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.
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