Cross Cut Theatre
Shadow Boxing
7TH - 12TH OCT 7:30PM, 3:30PM £12 (£10 CONC)
New International Encounter
Museum of Memories
7TH - 12TH OCT 7:30PM, 2PM, 5PM £12.50 (£9.50 CONC)
The son of a boxer who couldn’t win, Flynn is determined not to end up like his father. He becomes a successful fighter through utter dedication. But is his gruelling training a way of avoiding aspects of himself he’d rather not face?
Critically acclaimed and award winning theatre company NIE - New International Encounter return to the Pleasance with their mix of physical theatre, multiple languages, and immersive storytelling.
A crisis builds as he moves closer to a title fight, and the play rushes to a shattering conclusion. Shadow Boxing presents a struggle for dignity and respect. It pulls no punches in its depiction of a boxer facing his toughest opponents yet, his personal demons.
Five actor-musicians, in a set constructed of 70m2 of rusty draws, explore the way that one life touches another, the important things that pass between us and the ripples and echoes that we leave behind in their new show.
“Effortless precision” ★★★★ The Scotsman
After the performance you are free to explore the space, open drawers, look at pictures and objects and discover memories...
★★★★★ Broadway Baby ★★★★★ Three Weeks ★★★★★ Scots Gay “MUST SEE” The Stage
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Shakespeare Schools Festival 13TH - 17TH OCT 7PM £8.75 (£6.75 CONC) Shakespeare Schools Festival are throwing the Bard the biggest 450th birthday party with their largest festival to date. 35,000 young people will take to professional stages across the UK. From Southampton to Inverness, from Londonderry to Norwich, 130 theatres will be hosting a party to remember. Each night four schools will perform excerpts from four different Shakespeare plays. Come and party with Shakespeare and celebrate the achievements of your local schools in a wonderful evening of entertainment.
Poleroid Theatre
Free Fall
Smooth Faced Gentlemen
Work Bard, Play Bard 19TH OCT 6PM £10 (£8 CONC)
Come and enjoy a Bard day’s night with an eclectic platter of different scenes, monologues, and extracts of Shakespeare’s work, each created in a different style by a different group. Featuring winners of the IdeasTap “Work Bard / Play Bard” contest plus scenes from a variety of invited special guests, and of course, Smooth Faced Gentlemen themselves. Expect a variety of approaches: from gender-flipped scenes and single-sex extracts, to radical re-interpretations and powerhouse performances of the best of the Bard, as we explore what he’s got to say on the subject of ladies and gentlemen.
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14TH OCT - 1ST NOV 7:45PM, 5PM £12 (£10 CONC) Midnight at the Dartford Crossing; Roland’s settled in for another thrilling night supervising the toll machines; Andrea’s pretty sure she’s come to kill herself. Neither of them wants to be there. Both think the other’s crazy. Still, it’s nice to have company. Two strangers on a bridge in the dead of night, a game of dominoes, and a value ready meal – HighTide Escalator playwright Vinay Patel’s new play explores humanity, desperation and hope. Fresh from the success of his debut play True Brits (“an intelligent, beautiful piece of theatre”, Broadway Baby) at Edinburgh Fringe, Free Fall is Vinay Patel’s first piece to be staged in London and is directed by the multi-award winning Bethany Pitts (Spine at Underbelly/Soho - Fringe First, Herald Angel, Stage Award) and designed by the OFFIE nominated Petra Hjortsberg (Occupied at Theatre503). Praise for Poleroid Theatre: “Poleroid Theatre’s show should be at the top of this week’s list for all theatre goers” RemoteGoat.com
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Spring 1944 - Seven Soviet soldiers have been captured by the Nazis, imprisoned naked and without possessions in the empty cellar of a monastery and then abandoned by their captors. Stripped of all ties to their world before, the prisoners abandon and redefine their concepts of order, society, and human nature. To survive, the men contemplate murder and cannibalism. How do they reconcile rank, faith, dignity and humanity? Powerful, thought-provoking and darkly funny, The Curing Room comes to London after causing a huge stir at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Written by David Ian Lee and directed by Joao de Sousa, The Curing Room is a bold, shocking thriller based on true events. “Violent and explicit, quietly moving” Libby Purves “Powerful stuff” The Guardian “A tense drama... richly scripted” The Observer
21ST OCT - 9TH NOV 7:30PM & 10PM £15 (£12 CONC)
“A bold, brave, powerfully disturbing show” ★★★★ The List
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Contains full frontal nudity throughout
