Is your week all work and no Play? Escape the office at lunchtime and lose yourself in a 45 minute lunchbox production, or come along to one of our evening performances taking in a relaxing pre show drink in our Theatre bar.
What’s Lunchbox? It’s a great opportunity for you to leave your desk and enjoy a bite of culture with your lunch. You can bring your own lunchbox or you can buy sandwiches, snacks, coffee or beer from our Café Bar. Performances start at 1pm prompt and are about 45 minutes long. We have everything from classics to brand new pieces by up and coming writers. There’s something for everyone, all for just £5 (cash or cheque only). It is unreserved seating and tickets can be bought prior to the performance at the Theatre Office or on the day at the Theatre box office. For more information call 020 7353 3331.
The Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare
Presented by C Company
When a bankrupt young man borrows money in the cause of true love, he wins the lady but at what cost to his friend? A debt must be paid. Can Shylock be bought off or will they be forced to call in the lawyers? A fresh take on Shakespeare's controversial play.
Tuesday - Friday, 3 Jun - 20 Jun 2008
Romeo & Juliet
by William Shakepeare
directed by Aileen Gonsalves
Presented by C Company
In a world of rival factions, where fear and suspicion rule, the original star-crossed lovers are swept away by forces of love and hate, passion and prejudice. Can love conquer all?
Tuesday - Friday, 15 Jul - 1 Aug 2008
Etta Jenks
By Marlane Meyer
Directed by Douglas Rintoul
Presented by Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Etta Jenks arrives in Los Angeles hopeful, homeless and eager to become a movie star…her dreams and ambitions rapidly fade into memory.
Tuesday - Friday, 27 May - 30 May 2008
Performances at 7.30pm
Thursday 29 May 2008
Saturday 31 May 2008
Matinée 2pm
Tickets £7.00
Concessions £3.50
My Favorite Year
presented by Sedos
book by Joseph Dougherty
Music by Stephen Flaherty
lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
It was the year he made the jump to freshman writer on TVs hottest show: ‘The King Kaiser Comedy Cavalcade’. Benjy takes us on a nostalgic journey of one week in the life of the show. Along the way we meet King Kaiser himself and all the other comedy writers. Veteran Hollywood swashbuckler Alan Swann while he’s doing a live guest appearance on the show. KC, the pretty assistant who is herself struggling with being the only unfunny person in the studio and Benjy’s mother Belle May Steinberg Carroca a substantial beacon of Brooklyn society. Written by Flaherty and Ahrens (Ragtime, Lucky Stiff and Disney’s Anastasia), My Favorite Year is a true musical comedy with a strong book that is simultaneously funny, nostalgic and moving. It has a bright, tuneful contemporary score and is sure to put a smile on your lips and a tear in your eye.
Wednesday - Saturday, 4 Jun - 7 Jun 2008
Tuesday - Saturday, 10 Jun - 14 Jun 2008
Performances at 7.30pm
Saturday 7 Jun 2008
Matinée 3pm
Tickets £15.00
Concessions £12.50
Book online or call 07806 438 264
The Fix
Presented by Centre Stage
Book and Lyrics by JOHN DEMPSEY
Music by DANA P. ROWE
Directed by Peter Mills
Centre Stage London presents The Fix, a modern day musical tale of power, passion and patriotism. Delving beyond the smiling facade of one wholesome, political American family, you’ll witness the dirty tricks, sex and sleaze that lie beneath.
Tickets on sale from 17th May.
Tuesday - Saturday, 17 Jun - 21 Jun 2008
Performances at 7.30pm
Tickets £15.00
Book online or call 07722323221
Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare
directed by Adam Nichols
presented by Ovo
Shakespeare meets High Society in a musical version of one of his best loved comedies, set on a cruise liner at the height of the roaring twenties.
Monday 7th July - CHARITY GALA NIGHT IN AID OF CHRYSALIS SCHOOL FOR AUTISM. Tickets £15.
www.chrysalisschool.org.uk
Tuesday - Saturday, 8 Jul - 12 Jul 2008
Performances at 7.30pm
Tickets £12.00
Concessions £10.00
Book online or call 07807521436
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Presented by SEDOS
By Tom Stoppard
Directed by Andy Marchant
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are two background characters from Hamlet living a red-hot slice of existential uncertainty as they stumble through events beyond their understanding in this legendary comedy
Tuesday - Saturday, 15 Jul - 19 Jul 2008
Performances at 7.30pm
Saturday 19 Jul 2008
Matinée 3pm
Tickets £12.50
Concessions £10.00
Book online or call 07806438264
The Ash Girl
By Timberlake Wertenbaker
Directed by Imelda Cudmore and Kerry Adams
Presented by KPMG Drama Society
With her mother dead and her father away, fighting his own demons, the Ash Girl lives huddled deep in the protection of the ashes in a big old house with her stepmother and two stepsisters.
Wednesday - Saturday, 23 Jul - 26 Jul 2008
Performances at 7.30pm
Tickets £9.50
Call 0207 311 3617
Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope: n. (Greek, kalos, beautiful + eidos, form) a complex pattern of constantly changing colours, shapes and forms.
Presented by ArTELIER
ArTELIER returns to the Bridewell Theatre for a collection of short dance pieces by six emerging choreographers, including ArTELIER’s Associate Artist Christopher Marney.
Tickets on sale from 1st of June.
Wednesday - Saturday, 30 Jul - 2 Aug 2008
Performances at 7.45pm
Saturday 2 Aug 2008
Matinée 3pm
Tickets £15.00
Concessions £12.50
Book online
