Free Theatre/Concert/Misc - codes only, NO CHAT nor COMPS

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Between Ten and Six
The Leicester Square Theatre
Thursday 18th and Friday 19th April

20 free tickets available for both performances.

Two strangers meet in a dingy flat in North London. Charlie an anxiety ridden twenty something and Ed his socially awkward live-in Landlord. Just how much can the two tolerate before one of them snaps? A one act dark comedy from Chris Mayo and Cuckoo Bang Productions.

Please email info@cuckoobang.co.uk with your name and amount of tickets you would like. Maximum 2 per person.

http://www.cuckoobang.co.uk/current-productions.html

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POPCORN RETURNS!
CARDINAL BURNS / MAE MARTIN / JAMIE DEMETRIOU / LIVE OWLS

The cult hit comedy night returns, in a brand new venue, The Hackney Picturehouse, with a new format and resident compere - rising star Mae Martin.

It’s gonna be a ramshackle technological feast where anything can happen. Expect live comedy, expect brilliant comedy from the web. Expect owls. Expect insane prizes. Expect the unexpected. But especially expect owls.

19/04/13 19:30 Hackney, Picturehouse

http://www.showfilmfirst.com/pin/167429

[tilly]

The card shark show at the royal institution


Friday 19 April 7.30pm

The royal institution, 21 albemarle road, london, w1s 4bs

www.showfilmfirst.com
Code: 851961

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Book Slam – The Grand

Thursday 25th April at 7.30pm – THE CLAPHAM GRAND, 21-25 St John's Hill, London SW11 1TT

Book Slam's anticipating a rite of Spring that may be light and airy or full of Stravinsky's dissonance: either way we'll be prepared - dib dib dib. Pack leaders for the night include the inimitable WILL SELF, reading from 'Umbrella', shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and PATRICK NESS, author of the bestselling 'Chaos Walking' trilogy, who will introduce us to his latest novel, 'The Crane Wife' - if you can think of a smarter literary pairing, we'll eat your comedy fez. They'll be music from the startling talent that is GEORGE EZRA, and all will be stitched together by Akela, DOMINIC FRISBY.

For more information and to download tickets visit

http://www.showfilmfirst.com/pin/768230

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Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – Fairfield Halls
Tuesday 23rd April at 7.30pm

http://www.showfilmfirst.com/pin/279255

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The Lonely Soldier Monologues, Helen Benedict’s disturbing look at the lives of women who served in Iraq takes to the stage in London for a rehearsed reading in May. The play will be performed at the Arts Theatre in the West End at 2.30 pm on Monday 13 May followed by a Q & A with the playwright.

Tickets for the performance are FREE. To obtain tickets please contact Andrew McRobb (LSpace Team) at Liminal Space Productions. Email liminalspace10@gmail.com


The director and producer is Prav MJ, who believes the play is worthy of a full run and wants industry producers, venue managers and investors to have a look at it. She also hopes the general public will give it the thumbs up.

Helen Benedict wrote the play entirely in the words of the women veterans she interviewed over several years for her books The Lonely Soldier; The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq and The Sand Queen (a novel). This is her UK debut.

The play tells the story of seven American women who fought in Iraq; why they enlisted, what they endured and how it affected them when they came home. The women, who fought in the war between 2003 and 2006, personify the situation of women in the military today; women are participating in combat more than ever before, but are so outnumbered they are often painfully alone.

Very recently the topic of women on the front lines came to national news prominence in the UK with the decision that women could serve in combat alongside their male counterparts and would no longer be consigned only to the safer, backstage roles in countries like Afghanistan and Iraq.

Helen Benedict is an award winning novelist, journalist and playwright specialising in issues of social justice. In 2013 Benedict, who is American, was awarded the Ida B. Wells Award for bravery in journalism and named one of the 21 leaders for the 21st century by Women’s eNews in addition to other important media and book awards. Her writings inspired an ongoing class action suit against the Pentagon on behalf of women and men who were sexually assaulted in the military and also inspired the 2012 Oscar nominated documentary The Invisible War, in which she appears. Benedict, the author of five earlier novels and four books of non-fiction, is Professor of Journalism at Columbia University. (http://www.helenbenedict.com)