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SON BEST OF EDINBURGH COMEDY SEASON BEST The Martini Encounter Don’t Tell Mother! CATRIONA KNOX MASSIVESEASONBEST DAD SON2NDBEST OF EDINBURGH COMEDY Cabaret at the Pleasance £6 3RD NOV 7:45PM & 5TH NOV 9PM NOV 7:45PM £6 SON BEST OF EDINBURGH COMEDY SEASONBEST 24TH OCT 10PM SON BEST OF EDINBURGH COMEDY SEASONBEST £10 (£8 CONC) SON BEST OF& SURNAME EDINBURGH COMEDY SEASONBEST SURNAME TOM NEENAN £6 4THCOMEDY £6 NOV 7:45PMOF EDINBURGH NOV 9PM SON4TH BEST SEASONBEST SON BEST OF EDINBURGH COMEDY SEASONBEST SON BEST OF EDINBURGH COMEDY SEASONBEST KIERAN HODGSON BEC HILL SON5TH BEST OF EDINBURGH COMEDY £6 6TH NOV 7:45PM SEASONBEST £6 NOV 7:45PM & 7TH NOV 9PM SON BEST OF EDINBURGH COMEDY SEASONBEST WORK IN SON BEST OF EDINBURGH COMEDY SEASONBEST SON6TH BEST OF EDINBURGH COMEDY SEASONBEST LAZY SUSAN DAVID ELMS PROGRESS £6 7TH NOV 7:45PM £6 NOV 9PM SON BEST OF EDINBURGH COMEDY SEASONBEST SON BEST OF EDINBURGH COMEDY SEASONBEST COMEDY SEASON SON BEST OF EDINBURGH COMEDY SEASONBEST HENNESSY & FRIENDS £6 AllCOMEDY NOV 7:45PMOF EDINBURGH shows £6 orSEASONBEST see two for £8 SON8TH BEST December - February (subject to availability) SON BEST OF EDINBURGHToCOMEDY SEASONBEST book call the Box Office on 020 7609 1800 All Tickets £5 SON BEST OF EDINBURGH COMEDY SEASONBEST ★★★★★ ThreeWeeks
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Ssh... Don’t Tell Mother is an all new, late night, monthly cabaret club for London night-crawlers, hosted by the naughty but ever so nice close harmony-singing, ukulele-strumming trio. Don’t Tell Mother fuses threadbare but jolly end of the pier variety with a seedy kabaret bunker and smoulders with an astonishing monthly selection of the bizarre, the hilarious and the extreme.
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This month: Self-styled eco hipster Tim Redfern (aka Timberlina), delectable Iwona Boesche, violin impresario looking for her big break, and the young Eastern European beauty Jan Rautio twiddling on the piano, plus others to be announced.
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LAMDA (London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art) is one of the world’s leading drama schools. They provide exceptional vocational training for actors, directors, stage managers and technicians.
Henry IV Part 1
Pipeline Theatre
Streaming
26TH NOV - 4TH DEC 7:30PM, 3PM, 2PM £10 (£6 CONC)
11TH - 30TH NOV 8PM £12 (£10 CONC) Welcome to webcamland.
One of Shakespeare’s most popular history plays, Henry IV Part I reflects on the difficulties of wielding power, exercising leadership and inspiring loyalty, whether that be between father and son or monarch and subject.
Rosa, 15, innocent, privately educated, has lost her mother; her father has lost his house and business. Leaving behind a world of weekly allowances and Italian holidays, they find themselves in cheap rented accommodation with a reclusive new neighbour - Candy, webcamming in her bedroom; £3.50 a minute, 20 punters a night.
Love’s Labour’s Lost
27TH NOV - 4TH DEC 7:30PM, 2PM £10 (£6 CONC)
Unexpected life lessons are about to be learnt. Cornwall based Pipeline Theatre Company, who achieved critical acclaim with their first show Transports (“Beautiful, heartbreaking, effortless” A Younger Theatre), return to London to investigate coming of age in the modern world with their daring new show, Streaming.
Watch and enjoy as love - or at least lusty excitement - makes fools of almost everyone in Shakespeare’s raucous romantic comedy, no matter how much they try to resist.
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DR. SEUSS’S
Paul Taylor-Mills Ltd presents
From the moment his tall, red and white striped hat appears around the door, Sally and her brother know that The Cat in the Hat is the funniest, most mischievous cat they have ever met. With the trickiest of tricks and craziest of ideas, he turns a rainy afternoon into an amazing adventure. But what will mum find when she gets home? An adaptation of The National Theatre’s production based on the much loved book by Dr Seuss, The Cat in the Hat is a lively and engaging first theatre experience for young children aged 3+. Expect towering hats, mischief and an imagination recharge! “Triumphs as the maestro of mischief” ★★★★ The Stage
Based on the book by Dr. Seuss Play originally produced by the National Theatre of Great Britain Adapted and originally directed by Katie Mitchell
8TH - 12TH DEC 10:30AM & 1:30PM 14TH & 15TH DEC 11AM & 2PM 16TH - 19TH DEC 10:30AM & 1:30PM 20TH DEC - 4TH JAN 11AM & 2PM
“A superb adaptation… a dazzling experience.” Primary Times
£7 £12.50 (£11 CONC) £7 £12.50 (£11 CONC)
No Performances Christmas Day, Boxing Day & New Year’s Day
Presented by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Limited on behalf of Music Theatre International of New York
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Let Them Call It Mischief
Jess Robinson: Mighty Voice
9TH DEC - 4TH JAN 7:30PM, 5PM MON - THURS: £12 (£10 CONC), FRI - SUN: £13.50 (£12 CONC)
18TH DEC & 20TH DEC 9:30PM £10 (£9 CONC)
A Christmas Carol
Expect festive fun and frolics as Let Them Call It Mischief, a vibrant company renowned for their work with the classics (“Bound to thrill audiences” A Younger Theatre), bring their sense of irreverent Christmas cheer to Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Ebenezer Scrooge is miserable, angry and just plain mean - even at Christmas time. When he gets visited by the ghost of his old friend Jacob Marley on Christmas Eve, Scrooge knows this won’t be any normal festive period. Join Scrooge as he’s taken on a magical journey by a host of wonderful characters that will change his life forever.
