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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
From his massive 2012 tour ‘What’s Happening White People?’ join Paul Chowdhry live and uncensored from his huge sell-out show at the legendary Hammersmith Apollo. Paul dissects all the issues of growing up and living in multicultural Britain with his own brand of edgy and highly charged comedy. From reusing margarine tubs to passive racism to breaking down racial barriers, there are no holds barred and nothing is left unturned as Paul tackles...
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Award winning comedian, actor, screenwriter and presenter Simon Amstell puts his emotions on the line in this very special performance of his stand-up show, Numb, which he has toured round the UK and taken to New York. Recorded at the famous BBC TV Centre, it’s a stripped-down, intimate performance, as he reflects on his inability to connect with people, including family and lovers. Amstell attempts to heal himself in public in a raw and honest...
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
MATTHEW BOURNE’S ROMEO + JULIET is a passionate and contemporary re-imagining of Shakespeare’s classic story of love and conflict. Set in the not-too-distant future in ‘The Verona Institute’ and mysteriously confined against their will by a society that seeks to divide and crush their youthful spirits, our two young lovers must follow their hearts as they risk everything to be together. A timeless story about repressed emotions and teenage...
7) Dead Souls
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Roman Kocherzhevsky’s endlessly inventive reimagining of Gogol’s classic Russian poem shakes off a layer of dust from the revered work to help us answer questions we all face today. It doesn’t matter whether Kocherzhevsky has dressed his actors in waterproof trench coats or embroidered tailcoats, furnished the stage with delicate antiquities or Danish modern. In the end, as Gogol himself asks of us, “Isn’t there some part of Chichikov in...
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
From the mind of award-winning director Julie Taymor (The Lion King on Broadway, Frida, Titus) comes a Shakespeare adaptation like none other, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Rich with Taymor's trademark creativity, this immersive and darkly poetic cinematic experience brings the play's iconic fairies, spells and hallucinatory lovers to life. Filmed at her sold-out stage production with cinematography by Rodrigo Prieto (Argo, Frida) and music by Academy...
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Award-winning and Bafta-nominated comedian Romesh Ranganathan performs in front of a sell-out audience at London’s Hammersmith Apollo. The 'Asian Provocateur' takes shots at everyone, from his kids to a stranger in a coffee shop, as he explores the rationality of his world view and explains why everybody else is wrong.
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Rimas Tuminas' adaptation of two novels by Grigory Kanovich, is a dreamy, ruminative, comedic road trip, centering around the parlous fortunes of Eastern European Jews at the start of the 20th century. A period piece that carries a modern conscious, Smile Upon Us, is a Becket-like "Waiting for Jehovah" featuring three towering figures from the Russian stage, Viktor Sukhorukov, Aleksei Guskov and Vladimir Simonov.
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
MATTHEW BOURNE'S CINDERELLA is a thrilling and evocative love story told in dance. A reinterpretation of the classic fairy tale, it features heart-stopping choreography and vivid, truthful characters. Originally mounted in 1997 but recreated as a completely fresh production for its most recent run, this is one of New Adventures’ most popular and beloved creations. Set in London during the Second World War, the drama features Cinderella and a dashing...
12) King Lear
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Yury Butusov's brilliant, award-winning staging of KING LEAR tells us a story in which the collapse of a family, the collapse of a country, and the collapse of an individual are all connected to each other. In Shakespeare's classic work, Lear imagined himself to be God's equal - and so he divided his kingdom between his daughters just to see what would happen. Featuring four time Golden Mask Award-winning actor Konstantin Raikin as Lear.
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
MATTHEW BOURNE’S THE CAR MAN is one of modern dance’s most thrilling and entertaining shows and a signature production for New Adventures. First seen in 2000, when it won the Evening Standard Award for “Musical Event of the Year”, it has proved to be a smash-hit in the UK and around the world. This recording for Sky Arts was made at Sadler’s Wells during the production’s most recent revival. The show is loosely based on Bizet’s popular...
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Matt Rife is a 26 year old veteran of standup comedy. Beginning at the age of 15, Matt has developed an extremely unique perspective on everything from women, self awareness, race,and some of the worlds darker issues. And he delivers these ideas with a quick witted, almost charmingly naive performance that you don't want to miss.
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Igor Sergeev and Vladimir Kuznetsov’s multi-award nominated production of Ivan Vyrypaev’s thought-provoking and timely “Iran Conference” takes place at a symposium in Denmark where influential public figures and scientists gather to discuss the current clash of modern Western liberal ideology with traditional religious consciousness and way of life. An attempt to present reports prepared by the lecturers quickly transforms into a lively conversation...
19) Hamlet
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
A film of the ground-breaking Royal Exchange Theater production of Hamlet, with renowned British actress Maxine Peake in the title role. *"Peake's delicate ferocity, her particular mixture of concentration and lightness, ensure that you to follow her whenever she appears." - Susannah Clapp, **The Guardian***
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