April to August 2012 www.live.org.uk
See life’s dramas unfold at Live Theatre
Tickets & Booking Information Book tickets by phone or online Call Live Theatre’s box office on (0191) 232 1232 or visit www.live.org.uk where it is easy to book tickets online. Tickets can be mailed out, at an extra charge of £1, or can be collected from the box office free of charge. Box office opening hours Monday to Friday 10am to 5.30pm. 10am to 8pm when there is an evening show. Weekend evening show 5 to 8pm. Weekend matinee days 12 to 8pm. Returns policy If you provide more than 24 hours notice tickets can be exchanged for other performances and events or credit for the full value can be returned to your Live Theatre account. Group discount Interested in bringing a group along to see a show? Then take advantage of Live Theatre’s great group discount – buy 10 tickets and get one additional ticket free. Preview Be amongst the first to see a new show during the preview period at a discounted price. Students are eligible for a £10 ticket for any preview performance.
Opening Night Celebrate the official first night of a production when there’s always an air of excitement in the theatre. Pay What You Can £PWYC PWYC performances offer a great opportunity to see a show at a price you can afford. Tickets for Sunday PWYC performances go on sale at midday on the Friday before. A maximum of 4 tickets can be booked per transaction. Do you have friends and family that find it hard to hear or see? Live Theatre offers a range of assisted performances throughout the year aimed at improving the theatre experience for all audience members. Watch out for the following symbols to find a performance that meets your needs:
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April to August 2012 Calendar…
Wed 18 Apr to Sat 12 May / p.4 Geordie Sinatra by Fiona Evans
Thurs 19 Apr / p.9 Scratch Night
Sun 22 Apr / p.16 Kevin Welch (USA) + George Welch
Tues 1 to 29 May / p.24 Introduction to Playwriting
Sun 6 May / p.16 Joy Kills Sorrow (USA) + Lesley Roley
Fri 18 May / p.17 Billy Mitchell Band
Tues 22 & Wed 23 May / p.10 The Girl with the Iron Claws
Fri 25 & Sat 26 May / p.17 The Caffs Summer Bash
Wed 30 May to Sat 2 Jun / p.11 This Way Up
Thurs 31 May to Sat 16 Jun / p.6 Utopia
Thurs 7 & Fri 8 Jun / p.9 Short Cuts: The Final Cut
Thurs 7 Jun / p.24 Want to be a playwright?
Thurs 21 Jun / p.9 Scratch Night
Fri 20 to Sun 29 Jul Newcastle Gateshead Comedy Festival
Fri 27 Jul / p.15 The Ginge, The Geordie & The Geek
Fri 3 Aug / p.13 Youth Theatre Festival: Off On One…
Sat 4 & Sun 5 Aug / p.12 Knight Watch: SouthS’tory
Sat 4 & Sun 5 Aug / p.13 Youth Theatre Festival: Ten Tiny Tyneside Plays
Sat 4 Aug / p.13 YouthTheatre Festival: Standing Up: A New Batch
Sun 5 Aug / p.13 Youth Theatre Festival: Shot by Shot
Don’t forget to come to the only Arts + Entertainment quiz in town on Monday 14 May, 11 June and 2 July with the chance to win a host of fantastic prizes.
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Geordie Sinatra DATES: Wed 18 Apr to Sat 12 May
Wednesday 18 April to Saturday 12 May
Presented by Live Theatre & Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough In association with New Writing North By Fiona Evans Directed by Chris Monks
TICKETS: £10 to £18 LOCATION: Main Theatre
That’s life, that’s what all the people say; You’re riding high in April, shot down in May… Welcome to the coolest party in town. Kick back, snap a Dunhill, help yourself to the liquor cart and let Frank ‘The Voice’ Sinatra serenade you ‘till the wee small hours. Well that’s what’s going on in ex-club singer Geordie’s head anyway. His dementia induced hallucinations are causing his daughter Nancy major headaches that made her wonder ‘what would Ava Gardner do?’ Geordie Sinatra is a dark comedy that gets under the skin of dementia. Come fly with Geordie on the journey of a lifetime, whilst a live jazz trio knocks out swinging tunes from the great Sinatra songbook.
