Full Programme Announced for TRICYCLE TAKEOVER 2015

Artistic Director Indhu Rubasingham today announces the full programme for the second annual Tricycle Takeover which sees Tricycle Theatre Young Company return to the theatre to perform an entirely new programme of work this March.

The Tricycle Takeover, programmed by Tricycle Young Company will see its members aged 11 - 25 take key roles across the season backstage, in producing and marketing. They will perform across the building for 8 days, utilising the theatre, cinema, studio spaces and front of house.

Headlining Takeover 2015 will be new a new play, specially commissioned for Tricycle Young Company and written with their thoughts and voices at its heart. The Dissidents by Shamser Sinha explores what 'home' means when your parents are gone, your heritage is overseas and London rents mean you can't afford the house you grew up in. Along with two other Tricycle Young Company productions, and a parliamentary hustings, it's one of a series of events examining young people and the political present, in the run up to May's general election.

The Tricycle will also host National Theatre Connections. Each year the National Theatre invites ten writers to create new plays for young people to perform around the UK. Six of these plays, by playwrights, including Eugene O'Hare who has acted at the Tricycle in Red Velvet and True West, will be performed by local theatre groups and young people with the chance to be chosen for the Connections Festival held at the National Theatre in July.

In addition to the range of new theatre, Takeover 2015 will feature a series of one-off performances by young artists and local groups as well as workshops covering a breadth of topics such as lighting design, improvisation and poetry.

Unless otherwise stated, tickets should be booked via the Tricycle Theatre Box Office: 020 7328 1000; www.tricycle.co.uk. All workshop and event panellists are subject to change.

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THEATRE:

THE ENDLESS NIGHT

Devised by Tricycle Young Company 15 - 18s

Venue: Front of House/ Cinema

22 & 29 March, 3pm

Tickets: Free

No youth centre. No vote. No voice.

What happens when a group of teenagers take a stand and try to be heard? Some decide to take action and will do whatever it takes, while others are more concerned about how it might affect their exam results. Parents are texting. The police are calling. But who will listen?

Director: Beth Shouler; Designer: Sadeysa Greenaway-Bailey;

Lighting Designer: Max Blackman; Sound Designer: Luke Pajak

GARGANTUA

By Carl Grose

Tricycle Young Company 11 - 14s

Venue: Rehearsal Room

23 March, 8pm

Tickets: Free

Mr and Mrs Mungus have just had a baby. Unfortunately, it isn't the bouncing blue-eyed boy they were hoping for...

After a two-and-a-half year pregnancy, Mini Mungus has birthed a monster - one with an accelerated growth rate and an insatiable appetite for anything that moves (including joggers). Who will stop this freak of nature? Who will decide his tragic fate? And who, more importantly, will change his nappy?

Gargantua is an absurd comedy that combines the epic with the domestic, high concept with low comedy, and the grotesque with the heart-felt.

Director: Beth Shouler; Designer: Sadeysa Greenaway-Bailey;

Lighting Designer: Max Blackman; Sound Designer: Luke Pajak

THE DISSIDENTS

By Shamser Sinha

Tricycle Young Company 19 - 25s

Venue: Theatre

26-28 March, 7.30pm & 3pm Sat Mat

Tickets: £8

When siblings Juan and Selena face a family tragedy, the home they've known all their lives is under threat and their futures are in jeopardy.

In a London where house prices are out of reach, jobs are scarce and the welfare state seems on the brink of collapse, these two young people must fight to make sure their voices are heard and to keep the roof over their heads.

A new play, specially commissioned for Tricycle Young Company and written with their thoughts and voices at its heart.

Director: Beth Shouler; Designer: Fly Davis; Lighting: Josh Carr; Sound: Drew Baumohl

IMAGINED CITIES

Minding The Gap

Venue: Theatre

Tue 24 Mar 12.30pm | 12+ yrs

Tickets: Free

Minding the Gap is a long-running programme at the Tricycle Theatre, working with young asylum seekers, refugees and migrants not yet in mainstream education. This year, 100 students have written plays set in amazing cities -- familiar and strange, real and imaginary -- busy, diverse places where anything is possible.

THE LONG WAY TO HAPPILY EVER AFTER

Written and performed by Freya Bardell

Venue: Baldwin Studio

Wed 25 Mar 8.30pm | 15+ yrs

Tickets: Free

This one-woman show, written and performed by Freya Bardell, is a comedic take on dating and relationships in the modern day. However, beneath the humour, there's a darker message about the pressures on young women and the everyday sexism they endure.

