THIS SEASON'S HIGHLIGHTS

Wet Picnic presents

Rodney Dillyweed’s Undesirable Demise

Thursday 18 September

New Greenham Arts

Wet Picnic presents a strange and dark tale that’s not to be missed. Based on poetry by Edgar Allen Poe and the works of Tim Burton it is a moving and darkly comical piece, which uses stilts, strange characters and set that moves to transform the space into a different world.

The Listening Party with Luke Wright

Friday 10 October

New Greenham Arts

Join us at New Greenham Arts for our new comedy, music and poetry cabaret evening. The Listening Party brings together the unique talents of comedy poet Luke Wright, author Joe Dunthorne, singer songwriter Josh Weller and spoken word artist Dockers MC. The evening will be a chilled mix of the funny, funky and frankly fanciful.

Theatre Absolute in a co-production with Warwick Arts Centre

Zero

Thursday 23 October

Corn Exchange

Chaotic, fast, and furious, Zero is the new play from multi award-winning Theatre Absolute. Written by Chris O’Connell, the play is an explosive and anarchic stare at the ethics of torture and the curse of censorship.

2FaCed Dance presents

State of Matter

Thursday 30 October

Corn Exchange

State of Matter is the latest dance work by 2FaCeD DaNcE, the all male, award-winning, break, street and contemporary dance company. Featuring eight male dancers, with gravity defying moves, acrobatics, break dance, robotics, street and contemporary dance, State of Matter is an hour of intense energy and vibe. State of Matter is about the dance styles, movement, the articulation and extremes that the body can be taken too. It is about taking dance theatre back to basics, peeling back the layers that complicate and seeing it for what it really is. State of Matter will hypnotise, thrill and challenge you.

Colin Riley & Orbit Music present

Gobsmack

Friday 14 November

New Greenham Arts

Gobsmack, the experimental vocal night which thinks outside the voicebox, comes to Newbury. Curated by Music Orbit the event will feature six vibrantly different acts performing short sets: Curious Voice Duo combine a childlike curiosity for the voice with influences from jazz, contemporary and folk music; experimental composer/ singer Kerry Andrew mixes up loops, folk, avant-pop, lo-fi instruments and electronica to create leftfield songs; Laura Moody combines voice with ‘cello in a theatrical way, exploring avant-garde and leftfield pop music; anarchic looper Bunty uses one mouth, one mic and one loop station to produce offbeat, multi-layered solo sets; Mikhail Karikis is an inter-disciplinary performer whose work encompasses sound installations, electronica and folk music; and sound artist Harry Neve uses contact and electromagnetic mics to pick up the sounds of disused, broken laptops and computer monitors.

Horse’s Brawl & Olivia Chaney

Thursday 4 December

New Greenham Arts

Horses Brawl have been causing quite a stir with their cutting-edge take on early and traditional music. Rooted firmly in traditional English folk and Renaissance European music the experimental duo have performed live on BBC Radio 3's Early Music Show and were recently recorded in concert for Late Junction. Olivia Chaney, a young folk singer and gifted virtuoso, will conjure dark-eyed sailors, damsels in distress and rakish Knights from an Indian harmonium and steel-string guitar.

Corn Exchange and Hiss & Boo present

Aladdin

Written and Directed by Phil Willmott

Friday 5 December 2008 – Sunday 4 January 2009

Corn Exchange

By warm sunny days and sparkling starry nights cheeky Aladdin enjoys getting up to all kinds of mischief in Old Peking- but it’ll take more than quick wits if he’s to win the hand of a beautiful princess and defeat the evil magician Abanazar.

This year we are delighted to welcome Phil Willmott to Newbury as Writer & Director of our Aladdin. Phil has directed over fifty productions across the world from Shakespeare & musicals to cutting edge new writing.

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