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ITEM: CORRESPONDENCE TOUR
DATE: 16/07/2008 | 12.29 GMT
NEWS: Dates have now been confirmed for the tour of Claire MacDonald's Correspondence.
30th July-25th August: Pleasance, Edinburgh.
29th September-3rd October: Plymouth Theatre Royal
8th-10th October: The Junction, Cambridge
20th-21st October: Exeter Phoenix
23rd-25th October: Bath Theatre Royal
6th-8th November: Manchester Royal Exchange
ITEM: HOTBED 3-12 JULY 2008
DATE: 11/06/2008 | 17.42 GMT
NEWS: Visit The Hotbed Festival Website for all the up to date news on the festival commissions.
HOTBED
ITEM: HOTBED PROGRAMME ANNOUNCED
DATE: 11/06/2008 | 17.39 GMT
NEWS: Hotbed 2008 is now upon us!
The opening night is July 3rd with the last shows being performed on July 12th.
It is a fantastic line up with new work from some of the best writers in the UK alongside first time playwrights.
For a brochure call 01223 511511.
Log onto the HOTBED website and see the full programme and download a brochure HOTBED
ITEM: HOTBED PROGRAMME ANNOUNCED
DATE: 11/06/2008 | 17.39 GMT
NEWS: Hotbed 2008 is now upon us!
The opening night is July 3rd with the last shows being performed on July 12th.
It is a fantastic line up with new work from some of the best writers in the UK alongside first time playwrights.
For a brochure call 01223 511511.
Log onto the HOTBED website and see the full programme and download a brochure HOTBED
ITEM: HOTBED PROGRAMME ANNOUNCED
DATE: 11/06/2008 | 17.37 GMT
NEWS: Hotbed 2008 is now upon us!
The opening night is July 3rd with the last shows being performed on July 12th.
It is a fantastic line up with new work from some of the best writers in the UK alongside first time playwrights.
For a brochure call 01223 511511.
Log onto the HOTBED website and see the full programme and download a brochure HOTBED
ITEM: UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE WRITING AWARD
DATE: 28/04/2008 | 16.35 GMT
NEWS:
Menagerie have been invited to help judge the University of Hertfordshire Writing Award and mentor the finalists!
The award is open to writers aged 14–19. Enter by writing a fifteen minute play.
For full details follow the link writing award
ITEM: HOTBED WRITERS SELECTION 2008
DATE: 15/04/2008 | 17.28 GMT
NEWS: Thanks to all the writers (over 200!) who submitted ideas and plays for Hotbed 2008. Subject to contracts and final discussions the following writers have been selected for production:
Craig Baxter
Ranjit Bolt
Samantha Ellis
Kenny Emson
Jennifer Farmer
Fraser Grace
Danusia Iwaszko
Judy Upton
Anna Rowntree
There will be further announcements regarding staged- readings of submitted plays so watch this space!
ITEM: HOTBED LINE-UP ANNOUNCED TUESDAY 15TH APRIL
DATE: 11/04/2008 | 17.16 GMT
NEWS: The selection process for Hotbed is coming to an end this weekend with final choices being made from over 200 scripts and submissions. Thank you to all who submitted, we will be getting back to all of you as soon as we can!! Watch this space on Tuesday 15th April for announcement of the scripts to be produced.
ITEM: HELEN EDMUNSON WORKSHOP
DATE: 20/03/2008 | 18.56 GMT
NEWS:
The workshop with Helen Edmudson is being supported by The New Writing Partnership. See Writer Development 'workshops' for details. Workshop April 5th!
ITEM: WORKSHOP WITH PLAYWRIGHT HELEN EDMUNDSON
DATE: 18/03/2008 | 14.42 GMT
NEWS: Saturday 5th April, 10am-5pm.
Studio 2 the Junction, Cambridge.
Renowned playwright Helen Edmundson will be coming to Menagerie to give a workshop on writing plays and adaptations. Helen’s work has been staged at the National Theatre, the Royal Court and the RSC, and she has written numerous plays for Shared Experience. In 2005 her adaptation of Jamila Gavin’s novel Coram Boy at the National was both a box-office and critical success. Her two-part adaptation of War and Peace is currently being revived by Shared Experience and is on a national tour.
