Suffolk's Latitude Festival, which runs from 16th to 19th July, has
announced its line up. Theatre events are:
The Royal Shakespeare Company
The RSC will create a portrait of William Shakespeare using daisies,
dandelions and buttercups, and a group of minstrels will accompany
some as they recite sonnets
The National Theatre
The Eternal Not, a new comedy by Lucinda Coxon, directed by
Anthony Banks
The Bush Theatre
Sudden Loss Of Dignity, a play by five new playwrights based
upon "cringe-worthy stories" submitted by memebrs of the
public
Paines Plough
A new production – Traces - created by six young playwrights,
working alongside choreographer Georgina Lamb (Frantic Assembly, Headlong
Theatre) and director Tessa Walker (Young Vic, Paines Plough).
The Lyric, Hammersmith
The thetare will combine artists of different artistic disciplines
- writers, directors, musicians, actors, dancers, puppeteers, circus,
video and visual artists - to tell unique stories that will "touch
the audience"
English Touring Theatre
ETT will combine with the Young Vic to present a new musical by playwright
Che Walker, asad comedy about love, sex, romance and revenge, played
out in the loneliest of bars in London
nabokov
The company will present Joel Horwood's new play Is Everyone Okay?,
an hour long "joyride for the lost and bewildered centred on
three people trying to work out if they’re doing okay or if everything
has gone to shit."
Picks of the Pleasance
The Pleasance will present a number of shows, including Hoipolloi
in The Wonderful World of Hugh Hughes
Tristan Bates Theatre
will present the Midnight Matinee
FUEL Theatre
An Uninvited Guests production - Love Letters Straight From Your
Heart - a participatory event that is collaboratively authored
with its audience, who become a temporary community of close friends
Third Eye Theatre
A dramatisation of a new screenplay which will be a fusion of cinema
and theatre, bringing to life the untold story of the last surviving
mutineers from the HMS Bounty after 1789 and their wretched and brief
existence on Pitcairn Island.
DryWrite
A new writing collective, usually found at The George Tavern in East
London.
OSIP Theatre
A Stab In The Dark: a "funny and insightful glance into
the experiences of popping that elusive cherry. Last year, a variety
of people were interviewed about their experience of losing their
virginity. Within this fairly universal experience a plethora of differences
emerged."
The Rebel Cell
A new Hip-Hop style political comedy written and performed by Dizraeli
(2007 BBC National Slam Champion) and Baba Brinkman.
Sadler's Wells
Hofesh Shechter will be bringing his brand new piece The Art of
Not Looking Back, inspired by, and made for, the seven world-class
female dancers of the Hofesh Shechter Company; Eulalia Ayguade Farro,
Winifred Burnet-Smith, Victoria Hoyland, Yen Ching Lin, Sita Ostheimer,
Ino Riga and Jenny White. Physical, complex and unrelenting, Shechter’s
favoured theme of ‘man against the world’ is presented in
a different and entrancing light.
Royal Opera House
A showcase for ROH2.
Cambridge Touring Theatre
A family show
