Theatre and Dance at Rich Mix - August to September 2015 (updated)
RICH Mix has several productions lined up for the coming weeks.
Rich Mix Youth Takeover Festival: The Fix – Audio Provocation by Alex Bulmer and Theatre Centre – in the Main Space on Wednesday, August 5 at 11am. Free.
Sarah just wants to get to her audition for drama school, but between her and her dream, there’s an escalator. Spend one journey with Sarah and her guide dog Cyprus, as they negotiate the London Underground, and help to find The Fix – the way we can help those disabled by society to achieve their dreams.
Rich Mix Youth Takeover Festival: Spora Stories presents East End Boys, West End Girls – Upstairs on Saturday, August 8 at 7pm (doors). Free.
East meets West across the education divide when four London teenagers compete for a prestigious scholarship. With their friendships tested, each is forced to consider their aspirations, values, and the cost of striving for what matters most.
Rich Mix Youth Takeover Festival: Young and Talented Double Bill: Hear Me Out + The Power of Youth – Upstairs on Friday, August 14 at 7.30pm (doors). Free.
Written and performed by young people age 15 to 18 years old, Hear Me Out is a special opportunity to see the work of young people from East London.
The Power of Youth, a sketch style comedy sharing the truths about being youths, is written by BBC award-winning director Roy Alexander Weise and performed by young people aged 14-18.
The Bogus Woman – Upstairs on Friday, September 4 at 7.30pm. Tickets: £12, £10 concessions.
An African woman flees for her life, seeking safety and asylum in England. But at what cost? The Bogus Woman is written by Kay Adshead, performed by Krissi Bohn (Coronation Street) and directed by Zoë Waterman. ‘Essential watching’ said The Independent.
Bubble Schmeisis – Upstairs on Saturday, September 5 at 7.30pm. Tickets: £10, £8 concessions.
Bubble Schmeisis is about Nick’s experiences in the steam baths of East London with his blind grandfather, featuring cigars, cab drivers and circumcisions…the whole magillah.
The Tenancy Trilogy Part 2 and On the Edge of Me – Upstairs on Friday, September 11 at 7.30pm. Tickets: £10.
The Tenancy Trilogy: Part 2 is a darkly experimental, affecting, ground-breaking performance by Splutter and On The Edge of Me follows Remi as she confronts life as she knows it.
Iyalode of Eti (The Duchess of Malfi) – Upstairs on Saturday, September 12 at 7.30pm. Tickets: £8, £5 concessions.
Commissioned by Moji Kareem, Utopia Theatre Company presents a staged reading of Iyalode Eti by Debo Oluwatuminu: an African interpretation of John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi.
Simultaneous War and Peace: Gaza/London – Upstairs on Sunday, September 13 at 4pm. Tickets: £12.
Theatre for Everybody’s workshop production of Tolstoy’s War and Peace will be video screened with English subtitles and simultaneously presented in Gaza. A Skype exchange with the Gaza audience will follow.
Magic, Meyhem and Movement – Upstairs on Saturday, September 19 at 7.30pm. Tickets: £10, £8 concessions.
Nathan Johnston, Jorge Crecis, Anna Borràs and Elise Nuding present a mixed-up evening of magic tricks, city streets and contemporary dance in this dance triple bill.
Stories from the Heart – Upstairs on Sunday, September 20 at 7pm. Tickets: £10, £8 concessions.
Marginal Voices, a theatre project for women who have survived human slavery, presents Stories from the Heart, inspired by the lives of four remarkable women who transformed traumatic experiences into positive change.
Jellyfish and Cathedral – Upstairs on Friday, October 23 at 7.30pm. Tickets: £10.
Combining new writing and contemporary performance, Jellyfish rollercoasters through ten years in one girl’s life from Belfast to London. Cathedral is an immersive audio piece experienced in near-darkness.
To buy tickets, call the box office on 020 7613 7498 or visit www.richmix.org.uk/.