TOTTENHAM'S OWN is a celebration of work made by the local community and will include workshops and performance nights for home grown talent in the Tottenham area.
Under this strand, the Royal Court Theatre will be working with Tottenham residents in collaboration with the Bruce Grove Youth Club, Haringey Shed and The Wellside Project to create new pieces of theatre inspired by issues important to the area.
TOTTENHAM'S OWN will also feature the return of the performance night for Tottenham artists, Platform Tottenham which will invite artists of all genres to perform in front of an audience at Haringey Irish Centre's main hall.
TOTTENHAM PRESENTS is part of the Royal Court Theatre's efforts to bring world class art to Tottenham residents.
For TOTTENHAM PRESENTS Quang K Van will lead an opening ceremony of the programme with a promenade dance performance performed by community dancers and drummers across Lordship Rec. There will also be a special appearance by students from Pimlico Academy who the Royal Court are currently working with through their engagement with the SW1V area.
Selina Thompson will also bring her full length theatre piece Chewing The Fat to Haringey Sixth Form Centre.
TOTTENHAM PRESENTS will also include The Five Step Plan: The Massacre of the NHS and How to Fix It, a newly devised piece of theatre by The Tottenham Community Cast of Michael Wynne's recent verbatim play about the NHS, Who Cares. Directed by Debbie Hannan the piece is an impassioned plea for the future of their community, combining personal testimony and fiction.
TOTTENHAM FIRSTS will include a strand of events by leading theatre makers from around the UK where they will try out new ideas and previously unseen work for Tottenham audiences. Rob Drummond, Rachel Mars, and Islington Community Theatre will all perform new pieces.
The events will take place in parks, community centres, schools and theatres and will feature a range of performances, workshops and collaborations with residents from Tottenham.
TOTTENHAM'S OWN
A celebration of work made in by the local community.
This strand of events includes:
Based in Tottenham, Bruce Grove Youth Club delivers a range of activities for young people.
The sessions will culminate in a free sharing of work on 28 August at 1pm at the Bruce Grove Youth Club.
Hamish Pirie is Associate Director at the Royal Court. For the Royal Court his directing credits include Violence and Son, Who Cares and Teh Internet is Serious Business.
His other theatre credits include I'm With The Band and Demos, Quiz Show, Love With A Capital 'L', 3 Seconds, Most Favoured, Bravo Figaro and The Last Bloom (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, where he was previously Associate Director) and Salt Root and Roe (Donmar Warehouse's Trafalgar Studio season).
For more information, tickets and to book your place in the sessions, email: Akin.Akintola@haringey.gov.uk
Haringey Shed's Children's and Youth Company
Join in: Monday 3 August - Saturday 15 August, 9am - 4pm
Sharing of work on Saturday 15 August, 2pm and 4:30pm
White Hart Studios, Haringey Sixth Form Centre, White Hart Lane, N17 8HR
For 15 years Haringey Shed has been delivering performing arts workshops in Haringey and surrounding boroughs. They provide inclusive workshops where participants have the opportunity to learn performing arts skills in an environment where everyone is encouraged to realise their potential.
For more infomation, tickets and to book your place in the sessions, email Ashling@haringeyshed.org
For more information and to join in email tottenham@royalcourttheatre.com
TOTTENHAM PRESENTS
World class art on your doorstep.
Community dancers are invited to join in the procession.
Quang K Van's dance credits include Miaan, SisGo, Innocence (Scottish Dance); Blake Diptych, Disgo (Darkin Ensemble); View from the Shore (Jacky Lansley Dance); O (Michael Clark Company); Mystere (Cirque du Soliel); Interview, Flying the Rainbow (Oxytoc Dance Project); Tchaikovsky Trilogy, Hamlet, Midnight Express, Romeo & Juliet, Kermesseni Brugge, The King, HC Anderson (Peter Schaufuss Ballet); Othello, xx CLOSEUP, Where I End & We Begin, Ultimate Ophelia, Loose Ends, Magma (Skanes Dansteater); Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake (Adventures in Motion Pictures). His opera includes Skin Deep (Opera North); Ariodante (English National Opera).His theatre includes Teh Internet Is Serious Business (Royal Court). For more information and to join, email tottenham@royalcourttheatre.com. Entrants must be 16 and over. No experience necessary.Since then, the work has toured to ARC Stockton, PULSE Ipswich, returned to the University of Sheffield for a sell-out performance and has been invited to perform for two weeks as part of Northern Stage's prestigious programme at Kings Hall.
Selina Thompson's recent work includes: Pat It And Prick It And Mark It With A B (National Theatre Studio / Compass Festival, Leeds), Dark & Lovely (East Street Arts) and It Burns It All Clean (West Yorkshire Playhouse / FIERCE Festival). Book at royalcourttheatre.com or call 020 7565 5000.TOTTENHAM FIRSTS
Leading theatre makers from around the UK try out new ideas and previously unseen work for Tottenham audiences.
Join him now in his thirty fourth year as he investigates his past medical health and examines the possibility of knowing his future with the help of human genome scientists in America who, for three thousand dollars, will tell him how he is likely to die.
Rob Drummond's theatre credits include Mr Write (National Theatre of Scotland), Rob Drummond: Wrestling (The Arches), Bullet Catch (The Arches) and Quiz Show (The Traverse). Book at royalcourttheatre.com or call 020 7565 5000.www.islingtoncommunitytheatre.com
A free post-show discussion will take place after the 7pm performance. Book at royalcourttheatre.com or call 020 7565 5000. Our Carnal Hearts and Sing It! Spirit of EnvyTwo pieces by Rachel Mars which continue her work on the theme of envy in song and text.
This fairy comes round your house.
You, she says, are in luck.
Ask for anything you want. Anything in the world and I'll give it to you. But whatever you ask for, your neighbour gets the same thing, but double.
Great. You say. Fine.
Cut out one of my eyes.
Our Carnal Hearts is a celebration of envy. A place to whoop at our own fragility and delight against our better nature. A show that seeks to prove that envy makes us better.
Sing It! Spirit of Envy! is a short song piece about greed and envy, solo pursuits and communal contentment. Made anew with a pop-up choir of local singers each time it is performed, it puts two joyfully waggling fingers up to glib, economic politco-bullshit speak. Rachel Mars plus special Tottenham guests The New Tottenham Singers.
Rachel Mars is a performance maker with a background in theatre, live art and comedy. Her theatre credits includes The Way You Tell Them (CPT, Summerhall, Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Contact Theatre, Machynlleth Comedy Festival, further UK Touring and Wildside Festival, Montreal, The Butterfly Club, Melbourne), The Lady's Not For Walking Like An Egyptian (Ovalhouse, Royal Exchange, Norwich Arts Centre, The Albany, further touring Autumn 2015) and Sing It! Spirit of Envy! (Buzzcut Festival, Forest Fringe, Lyric Hammersmith, Machynlleth Comedy Festival).
The New Tottenham Singers are a non-audition choir based in North London, open to all, which aims to unite and represent the wider community through a joy of singing.
There will be an open rehearsal day for The New Tottenham Singers on 29 August at Bernie Grant Arts Centre from 2pm - 6pm. For more details email info@newtottenhamsingers.com
Book at royalcourttheatre.com or call 020 7565 5000.
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