Hampstead Theatre's New Writing Festival
Daring Pairings 3
28 October - 7 November
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Our acclaimed Daring Pairings festival returns, and for two weeks we surrender the building to late-night magic and an influx of new ideas and experiments. This year we’re pushing artistic boundaries even further, inviting unexpected collaborations among a bold range of artists – each bringing their distinctive approach to staging new writing. The events run alongside the festival centrepiece: What Fatima Did... by Atiha Sen Gupta, a compelling new talent who participated in both previous Daring Pairings. This festival is about stripped-down theatre: rough, exciting events including scratch shows and script-in-hand performances. It’s discovering new ways of making work: seeing what happens when different art forms collide, and what can be created with limited time and unlimited imagination. Stories will be conjured on the spot; writers will be inspired to take ideas further and explore all the possibilities of the live moment; and audiences will never know quite what’s in store. Join us.
Daring Pairings events schedule.... WEDNESDAY 28 OCTOBER, 9.30pm Noctropia
A surreal fantasia following the author of a wildly successful comic-book series, who lives out his dreams of empowerment through the fictional world of his own creating. All is well… until his creations break through to the real world. THE PAIRING: 50/50
10 new plays.
A load of actors.
And you, the audience, calling the shots.
In celebration of Hampstead Theatre’s 50th Anniversary this year, 10 short plays, each inspired by one of these 50 years, are premiered over four performances. The Factory ask you, the audience, to decide which pieces you want to see and the casts you want to see in them. No piece is performed the same way twice. THE PAIRING:More than 50 writers from Hampstead Theatre and The Factory collaborate with Factory actors, who bring their unique way of working - as seen in their acclaimed Hamlet and The Seagull - to new writing. SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER, 3pm
What’s it going to be? by April De Angelis and Sotirios Hatjoullis
What’s it going to be?
by April De Angelis and Edmond Ludlow
The Future of Bump
by Molly Davies and Alice Nicholas
The Future of Bump
by Molly Davies and Marie Osman A man is given the choice to seize the moment, but is opportunity always a good thing? A young couple worry about their unborn child entering a world in crisis. A fascinating show about choices, storytelling and the possibilities of theatre, performed by the young stars of Heat&Light, Hampstead Theatre’s esteemed Young Company. THE PAIRING:
Hampstead Theatre partners the Heat&Light company with celebrated professional writers. Two beginnings become four distinct final plays. Established dramatist April De Angelis and rising talent Molly Davies work with four talented young writers aged 14-25. After workshopping ideas with the group, each senior playwright writes ten minutes of a play. Each young writer then takes one of the pieces and finds their own way to complete the story. MONDAY 2 NOVEMBER, 9.30pm
Amplified
A band playing a concept album. Some poets spitting rhymes. A story about birth, death and everything in between. In two unique pairings, nabokov mixes acclaimed writers for the stage with musicians and poets to create a multi-genre theatrical mash-up. THE PAIRING: A plane falls out of the sky one night. The ripple of consequences shakes a sleepy village community to reveal its cracks. Five writers collaborate on one play: a single narrative which draws on five unique playwriting voices. With visible transitions between the different writers’ input, this is a boldly experimental work about shifting perspectives, conflicting viewpoints, and the ultimate possibility of togetherness. THE PAIRING: The writers have been on attachment (through the Write For Stage scheme) with Hampstead Theatre since January 2009. Earlier this year they participated together in a Hampstead Start Night at Liverpool Everyword Festival. Their individual writing credits include work for Soho Theatre, Arcola Theatre, Birmingham Rep, Traverse Theatre, and Hampstead Theatre’s Young Company, Heat&Light.
Performance DetailsVenue - Auditorium
Please note that latecomers may not be admitted.
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PricesSingle Events: £10 |
