Festival

Performing Arts

  • OperaUpClose

    OperaUpClose

    OperaUpClose is dedicated to presenting new, difficult and classic operas in intimate spaces with world-class trained singers and directors, bringing opera to life for diverse audiences and to offer the extraordinary opportunity to experience the dramatic and musical event of opera up close. Performing Saturday

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  • Peterson Toscano performance

    Peterson Toscano: Transfigurations

    Hilarious and moving, Toscano's one-person play deepens well-known (and lesser-known) Bible stories as he presents an array of characters with an array of genders. Performing Friday & Saturday

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  • Tayo Aluko

    Call Mr Robeson

    Paul Robeson is a great and famous actor, singer and civil rights campaigner. When he gets too radical and outspoken for the establishment's liking, he is branded a traitor to his country, is harassed, and denied opportunities to perform or travel. Performed Sunday & Monday

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  • God Particle

    The God Particle

    Written by James Cary, co- writer of hit BBC sitcom Miranda, The God Particle is a romantic comedy about science and religion. A search for faith, knowledge, love and the importance of keeping an open mind. It’s Rev meets Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Performing Saturday

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  • On the Edge

    Kepow Theatre: On the Edge

    An exploration of those moments in life when we are On the Edge! Falling in love, leaving home, getting a job, bungee jumping, you name it, this show explores it! Performing Monday

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  • Clean Break: Dream Pill

    Clean Break: Dream Pill

    Clean Break is a theatre company with an independent education programme. Both strands of our work are rooted in the belief that theatre changes lives. Performing Saturday

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  • Cardinals

    The Cardinals

    The Cardinals is the story of a show within a show. Three cardinals are on tour, using a large puppet theatre to tell a history of the world. Their production runs seamlessly from Bible stories through The Crusades to contemporary Middle Eastern politics and, ultimately, The Apocalypse. The …

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  • Paper Cinema

    The Paper Cinema

    Equal parts puppet show, cinema show and slide show, The Paper Cinema is a fascinating, haunting and clever mix of live music and animation.

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