Theatre Festival

Theatre developed to be presented within a theatre festival setting in which the audience’s expectation is to see many performances over a short period of time.

Theatre Festival

The Fantastical Adventures of [Not] Being With You

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Josey De Rossi

Genre: Physical Theatre Venue:  Blue Elephant Theatre 59a Bethwin Rd, Camberwell, London, SE5 0XT Low Down Blue Elephant Theatre does ...

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Ruben Guthrie

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Josey De Rossi

IronBark Theatre, a company specialising in presenting Australian theatre in the UK, produced an excellent production of Ruben Guthrie, an award-winning play by an acclaimed young Australian playwright, Brendon Cowell at the New Wimbledon Studio.

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Blind Date & 27 Wagons Full Of Cotton

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Josey De Rossi

Does advertising a play as “rarely performed” excite you or raise your suspicions about the play’s entertainment value? I have to say that for me the latter is sometimes true. I’m likely to respond more positively if the play is the work of a respected playwright, either an early or ‘forgotten’ work for example. For this reason, I applaud Make&Bake Production’s choice of Blind Date by Horton Foote & 27 Wagons Full Of Cotton by Tennessee Williams, though Williams is certainly better known that the Pulitzer and Oscar Award winning Foote. Nonetheless, perhaps the full-house I was part of in Studio 3 at Riverside Studios on Friday night indicates how the London fringe is key to widening an audience’s experience of the works of respected dramatists.

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My Hometown is in my Shoes/ The Other

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Josey De Rossi

The ground is seen as a surface from where all things originate. Movements sprout from the soil as a force of resistance in the face of disappearance. The work reconsiders the shoe beyond its practical function where the object can adopt different meanings.

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J’ai Deux Amours: The Josephine Baker Story

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Josey De Rossi

Cush Jumbo received a standing ovation from many members of the audience at the Etcetera Theatre on the opening night of her one-woman show J’ai Deux Amours: The Josephine Baker Story. There were many good reasons I could see for this: her great singing voice, her versatility in taking on different characters while telling Josephine Baker’s biography and, above all, her engaging energy.

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Lost Theatre’s One Act Festival

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Josey De Rossi

The Lost Theatre’s twenty-six-year history of producing its one-act festival marks its importance as a company that has tirelessly supported the development of new writing and young performing artists.  The process that begins in March and leads onto the Winner’s Week in September is quintessential ‘fringe theatre’ in its nurturing of young talent.