In the much-cited 2014 book The Body Keeps the Score, the Dutch psychotherapist Bessel van der Kolk wrote of how the human body can be undone and rewired by traumatic experiences. In Iron Fantasy, comedy duo She-Goat have absorbed this idea into their musical comedy, and explored if and how one can regain control over one’s body.
Little Bulb’s The Nutcracker arrives in the West End as a celebration of imagination, music and collective joy. This Olivier Award nominated production proves why the company is so beloved by family audiences, offering a festive adventure that is both wildly silly and deeply thoughtful. With its homemade aesthetic, infectious energy and generous heart it is children's theatre at its most alive.
This Christmas, the Olivier Award winning theatre company Little Bulb will bring their reimagining of The Nutcracker to the West End. Learn more about the production here!
See video highlights from The Nutcracker, a co-production between Polka Theatre and Olivier award-winners Little Bulb (Wolf Witch Giant Fairy), in Polka's Main Theatre running through 26 January 2025. Tickets are on sale now.
Polka Theatre announced the cast for their upcoming production of THE NUTCRACKER, featuring a mix of seasoned performers and fresh talent. The show will run from November 15 to December 30, 2024.
Larisa Faber guest blogs for BroadwayWorld about bringing Stark Bollock Naked to the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
This Christmas, audiences will be transported to a far-away land complete with enchanted forests and mystical creatures as The Royal Opera and innovative theatre company Little Bulb present Wolf Witch Giant Fairy.
Exploring the lives of Camden residents, past and present, Camden People's Theatre's festival welcomes new artists, familiar faces and local participants as part of their 25th anniversary year celebrations. The festival will be headlined by Human Jam (7th - 25th May), a new piece conceived by artistic director Brian Logan, uncovering the biggest exhumation of graves in European history taking place in St James' Garden as a result of HS2 works.
Here's a first look at the production images for the Pilot Theatre and York Theatre Royal production of Bryony Lavery's exciting new adaptation of Graham Greene's iconic 1938 novel of sin and redemption Brighton Rock.
Rehearsals are well under way for the premiere of the Pilot Theatre and York Theatre Royal premiere of Tony-Award Nominee Bryony Lavery's(Frozen and Beautiful Burnout) new adaptation of Graham Greene's iconic 1938 novel of sin and redemption Brighton Rock.
Pilot Theatre and York Theatre Royal announce full casting for their forthcoming touring production of Bryony Lavery's new adaptation of Graham Greene's iconic novel Brighton Rock.
Camden People'sTheatre 's brand new festival All the Right Notes brings together trailblazing work from the place where theatre and live music meet: it's a festival featuring not only theatre-makers whose work is driven by live music, but music acts whose work is audaciously theatrical, programmed in partnership with DJ and journalist Joe Muggs. They meet in the middle, splicing for your delight the hothouse thrill of live music and the buzz of inventive contemporary theatre.
Camden People'sTheatre 's brand new festival All the Right Notes brings together trailblazing work from the place where theatre and live music meet: it's a festival featuring not only theatre-makers whose work is driven by live music, but music acts whose work is audaciously theatrical, programmed in partnership with DJ and journalist Joe Muggs. They meet in the middle, splicing for your delight the hothouse thrill of live music and the buzz of inventive contemporary theatre.
Bright, energetic and extremely precise, GOLEM is a modern fable warning of the dangers of blindly following trends and allowing technology to dictate human existence.
The combination of the live and video performances is impeccable.
Following two sold-out runs at Battersea Arts Centre and at the world-renowned Salzburg Festival, Little Bulb Theatre's critically-acclaimed production of Orpheus will play Birmingham Repertory Theatre (28-31 Oct) on its first-ever UK tour.
Gary Naylor enjoys an show that defies description, but features as talented an ensemble as he can recall seeing on a London stage.
Following a critically acclaimed sold-out run last Christmas at the Young Vic in London, and then a West End transfer to the Trafalgar Studios, multi award-winning theatre company 1927 bring Golem, their visually arresting and satirical take on our misuse of technology, to HOME, Manchester's brand-new multi art-form venue, for autumn 2015.
Following a successful run at the Young Vic Theatre, 1927's production Golem has moved to the West End, running at the Trafalgar Studios. The show is not in any way related to Tolkein's disturbing character from The Hobbit or Lord of the Rings - although the theme of obsession is a thread that links that Gollum to this Golem.
Following a critically acclaimed run at the Young Vic, multi award-winning theatre company 1927 bring Golem, their visually arresting and satirical take on our misuse of technology, to Trafalgar Studios today, 14 April - 22 May with a Press Night on 22 April at 7pm.
