SEASON BROCHURE
September 2016 – June 2017
PARTICIPATING & SUPPORTING COMPANIES
WELCOME! Full of returning favourites and new companies, this 2016/17 programme is New Diorama’s most exciting year of theatre to date. We are excited to welcome Rhum and Clay as our newest Associate Ensemble and to present the premiere of Testosterone. Breach Theatre are back with Tank, and Kandinsky, whose production Dog Show won a Peter Brook and an OffWestEnd Award, return with Still Ill, supported by Complicite. Manchester-based Box Of Tricks return with their stunning Plastic Figurines and new show Narvik. Spring sees Lost Watch present their World War Two-inspired Flew The Coop, and Engineer Theatre Collective’s The Gap In The Light is the much anticipated follow-up to their multi-award nominated show, Run. Among the new companies are Fight In The Dog, presenting two shows, both written by two-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Liam Williams. Travesty transfers from the Edinburgh Festival, and Ricky Whittington & His Cat will be our first-ever pantomime! Our unique Artist Development Programme, launched this year, described as “the most exciting artist development scheme Britain has ever seen”, will continue to support theatre ensembles from all over the country. Our thriving community programme, made possible by our Principal Supporter, British Land, has received a boost from the Evening Standard’s Estate Fund. We have worked with local partners to start Camden Youth Theatre, who will perform their first show, We Wanted To Be The Sky, at New Diorama in early 2017. Alongside our highly successful captioning programme, this season we are introducing relaxed performances, making New Diorama the only studio theatre in the country to be offering relaxed performances across a season for adult audiences. None of what we do here would be possible without your support and enthusiasm, thank you! We look forward to welcoming you in 2016/17. See you in the bar!
NEW DIORAMA STAFF
David Byrne Artistic & Executive Director Sophie Wallis Executive Producer Helen Matravers Producer Jo Salkilld Finance Manager Penny Rischmiller Technical Manager Borkowski Arts & Ents Press Agents Richard Davenport In-house Photographer Natalie York Associate Director Joseph Mason Front of House Duty Manager
NEW DIORAMA BOARD
Philip Graham (Chair) Department of Transport Tom Copley London Assembly Member James Danby British Land PLC Utku Guder Deutsche Bank Sofie Mason Union Representative BECTU Mirium Ryley Financial Services Mark Ross Diorama Arts Elly Rothnie National Theatre Scotland Richard Shannon Artist & Playwright Anthony Vaughan Rosenblatt Law Rachel Valentine Smith NDT Artist Sarah Wilson Producer
NDT ASSOCIATE ENSEMBLES
Idle Motion Rhum and Clay Spare Tyre Third Party
HHHH
“A
TRUNCHEONING
6 – 10 September 2016
Breach Theatre’s
TANK
“English, all the time! Don’t even think in your own language.” In 1965, a researcher lived with a dolphin for ten weeks to try and teach him to speak English – part of a NASA-funded research project into humananimal communication. Condemned by the wider scientific community as an elaborate circus trick, the experiment remains a controversial episode in the space race between the two Cold War superpowers. Commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre, Breach’s followup to critically acclaimed multimedia show THE BEANFIELD explores the politics of language, the power of culture – and what happens when you inject a cetacean with LSD. Winner of the 2015 Total Theatre Award for an Emerging Company.
FORCE”
The Sunday Times on The Beanfield
TUE – SAT 19:00 £12 (£10 conc) TO BUY TICKETS & FIND OUT MORE visit www.newdiorama.com or ring the box office on 0207 383 9034
EVENTS & TALKS There may be events & talks to accompany this production. Please visit our website to find out more. STAGETEXT CAPTIONED PERFORMANCE Saturday 10 September, 19:00
This production is supported by the New Diorama Emerging Companies Fund. Breach Theatre are a New Diorama Emerging Company 2016/17.
HHHHH “PACKED WITH
LAUGH OUT LOUD 6 – 10 September 2016
Fight In The Dog’s
TRAVESTY “Why have you Googled average couple how often sex uk?” Ben doesn’t even like Anna that much; she doesn’t take life seriously enough. And then a couple of years go by and he’s in absolute floods and she just wishes things could be different. This is a play about gender, the ethical dimensions of modern love, and a mandatory sillier third thing to make the thing seem less serious, in this case lemon tart.
