The Junction Sep 足- Dec 12 Performance (01223) 511 511 www.junction.co.uk Cambridge
Introduction
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Sat 29 Sept
Welcome to the autumn performance programme at The Junction. This season we welcome national companies Vincent Dance Theatre and Jasmin Vardimon Company to Cambridge but also engaging and amusing solo shows by Sylvia Rimat, Richard DeDomenici and Victoria Melody. The Junction continues to show great work by local artists and companies. Don’t miss NIE’s seminal work Past Half Remembered and RUT the first work by local lads Michael Faulkner and Finn Morrell. And of course we’re delighted to be a producing partner for local (Welsh) hero Hugh Hughes’ latest adventure, Stories from an Invisible Town. There’s lots for all the family – from French circus to superb story telling by companies from around the UK. To top it all off, we have a fantastic new show for Christmas: The DIY Nativity created by Bryony Kimmings and friends. Whether you’re coming with the kids, looking forward to a new work by your favourite company, getting involved or just trying something new, we look forward to seeing you at The Junction. The Performance Team
Our cafe/bar opens an hour before each performance. Come along early for a drink, we serve fair-trade coffee, tea, soft drinks and a wide range of alcohol. There’s also free Wi-Fi in our foyer. We are family friendly, providing a buggy park and baby change facilities at all our family shows. Plus there’s a car park around the corner with a discount for patrons of The Junction.
Devoted & Disgruntled Roadshow 2012 Photo: Ragnar Freidank
Do you love theatre? Do you find it frustrating? Do you feel audiences don’t get a voice? Do you feel like an outsider in your own profession? Have you just started out and need support? Been in the profession for years and feel jaded? Do you usually dread discussions and meetings? Are you looking to change things? D&D is the place to start... Devoted & Disgruntled is a unique forum led by Phelim McDermott of Improbable. It is a conversation using Open Space which provides a supportive environment in which to discuss the future of theatre and performance.
Time:
10am – 6pm
Price:
Free
The D&D Roadshow brings participants together face to face locally but also online as part of a national initiative. Whether you’re a theatre-goer or theatre-maker, educator or student, we’d like to hear what you have to say. Professional or amateur, we want you all in the same room. Devoted & Disgruntled is your chance to make theatre better. If you care about theatre, if you watch it, make it, organise it or wish it was different, then you are the right person to come along. Sign-up to book your place on the D&D website. “ Devoted & Disgruntled is not just a talking shop – it actually spurs action.” Lyn Gardner, The Guardian
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Tue 18 Sept
Wed 10 Oct
Tue 16 Oct
Wed 17 Oct
Past Half Remembered: New International Encounter
I guess if the stage exploded… Sylvia Rimat
RUT: Night Light Theatre/Kindling
Motherland: Vincent Dance Theatre
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Photo: Laura Montag
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Photo: Hugo Glendinning
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£12 / £8 con / J2
From the company that brought you 2011’s Hansel and Gretel, comes another show full of music and mayhem this time for grownups. First shown in Cambridge in 2004, Past Half Remembered went on to be an international success and returns home fresh from a festival tour to Japan. Winner of the Herald Angel and Total Theatre awards, the show tells the story of Maria Michaliovna whose life spans the Soviet century. The Reds and the Whites do battle, the Germans invade, tea is served from a samovar and there is a very big wedding. Junction Associate Artists New International Encounter present a remarkable tale of love, loss, calamity and hope using their trademark mix of physical theatre, storytelling, multiple languages, European ensemble and live music.
“beautiful and touching” The Guardian
www.nie-theatre.com
£12 / £8 con / J2
£8 / £6 / J3
Performance maker Sylvia Rimat follows the aspirational and possibly impossible goal to present a show never to be forgotten by its audience members—not a single one.
Locked away in his attic, Jack is making epic decisions about his future. This is the story of an ordinary boy determined to be an extraordinary man.
