It’s been a bit quiet over at Blogger Towers whilst I do a
lotta other stuff.
So as I live in York, I thought I’d pop up a post giving a plug to some rally
great pieces of theatre coming to York Theatre Royal in the coming months you
should definitely be checking out.
Missing
The Twitterverse tells me a lot of good things about Gecko
(the theatre company, not this chap)
and their show, Missing, looks like a
mesmerising fast and physical piece of theatre.
New Nigerians
New Nigerians brings
some necessary voices to York in the form of the Black British story. It looks funny, delightful and full of charm.
Women of Aktion
You know me, friends.
Bloody lefty through-and-through.
So naturally I love a spot of nostalgia around past struggles, and Women of Aktion is the tale of 1930s
radicalism, factories, the working class struggle and Joan Littlewood’s part in
the anti-war struggle.
Narcissist In The Mirror
I had the pleasure of being beaten by Rosie Fleeshman
earlier this year in a Leeds slam. The
Manchester poet’s show Narcissist In The
Mirror is dark comedy about ambition.
Rosie is a superb performance poet with a lot to say.
A Super Happy Story About Feeling Super Sad
I’m really looking forward to A Super Happy Story About Feeling Super Sad. The show has received huge acclaim and it
looks like the theatre I totally admire:
Playful, messy, joyous and, essentially, about mental health.
Sid
Here’s an interesting little show called Sid about Sid
Vicious. I love the Sex Pistols and
their legacy, but I find Vicious a problematic figure. I hope the show doesn’t present him as a rock
‘n’ roll suicide, nor an angelic naïve boy manipulated by others.
Canary
Women’s feminist history sometimes erases the working class
voice, and hopefully Canary will tell
the story of factory women risking their health and lives. Looks a nice spot of physical theatre too!
Beyond that into 2019 Wise
Children and Noughts & Crosses
co-productions will be coming to the main stage and look charmingly exciting.
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