MOMENTS”
The Guardian on Liam Williams
TUE – SAT 20:30 £15 (£13.50 conc) TO BUY TICKETS & FIND OUT MORE visit www.newdiorama.com or ring the box office on 0207 383 9034
EVENTS & TALKS There may be events & talks to accompany this production. Please visit our website to find out more. STAGETEXT CAPTIONED PERFORMANCE Saturday 10 September, 20:30
The debut play by double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, Liam Williams. This production is supported by the New Diorama Emerging Companies Fund.
The Mission: Photography by Salvatore Scarpa
“THIS COURSE AND MENTORSHIP ALLOWED US TO TRANSITION FROM GRADUATES INTO PROFESSIONALS”
The Roaring Girls on NDT’s Graduate Emerging Companies Programme 2015
11 – 13 September 2016
GRADUATE EMERGING COMPANIES SHOWCASE New Diorama Theatre runs a programme for the most talented recently graduated theatre companies. Working over a series of sessions, new groups of theatremakers will meet and learn from a variety of industry experts to discuss a broad range of topics–from fundraising and touring to making work accessible. These brilliant companies, sourced from all over the UK, are showcasing their work as they approach the mid–way point of the programme.
Empty Deck’s Cosmic Fear or the day Brad Pitt got Paranoia Fictive Theatre’s Lottery Mad Like Roar’s Alan, We Think You Should Get A Dog Certain Dark Things’ Melancholy Clown Funeral’s The Murderer The Outbound Project’s The Mission
TO BUY TICKETS & FIND OUT MORE visit www.newdiorama.com or ring the box office on 0207 383 9034
EVENTS & TALKS There may be events & talks to accompany this production. Please visit our website to find out more.
Sunday 11 September, 19.00 Sunday 11 September, 20.30 Monday 12 September, 19.00 Monday 12 September, 20.30 Tuesday 13 September, 19.00 Tuesday 13 September 20.30
Richard davenport
HHHHH “WONDERFULLY
BREATHTAKING & HONEST” The New Current
16 – 18 September 2016
Smoking Apples’
IN OUR HANDS Mini seagulls, fish and chips, rolls of nets and boat on sticks. Alf is a trawler fisherman whose experience, camaraderie and loyalty have put him and his boat at the top of the game. But times are changing and so is the industry. How will Alf adapt in order to survive? Follow the journey of a fish from sea to plate, watch a seagull’s ridiculous attempt to find food, and witness a father and son reunite. IN OUR HANDS will transport you out to sea, under the ocean and onto the deck of the Catcher’s Fortune.
FRI – SUN 19:30 £10.50 TO BUY TICKETS & FIND OUT MORE visit www.newdiorama.com or ring the box office on 0207 383 9034
EVENTS & TALKS There may be events & talks to accompany this production. Please visit our website to find out more.
Smoking Apples are an award-winning puppetry and visual theatre company. They create innovative shows, combining puppets, live actors and a unique style of movement. Their previous show, CELL, was critically acclaimed and nominated for a Peter Brook Award. This production is supported by the New Diorama Emerging Companies Fund.
Diarmaid Browne
HHHH
“A REAL
KNOCKOUT” The Stage on Cornermen
20 – 24 September 2016
Smoke & Oakum’s
HAPPY DAVE Dave used to be a DJ, and not just any DJ; he spent his 20s filling fields and dropping beats for thousands of young revelers flocking to the 90s rave scene. All good things must come to an end so now, in his 40s, he finds himself working in an advertising firm selling things he hates. However, old habits die hard and soon Dave is leading a group of young millennials, disenchanted with the lot of Generation Y, back into the fray. Follow up to Smoke & Oakum’s 2015 hit show Cornermen HHHH ‘Thrilling’ The Scotsman, HHHH The Stage.
TUE – SAT 19:30 £15 (£13 conc) TO BUY TICKETS & FIND OUT MORE visit www.newdiorama.com or ring the box office on 0207 383 9034
EVENTS & TALKS There may be events & talks to accompany this production. Please visit our website to find out more. STAGETEXT CAPTIONED PERFORMANCE Friday 23 September, 19:30
This production is supported by the New Diorama Emerging Companies Fund. Smoke & Oakum are a New Diorama Emerging Company 2016/17.
