neat11 brochure

Nottingham European Arts and Theatre Festival 2011

26 MAy – 12 JuNE 2011www.neatfestival.co.uk

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In programming this first neat festival we wanted to achieve a number of things. Firstly to invite first class work to the City of Nottingham; secondly to present the best that the City has to offer; and finally to make it a truly City-wide experience. Working with our cultural partners in Nottingham and the European Theatre Convention (ETC) we have been able to deliver on all counts. This vigorous, intriguing and uplifting programme demonstrates the variety of approaches to the making of theatre locally and internationally and will ensure plentiful surprises, delights and challenges. A big thank you to our funders, Arts Council England and Nottingham City Council for making this festival possible.

Giles CroftArtistic Director, Nottingham Playhouse and neat11

For two weeks Nottingham will be celebrating European theatre with performances; readings of new plays; encounters between the audience, artists, and invited experts; a forum for young Europeans; and the general assembly of the ETC with the theme ‘Towards a European Drama Repertoire’. Throughout the festival we want to meet and make contact with you, to highlight the extraordinary range of work of our European partner theatres. Thank you very much to our friends from Nottingham Playhouse and their partners for having made neat11 possible!

Jean-Claude Berutti President of the European Theatre Convention

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Contents

With thanks to our neat11 sponsors and partners:

The league of youth 4lady chatterley’s lover 6Fidelio 7The sorrows of young werther 8From the House of the Dead 10The island 11Daniel kitson 12ulrike and Eamon compliant 13Gob squad’s kitchen 14Piaf 16court in the Act! 17The crossing 18woyzeck 20The last supper 22The cries of silent Men 24David McAlmont 25Bo Burnham live 26

screening of Arna’s children 27Three sisters 28The Gaza Mono-logues 30Faust 32 wheee! Festival 34HATcH 43Playhouse etc. 49Broadway cinema 62Audio walks for Nottingham 64visual Art 65Festival Fete 68Nottingham Playhouse Autumn/winter 70useful information 73where to stay 75venue information 76Map of Nottingham 78Diary 80

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THE lEAGuE oF youTHby Henrik ibsen in a version by Andy Barrett

Friday 13 May – wednesday 1 June

venueNottingham Playhouse

Tickets £7.50 – £26.50Box Office 0115 941 9419

running time 2 hours 30 mins including interval

Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company presents

‘Vote for change!’

Sick of the two established parties and their vested interests, one man promises a radical new agenda: to champion the people and remake politics.

Does the League of Youth herald a fair future for all, or the same old small-town corruption? Is Stensgaard a hero in the making – or a man on the make? Switching allegiances at the drop of a rosette, and caught up in a string of romantic affairs, Stensgaard rapidly comes unstuck.

This brand new version of Ibsen’s political farce, with its sparkling wit and cynical humour, finds fresh satire in an uncanny mirror of present-day Britain, where promises lead to compromise in the rush to snatch a share of the power.

Director Giles CroftDesigner Dawn AllsoppLighting Designer Alexandra StaffordComposer/Sound Designer Matthew Bugg

Supported by the Royal Norwegian Embassy

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Theatre Royal Nottingham and Opera North present

FiDElioby ludwig van Beethoven

wednesday 25 May & saturday 28 May 7.30pm

venueTheatre Royal Nottingham

Tickets £15.50 – £56Box Office 0115 989 5555

running time 2 hours 30 minutes including interval

Please noteSung in German with English surtitles

Leonore, the heroine of Beethoven’s only opera, risks her life disguising herself as a prison guard to rescue Florestan, her wrongly imprisoned husband.

Good triumphs over evil and love conquers all as Beethoven’s miraculous music delves deep into the passion and power of human emotion.

Production originated by Scottish Opera

Conductor Sir Richard ArmstrongDirector Tim Albery

Talk Opera, pre-show talk Len Maynard Suite, 6.30 – 7pm both days. Admission free, but please book in advance.

wednesday 25 – Thursday 26 May 8pm

venueLakeside Arts Centre

Tickets £9 – £15Box Office 0115 846 7777

AgeSuitable for 15+

running time Approx 2 hours including interval

Please noteContains strong language and adult scenes

Lady Constance Chatterley, trapped in a loveless sexually unsatisfying marriage to her war-wounded husband, is drawn to Mellors, a man she meets in the woods…

Their passionate love affair breaks down the constraints of a class-led society.

Nick Lane (adaptations include Frankenstein, Moby Dick co-written with John Godber, and 1984) faithfully reworks D H Lawrence’s controversial 1928 novel, banned until 1960 for its frank and explicit depiction of sex in a passionate and adulterous love affair.

D H Lawrence, the son of a Nottinghamshire miner, spent his formative years in Eastwood and drew widely on the places and characters of the local area, which are captured vividly in his famous works.

Hull Truck Theatre presents

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Rarely has a young man’s suffering caused this amount of laughter.

Young Werther is a passionate young poet who has everything; wealth, intellect and a bright future. But an emptiness fills him. He falls in love with the sweet-natured Lotte, who is betrothed to another man, a promise she made to her dying mother. Despite this, the young Werther cannot let go of his feelings for her, which sets the scene for this poignant tale of heartbreak and tragedy.

Told with humour and live music, this modern interpretation of one of Goethe’s classics is a story of impossible love, binding promises and missed opportunities.

Director Jonas Corell Petersen recently won the award for ‘Best emerging young director’ for this production at the Fast Forward Festival 2011 in Braunschweig, Germany.

Director Jonas Corell PetersenDesigner Nia DamerellLighting designer Per Willy LiholmComposer Gaute Tønder

Det Norske Teatret presents

Friday 27 – saturday 28 May 8pm


Tickets £9 – £15Box Office 0115 846 7777

running time Approx 1 hour 35 minutes no interval

Please note In Norwegian with English surtitles

Contains some nudity

THE sorrows oF youNG wErTHEr by Johann wolfgang von Goethe

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Friday 27 May 7pm


Tickets Admission free, but please bookBox Office 0115 941 9419

running time 1 hour 30 minutes including interval

AgeSuitable for ages 9 – 11 and their families

Please noteThis play is performed first in English and then in Norwegian

A solitary stranger is washed up on the shore of a remote island. No-one speaks his language or knows where he comes from. The fisherwoman and her daughter want to help him, but the community just wants to send him back…

The Island, a classroom play for ages 9 to 11, was produced in the UK by Roundabout and in Oslo by Det Norske Teatret. Both productions have had tours in the UK and Olso, and they are brought together here for neat11.

Director (UK) Susannah TresilianDirector (Norway) Morten CrannerDesigner Parveen Ghir

Touring schools from 24 – 26 May. More details at www.neatfestival.co.uk Funded by Nottingham City Council.

The Island (Die Insel) by Armin Greder © Patmos Verlag GmBH & Co. KGI Sauerlander Verlag, Dusseldorf. English translation © Armin Greder, 2007

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Thursday 26 May 7.30pm


Tickets £15.50 – £56Box Office 0115 989 5555

running time1 hour 50 minutes including interval

Please noteSung in English with English surtitles

‘You will not wipe away the crimes from their brow, but equally you will not extinguish the spark of God.’ Janáček on From the House of the Dead

Based on Dostoyevsky’s novel, The House of the Dead, Janáček’s opera draws the visceral stories of captives in a Siberian prison with energy and vivid musical imagery. The harsh lyricism and sheer humanity of the music create a genuinely life-affirming experience celebrating the strength of the human spirit.