NT CONNECTIONS FESTIVAL:

DOUBLE BILL: HOOD & HOSPITAL FOOD

Sun 22 March, 4pm

Venue: Theatre

Tickets: £6 (includes entry to both shows)

Hood

By Katherine Chandler

Presented by Immediate Theatre

Hood's Mam has run off with a bacon licking vegetarian, and her Dad spends his days and nights lost in a chair, feeding his addiction to 'The Waterboys'.

There's no money left, there's five struggling kids to feed, and interfering Father Tuck just won't let them be. But our modern day hero, Robyn Hood is determined to keep her family together, whatever it takes...

Hospital Food

By Eugene O'Hare

Presented by LOST Youth Theatre Group

Set in the present day, ten teenagers from the ages 14 to 17 are the residents of a teenage cancer unit in a city hospital. Their shared illness bonds them and they support each other as they reveal their fears and hopes for the future while confronting, head on, the very real prospects of untimely death.

DOUBLE BILL: DRAMA, BABY and another show TBC

Mon 23 March, 6.45pm

Venue: Theatre

Tickets: £6 (includes entry to both shows)

Drama, Baby

By Jamie Brittain

Presented by The City Academy, Hackney

It's the final rehearsals before the practical A Level theatre studies exam, and Neil wants everything to be just perfect. Two competing groups of students attempt to achieve that ever elusive 'A' grade, soon finding the competing forces of sex, alcohol and Artaud threatening to destroy their hopes of a good university place.

DOUBLE BILL: THE BOY PREFERENCE & REMOTE

Tue 24 March, 6.45pm

Venue: Theatre

Tickets: £6 (includes entry to both shows)

The Boy Preference

By Elinor Cook

Presented by The Green School

In an affluent suburb in the near future, the birth of a boy is welcomed with shouts of joy and firecrackers, but when a girl is born, the neighbours say nothing. One night, Joey looks out of his bedroom window and sees many young women with a strange glow around them - are they the 'missing women'? Why have they come back?

Remote

By Stef Smith

Presented by Morpeth School

A girl called Antler steps out of her front door and throws her phone on the ground. She stamps on it. She then climbs the tallest tree in the park. She doesn't want to be found, not by anyone. Seven teenagers' lives all intertwine over the course of a single evening as they make their way through the park on a seemingly normal autumn night.

Remote is a play about protest, power and protecting yourself.

CINEMA:

Maxine Peake as Hamlet

Mon 23 March at 7pm

Tickets: £5 for Trike members

From its sell-out run at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre comes this unique and critically acclaimed production of Shakespeare's tragic Hamlet. BAFTA nominee Maxine Peake creates a Hamlet for now, giving a performance hailed as "delicately ferocious" (The Guardian) and "a milestone Hamlet" (Manchester Evening News).

This groundbreaking stage production, directed by Sarah Frankcom, was the Royal Exchange's fastest-selling show in a decade.

Takeover Short Film Festival

Tue 24 March at 6pm

Tickets: free

How do you feel about the election this summer? How is it going to affect you?

Young film makers from across the UK respond to the politics of youth in documentary or drama.

NT Live: A View From The Bridge

Thu 26 March at 7pm

Tickets: £15.50 Under 16 & Student: £13.50

The great Arthur Miller confronts the American dream in this dark and passionate tale. Don't miss a stellar cast led by Mark Strong in the Young Vic's production directed by the visionary Ivo van Hove.

Press Road Short Films

Press Road Young Company

Sat 28 March at 12.15pm

Tickets: Free

Short films made by members of the Tricycle's Press Road Young Company, a youth drama programme for 7-14yr olds that takes place at the Press Road estate in Neasden.

WORKSHOPS & EVENTS:

Brent Youth String Orchestra

Sun 22 March at 8pm

Venue: Theatre

Tickets: £2.50

Brent Youth String Orchestra performs a broad repertoire including classical, traditional, contemporary and film music.

Hampstead & Kilburn Hustings

Hosted by the Tricycle Theatre and Age UK in Brent & Camden

Tue 24 March at 7.30pm-8.30pm

Tickets: Free

Parliamentary candidates standing for election in Hampstead & Kilburn debate your questions on policy affecting children, young people and older people. Chaired by Geoff Martin, Editor in Chief, Ham & High.