By introducing memory tasks and techniques and applying them to the stage, the audience is systematically trained to remember—hopefully forever. I guess if the stage exploded... draws on presence and sight, on what happens in our brain when we create memories, and our urge to be special and commemorated.
To develop RUT, Michael Faulkner and Finn Morrell, two young Cambridge-based theatre makers, undertook a year long period of competition with each other out in the real world.
Rimat will be joined on stage by a purple vintage floor lamp, several performers from around the world via Skype and a living eagle owl called Ollie.
This is an explosive dance theatre experiment featuring two non-dancers who use storytelling, sound and movement to expand the space and activate the imagination.
Their results provide a surprising backdrop to their story...
I guess if the stage exploded… was commissioned by SPILL Festival 2011 at The Barbican, London. Supported by Arts Council England.
RUT was the 20th Edinburgh Fringe production directed by Rich Rusk.
“A wonderfully inventive performance, that not only questions the nature of performance spectating but also offers tantalising theatrical joy” A Younger Theatre www.sylviarimat.com
***** Whatsonstage on The (Kindling) Project’s Vertigo (2011)
£12 / £8 con / J2
Inching its way through airbrushed beauty, boob jobs and Botox, victim-blaming, slut-shaming, the might of motherhood and the challenges of childlessness, Motherland is a funny and moving show about having it all. Spurred on by Simone de Beauvoir, Caitlin Moran and the Spice Girls, Vincent goes into battle with the big boys, arguing against a narrow, over-sexualized definition of femininity to ask what it is that we really, really want. Blending dance, text and live music Vincent Dance Theatre’s brilliant, multi-talented ensemble of 11 men, women and children take a look at the gender they were born into and the price they are paying for it.
“A crackling intellectual core... It may be bleak, but it’s the real thing.” The Observer
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Theatre & Dance
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Fri 19 Oct
Thu 01 Nov
Popaganda: Richard DeDomenici
Freedom: Jasmin Vardimon Company
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8pm
Duration: 1hr
Duration: 1hr 15
Age: 14+
Age: 14+*
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£8 / £6 con / J3
Sit back and relax to the dulcet tones of Richard DeDomenici’s songs that aren’t real, facts that are funny, and jokes that don’t rhyme, in his new show Popaganda. A jetlagged litterpicker of the world’s cultural landfill, watch DeDomenici throw western civilisation at the wall, caution to the wind, and see what sticks. Like a can of tomato soup Popaganda is condensed, easily digestible, and likely to stain. Presented by house.
Hugh Hughes in Stories from an Invisible Town: Created by Hugh Hughes with Delyth & Derwyn Hughes
£12 / £8 con / J2 My childhood lasted 14 years and 11 days. It started on Thursday August 22nd 1968 and ended on Thursday September 2nd 1982…
Award-winning choreographer and Associate Artist of Sadler’s Wells, Jasmin Vardimon returns with the world premiere tour of her hotly anticipated new work, Freedom. Exploring notions of what keeps our imagination free, this full-length dance theatre production promises breathtaking physicality with beautifully detailed characterisation. Powered by Vardimon’s beguiling theatricality and provocative daring, Freedom will be performed by a versatile company of international dancers, fusing clever animation with live action and inventive set designs. Now a major force on the international dance theatre scene, Jasmin Vardimon Company has enjoyed repeated sell-out success internationally and at Sadler’s Wells. Directed and choreographed by Jasmin Vardimon.
When Hugh Hughes returned to his childhood home in Llangefni to help his mum pack and move house, a tapestry of memories from his past, his family and the town he once called home began to unfold... His memories have grown and grown - bursting from Hugh’s head and into a website for us to explore and enjoy www.invisibletownstories.co.uk Now audiences have the chance to join Hugh, his brother and his sister, as family skeletons leave their closets in this unpredictable and hilarious evening of family stories. Each night, the Hughes family tell us about the good times, the not so good times and everything in between. Playful, theatrical, physical and funny - since 2005 Hoipolloi has presented three award-winning shows by the inimitable Welsh artist Hugh Hughes.
