VENUE LISTING
| Mercury Theatre
also: Studio |
| Address | Balkerne Gate
Colchester
Essex
CO1 1PT | | | | Telephone | 01206 573 948 | | Station | Colchester (BR) |
| Description | Stage and part of back stage hit by fire 9th Sep 96, refurbishment was planned anyway! Venue closed May97 to Oct97. Winner of 2000 Barclays Theatre Award for Special Achievement in Regional Theatre. |
WHAT'S ON
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Synopsis
Huck, an outcast teenager and Jim, a runaway slave, are fleeing down the Mississippi on their makeshift raft. Adventures grow wilder, stories taller, and the people they meet more outlandish as they journey through a young America, searching for freedoms without and freedoms within. Age 8+ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain’s all-time classic novel, is brought crashing onto the stage by award-winning theatre company Shapeshifter. With live music and a charmingly funny script, Huck is a messy, raucous and uncouth epic for young, old and everyone in between.
| Score | Comment | Date |  | This was an amazing show. The cast work so well together, bringing a new and exciting approach to each performance. The completely international ensemble gives such flavor to this original production. Additionally, I enjoyed the musicians and the way they act somewhat as a barometer for how we, as the audience, should be feeling. The intimate environment of the Mercury theater really brings the audience into the play, being made to act as extras and really pulling us in. Well worth the short journey from London to see this tragic love story. - Leacia | 09 Mar 10 | | This is one not to be missed - a big adventure, quite new, fresh, with never a dull moment, and a great Javier Alcina's Mercutio!!
Around the time William Shakespeare penned this play, John Donne wrote his poem ‘The Triple Fool’, describing love’s passion being first constrained in verse, then liberated when set to music. Something similar happens to Juliet and her Romeo in this real good vision by director Ed Hughe.
Javier Alcina is a tango soul Mercutio, whose red-lit Queen Mab speech is one of many highlights. - Marian | 08 Mar 10 | | | Click here for more user reviews and to post your own |
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COMING SOON:
Dad's Army - Click here for tickets and info
Dates from 22nd March 2010 to 27th March 2010 Fascinating Aida - Click here for tickets and info
Dates from 3rd April 2010 to 3rd April 2010 Frankie and Johnny In the Clair De Lune - Click here for tickets and info
Dates from 5th April 2010 to 10th April 2010 Under Milk Wood - Click here for tickets and info
Dates from 15th April 2010 to 1st May 2010 Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall - Click here for tickets and info
Dates from 4th May 2010 to 8th May 2010 Double Sentence - Click here for tickets and info
Dates from 14th May 2010 to 15th May 2010 King David - Man of Blood - Click here for tickets and info
Dates from 27th May 2010 to 12th June 2010 Inside Job - Click here for tickets and info
Dates from 14th June 2010 to 19th June 2010 George's Marvellous Medicine - Click here for tickets and info
Dates from 13th July 2010 to 17th July 2010 |
