Suicide. Created & performed by Herbie Treehead.

Suitcase is a solo family indoor show, involving my invisible band and a monologue by the imfamous Norman the Depressed Dinosaur. It’s stand up comedy, songs, routines, lots of audience interaction. Also using projector and sound effects. The whole show is self-contained, will fit anywhere.
Suitcase brings together Herbie’s vast performing experience of stand-up comedy, music, circus and theatre to create this off the wall show for all the family.

Horseplay. Performed by Niki McCretton. Directed by Amit Lahav.

Set within a horse’s stable, Horseplay is a magical, multi-sensory world containing live performer, Niki McCretton, beautiful props, miniature landscapes, lighting, sound and images to support children’s imaginative ideas.

Initiated by Niki’s pony-tale, the children take over as their play becomes the performance. Parents and teachers watch the unfolding story through nooks and crannies in the stable wall. Horseplay is guaranteed to thrill children and will please arty parents too!
Horseplay has been developed to meet the new Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum guidelines and directly meets specified areas of learning and development through physical exploration and investigation, imagination and imaginative play.

Commissioned by The Lighthouse, Poole, endorsed by 5x5x5=creativity and supported by Bournemouth and Poole Cultural Hub, The Brindley, Activate, The Merlin Theatre, and Arts Council England.
 
 


The Wayside. Performed & choreographed by Laila Diallo.

The Wayside is a new solo performance inspired by the theme of departure. Showcasing Laila’s vivid dancing, it explores a physicality of loss and resilience. The sixteen minute piece features Lhasa de Sela’s song Pa’llegar hasta tu lado and reunites Laila’s favoured team of collaborators: Andy Downie, Theo Clinkard and Phil King who respectively contribute lighting, costume and sound designs.
The Wayside was created with the support of Arts Council England, South West and Dance Bristol and The Brewhouse Theatre.

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Confession. Written by Nell Leyshon. Performed by Lee Hart.

In his search for peace and truth, a man makes a startling confession to the mother of his son. Confession is a work in progress, and is the germ of what will be a 70 minute two-hander.

It is the first project from The Salt Factory, which has been created by Lee Hart and Nell Leyshon, to create outstanding work in Dorset for national and international audiences.
 
 
On Cigarette Papers. Written and performed by Pam Zinnemann-Hope.

The journey begins in 1990 with my mother’s death when I find an envelope containing fifty recipes, pencilled on cigarette papers, in Russian, in her handwriting. I know no Russian but the recipes, (for this is surely what they are), must have been written during her imprisonment, in Kiev. What feasts could they possibly contain that would be worth the risk of being found with a forbidden pencil?

The story stretches from 1905 and tells of love, exile, dislocation and survival; family relationships are drawn across lands both physically and politically remote. Grandmother, mother, daughter, (and others), emerge into the cold freedoms at the end of the Second World War: a new life and a new home.
 
 

Interval. Performed by the Carly Reader Dance Company.
Choregraphy by Carly Reader & dancers

Interval explores behaviours and interactions during an interval in the interval, using the surroundings of the foyer as inspiration.

 

 
 
 
Booking info: Lighthouse 0844 406 8666 www.lighthousepoole.co.uk
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