Conductor Richard FarnesDirector John Fulljames

Supported by the Opera North Fund

Theatre Royal Nottingham and Opera North present

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Talk Opera, pre-show talk Len Maynard Suite, 6.30 – 7pm Admission free, but please book in advance.


saturday 28 – Tuesday 31 May Every 15 minutes from 12 – 5pm


Tickets £5, Concessions £3Box Office 0115 941 9419

running time Approx 30 minutes

AgeSuitable for 14+

Ulrike and Eamon Compliant is a solo walk where you receive and make phone calls. Combining documentary elements with interactive narrative, it is based on the lives of Ulrike Meinhof (Red ArmyFaction) and Eamon Collins (Irish Republican Army). On arrival at Nottingham Playhouse you will be given a mobile phone and instructions. You are then guided on a short walk through the city before returning tothe Playhouse.

‘Cutting-edge, new focus, originally interactive.’Audience comment

Commissioned by De La Warr Pavilion for the 53rd Venice Biennale and developed with the support of Mixed Reality Lab at the University of Nottingham and Arts Council England.

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sunday 29 May 8.15pm


Tickets £10Box Office 0115 941 9419

running time 2 hours including interval

The story of a death postponed by life

Gregory had 57 letters to write. He’d started, full of optimism, curiously enough, at 9am and now, 8 hours later, he was half way through letter 24. He glanced at his watch and then at the noose hanging over his head.

Had he known how long suicide letters take, he thought, he wouldn’t have cancelled the milk for the morning.

Fringe First Winner 2009

‘Eccentric, far-fetched and unbelievably good.’ The Telegraph

‘Kitson’s genius emerges, once again. Interminably talented and staggeringly good.’ The List

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sunday 29 – Monday 30 May 8pm

venueNottingham Contemporary

Tickets £12From Nottingham Playhouse Box Office 0115 941 9419 or on the door an hour before the show starts

running time 1 hour 45 minutes

In 1963 Andy Warhol pointed a 16mm film camera at a sleeping friend – the first of many films of everyday activities. Taking Warhol’s Sleep as their starting point, Gob Squad travel back and forth in time in their quest for the original, the authentic, the here and now, the real me, the real you, the hidden depths. Playfully creating entertaining theatre through everyday life captured on video, Gob Squad search for beauty, meaning and humanity amongst the glittering facades and dark corners of contemporary culture.

A Gob Squad production, co-produced by Volksbuehne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin, donaufestival Niederoesterreich, Nottingham Playhouse and Fierce! and supported by Future Factory and Dance 4. Funded by the Senatsverwaltung fuer Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur Berlin, Fonds Darstellende Kuenste e.V. Bonn and the Arts Council of England.

‘A moving meditation on the nature of self and the unknowability of the past.’ The Guardian

GoB squAD’s kiTcHEN (you’vE NEvEr HAD iT so GooD)

Gob Squad in association with Nottingham Playhouse present

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wednesday 1 – saturday 4 June 9pm

venueGalleries of Justice Museum

Tickets Court in the Act! £10, Concessions £8From Nottingham Playhouse Box Office 0115 941 9419 or on the door an hour before the show

Ghosts and Ghouls Tour £5Advance booking only from Nottingham Playhouse

running time Approx 1 hour 15 minutes

With special guest Pippa Evans from the BBC2 comedy improvisation show Fast and Loose.

Live theatre at its liveliest. Six intrepid improvisers create a complete, and completely mad, court case before your very eyes.

Witnesses are called and are questioned and cross-examined by the Counsels. The Jury (12 members of the Audience) give their verdict on the Evidence put before them. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? Well, it is – as the best things usually are!

The British Comedy Company in association with Nottingham Playhouse present

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Enjoy a Ghosts and Ghouls Tour 7.15pm and 7.30pm before the showBe guided into the dungeons of Nottingham and meet the ghosts that reside there. A tour to remember… Suitable for age 12+.

Monday 30 May 7.30pm



running time1 hour 45 minutes including interval

As the 50th anniversary of Edith Piaf ’s death approaches, this powerful show celebrates the woman who has become synonymous with French Cabaret of the 1940s and 50s, and who remains France’s most popular singer.

French singer Eve Loiseau captures the essence of the Piaf performance in this theatrical tribute to the Little Sparrow. Enjoy ‘La vie en rose’, ‘Sous le ciel de Paris’, ‘Bal dans ma rue’, ‘Autumn leaves’, ‘Padam padam’, ‘C’est merveilleux’, ‘L’accordéoniste’, ‘Non, je ne regrette rien’ and many more.

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Thursday 2 – Friday 3 June 7.30pm

venueNew Art Exchange

Tickets £8, Concessions £6 From Nottingham Playhouse Box Office 0115 941 9419 or on the door an hour before the show starts

running time 1 hour 10 minutes

Leave it all behind: friends, family, lovers.

Drop all your hopes and gamble everything for the chance of a brighter future.

Have you the money, the strength, the willpower to make the final crossing?

The Crossing is a riveting story of three Ghanaian men who journey thousands of miles across Africa in search of the new EUtopia.

Tangle is one of the UK’s most exciting new theatre companies, celebrating and championing the work of theatre people from across Africa and beyond.

Director Anna CoombsDesigner Harriet Pearson

THE crossiNG by Esther o’Toole

Tangle in association with Nottingham Playhouse present

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Friday 3 – saturday 4 June 7.30pm


Tickets £20, Concessions £17

Schools £7.50 (subject to availability) – early booking is advisableBox Office 0115 941 9419


Please note Performed in German with English surtitles

'How red the moon is rising.’‘Like a bloody knife.’

Woyzeck is the nightmarish tale of a poor soldier who is forced to sell his body for scientific experiments to support his beloved wife and child. When his wife is distracted by another man, Woyzeck, driven to madness by the daily humiliations of his life, commits a terrible crime. This insightful and evocative tale, based on a true story, is perfectly complemented by the masterful music of Tom Waits.

Director Jorinde DröseSongs and lyrics by Tom Waits & Kathleen BrennanConcept by Robert WilsonAdaptation by Ann-Christin Rommen & Wolfgang Wiens

‘Woyzeck and Tom Waits – a perfect mix. The highlight of the season.’ Berlin Morgenpost

‘Dröse’s production is entertaining and touching.’ Tagesspiegel

woyzEck by robert wilson/Tom waits/kathleen Brennan based on the play by Georg Büchner

Deutsches Theater Berlin presents


saturday 4 – sunday 5 June 2pm & 8pm


Tickets £12From Nottingham Playhouse Box Office 0115 941 9419 or on the door an hour before the show starts

running time 1 hour

Reckless Sleepers invites you to dinner, to The Last Supper, to sample the last meal requests of the famous and the not so famous. From Marilyn Monroe to Beethoven to prisoners on death row, this intimate and unusual performance serves a startling set of last statements, last meals and last-minute scenarios to a limited audience of 39 people. Sit, sip your wine, and watch as last words are literally eaten before your eyes.

‘There is something about the simplicity of this show that is unbearably moving.’ The Guardian

‘One of the most interesting performance pieces I have witnessed in some time.’ Left Lion

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Reckless Sleepers presents

Post-show discussionSaturday 4 June after 8pm show

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Monday 6 June 7.30pm



running time Approx 2 hours including interval

David is possibly best known for his various music collaborations, in particular the very popular McAlmont and Butler of the 90s, ‘Yes’ and ‘You Do’, and his work with David Arnold, ‘Diamonds are Forever’.

The mere mention of his name gets the UK music scene, from fellow artists and musicians to press and industry types alike, reaching for the thesaurus in search of ever more extravagant superlatives.