*Contains some adult material. “Beautiful acts of absurdity highlighting more serious issues. Frighteningly effective.”
“Beautiful. A deft theatrical touch”
Time:
8pm
Duration: 2 hrs (approx inc. intervals) Age:
14+
Price:
£12 / £8 con / J2
You can find out more about him at www.hughhughes.me which is packed with great Hugh-related content. Hoipolloi has been applauded the world over for its vivid and thrillingly unique performance style, celebrating the imagination and taking audiences into fantastical worlds where the line between reality and fantasy blurs. Produced by Hoipolloi in association with The Junction. Research and development supported by the Barbican, London and the National Theatre Studio. Hugh will also be sharing some films from his Family Album at the Arts Picturehouse on Sun 28 Oct.
The Observer
The Guardian
www.dedomenici.com
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Mon 22 – Wed 24 Oct
Photo: Ben Harries
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“Few performers provoke such a warm response from an audience as Hughes” The Times
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Theatre & Dance
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Tue 06 Nov
Wed 07 Nov
Theatre & Dance
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Thu 15 Nov
Tue 20 Nov
Northern Soul: Victoria Melody
JAM
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Circus
Art Crush: Byrony Kimmings & Friends
8m3 (Chez Moi Circus & Ni Omnibus): Atelier LeFeuvre et Andre
Photo: Sami Knight / Design: Alexander 6
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8pm
Photo: Matthieu Hagene
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7pm
Photo: My Angels Live Images
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Age: 16+
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£8 / £6 con / J3
Junction Associate Artist and self styled princess of performance art Bryony Kimmings gets Art Crushes. Bad. She finds performers, companies and acts that she loves and then she obsesses about them… singing their songs in the mirror and plastering their posters on her bedroom wall. So she started a night last year called Art Crush, to allow you to fall in love with her current obsessions too! This Autumn Bryony is joined by Dr Brown, Rachel Porter, John Osborne and Rhyannon Styles. Think cheesy Japanese pop, silly games and dribbling heart shaped balloons and you’re half way there! Cabaret style set up with music and a pop up bar.
£9 / £5 con / £23 Family of 4 (max. 2 adults) / J2
“Northern Soul is a bit about northern soul, it’s also a bit about pigeons, but mainly it’s about me” — Victoria Melody
French Circus sensations Atelier LeFeuvre et Andre present their internationally acclaimed double bill.
Directed by international phenomenon and star of La Clique Ursula Martinez, Northern Soul is a hilarious one-woman show about Victoria’s attempts at joining in. Her eccentric ethnographic approach to making performances has found her living with pigeon fanciers and learning to northern soul dance in strangers’ living rooms.
In Chez Moi Circus, a juggler finds himself alone in his caravan, in front of an old television set. In this shrunken space he takes the audience on a journey through his life as an artist. Circus and transport are linked; it’s all about proportions. In Ni Omnibus the landscape comes indoors, music is the engine, the fittings and props, the bus becomes a theatre. Expect plenty of humour, music, and objects coming to life as International Mime Festival favourites Didier Andre and Jean-Paul LeFeuvre demonstrate their unique circus skills. Presented by house and Crying Out Loud. Part of the PASS Cross Circus Channel project. Selected as part of the European cross border cooperation programme INTERREG IV A France (Channel) – England. Co-financed by the ERDF.
“an unabashedly, wacky sweetheart, with a delightful anything-goes air” The Times
£12 / £8 con / J2
Immersing herself in other people’s worlds, Victoria examines national characteristics, focusing on the extraordinary in the everyday. She explores Britain’s pastimes, passions and tribes. A treasure trove of films, photos and paraphernalia accompany her journey in this comedic, engaging and hopeful performance.