Lucas Smith
HHHH “QUIETLY
COURAGEOUS & PERSONAL” The Guardian
27 September – 22 October 2016
TUES – SATS 19:30 +Saturday Matinees at 15:30
£14.50 (£13.50 conc) TO BUY TICKETS & FIND OUT MORE visit www.newdiorama.com or ring the box office on 0207 383 9034
A new play by Ella Carmen Greenhill “Mum told me that there was something in his brain that was different, she said that he liked to put his toys in lines and that was a symptom or whatever. I used to go in his room and see all his stuffed animals in a line and I’d mess them up. I’d mess the line up.” Rose loves her brother Mikey. Mikey loves Rose, Bruce Willis films and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but he hates change. When their mum is diagnosed with leukaemia, their world is plunged into chaos. Rose returns home to find a very different brother to when she left. Today is his eighteenth birthday and Rose wants everything to be perfect. But life with Mikey isn’t ever that simple. Inspired by events in the playwright’s own life, PLASTIC FIGURINES is a funny and moving new play that explores autism and the relationship between siblings with very different views of the world.
EVENTS & TALKS There may be events & talks to accompany this production. Please visit our website to find out more. RELAXED PERFORMANCE Saturday 15 October, 15:30. STAGETEXT CAPTIONED PERFORMANCE Wednesday 19 October, 19:30
This production is supported by the New Diorama Emerging Companies Fund.
Wellcome Library, London
HHHH “THE KIND OF THEATRE WHICH
TICKLES ITS AUDIENCE:
ACCESSIBLE, INVENTIVE, ENTERTAINING” Exeunt on Dog Show
1 – 19 November 2016
Kandinsky’s
STILL ILL As common on neurology wards as MS, Functional Neurological Disorder looks and feels like a problem with the workings of the brain. Sufferers experience disabling symptoms that range from tremors to seizures and from blindness to paralysis, all with no physical cause. With three actors and live music, STILL ILL looks at the search for meaning that follows a difficult diagnosis – and how it feels to be told there’s nothing physically wrong with you when your brain is telling you you’re sick. Following the success of Dog Show in autumn 2015, STILL ILL is the new show from Kandinsky, exploring the unsettling world of the undiagnosable. Kandinsky is a theatre company with a national and international reputation. Previous productions have twice won the Sunday Times Playwriting Award and been shortlisted for the Carol Tambor Award; most recently Dog Show won the Peter Brook Festival Award 2015 and the OffWestEnd Award for Best Ensemble.
TUES – SATS 19:30 £12 (£10 conc)
PREVIEWS 1 – 3 NOV £15 / £12
TO BUY TICKETS & FIND OUT MORE visit www.newdiorama.com or ring the box office on 0207 383 9034
EVENTS & TALKS There may be events & talks to accompany this production. Please visit our website to find out more. RELAXED PERFORMANCE Thursday 10 November, 19:30 STAGETEXT CAPTIONED PERFORMANCE Thursday 17 November, 19:30
This production is supported by Complicite, Unity Theatre Trust and the New Diorama Emerging Companies Fund.
Image credit: Alberta Jones
HHHHH “PULLED OFF TRIUMPHANTLY...
A CREATIVE, CHARACTERFUL
PRODUCTION”
22 November – 3 December 2016
Rhum and Clay’s
TESTOSTERONE With an adoption of a gender comes a history. One year after his first injection of testosterone, trans man Kit is perceived completely as a man. However, with this triumph comes a crisis of masculinity; what kind of man is he? Within the confines of a distorted male changing room he confronts three icons of masculinity: a sports star, a drag queen, a Marlon Brando impersonator and, ultimately, himself. He bonds, he fights, and he struggles on a quest to discover what it means to feel ‘100% male’. Critically acclaimed Rhum and Clay (Hardboiled and 64 Squares) return with an explosive collaboration with theatre maker Kit Redstone exploring everything that makes us who we are and what we want to be.
