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FINDING MR PARAMOUR
written and conceived by KINOTEATER (Estonia) and Tim Paramour (UK) “I am part of the Teaching Crisis. In that sentence I wrote “the Teaching Crisis” with capital letters and a definite article as though it were the Banking Crisis or the Abdication Crisis. It isn’t but it should be.” Tim Paramour was Deputy Head of a large primary school when he walked away from the profession that had been his life for over twelve years. A year on Tim shares…
Be Festival
No need to leave the city this summer! Come to BE FESTIVAL, The soul of Europe in the heart of Birmingham. Taking place between July 4-8, BE FESTIVAL is a cross-pollinating and boundary smashing explosion of theatre, dance, circus, comedy, music, visual and performing arts giving audiences the opportunity to explore and enjoy the backstage areas of The REP where the Construction Workshop acts as a Hub to the festival. Every night includes the famous interval dinner which takes place on the main…
Al Atlal
Seen last year in Krzysztof Warlikowski’s Phaedra(s) at the Barbican, actress and singer Norah Krief felt a burst of nostalgia remembering her mother listening to the Egyptian Diva Umm Kulthum on their record-player. Accompanied by a trio of musicians, Frederic Fresson, Lucien Zerrad and Yousef Zayed, she reinterprets Ibrahim Nagi’s famous poem Al Atlal (The Ruins), a personal and autobiographical work about the remains of lost love and homeland.
A DOLL’S HOUSE
after Henrik Ibsen concept and direction by Fix&Foxy (DK) Directed in the UK by Pelle Nordhøj Kann Performed by Cassie Raine, Ben Samuels and Jamie Zubairi Ibsen understood acutely how people interact and wanted his theatre to be like real life. That is why Danish theatre company Fix&Foxy have taken Ibsen’s most performed play and staged it in real homes with real participants. This unique production was first produced by the Royal Danish Theatre and the National Theatre of Oslo and following…
FINDING MR PARAMOUR
Written and conceived by KINOTEATER (Estonia) and Tim Paramour (UK) “I am part of the Teaching Crisis. In that sentence I wrote “the Teaching Crisis” with capital letters and a definite article as though it were the Banking Crisis or the Abdication Crisis. It isn’t but it should be.” Tim Paramour was Deputy Head of a large primary school when he walked away from the profession that had been his life for over twelve years. A year on Tim shares…
Rendezvous in Bratislava
Miriam and her granddad are a match made in double-act heaven: they both make theatre, they’ve never met and he’s been dead for 35 years. Laco Kalina was a dramaturg, satirist, collector of jokes, writer of cabarets, born in Slovakia in 1913 and died in Germany in 1981. He survived the fascists only to be imprisoned by the communists, who believed he was a threat to the regime. Using his autobiographies and cabaret material, join us for the world premiere…