(vibrant) Shakespeare in Brockwell Park!
Just got this from FoBP..
Love's Labour's Lost - (the lover's tale)
Welcome the summer with vibrant theatre in your local park.
Venue: Open-Air at Brockwell Hall, Brockwell Park,SE24 9BJ
Dates & Time: 10th-14th June 7.30pm, 11th & 14th June 1.30pm & 15th June 6pm
Ticket Prices : £10/£8concession (£5 U18 at matinee performances) group discount available by prior arrangement
Venue Box Office:
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The Curious Room - a South-London based theatre company which has been commissioned to put on the first ever Shakespeare in Brockwell Park this June. Love's Labour's Lost (the lovers' tale) is opening the summer season of M.A.D. for Brockwell Park – a brilliant new initiative taking Music, Art and Drama outdoors in South London which has been devised by The Brockwell Park Arts & Events Group and is kindly sponsored by BPMAC and FoBP.
The Curious Room brings you this neatly abridged version of Shakespeare's comedy in a fresh vibrant setting, directed by acclaimed theatre director, Knight Mantell. Love's Labour's Lost is one of the lesser known of Shakespeare's comedies but was brought into the public eye two years ago when Kenneth Brannagh made a musical film of the play. The play is heralded as having some of the more beautiful speeches for young characters. The themes explored by the play are not that dissimilar than those tackled on our television screens in shows such as Sex in the City or in the newsagents in OK and Hello magazines. Four sets of royal lover's embark on a battle of the sexes. Can four clever women distract four studious men from their vow to devote their lives to learning?
Both The Curious Room and the team behind M.A.D. for Brockwell Park are excited to be providing accessible and affordable opportunity to see Shakespeare taken off the page and brought to life by an innovative team of actors, musicians and artists.
The Curious Room was established in January 2007. The company works as a co-operative, giving the people involved in the creative process as much credit and input as those who eventually present the piece of theatre to an audience. This provides a forum in which a network of artists of different disciplines can experiment, create and expand, culminating in mixed-media performance.
In October 2007, we performed our first production: a staged version of Angela Carter's radio play Vampirella, including an illustration and two film shorts. All the proceeds went to the south London charity Kids Company. We pledge 10% of profits from any future production to Kids Company, a local organisation; this will give creative opportunity to children that have none. This August sees The Curious Room's Edinburgh fringe festival debut with The Highwayman a new play by Bahar Brunton after the classic poem by Alfred Noyes.
In the future The Curious Room hopes to commission more new writing which is inspired by classic literature, poems and works of art.