‘McAlmont’s voice, brimming with pain and aching with desperate persuasion in every one of its many octaves, is one of music’s most unique.’ The Guardian

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saturday 4 – sunday 5 June 9pm

venueNottingham Castle Grounds

Tickets £5, Concessions £3From Nottingham Playhouse Box Office 0115 941 9419 or on the door an hour before the show starts

running time Approx 1 hour 15 minutes no interval

Please note There will be a bar

In 1535, the men of the silent Carthusian Order of a small Nottinghamshire monastery stood up to Henry VIII’s demands in his battle to reform the alliance between church and state. This is the story of that incredible confrontation – the beginning of a wave of violence that would crash through England for decades.

Hanby and Barrett have become known across the region for producing spectacular site-specific work with community actors. The Cries of Silent Men, commissioned by Broxtowe Borough Council, was first performed at Beauvale Priory in 2010.

This outdoor performance involves moving from place to place. Please note seating is not provided. No dogs allowed apart from guide dogs.

Hanby and Barrett present

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Thursday 9 June 8pm



running time 1 hour 30 minutes plus discussion

see also The Gaza Mono-Logues p30 The Zone p65

Yussef committed a suicide attack in 2001. Ashraf was killed by the Israeli army in 2002. Alla led a group of resistance fighters to his death in 2003. Juliano Mer Khamis documented them as promising child actors in a theatre group he founded with his mother Arna. In this moving documentary, he returns to Jenin Refugee Camp in 2002, to see what happened to the children he knew and loved. Following the film there will be an informal discussion about the work the Freedom Theatre does with, and for, the children and young people living in Jenin Refugee Camp, in the north of the occupied Palestinian Territories.

‘Arna’s Children offers a rare and poignant window into the lives and deaths of a lost generation of Palestinians.’ The Washington Post

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Packed with jokes, songs that toy with language, and intricate wordplay, this show will make you think, laugh, and then think ‘Wait, why did I just laugh?’ After this sensational 20-year-old American’s phenomenal run at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2010, a plethora of five-star reviews, and nomination for the Edinburgh Comedy Award – 10 years to become a good comedian? Psshhhhhhhhh.

‘Off-the-scale, the kind of declaration of rare and prodigious talent that only happens once in a blue moon.’ The Telegraph

‘Enduring words and images you’ll want to treasure.’ HHHHH The Independent

‘Fierce intelligence and originality.’ HHHHH Time Out

Tuesday 7 June 7.30pm



running time 1 hour 40 minutes including interval

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wednesday 8 – sunday 12 June wed – sun 7.45pm; sat 2.30pm


Tickets £13 – £27.50Students £7.50 (subject to availability)Box Office 0115 989 5555


Please noteIn Russian with English surtitles

Following its triumphant UK Tour in 2007, Cheek by Jowl’s stellar Russian ensemble returns to Nottingham with Chekhov’s sweeping love story, Three Sisters.

Arguably the greatest play of the 20th century, Three Sisters tells the tale of Olga, Irina and Masha whose lives are turned upside down by the arrival in their remote town of the glamorous officer Veshinin. Their eternal struggle to live and to love is charted with Chekhov’s sharp eye and unfailing humanity.

Director Declan Donnellan Design Nick Ormerod

‘Gorgeously observed… this exudes immediacy, the idea that these neurotic, excitable people from another place breathe the same oxygen as you.’ The Washington Post

‘Miraculous simplicity. Superb!’ Le Figaro, France

THrEE sisTErsby Anton chekhov

Chekhov International Festival in association with Theatre Royal Nottingham present



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see alsoArna’s Children p27 The Zone p65

The Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip in 2008/9 killed at least 1,380 Palestinians, including 431 children, and wounded and displaced many thousands more.

In 2009, UNICEF supported Ali Abu Yassine and ASHTAR Theatre in training young people in Gaza to focus on their individual experiences, dreams, fears and hopes – leading to The Gaza Mono-Logues, and ultimately, recitals of the monologues by young people around the world.

Six youth theatre performers from Nottingham Playhouse and six from YARD at New Art Exchange bring you the Nottingham premiere of the beautifully written and emotionally moving Gaza Mono-Logues.

Directors Sarah Stephenson and Rachael Young

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Tickets £20, Concessions £17

Schools £7.50 (subject to availability) – early booking is advisableBox Office 0115 941 9419

running time 1 hour 15 minutes no interval

Please noteIn Polish with English surtitles

The owner of an old, forgotten studio stages the history of Faust before the very eyes of the audience. He shows Faust’s covenant with the Devil, his tragic love for Margaret, his anguished search for truth, his illuminations, and his death. It is a theatre of old people, madness, death and the fight between Carnival and Lent. The Owner of the Studio, the Stage Director, will make his characters run from heaven, through the world, to hell.

Director Janusz WiśniewskiCostumes Irena BieganskaChoreography Emil WesolowskiMusic Jerzy Satanowski

‘… a thrilling piece of theatre…’ The Independent

‘… ferociously spectacular, overwhelmingly sensual, and full of the stunning visual imagery that is the hallmark of (Wiśniewski)’s work…’ The Scotsman

Supported by the Polish Cultural Institute

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saturday 28 May – sunday 5 June 11am – 5.30pm

sessions for adults (16+) onlyFriday 27 & Saturday 28 May 6 – 7.30pm (last admission)

venueLakeside Arts Centre (Highfields Park)

Tickets £3 (15-minute visit at peak times)Box Office 0115 846 7777

AgeChildren under 16 must be accompanied by an adult

AccessThe Luminarium is wheelchair accessible

Architects of Air presents

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Nottingham-based, internationally renowned Architects of Air is an eagerly anticipated and essential element of Lakeside’s children’s festival.

This year we’re delighted to introduce the company’s stunning installations to the Nottingham European Arts and Theatre Festival audiences, adding two evening sessions for adults only, in response to requests from our regular audiences.

Designer Alan Parkinson creates truly wonderful labyrinthine structures in which visitors are encouraged to wander, relax, meditate and wonder. Discover tunnels and pods, central pillars and domed meeting points, and be immersed in sheer colour and light.

Enter and be amazed!

MADE iN NoTTiNGHAM

Wheee! is Lakeside’s International Children’s Theatre and Dance Festival. Founded in 2005, it is a highlight of Lakeside’s year-round programme featuring award-winning companies from across Europe and a great free, family-friendly weekend. In 2011 Wheee! is thrilled to be part of neat11.

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Monday 30 – Tuesday 31 May 11am & 2pm


Tickets£5Box Office 0115 846 7777

AgeSuitable for ages 18 months to 4 years

running time 35 minutes plus 10 minutes playtime

Tell Tale Hearts presents

FroM HErE… To THErE

Once there were two children. One just loved to build things Up… Up… Up… The other loved to knock things down. Bang! Clang!

From Here… To There is all about bridges that get built and knocked down, climbed over and crawled under. There are magic bridges, bridges that tell stories of hungry trolls and greedy goats, and bridges where people meet and make friends!

Created in collaboration with The Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield

‘Truly inspiring shows for children that involve the audience in a uniquely thrilling way.’Ian McMillan


The festival weekend, hugely popular with families and children of all ages, includes a wide range of outdoor activities and impromptu performances in Highfields Park, the majority of which are entirely free of charge!

