Cutting Edge Theatre at York Theatre Royal
Four award winning companies will perform at York Theatre Royal during part two of the TakeOver Festival, a festival programmed and produced by young people aged 25 and under.
Rash Dash, Little Bulb Theatre, Catapulting Cocoon and York’s own Belt Up Theatre will delight, provoke and inspire audiences during the second phase of TakeOver. Each company has won nationally significant awards and their work is described by Polly Ingham, festival producer as ‘inventive, exciting and artistically rich’.
Rash Dash will be performing Another Someone, using drama, live music and passionate physicality to explore the experience of young people living in a world where celebrity is imminently possible and ordinary isn’t good enough. Another Someone won a Fringe First award in 2010 and will be performed in York Theatre Royal’s Studio on 25th & 26th March.
Little Bulb Theatre capture the confusing, awkward and beautifully naïve time of adolescence in Operation Greenfield using a stage full of instruments and an eclectic mix of recorded music. The story follows four unlikely middle England teenagers preparing for judgement day and Stokely’s Annual Talent Competition.It shows in York Theatre Royal’s main house on 14th & 15th March.
Catapulting Coocoon have been fostered by York Theatre Royal and the Takeover Festival since they participated in the new work competition HATCH. You can catch this emerging company’s ‘indie musical’, Life Support at York Theatre Royal’s Studio on 23rd & 24th March.
Belt Up Theatre are applying their playful meta theatrical approach to musical theatre for the first time with a new adaptation of John Gay’s The Beggars Opera by James Wilkes (The Tartuffe). Told by a troupe of 1980s would-be political activists fired up with anti-Thatcher sentiment, The Beggar’s Opera has more than a few echoes in the Britain of today and will show in the Main House from 24th until 26th March.
Other exciting work which features alongside these inventive pieces of theatre are the Original Theatre Company’s production of Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel, Comedy Night and Nature Day, an interactive children’s activity.
To see the full schedule visit the TakeOver Festival’s website at wwwtakeoverfestival.co.uk
To book call Box Office on 01904 623568 or online at www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk
