In Conversation with Lucy Glover and Lucy Bennett
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe sat down with Lucy Glover who is Executive Producer and Lucy Bennett who is Co-Artistic Director of StopGap Dance Company.
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In Conversation with: Sean Gandini
Reading Time: 2 minutesJuggling supremos Gandini Juggling bring the spirit of Pina Bausch and the heady scent of apples to the Peacock Theatre on 31 May and 1 June with their signature work Smashed, directed by Sean Gandini – the first time the show will have been seen in London for seven years. Check it out here.
In Conversation with: Tendai Humphrey Sitima
Reading Time: 2 minutesFollowing the sell-out run of SAMSKARA (The Yard), this brand-new work by Lanre Malaolu explores the challenge of forgiving yourself for a lifetime of suppressed emotion, while celebrating the profound bond of brotherhood and the resilience that can be found in joy.
A powerful fusion of movement, song, and text, Now, I See is an exploration of identity, forgiveness and nature’s visceral power to heal.
Now, I See is the second instalment in Lanre's trilogy that excavates and celebrates the truth of being a Black man in contemporary Britain. Tendai Humphrey Sitima stars in Now, I See coming to Stratford East on the 10th May.
In Conversation with Sally Cheng
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe sat down with Sally Cheng who is in the cast of Twelfth Night at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre.
In Conversation with Joe O’Curneen
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe sat down with co-director Joe O'Curneen who brings The Opera Locos to the Peacock Theatre, Sadler's Wells from 8-11th May.
In Conversation with: Jacob Grunberger
Reading Time: 3 minutesInspired by a book of letters and stories left to him by his late father, titled ‘For Jacob’, Stop Trying To Look At My D**k! is an autobiographical dark comedy of Jacob Grunberger’s adolescence. Through anecdotes and rap music, Jacob tells the story of the sudden death of his Jewish father when he was a child and a peripatetic childhood through Scotland and Essex as he and his mother struggled to keep afloat. Exploring challenges and encounters with drugs and mental darkness as an adult student, Jacob discusses how conversations around his father's death have always taken place in a context that he hasn’t designed. As a reflection of life, Jacob creates a space to honor his father and his experience of grief, identity, and vulnerability.
In Conversation with: Paulus The Cabaret Geek
Reading Time: 6 minutesWritten and performed by the star of BBC1’s All Together Now, Paulus The Cabaret Geek, with accompanist Michael Roulston and directed Sarah-Louise Young, Looking For Me Friend: The Music of Victoria Wood is a funny and touching musical tribute to a much-loved and sorely missed national treasure.
In Conversation with: Nkenna Akunna
Reading Time: 2 minutestiata fahodzi, the UK’s leading British African heritage contemporary touring theatre company, presents the London Premiere of cheeky little brown by Papatango Prize-winning playwright Nkenna Akunna - coming to Theatre Royal Stratford East, Tuesday 16 - Saturday 20 April 2024.
In Conversation with: Natasha Bain
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down with Natasha Bain, playing Agathe Uwilingiyimana.
Marking 30 years since the 1994 genocide against Tutsi people in Rwanda, Agathe tells the true story of the extraordinary woman who became Rwanda’s head of state for less than a day.
In Conversation with: Charlotte Mclean
Reading Time: 4 minutesFuturistic Folktales tells the momentous story of the first womb - an environment where life and death intimately coexist. Humbly attempting to unify humanity through the infinite narrative of birth, the show experiments with contemporary, breaking, and Scottish Highland dance to probe questions of tradition, preservation, myth, and identity.