This is an unmissable opportunity to spend a day developing your writing under the guidance of a top playwright. The workshop will consist largely of writing exercises, so attendees should bring paper and pens along, ready to start writing. There will also be the opportunity to discuss your current projects with Helen. There are only 12 places available to ensure that everyone gets the most out of the day.
If you book before 31st March the workshop costs £25 per person. Places booked after the 31st March will cost £35 each.
If you would like to attend the workshop please write a short paragraph on what you hope to get out of the workshop and send it to Holly at office@menagerie.uk.com
ITEM: HOTBED: ESTABLISHED WRITERS
DATE: 07/03/2008 | 17.10 GMT
NEWS: For writers who have written for Menagerie before, or established writers... we don't need to see your script yet... just the idea and outline! (of course, if you have a completed new script send it in!)
Hotbed is an extraordinary opportunity to try out a new work. With an outstanding artistic team and an acting ensemble company of nine, we can bring to life the best new short plays (up to thirty mins). Past writers for Hotbed include Naomi Wallace, Steve Waters, Fraser Grace, Tim Etchells and Diane Samuels to name just a few. Please contact Paul directly to discuss terms or send scripts/ideas by 26th March. Festival runs 3rd-12th July. Final drafts of scripts required by 1st June.
ITEM: HOTBED REMINDER - NEW WRITERS
DATE: 07/03/2008 | 16.58 GMT
NEWS: Submissions for playwrights we haven't worked with before must be received by 26th March. Please post scripts to Holly. Scripts should be one act - no other stipulation other than that they will work in a new writing festival with an ensemble company (oh and we are looking for some funny stuff this year along with the quirky and brilliant - all three would be great!!). This year we will have up to nine actors avaiable, but realistically three actors per play - with flexibility for that brilliant nine-hander of course!
ITEM: EDINBURGH 2008
DATE: 07/03/2008 | 16.50 GMT
NEWS: It looks like we will be back at The Pleasance this year for The Edinburgh Fringe, with two of our shows - Correspondence and Out Of Your Knowledge. More details to follow over coming weeks!
ITEM: CORRESPONDENCE TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED
DATE: 29/02/2008 | 18.08 GMT
NEWS: Our next new touring production CORRESPONDENCE by Claire MacDonald, will be opening its 2008 touring schedule at the Colchester Mercury 2nd-5th June. More dates to follow... COLCHESTER>
ITEM: WEBSITE UPDATES
DATE: 26/02/2008 | 12.57 GMT
NEWS: Look out for updates to our website every Friday! We will keep you up to date with all our news and activities on a weekly basis. From 3rd March our Hotbed 08 website will be up and running for all the latest information on our new writing festival. Visit HOTBED
ITEM: EMBRACING FAILURE!
DATE: 22/02/2008 | 19.12 GMT
NEWS: Paul, working with conceptual artist Chris Dobrowski has created a new training programme on Innovation and Risk: Embracing Failure: Stories of Success. Visit CORPORATE TRAINING for details!
ITEM: HARVARD WILL NEVER BE THE SAME!
DATE: 22/02/2008 | 18.12 GMT
NEWS: As part of our vist to the United States to perform Re:Design, Patrick and Paul (together with Terry and Craig), gave a lecture at Harvard University!
Yep... those students will never be the same - lecturing in Professor Jant Browne's class on the History of Science, we wowed 250 undergraduate and Graduate Students with our newly discovered knowledge of Charles Darwin!
A podcast of a performance of Re:Design at MIT can be see on Darwin Video
ITEM: HOTBED SUBMISSIONS
DATE: 08/02/2008 | 20.30 GMT
NEWS: We are now inviting submissions for Hotbed 08. We are looking for scripts up to 30 minutes in length requiring between one and four actors. Nine scripts will be selected. A fee of £250 will be given for each script.
Closing date 26th March.
