10 February 2005. At the stroke of midnight the British public punch, kick, strangle and eventually stab their way to £45 sofas and £35 bed frames at the opening of their favourite Swedish furniture store.
Riot is a true story set in a lamp-lit flat-pack universe bursting with violence, chaos and more characters than you can throw a meatball at. Hammered together with physical theatre and music, The Wardrobe Ensemble tear up the instructions and disregard the diagrams to construct a comedic tragedy of a thoroughly modern kind.
I like the way you wear your hair is a conversation with a past version of yourself.
It’s about stomach butterflies, private thoughts and marching bands conveyed with storytelling and a pico projector, throwing hand-drawn memories and DIY atmosphere onto the walls, floor and ceiling.
In this solo performance Greg tells you — from the perspective of a geeky teenager — the true story of the night he took a chance.Welcome to Greg’s bedroom in Mesquite, Texas, 1998. The Savage Garden CD is on repeat, there’s a pile of dirty laundry in the corner and he can’t stop thinking about...
The Wardrobe Ensemble and Worklight Theatre come together to present a reimagining of the sad but beautiful Hans Christian Anderson tale, The Steadfast Tin Soldier. The one-legged Tin Soldier braves all sorts of adventures to return to his true love - the Paper Ballerina.
The Wardrobe Ensemble and Worklight Theatre are two highly acclaimed emerging companies from Bristol and Exeter. They have both enjoyed success separately with their shows Riot and How to Start a Riot in Edinburgh, the UK and the US, and now come together to share their creative passions and skills to create a...
Why were some parts of the UK set alight in 2011, whilst many others were left untouched? Who is present at a riot? If the actions are 'mindless', what's in the mind? Three performers use text and torchlight and to unpick the presumed causes of civil unrest.
Based on the work of leading crowd and social psychologists Professor Stephen Reicher, Dr Clifford Stott, How to Start a Riot seeks answers to questions ignored in the post-riot political rhetoric - rhetoric which has remained remarkably similar for centuries.
Left a roll of film after his grandfather’s death, a man searches for meaning through the photographs inside. He discovers a surreal world of childhood and memory, where fragments of a half-remembered war invade the present-day calm.
Accompanied by a live musical score, critically acclaimed Rhum and Clay tell an unforgettable tale using movement, stunning imagery and absurdist humour.
Shutterland is a landscape of recorded voices and lost stories.
When a secret is discovered it reveals a hidden past. Through a strange and unexpected turn of events one man finds himself running from the system he spent his life serving. Surveillance agents prowl the streets. Every move is monitored. Every sound is recorded. This is Shutterland, where futures are decided and pasts are forgotten.
With a blend of absurdist humour and innovative physical theatre, Lecoq-trained Rhum and Clay present their Edinburgh smash hit.
Shutterland is a landscape of recorded voices and lost stories.
When a secret is discovered it reveals a hidden past. Through a strange and unexpected turn of events one man finds himself running from the system he spent his life serving. Surveillance agents prowl the streets. Every move is monitored. Every sound is recorded. This is Shutterland, where futures are decided and pasts are forgotten.
With a blend of absurdist humour and innovative physical theatre, Lecoq-trained Rhum and Clay present their Edinburgh smash hit.
Shutterland is a landscape of recorded voices and lost stories. When a secret is discovered it reveals a hidden past. Through a strange and unexpected turn of events one man finds himself running from the system he spent his life serving. Surveillance agents prowl the streets. Every move is monitored. Every sound is recorded. This is Shutterland, where futures are decided and pasts are forgotten. With a blend of absurdist humour and innovative physical theatre, Lecoq-trained Rhum and Clay present their Edinburgh smash hit.
Do you thrill to tales of terror, do you delight in stories that curdle the blood, that send shivers down your rotten little spines? Do you tingle and tremble to hear tell of ghosts, ghouls and gruesome goings on?
You do?! Then this foul feast of flesh-creeping fear may be just your cup of (poisoned) tea.
Oh, I do hope you can come... I am just DYING to meet you!
Your host in horror,
Aleister Grudge
P.S: No scaredy cats please. Only for BRAVE children.
Scruffy Mutt produce exciting theatre for young...