Look out for some wacky and wonderful things to see, to make and to do including two giant walking Hairy Chairs, Dave Fearless International Stunt Man, Maison Foo’s Seaside Shenanigans, The Mobile Librarians, The Gramophones, Notts Circus, Dans La Poche, Lakeside Youth Theatre, The Lost Cuckoo – Marcus Rowlands’ 2011 interactive sculpture, and much much more…

For a detailed timetable, see www.lakesidearts.org.uk closer to the time.

The Lost Cuckoo is funded by

FAMily wEEkEND iN THE PArk!saturday 4 & sunday 5 June Luminarium from 11am – 5.30pm (last admission), other events 12 noon – 5.30pmLakeside Arts Centre (Highfields Park)

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Once upon a time… there were two… and they found something quite extraordinary. It stretches, it shines, it slides, it pings and it… shall we find out what it can do?

Big bodies and little bodies discover, share, show and play in this interactive dance performance for children under 4 and their families/carers.

Supported by Curve, Leicester, and Dance Development Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland

wednesday 1 – Thursday 2 June



9.45am Babies sitting independently (approx 6 months – 23 months) with their parent/carer Running time 30 – 40 minutes

11am & 1.40pm Children aged 2 – 4 with their parent/carer Running time 45 – 60 minutes

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Tuesday 31 May 3pm



AgeSuitable for ages 5+ and families

running time 50 minutes

Four timeless characters, loaded with suitcases, share experiences gained from their travels around the world. Expect comedy, slapstick, sounds and dances, from this fabulously inventive Catalonian company making their first visit to Lakeside.

Nats Nus Dansa presents

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saturday 4 June 1.30pm & 6pm sunday 5 June 12.30pm & 3pm



AgeSuitable for 7+ and families


Please noteThe audience stands throughout and are encouraged to move around the table

A long table is set for a birthday party and two waiters are on the job of their life: to wait on a table of Andersen’s fantastic personalities, each with peculiar whims and needs.

One of the most inventive performances you’ll see this year: part art installation, and a large part performance! If you know Hans Christian Andersen’s stories, you’ll love working out the references to them.

‘This is not only for children, and it is not only theatre. An enchanting installation for fairy tale lovers of all ages.’ Politiken, Denmark

Gruppe 38 presents

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saturday 4 June 12.30pm & 3pm sunday 5 June 1.30pm & 3pm



AgeSuitable for ages 3 – 6 years and families


M6 Theatre Company presents

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The critically-acclaimed and much-loved One Little Word returns by popular demand.

In this beautiful and gentle story of friendship, power struggles and creative play, we meet two characters at play. Together they explore a new space, new objects, dressing up and taking turns, but struggles arise when one of them wants to be the only captain of the ship!

This sensitive production is directed by Andy Manley, performed by two actors and underscored with a captivating, original soundtrack by Tayo Akinbode, which contains only ONE spoken word.

One Little Word Community TourWatch out for this show appearing in a community venue near you! For further information please check the neat11 website. Funded by Nottingham City Council


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Hatch is a performance organisation based in Nottingham dedicated to presenting experimental work in unusual locations. For neat11, Hatch has curated six performances by European artists that explore notions of cultural identity.

Tickets for Hatch performances can be booked through the Nottingham Playhouse Box Office or on the door an hour before the performance starts. Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England

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Tuesday 7 June 1.30pm & 6pm wednesday 8 June 10.30am & 1.30pm



AgeSuitable for ages 5 – 8 years and families


Watch the duckling dance through life in a chicken coop where different is wrong, and each step is about following the others – not easy when you are a clumsy little duckling. But a wondrous transformation awaits!

A delightful puppet performance without words, inspired by dance, with new interpretations of classical music.

‘Delightful ducks and meddlesome hens translate Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale into animation theatre with minute, precise physical gestures and imaginative twisting of classic musical compositions.’ Børneteateravisen



Thursday 2 June 8pm

venueThe Polish Eagle Club, Sherwood Rise, NG7 6JN



Sugar Statues is a one-woman show exploring Krissi Musiol’s Polish heritage, the importance of language, and love in concentration camps. Interwoven fictional and factual stories illustrated with sugar provide an insight into the roots of a Polish family tree. From horrific tales of the persecution of the Poles to her grandfather’s amazing Polish cake, burnt letters and a rotten wedding dress, Sugar Statues is an intimate, touching tale of loss and survival.

Hatch is offering a free bus service to and from the Polish Eagle Club, a guided tour with a difference, leaving Nottingham Playhouse at 6.30pm and returning after the show. Please reserve your place on the bus when booking your tickets.

Supported by Arts Council England, Greenroom (Manchester), hÅb & LANWest.

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saturday 28 May 12pm – 8pm Medium rare

sunday 29 May 6pm – 8pm zoo indigo

sunday 12 June 12pm – 8pm Medium rare / zoo indigo

venueWellington Circus (outside Nottingham Playhouse)

TicketsAdmission free but please book in advanceBox Office 0115 941 9419

Medium Rare/Zoo Indigo present

oPENiNG Hours

Hatch has invited two Nottingham-based companies to respond to Wellington Circus outside Nottingham Playhouse. Zoo Indigo uncovers the past as they circle the garden in a new site-based exploration of its history. It might involve pram pushing and maypole dancing. Medium Rare explores the transplantation of an outside experience with a durational performance installation onto specific grounds. The two collectives will negotiate space and cross paths on the grass of the private garden.

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Thursday 9 June 6pm




Tourist is a strange visitor to the world of contemporary dance. Three performers invade theatres, audiences, impossible landscapes and imagined territories with humour and resilience, finding themselves out of place and unsettled, inviting the imagination of the audience to colour in what can’t be seen.

Since 2008, Gabriele Reuter has developed several solo works investigating the development and exchangeability of imaginary and real spaces. Tourist – a de-centred play is a first translation of this research into a group process. Supported by Dance4, the Southbank Centre and Tanzfabrik (Berlin), the piece was nominated for the ‘Prix Jardin d’Europe’ 2010.

Supported by the Goethe-Institut

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Tuesday 7 June 8pm

venueRobin Hood Suite, Nottingham Forest City Ground, NG2 5FJ



In 1976, the best-ever Polish football team played against the best-ever Iranian football team in the Montreal Olympics in a memorable game.

Join Mehrdad Seyf and Chris Dobrowolski for a whistle stop tour of monumental historic events and bizarre personal confessions. Armed only with a Power Point they discuss football, revolution, swimming, love and Subbuteo, aided by footage from the match and stills from their family photo albums.

Poland 3 Iran 2 truly captures how much two people from seemingly completely different backgrounds have in common both locally and internationally.

Hatch is offering a free bus service to and from Nottingham Forest City Ground, a guided tour with a difference, leaving Nottingham Playhouse at 6.30pm and returning after the show. Please reserve your place on the bus when booking your tickets.

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Showcasing the best of international arts hand in hand with Nottingham’s own most exciting new talent. Expect the curious, the beautiful, the unlikely, the epic: a programme of studio theatre and music that can’t be seen elsewhere. The chance to watch, to discuss, to delight in all that is etcetera...

All readings will be followed by a discussion.

PLAYHOUSE etc. events take place in the Playroom at Nottingham Playhouse. Bookings for all PLAYHOUSE etc. events through Nottingham Playhouse Box Office 0115 941 9419.

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Break Your Own Pony by Hunt and Darton

A performance lecture on strong thighs and shovelling horse muck on spoilt children, the wind blowing through your hair as you ride your tamed stallion, My Little Ponies, judges, rosettes, country life, whips, gyrating and saying “she’s a bit ‘Horsey’”.

