Escape the office dramas this lunchtime and lose yourself in another at our Lunchbox Theatre.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
By William Shakespeare
Presented by C Company
Directed by Aileen Gonsalves
Summer’s here and that means festival season. What better destination for Shakespeare’s lovers. No repressed parents, no rules. Just tents, torrential rain and freedom to be themselves. For that, they need the help of the fairies who are always present just beyond our vision. They blow in and excite the mortals to live their lives more fully. They arrive singing, fighting and bursting with sexual frustration. No one can escape their power! Not even the crew of litter pickers. Not even the audience.
C Company will enchant The Bridewell Theatre with spellbinding harmony from acclaimed a capella composer Helen Chadwick fresh from her hit show (Dalston Songs) at the Royal Opera House. Together with RSC Movement Director Lucy Cullingford (A Tender Thing), the company will unleash a fairy world full of passion, joy and chaos.
1pm start
Duration approx 45 mins.
Strictly no late comers.
Tickets £5 in advance from St Bride Foundation reception or £6 on the door.
Online box office is open until 11am each performance. There is a 50p booking fee per ticket.
Book online
Tuesday - Friday, 6 Jul - 30 Jul 2010
Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer
In a new version devised by the company
Directed by Mark Leipacher
Produced by the faction theatre co. in association with the Bridewell Theatre
“Five husbands I’ve had. It’s a fact! I’ve had that many. All okay in their way. As good as any.”
A Knight, a Merchant, a Judge, two Nuns and a Monk set off towards a shrine. Sounds like the start of joke? It is! In order to occupy themselves on the journey, the wacky, witty and wasted pilgrims entertain each other with hilarious antics.
Bring your lunch, grab a jug of mead, and join us for the original road movie packed with bawdy and raucous fun.
Dating back to the 1300s, this towering literary masterpiece is given a fresh, boisterous and modern twist by the faction theatre co. acclaimed for their clarity of storytelling and trademark visual inventiveness.
Tickets on sale soon
Tuesday - Friday, 26 Oct - 19 Nov 2010
