Leicester’s Curve turns inside out with new festival

Published: 4 April 2014
Reporter: Steve Orme

Protesting: The Gramophones’ Small Acts of Protest is one of the highlights of the Inside Out festival

Showcasing “some of the best up-and-coming artistic talent in the East Midlands”, Inside Out is a ten-day festival at Leicester’s Curve which includes many low-cost and free events.

Artists and companies from across the East Midlands will take over Curve’s spaces, “offering audiences inventive, unexpected, often funny and occasionally provocative new work that reflects Leicester, one of the country’s most diverse cities”.

The festival includes Rachael Young’s The Way I Wear My Hair on Thursday (10 April) at 9:30PM, The Gramophones’ presentation of Small Acts of Protest on Friday (11 April) at 8PM, Michael Pinchbeck’s The Trilogy, three new plays inspired by the works of William Shakespeare, in the Studio on Friday at 7:45PM and Maison Foo’s The Alien Tour of Curve which “weaves theatre facts with fantastical fiction to create a family-friendly, once-in-a-lifetime experience” on Saturday at 10:15AM, 12 noon and 3PM.

The final of Curve’s playwriting competition will be held in the Studio on Saturday at 7:45PM. The winner will become Curve’s playwright-in-residence over the next year.

Other Inside Out highlights include Leicester and Nottingham-based theatre company Fine Frenzy’s play Vessel, which uses only raincoats, rope and torchlight, on Saturday at 4 and 9:30PM, Cardboard Citizens’ Glasshouse in the Studio on Tuesday 15 April at 7:45PM, John Berkavitch’s Shame on Thursday 17 April at 9:30PM, Impulse Collective’s sneak peek at its “anarchic” new take on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales on Friday 18 April at 9:30PM, Elaine Pantling’s one-woman show The Last Cuppa on Saturday 19 April at 4PM and Tom Glover’s England Expects on Saturday 19 April at 9:30PM.

Curve’s associate director Suba Das will direct two new plays from India, Pereira’s Bakery at 76 Chapel Road in the Studio on Thursday 17 April at 7:45PM and Saturday 19 April at 2PM and OK Tata Bye Bye in the Studio on Friday 18 April at 7:45PM and Saturday 19 April at 5PM.

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