Prav MJ founded Liminal Space Productions in 2010 after working in the States to develop and stage contemporary writing that challenges and inspires audiences. Liminal Space launched with American Bytes (10 minute USA shorts) as part of the Fresh Ideas Season at New Wimbledon Studio. That developed into American Bytes Back for the London Fringe Festival. The company has also presented Lashings of Whipped Cream as part of the 2010 Nursery Festival; the UK premiere of Six Rounds by Boston playwright John Oluwole Adekoje (LOST Theatre) in 2011 and Hamlet Smith adapted by Prav MJ from the English translation of Hamlet Garcia by Spanish playwright Miguel Morillo at the 2011 Nursery Festival. 2012 saw The Pumpkin Patch by US playwright Patrick Gabridge, a site specific performance in a garden as part of the first Chelsea Fringe Festival and the world premiere of award winning US play Fallujah by Evan Sanderson at the Cockpit Theatre, London Website: http://www.liminalspace10.com Twitter: @LSpace10

Alison Baskerville is the technical adviser to the production. Alison served in the RAF for 12 years including Bosnia and Iraq. She then obtained an MA in photojournalism from the University of Westminster and in 2012 went to Afghanistan to take photos of women there, both serving soldiers and Afghan women of all ages. The resulting exhibition, sponsored by the British Legion, was at the Oxo Tower Gallery last autumn and is part of an ongoing project. (alisonbaskerville.photodeck.com)

Says one of the women in The Lonely Soldier Monologues: “Everything we have done in Iraq is a lie. And I’m very ashamed that I didn’t see it sooner and stand up against it. I was a drill sergeant. My job was to teach other people’s children how to kill. How could I as a spiritual person teach people to kill? How, as a mother, could I send my own sons to war? I ask myself that. I b*ght into the whole thing. I thought it was the honorable thing to do. I can only hope my ancestors will forgive me, or that I will be able to forgive myself.”

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Knock2Bag Comedy – RichMix

Friday 26th April at 8.00pm (doors open 7.00pm) – Rich Mix, 35-47 BethnalGreen Road, London E1 6LA

Line-Up: Dan Clark + Dan Antopolski + SaraPascoe + Marcel Lucont + Kieran Hodgson + Karl Schultz + more tba

For more information and to download tickets visit:

http://www.showfilmfirst.com/pin/834196

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Ivy Paige's School Of Burlesque –Leicester Square Theatre

Friday 26th April at 9.30pm – Leicester Square Theatre, 6 Leicester Place, London WC2H 7BX

Ivy Paige is disappointed with you! So much potential for naughtiness..wasted! Come and join the funniest class in London's West End and lets make 'Head' Girl actually mean something! Expect House Points for Snogging behind the Bike Sheds, Detentions for those whose skirts aren’t short enough and a Practical Demonstration in 'The Art of The Tease' by Ivy Paige herself! Plus extra curricular activities from Britain’s finest Burlesque stars!!!


Stand up, song & striptease... comedy never got so glamorous!


So dig out your school uniform and join Miss Ivy Paige and her Burlesque St Trinians for an education that is definitely noton the National Curriculum!


Ps. Snogging behind the bike sheds is only permitted during the interval!

Adults only!

For more information and to download tickets visit:

http://www.showfilmfirst.com/pin/977413

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There will be an understudy run of The WINSLOW BOY by Terence Rattigan at the Old Vic on Tuesday, April 30th at 2 p.m.

It's open admission: come one, come all. Thanks once again to the Old Vic for their sensible and civilised door policy.

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http://www.showfilmfirst.com/pin/500766. Haymarket tonight at 7.30pm

Curiosity Shop
Nell Trent lives with her grandfather above The Curiosity Shop, a vintage record store. When the shop is repossessed by Quilp, a vicious loan shark, Nell and Grandpa are forced to hit the road. Living rough they meet the usual suspects – con men, Good Samaritans, wide boys and buskers - in cities and villages across England.
Imaginatively translated to the present day, Dickens’ story of love, human frailty and downright wickedness has a fabulous cast of characters, from bent lawyer Sally Brass to wide boy rapper Dick E. Swiveller. Playfully staged and featuring film and a soundtrack that takes in hits from Bach to Bowie, Curiosity Shop shows England to be as much a cultural curiosity shop as it ever was in Dickens’ day…

Suitable for ages 14 and over - Contains some strong language.