Spring Season: February 2010

Following a complete sell out run at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, playwright and triple if.comedy award nominee Russell Kane brings you his celebrated blank verse bonanza.

Shakespeare has been reinvented in modern form many times. Russell turns this notion on its head by taking our silly modern woes and re-working them into Fakespearian verse.

King Nigel is an Essex banker who has lost everything. No options are left and thus he must himself do in. But can his secret lover and PA, Donna of Billericay, save him from himself?

Russell Kane writes, directs and stars in this bawdy romp in blank verse with Sadie Hasler (Al Murray’s Multiple Personality Disorder, ITV1).

“Kane creates his cross-century mash-up with the joy of language dripping from his lips and echoes of Steven Berkoff at his youthful best.” The Sunday Times

Keith James and Rick Foot celebrate New York’s abundant musical and poetic history with a concert of unique and evocative music featuring material by Leonard Cohen, Federico Garcia Lorca, Bob Dylan, Suzanne Vega, and Pablo Neruda and Vladimir Nabokov.
 
This extraordinary literary challenge was offered to Keith and Rick following the success of their acclaimed 2007 Lorca album which generated over 100 concert appearances.

Based on the title of Lorca’s famous book of poems written about New York in 1929, which documents his impressions and experiences, this chilling concert exposes the fear, fascination and vulnerability that a fragile and creative person often feels when confronted with somewhere as unsettling as NYC.

“Subtle and literate. A Triumph!” Rock'n'Reel ****

American-born James Lambeth is rapidly establishing himself as an up and coming singer of swing jazz. Lambeth’s silky vocal promises an afternoon of 30’s sophistication, featuring the very best of George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington and many other legendary American songwriters.

There's a place where the dead go to record their final stories. An underground frequency that carries the last testaments of the damned and the dispossessed. Broadcasts that lurk in the black static between stations, whispering truths too terrible to tell anywhere else. This is Dead Air. You have been warned ...

Acclaimed playwright and cult novelist Jasper Bark presents an evening of multi media performance prose featuring terrifying tales from some of the biggest names in chilling fiction.

Diane Forbes-McKaye, millionaire media tycoon, is kidnapped by Firemen! In the ensuing chaos someone is locked in a fridge and electrocuted, a perverted priest pulls a gun, an altar boy is smothered in ice cream, a manic mother saves everyone from being crushed by moving scenery and things blow up.

Abducting Diane is a glorious piece of satirical comedy from the genius who wrote Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay and Trumpets and Raspberries.