By Louise Brodie.
Would you hold hands with me? Not because you love me, or because you must take care of me, or because I'm in distress. Would you hold hands with me just because I asked you to?
By Harry Giles.
We're all in it together. We're all middle class now. Class politics is dead. Class war is over. Class Act is a cutting and irreverent take on these and other lies.
PREVIEW TUESDAY 15 MAY: all tickets £7
In The Pirate Project three women set sail in search of their inner pirate. Expect sword fights, theatrical storms and cross dressing aplenty. Ha Harrrr!
The Waiting Room is an audio piece designed to be accessed on your smartphone via a series of QR codes placed within the Café Gallery. Made up of 12 2-minute chapters, the piece can be experienced in its entirety, through individual character narratives (3-4 chapters) or as 12 ephemeral moments in time.
Accessible via a visitor's smartphone, there will also be specific dates where MP3 players will be available to borrow to listen to the full 24 minute audio piece.
TriForce Promotions, in association with Truth about Youth present:
MonologueSlam UK at Ovalhouse.
Shape-shifting and immortal, Echo has lived through many centuries and many continents. Now in London, she embodies an Asian woman in her late twenties, with secrets to share, histories she feels compelled to repeat.
Echo is a labyrinthine performance piece that splices together and rips apart the act of self-narration
Did you never win musical chairs, or get the prize in pass the parcel?
Well, now’s your chance to try again. Join us for an evening of competitions where you’re certain to get Ten out of Ten.
In the ramshackle, hideaway house of a rebel leader’s family, we enter a world of memories, rituals and secrets. You are invited to share in an intimate family ceremony; a night offering up surprising truths and powerful secrets.
Tuesday - Saturday
Mysteries showcases a selection of paintings by up and coming London based artist Nicholas Peart. In every work on display there is a vast and eternal psychological and emotional landscape containing executions of the mind at different intervals in time. Each painting takes the viewer on a journey to witness these different and forever changing landscapes in all their varying stages.
In this brand new documentary piece, award-winning writer and storyteller Chris Goode explores the flipside of the familiar crisis of faith: what if there really is a God after all?
"one of the most exciting talents working in Britain today" The Guardian
Nick Field's powerful, resonant and intimate story tells of the struggle to find a place to belong as the 20th Century offers a colourful swan song of underground culture, from the monochrome of Goth clubs to the day-glo of New Age raves.