Arts

World première at East 15

As part of its exciting spring season, East 15 offers drama enthusiasts a world première in March.

Third-year BA Acting students are performing the first translation, by Alan Raphael Pearlman, of The Machine Breakers from Wednesday 5 March to Saturday 8 March (2.30pm matinee, Friday) in the Corbett Theatre. The play, directed by John Gillett, charts the fight of the Luddites against the new steam machines introduced to the Nottingham weaving industry in the early 1800s.

BA Acting students are also performing Afore Night Come from Wednesday 20 February to Saturday 23 February (2.30pm matinee, Friday). It will be the first production in a new studio at Roding House, just five minutes from the Hatfields Campus.

Third-year BA Specialist Performance Skills (Stage Combat) students will put their skills into practice by staging a modern day version of Julius Caesar from Wednesday 20 February to Saturday 23 February. Later in March, BA Contemporary Theatre students take two productions to The Space on the Isle of Dogs. Attraction to Atrocity, which looks at war crime,  and Round Round, a modern re-telling of Arthur Schnitzler’s cautionary drama La Ronde, will run from Wednesday 5 March to Saturday 8 March and Wednesday 12 March to Saturday 15 March respectively. Each will have a 2pm matinee on the Saturday.

For more information, and to book tickets, please contact the East 15 Box Office on telephone: 020 8508 5983 or e-mail: east15@essex.ac.uk.

Lakeside highlights

The spring arts programme includes three interesting professional productions in March which it is hoped will draw in audiences from far and wide.

The month’s events get underway on 6 March with the Shams Theatre Company production The Black Stuff. This funny, touching and provocative play takes comedy to physical and emotional extremes to ask – just how far would you go to defend your lifestyle?

On 12 March f.a.b. – The Detonators present Extraordinary, putting the ‘extra’ into an ordinary life with their intense, energetic dance-theatre. It is a comic, dark and unorthodox take on reality, fantasy, dull jobs and Hollywood glamour.

Shortly before the end of term Mem Morrison, a second generation British Turkish Cypriot, presents Leftovers, a heart-warming and poignant work that explores cultural differences as expressed through food.

For more information, or to pick up a full programme of Arts on 5 events, drop into the new-look Arts Office, now located on Square 4.