Festival runs 3rd-12th July
Please submit to Holly Race, Literary Associate.
ITEM: HOTBED DATES ANNOUNCED: JULY 3-12
DATE: 29/01/2008 | 15.44 GMT
NEWS: Hotbed, The Cambridge New Writing Theatre Festival, will be produced 3rd - 12th July at The Junction. For more details see our (soon to be updated!) website: HOTBED
ITEM: RE:DESIGN IN USA!
DATE: 29/01/2008 | 15.38 GMT
NEWS: Our production of Re:Design by Craig Baxter will be produced in Boston 13th - 16th February. Starring Terry Tolloy and Patrick, this is a new play created form the original correspondence of Charles Darwin.
ITEM: OUT OF YOUR KNOWLEDGE: LONDON PERFORMANCES
DATE: 07/01/2008 | 11.04 GMT
NEWS: Menagerie's latest play by Steve Waters is running at The Pleasance, Islington this month performances 16, 17, 18 Jan.
see PLEASANCE or PRODUCTIONS for details
ITEM: ROUGH DIAMONDS 25TH/26TH JAN
DATE: 07/01/2008 | 10.55 GMT
NEWS: A weekend of new writing at our home theatre, the Junction. Three new plays from three regional writers.
PRODUCTIONS for more information
ITEM: LAST CHANCE TO CATCH OUT OF YOUR KNOWLEDGE BY STEVE WATERS.
DATE: 22/10/2007 | 20.29 GMT
NEWS: Out of Your Knowledge has wowed audiences and critics alike and we have just 3 more shows to go before the end of the tour:
The Junction, Cambridge on November 1st and 2nd
Lakeside Theatre, University of Essex on November 8th.
Following the performance in Cambridge on November 2nd, there’ll be a debate chaired by Barry Sheerman MP, which discusses the wider questions that the play raises. With a panel of experts, all of whom share an interest in these issues, it's sure to be a fascinating event and is free to all who have tickets for that night’s show.
For more details, follow the link to PRODUCTIONS.
ITEM: OUT OF YOUR KNOWLEDGE WORKSHOP, NOVEMBER 3RD
DATE: 22/10/2007 | 20.27 GMT
NEWS: Led by writer Steve Waters, the workshop reveals the process behind Out of Your Knowledge. Encouraging writers to explore boundaries of fact and fiction, Waters will work with participants to find unexpected approaches to creating new work.
Follow the link to WRITER DEVELOPMENT
ITEM: ROUGH DIAMONDS – PRODUCTION OPPORTUNITY FOR PLAYWRIGHTS.
DATE: 22/10/2007 | 20.16 GMT
NEWS: On January 25th and 26th 2008, Menagerie will present the Rough Diamonds showcase - a weekend of bare-bones productions of new short plays by 3 talented writers. We are inviting writers to submit scripts of unproduced plays of to be considered for this fabulous opportunity.
For full details follow the link to WRITER DEVELOPMENT
ITEM: REHEARSED READING, THURSDAY OCTOBER 25TH, THE JUNCTION 7.30PM
DATE: 22/10/2007 | 20.04 GMT
NEWS: For our first reading of the new season, we present The Translator by Kat Joyce. This will be the play’s first ever public presentation. The reading is directed by our Literary Associate, Holly Race.
Follow the link to WRITER DEVELOPMENT
ITEM: HOLLY RACE JOINS MENAGERIE
DATE: 06/09/2007 | 15.26 GMT
NEWS:Holly Race joins Menagerie as new Literary Associate
We are delighted to welcome Holly who will be working with us in the lead up to Hotbed 2008.
Leading workshops and scouting for new talent Holly, will be focussing on our writer development programme.
More to follow soon...
ITEM: CO-HOSTING PLAYWRIGHT WORKSHOPS
DATE: 06/09/2007 | 15.25 GMT
NEWS: Menagerie co-hosting playwright workshops with New Writing partnership in Norwich.
Workshops start on 9th September with more to follow throughout the autumn.
The courses will be led by our Literary Associate Holly Race and Associate writer Fraser Grace
For more details follow the link to NWP.
