAND

Wed 26 - Fri 28 Oct
9pm
£12.50

margate/dreamland is about an island, a town and its people.

It is our response to the current state of the world and its imminent collapse.

It is about the kaleidoscope of competing narratives of who we are.

It is a love song.

Made with generous help from the people of Margate and with support from Arts Council, England, Tom Thumb Theatre, Margate, Shoreditch Town Hall and National Theatre Studio.

United Agents Music in association with EFG London Jazz Festival
NELL BRYDEN

Assembly Hall

Sat 12 Nov
£20

Nell Bryden is famed for her powerful, soaring vocals and accomplished song writing. Back on the road in 2016, she'll be performing acclaimed hits from her back catalogue and showcasing the more soulful roots of her new record, due for release in September.

United Agents Music in association with EFG London Jazz Festival
KANSAS SMITTY'S HOUSE BAND

Assembly Hall

Sat 19 Nov
£20

In their biggest concert to date, East London's bastion of great music, Kansas Smitty's is taking over the Town Hall's Assembly Hall, with the House band serving up their unique blend of swing, jazz and good vibes to round out the final weekend of the 2016 EFG London Jazz Festival.

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