HighTide, one of the UK’s most prominent arts festivals who, fresh from premiering five productions at the Edinburgh Fringe, will present their Aldeburgh and Walthamstow Festivals throughout September.
Renowned for finding, nurturing and producing some of the UK’s best new writing, the company will return to Walthamstow for the second time after a successful first run in 2017, bringing a diverse programme of theatre, comedy, music and work for children and their families. The Festival site will be free to enter, and will feature a large bar and dining area housed in two giant heated tipis, there will be pieces on loan from God’s Own Junkyard, retro games and an array of food traders from the local area and further afield will be on site throughout the festival.
The centrepiece production for 2018 is a song-laced coming of age tale by Aldeburgh-based writer Tallulah Brown called Songlines, and features live folk music from the award-winning band TRILLS. Songlines follows Stevie and Stan, in a coming-of-age love story in all its awkward teen glory.
HighTide’s associate productions are: Sparks; Jessica Butcher’s two-hander musical about the brain’s response to grief; Danusia Samal’s gig-theatre piece Busking It, drawing on a decade of busking on the tube; The Extinction Event from David Aula and Simon Evans- an examination of what happens when science starts thinking for itself; and finally, Harry Blake’s fierce, fabulous new comedy musical about Norse gods Thor and Loki. At each festival will be a diverse programme of theatre, music, comedy and work for children and their families. The full Festival programme can be found here.
HighTide will run in Walthamstow from the 18th – 30th September.