Time Out on Hardboiled
TUES – SATS 19:30 £15 (£12.50 conc) +Saturday Matinees at 15:30
TO BUY TICKETS & FIND OUT MORE visit www.newdiorama.com or ring the box office on 0207 383 9034
EVENTS & TALKS There may be events & talks to accompany this production. Please visit our website to find out more. RELAXED PERFORMANCE Saturday 26 November, 15:30
Rhum and Clay are a New Diorama Associate Company. This production is supported by the New Diorama Emerging Companies Fund.
HHHH
“THE FUTURE OF BRITISH COMEDY” The Skinny on Sheeps
10 December 2016 – 7 January 2017
Fight In The Dog’s
RICKY WHITTINGTON & HIS CAT London’s F**ked! A panto for our times. Once upon a ti-etc. there was a nice lad called Ricky Whittington, who lived somewhere that isn’t London. Frustrated by the lack of social and economic opportunities in not-London, he put all his possessions into a handkerchief-tied-to-a-stick and set off to is-London with his (talking–get on board) Cat, who was a li’l prick. Ricky soon learns that the streets are not paved with gold, they’re overrun by rats (which represent disenfranchisement, political disillusionment, economic instability, alienation etc.) and that London isn’t a welcoming place for a young person who makes the bold decision of moving there(/here) without first having been born to rich parents. Written by Daran Johnson (co-writer BBC’s Siblings, Flat TV, People Time) and Liam Williams (twice Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, People Time), featuring song, dance and ALL of London’s best comedy talent.
TUES - SATS 19:30
+ Sat Matinees, 15:30 +Mid-week matinees 15, 21, 22, 23 Dec,15:30 (No performance Sat 24 December)
£16 (£15 conc)
TO BUY TICKETS & FIND OUT MORE visit www.newdiorama.com or ring the box office on 0207 383 9034
EVENTS & TALKS There may be events & talks to accompany this production. Please visit our website to find out more. RELAXED PERFORMANCE Tuesday 20 December, 19:30. CAPTIONED PERFORMANCE Wednesday 4 January, 19:30
This production is supported by the New Diorama Emerging Companies Fund.
Guy Sanders
“A BEAUTIFULLY CRAFTED PIECE
OF NO-FRILLS PHYSICAL THEATRE” The Guardian on Keepers
13 – 14 January 2017
The Plasticine Men’s
THERE SHALL BE FIREWORKS A story from Afghanistan about a plan to change the world. Inspired by the path to Afghanistan, well trodden down the ages by Western merchants, missionaries, hippies and soldiers, THERE SHALL BE FIREWORKS unearths a startling true story from a 200-year-old cemetery in Kabul known as the Kabre Gora (‘the Graveyard of Foreigners’).
FRI – SAT 19:30 £12.50 (£10.50 conc) TO BUY TICKETS & FIND OUT MORE visit www.newdiorama.com or ring the box office on 0207 383 9034
EVENTS & TALKS There may be events & talks to accompany this production. Please visit our website to find out more.
It’s a send off. An American stockbroker turned statesman, thwarted in one wildly ambitious plan to change the world for good, bids farewell to the land that he loves. A haunting new show full of hope and misadventure, THERE SHALL BE FIREWORKS is about being possessed by an idea, and the mortality of human endeavour. The Plasticine Men search for stories together that beg to be told onstage, explore extraordinary worlds that lurk on the edge of hearsay and history, and craft shows of heart and consequence that get under the skin.
This production is supported by the New Diorama Emerging Companies Fund
HHHH
“A BOLD MOVE BY SILENT UPROAR” Hull Daily Mail
31 January – 4 February 2017
Silent Uproar’s
TUE – SAT 19:00 £12.50 (£10.50 conc)
A SUPER HAPPY STORY (ABOUT FEELING SUPER SAD)
TO BUY TICKETS & FIND OUT MORE visit www.newdiorama.com or ring the box office on 0207 383 9034
A new play by Jon Brittain
Sally is a happy person, but she’s also got an illness–one that makes her feel like she isn’t the person she wants to be. Guys, you don’t have to worry - this is a happy story! It is SO happy. If it were a food it would be Skittles, if it were a day it would be Friday night, if it were a person it would be a really cute puppy! It is really, really, really happy. It’s got a happy ending, it’s got a happy middle, everything turns out OK and everyone lives happily ever after. This is a happy story. But it’s also one that’s about depression. Written by Jon Brittain (Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho, Rotterdam, What Would Spock Do?) with music by Matthew Floyd Jones (Mannish from Frisky & Mannish). This production has been made with the support of Fruit in Hull, The Marlowe Studio Theatre, Slung Low’s HUB, City Health Care Partnership, Arts Council England and Hull City Council.
