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Dateline:
11th July, 2010
Live in Newcastle This Autumn
Newcastle's Live Theatre has announced its autumn season which runs
from September to December:
Main House
7th - 18th September
The Girl In The Yellow Dress
By Craig Higginson
Co-production between Live Theatre, The Market Theatre, South Africa,
and Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
Celia, a beautiful young English teacher has started a new life in
Paris. But when she takes on a French-Congolese pupil, a relationship
develops that starts to unravel dark truths from her past.
13th September - 16th October
A Play, A Pie & A Pint
A Paines Plough / Òran Mór Production
(Mon to Fri 6pm, Fri 1pm: each play lasts approximately 45 minutes)
Five plays:
Play 1: Fly Me To The Moon by Marie Jones : Monday 13 September
to Friday 17 September
Play 2: Pipeline by Gary Owen : Monday 20 September to Friday
24 September
Play 3: The Uncertainty Files by Linda McLean : Monday 27 September
to Friday 1 October
Play 4: A play by April De Angelis - title to be confirmed : Monday
4 October to Friday 8 October
Play 5: A play by David Harrower - title to be confirmed : Monday
11 October to Friday 15 October
14th & 15th October
The Royal Shakespeare Company & Live Theatre present
Seeing Double
After the hugely successful collaboration with the RSC last year,
two playwrights have been asked to each write a new forty-five minute
piece to be performed as a double-bill by the members of the RSC ensemble.
Following on from last year’s Tyneside Stories two exceptional
writers Rosalind Wyllie and Ali Muriel have been asked to create two
new plays.
3rd - 27th November
Inheritance
By Mike Packer
Harry’s had some bad news from the doctor and he’s worried.
Worried that, because of his life-long political convictions, he hasn't
got anything to leave to his sons and grandchildren. So, by joining
the property owning democracy, Harry thinks he's helping everyone
out. Then the economic downturn gets in the way.
New Writing Studio Sessions
2nd September
A Million Short Cuts
Craig Taylor’s One Million Tiny Plays About Britain were
originally printed weekly in The Guardian. Ranging in length from
a line to two pages; some were hilarious; others moving, some thought-provoking
but all inspired by the places and people of Great Britain.
Audiences are also invited to provide five writers with ideas to create
a tiny play to be written and performed during the course of the evening.
While the writers are off scribbling away enjoy a selection of Short
Cuts on the theme ‘Millions’.
21st and 22nd October
Girls on the Verge
An evening of work-in-progress performances of monologues looking
at ordinary young women at extraordinary points in their lives, including
new work by Paddy Campbell (Dial-A-Mate) and Lee Mattinson
(Me & Cilla). Meet Donna and her reindeer, get to know
Stacey and her granddad – and his copy of Readers’ Wives
- and take part in the ultimate show and tell presentation.
28th - 30th October
Therapy by Dick Curran
Peter Creme's Eyes by Tracy Whitwell
Originally presented at Live as rehearsed readings, this is a double-bill
of new plays by two of Live Theatre’s emerging writers. Therapy
is a comedy about a driving instructor who is busy trying to negotiate
his way between his wife, his therapist and his libido, whilst giving
away as little as possible. Peter Creme’s Eyes is a dark
tale about sibling rivalry, bitterness and looking for love in all
the wrong places.
Visiting Productions
5th and 6th October
UK Arts International & Afrovibes present
Ncamisa! Kiss the Women
This play deals with the fallout of being a lesbian in Khayelitsha,
a township on the outskirts of Cape Town. It depicts a world of light
living and deep passion, casual violence and serious relationships,
woven together with soccer and song and a soundtrack with Antony and
the Johnsons and Lucinda Williams. Welcome to South Africa, where
a deviating lifestyle easily meets agression and violence.
7th and 8th October
UK Arts International & Afrovibes present
A Face Like Mine
Asanda Phewe explores the many fragmented perceptions black women
have of themselves. This is a deeply personal examination of what
it means to be a young black woman in today’s society.
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