DURATION: Approx 2 hours including interval SUITABILITY: 14+ PERFORMANCES: Tues to Sat, 7.30pm MATINEES: Sat 28 Apr & Thurs 3 May, 2pm £PWYC: Sun 6 May, 4pm P Wed 18 Apr 7.30pm ON Thur 19 Apr 7.30pm Wed 2 May 7.30pm Tues 8 May 7.30pm
Wednesday 25 April, 5pm
Presented by New Writing North What about me? A conversation between Arts & Science about Dementia
Thurs 10 May 6.15pm Thurs 10 May 7.30pm
Join playwright Fiona Evans and fellow writers Rebecca Jenkins and Romi Jones as they discuss their exploration into the social, ethical and medical issues of dementia with cutting edge north east scientists. This event is free but tickets must be booked via the box office on (0191) 232 1232 or online at www.live.org.uk. Places are limited so book early to avoid disappointment. This event has been made possible with funding from Newcastle Science City and the European Regional Development Fund.
Please visit www.live.org.uk or call the box office on (0191) 232 1232 for full details of performance dates, times and special events.
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Image: UTOPIA
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UTOPIA DATES: Thurs 31 May to Sat 16 Jun
Thursday 31 May to Saturday 16 June
A Live Theatre & Soho Theatre co-production
TICKETS: £10 to £18
Enough of the dystopian visions, austerity measures and extreme renditions. UTOPIA is a night of humanity at its best, looking at a different vision of our future, a vision of humankind being both human and kind. Just look at what we could have won…
LOCATION: Main Theatre
Live Theatre and Soho Theatre collaborate on the ambitious new writing project – UTOPIA; directed by Artistic Directors Steve Marmion and Max Roberts who will commission writers to create new short plays challenging visions of our future.
SUITABILITY: 14+
DURATION: Approx 1 hour 20 mins including interval
Call for artists! To accompany this exciting collection of plays, Live Theatre is looking for artists to join the project with accompanying visual art works around the same theme. What do we need from you? We need a digital copy of an original work by you that you think best represents ‘utopia’, which would be suitable for hanging in the street area at Live Theatre during the show. For more information and details on how to submit artwork please visit livetheatre.posterous.com/utopia
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Live Lab
Experimenting with new work first Make sure you join us for three nights of experimental theatre as we give Short Cuts a great send off in a night full of surprises and host some of the best new work in Scratch Night. It’s a season that’s guaranteed to be dramatic!
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Sponsored by:
DATES: Thurs 19 Apr & 21 Jun, 8pm
Thursday 19 April & 21 June, 8pm
Scratch Night Our hugely popular Scratch Night continues, bringing more of the best new theatre from around the country. Watch extracts of work in development then join the writers, directors and artists in the bar afterwards to give them your feedback. We’ll even give you a glass of wine to get the conversation flowing. In April’s Scratch enjoy The Bullet And The Bass Trombone, a work-in-progress by Bristol-based company sleepdogs.
TICKETS: £8, £6 concs LOCATION: Studio Theatre DURATION: Approx 2 hours including interval SUITABILITY: 16+
To find out more details of other companies taking part in Scratch Night please visit www.live.org.uk
Thursday 7 & Friday 8 June, 8pm
DATES: Thurs 7 & Fri 8 Jun, 8pm
Short Cuts: The Final Cut Short Cuts is ten years old. After 21 editions we’ve decided it’s time to bring the curtain down on Short Cuts to make way for new exciting events in our Live Lab programme. However we couldn’t say goodbye without giving it a good send off so, to celebrate ten glorious years, some previous Short Cuts writers have been invited back to present extracts of brand new plays they’re developing. Writers include Alison Carr (The Girls From Poppyfield Close), Paddy Campbell (Girls on the Verge – Home Help) and Chloe Daykin. And of course, we’re also putting out one last call for brilliant new short plays and the best four pieces will be read on the night. The rules are simple: the play must be no more than 10 minutes in length to be performed by a maximum of four actors. The theme is COUP DE THEATRE so be daring, be tangential and above all, surprise us!