Featuring live accompaniment from fabulous flame-haired Kirsty Newton (Arthur Smith Sings Leonard Cohen). With a mind-boggling, show-stopping finale extravaganza, come see Liza Minnelli rapping with Nicki Minaj, Shirley Bassey singing Nirvana, Jessie J in a sing off with Bjork and much more! ‘Terrific’ (Times). ★★★★★ Edinburgh Evening News
Praise for Let Them Call It Mischief: “Laugh out loud… an entertaining evening of exemplary, emotional evocations.” ★★★★ Whatsonstage.com “Slick, beautifully executed and most importantly, very very funny.” ★★★★ ViewsFromTheGods.co.uk
★★★★ Chortle
★★★★ The Telegraph
★★★★ The Stage
★★★★ Edinburgh Reviews
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Kirsty Newton
“Excellent production” ★★★★ RemoteGoat.com
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Join the star of BBC1’s Dead Ringers, Impressions Show, and Jim Cartwright’s Little Voice for a sublime hour of laughter as she impersonates everyone from classic Hollywood stars to pampered pop celebs. Discover why Jess is a mimic (her overbearing Jewish mother) and learn some impressions so you can impress your mates.
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Proudly supported by the Pleasance, and now in its eighth year, the NSDF Emerging Artist Award brings the best of new work from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to a London audience. The best and brightest work from the biggest festival in the world, for one week only.
“Once again the excellent Young Pleasance has come up trumps” The Scotsman
Lost Watch
KATE
7TH - 11TH JAN 7:30PM £10 (£8.50 CONC)
Iceland. 1940. The British are coming. With 25,000 British troops arriving in Reykjavik, the women of Iceland certainly have something to focus on. KATE is the story of one Icelandic family following the outbreak of the war, with their wayward daughter Selma and helpful lodger Kate. A lively reflection on the shared and lost history between Britain and Iceland, with live music and gale force winds.
Young Pleasance
#MyWay
19TH - 23RD DEC 5PM £10 (£8 CONC)
Naughty Corner
Our Sinatra-obsessed teenager plunges into the Twittersphere in pursuit of his digital darling, but she’s too busy choosing her Instagram filter. A stunning new contemporary comedy with a cast of 30, populated with young talent the likes of which “makes many of the adult ensembles at the Fringe squirm with envy” (Skinny), and filled with wry and comic observation of the social media vortex in which teenagers revolve. Young Pleasance presents a strictly limited run of their swirling multimedia love story for now, direct from the Edinburgh Fringe. “An exuberant, high-energy, inventive production with strong ensemble performances that is totally relevant to these youngsters and is an absolute delight” ★★★★★ British Theatre Guide “A genuinely funny and gratifying piece” ★★★★ Broadway Baby
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The Bastard Queen 7TH - 11TH JAN 8:50PM £10 (£8.50 CONC) The Bastard Queen is a brand new and original piece of writing that made its debut as a Naughty Corner production at the Fringe this year. A pitch-black comedy set two years after the end of the world in a post-apocalyptic Britain which follows the survival of the last five people left on earth.
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Carpenters Mews, North Road, London N7 9EF 020 7609 1800 www.pleasance.co.uk
UNDERGROUND Caledonian Road - Piccadilly line (5 minutes walk) OVERGROUND Caledonian Road and Barnsbury (15 minutes walk)
Mon - Sun 10am - 6pm On performance days Box Office will remain open until the start of the final performance.
CONCESSIONS
Concession rates (where advertised) are available with proof of status for Under 18s, Senior Citizens, Students, Registered Unemployed, Disabled, Visually Impaired, Deaf or Hard of Hearing Visitors. Carers and Personal Assistants can attend free of charge. Group and Schools discounts are available on selected events, please contact the Box Office directly.
BUS Bus 393 stops right directly outside the theatre with buses 17, 91, 259 and N91 all stopping at Caledonian Road Underground Station, 5 minutes walk away. PARKING Metered on-street parking is available outside the theatre Mon to Fri 10am – 4.30pm with free parking evenings and weekends.
BOOKING FEES AND POSTAGE
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Please note tickets sold are non-refundable and cannot be exchanged. Latecomers may not be admitted.
ACCESS
Pleasance Theatre strives to provide access for all. Our Main House is fully accessible via a lift from street level, we have infrared hearing system in both performance spaces, accessible toilets and Guide Dogs are welcome. Sadly at present our StageSpace does not have step free access. Our aim is to make your visit as enjoyable as possible for further information or to discuss any access requirements please contact Box Office.
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