Horse by Leentje Van de Cruys

A woman thinks she’s a horse. But the real problem is that she thinks she is a different horse from the one she is. Horse is about what it takes to fit in, to make yourself look beautiful to other people, to be loved…

Leentje Van de Cruys makes quirky solo performances about domesticity and women’s identity.

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Seyonsay Knowall is a woman on the edge: she loves her daughter, but her daughter loves Facebook more. Follow Seyonsay as she attempts to prevent her daughter from permanently disappearing down a USB port.

This quirky one-woman show is packed with a multitude of characters, social media networking dilemmas and comedy mishaps.

Don’t forget to add ‘Seyonsay Knowall’ as your friend on Facebook!

Director Giles Croft

A Nottingham Playhouse commission

Tickets £8, concessions £6

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Monday 30 May 7pm


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Join us for the launch of Playhouse etcetera with British playwright Mark Ravenhill and members of the Miskolc National Theatre, Hungary.

Following a reading of Anna Yablonskaya’s The Irons, there will be an informal discussion led by Mark Ravenhill on creating theatre in the territories around the old Soviet bloc and how geography and politics informs art and the life of the artist.

A small family, small guest house, small island in the former USSR.

Sasha’s collection of ancient irons draws American professor Paul. Two worlds collide catching Paul’s Russian wife between them. A modern story of traditions, drama and age-old promises.

In tribute to Anna Yablonskaya (pictured above), tragically killed in the Moscow bombing on 24 January 2011.

Director Susannah TresilianTranslated by Yuri Kolyada

Admission free, but please bookThere will be a collection for charity.

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Music etc.

Tuesday 31 May 9pm

Cultural Vibrations (Unity through Music) presents

liAM o’kANE

Liam O’Kane is a Nottingham-based singer-songwriter and lead singer of ska/reggae band Jimmy the Squirrel who plays a raw and rootsy organic brand of acoustic ska, reggae and folk. Influenced by the likes of Joe Strummer, Bedouin Soundclash and Tim Armstrong, Liam’s music is a mixture of up-tempo and melodic songs with vocal harmonies. He released his debut album Happy Days Sad Songs in 2009 to critical acclaim.


THEATrE wriTiNG PArTNErsHiP etc.

wednesday 1 June 7pm

MoMENTuM scrATcH NiGHT 1

in collaboration with The Actors’ Workshop

Calling all theatre writers... Hear your five-minute script read by actors at Nottingham Playhouse to a live audience. Send your five-minute scene or short play to [email protected] by Tuesday 3 May. We will select 10 scripts to be read by The Actors’ Workshop. The audience will vote for their favourite five scripts and the chosen writers will be asked to develop their idea into a 10-minute play – see Scratch Night 2 on page 58. Remember reading stops with the five-minute bell!

Admission free, but please book

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Music etc.

Monday 30 May 9pm

THE ElEcTroNic ExcHANGENAJiA BAGi AND Tullis rENNiE

An inter-European duo who write and record collaboratively, their debut EP was produced entirely via the web from their respective homes in Manchester and Barcelona.

Abstract electronica meets heavy off-kilter rhythms and homespun ‘toolshed-dub’ beats. Najia’s soulful and uplifting vocal melodies tell dark urban-folklore murder ballads.

‘A twisted electronica beauty.’ Chris Long, BBC Manchester Introducing


rEADiNGs etc.

Tuesday 31 May 7pm

sixby Arian krasniqi

Ana, a 50-year-old woman sentenced to death for killing her former boyfriend has six hours left to live and six very good reasons why she won’t repent. This sad, poetic play looks at how decisions influence our lives in unexpected ways.

Director Susannah TresilianTranslated by Ismail Dreshaj



A powerful Anglo-German ensemble of 20 young people from Germany and Nottingham Playhouse Youth Theatre bring this breathtaking adaptation to life.

Adapted by John Retallack (Company of Angels) from the translation of the original novel by Laurie ThompsonDirector Allie SpencerAssistant director Beth Shouler Designers Hannah Budd & Kirsty Blades


This production has been facilitated by UK-German Connection, the European Theatre Convention and the Bad Hersfeld Festival.

‘We get a bit isolated sometimes that’s all,We get set in our ways – In the dead of winterEven decent people freeze over’

A story of community, prejudice and isolation.

North Sweden – it is scarcely light in winter, and never dark in summer. A single father, a boy deserted by his mother, a widow seeking a new life and love, a woman with no nose and a man who never sleeps, all strive to find a purpose and acceptance in a town that has judged them and reached its verdict.

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saturday 4 June 3pm & 6pm

A BriDGE To THE sTArs by Henning Mankell

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Thursday 2 June 7pm

AquABEllEsby David Drábek

A humorous, dark story of three thirty-something ex-university friends who have a hidden passion... for synchronised swimming. Under the cover of darkness, they dance together until one day one of them decides to stay in the water. How is life ever going to be the same when one of your best friends turns into... an otter?

Director Susannah TresilianTranslated by Don Nixon


Music etc.

Thursday 2 June 9pm


MArviN BrowN

Record producer, musician, studio engineer, composer and DJ: Marvin Brown blends music from almost every genre with talent and individuality to create an R&B and reggae fusion that has soul and generates emotion. Influenced by church and gospel music as a child, this singer-songwriter has thrilled audiences at venues across Europe and the UK.



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Monday 6 June 7pm

Momentum/Theatre Writing Partnership present...

A DOuBLE BILL OF READINGS

MuFAro MAkuBikA AND cATHAriNE AsHDowN

Two Nottingham writers who were a hit with audiences at the Momentum Festival 2010 bring you two new plays.Mufaro Makubika was on the Royal Court Young Writers programme in 2010 and commissioned by Paines Plough and Nottingham Playhouse for their ‘Come to Where I’m From’ project. Catharine Ashdown, playwright and screenwriter, has worked in TV and film as a script editor.


rEADiNGs etc.

Tuesday 7 June 7pm

THE iroNsby Anna yablonskaya

A second chance to hear the reading of Anna Yablonskaya’s The Irons.

See Playhouse etc launch event on page 50 for more information.

Director Susannah TresilianTranslated by Yuri Kolyada


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Bonnie has always been called Bonnie; Clyde’s real name is Werner, but Bonnie calls him Clyde. They’re young. They’re in love. They dream about robbing banks.

Holger Schober, nominated in 2006 for the German Youth Theatre Prize, writes a B-movie for theatre about disillusion, unemployment, social deprivation, violence, and true love.

Director John RetallackTranslated by Zoe Svendsen


rEADiNGs etc.

sunday 5 June 7pm

with... John Retallack and Company of Angelsin collaboration with the Bristol Old Vic

clyDE & BoNNiEby Holger schober

Followed by DISCUSSIONPost-show discussion led by Company of Angels’ Artistic Director John Retallack.


Music etc.

Thursday 9 June 9pm


MiquE

Nottingham-born singer/songwriter Mique began singing alongside her grandmother at church. Combining powerful vocals, heartfelt lyrics and a fantastic vocal range she brings a unique and beautiful sound to this mixture of old school soul and modern urban R&B.


rEADiNGs etc.

Thursday 9 June 7pm

THE APocAlyPsE coMEs AT 6PMby Georgi Gospodinov

Sometimes the Apocalypse takes place in that long minute when the light has gone but darkness has not fallen, when every muscle is straining to listen... fearful of crossing, or worse, not crossing the breaking point. A story about everyone’s personal Apocalypse.

Director Susannah TresilianTranslated by Angela Rodel


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Music etc.

