Theatre News
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Sam's Blog Bright sunny day, though freezing! Feels great as we enter the warmth of the Lantern to hear Matt taking bookings for Order.! Having seen the Look North piece on TV the people of Sheffield and beyond are now inspired to come and visit the theatre and see the play. In fact the website took over 27,000 hits post airing.. I think the Lantern is on the map! I love working with new writing.One reason is that you become a part of the script development, this allows you to gain real ownership of the character. Having the writer in rehearsals means you have instant insight into the world they want you to inhabit. (what I wouldn't give for a few moments with Mr Shakespeare!)It is particularly delightful when you have someone like Martin who is in no way precious about the material. He edits very quickly, and when we hit a trouble spot in scene four he's back with rewrites within half an hour! A week apart now to read, research and learn the lines. I don't want to leave rehearsals but I look forward to our intensive process and to see what develops in the meantime. I also hope Sheffield warms up before I return.(Oh and I got my tax in on time! Was easier to swallow with a glass of Red wine!) |
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Highlights of the Spring/Summer season include; innovative company Zoo Indigo will bring their interactive multimedia performance Under the Covers to the venue (27 January), combining both the virtual world and the theatre space to create a unique live performance. February sees the Lantern Theatre making its professional producing debut with the dark and brooding drama Order (23-25 February), written by Martin Derbyshire and Matt Risby. After entertaining troops in Iraq, March will see the return by popular demand of Variety and TV performer Iestyn Edwards with My Tutu’s Gone AWOL (1 -3 March), after which a new play by award winning Author Berlie Doherty, Thin Air (30 - 31 March), will be presented by Cotton Grass Theatre Company. Throughout the spring there will be a Shakespeare Festival at the venue; a number of events will celebrate the work of the bard including workshops with Griffin Theatre Arts, presented by Royal Shakespeare Company director Helen Leblique and a screening of Al Pacino’s Looking for Richard (15 February). There are treats for all the family in the shape of Dreams of Philomina (18 February), a charming blend of clowning and puppetry and The Goblin Market, a series of workshops based around Christina Rossetti’s pre-Raphelite poem taking place throughout May. We are privileged to have Total Theatre Award Winner Bryony Kimmings performing 7 Day Drunk (20 April), a hilarious and moving one-woman show investigating the historical links between artists and mind enhancing drugs. Created solely from material made during a seven-day experiment, in which Bryony was kept in various states of scientific drunkenness. Music will also take centre stage with Sheffield vocalist Rosie Brown, she will perform Where Light Falls; Songs About Joni Mitchell (9-10 March) whilst we are incredibly lucky to welcome internationally renowned Senegalese Musician Diabel Cissokho to Sheffield, bringing his unique brand of upbeat West African groove to the Lantern (13 April). The New Writing festival in June will see the return of legendary spoken word night Words Aloud (9 June), the new play from Janice Sampson Albert’s Wake (15-16 June) and also award winning theatre and radio playwright Richard Hurford presenting a workshop exploring the role of the playwright in theatre.
