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Photo Flush: Paul Critoph as Toad in TOAD HALL

By: Jul. 29, 2010
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Steam Industry Free Theatre return with their 8th annual season of free, magical theatre in the spectacular Scoopat More London Greek-style amphitheatre with family show TOAD?HALL! and DON?JUAN IN?LOVE.

With performances on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sundays from 5?August - 5 September, both shows are performed by the same actors and you can see both shows every night. No need to book - just turn up and take a seat! There's room for 1000 people at each performance. And the actors perform in almost any weather! Both shows are performed by the same actors and you can see both shows every night. Winners of the 2006 Peter Brook award for innovation, this unique event has now firmly established itself as one of London's annual theatre-going must-sees.

Season director: Phil Willmott

TOAD?HALL!
Adapted from events in Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows' by Steam Industry Free Theatre and the young people of Southwark

Mayor Boris Johnson's City Hall stands in for Toad Hall this summer when the Scoop's award-winning free theatre team bring their regular mix of comedy, puppetry, song, dance and adventure to a new outdoor adaptation of the family classic that's fun for all ages.

Can the fun loving, attention seeking Mr Toad ever be persuaded to take life seriously? Join his friends Mole, Ratty and Badger as they help him through a series of scrapes and japes, defending Toad Hall from the ever watchful weasels who'd steal it away.

And don't miss the kids of Southwark devising and performing their own tale of the big green fellow and the search for his X factor at 1pm in the Scoop at More London on 15 June.

Performance dates & times: Thursdays - Sundays at 6.00pm
Running time 1hr approx
Signed performance - Thursday 26 August, 6.00pm

DON JUAN?IN?LOVE
from the play by Jose Zorrilla

The handsome Don Juan is a devil with the ladies and a demon with a blade. Join history's greatest lover as he charms and murders his way through swash-buckling adventure and heart-stopping drama. But as the sun sets over the beautiful Scoop amphitheatre vengeful ghosts gather to teach him there are consequences to a life of breaking hearts and destroying families. In this London premiere of the beautiful 1839 dramatisation, by celebrated Spanish romantic José Zorrilla, it's a brave young woman who proves to be the Don's downfall and his chance of salvation.

Let the seductions of Don Juan open your mind this summer.

Performance dates & times: Thursdays - Sundays at 8.00pm
Running time 1hr 30 approx
Signed performance - Thursday 2 September, 8.00pm

There will be post-show discussions about both shows with members of the cast and creative team on Sunday 8, 15, 22 & 29 August after the performance of Don Juan in Love.

Toad - Image © The Estate of E.H Shepard reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd. London. Illustration provided by Egmont UK Ltd London and printed with permission Don Juan photo credit:?Sheila Burnett

Part of the More London Free Festival that runs from 2 June to 1 October 2010

Photo Flush: Paul Critoph as Toad in TOAD HALL  Image

Photo Flush: Paul Critoph as Toad in TOAD HALL  Image
Mayor Boris Johnson

Photo Flush: Paul Critoph as Toad in TOAD HALL  Image
Mayor Boris Johnson

Photo Flush: Paul Critoph as Toad in TOAD HALL  Image
Mayor Boris Johnson

Photo Flush: Paul Critoph as Toad in TOAD HALL  Image



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