Top Picks – Acclaimed Theatre Coming to Margate

 

 

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

“Gloriously eccentric and very, very funny” – The Stage

Join the HandleBards’ all-male troupe here, at the beautiful Theatre Royal Margate for ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ as you’ve never seen it before!

A group of amateur actors share the same forest. They’re rehearsing for a play.

Fairies and humans collide. Hilarity ensues.

“Gloriously eccentric and very, very funny” – The Stage on A Midsummer Night’s Dream

 

 

 

22 SEP, 2017

Box Clever

ROUNDABOUT FESTIVAL 2017 – FRANKENSTEIN

A brand new adaptation for schools of Mary Shelley’s classic gothic novel. Directed by Iqbal Khan.

Box Clever brought the page to life, taking the audience on a journey through the eyes of the writer as she explored her characters and their relationships. The teenage audience were literally spellbound.

THIS SHOW TAKES PLACE IN ROUNDABOUT, MARINE GARDENS, Margate CT9 1UJ      

 

 

29 SEP, 2017

WISDOM OF A FOOL

In this emotional roller-coaster one-man play Jack Lane takes you behind Norman Wisdom’s well-known character to reveal a tough and lonely childhood. After joining the Army he discovers a passion for comedy and begins to perfect an act that would go on to shape his unique style.

The world of post-war Music Hall and Variety embraces Norman’s manic slapstick routine catapulting him to stardom in the early 1950s. Success on the silver screen including the hit song, ‘Don’t Laugh at Me’, seals his fame. But fame comes at a price… This is the first play ever written on the legendary comic and features his original Gump suit, on generous loan from Norman’s children, Nicholas and Jacqueline Wisdom.

 

4 OCT, 2017 – 5 OCT, 2017

1927 Presents

GOLEM

The danger lies not in machine becoming more like man but in man becoming more like machine.

Like a giant graphic novel burst into life, 1927 invites you to take a step through the looking glass into a dark and fantastical tale of an extraordinary ordinary man. Blending 1927’s synthesis of hand made animation, claymation, live music and performance Golem is a dystopian fable for the twenty first century, which cleverly and satirically explores one of the great questions of the modern world – who or what is in control of our technologies?

 

 

12 OCT, 2017

Black Theatre Live

BIG FOOT

Love, life and masculinity meet head-on as Joseph tells his poignant coming-of-age story with a twist of the fantastical.

When the euphoric highs of teenage life in south London collide with terminal illness and family pressure, what is the right thing to do? Worrying about school, girls and status on the streets, Big Foot puts you in a teenager’s footsteps as Joseph stumbles and strives to find a path to the present day.

 

 

14 OCT, 2017

Catherine Ireton

FOR ALL THE FIRES NOT YET LIT

Because courage, like fear, can be contagious.

For All the Fires Not Yet Lit, is a solo performance for studio spaces that uses found sounds, electronic samples, storytelling and song to tell a simple tale of one woman’s quest to find her brave bone.

 

 

ANTIGONE

A brother condemned to walk forever in the shadow of death. A family teetering on the brink of catastrophe. A world where one girl dares to take a stand.

This blistering new adaptation sees Sophocles’ tragedy reimagined in a dystopian landscape, where fate is written in code and where drones flock across the skies. Brought to life by innovative theatre company Actors of Dionysus, this production combines bold ideas with passionate and visceral physical theatre.

“Let nothing stop you from seeing them” – The Times

 

 

4 NOV, 2017

THE BOOK OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT

Three chilling tales. Two ghostly performers. One thrilling night.

“A gripping, ghostly tale.” – Leeds Living

Legend has it that many years ago a book of terrifying tales was found. Now, you are invited to discover the secrets of The Book of Darkness & Light… If you dare!

Join The Storyteller and The Musician for an evening of spine-tingling tales and haunting live music. Three ghostly stories to delight and horrify, accompanied by the beautiful sounds of the violin. Be thrilled, chilled and thoroughly entertained by this charming storytelling experience. But, be warned, once the pages of the book are opened, anything could happen.

Audiences have called The Book of Darkness & Light “Mesmerising”, “Atmospheric & creepy”, and “Beautifully haunting storytelling.”