The world’s greatest horror story, an epic unsolved mystery, award winning companies, true stories, new writing, Space debuts and familiar faces. The gripping, the gory, the glorious. The Space is has launched its spring season 2018 featuring work from some of the most exciting theatre makers in the UK.
The season kicks off with the return of Burn Bright theatre with their ambitious re-imagining of Mary Shelley’s monstrous classic Frankenstein. Featuring Burn Bright’s trademark blend of ensemble theatre and live music, this bold and visceral production draws on ideas of gender and power to breathe new life into this popular story.
From horror to true crime. Hagley Woods, Worcestershire, 1943: Four boys find a human skull hidden in a tree. Police then discover the partial skeleton of a female. Despite countless enquiries, the woman cannot be identified. Then the messages appear. Tracing a case that has baffled investigators for 70 years, from Birmingham to Berlin, from Nazi spy rings to witchcraft, Pregnant Fish return to the Space with Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?
Next is Being Brahms, the story of a dad and his son written by award winning playwright Gail Louw with the music of Brahms performed by Paul Humpoletz on the 29th March.
Anima Theatre company transfer their Edinburgh smash hit The Sleeper in April. On an overnight train somewhere through Europe, Karina, a British writer, naively reports a refugee hiding in her bunk. Described by The Scotsman as “an exceptional piece of theatre making” and Longlisted for the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award The Sleeper weaves together the real testimony of Syrian refugees and the personal experience of writer Henry C Krempels.
Bringing the spring season to a close, is the return of award winning company Suitcase Civilians with their powerful new production CITIZEN 24th April– 5th May. A British mother is arrested whilst visiting family overseas with her baby daughter. A family of political refugees are moving to Australia to start a new life. American citizens, working, travelling, and holidaying around the world, fall victim to Trump’s executive order against 7 Muslim countries, and can’t return home. They are all human. They are all Iranian. Their only crime: their ethnicity. Drawing on interviews with Iranian migrants, this important new production explores the blurry line between our identities as humans and ethnic types, and when we stop being seen as one or the other.
Full details of the season can be found here. www.space.org.uk