TICKETS: £8, £6 concs LOCATION: Studio Theatre DURATION: Approx 2 hours including interval SUITABILITY: 14+
To submit a script for Short Cuts please visit www.live.org.uk/shortcuts for full details on how to enter. The deadline for submissions is Friday 11 May.
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Family Theatre: The Girl with the Iron Claws Tuesday 22 & Wednesday 23 May, 7pm
Written & Directed by Hannah Mulder Design & Puppet Director by Rachael Canning Growing up isn’t easy, especially when you’re in love with a bear. This is a story about a girl who dares to follow her longing. The youngest daughter of a king, she feels like a misfit. Then one night a compelling dream leads her deep into the forest, where a chance encounter sets her on a fateful path she could never have anticipated.
DATES: Tues 22 & Wed 23 May, 7pm MATINEE: Wed 23 May, 2pm TICKETS: £10; £8 concs LOCATION: Main Theatre DURATION: 1 hour SUITABILITY: 8+
Following a critically acclaimed, sell-out success at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2011, The Wrong Crowd bring you this captivating, dark fairy-tale, which shares its roots with Beauty and the Beast. Stunning puppetry, enchanting music and deft humour combine to dazzling effect in this coming-of-age tale to enthral audiences young and old. Fall in with The Wrong Crowd for their inventive, playful, unique brand of storytelling theatre.
“A fantastical world that has all the fresh, unusual and sinister appeal of wandering into a fairy-tale for the first time” The Scotsman ★ ★ ★ ★
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Image: Claudine Quinn & Steve Ullathorne
★★★★★ Edinburgh Evening News, British Theatre Guide, Fest & Three Weeks
Family Theatre: This Way Up
Wednesday 30 May to Saturday 2 June
DATES: Wed 30 May to Sat 2 Jun
Presented by Theatre Lark The grown-ups have put the whole world into cardboard boxes, neatly wrapped with tape and string. There are adventures in those boxes. Adventures on moons and under oceans. Adventures filled with spaceships and fantastic creatures. We can’t wait. We’re going in. Do you want to come too? This Way Up is a sideways look at moving on, saying goodbye, and stepping into the great unknown, told through a headlong tumble into the irresistible joy of play.
LOCATION: Studio Theatre DURATION: Approx 45 mins SUITABILITY: Children aged 3 to 7 and their grown-ups PERFORMANCES: Wed to Fri, 10.30am & 1.30pm Sat 2 Jun, 11am & 2pm
IMAGE: THIS WAY UP BY THEATRE LARK
Theatre Lark won The Empty Space and Find Your Talent New Theatre for Young Audiences Award in 2009.
TICKETS: £8, £6 concs
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Family Theatre: Knight Watch: SouthS’tory Saturday 4 & Sunday 5 August, dusk
Presented by Fuel By Inua Ellams In a world where tower blocks are stone mountains and city walls are urban tapestries retelling epic fights, Michael keeps away from the warring tribes until a passerby helps him out of a tight situation. Instantly, he is pulled into the culture he has tried to escape. The city spirals out of control as battle lines are drawn and redrawn. In the quest for balance, loyalty, faith and friendships are tested, but will Michael succeed in ending the war?
DATES: Sat 4 & Sun 5 Aug, dusk TICKETS: Free LOCATION: Surprise location! Meet at the theatre and come dressed for the weather DURATION: 40 mins SUITABILITY: 12+
Featuring live music and a surprise outdoor location, we’re delighted to welcome Inua Ellams back to Live Theatre after he gave us a sneak peek of an extract of the show at Scratch Night last year. Commissioned by the Albany. Funded by Arts Council England.