“Their circus abounds with minimalist illusions. A small, a great, a light, a profound intimate show. Marvellous!” www.lefeuvre-andre.com
JAM is The Junction’s experimental work-in-progress night and in many ways the core of our artist development programme. It is an opportunity for artists, companies and collectives (across art-form) to test ideas, early collaborations and take risks in a supportive, informal environment. Work often has its first public outing at JAM so the audience has a significant role to play too; the chance to offer feedback, take part in critical debates and help shape the direction of a future piece of work. Previous JAM nights have included first showings of work by Gecko, Tilted Productions, Made In China, The Plasticine Men, Michael Pinchbeck and NIE. This season’s JAM line up will be announced online.
Performed and devised by Victoria Melody. Produced by Farnham Maltings. Supported by The Basement. Funded by Arts Council England. “She’s an actress, she’s a performance poet she is a comedian… Northern Soul is brilliant!” BBC London Radio
Karl Harb, Salzburger Nachrichten
www.bryonykimmings.com
PWYL / J2
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Artist Development
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Tue 04 – Sun 30 Dec
Drew Taylor / Photo: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan
SHOWCASES The DIY Nativity: Bryony Kimmings
Fri 31 Aug
Fri 26 Oct
Chromotherapy: Drew Taylor
The Altruists Menagerie
Time: 8pm
Time: 7pm
Duration: 50 mins
Duration: 1hr 30 (+30 mins feedback)
Age: 16+
Age: 16+
Price: £PWYL / J3
Price: Free* / J3
shade of pink; make you most girly? a little grey; spoil a chest rug curly? camouflage print preferable to floral? what colour choice to epitomise my epidural?
Swinging London. 1967. George, an isolated and driven American scientist works alone at the very edge of his reason.
Photo: Daniel Ciufo / Design: Alexander 6
It’s Christmas time... There’s no need to be afraid! Unless of course you’ve been tasked with making the most spectacular nativity of all time using only your wardrobe, some old instruments, a mountain of cardboard and your seriously fanciful charms! This December join Bryony, Sam and Stuart as they battle to build the perfect Christmas show… from scratch. Expect fat Santas, three kings, Christmas hits, flat pack construction, the Queen’s speech, a little donkey and a whole lot more. Escape the sprouts, stuffing and stocking fillers for a riotous celebration of all the joys and terrors of the festive season and you may even find the true meaning of Christmas along the way.
Time:
Various (see website)
Duration: 1hr Age:
4+
Price:
£11 / £6.50 con / £29 Family of 4 (max. 2 adults) / J2
It’s a DIY nativity for all ages and you guys are in charge!
Award winning poet, Drew Taylor, has decided to give a little back, helping in only the way he knows how: with colour.
(Interactive but not scary… we promise!) Plus two special late night shows for grown-ups!
Exploring the social context of colour from pink etymology, to grey hair capability chronology... to 1970s hanky colour coding and living synaesthesic foreboding; We Are All Influenced By Colour (whether we recognise it or not). Guided by a Suffolk voice “raw, clever and disturbing” (The Scotsman) have another look at your own colourful microcosm, through this poetic work-in-progress exploration.
Bryony Kimmings is a Junction Associate Artist. Created with Stuart Bowden and Sam Halmarack.
“an unabashedly, wacky sweetheart, with a delightful anything goes air” www.bryonykimmings.com
The Times
Supported by Escalator Performing Arts. 10
www.drewtaylorartist.wordpress.com www.drew-taylor.tumblr.com
He makes scientific breakthrough after breakthrough while giving away all his possessions and living rough among the poor and addicted lost souls of London. The Altruists delves into the no-mans land between genius and psychosis, amid George’s search for the genetic basis of kindness. Inspired by the life and work of evolutionary biologists, George Price, Bill Hamilton and John Maynard Smith, this stunning and original play won the prestigious STAGE International Playwriting Competition and is being developed for the Hotbed Festival 2013. Part of the Festival of Ideas. *Reserve your free ticket at www.cam.ac.uk/ festivalofideas www.menagerietheatre.co.uk
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Other Events Sat 13 Oct
Gary Stevens Master Class / Mad Artists Tea Party: Activator Programme / Caroline Wright Time:
10am – 1pm (master class) / 2- 5pm (tea party)
Age: 16+ Price:
Free* / J3
Take part in a master class with award winning artist Gary Stevens, well known for his works Ape and Not Tony. His unique use of text and speech in a visual art context is formal, yet seems casual. It describes and defines a fictive space and situation but the conspicuous invention confronts us with something real. Stevens created and continues to run the Performance Lab at Artsadmin. The master class is followed by an afternoon of cakes and tea, art and talking, information and performing. Meet, share and network with other artists working in live and performance work.