EVENTS & TALKS There may be events & talks to accompany this production. Please visit our website to find out more. CAPTIONED PERFORMANCE Friday 3 February, 19:00
This production is supported by the New Diorama Emerging Companies Fund. Silent Uproar are on New Diorama’s Emerging Companies programme 2016/17 and are a supported artist of Hull Truck Theatre.
1 – 4 February 2017
2017 HULL CITY OF CULTURE: EMERGING COMPANIES SHOWCASE Hull UK City of Culture 2017 and New Diorama, working in collaboration with Hull Truck and University of Hull, present the best and most innovative emerging companies from the city in this showcase of talent as part of its Made in Hull season.
20:30
Full show listings and ticket prices will be announced in October 2016. Details can be found on our website www.newdiorama.com
Hull has always been a hotbed of performative talent inspiring the best and most urgent voices in arts and culture from Anthony Minghella to Cosey Fanni Tutti, The Housemartins to Lucy Beaumont, Richard Bean to Rash Dash. This is an opportunity to see the next generation of theatre makers in an extraordinary double bill which promises to be bold, rebellious, immediate and fun. The full line-up will be announced in October 2016 and the selected companies will perform each evening in a double bill with Silent Uproar’s A Super Happy Story About Feeling Super Sad (Fruit, Hull / Latitude Festival).
Presented in assocaition with Hull City of Culture, Hull Truck and Hull University
Joyce Nicholls
“A VERY BRIGHT DEBUT FROM
A SHINING COMPANY” 29 – 30 January 2017
Camden Youth Theatre’s
WE WANTED TO BE THE SKY We want to tell you everything that’s going to happen so there are no surprises. And we all know what’s coming next.
Camden New Journal
SUN – MON 19:00 £5 (£3 conc) TO BUY TICKETS & FIND OUT MORE visit www.newdiorama.com or ring the box office on 0207 383 9034
EVENTS & TALKS There may be events & talks to accompany this production. Please visit our website to find out more.
And we all feel safe and in control at all times. WE WANTED TO BE THE SKY is a new performance created and performed by a group of teenagers from Camden. It’s about the future, yours and ours. We want to know who’s in charge and what’s already out there written in the stars. Camden People’s Theatre, Fitzrovia Centre and New Diorama Theatre have joined forces to set up a brilliant new Youth Theatre introducing local young people aged 13-19 to the skills they need to make their own inventive new theatre through working with top professional theatre makers.
Camden Youth Theatre is supported by the New Diorama Community Programme and is run with Camden People’s Theatre and Fitzrovia Centre–with special thanks to our rehearsal partner Diorama Arts Studios.
HHHH
“A
POWERFUL
PIECE OF THEATRE”
14 February – 4 March 2017
Lost Watch’s
FLEW THE COOP
This is a true story. Events are told exactly as they happened, apart from the ones that are completely made up. It’s 1943. Rosa Rauchbach and Horace Greasley are creating a little slice of history, and stealing a lot of chickens along the way. The Rauchbach Greasley Association Society Club (RGASC, for short) will tell you all about it. They have a shared obsession with their two national heroes, a fierce pride in their country and only five members. Not that that’s going to stop them. Multi award-winning Lost Watch present Flew the Coop, inspired by the true story of Silesian translator Rosa Rauchbach and Horace Greasley, the British prisoner of war who escaped over 200 times to see her.
The Stage on Goodstock
TUES – SATS 19:30 £14 (£12.50 conc) TO BUY TICKETS & FIND OUT MORE visit www.newdiorama.com or ring the box office on 0207 383 9034
EVENTS & TALKS There may be events & talks to accompany this production. Please visit our website to find out more. RELAXED PERFORMANCE Tuesday 28 February, 19:30 STAGETEXT CAPTIONED PERFORMANCE Wednesday 1 March, 19:30 This production is supported by the New Diorama Emerging Companies Fund. Lost Watch were a New Diorama Emerging Company 2015/16.
