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- Bread and Circus from Box of Frogs…
- £15 Tickets for RSC’s A Tender Thing
- Jobs: Tour Booker, Stan’s Cafe
- MAT/Sister Tree – Dancers required
- Women and Theatre seek Volunteers
- New Theatre Initiative Workshop Performance
- Theatre Cuppa
- First Show by New Birmingham Theatre Company
- Three-Week Window Festival is now underway
- Local Equity News
| Bread and Circus from Box of Frogs… Posted: 07 Sep 2012 01:46 AM PDT …or, come and make it up if you think you're hard enough Bread and Circus is the ultimate DIY Improv night. Come along, put you name in the hat, and when it gets drawn it's your turn on stage! Games, scenes, sketches, you choose. Completely free, and open to all levels of experience, including none. OPEN MIC MEETS KARAOKE, WITH AN IMPROV TWIST! Wednesday September 19th, at the Patrick Kavanagh pub in Moseley. Starts 8pm. Facebook event here:- https://www.facebook.com/events/calendar#!/events/214759385320073/ Spread the word, come along, bring your friends. Watch, or take part. For more information on location and stuff, see our websitewww.boxoffrogsimpro.co.uk  | |||
| £15 Tickets for RSC’s A Tender Thing Posted: 07 Sep 2012 01:42 AM PDT
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| Jobs: Tour Booker, Stan’s Cafe Posted: 07 Sep 2012 01:44 AM PDT Stan's Cafe has been devising and touring original theatre from its base in Birmingham since 1991. As part of our company development we are looking to collaborate with a tour booker who can help us more fully exploit our repertoire of theatre shows. We are looking for a long-term collaboration with an individual or company, to broaden our UK touring base and develop extended relationships with venues across the country. In the initial stages this will be based around three specific productions – The Cardinals, The Just Price of Flowers and our new show, The Anatomy of Melancholy. To find out more information on this opportunity and how you should tender for it please visit    | |||
| MAT/Sister Tree – Dancers required Posted: 07 Sep 2012 01:38 AM PDT We are looking for 5 dancers to work with the writer/director Cindy Claes, to develop a short (20 minute) experimental piece, based on 'School for Wives' by Moliere – using 'Dancehall' movement and music! The roles are: Two servants / Young woman in love / Young man in love / 30-40 yrs old man For some roles – e.g. the servants – the ability to speak Jamaican patois will be an advantage There will be four one-day rehearsals (probably at weekends, in September – October) to devise the piece, which will then be performed at 2-3 venues, as a 'curtain raiser' as part of the forthcoming MAT/Sister Tree tour of 'The Good Person of Sezuan.' Expenses will be paid. We are hoping to stage a full production and tour of 'School for Wives' in the future. For more details, contact David on 0121 608 7144, or email: news@midlandactorstheatre.co.uk    | |||
| Women and Theatre seek Volunteers Posted: 07 Sep 2012 01:37 AM PDT Women and Theatre seek volunteers for 'Loving Me' Women and Theatre are looking for volunteers to support a new project 'Loving Me' working with Gifted and Talented Looked After Young People. This is a new piece of theatre with music, produced in partnership with the Birmingham Hippodrome and supported by Birmingham City Council and Service Birmingham. The project kicks off in October 2012 but will continue (subject to funding) through to February 2013. You will be working alongside the Lead Artists to support the delivery of the project and the young people. The work is likely to be varied and definitely enjoyable! Experience of working with young people and in particular Looked After Young People is desirable but not essential – if you have the passion and enthusiasm to be involved please get in touch info@womenandtheatre.co.uk/Twitter @Womenandtheatre Please note CRB Checks will be required. Award-winning Women & Theatre has established a national reputation over 28 years for producing well-researched and sharply observed pieces of original and exciting theatre on themes of contemporary relevance. By dramatising subjects at the cutting edge of people's consciousness we create accessible theatre that people want to see. The company is based in Birmingham.    | |||
| New Theatre Initiative Workshop Performance Posted: 07 Sep 2012 01:35 AM PDT Birmingham. 2011, August. The Riots. seeing it now as it was then . . . Following on from our very successful launch, we are pleased to present the second of our New Theatre Initiative Workshops into Performance at 7.30pm on Tuesday 11th September at the Old Joint Stock Theatre, Birmingham. Local Writers and Actors, inspired to create new pieces of Theatre in collaborative Workshops speeches, will be presenting plays based on the riots that took place in Birmingham last year. This promises to be a fascinating insight into the events of that time, examining the effects it had on all of us, from very different angles. The pieces have been devised and developed over the last 5 weeks. This will be a very interesting and exciting night featuring the work of 6 local writers performed by 8 local Actors – made and performed here in Brum! If you are interested in seeing new ways of delivering Theatre, or are intrigued to see the results of Actors and Writers collaboratively working together, this could be for you. Ticket prices are just £5 (which incidentally will be refunded to anybody who comes to the next round of workshops), for further details and to book tickets, please go to our partner's website at www.oldjointstocktheatre.co.uk    | |||
