Arts

Autumn arts at the Lakeside

The University’s October arts programme includes new one-act plays, a performance debut, the return of a former world premiere to the Lakeside, a music festival and innovative jazz.

Theatre productions start on Thursday 9 October with Love and the Gentle Heart, two new one-act plays written by Alison Atkinson. Then, on Thursday 23 October, Station House Opera make their Lakeside debut with their latest performance work, Mind Out, that explores the impossible question of what its like to be mindless.

In addition, students from the Centre for Theatre Studies return with their insightful production of Caryl Churchill’s Fen, a dark and thought provoking play set in the mist laden potato fields of East Anglia. This runs from Wednesday 29 October to Friday 31 October. The world premiere of Fen was at the Lakeside Theatre in 1983, so it seems highly appropriate that this story, with all its passion and longing, returns to the Colchester Campus in Churchill's seventieth year.

Musical delights include the opening concert, on Friday 10 October, of the Roman River Music's annual festival, this year celebrating French music, food, film and culture. There are also jazz performances, with cool soul grooves by Mellow Baku on Friday 17 October and Polar Bear, a young London-based avant-garde jazz quintet on Saturday 25 October.

For more information, and to purchase tickets, please contact the Arts Office, telephone: 01206 873261, e-mail: arts@essex.ac.uk and web: www.essex.ac.uk/Arts/office/

Station House Opera make their Lakeside Theatre debut with Mind Out

 

Also in the printed October edition of Wyvern:

• Death by Text
• Memory hits the London stage