South London's Tara Arts announces its summer programme

Published: 7 April 2013
Reporter: Sandra Giorgetti

A day with Action Space - part of Tara Arts' new season

Strikingly five non–fictional characters feature in Tara Arts new season.

"…the he and she of it." A Portrait of James Joyce is performed by Frank Grimes with extracts from a number of Joyce's works, absurdist play The Idealist is based on true events in the life of Finnish idealist Antti Penttinen who had a dream of changing the world through song, and Sir Andrew Motion appears in person reading from The Customs House and The Cinder Path following which he will answer questions about his writing and give a book signing.

There's more music when Dame Julie Andrews is conjured up in Julie Madly Deeply in which her songs from iconic films Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music and My Fair Lady are mixed with stories of her life from child star to more recent times.

At the end of May, undergraduates on the South Bank University Creative Practice course present The Black Messiah by Kirsty Oroskois the story of America's Black Panther party and Bobby Hutton, a member who was murdered at sixteen; students present another work in progress, comedy Co z tobą? What About Me? by Krzysztofa Balinska about immigration with further laughs provided by monthly comedy nights, The Funny Side of Earlsfield and Flyerman 2 This Time It's Funny.

Action Space, London's leading visual arts organisation for those with learning disabilities, runs a one-day live art event for late Bank Holiday Monday, with Liang & the Magic Paintbrush running at half term for those aged 4 and upwards and young ones being entertained again later in the season with Oily Cart's Tube.

Adult drama continues through the season with Shooting the Moon by Sonia Hale, Women of Troy by Euripides and much more, with contemporary dance 2:1 from Kansaze Dance and The Bollywood Punjeet & Judy-gee Show closing the programme in July.

For further information, the full programme and booking visit www.tara-arts.com.

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