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Posts Tagged ‘theatre’

The Plague, Arcola Theatre, review: an incisive adaptation of Camus’ classic

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 10 April 2017 at 11:44
Timely: The Plague runs at the Arcola until 6 May. Photograph: Arcola Theatre.

Morgana Edwards took her seat for a sharp, direct staging of the classic novel which, unfortunately, could not be more timely

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Hackney Showroom announces JOY & DISSENT: A festival of cultural activism from 27 March – 9 April

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 9 March 2017 at 16:59
Malik Nashad Sharpe, AKA marikiscrycrycry.

To celebrate their 2nd birthday, creative and cultural space Hackney Showroom has put together an outstanding programme of cutting edge new performance, bringing together 20 new shows & 80 artists

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Hamlet, Almeida Theatre, review: method and madness

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 7 March 2017 at 11:15
Andrew Scott (Hamlet), Amaka Okafor (Guildenstern) and Calum Finlay (Rosencrantz). Photograph: Manuel Harlan.

The N1 theatre stages the tragedy with a variety of bells & whistles that make for a stylish production

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Win a pair of tickets to ‘A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer’ at the National Theatre!

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 14 November 2016 at 17:16
"...big anthems, shiny costumes, blood, tears and real cancer patients" - A Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer.

Expect big anthems, shiny costumes, blood, tears and real cancer patients in this heartbreaking musical

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Mysteries unearthed in Shoreditch excavation of Shakespeare’s Curtain Theatre

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 10 November 2016 at 11:44
Archeologists excavating the site of The Curtain Theatre

‘Unusual passageway’ discovered under stage where first actors to play Romeo and Juliet trod the boards

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Saddled with Shakespeare: The Handlebards ride to Geffrye Museum

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 31 August 2016 at 13:17
The Handlebards' all female troupe. Photograph: The Handlebards

An all-bicycling theatre company is giving new meaning to the phrase ‘play cycle’

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From the Ground Up, Shoreditch Town Hall, review: 'a lo-fi game show experience'

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 11 August 2016 at 17:22

The show, devised by the Almeida young company, saw audiences peppered with provocative yes-or-no questions

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E5 Bakehouse hosts true stories of refugees

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 9 June 2016 at 12:55
e5 bakehouse actors for human rights

Supper club with a twist lays on international food and dramatic performances

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Kenny Morgan review – ‘a worthy tribute’

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 7 June 2016 at 13:09

Mike Poulton’s play about Terence Rattigan’s secret lover does a stellar job of conveying the post-war prejudice and emotional reticence of 1940s Britain

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Crossing the divide – Spitalfields to see crowdfunded adaptation of Malorie Blackman classic

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 20 April 2016 at 11:46

An extraordinary tale of social exclusion, terrorism and oppression, Noughts and Crosses has now been adapted for the stage. Its director Cheryl Walker talks about black representation and why her performers are “not just actors”

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1972: The Future of Sex begins Shoreditch Town Hall run

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 11 April 2016 at 11:37

A new comedy explores sexual anxiety and coming of age in the year of Ziggy Stardust and Mary Whitehouse

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Shakespeare in Shoreditch festival stages 1,000 plays

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 4 April 2016 at 11:49
Best Pies in London by Abi Zakarian produced with Youaremine 620

Actors will climb aboard a custom built ‘pageant wagon’ and set off on a tour of Hackney

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Playing a blinder – All That Fall preview

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 1 April 2016 at 11:37

A one-act play for radio by Samuel Beckett is ingeniously staged at Wilton’s Music Hall

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Wilde Wilde East – The Importance of Being Earnest comes to the Barbican

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 29 March 2016 at 11:11

An operatic adaptation of one of the most celebrated comedies in the English language comes to the Barbican this month

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Sheer Height redress the gender balance with new Arcola show

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 17 March 2016 at 10:16

Fed up with the state of theatre for women, two friends founded their own company placing female characters centre stage

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Park bench politics: Made Visible at the Yard Theatre

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 14 March 2016 at 10:10

An encounter with two women in Victoria Park inspired Deborah Pearson’s play about race and identity

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Mary Seacole brought to the stage at the Rosemary Branch

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 8 March 2016 at 10:15

Theatre marks 20th anniversary with play about pioneering Jamaican nurse, starring its artistic director and former Rolling Stones collaborator Cleo Sylvestre

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Money trouble for Musical Theatre students in two shows at Stratford Circus Arts Centre

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 27 May 2015 at 12:49

Trinity Laban’s Musical Theatre stars of tomorrow play out real life rags to riches stories in two new shows coming up at Stratford Circus Arts Centre

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Tower Theatre Company on hunt for new permanent base in Hackney

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 20 May 2014 at 13:47

Thespian collective searches for venue to bring end to 11 years without home

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Now open: Ophelia, Hackney’s newest theatre

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 11 December 2013 at 17:25

Dalston venue hosts production of Absence by Tim Cook

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