This Saturday!
Riot, Rebellion and
Bloody Insurrection
"Red Ladder ……reaching parts other companies don't, won't or can't." David Edgar - The Guardian
Come and have a laugh as Red Ladder and Chumbawamba get together to sing, dance, cajole, poke fun and point fingers, all against a backdrop of our nation's radical past.
December 1825. England is in the grip of a harsh winter, its army is fighting colonial battles abroad, and hunger and poverty are rife. Thousands are thrown out of work while the landed, property-owning few become indecently rich. Sound familiar? See the story of sassy Luddite rebel Elsie Proud as she wages war against the ruthless rags-to-riches Boss Ernest Hardgristle and career climbing politician, Robert Catchpenny. Experience a riotous mix of theatre and music, banter and action, this show is for an audience looking for a world beyond TV Talent Contests and multi-millionaires taking multi-million pound pensions in this winter of recession.
Click here for the latest preview in the Guardian
Check out the facebook event here.
Tickets are selling fast, so give us a call on 01274 820666 to book.
£10 / £6.50 concessions.
Black Box
This Saturday
Two live performances will be performed in the black box studio after Chumbawamba.
Adherance: A broken, twisted landscape is populated by the members of Bradford Playhouse's new performance troupe pH Neutral. In a fitting year where we wall upon 25 years since 1984 and 20 years since the Berlin wall fell the performers set out on a meditation of control and its context on a social and internal level.
The piece utilises dance, sound, bleeding and body performance to investigate the commoditization of sex and violence, the fetishisation of consumption and the double sided politic of the need for total dominance being a total surrender to primal impulse.
Decay Ends A Decade: Newly founded Brut Mod Records proudly present their first signing, playing vital, heartfelt and immediate electro pop, following in the foot steps of other great Sheffield bands the Human League, ABC and Caberet Voltaire. If that's not enough we also get a second helping from the D.E.A.D. DJs shortly after and playing till the small hours.
Black Box performances will be shown at 11.15 and 12.20.
Tickets are £4 for the night which includes Barbara Nice entry. If you've already got a Chumbawamba ticket, this is included as a free extra!
Phoenix Night's
Barbara Nice
This Saturday in the bar we'll have Barbara Nice of Phoenix Nights fame bringing her unique brand of comedy to the Playhouse bar.
Find out more about Barbara Nice on her website.
Tickets are £4 for the night which includes Black Box entry. If you've already got a Chumbawamba ticket, this is included as a free extra!
Ruffians
This Friday
This FRIDAY we welcome the RUFFIAN DJS from as far and wide as Valencia, Andalucia, Ecuador and... Bradford. These guys know how to party and will be doing it in style.
Kenneth will be performing in the bar, frolicking and spreading positive energies to all and sundry.
Tonight is all about fun, light-heartedness, letting go, friday-feeling let your hair down dancing until the wee hours partying. That's what friday nights should be about.
Expect a mix of 'good' pop, dance and tunes from the 00's, 90's, 80's, 70's and beyond guaranteed to get you on your feet. There'll be free shots for those deemed to come in outrageous fancy dress, and if you haven't there'll be dress-up on the night if you want to give it a go... PLUS party games, Twister, and PIÑATA!
We're also showcasing poetry from the wonderful Bradford poet JANE STEELE. We first met Jane when we heard her talking about how much she loved Bradford and all it has to offer. That comes through in her poetry. She, like us, has big love for this city.
£3 entry. Please leave all your negative thoughts and vibes at the door, or better still, at home.
Involuntary Dances
Friday 11th - Saturday 12th December
24 hours: 1pm - 1pm
Rita Marcalo is a performance artist who suffers from epilepsy. Having come off her epilepsy medication exactly one month prior to the performance date in order to reduce the level of anticonvulsant medication in her blood stream, Marcalo will spend a period of a total of 24 hours inducing an epileptic seizure. This is the first in a trilogy of works looking at the relationship between dance, epilepsy and drug research.
Read an article on Rita's event here or listen to an article on Radio 4 here - the interview is part of the You and Yours show.
For a list of Frequently Asked Questions along with their responses, click here.
TICKETS TO THIS EVENT WILL BE SOLD IN ADVANCE ONLY AND WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE ON THE NIGHT.
Click HERE to book tickets. They are only available via Eventbrite. Tickets will be available in the next few days and the event is currently available to view.
Idiot Box
Friday 11th December - around 11pm
The Fantastic Idiot Box are back @ the Playhouse celebrating Christmas early with friends and future friends alike. Due to popular demand Idiot Box will be playing their unique blend of Mathematic pop and Mindbending Rock. Don't miss this one, its sure to be a belter.
DJ's after the event till 2am, details to follow. The Playhouse will be open right through til 1pm on the Saturday for those who want to stay and have a ticket for Involuntary Dances.
Check out the Facebook event here.
To listen to Idiot Box, listen at their myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/idiotboxok
Hijaab
What does it really mean?
Dec 9th - 7pm
Dec 10th/11th/12th - 1.30pm & 7pm
The Bradford Playhouse is proud to announce the first production by Bradford's first Islamic theatre group Arakan Creative.
Hijaab will take place in the intimate Bradford Playhouse Studio over four days and will explore the role and meaning of the hijaab in our society.
Tickets are £7 / £4.50 concessions and available on 01274 820666.
NO HANDS -
Christmas Party
FRIDAY 18th December
The Playhouse is Very Very Happy to announce that Bradford's No Hands crew have chosen to bring their party to US from now on!
Their first party is a double-whammy, being their inaugural Playhouse party and ALSO their Christmas party complete with alternative Christmas hits, and FREE mulled wine and minced pies for those who arrive early!
Expect to hear the usual wide spectrum of music from No Hands Residents and some of our friends:
* A countdown of the greatest alternative hits of the last decade *
* Alternative Christmas hits *
* The best in Popular music from the last 50 years spanning all the genres *
* Anything from Wizard to Weezer, White Stripes to Wham! Pogues to Pixies etc... you get the idea! *
Also expect some mad arts installation and projection of vintage Christmas cartoons.
Party Vibes.
FREE ENTRY.
What more could you ask for?
Check out the facebook event here.
The Midnight House
The Midnight House is a Ghost Story for Christmas-hopefully very much in the style of the old BBC2 1970's adaptations of the M R James short stories. It's set during the dark days of World War Two at the facility deep in the mountains of Wales where the contents of the National Gallery were kept safe from German bombs, and tells the story of a mysterious events surrounding a strange picture stored in that facility.
The play is being staged as a benefit to support the Bradford Playhouse as part of an ongoing campaign to support this historic theatre.
Tickets are £8 / £6 concessions.
SEE THE FUTURE!
New Years Eve at the Playhouse is going to be a CORKER! We'll be going into our first full year under our new creative direction and celebrating it in style.
Details are currently closely guarded - the big reveal will be in next week's e-mail!
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