Deptford-based Albany's spring season

Published: 17 January 2016
Reporter: Sandra Giorgetti

Solomon Israel plays father in I Know All The Secrets In My World at The Albany and on tour

The new programme for South East London's The Albany continues to reflect its immediate and wider community and the things that concern them whilst offering a range of performances for all ages.

Looking at the housing crisis is On The Button's Britain’s Got Tenants, which includes songs of protest, stories of slum living and struggles for better homes, and Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun.

Contained is presented by Mind The Gap, England’s largest professional learning-disabled theatre company, and tells nine interwoven true stories about the everyday and the extraordinary, whilst Jess Thom explores spontaneity, creativity and life with a disability in Touretteshero's Backstage in Biscuitland.

Using songs, music and dance to tell their stories is Alaska, one woman's story of growing up with severe depression and Near Gone which is performed in English and Bulgarian by two performers who tell their traumatic story with gypsy-inspired music.

Touring productions include Tiata Fahodzi's i know all the secrets in my world and The Crows Plucked Your Sinews in which Manchester-based performance poet, Yusra Warsama plays a young Somali woman living in Woolwich council house.

For younger audiences, there is, amongst many others, Orion and the Dark, The Boy Who Never Grew Up and festival of science and art, engineering and entertainment, music and maths, comedy and technology SMASHfestUK.

This is just a selection of the theatre performances in the new season. The Albany also presents Hatched, a regular opportunity to see work-in-progress, BITES: Remixed, circus collaborations and new cabaret work, Cabaret Playroom, plus poetry and a range of music events.

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