Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?
February 28, 2009
Arch 468
17 February – 22 March
Set up like a small apartment, the venue space of Arch468 affords a performance area that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality. As the four actors of Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? saunter from the kitchen to the living room, the living room to the loft, viewers are free to follow them—often becoming part of the scene. Read more
Isfahan Calling
February 27, 2009
Old Red Lion
24 February to 14 March 2009
There is an inordinate amount of huffing and puffing in Isfahan Calling, Philip de Gouveia’s new play about a covert radio propaganda exercise in the desert. The idea is to discredit the regime in Tehran and demoralise Iranian army units across the border. Read more
Chloë Moss Wins $20k Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
February 26, 2009
Liverpudlian playwright Chloë Moss has been awarded the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her play This Wide Night, which premiered at the Soho theatre in July 2008. In a private reception at London’s Arts Club yesterday (25 February), actress Sigourney Weaver presented Moss with $20,000 and a signed print by Dutch artist Willem de Kooning. Read more
The Big Interview: Adam Brace
February 26, 2009
Stovepipe is a new play by former journalist Adam Brace based on his experiences during a tour of Amman and the Middle East. It runs at the WEST 12 shopping centre in Shepherd’s Bush from 3 March to 26 April 2009, having premiered at the HighTide festival last year (it’s a HighTide production in collaboration with the Bush and National Theatre). Here, the writer talks to Whatsonstage.com about the background and development of the play.
What’s the premise of Stovepipe?
Staff of a Private Military Company are passing through Amman en route to Baghdad when one of their number goes missing in Amman. His oldest friend defies protocol to stay and look for him. Read more
Lord of the Flies
February 26, 2009
Unicorn Theatre
25 Febraury – 7 March
This classic story by William Golding has been a best-seller since its first publication in1954 and its adoption as a school literary text has made it a classic. Though originally set in the 50s, when the threat of a Nuclear War was to the fore, the story really focuses on human survival, humanity, and the ‘veneer’ that we adopt when society’s constraints are put on us; in this case the ethos and constraints of school life where teacher/adults set the rules, rewards and punishments. Without constraints can we still be ‘civilised’ or do we regress to animal instinct survival techniques? Read more
Go to Gaza, Drink the Sea
February 26, 2009
Theatro Technis
17 February – 14 March
Put together from scratch in three weeks by a mixed British and Arab company, Go To Gaza, Drink The Sea is less a play and more an act of mourning. It is clumsy in places, incomplete, staggeringly partisan – and one of the most honest performances I have seen for some time. The London fringe has many wonderful things about it. It also has many plays by recent university graduates with trust funds, wanting to learn their craft before a minimal, and minimally interested, audience. This piece of work is the very opposite of that, a passionate, angry company with something urgent to communicate about how it feels to be Palestinian today. Read more
The City
February 25, 2009
The Lion and Unicorn Theatre
24 February – 15 March
The City is a trio of one-act plays which explores Loula Anagnostaki’s vision of a world in which conflict reigns. Characters suffer the torment of outside forces as well as those they inflict upon each other. Read more
After Doroteia, The Flies & Void Story Grace the London Stage this Spring
February 25, 2009
StoneCrabs Theatre presents the UK premiere of After Doroteia (26 – 28 March), a play adapted from Nelson Rodrigues’ Doroteia . Written and directed by Franko Figueiredo, After Doroteia centres on a young man who leaves home and returns years later as Doroteia. Read more
Award winning Dai comes to London for a Short Run
February 24, 2009
Iris Bahr’s sell out Edinburgh fringe hit, Dai, is to travel to central London for eight performances at the Shaw Theatre from 11-17 March. Dai, which is Hebrew for enough, won the prestigious Lucille Lortel Award for Best Solo Show in an off Broadway production in 2008 and was also performed at the United Nations in New York. Read more
Win Tickets for The Duchess of Malfi at the Blue Elephant Theatre
February 24, 2009
The Duchess of Malfi
The Blue Elephant Theatre
17 March – 4 April
The Show:
Lazarus presents John Webster’s gripping and powerful Jacobean Tragedy, The Duchess Of Malfi, re-imagined in 1940s England, this dark and passionate play follows the Duchess’s tragic spiral of Love, Reputation and ultimately Death.
London 1939 on the eve of war the Duchess, a young widow, finds Love in the arms of her servant Antonio, their dangerous love affair is played out against the darkness of a world that forbids them to be together.
This new production will use movement and visual art; it features an original score and will be played by a cast of thirteen with a running time of approximately two hours with one interval.
There will also be two post show after dark sessions with cast and creative team on the 24th and 31stMarch, this will give audience members the chance to gain a behind the scenes insight into this remarkable production.
The Method:
Win one of three pairs of tickets to see The Duchess of Malfi at Above the Blue Elephant Theatre for performances between 17-21 March.
To enter, email your name and email address to offwestend@whatsonstage.com, marking the subject line ‘Duchess’.
This competition closes on 11 March.
