Performance

The Paper Cinema in An Animated Triple Bill

Fri 16 Oct 8pm £10/£7 (concs) Friends £8/£6 (concs)

Exquisite ink drawings brought to life through a hand-made collage of high and low tech landscapes from the wonderfully inspiring Paper Cinema with live music from Kora. The Paper Cinema was devised by artist Nic Beard from ink blotches in his sketchbook, which evolved into fully fledged puppet actors. The highly original theatre company use projections of intricate illustrations to tell their mysterious tales and create a ‘live cinema’ experience - “Fragile and beautiful… sinister and enchanting… wonderful music gives the whole thing the feel of a quirky silent movie.” **** Lyn Gardner, The Guardian. Tonight’s triple bill offers us The Night Flyer – a tale of crossing the night, stolen dreams, lost birds, invisible serpents and mysterious trains- alongside King Pest (based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe). The triptych is completed with an animated reworking of Conan Doyle’s The Lost World as we follow Professor Challenger on his expedition of the Amazon rainforest to encounter dinosaurs, snappy pterodactyls and all sorts of animated hi-jinks. A fine night of animated theatre for all people with a love of the moving image, a vivid imagination and those aged seven and over. A great family night out that won’t break the bank. Book good and early so that you don’t miss this rare opportunity to experience something truly spectacular. To find out more about this great company, take a look at www.thepapercinema.com

The Ding Foundation in Hanging By a Thread

Sat 17 Oct 8pm £10/£7 (concs) Friends £8/£6 (concs)

A yarn knitted from old jumpers, worn, torn and reborn into characters, landscapes and a misshapen story. Cared for by her daughter, on old woman has knitted herself into her bed – a bed, which has a powerful, and surprising will of its own. Using puppetry, objects, performers and music, this is theatre that is both playful and hypnotic, spellbinding and absurd. Hanging by a Thread is devised and performed by Hannah Marshall and Amelia Pimlott with direction from Steve Tiplady. Suitable for people aged 13 and over.

“the Ding Foundation….along with other companies such as Faulty Optic and Blind Summit, are part of a growing strand of British theatre that recognises puppets can sometimes connect with audiences more directly than human performers”
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

Rogue Theatre in The Family

Fri 20 Nov 8pm £10/£7 (concs) Friends £8/£6 (concs)

Rogue Theatre invites you to dinner alongside an evening of chilling stories, dark secrets, haunting music and thorny intrigue in an isolated mansion in the depths of a forest. Our soiree erupts into a revelation of astonishing truths and secrets as the party atmosphere is disrupted by a haunting figure lurking in the shadows. Has truth finally come to dinner? With tales of piracy, voodoo and lost fame woven with gothic poetry, The Family promises a world of powerful narrative blended with vibrant spectacle, fantasy, the supernatural, horror and cabaret. Tonight, we meet Rogue Theatre’s newest creation The Thieves; a theatre band which combines the passion and euphoria of gypsy music (melancholy and nostalgia of tango) with cabaret, bump and grind, jazz and blues. Poetry and text by Anna Maria Murphy, live music, moments of high-pathos, physical performance and a feast of entertainment... Come join the Rogue Family in their spine-chilling new show which pays more than just a customary nod to the annals of Hammer Horror and the gothic tales of yore. Rogue Theatre’s only date in Gloucestershire with their spanking new show – book early to avoid disappointment.