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Downstairs at the Crescent

In the Studio Theatre...

Week 1

Monday 22 July

17.30 Starters Teatro incognito (£TBA)

19.15 Brummie Comedy Cocktail (£3)

21.30 Monday@Seven by Elizabeth J Foley - Scary Veg Theatre Co (£5/£3).

Monday morning, 7am. All over England alarms are going off to start another day, another week.

Tuesday 23 July

13.00 Women Can Be Firemen Too - Bare Essentials Theatre Company SORRY BUT THS SHOW HAS BEEN CANCELLED

20.00 Camped Out - Mad Half Hour (£4/£2)

Holiday Camp Frolics from early morning call to goodnight campers.  Join Mad Half Hour for an evening of mayhem, mime and music.  An outrageous comedy with knobs on.

21.30 Monday@Seven (£5/£3)

Wednesday 24 July

13.00 British Included - Cofas Fayre Players (£3)

Cova-n-tre worker digs first century ancestor in rockeryfights heritage policeNadine takes Covas children on Summer Holiday.

14.00 Summer Harvest - Roi Kwabena (£5/£3)

 Experienced poets and beginners are invited to join Birminghams poet laureate in a workshop to explore experience and harvest memories.

18.00 Camped Out (£4/£2)

19.45 The Weighting by Steven Eagles - New Mercury Theatre (£6/£4)

In a war torn world a voiceless boy grows in power but cannot stop a descent into madness.

Thursday 25 July

15.00 Us & Them Brasshouse Language Centre (£4/£2) - An international group explores jealousies, boundaries and chances for connection between hostile communities.

17.30 These Things Happen Upstart (£5/£3.50)

One hour. One day. Anything could happen. A contemporary thriller. New writing from Steven Lally.

19.45 The Weighting (£6/£4)

Friday 26 July

17.30 I am ill from Love New writing by Helena Hempstead (£3/£2)

So what is real? Justin Beaufort poses the existential question the answers, Life, illness, death and love are themes we all experience, which flow like an eternal river through the play.

19.45 The Weighting (£6/£4)

Saturday 27 July

17.30 These Things Happen (£5/£3.50)

20.00 Hitting Town by Stephen Poliakoff - Primus Coitus Theatre Co (£5/£3)

'One ought to live dangerously' incestuous siblings Ralph and Clare hit town in Stephen Poliakoffs provocative exploration of incest.

22.00 I am Ill From Love (£3/£2)

Week 2

Monday 29 July

17.30 Divine - The Other Way Works (free)

Painted, photographed and talked about, Sarah Bernhardt was a nineteenth century icon.  But was there a person behind the celebrity?

19.15 Best Friends by Tamsin Oglesby TACT (£4.50/£3.50)

Three women joke and fight about their schooldays, but time plays tricks on memory and some wounds are just too deep to heal.

21.00 Big Boys Don't Cry Negative Equity (£5/£4)

1950s suburbia is the setting for a moving and witty tale of devotion, devastation and dysfunctional domesticity.

Tuesday 30 July

17.00 Ordinary People/Fine Tuning The Burning Spirit Theatre Company (£6/£4)

A double bill from Burning Spirit

Ordinary People two lonely people attend an afternoon tea-dance, and reminisce about their own lost relationships. Funny, poignant and ultimately optimistic.

Fine Tuning when famous conductor Michael Goldberg arrives to stay with estranged son David, and Davids feisty wife Karen, the result is anything but harmonious

20.00 Lick Mouth Women Part 1 Yvette Alleyne (£4)

Rum, Phone, Gossip - the recipe for... Lick Mouth Women (Part 2 is on 31 July, double bill of both performances on 3 August)

21.30 Divine (free)

Wednesday 31 July

19.00 Ordinary People/Fine Tuning (£6/£4)

21.45 Lick Mouth Women Part 2 (£4)

Thursday 1 August

18.00 Ordinary People/Fine Tuning (£6/£4)

21.30 Lick Mouth Women Part 1 (£4)

Friday 2 August

17.30 Jenkins Ear - Up n Running Theatre Co (£7/£5)

In a country where disappearances are the norm, is a good news story more important than the people involved?

20.15 Ordinary People/Fine Tuning (£6/£4)

Saturday 3 August

17.00 Jenkins Ear (£7/£5)

19.15 Beauty and The Beast (£4/£2)

Alison Brumfitt and Peter Wyton present mouth watering performance poetry. Food for thought, fodder for the funny bone!

20.45 Lick Mouth Women Parts 1 & 2 (£7)

In the Oratory...

Wednesday 24 July

16.30 Performance Poetry from West Midlands Disability Arts Forum(£3/£2)

19.00 Working Class Wales & Mysterious Mercia - Geoff Jones (£4/£3)

Explore the loss of Welsh working class culture through Geoff Joness poetry before boarding Cadwallader on a Mercian Mystery Tour!

Saturday 3 August

19.45 Being Beastly Late shift (£6/£4)

Late Shift take another entertaining poetic swipe at the world.  This time, our losing battle with the beast within and without.

The Crescent Theatre, Sheepcote Street, Brindleyplace, Birmingham

Tickets/enquiries: 0121 643 5858

 
As always with festival programmes, this schedule is subject to change without notice, and although we have taken care over its preparation we cannot be held liable for any omissions or inaccuracies! Please contact the box office for up to date information 0121 643 5858