Southwark Playhouse

Events at Southwark Playhouse

• A Christmas Carol

  Musical

  9 Dec 2009 to 9 Jan 2010

  Become Victorian clerks for the night as you join Scrooge on his terrifying and transformative journey through the dark vaults of London Bridge Station accompanied by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.

   

• Insights: Plays in Translation - Lost or Found?

  Lecture

  18 Nov 2009 to 25 Nov 2009

  A debate about what's lost and found when plays are translated, any play, any language and any angle.

   

• Present : Tense / Thirteen

  Special event

  22 Nov 2009 to 22 Nov 2009

  An event in which the artists meet to select the most momentous story on the news agenda. They then have seven days to create a piece of work that responds to the story they choose, in collaboration with artists from other disciplines, before it is performed live exactly one week after they began.

   

• The Tartuffe

  Performance

  10 Nov 2009 to 28 Nov 2009

  Following a critically acclaimed sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, EIF award winners, Belt Up Theatre bring their interactive and immersive re-working of Moliere’s classic to the Southwark Playhouse. Blending clowning, farce, satire, mime and egotistical actors into a bizarre cocktail of meta-theatrical choreographed chaos – Moliere purists should leave all reservations at the door. Those that don’t like to be interacted with? Drop your guard because the haphazard troupe will grab you if they need you. By the end, they’ll have to shout at you to sit back down. An indefinite number of years after a career destroying scandal, lost luvvie, Orgon Poquelin presents a theatrical representation of his fall from grace at the hands of the sinister conman – Tartuffe. Assisted by his troupe of faded French variety act vagabonds, Orgon attempts a performance to truly exorcise the demons of his past. A dizzying spectacle of theatrical pandemonium, The Tartuffe is a production that will leave you exhausted from watching the troupe travelling at a break-neck speed through this madcap bedlam of a performance. Before you know it, you’ll be dragged up to understudy a missing troupe member or deliver a forgotten prop. Whether from itching to get onstage or from terror at being picked on, The Tartuffe will leave you on the edge of your seat; this adaptation shatters the fourth wall and happily chucks the broken fragments in the face of convention. A hilarious celebration of the very concept of theatrical performance.