Swinging Sixties. The Girl From Ipanema is sunbathing at the beach; in the apartment across the road, 40 year old Marcia is in a very difficult position: Jane, the wife of her lover, turns up on her doorstep. Jane has come with the express...
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StoneCrabs Theatre Company and The Albany Theatre, Deptford present the World Premiere of Olivier Award Winning Playwright Bola Agbaje’s latest play. The Burial is a lively new satire which explores how the conflicting traditions and religious...
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Desire. Oppression. Determination. After Bernarda’s husband’s death, she locks the doors and windows against the world and imposes a strict period of mourning on her daughters. Under the shadow of the church and the rules of society, the...
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Obsession, Beauty, Murder and Betrayal, the perfect tabloid story. As a pedestrian hit by a bus lies dying on a Rio street, a passer-by, Arandir, stops to cradle him in his arms. He kisses him on the lips – a last request from the dying man as a...
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Steeped in oral history and mythology, the play depicts Queen Pokou as she leaves what is present day Ghana and travels west into Ivory Coast. According to oral tradition, Pokou and her people were forced to leave Ghana as a war of succession...
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Charity Wars brings a high-quality mix of impressionism and satire. This is a great political farce, fast- paced and brilliantly inventive. You will be plunged into a world of furious chaos which is quite literally a RIOT! Charity Wars takes live...
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Both plays are infused with a strong sense of loneliness, and the need for, pursuit and possession of love. Mishima’s characters become tragic heroes/heroines trapped inside their own desires. Framed within the poetry of the playwright’s modern...
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Invisible men, Unlaced boots, Nausea, A Jar, A House with no bedrooms. The story of when a little boy left home only to return as… Doroteia. An adaptation of Nelson Rodrigues’ absurd play Doroteia. Directed by Franko Figueiredo...
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Fear and obsession, the pervasive presence of death, sex, money and power reigns in this Nelson Rodrigues play. A father under austere sexual restrain, a Mephistophelian brother that exposes society’s rotten moral codes, a son that talks to...
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In prison, talk is cheap… relationships are dangerous. Talking about the legacy of the past and sharing dreams for the future build a fragile intimacy which is threatened when Charlie receives a visit from an old friend. Will he believe...
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The bourgeois house of the Drummond family is juxtaposed against the world of the dockyard brothels to reveal truths hidden for nineteen years. Misael Drummond’s buried past and the fate of his daughter, Moema, will only be resolved by the...
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In an ethereal world haunted by the melody of Chopin’s Waltz No 6, a young woman is caught somewhere on the edges of death and dreams. Her detached and confusing memories are slowly revealed as the story throws the audience continually back...
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