IMAGE: KNIGHT WATCH: SOUTHS’TORY BY FUEL
Knight Watch is part of NewcastleGateshead’s Bridges Festival taking place on Saturday 4 & Sunday 5 August www.NewcastleGateshead.com/ BridgesFestival
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Youth Theatre Festival: Mega Bites
Friday 3 August, 2pm & 7.30pm
DATES: Fri 3 Aug, 2pm & 7.30pm
Off On One… Three new exciting devised pieces exploring what makes young people angry. Is it politics? Is it older people? Or is it just life in general?
TICKETS: £8, £6 concs LOCATION: Main Theatre DURATION: Approx 1 hour 30 mins SUITABILITY: 8+
Saturday 4 & Sunday 5 August, every 20 minutes between 11am & 1pm and 2 & 4pm
DATES: Sat 4 & Sun 5 Aug
Ten Tiny Tyneside Plays
TICKETS: £8, £6 concs
Enjoy a unique mystery tour through secret and unusual spaces in and around Live Theatre as members of Live’s Youth Theatre perform 10 tiny plays written by five emerging playwrights.
LOCATION: In and around Live Theatre DURATION: Approx 1 hour 30 mins SUITABILITY: 8+ DATES: Sat 4 Aug, 4pm & 7.30pm
Saturday 4 August, 4pm & 7.30pm
Standing Up: A New Batch Join a new group of talented young comedians as they take to the stage for the first time to showcase their hilarious self-penned material.
TICKETS: £8, £6 concs LOCATION: Studio Theatre DURATION: Approx 1 hour 30 mins SUITABILITY: 8+ DATES: Sun 5 Aug, 7.30pm
Sunday 5 August, 7.30pm
Shot by Shot Following the success of last year’s 24 Hour Digital Shoot-Out the young film makers are back to premiere five brand new short films. Inspired by the National Theatre’s production Travelling Light by Nicholas Wright, about the beginning of moving image in 1900, each film which will be shot over a weekend and star members of Live’s Youth Theatre. This project is delivered in partnership with National Theatre Learning.
TICKETS: £8, £6 concs LOCATION: Main Theatre DURATION: Approx 1 hour 30 mins SUITABILITY: 8+
Mega Bites is presented as part of NewcastleGateshead’s Bridges Festival taking place on Saturday 4 & Sunday 5 August. www.NewcastleGateshead.com/BridgesFestival
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Live Stand-Up Sponsored by:
Sit back, relax and enjoy the warm welcome of Live Theatre as some of the best comedians on the circuit attempt to tickle your funny bone in the intimate surroundings our unique cabaret style theatre. Atrium Bar open 6.30pm Doors open 7.45pm Drinks can be taken into the theatre WARNING: Live Stand-Up performances may contain strong language.
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friday 27 July, 9pm
The Ginge, The Geordie
& The Geek
After three sell out years at the Edinburgh Festival, including selling 7000 tickets last year, the boys return once again, fresh from filming their new BBC pilot to bring you a brand new hour of truly uplifting silliness, surrealism and 80’s anthems. So if you like your comedy served extremely funny, order a portion of Ginge, Geordie and Geek!
DATES: Fri 27 Jul, 9pm TICKETS: £10; £8 concs LOCATION: Main Theatre DURATION: 1 hour SUITABILITY: 16+
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Herald
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Threeweeks ★ ★ ★ ★ Scotsman
Friday 20 to Sunday 29 July, 8pm Newcastle
Gateshead Comedy Festival
DATES: Fri 20 to Sun 29 Jul, 8pm TICKETS: £10; £8 concs
Live Theatre is delighted to be one of the key venues for the 2012 Newcastle Gateshead Comedy Festival. Building on the success of last year’s bill which included comedy award nominees, the programme will feature a whole host of the best acts around previewing their Fringe shows en route to Edinburgh. Don’t miss your chance to see the very best shows without leaving the north east.