ITEM: MENAGERIE IS RECRUITING A NEW GENERAL MANAGER
DATE: 06/09/2007 | 15.24 GMT
NEWS: Closing date for this position is 28th September.
- Job description
- Person specification
ITEM: OUT OF YOUR KNOWLEDGE ON TOUR
DATE: 06/06/2007 | 18.45 GMT
NEWS: Steve Waters' new play Out of Your Knowledge(previously titled Clare's Walk) is going out on tour this autumn, including a week's run at the Cambridge Arts Theatre Studio.
Out of Your Knowledge is inspired by the feverish, homeward journey of 19th century English poet John Clare from a lunatic asylum in Essex to his home village some 100 miles north, walking up what is now the A1. See PRODUCTIONS for production and tour details
Prior to touring we will present a one-off performance in John Clare's home town of Helpsten on 14th July for more information visit Helspten Festival
ITEM: PAUL GETS CREATIVE... (AND INTERNATIONAL)
DATE: 06/06/2007 | 16.13 GMT
NEWS: Artistic Director Paul Bourne has been made an Associate of The Centre for International Business at The Ashcroft Business School, with a Fellowship to follow…! Paul’s work with the centre will include expanding (and explaining!) Menagerie's corporate training programme, focussing in particular on Creativity in Business!
Menagerie’s international Business work includes projects on culture change, and creativity in leadership in Hong Kong, Dubai, Switzerland, the United States and Germany. For more information on our training programme visit CORPORATE TRAINING
For information on the Centre for International Business visit CIB
ITEM: ALEX MOVES ON...
DATE: 06/06/2007 | 15.42 GMT
NEWS: Our General Manager Alex Drury has moved onto pastures new at The Cambridge University Admissions Office, where he has to be very sensible and responsible – which of course he was all the time during his three years with us! Good luck to Alex.
Look out for recruitment details for the next person brave enough to challenge themselves with Menagerie, details to follow shortly...
ITEM: MENAGERIE & OVAL HOUSE
DATE: 07/03/2007 | 10.01 GMT
NEWS: Menagerie are delighted to be working with Oval House Theatre on a new play by Kofi Agyemang. Jesus Loves Me will be given a rehearsed reading at The Junction on Thursday 8th March at 7.30pm.
Visit our WRITER DEVELOPMENT section for more information.
ITEM: WATCH OUR WORK EVOLVE...
DATE: 09/02/2007 | 17.02 GMT
NEWS: In advance of the first performance of RE: Design at The Junction next month, Menagerie are offering the opportunity to see the work in development at a reading of the play on Monday 19th February.
If you would like to join us at the reading (which is a Pay What You Want event), we will be at The Junction from 7.30pm.
For further information about the play, please visit PRODUCTIONS.
ITEM: RE: DESIGN BY CRAIG BAXTER
DATE: 18/01/2007 | 12.44 GMT
NEWS: In partnership with the Darwin Correspondence Project at the Univesrity of Cambridge, Menagerie is delighted to be producing RE: Design, (A Dramatisation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin and Asa Gray) by Craig Baxter.
Before heading off for performances in Boston, Menagerie will perform RE: Design as part of Cambridge Science Festival 2007 at The Junction on Sunday 25th March.
The Atlantic Ocean between them, Charles Darwin in England and Asa Gray at Harvard work to reconcile orthodox Christian beliefs with Darwin’s new theory of evolution by natural selection.
ITEM: CORRESPONDENCE
DATE: 18/01/2007 | 12.31 GMT
NEWS: Somewhere, In the middle of an unnamed country, a man and a woman meet on a train. Who they are, where they have come from and where they are going emerges through a series of highly charged observations and intimacies that cross the boundary between real and imagined places.
Join us for a reading of this exciting new piece by Claire Macdonald at The Junction, Cambridge on 31st January from 7.30pm.
ITEM: END OF AN ERA...
DATE: 08/01/2007 | 11.15 GMT
NEWS: As we gear up for a fresh approach, Menagerie's current writer development programme is coming to an end and we will no longer be accepting unsolicited scripts after 31st January 2007. Visit WRITER DEVELOPMENT for further details.