Tuesday 7 June 9pm


MuHA

New Roots from Eastern Europe

MuHa’s versatile musicians, rooted in the Slavonic tradition and the UK’s multiculturalism, mesmerise with a musical feast, combining the melodic beauty of Eastern European folk, North Indian Kathak rhythms, Cuban grooves, Western European influences and original lyrics with sounds from Hindi to old Russian and modern Ukrainian.


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wednesday 8 June 7pm

MoMENTuM scrATcH NiGHT 2in collaboration with The Actors’ Workshop

A chance to hear the favourite five scripts from Scratch Night 1 performed as 10-minute plays by The Actors’ Workshop.


see also Scratch Night 1 on p53

The Actors’ Workshop is a non-profit organisation for actors aged 21 and over, comprising ex-members of The Television Workshop, Nottingham, drama school graduates and professional actors.

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PAiNkillErsby Neda radulovic

An ironic, burlesque play about the bourgeois conventions of apparently liberated women and men stuck between real life and fantasy. Happiness propels these lovers, but at what cost when morals come from magazines, and beauty from a cosmetic brand?

Director Susannah TresilianTranslated by Marija Stojanovic


PErForMANcEs etc.


MouTHy PoETs

Mouthy Poets, the resident performance-poet collective at Nottingham Playhouse, stage a poetical installation highlighting the uprisings and political resistance in today’s society.

Whether you’re self-employed, unemployed, a carer, a musician or a bricklayer, prepare to be enthralled with words from a group who really know how to ‘Say Sum Thin’. You will laugh, you will cry and you will question how you feel, as the Mouthy Poets explore themes from a perspective that reflects the beauty of youth.


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running time Approx 1 hour 30 minutes (no interval)

AgeAdults and older children

The Honey Man, developed by New Perspectives in partnership with Eastern Angles Theatre Company and Theatre Writing Partnership, will premiere in co-production with DerbyLIVE at the Guildhall Theatre in Derby from 16 March 2012 prior to a national tour.

An unlikely relationship develops one summer between Misty, a 15-year-old girl, and The Honey Man, an ‘ancient’ Afro-Caribbean man who has taken up residence in a derelict cottage at the edge of her picture-postcard English village.

A tale of growing up and growing old, individual responsibility and shared history, dying bees, healing herbs and (possibly) a little magic.

rEADiNGs etc.

Friday 10 June 7pm

New Perspectives Theatre Company presents

THE HoNEy MANby Tyrone Huggins

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PriNcEss lilliFEE (U) Germany 2009

Based on the eponymous German children’s books, this animated adventure sees the fairy princess go on a quest to restore the happiness and harmony of the subjects of her enchanted kingdom, Pinkovia.

Duration: 69 minutesDirector Ansgar Niebuhr

Thursday 9 June 10.30am & 1.30pm

THE illusioNisT (l’illusioNNisTE) (PG) UK 2010

Cheeky and boisterous, with witty visual jokes, seductive 1950s period detail and breathtaking Scottish views, Sylvain Chomet’s (Belleville Rendez-vous) second animated feature film about an over-the-hill magician, with less-than-friendly white rabbit, is based on an unrealized script by Jacques Tati.

Duration: 77 minutesDirector Sylvain ChometStarring Edith Rankin, Jean-Claude Donda

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Box office 0115 941 9419 / 0115 952 6611 Tickets £7 concessions and members £5.50 Family matinee £3.50

sunday 5 June 2pm

MolièrE (12A) France 2007

This intelligently bawdy romp playfully fills in the unknown period in the great French writer’s life with a satirical tale of sexual intrigue and courtly manners as the impoverished young playwright becomes embroiled in a hotbed of romance and repartee, subterfuge and seduction.

Duration: 120 minutesIn French with English subtitlesDirector Laurent TirardStarring Laura Morante, Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini

Tuesday 7 June 8pm

THE wHiTE riBBoN (15) Germany 2009

Starring Ernst Jacobi, Christian Friedel. In a small German village just before World War I, apparently coincidental accidents befall the schoolchildren and their parents. This tense and foreboding drama with its devastating insight into human nature won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2009.

Duration: 144 minutes In German with English subtitles Director Michael Haneke


saturday 21 May – saturday 6 August Monday – saturday 10am – 5pm


Free exhibitionEnquiries 0115 924 8630

see also Arna’s Children p27The Gaza Mono-Logues p30

Drawn from the radical geo-political fragmentation of the Palestinian space, The Zone is a site of ruin and dream, a sound and video exhibition, exploring new modes of subjectivity and spatiality, all of which project a surreal modality of living, a paradoxically comfortable survival oscillating between dream-world and catastrophe, desire and disaster. The work has been conceived as a disorienting, sensory experience for the visitor, triggering a surreal play between imagination, fragmented memories and an unsettling reality.

Curator Eva Langret

New Art Exchange in association with Delfina Foundation present

THE zoNEby Basel Abbas and ruanne Abou-rahme

visual Art at neat11

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Threads by Andy Barrett‘We see the big things that make change happen, the wars and the inventions, but we don’t see the little things. And we need to. We need to see the threads that tie us together.’ Using the buildings and history of the Lace Market area of Nottingham, Threads leads the listener through an encounter between two people who have nothing at all in common, but who need each other more than they could possibly imagine.

When You Whisper, I ImagineAndy Barrett has invited four international playwrights to write a 10-minute piece, inspired by four locations in Nottingham – a city they have never visited.

Theatre Writing Partnership presents

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AccessAudio Walks are wheelchair accessible

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Wael Shawky questions Western assumptions about Islam and the Arab world through film. His work is concerned with history, politics and religion – all brought into sharp focus by the recent upheavals in his native Egypt. Shawky reflects on cultural conflict, and the continuing role of religion in political events that resonate through time.

Image: Wael Shawky, still from Cabaret Crusades: The Horror Show File, 2010, video, 30mins, courtesy the artist

Huang Yong Ping is one of the leading Chinese artists of his generation. He moved to Paris in 1989 after participating in the renowned Magiciens de la Terre exhibition at Centre Pompidou that year.

Dividing his time between studios in Paris and southern China, Huang makes arresting, often very large, sculptures featuring animals and architecture in unexpected combinations. They combine references that are topical and traditional, political and mythological.

Image: Bat Project IV, 2005Photo Walker Art Center, MinneapolisCourtesy Huang Yong Ping and Yu De Yao

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Friday 15 April – sunday 26 June 2011open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 7pm; saturday 10am – 6pm; sunday 11am – 5pm


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Thursday 26 May – sunday 12 June

venueCAST Bar and Nottingham Playhouse

Free exhibition

The Cutting Room presents

THE worlD As A DiGiTAl sTAGE by The Engagement Party

Throughout the Festival, Nottingham Playhouse and CAST are featuring a series of digital interactive artworks by a group of Nottingham-based artists, The Engagement Party.

The Cutting Room has commissioned Peter Bowcott, Graham Elstone, Thomas Hall, Thomas Sweeney, Brendan Oliver and Robert Squirrell to produce a body of work through the use of technology and mixed media to delight and engage visitors to Nottingham Playhouse.

The Cutting Room produces events exploring social realities and communication through film. They consider theatre an act of interaction – performer and audience becoming one in the experience.


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spiritnottingham.com is the place to find out what’s going on in our City, get great offers and find your spirit.

sunday 12 June 11am – 6pm

Wind down on the last day of the festival with food, drinks and live music outside CAST Restaurant and Bar at Nottingham Playhouse. There will also be another chance to see Opening Hours performed by Zoo Indigo and Medium Rare – a new site-based exploration in Wellington Circus. See page 44 for more information.

