Some of the UK’s best touring comedy theatre and circus comes to Southampton this May, with a radical retelling of one of Shakespeare’s classics, an award-winning comedy love letter to the 90s and a breath-taking experience that pushes the limits of gravity showing across Nuffield Southampton Theatres’ two venues: Campus and City.
Following critically acclaimed London and international festival runs, Lyric Hammersmith and Filter Theatre’s riotous reinterpretation of one of Shakespeare’s best loved plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, comes to NST Campus on 1-5 May 2018. With a live onstage band, this is Shakespeare reworked for the 21st century.
The Wardrobe Ensemble, Royal & Derngate Northampton and Shoreditch Town Hall brings its award-winning co-production Education, Education, Education to NST Campus on 8-12 May.
Set in May 1997, Education, Education, Education takes us back to school and asks whether things really have got better. The ever-inventive Wardrobe Ensemble took last summer’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival by storm with this political comedy theatre.
On 25-26 May, NST will transform itself into the round for the first time to welcome Tipping Point, from Ockham’s Razor, winners of the Total Theatre & Jacksons Lane Circus Award at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016.
A breath-taking experience that pushes the limits of gravity, Tipping Point features five performers, balancing on metal poles, hung from the roof, swung, lashed, climbed up and clung to.
Katy Snelling, Head of Programming at NST, said: “Our first May across two venues sees us expand what we can offer to audiences – from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (but maybe not as you’ve ever seen before) to the up and coming Wardrobe Ensemble, with one of the big hits of last year’s Edinburgh festival.
“The flexibility of NST City means that we can do more than just plays. I can’t think of a better way to launch a programme of Circus than the jaw dropping, ariel acrobatics of Okham’s Razor with the audience sat on all 4 sides of the performance space. Just in time for the 250th anniversary of Circus in the UK!”
Visit: www.nstheatres.co.uk to find out more.
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