ITEM: JANET SUZMAN AS ELIZABETH I
DATE: 15/08/2006 | 13.43 GMT
NEWS: Menagerie are delighted to announce that Oscar-nominated actress Janet Suzman will play the role of Elizabeth I in Fraser Grace's Frobisher's Gold at The Junciton in Cambridge and the Shaw Theatre in London this Autumn. For more information on the play and on Janet, please visit PRODUCTIONS.
ITEM: HOTBED 2006
DATE: 15/08/2006 | 13.39 GMT
NEWS: Hotbed 2006 has now been and gone.
Visit www.hotbedfestival.co.uk to find out more about the 17 new plays we commissioned, the workshops and guest events we hosted and see what we got up to for 10 days in July this year at the festival The Guarian describes as 'an essential on the new writing calendar' (Lyn Gardner).
ITEM: PLAYWRIGHTS AS PUPPETEERS?
DATE: 05/05/2006 | 11.07 GMT
NEWS: Menagerie will host a masterclass by master puppeteer and storyteller, Steve Tiplady later this month.
Previously Artistic Director of Little Angel Theatre, Steve has 20 years experience in puppery and is in constant demand from all sections of contemporary theatre.
For more information on Pulling Strings, please visit our WRITER DEVELOPMENT page.
ITEM: AWARD-WINNING MENAGERIE
DATE: 07/04/2006 | 11.26 GMT
NEWS: Menagerie are delighted to have been announced as the winner of the Prudential Arts & Business & Employees Award at the 28th Annual Arts & Business Awards held at the Barbican on 3rd April 2006.
The award was offered in recognition of the outstanding work Menagerie's training arm has undertaken with Liverpool Football Club.
For further details of the awards, click here. For more information on Menagerie's training programme, visit our CORPORATE TRAINING page.
ITEM: BURSARIES FOR YOUNG WRITERS
DATE: 24/03/2006 | 14.34 GMT
NEWS: If you're a playwright aged 18-25 living in the East of England (Beds, Cambs, Essex, Herts, Norfolk and Suffolk), you are eligible for one of three bursaries to attend Menagerie playwrighting masterclasses this Spring.
Bursaries cover travel and fees for two masterclasses as well as a one-to-one career development/mentoring session with a member of Menagerie's artistic team.
For more information on this great opportunity to work with top professionals and gain an insight into writing for the stage professionally, please visit our WRITER DEVELOPMENT page.
ITEM: PLAYWRIGHTING WORKSHOP WITH NAOMI WALLACE
DATE: 06/03/2006 | 11.33 GMT
NEWS: What makes the short play so attractive, yet so challenging to write? How do you create a world and a fully-fledged narrative in just 20 minutes? What are the tricks of the trade?
To explore these questions Menagerie is delighted to welcome internationally renowned playwright Naomi Wallace lead this session.
For more details and booking, please see our WRITER DEVELOPMENT section.
ITEM: HOTBED IS COMING
DATE: 21/02/2006 | 14.05 GMT
NEWS: Hotbed is the flagship new writing event in the East of England with a national profile. The festival unites writers in the region and gives them a national context and profile.
Hotbed has emerged as an event which offers a genuine focus on writers and the production of their work.
Opportunities for writers are now being advertised, please CONTACT US for details of festival commissions.
ITEM: CLARE'S WALK, BY STEVE WATERS
DATE: 21/02/2006 | 11.22 GMT
NEWS: Supported by Menagerie Theatre Company, Steve Waters has created Clare's Walk, a new play exploring the nightmarish journey of 1841 by poet John Clare from the lunatic asylum where he was incarcerated in Epping Forest to his home in Northborough.
Click here for more information and tour details.
ITEM: SYRINGA TREE RETURNS
DATE: 21/02/2006 | 11.06 GMT
NEWS: Following a short development period and a very successful Cambridge run of Syringa Tree in November 2005, Menagerie are planning to bring the fabulous Gin Hammond back to the UK and on to the Edinburgh Festival prior to a London run this autumn.