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All this from just £30 a year for two people!

For full details call the Box Office on 0115 941 9419.


Friday 25 November – saturday 14 January


ciNDErEllAWritten and directed by kenneth Alan Taylor

Join us for the ultimate Royal Wedding! Prepare yourself for the greatest panto of them all with sparkling song and dance routines, dazzling costumes and lashings of glitter. You’ll have a ball!

Tickets £18 – £25

wednesday 26 october – saturday 12 November

Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company in a co-production with Liverpool Playhouse and Everyman Theatres present

THE rEsisTiBlE risE oF ArTuro uiby Bertolt BrechtTranslated by stephen sharkey

In 1930s Chicago local crime boss Arturo Ui has the town in his hands. Brecht’s farce about the rise of a fascist dictator has all too many modern parallels. Originally written in 1941, the play is a highly satirical, no holds-barred allegory of the rise of Hitler in Nazi Germany.

Tickets £7.50 – £26.50

Friday 2 – saturday 17 september


THE AsHEsby Michael Pinchbeck

The world premiere of the story of Nottinghamshire cricket hero Harold Larwood and the infamous Bodyline tour of 1932.

Tickets £7.50 – £26.50

Friday 7 – saturday 22 october


NÖEl cowArD’s PrivATE livEsStarring Janie Dee and rupert wickham

A riotous comedy of manners.

Elyot and Sybil are honeymooning in the south of France. In the adjoining room, Amanda and Victor are enjoying wedded bliss. The only problem is Elyot and Amanda used to be married to each other.

Tickets £7.50 – £26.50

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TrAvEl iNForMATioNNational Rail Enquiries 0845 748 4950East Midlands Trains www.eastmidlandstrains.co.ukOnline journey planner www.triptimes.co.ukNET (The Tram) 0115 942 7777Traffic and Travel www.itsnottingham.infoTraveline 0871 200 2233

Nottingham Tourism Centre08444 77 5678

All information correct at time of going to press. Whilst every effort will be made to keep to the programme it may be necessary to make changes. Please visit www.neatfestival.co.uk for up-to-date information.

BookiNG iNForMATioNTickets for most performances may be purchased from Nottingham Playhouse Box Office on 0115 941 9419 or Lakeside Arts Centre Box Office on 0115 846 7777 or in person at either venue. There is a booking fee.

We can only accept cash payments for tickets sold on the door an hour before the show. This does not apply to Nottingham Playhouse, Lakeside Arts Centre, Theatre Royal and Broadway Cinema. Pre-paid tickets will be available for collection on the door. If you require this information in large print or text only version please call Nottingham Playhouse Box Office on 0115 941 9419

www.sPiriTNoTTiNGHAM.coM

Nottingham is the first City in the UK to launch its own non-linear going out website, Spirit Nottingham. By using the My Planner section on the website you will be able to create and print off your neat11 itinerary, complete with maps, and add or export it to Outlook. If you have a QR app on your smart phone, scan this QR Code with your mobile phone camera and it will take you direct to the Spirit Nottingham website.

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DAys HoTEl NoTTiNGHAM17 – 31 Wollaton Street NG1 5FW0115 912 8000 www.daysinn.com

Ideally located for the Nottingham Playhouse, Theatre Royal and other city centre attractions, Days Hotel offers three-star modern city centre accommodation at an affordable rate. neat11 visitors can get rooms for just £60 per night, including breakfast (subject to availability).

Jurys iNN NoTTiNGHAMWaterfront Plaza, Station Street NG2 3BJ0115 901 6700 www.jurysinns.com

This 264-bedroom hotel is very close to the railway station and just a two-minute walk to Nottingham’s tramway. neat11 visitors can get rooms from just £65 per night (subject to availability).

HArT’s HoTElStandard Hill, Park Row NG1 6GN0115 988 1900 www.hartsnottingham.co.uk

A contemporary, privately owned four-star boutique hotel with its own garden

and car park. Just a three-minute stroll from Nottingham Playhouse, Hart’s is the highest rated hotel in the region. Rates for neat11 visitors start at £115 for a standard double.

PArk PlAzA41 Maid Marian Way NG1 6GD0115 947 7200 www.parkplaza.com/neat11

The four-star deluxe Park Plaza Nottingham is located in the heart of the city just 100 metres from the Old Market Square and Nottingham Castle and only a five-minute walk from Nottingham Playhouse. neat11 visitors benefit from a special discounted rate – visit the website for further details.

THE wElBEck HoTElStanley Place, Talbot Street NG1 5GS0115 841 1000 www.welbeck-hotel.co.uk

The Welbeck is a three-star hotel conveniently located in the city centre and just a stone’s throw from Nottingham Playhouse, and a 10-minute walk from the Theatre Royal Nottingham and other city centre attractions.

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Sky Arts atThe Nottingham

European Artsand Theatre Festival 2011

Sky Arts is proud to be Media Partner to the Nottingham European Arts and Theatre Festival 2011 and will

be showing a film about the festival throughout the summer.

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NoTTiNGHAM cAsTlEFriar Lane, off Maid Marian Way NG1 6EL 0115 915 3700 www.mynottingham.gov.uk/nottinghamcastle

Castle CaféOpen daily except Mondays (but open Bank Holiday Mondays), the Castle Café offers the perfect way to relax and revive with its panoramic views of the city and serving a wide range of meals, snacks and hot and cold refreshments.

NoTTiNGHAM coNTEMPorAryWeekday Cross NG1 2GB0115 948 9750 www.nottinghamcontemporary.org

Café.Bar.ContemporaryCafé.Bar.Contemporary serves breakfast, lunch and dinner every day except Mondays. They offer international contemporary cuisine combined with classic British dishes. They have a good selection of continental beers, local cask ales, fine wines and speciality teas and coffees.

NoTTiNGHAM PlAyHousEWellington Circus NG1 5AF0115 941 9419 www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk

CAST Restaurant and BarNottingham Playhouse’s popular restaurant and the official neat11 festival bar is the perfect place to unwind with friends. They serve a mouth-watering selection of world cuisine, beers and wines. Enjoy a two-course meal before your show from just £11 when booked through the Box Office on 0115 941 9419.

THEATrE royAlNoTTiNGHAMTheatre Square NG1 5ND0115 989 5555 www.trch.co.uk

The Restaurant at the Theatre RoyalLocated on the Dress Circle level, The Restaurant at the Theatre Royal is open for matinee and evening performances and serves a regularly changing selection of freshly-made dishes from £15.95 for two courses. Booking in advance is strongly recommended.


BroADwAy ciNEMABroad Street NG1 3AL0115 952 6611 www.broadway.org.uk

Cafébar at BroadwayBroadway has two lively bars and a menu that’s a mix of world flavours and favourite recipes. Their popular Broadway Bites menu enables you to see a film and enjoy a meal for just £13.50 (£11.50 concessions/members).

GAllEriEs oF JusTicE MusEuMThe Lace Market NG1 1HN0115 952 0555 www.galleriesofjustice.org.uk

Friar Tuck Shoppe and Café at the Galleries of Justice MuseumWhether you fancy sweets, a snack or fresh cakes, a can of pop or a cuppa, take some time out and soak up the atmosphere at the Galleries of Justice café. A bar is also available during evening events.

lAkEsiDE ArTs cENTrEUniversity Park NG7 2RD0115 846 7777 www.lakesidearts.org.uk

Aqua and Café LLakeside Arts Centre’s two cafés offer hot dishes, salads, sandwiches, pastries and cakes as well as speciality teas and coffees, cold drinks, wine and beer in a family-friendly atmosphere. Aqua also offers a delicious pre-theatre menu from 5.30 – 7.30pm.

