Off-West End Announcements – 5 June 2009
Making Mincemeat of History
The acclaimed Cardboard Citizens will be unveiling their
new site-specific play Mincemeat at Shoreditch’s Cordy House
on 15 June. Telling the story of a bizarre WW2 scam, the promenade piece holds
particular resonance for the homeless or formerly homeless actors in the company, touching as it does upon the
many people whose homes were destroyed in the Blitz.
Cookin’ on Gas at the Rose
The Korean dance and acrobatics spectacular Nanta
(Cookin’) hits the Kingston Rose this month ten years after it was
named ‘Best Performance’ at Edinburgh. Set in a kitchen where four capricious
cooks are preparing a wedding feast, the show has toured 23 countries since its
1997 Seoul premier and the Rose run (18-27 June) looks set to pull in more than just Kingston’s
sizeable Korean audience.
Fry: Make Mine a Double
Those
following Stephen Fry on Twitter can now enjoy his 1979 play, Latin!
Or Tobacco and Boys, revived in a comedy double bill at the Cock
Tavern Theatre from 23 June – 11 July. Fry’s high speed comedy of buggery and
blackmail is set in a late 70s prep school, while the new play it is twinned
with, Duncan Ley’s Last Drinks, runs its course in the backroom of an East
End pub.
