TARA - September 2011
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
TARA has a varied programme lined up for September 2011.
The Mysteries, for children aged 6 – 11, marks the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible – September 10 (10.30am and 1.30pm).
Building on techniques developed by the highly-successful and well regarded junior schools tours of Tara Arts’ When the Lights Went Out, The Mysteries will introduce children to the epic Bible stories from Creation to the Last Judgement.
Tickets: £8.50, £7.50 concessions.
The Funnyside of Earlsfield – September 10 (8.30pm). Also on October 8, November 12 and December 17.
A regular stand up comedy night at Tara Theatre, The Funnyside of Earlsfield showcases the very best performers from around the UK including new, emerging talent alongside established acts from the world of TV and radio. Visit www.tara-arts.com for line-ups.
Tickets: £10.
Brian Patten – Growing Up Before Your Very Eyes – September 15 (7.30pm).
Growing Up Before Your Very Eyes slips from first to second childhood and back again, with a little chaos and much humour on the way!
Liverpool poet Brian Patten takes audiences on an hilarious, sometimes heart-rending and always fascinating journey through a chaotic boyhood, a love-struck adolescence, a disrespectful middle-age and skirmishes with the grim reaper, to leave them teetering on the brink of yet another childhood.
Booksigning after show.
Tickets: £12.50.
A Tiger’s Wedding – September 20 (7.30pm). Sold Out
Actress Isla Blair’s extraordinary, moving and uplifting story of her childhood in India and her separation from her parents.
Bosom Buddies with Jack Klaff – September 22 and 23 (7.30pm).
Straight from Edinburgh and following the success of Gandhi’s Sandals (May 2011), Jack Klaff brings his full show to Tara Theatre.
In it, he plays Einstein, Bohr, General Smuts, Gandhi, Hitler, Stalin, Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, Kennedy, Khrushchev, Freud, Jung, Einstein’s daughter, Ottoline Morrell, Jackie Onassis, Margarete Buber-Neumann and the psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein.
Tickets: £11.50, £7.50 concessions.
Asian Provocateurs – September 23 (9.30pm) and September 24 (7.30pm).
Asian Provocateurs are comedy writer-performers Sajeela Kershi and Yasmeen Khan, the UK’s only female British Asian sketch duo. Finalists in the 2011 New Act of the Year competition, they debuted their satirical sketch show at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Featuring media-spoofs, cross-cultural comedy and original characters, the show explores preconceptions about what it means to be a British Asian woman today.
Tickets: £11.50, £7.50 concessions.
A Roo In My Suitcase, for children aged 3 – 6 and their families – September 24 (10:30am and 1:30pm).
When Rosie Harris arrives in the UK from Down Under, she discovers she’s brought a suitcase full of stowaways! Kangaroos, koalas and other Australian animals join her as she tries to find where she really belongs. But will Rosie and her animal pals fit in?
Can they make new friends, as they share amazing stories about wildlife, Aussie-style?
Tickets: £8.50, £7.50 concessions.
The 14th Tale with Inua Elams (part of Black History Month) – September 27 to October 1 (7.30pm).
The 14th Tale is a free flowing mellifluous narrative that tells the hilarious exploits of a natural born mischief growing from the clay streets of Nigeria to the roof tops of Dublin, and finally to London. Elams vividly recreates the characters that punctuate his upbringing in deft and beautiful poetry, while challenging the audience’s expectations of what it is to be a young, black male in London today.
The 14th Tale won a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival 2009, toured and ran at the National Theatre in spring 2010.
Tickets: £11.50, £7.50 concessions.
For more information and tickets call the box office on 0208 333 4457 or visit www.tara-arts.com