(01223) 511 511 Sat 13 Oct – Sat 17 Nov
Young Writers Workshop: Presented by Menagerie Time:
Sun 21 Oct
Stuck: Big Wooden Horse
There’s a Monster in My Piano: Garlic Theatre
Time: 11.30am & 2.30pm Duration: 50 mins Age: 3+ Price: £9 / £5 con / J2 Family of 4: £23 (max 2 adults)
Time: 11.30am & 2.30pm Duration: 45 mins Age: 4+ Price: £9 / £5 con / J3 Family of 4: £23 (max 2 adults)
A tale about a little boy in a very sticky situation!
What do you do when you hear a strange munching noise inside a piano?
It all begins when Floyd gets his kite stuck in a tree. He throws up his shoe to shift it, but that gets stuck, so he throws up his other shoe and that gets stuck too. Along with the cat, a ladder, a pot of paint, the kitchen sink, an orangutan and a whale, amongst other things!
Call the Piano Doctor of course. He might be able to help with his bag full of ears and his collection of weird and wonderful tools. But when he looks inside - the musical notes are packing their bags and running away. What are they scared of and who is hammering at the keys?
Will Floyd ever get his kite back?
Garlic Theatre delight children and adults with this offbeat jazzy tale. Starring puppets, clowning, animation and a very highly strung monster indeed.
© Oliver Jeffers 2011
2 – 5pm
Age: 16+ Price:
Sun 23 Sep
£30* / Boardroom
Are you a writer for the stage, 16 - 25, living in the East of England? Do you want to develop your playwriting craft? Menagerie is hosting a series of 6 workshops for a group of 12 promising writers at The Junction. You will share your work, develop critical skills and hear from a variety of working playwrights. The workshops are a unique opportunity to focus on writing, to meet like-minded artists and to expand horizons. Stevens created and continues to run the Performance Lab at Artsadmin. *The workshops are open by application only. Please send a letter of interest, detailing why you would like to join, along with a CV, to patrick@menagerie.uk.com. To apply, you must be able to attend all 6 of the workshops.
With original music and plenty of audience participation, this brand new story by Oliver Jeffers has been adapted into an exciting new production by the team behind last year’s smash hit The Way Back Home.
Devised and led by Caroline Wright for Colchester Arts Centre and New Work Network’s Activator Programme and is part of Escalator Live Art. *Limited capacity. Reserve a place ahead. www.menagerie.uk.com
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Diary Tue 30 Oct
Wed 07 Nov
Little Red... You Know Who!: Freehand Theatre
8m3 (Chez Moi Circus and Ni Omnibus): Atelier LeFeuvre et Andre
Time: 11.30am & 2.30pm Duration: 50 mins Age: 3–7 Price: £9 / £5 con / J2 Family of 4: £23 (max 2 adults)
Time: 7pm Duration: 1 hr 45 Age: 7+ Price: £9 / £5 con / J2 Family of 4: £23 (max 2 adults)
Taking a well-known story (you know which!), this spell-binding play follows a magical path through the woods. A memorable and reassuring journey with a delightful use of puppetry, colour and specially composed music. Listen to the song of the red box, watch a forest grow before your very eyes and find out how an endearing bear gets in on the action!
