Pleasance Theatre have announced their Spring 2022 season.
Award-winning HIV+ theatre-maker Nathaniel Hall and Dibby Theatre will present their critically acclaimed autobiographical show First Time (9–13 February), about growing up positive in a negative world.
Edinburgh Fringe First winner Marika McKennell will also collaborate with physical theatre company Project Lockdown with a retelling of the German Expressionist classic silent film Calgari (5–22 March). This production will feature mime, poetry and lip-sync, and a dark and twisted visual style.
Multi-award-winning Wildcard Theatre will use their gig-theatre style to bring the adrenaline-infused Tempest (11 March–3 April). Described as “Shakespeare as you’ve never seen it before”, this production features nine actor-musicians bringing newly composed songs, live music and a richly detailed sonic world to Shakespeare’s classic tale.
Bringing even more music to the Pleasance will be Concrete Jungle Book (25 May–11 June). This gender-swapped hip-hop musical brings Kipling’s The Jungle Book to inner-city Britain with live rap music, grime, reggae, spoken word and big personality.
New theatre company Dead Good Theatre’s Leaving (13-24 April) will also be performed at Pleasance. It follows people dealing with leaving something or someone, including an astronaut about to leave on their first mission, an immigrant forced to leave their partner, and a suicidal celebrity contemplating what comes next.
Following a sell-out run at the 2021 London Horror festival, Sucker 4 U (16-17 February) will transfer to Pleasance for two performances as part of Pleasance’s LGBTQ+ History Month Season. This dark comedy tells the story of a doomed interdimensional romance between a man and giantmonster-squid-from-beyond-the-stars.
Alongside these, the Pleasance will be showing a number of one-night-only shows, including Peach Chutney (18 February), The Khandi Shop (19 February), Sh*t in my neck & Other Stories: The Nightbus & Midgitte Bardot (25 February), and Final Baby Girl! (26 February).
Ticket prices start at £15 and are available now.
Words by Isobel Pankhurst
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