LOCATION: Live Theatre
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Live Music
Sunday 22 April, 8pm
Presented by Jumpin’ Hot Club Kevin Welch (USA) + George
Welch
Kevin Welch is a literate, charismatic singer-songwriter who made Nashville his home but not his sound. His song writing is stellar and Garth Brooks, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Roger Miller have recorded his songs. Sunday 6 May, 8pm
Presented by Jumpin’ Hot Club
DATES: Sun 22 Apr, 8pm TICKETS: £12 LOCATION: Main Theatre DURATION: Approx 3 hours
DATES: Sun 6 May, 8pm
Joy Kills Sorrow (USA) + Lesley Roley
TICKETS: £12
Folk Americana is rife with posers, but Joy Kills Sorrow is the real thing – talented musicians and singers giving it all they’ve got. Lead singer Emma Beaton has an intimate style but with startling power. Matthew Arcara is a 2006 Winfield National Flatpicking Guitar Champion; Wesley Corbett is a Fleck-inflected banjoist with killer chops; and Jacob Jolliff on mandolin creates the appropriate rhythm groove and adds distinct, lyrical fills. Mostly, though, they know how to play together and that’s a rare thing.
LOCATION: Main Theatre
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DURATION: Approx 3 hours
Friday 18 May, 8pm
Billy Mitchell Band
DATES: Fri 18 May, 8pm
illy Mitchell has been around for a while. B In the seventies he founded the seminal Jack the Lad, musically deft and wondrous and also, un-hinged. Half a lifetime with Maxie Peters as the wonderfully wacky Maxie and Mitch, then onto eight years as front man of the legendary Lindisfarne. In 2005 he recorded The Devils Ground, one enthusiastic review of the album, was noted as “…one of the finest singers on the planet” (Pete Fyffe). He recently performed with Roger Daltrey of The Who, Paul Weller, Jools Holland and Brian Johnson of AC/DC at The Sage Gateshead. Expect the unexpected with ‘songs what he wrote and songs what he likes’, alongside some classic Lindisfarne and JTL favourites.
TICKETS: £12 LOCATION: Main Theatre DURATION: Approx 3 hours
DATES: Fri 25 & Sat 26 May, 8pm
Friday 25 & Saturday 26 May, 8pm
The Caffs Summer Bash Mention The Caffreys to any discerning north east music lover, and it’s likely they’ll need no introduction. This is a band that has earned a formidable reputation based on heartfelt and uplifting original songs, incredible musicianship, dynamic live performances and – at the core of The Caffreys sound - astonishing close harmonies unique to three brothers who have, for most of their lives, sang as one. The Caffreys create a sound which is variously rocky, rootsy, folky... and always engaging.
TICKETS: £12 LOCATION: Main Theatre DURATION: Approx 3 hours
“The north-east’s premier folk/rock band.” northeastlive.net
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IMAGE: CLOSE THE COALHOUSE DOOR
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Live on Tour: Close the Coalhouse Door FRIDAY 13 APRIL TO SATURDAY 5 MAY
Presented by Northern Stage & Live Theatre By Alan Plater Based on stories by Sid Chaplin Music by Alex Glasgow With additional material by Lee Hall Directed by Samuel West Designed by Soutra Gilmour Musical Supervision and Arrangement by Sam Kenyon Lighting Design by James Farncombe A musical play celebrating the magnificent spirit of the north east, Close the Coalhouse Door is told with a wry smile, sparkling dialogue and moving songs by an extended family of wives, vicars, sons, daughters and of course the miners themselves.