French Circus sensations Atelier LeFeuvre et Andre present their internationally acclaimed double bill Chez Moi Circus and Ni Omnibus. Expect plenty of humour, music, and objects coming to life as International Mime Festival favourites Didier Andre and Jean-Paul LeFeuvre demonstrate their unique circus skills.
Sun 18 Nov
Tue 04 – Sun 30 Dec
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Season at a glance...
Key:
PE DA FT SH CL AN
Performance Dance Family Theatre Showcase Classes Arts Network
Aug 31 SH Drew Taylor: Chromotherapy
PG
18 PE NIE: Past Half Remembered 23 FT Big Wooden Horse: Stuck 29 AN Devoted & Disgruntled Roadshow 2012
PG
04
PG
13
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Sep
PG
03
Oct PG 10 PE Sylvia Rimat: 04 I guess if the stage exploded... PG 12 13 CL Gary Stevens Master Class PG 12 13 AN Mad Artists Tea Party PG 12 13 – CL Young Writers 17 Nov Workshop 16 PE Night Light Theatre/Kindling: PG 05 RUT PG 05 17 DA Vincent Dance Theatre: Motherland PG 06 19 PE Richard DeDomenici: Popaganda
The Elves and the Shoemakers: Theatre Hullabaloo
The DIY Nativity: Bryony Kimmings
Time: 11.30am & 2.30pm Duration: 50 mins Age: 3+ Price: £9 / £5 con / J2 Family of 4: £23 (max 2 adults)
Time: Various (see website) Duration: 1 hr Age: 4+ Price: £11 / £6.50 con / J2 Family of 4: £29 (max 2 adults)
Once, there were two shoemakers who were very old and very poor, so poor they couldn’t even afford to buy Christmas presents for each other. But one Christmas Eve, two little elves decided to spread a little bit of magic which would make a whole lot of difference. Contains live music, puppetry, physical storytelling and a sprinkling of elf magic.
This December join Bryony and friends as they battle to build the perfect family Christmas show… from scratch. Armed with old instruments, an insanely festive wardrobe and lots of cardboard, the whimsical crew invite you and your family to escape the sprouts for a riotous celebration of all the joys and terrors of the holidays… you may even find the true meaning of Christmas along the way!
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21 FT
Garlic Theatre: There’s a Monster in My Piano
PG
22 – PE 24
Hugh Hughes: Stories from an Invisible Town
PG
26 SH Menagerie: The Altruists 30 FT Freehand Theatre: Little Red... You Know Who!
PG
11
PG
14
PG
06
PG
08
PG
08
PG
09
PG
15
PG
09
Nov 01 DA Jasmin Vardimon Company: Freedom 06 PE Bryony Kimmings & Friends: Art Crush 07 PE / Atelier LeFeuvre et Andre: FT 8m3 (Chez Moi Circus & Ni Omnibus) 15 PE Victoria Melody: Northern Soul 18 FT Theatre Hullabaloo: The Elves and the Shoemakers 20 PE JAM
Dec 04 – PE / Bryony Kimmings: 30 FT The DIY Nativity
PG
10 /14
13
07
The Junction also presents a unique and acclaimed programme of comedy, clubs and live music. For further details of all upcoming events visit www.junction.co.uk
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The Junction also presents a unique and acclaimed programme of comedy, clubs and live music. For further details of all upcoming events visit www.junction.co.uk Address:
The Junction, Clifton Way Cambridge, CB1 7GX
Email:
tickets@junction.co.uk (enquiries only)
Box Office:
01223 511 511 Open Mon – Sat 3-6pm (and 1 hr before events). Book online 24 hrs a day at www.junction.co.uk
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Cover Image: 8m3 (Chez Moi Circus & Ni Omnibus): Atelier LeFeuvre et Andre Photo:
Matthieu Hagene
Access:
The Junction is fully accessible. If you would like to discuss any access requirements prior to your visit, please call the Box Office on (01223) 511 511.
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