Autumn 2018 in Washington

Published: 28 July 2018
Reporter: Peter Lathan

Love Songs
The Picture of Dorian Gray
POP MUSIC

Arts Centre Washington has announced its October to December 2018 programme, most of which are on a Thursday evening at 7:30.

The theatre programme begins on 4 October with Hull-based Middle Child’s One Life Stand, a piece of gig theatre showing us a late-night search for intimacy across a hyperconnected, hypersexual city, exposing the loneliness sometimes found in modern relationships, where the expectations of love and lust are ever-changing.

This production is followed by:

  • 18 October
    Baby Love Productions
    Love Songs
    By Tom Kelly

    On a 'sixties tribute tour, the seeds of romance are slowly starting to grow for two singers. Unfortunately, they are both running from their past and from the shadows of cruelty and abuse. Can they help each other face their tormentors and build a hopeful future?

  • 31 October
    Time Works Theatre
    Frankenstein

    A new adaptation evoking both the terror of the novel itself and key events in the life of Mary Shelley, the woman who wrote it.

  • 8 November
    Box Tale Soup presents
    The Picture of Dorian Gray

    A new version of Oscar Wilde's story of evil, debauchery and scandal, featuring puppetry and an original soundtrack.

  • Paines Plough and Birmingham Repertory Theatre in association with Latitude Festival
    POP MUSIC
    By Bruntwood Prize winner Anna Jordan

    G and Kayla’s lives are a mess but tonight they’re determined to Have It Large. As their veins course with adrenaline and cheap Prosecco, we follow them on an epic journey through thirty years of Pop.

    Can the DJ save them as they become Dancing Queens, reliving their Teenage Dream, Staying Out For The Summer and Spicing Up Their Lives?

    Pop makes promises it can’t keep, and soon they’ll discover they have more in common than their taste in tunes.

  • The Book of Darkness & Light in association with LittleMighty
    Shivers

    Adam Z Robinson returns with a trio of thrilling new ghost stories, set to the haunting sounds of the violin.

  • 14 December
    The Pantaloons
    A Christmas Carol

    A new adaptation, featuring live music, audience interaction and "absolutely no humbug".

There are also four shows for children in the season:

  • 23 October @ 2:00
    Garlic Theatre
    3 Pig Tales
    For age 3+

    A new version of the classic story of the three little pigs set in Paris. A grumpy old wolf is a chef who wants some pigs' tails for his soup…

  • 27 October @ 11:00 and 2:00
    Storypocket Theatre
    Storyteller, Storyteller

    What happens when two storytellers arrive at the same place at the same time to tell their stories? And what happens if both of them think they are THE Storyteller? A head-to-head that leads to a feast of clowning, comic competition and physical silliness, that’s what!

  • 2 November
    Théâtre sans Frontières (UK) and Théâtre a l'Envers (Canada)
    A Frog Called Woanda (Une grenouille qui s'appelle Woanda)
    Friday 2 November, 1:30PM performed in simple French
    Saturday 3 November, 11AM performed in English
    For age 4 – 10

    Laura's mother is ill and she is being looked after by her grandfather. Whilst washing her paintbrushes in the bathroom, Laura drops her mother's ring down the sink. Up pops Woanda the frog and a series of adventures ensue as Laura tries to find the ring.

  • 4 to 9 December (various times)
    Lyngo Theatre presents
    Snow Play
    For age 3+

    What would you do if one year Winter decided to stay and moved into your house? Well that’s what happens in this snowy spectacular show where you are guaranteed a white Christmas, no matter what the weather or the time of year.

    Snow Play is a showdown between Winter and Spring over who gets to stay and who has to go away.

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