Patrick Baldwin
“THIS IS AN IMPRESSIVE,
IMAGINATIVE WORK… CREATIVE AND COMPASSIONATE” Arts Council England on The House
15 – 18 March 2017
Spare Tyre’s
SAFE “Take risk away, and what’s left?” In a climate that thrives on box-ticking, risk-assessing and safeguarding, we desperately try to create a “safe” environment. But have we stopped listening to those we are trying to protect? SAFE follows a theatre company as they attempt to stage a play. An interruption by a health and safety officer begins the demise of the performance, leading to an absurd and comical spiral for both actors and audience. SAFE is a satirical comedy that is at once affecting, exasperating and hilarious. Written by award-winning Pete Lawson, SAFE is performed by the Spare Tyre Artists. SAFE marks the launch of Spare Tyre’s 40th anniversary celebrations.
WED – SAT £6
(See below for times & details) TO BUY TICKETS & FIND OUT MORE visit www.newdiorama.com or ring the box office on 0207 383 9034
EVENTS & TALKS There may be events & talks to accompany this production. Please visit our website to find out more. WED 15 19:30 + Q&A THUR 16 - 19:30 FRI 17 - 14:30 & 19:30 SAT 18 - 19:30
Spare Tyre are a New Diorama Associate Ensemble. This production is supported by the New Diorama Emerging Companies Fund.
Decoy Media
HHHH
“A
THRILLINGLY THEATRICAL ENCAPSULATION
OF A LITTLE-KNOWN THEATRE OF WAR” 21 – 25 March 2017
The Guardian
TUES – SATS 19:30 + Saturday Matinee at 15:30
£14.50 (£13.50 conc)
A new play with songs by Lizzie Nunnery
“If I was to throw myself beneath that tide... If I was to let the water take me, ‘til the cold felt like heat, like love...” Present day. Liverpool. All alone, an old man falls in a basement and loses consciousness. World War Two. Norway. A young sailor with a heart full of hope, longing and courage falls in love. NARVIK tells the story of a Liverpudlian man and a Norwegian woman pulled together and torn apart by war as the events of one summer cause ripples across an ocean of time. Award-winning playwright Lizzie Nunnery explores her dual creative strands – writer and singer/songwriter – to conjure a play where music and words meet, creating a patchwork of memory and dream, truth and fantasy. Inspired by tales of Naval veterans, NARVIK brings to life a powerful story of love, guilt, heroism and betrayal.
TO BUY TICKETS & FIND OUT MORE visit www.newdiorama.com or ring the box office on 0207 383 9034
EVENTS & TALKS There may be events & talks to accompany this production. Please visit our website to find out more. STAGETEXT CAPTIONED PERFORMANCE Friday 24 March, 19:30
This production is supported by the New Diorama Emerging Companies Fund.
Guy Sanders
HHHH
“THE WRITING HERE IS TERRIFIC…
THE CAST IS EXCELLENT,
THEIR PACING EXPERT AND CONSISTENTLY FUNNY” The Skinny on RUN
2 – 27 May 2017
Engineer Theatre Collective’s
THE GAP IN THE LIGHT
A noise in the night, pulling you out of sleep. Your eyes snap open–you’re suddenly hot. Was the sound in a dream or in the house? The front gate? The cat next door? The pipes? The pipes. Relieved, you pull back the covers. Tread softly to the bathroom, the carpet comfortable and familiar. Meet your tired eyes in the mirror and enjoy that there’s still four hours before your alarm goes off and it’s morning. Turn the tap. Fill the glass. Have a drink. Look up.
TUES - SATS 19:30 £15 (£12.50 conc) TO BUY TICKETS & FIND OUT MORE visit www.newdiorama.com or ring the box office on 0207 383 9034
EVENTS & TALKS There may be events & talks to accompany this production. Please visit our website to find out more. STAGETEXT CAPTIONED PERFORMANCE Wednesday 24 May, 19:30
In the mirror behind you, there’s a shape in the dark. Engineer explore what it is to be afraid. Fear inhabits the corners of our lives, perhaps more so now than ever. How do we face, comprehend and endure it? How far can we, or should we, pull the things that scare us into the light? Engineer’s previous show RUN has been nominated for BEST DIRECTOR and BEST ENSEMBLE at the OffWestEnd Awards 2016.
