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Dateline: 4th July, 2008

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Watch This Space!

Watch This Space, the National Theatre's free festival in Theatre Square, opened today and continues until 28th September. Among the highlights are:

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Waiting to Happen - Avanti Display (UK)
A scratch performance of Avanti’s new piece for 2009, celebrating the centenary of Filippo Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto.
15 Jul 2008, 5:00 pm, 6:30 pm
17 July 2008, 1:15 pm

Leak – Avanti Display (UK)
Join the masters of water theatre to investigate a large leaking pipe in Theatre Square…
16 - 17 Jul 2008, 8:00 pm, 9:30 pm

Zigmund and Froyd - Markmark Productions (UK)
Hailing from the small European principality of Chlamydia, these magical siblings return to fight charges of animal cruelty following the notorious “Exploding Squirrels of Death”.
16 Jul 2008, 1:15 pm, 6:30 pm
17 July 2008, 6:30 pm

Faunèmes - Théâtre de l’Éléphant Vert (France)
Meet the Faunèmes - an imaginary people who catch sounds and swallow them voraciously.
19 Jul 2008, 3:00 pm, 6:15 pm

The Peter and Jane Family - Dot Comedy (UK)
Stepping from the pages of the Ladybird books of your childhood, but are Peter, Jane, Mother, Father and Pat the dog quite as innocent as you remember?
22 July 2008, 5:30 pm

The Bridge - Mimbre (UK)
World-class acrobatics combines with theatre and dance to tell the story of The Bridge.
25 July 2008, 10:30 pm
26 July 2008, 10:30 pm

Kamchàtka - Cie Kamchàtka (Spain)
A group of ten strangers appear, each carrying only a suitcase. Tourists? Visitors? Immigrants?
28 - 29 Jul 2008, 5:45 pm

Macbeth: Who is that Bloodied Man? - Teatr Biuro Podrozy (Poland)
With armies on motorbikes, witches on stilts and a spectacular burning castle, Teatr Biuro Podròzy’s award-winning adaptation of Macbeth comes to London following its sell-out run at last year’s Edinburgh Festival.
5 - 6 Aug 2008, 9:30 pm
7 August 2008, 9:30 pm
8 Aug 2008, 9:00 pm, 11:55 pm
9 August 2008, 9:30 pm

Edmond Tahl & Futter’s Child - Stuff and Things (UK)
While Edmond accidentally finds himself trapped in a perpendicular world Futter finds himself left minding the baby.
7 Aug 2008, 3:00 pm, 5:30 pm, 7:00 pm
8 Aug 2008, 1:00 pm, 5:30 pm, 7:00 pm

The Threepenny Ring Cycle - Les Grooms (France)
Follow the smartly-suited bellboys into their magical grotto for a surprising take on Wagner’s monumental opera cycle, telling the complex story of Seigfried, Brünnhilde and the Valkyries, reimagined for brass band, percussion and three singers.
12 - 13 Aug 2008, 8:30 pm
14 August 2008, 8:30 pm
15 August 2008, 8:30 pm
16 Aug 2008, 5:30 pm, 9:00 pm

Vegetable Nannies - Plunge Boom (UK)
Meet an ambitious downhill-racing watermelon, the Sweet Potato Beauty Queen and a talented marrow whose ambition is to become an actor.
15 - 16 Aug 2008, 3:00 pm, 6:30 pm, 1:00 pm

The Station - Bash Street Theatre (UK)
This award-winning street theatre company return with a silent-movie inspired show.
20 Aug 2008, 1:15 pm, 6:15 pm

Comeback - Los2Play (Spain)
This was one of the biggest hits in the famous street theatre festival in Tàrrega - with all the producers vying to book the show!
29 Aug 2008, 6:30 pm, 10:00 pm

The Spurting Man - Avanti Display (UK)
One of the perennial favourites of Watch This Space, Avanti’s Spurting Man and his downtrodden assitant build to a spectacularly soggy finale.
30 August 2008, 6:30 pm

The Guardian Angels - Bängditos Theatre (Germany)
Catastrophe! Chaos! Fire! A high-octane, jolt-a-minute spectacle sure to fan the flames of excitement in all who dare attend.
30 August 2008, 10:00 pm

Le Grand Peep Show - Corpus (Canada) 20 Sep
The ultimate Peep Show experience!
20 Sep 2008, 1:15 pm, 3:00 pm, 6:30 pm, 10:00 pm
21 Sep 2008, 12:00 pm, 1:15 pm, 2:15 pm

Salto Vitale - Tuig (Netherlands)
A poetic strip cartoon takes us on a vertical journey.
26 - 27 Sep 2008, 10:00 pm
28 September 2008, 2:00 pm

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