NEw ArT ExcHANGE39 – 41 Gregory Boulevard NG7 6BE0115 924 8630 www.nae.org.uk

Café at New Art ExchangeThe NAE Café is a great space to meet friends for lunch and offers a good selection of snacks and hot and cold refreshments.

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1 Broadway Cinema

2 Galleries of Justice

3 Lakeside Arts Centre

4 Highfields Park

5 New Art Exchange

6 Nottingham Castle Grounds

7 Nottingham Contemporary

8 Nottingham Forest City Ground

9 Nottingham Playhouse

10 The Polish Eagle Club

11 Theatre Royal Nottingham

12 Wellington Circus

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Sun 29 luminarium 11am – 5.30pm HP 35

ulrike and Eamon compliant 12 – 5.30pm NP 13

The league of youth 4 – 6.30pm NP 4

Playhouse etc. launch/The irons 6 – 8pm NP 50 PsD

opening Hours 6 – 8pm WC 44

Gob squad's kitchen 8 – 9.45pm NC 14

Daniel kitson 8.15 – 10.15pm NP 12

Mon 30 luminarium 11am – 5.30pm HP 35

From Here… To There 11 – 11.45am & 2 – 2.45pm LAC 37


Fakebook 7 – 8pm NP 51

Piaf – The songs 7.30 – 9.15pm NP 16

Gob squad's kitchen 8 – 9.45pm NC 14

The Electronic Exchange 9 – 9.50pm NP 52

Tue 31 luminarium 11am – 5.30pm HP 35

From Here… To There 11 – 11.45am & 2 – 2.45pm LAC 37


The league of youth 1.30 – 4pm & 7.45 – 10.15pm NP 4

Maps 3 – 3.50pm LAC 38

six 7 – 8.30pm NP 52 PsD

liam o’kane 9 – 9.50pm NP 53

JuNEWed 1 And Then There were Two… 9.45am; 11am; 1.40pm (40mins) LAC 39

luminarium 11am – 5.30pm HP 35

The league of youth 1.30 – 4pm NP 4

Momentum scratch Night 1 7 – 8.10pm NP 53

Ghosts and Ghouls Tour 7.15 – 8.15pm & 7.30 – 8.30pm GOJ 17

court in the Act! 9 – 10.15pm GOJ 17

Thu 2 And Then There were Two… 9.45am; 11am; 1.40pm (40mins) LAC 39

luminarium 11am – 5.30pm HP 35

Aquabelles 7 – 8.30pm NP 54 PsD


The crossing 7.30 – 8.40pm NAE 18

sugar statues 8 – 8.50pm PEC 45


Marvin Brown 9 – 9.50pm NP 54


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Wed 25 Talk opera 6.30 – 7pm TRN 7

Fidelio 7.30 – 10pm TRN 7

The league of youth 7.45 – 10.15pm NP 4

lady chatterley’s lover 8 – 10pm LAC 6

Thu 26 Talk opera 6.30 – 7pm TRN 10

From the House of the Dead 7.30 – 9.20pm TRN 10


lady chatterley’s lover 8 – 10pm LAC 6

Fri 27 luminarium 6 – 7.30pm HP 35 16+

The island 7 – 8.30pm NP 11


The sorrows of young werther 8 – 9.35pm LAC 8 Sat 28 luminarium 11am – 5.30pm HP 35



The league of youth 2.30 – 5pm NP 4

luminarium 6 – 7.30pm HP 35 16+

Talk opera 6.30 – 7pm TRN 7

Fidelio 7.30 – 10pm TRN 7


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GoJ Galleries of Justice Museum

HP Highfields Park

lAc Lakeside Arts Centre

NAE New Art Exchange

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NcG Nottingham Castle Grounds

NFcG Nottingham Forest City Ground

NP Nottingham Playhouse

PEc The Polish Eagle Club

TrN Theatre Royal Nottingham

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DATE EvENT TiME vENuE PAGE

Fri 3 luminarium 11am – 5.30pm HP 35


The crossing 7.30 – 8.40pm NAE 18

woyzeck 7.30 – 9.30pm NP 20


Sat 4 luminarium 11am – 5.30pm HP 35

wheee! Family weekend 12 – 5.30pm HP 36

one little word 12.30 – 1.05pm & 3 – 3.35pm LAC 40

Hans christian 1.30 – 2.15pm & 6 – 6.45pm LAC 41

The last supper 2 – 3pm & 8 – 9pm NC 22 PsD

A Bridge To The stars 3 – 4pm & 6 – 7pm NP 55


woyzeck 7.30 – 9.30pm NP 20


The cries of silent Men 9 – 10.15pm NCG 24

Sun 5 luminarium 11am – 5.30pm HP 35

wheee! Family weekend 12 – 5.30pm HP 36

Hans christian 12.30 – 1.15pm & 3 – 3.45pm LAC 41

one little word 1.30 – 2.05pm & 3 – 3.35pm LAC 40

Molière (film) 2 – 4pm BC 62

The last supper 2 – 3pm & 8 – 9pm NC 22

clyde & Bonnie 7 – 8.30pm NP 56 PsD

The cries of silent Men 9 – 10.15pm NCG 24

Mon 6 Makubika & Ashdown 7 – 9pm NP 57

David McAlmont 7.30 – 9.30pm NP 25

Tue 7 The ugly Duckling 1.30 – 2.15pm & 6 – 6.45pm LAC 42

The irons 7 – 8.30pm NP 57 PsD

Bo Burnham live 7.30 – 9.10pm NP 26

The white ribbon (film) 8 – 10.25pm BC 62

Poland 3 iran 2 8 – 9.10pm NFCG 46

Muha 9 – 9.50pm NP 58

Wed 8 The ugly Duckling 10.30 – 11.15am & 1.30 – 2.15pm LAC 42

Momentum scratch Night 2 7 – 8.10pm NP 58

Three sisters 7.45 – 10.45pm TRN 28


Thu 9 The illusionist (film) 10.30 – 11.50am & 1.30 – 2.50pm BC 63

Guided Audio walk 4 – 5pm NP 64

Tourist 6 – 6.45pm NC 47

The Apocalypse comes at 6pm 7 – 8.30pm NP 59 PsD

Faust 7.30 – 8.45pm NP 32


Arna’s children 8 – 9.30pm NAE 27 PsD

Mique 9 – 9.50pm NP 59

Fri 10 The Honey Man 7 – 8.30pm NP 60

Faust 7.30 – 8.45pm NP 32


Sat 11 Break your own Pony & Horse 2 – 3.30pm NP 48

Three sisters 2.30 – 5.30pm & 7.45 – 10.45pm TRN 28

Princess lillifee (film) 3 – 4.10pm BC 63

The Gaza Mono-logues 5 – 5.45pm & 7.30 – 8.15pm NAE 30

Painkillers 7 – 8.30pm NP 61 PsD

Faust 7.30 – 8.45pm NP 32

Mouthy Poets 9 – 10pm NP 61

Sun 12 Festival Fete 11am – 6pm NP 68


Guided Audio walk 2 – 3pm NP 64


THrouGHouT THE FEsTivAlFri 15 April – Sun 26 June

Huang yong Ping NC 67

wael shawky NC 67

Sat 21 May – Sat 6 August

The zone NAE 65

Thu 26 May – Sat 12 June

The world as a Digital stage NP 66

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