Confirmed candidates: Dr Rebecca Johnson (Green), Simon Marcus (Cons), Maajid Nawaz (Lib Dem), Tulip Siddiq (Lab)

Improvisation Workshop

Wed 25 March at 6pm - 7pm

Venue: Baldwin Studio

Tickets: £2.50

A workshop delving deeper into improvisation than your average game of park bench. A chance for young performers with some prior experience of improv to develop skills and consider new approaches.

Age guidance 15-25 yrs

Takeover Visions

Wed 25 March at 6.30pm - 8.30pm

Venue: Cinema

Tickets: £5

Come and join a panel of young speakers for an insightful and provocative evening. With a diverse line-up of speakers with backgrounds in theatre, fashion, politics, media, and music, Takeover Visions gives a platform to share their ideas, stories and passions.

Age guidance 12+ yrs

Open Mic Night - Music

Tue 24 March at 7.30pm

Venue: Gallery

Tickets: Free

Turn up and play, sing or just listen to some amazing local talent. Sign up in the Tricycle Bar from 7.00pm.

Age guidance 15+

Takeover Hangouts - Producing

Thu 26 March at 6pm

Venue: Baldwin Studio

Tickets: £2.50

Our panel of producers, and those working in jobs off-stage, will give an insight into the varied roles in a producing theatre and discuss their first steps into the industry.

Takeover Hangouts - Writers

Fri 27 March at 6pm - 7pm

Venue: Baldwin Studio

Tickets: £2.50

A panel of playwrights discuss how their work is affected by the world around them and offer tips on ways to negotiate the industry. Join us in person or online. Panel to include: Rachel De-lahay, Shamser Sinha, John Hollingworth and more.

Takeover Hangouts - Actors

Fri 27 March at 6pm-7pm

Venue: Rehearsal Room

Tickets: £2.50

Our panel of actors discuss their work, training and career paths, offering advice and guidance for a younger audience. Join us in person or online. Panel to include: Ronke Adekoluejo, Tanya Moodie, Sonia Jalaly and more.

Granville Plus Youth Arts Band

Fri 27 March at 9.00pm - 10.30pm

Venue: Gallery

Tickets: Free
An eclectic mix of live music from our friends at Granville Youth Arts.

Lighting Design Workshop

Sat 28 March at 12.30pm - 2pm

Venue: Paintbox

Tickets: £2.50

An introduction to basic concepts in lighting design for the stage. This workshop is suitable for total beginners.

Age guidance 15-25 yrs

Are You Heard? Poetry Slam Workshop

Sat 28 March at 2pm - 6.40pm

Venue: Baldwin Studio

Tickets: £5

Responding to the question "Are you heard?" participants will plan, write and perform a piece of slam poetry with help from a professional poet. Participants will perform their work in public as part of the Open Mic night later the same evening.

Age guidance 14 - 25 yrs

A Cappella Workshop With All The Kings Men

Sat 28 March at 4.30pm - 6pm

Venue: Rehearsal Room

Tickets: £5

All the King's Men is a multi-award-winning a cappella group based at King's College London. This workshop is aimed at aspiring singers of any age who want to have a fun, no-stress introduction to a cappella singing.

Age guidance 13+

Open Mic Night - Spoken Word

Sat 28 March at 8pm - 9.30pm

Venue: Rehearsal Room

Tickets: Free

Turn up with your own material or sit back and listen to some of the best up-and-coming spoken word talent around. Sign up in the Tricycle Bar from 7pm.

Omkaar - Sujata Banerjee Dance Troupe

Sun 29 March at 5pm - 5.45pm

Venue: Baldwin Studio

Tickets: free

Exploring the evolution of classical Kathak dance through narrative, audio-visuals and dance. 'Omkaar' comprises Kathak dancers from the Sujata Banerjee Dance School. The group have performed at numerous venues including the Royal Albert Hall (Feb '14) and the Royal Festival Hall (April '14).

Artistic Director, Sujata Banerjee, is one of the most experienced and active dance practitioners in the UK and is also the Chairperson of the South Asian Faculty at the Imperial Society for the Teachers of Dance.

The Tricycle Takeover is made possible by the kind support of the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation. You can find out more about The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation at www.andrewlloydwebberfoundation.com. Tricycle Creative Learning is funded by John Lyon's Charity.

DETAILS:

THE TRICYCLE TAKEOVER

Where: 269 Kilburn High Road, London NW6 7JR

Tickets: Box office: 020 7328 1000 | www.tricycle.co.uk

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