| Posted: 07 Sep 2012 01:34 AM PDT INFORMAL GATHERINGS FOR THEATRE/TV/RADIO PROFESSIONALS IN THE MIDLANDS Theatre Cuppa is on tour to another venue again! Thanks to the Blue Orange for the last one which went very well. The next one will be on Tuesday 18th September at the Kitchen Garden Cafe, York Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham. A few people have suggested this as a venue so we asked and they have kindly agreed to us meeting there. We'll be there from 3 – 5pm on September 18th . It's between specific times as that is a quieter time for the Kitchen Garden Cafe (and it closes at 5pm). If you are working in theatre, radio, tv or community arts in the West Midlands then we'd love to see you. Theatre Cuppa is an informal opportunity to catch up with other people working in the area, to connect personally and professionally with people you may or may not know – in a relaxed and friendly environment. Children are welcome too, so do bring them along if you'd like. If you're coming alone or haven't been before, grab either of us – Rochi or Ali – we'll be the ones wearing the carnations. There is parking in the roads around the Kitchen Garden. Or catch the famous Number 50 bus from the back of Marks & Spencer, opposite Moor St Station. It takes about 30 mins to Kings Heath High Street. Get off by the Hare and Hounds pub which is on the corner of York Road. For more information about the Kitchen Garden cafe (and pictures!) go to www.kitchengardencafe.co.uk So if you're free on September 18th, do pop by and say hello, have a drink and a chat, and let others know what you're up to. Looking forward to seeing you – and having a cuppa! Ali Belbin and Rochi Rampal    | |||
| First Show by New Birmingham Theatre Company Posted: 07 Sep 2012 01:33 AM PDT FRED presents: The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare 9-13 October, 2012 at 7.30pm, matinees 10,12,13 at 2pm @ AE Harris, 110 Northwood Street, Birmingham, B3 1SZ Shakespeare's most controversial play. One of his most human. Stripped down and brought to life in a boldly imaginative promenade experience that focuses on the play's language and conflicts. Is there hope for a better world? £12.60 (£8.40 concessions and groups) Box office: 0121 643 5858 Please note, some tickets will be available on the day on the door, but we can only accept cash payment for these.    | |||
| Three-Week Window Festival is now underway Posted: 07 Sep 2012 01:30 AM PDT Between Monday 3rd and Sunday 23rd September 2012, Little Earthquake and Tin Box are curating the Three-Week Window Festival, right in the heart of Birmingham's bustling city centre. Every day for 21 consecutive days, a new artist or company will take over an enormous shop window to present an array of work designed to intrigue, attract and engage thousands of passers-by. Through their Make.Shift scheme, Sheffield-based Point Blank Theatre has secured the temporary lease on an empty shop unit in a prime location on New Street. This unique cross-regional partnership with Little Earthquake and Tin Box has given rise to Make.Shift Birmingham: a new initiative to create links and opportunities for artists in the Midlands and beyond. The Festival features both emerging and more established artists — working in the fields of theatre, dance, music, photography and visual art — and alongside the Birmingham contingent, they hail from as far afield as Manchester, Lancaster, Sheffield…and even Brazil. We're using our day in the window (Sunday 9th September) as an opportunity to try out a brand new project, The Nocturnal House. Peek into a mysterious twilight world, where night and day have been reversed! Squint through the darkness at two shy and secretive creatures emerging from the shadows! See for yourselves how Sloth and Bat spend their day — and share your photos and observations of them live on Facebook and Twitter! The location of the shop is 99 New Street, Birmingham (in between Café Rouge and Coventry Building Society). There's a new event each day (at different times) and they're all free! To see the full line-up and to learn more about the Make.Shift scheme, click here. We hope you'll come down for a peek into The Nocturnal House, and to sample some of the other exciting events taking place in the window over the coming month!    | |||
| Posted: 07 Sep 2012 01:27 AM PDT Equity Central England General Branch invites all interested people working in the arts and theatre in the Birmingham and West Midlands area to their next two meetings which will be open to non Equity members as well as members. These will be special meetings and branch business will take place separately. The first is on Monday 10th Sept at 7.30pm upstairs at The Old Joint Stock pub Colmore RowB'ham. Guest speaker Councillor Ian Ward who is Deputy Leader of Birmingham City Council will speak with us about the Labour Council's plans for a symposium on the arts industry in the midlands. There will be the opportunity to hear his thinking and to express our views and ideas about the industry and the way forward. The second is on Monday 8th Oct same time and place. This will be a monologue / duologue showcase event repeating last year's very successful 'slam' style fun evening. If you would like to perform a 3 – 5 min monologue or duologue with another actor please contact Jenny Stokes at jennystokes@blueyonder.co.uk . There will be a panel of industry judges, a raffle and possibly a quiz! It's a great way to meet other creative people locally and show off your favouritepiece.    |
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