DATES: Fri 13 Apr to Sat 5 May, 7.30pm MATINEE: Wed 25 Apr, 2pm Sat 5 May, 2pm TICKETS: £12.50 to £24 LOCATION: Northern Stage, Stage 1 BOOKING: Contact Northern Stage’s Box Office on (0191) 230 5151 or book online at www.northernstage.co.uk
Alan Plater’s masterpiece is brought to life in a landmark collaboration between Northern Stage and Live Theatre. The show is an exhilarating ride through the strikes, victories and disappointments in British mining history from the formation of the first unions in 1831. Structured around joyful and heart-tugging songs inspired by working people’s anthems of each period, it has all the irony and lively mischief of Oh What A Lovely War, the dark grit of Our Friends In The North, and the triumph over adversity of Billy Elliot. To find out more visit www.closethecoalhousedoor.co.uk
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Image: CHALE LINES
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Coming Soon: Chalet Lines DATES: Autumn 2012
AUTUMN 2012
A Bush Theatre production In association with Live Theatre By Lee Mattinson Directed by Madani Younis Design by Leslie Travers Dramaturg Ché Walker Sound Design Tom Gibbons Lighting Design Tim Mascall Costume Supervisor Amy Cook
LOCATION: Main Theatre
“Some women long their whole lives to be asked that, to be asked how they are, if just by a complete stranger” Butlins Skegness, Chalet Number 12, where the Walker women have been holidaying since 1961. This year it’s Nana Barbara’s seventieth and everyone’s airing their dirty laundry. Loretta’s had too many camp cocktails, Jolene’s fallen tits over teeth for a Redcoat and Abigail’s harbouring more than knickers and hairspray in her suitcase. A shockingly funny journey through five decades of birthdays, weddings and hen dos, which asks can we ever really cut the apron string that ties us to our parents? Chalet Lines was performed for the first time in March 2010 as a script-in-hand performance at Live Theatre as part of the Different Stages New Writing Festival. When the play returned to the stage in December 2010 audiences said “it says important things about women... and above all else it’s flipping hilarious!!!”
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IMAGES: L-R, T-B: SHORT CUTS 2011, THE MAIN THEATRE, DONNA DISCO © TOPHER MCGRILLIS, THE FIGHTBACK BEGINS TODAY © STEVE BELL WWW.BELLTOONS.CO.UK FOR A WALK ON PART, CHALET LINES READING 2010, TOAST, JONATHAN LIKES THIS, THE PITMEN PAINTERS © KEITH PATTINSON, In Blackberry Time © Mike Golding, BONES © KEITH PATTINSON, A NIGHTINGALE SANG IN ELDON SQUARE © KEITH PATTINSON, THE BODIES © KEITH PATTINSON.
Support Live: Making plays for 40 years Next year Live Theatre will celebrate its 40th birthday. Over those 40 years the company has touched many thousands of lives with plays and projects at the theatre and beyond. The roll call of playwrights and actors who have learnt their craft at Live Theatre’s quayside theatre is lengthy. In the 1970s CP Taylor, arguably Live Theatre’s first writer in residence, encouraged Tom Hadaway to write for the stage. Sid Chaplin was joined by Alan Plater who in his turn brought Sid’s son Michael into the company; initially to help adapt some of his Dad’s short stories. Phil Woods, Steve Chambers and Karin Young followed in the 80s, with Lee Hall and recent Bafta winner Peter Straughan taking their respective turns as writer in residence during the late 1990s. The new decade brought the sadly missed Julia Darling to Live Theatre when she worked alongside another poet turned playwright Sean O’Brien …and the work continues.
Corporate Partners Membership of the Corporate Partners Scheme allows companies to support all aspects of Live Theatre’s work both at the Theatre and in the community. Current Corporate Partners are: Level 2
Level 1
This year will see premieres of two plays written by graduates of the theatre’s Introduction to Playwriting Course; Geordie Sinatra by Fiona Evans and Chalet Lines by Lee Mattinson. Each year the company spends over £200,000 on its development work with emerging writers, money which is becoming increasingly difficult to find. In the autumn we will be launching a new supporters’ scheme which we hope, with your help, will make sure writers continue to find a home at Live Theatre for the next 40 years. We hope you can help.
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Courses
Every Tuesday from 1 to 29 May 2012
Thursday 7 JUNE, 6.30pm
Introduction to Playwriting
Want to be a playwright?
Fancy yourself as the next Lee Hall or Shelagh Stephenson? This popular course aims to give writers a sound understanding of the key elements of playwriting through a combination of practical exercises and discussion. What makes a great story and how do you tell it? What makes a character leap off the page? Learn about playwriting from people who know. Previous students of the course who have gone on to have work produced on our main stage include Lee Mattinson (Chalet Lines) and Fiona Evans (Geordie Sinatra).
Join Gez Casey, Live Theatre’s Literary Manager, as he introduces Live Theatre’s unique online course www.beaplaywright.com.