Visit our Work in Development section for further details.
ITEM: MENAGERIE HAS A NEW CHAIR
DATE: 16/02/2006 | 12.49 GMT
NEWS: Menagerie are delighted to announce the appointment of our new Chair, Prof. Lester Lloyd-Reason.
Already having been a member of Menagerie's board for two years, Lester is well placed to help lead the organisation as we embark on new and exciting projects in 2006 and beyond.
Find out more about Lester in the ABOUT US section.
ITEM: MENAGERIE SHORTLISTED FOR NATIONAL AWARDS
DATE: 25/01/2006 | 13.57 GMT
NEWS: Menagerie have reached the final shortlist for two national awards for our business training work.
The Arts & Business Awards are the UK's most prestigious awards celebrating excellence in the field of business/arts partnerships and sponsorship.
For our work with Liverpool Football Club, Menagerie has been shortlisted for the Prudential Arts, Business & Employees Award and for our work with BBC East, we have also been shortlisted for The Ogilvy Group, Arts, Business & Creativity Award.
Winners will be announced at an award ceremony at The Barbican on 3rd April - watch this space!
ITEM: SUPERHEROES IN THE 21ST CENTURY
DATE: 22/12/2005 | 13.31 GMT
NEWS: As part of an individual project, Menagerie's Associate Artistic Director, Patrick Morris will present work from the Improvisation Project, a theatre and music collaboration for which Patrick has gathered together a group of performers to join work with pianist David Dolan and Greek playwright Elena Penga.
The project explores improvisation between actors and classical musicians and Patrick has been working with the theme of Superheroes.
A public sharing event and reception will take place at West Road Concert Hall in Cambridge on Friday 13th January from 7.30pm.
RSVP to Patrick Morris at patrick@menagerie.uk.com
ITEM: NEW YEAR READING - 5TH JANUARY
DATE: 22/12/2005 | 13.22 GMT
NEWS: Pleading for Mercy by Ewen Windham is the first play to have come through our new script reading scheme, a service open to all playwrights in the region.
This service forms part of Menagerie’s WRITER DEVELOPMENT Programme which exists to promote and nurture new plays in the East of England.
Menagerie will be reading Pleading for Mercy at The Junction on Thursday 5th from 8pm - we hope you'll join us there.
ITEM: MARY, MARY
DATE: 25/11/2005 | 10.41 GMT
NEWS: To help us launch our new WRITER DEVELOPMENT programme, Menagerie offer a staged reading of Mary, Mary, a new play by Craig Baxter developed in association with the company.
In an arid, occupied country, a man has died while under arrest. A triangular battle for his memory ensues between his mother, his lover and an obsessive stranger. Taking no prisoners, Mary, Mary is an uncompromising and searing examination of the limits and mystery of love which brilliantly conjures a world where personal feelings matter less than passionate belief and the most powerful logic is that of the gun and the bomb.
Craig’s plays include The Thrill of the Chaste (tour of the Scottish Highlands and adapted for BBC Radio 4), The Ministry of Pleasure (Latchmere), Monogamy (Riverside Studios, UK tour and productions in the USA and Australia, adapted as an Radio 4 afternoon play in 2005) and Hard Sell (Pleasance, Edinburgh and Theatre503, London).
To see Mary, Mary and find out more about our new programme, join us at The Junction from 2.30pm on Thursday 8th December. CONTACT US for more information.
ITEM: WRITING FOR RADIO
DATE: 25/11/2005 | 10.33 GMT
NEWS: We are hosting a Radio Drama Writing Workshop at The Junction in Cambridge on Saturday December 3rd with Kate Chapman from BBC Radio Drama
Designed for writers interested in writing for radio, the workshop will involve creative and written exercises for writing in sound, listening to and discussing extracts from radio plays and a general exchange of information between Kate and the participants.
The workshop fee is just £5 and there are only 20 places available which will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. CONTACT US to book your place.