This production is supported by the New Diorama Emerging Companies Fund.
The Other Richard
“A PLACE TO
SEE THE FUTURE” INCOMING audience member
2 – 11 June 2017
A Younger Theatre & New Diorama’s
INCOMING FESTIVAL A festival for theatre companies. A Younger Theatre and New Diorama join forces once again to bring you INCOMING FESTIVAL 2017–ten days of the best emerging theatre companies from across the country. Hosted and curated by New Diorama and A Younger Theatre, this is an unmissable festival for audiences and aspiring theatre-makers alike. Alongisde the curated festival of inspiring performances, there will be workshops, talks and other events.
FRI 2 JUNE – SUN 11 JUNE
TO BUY TICKETS & FIND OUT MORE visit www.newdiorama.com or ring the box office on 0207 383 9034
FESTIVAL ANNOUNCEMENT The full line-up for INCOMING Festival 2017, including workshops and talks, will be announced in Spring 2017. Please visit www.incomingfestival.com for updates All tickets for INCOMING shows are just £5. ENTER YOUR COMPANY FOR INCOMING If you have an emerging theatre company and want to enter a show in INCOMING Festival 2017, please visit the INCOMING page on the New Diorama Theatre website for details. This festival is supported by the New Diorama Emerging Companies Fund.
OUR 2016/17 ARTIST DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME New Diorama is the first ever companies’ theatre: a theatre exclusively dedicated to the development of emerging theatre ensembles. Working with the best early-career theatre companies from all over the UK, New Diorama help grow both the artistic work and the organisational, business skills of each group we programme. Our current artist development programme is our most ambitious to date. When we opened six years ago we wanted to find ways of overcoming the many challenges and hurdles early-career theatre companies face. Our new programme tackles many of these issues head on, finding new solutions to old problems and presenting completely new ideas that we’re proud to be pioneering for the first time. At New Diorama, we provide a whole range of support, from paying the small entry fee for the National Student
Drama Festival for those who otherwise couldn’t afford it to providing interest free cash-flow loans to help get ambitious projects off the ground. We also give grants to exceptional emerging female artistic directors or producers, allowing them to access leadership training, and run crash courses in budgeting, fundraising and everything else a new theatre company needs to get off the ground. Furthermore, we offer travel grants so our artists can be inspired by work happening abroad. And that’s just for starters! To see our full list of artist development opportunities visit www.newdiorama.com/artist-support. If you’d like to support the work we do with artists, or find out more, please email artists@newdiorama.com or call the theatre office on 020 7916 5467.
“THE MOST EXCITING ARTIST DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME THE
COUNTRY HAS EVER SEEN” Exeunt Theatre Magazine
Contacting Us We always love hearing from you and there are many different ways to get in touch. If you have a general enquiry you can either ring the theatre administration number on 0207 916 5467 between 10am and 6pm Monday - Friday or send an email to hello@newdiorama.com. If you’d like to book tickets you can either buy them online via our website by visiting www.newdiorama.com or telephone the box office number between 2pm – 6pm on weekdays on 0207 383 9034.
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Hiring the Theatre New Diorama Theatre is a versatile space which can be tailored to suit a variety of different events. With a range of seating configurations (maximum seated capacity of 81) our team are here to style your event to your specific requirements. Perfect for product launches, seminars, conferences and film screenings, the theatre space also comes equipped with a projector and theatre-style lighting. The seating is also fully retractable, providing a great space for rehearsals and workshops.
Our stylish and friendly in-house ND café/bar can provide for a broad range of catering requirements. If you are interested in hiring the New Diorama, or for further information, please contact hires@newdiorama.com, and a member of the team will be in touch. To discuss a potential event at New Diorama over the phone, please call 0207 383 9036.
Your Visit The New Diorama Theatre Box Office is open an hour before each performance for audience members to collect their tickets. All tickets ordered over the telephone and on the internet are held by the Box Office and are available to pick up in person before each show. At the box office you can also purchase tickets for future performances.
