The Space

Events at The Space

• ...Act Like It Never Happened at The Space

  Drama

  14 Feb 2012 to 18 Feb 2012

  The Olympic Games, East London. An American businessman and a Russian opportunist begin to make moves in setting up a trafficking ring and taking advantage of the mass market The Games will bring with it. As the trafficked girls fight for survival, another battle is being had in Westminster. Recent master’s graduate Catherine York, using her father’s foothold in cabinet, is trying to bend the ears of the most powerful in Parliament in the hope of pushing through a revised anti-trafficking paper. But when Catherine’s father loses his cabinet spot to an expenses scandal and her fiancée unwittingly pays for one of the trafficked girls in a drunken haze, the lives of the two groups collide with devastating consequences and supernatural revelations. Leering Falcon Theatre presents (…act like it never happened). written and directed by Dominic Hedges. This is a fantasy play concerning sex trafficking, bitter rivalry and human responsibility and asks if we, as individuals, have a role in the universal balance of right and wrong. Performing for the first time in East London, and supported by anti-trafficking charity Stop The Traffik , this play boasts an immensely talented cast of new, young actors who all serve to reveal the workings of the sex trade from both ends of the spectrum and shed light on its prominence in the UK.

• A Midsummer Night's Dream at The Space

  Drama

  17 Mar 2012

  A fresh look at one of Shakespeare’s most-loved plays, a 90-minute version retaining the classic language. Explore the fantasy world placed in the mind of the four lovers and ‘sleepy sickness’ sufferers.

• As You Like It at The Space

  Drama

  29 May 2012 to 16 Jun 2012

  An enchanted forest, a pair of Lovers who’s escape from a corporate city leads to one of the most endearing stories ever written. Passion, love and disguise, Shakespeare’s exhilarating tale of mistaken identity, gender reversal and above all love comes to the stage in this new ensemble production of As You Like It. One of the greatest Shakespearian comedies, this production with a company of over twenty actors shall through the use of ensemble, text, music and movement create a forest of confusion, zeal and laughter where anything is possible.

• King Lear at The Space

  Drama

  1 May 2012 to 26 May 2012

  Divided by love, jealousy and betrayal, Lear is forced into a world of isolation, destruction and fear by those closest to her, a world where hope is a distant ideal a barbarous land in which a mother must fight her own daughters in order to survive. A Queen, a mother and the most famous female monarch of all time Lear. Lazarus returns to Shakespeare for one of the most sensational of all the tragedies. Through the use of ensemble, text, music and movement a company of over twenty actors shall create a world re-imagined, where a female monarch clings to her identity, throne and Kingdom.