ITEM: SYRINGA TREE
DATE: 23/11/2005 | 11.08 GMT
NEWS: Presented by Paul Bourne in association with Menagerie at the Junction earlier this month, The Syringa Tree is an utterly original theatrical experience. Written by Pam Gien The Syringa Tree tells the deeply personal story of an abiding love between two families – one white, one black – and the children that are born into their shared South African household in the early 1960’s.
ITEM: CALL FOR SCRIPTS
DATE: 22/11/2005 | 14.27 GMT
NEWS: Menagerie are launching a new development programme for playwrights in the East of England designed to support and develop the best new work in the region.
Whatever your previous writing experience, there should be something in it for you.
Visit our WRITER DEVELOPMENT section for further information on: Script Reading, Writer Attachments, Writing Masterclasses, Rehearsed Readings and bursary opportunities for Young Writers.
ITEM: A HEART OF ICE, THE GLIMMER OF GOLD, LOVE, BETRAYAL...
DATE: 19/09/2005 | 13.50 GMT
NEWS: From an age when Greenland's Inuit were known as 'esquimaux' and Queen Elizabeth's explorers scoured the high seas, Frobisher's Gold takes you to the icy wastes of the artctic with a tale of impreial folly, greed and broken hearts in this fantastical new drama by Fraser Grace (Perpetua, Who Killed Mr Drum?, Breakfast with Mugabe).
As part of the development of Frobisher's Gold, Menagerie will give a staged reading of the play at the Mercury Theatre in Colchester at 2pm on Friday 30th September. CONTACT US for further details.
ITEM: GAUGLEPRIXTOWN IN EDINBURGH
DATE: 21/07/2005 | 11.22 GMT
NEWS: Supported by Arts Council England through East to Edinbrugh, Menagerie are currently preparing to perform Gaugleprixtown by Andrew Muir at Theatre Workshop as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this August.
See PRODUCTIONS for more information about the show
ITEM: THE HEAT IS ON...
DATE: 24/05/2005 | 12.52 GMT
NEWS: Having just completed our national tour of Two Into War, Menagerie is looking to audiences to help us find the next big thing.
HEAT offers a weekend of staged readings by a selection of established and brand new playwrights. Enjoy the shows then stay on to give us your feedback.
HEAT is at The Junction (www.junction.co.uk) on Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th June 2005. CONTACT US for more details.
ITEM: TWO INTO WAR TOUR ENDS AT BIRMINGHAM REP
DATE: 16/05/2005 | 12.06 GMT
NEWS: Menagerie's touring production of Two Into War had it's final show at Birmingham Repertory Theatre on 14th May.
In addiiton to The Rep, Two Into War has also appeard at Bristol Old Vic, Riverside Studios, Mercury Theatre Colchester and The Junction in Cambridge.
One reviewer notes that ‘Menagerie deliver simple storytelling at its best’ (see Whatsonstage.com for full text) while Western Daily Press describes the production as ‘eloquent, funny and poignant’.
ITEM: MENAGERIE ON THE MOVE
DATE: 21/04/2005 | 17.07 GMT
NEWS: After two years at the Cambridge Drama Centre, Menagerie have now moved over to new offices at The Juntion. Visit CONTACT US for details of our new address and telephone number.
ITEM: SOHO THEATRE PREVIEW
DATE: 30/03/2005 | 10.23 GMT
NEWS: Two Into War will receive a preview performance as part of the Open House new writing festival at Soho Theatre on Saturday 2nd April at 7.30pm. Visit www.sohotheatre.com or call 0870 429 6883 for details and booking information.
ITEM: HARD SELL - WINTER 2004 PRODUCTION - LONDON
DATE: 07/05/2004 | 15:20 GMT
NEWS: It all started with a joke: "you like my wife? £70,000 and she's yours..."
HARD SELL is an inventive and absurdly theatrical black comedy focussing on the nature of power and those that abuse it as two police officers take the law into their own hands.
'a cracking production ... acerbic and full of dark wit' The Times
Featuring Roger Sloman and Martin Austin, Craig Baxter's darkly comic HARD SELL played at Theatre503 (www.theatre503.com) from 7-19 December.
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