The ND Café & Bar is open from 7.30am Monday–Friday (and an hour before each performance at weekends) serving hot and cold drinks, sandwiches and other light snacks. New Diorama Theatre is located in Regent’s Place, just off Regent’s Park. Regent’s Place is a pedestrian campus, that is well-lit and features many pieces of public art–including works by Anthony Gormley and Julian Opie–as well as bars and restaurants. Visit www.regentsplace.com for more details.
Ticket Info & Access For shows where a concessionary price is offered, we extend these tickets to anyone who is unwaged, those audience members who are full time students, unemployed, retired or under 18. We also offer concessionary priced tickets to full-time carers who visit with disabled patrons. We’re proud that New Diorama is one of the few small theatres in London to be access friendly to visitors using wheelchairs, guide dogs and other mobility aids. We have street level access with the auditorium, café/bar and accessible toilet all on street level. We offer captioned performances for many of our shows in the season, for audience members who are deaf, deafened, hard of hearing or for whom
English is not their first language. The performances are listed in this brochure and online. We also offered relaxed performances for selected shows, perfect for audience members on the Austism Spectrum, those who have a sensory or communication disorder, or anyone who doesn’t enjoy sitting still or silent for a long period of time. Please call the theatre office 0207 916 5467 or email us on hello@newdiorama.com and we’ll be more than happy to help with any requirements or answer any questions. For more information about captioning or relaxed performances please visit our website.
Supporting Us Love New Diorama? Become a Supporter New Diorama support and champion the work of emerging theatre companies from across the UK, giving them a platform to showcase their work in central London, New Diorama also work with each group to develop their artistic and business skills–securing a long-term future for some of the most talented up-and-coming theatre companies.
work a simple way you can help secure our future, enabling us to continue our work.
Alongside this we have an extensive multi-award winning community and outreach programme.
If you are a past or present NDT Artist, we know you value what we do and we’d love your support to help us to continue. You can become an NDT Supporter for a special yearly rate of just £30.
We are a registered charity (278795) and could not continue our work without your support. We’ve launched the NDT Supporters’ Scheme – giving audiences who value our
Become an NDT Supporter for an annual fee of just £50. This donation will help our support of emerging theatre companies and our community engagement. We wouldn’t be able to thank you enough!
For more information on the extra thank you you’ll receive from us, please visit www.newdiorama.com or call us on 0207 383 9034.
NDT in the Community New Diorama is the creative heart of the West Euston community. We are the local theatre for Regent’s Park and Fitzrovia residents, students at UCL and many secondary and primary schools. We directly engage with more than 7,000 local residents each year.
residents that directly benefit from New Diorama’s Community Programme. Working with Camden People’s Theatre, Fitzrovia Centre and Diorama Arts we also run Camden Youth Theatre, a free youth theatre for local 13-19 year olds.
We have four NDT Community Partners: Fitzrovia Youth in Action, Third Age Project, True Heart Theatre and West Euston Partnership. Together they represent the breadth of work supported in our local community, and the cross-section of
To find out more about New Diorama in the community or Camden Youth Theatre, head here: www.newdiorama.com/community, or give us a call on 0207 916 5467.
Finding Us New Diorama Theatre is based on the corner of Regent’s Park, between Great Portland Street and Warren Street Underground Stations and only a short walk to Euston and Kings Cross. Located at the heart of the new Regent’s Place Estate, we can be reached in the following ways: Great Portland Street Station (3 mins walk): Circle, Hammersmith and Metropolitan lines, Warren Street Station (3 mins walk): Northern and Victoria lines, Euston Square (4 mins walk): Circle, Hammersmith and Metropolitan lines, Euston (6 mins walk): Northern and Victoria lines and National Rail
Regents Park (6 mins walk): Bakerloo line & Kings Cross (15 mins walk): Circle, Hammersmith, Metropolitan, Northern, Piccadilly, Victoria lines and National Rail. New Diorama is on the following bus routes: 18, 27, 30, 88, 205, 453, C2, N18 and full directions from your location can be found using our postcode (NW1 3BF). If you are drving please note there is no parking at the theatre and Regent’s Place Estate is pedestrianised. We are located outside the congestion charge zone. There are a number of bike stands on Regent’s Place Estate.
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