Places are limited and the deadline for applications is Saturday 7 April 2012. So if you’re interested in honing your playwriting skills visit www.live.org.uk/ courses for more information.
Find out more about the five step-bystep modules, each covering different aspects of playwriting, the practical tried and tested exercises students are asked to complete, and exclusive video clips of great dramatists as they offer the benefits of their experience. Writers who attend this event will receive an exclusive promotional code offering a discount on the course. DATE: Thurs 7 Jun, 6.30pm COST: Free, booking essential LOCATION: Live Theatre DURATION: Approx 1 hour
DATE: Tues 1 May to 29 May 2012 COST: Free, booking essential LOCATION: Live Theatre
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Eating & Drinking
The Broad Chare
Caffè Vivo
The Broad Chare provides proper food and proper beer all from the small cosy and intimate surroundings of this neighbourhood pub. Bar snacks include the now infamous Scotch Eggs, delicious deep-fried monkfish cheeks and cauliflower fritters. If it’s just a drink that you’re after then don’t forget to try The Writer’s Block, a new ale which has been brewed exclusively for The Broad Chare and Live Theatre to a unique recipe by Wylam Brewery.
If you’re looking for a tasty Italian pre-theatre supper then look no further than Caffè Vivo. Offering special early evening deal (from 5.30pm) Caffè Vivo is the ideal choice, serving simple, sunny and generous Italian food in a bright and fun atmosphere.
With drinks taken as seriously as its food this is a new destination to be enjoyed both before and after a show.
Live Theatre’s Atrium Bar and Undercroft open two hours before a performance and close at 11pm providing the perfect location for a leisurely drink before and after a performance. Remember you can take your drinks into the theatre and you can also order drinks or ice creams for the interval.
For more information visit www.thebroadchare.co.uk or call (0191) 211 2144
For more information visit www.caffevivo.co.uk or call (0191) 232 1331
The Atrium Bar
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Choose Your Seat
Main House
Select your own seat
Whether customers choose to watch the show from the cabaret section, which is made up of a flexible mix of tables and free standing chairs, or relax in the fixed seating of the theatre and balcony sections audiences at Live Theatre are never far from the action.
Audiences will soon be able to select their own seats in the theatre and balcony sections of the Main Theatre online. Cabaret and Studio Theatre seating will remain unallocated.
Studio Theatre Live’s intimate Studio Theatre is located on the third floor and provides a flexible space ideal for rehearsed readings and acoustic music.
Seating Information Seats in the cabaret section of the Main Theatre and all seats in the Studio Theatre can be pre-booked, but are unreserved and are allocated on a first come first served basis. Ticket numbers do not refer to a particular seat. To help you get the seat of your choice we recommend that you arrive at least 20 minutes before the start of the show. 26 For tickets and information call (0191) 232 1232
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Location & Travel Information KEY
Parking Quaylink Stops Metro Station
ALL SAINTS CHURCH
LAW COURTS MALMAISON M
IUM BRIDG ENN E ILL
RIVER TYNE
BALTIC
THE SAGE GATESHEAD
Public Transport Live Theatre is a 10 minute walk from Central Station, Monument and Manors Metro Stations. The QuayLink bus service runs every 10 minutes during the day and every 20 minutes during the evening until midnight providing a safe and easy way of getting to and from the Theatre. Call Traveline on 0871 200 2233 for more travel information.
Live Theatre is grateful to the following for revenue funding:
Parking There is a car park in the Trinity Gardens complex 100 metres from the Theatre, which can be accessed from City Road and Trinity Gardens. This secure car park is open from 7am to midnight and costs 90p per hour and is free after 5pm. There is limited on street parking on Broad Chare and additional car parks nearby.
Virtual Tours Never been to Live Theatre before? Then why not take a look around the building via an online virtual tour by visiting www.live.org.uk/360
The Gillian Dickinson Charitable Trust The Shears Foundation LankellyChase J Paul Getty Jnr Trust Port of Tyne Fund
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