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Company number: 3724349
What's on
The Blue Elephant should be on every theatre goer's map
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- Dates
- Thursday 29 June - Friday 30 June
- Time
- 8:00 pm
- Days of the week
- Thursday and Friday
- Ticket price
- £6.00
£5.00 (concessions)
£4.00 (southwark residents) - Online booking (incurs 10% booking fee)
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To avoid the online booking fee please ring the box office on 020 7701 0100
Following the success of Female Intuition, Original Impact returns to the Blue Elephant to showcase more works of new writing.
The pieces include:
The Watch written by Will Langley
Directed by Amelia O’Loughlin
The Empty Space written by Alexandria Turner
Directed by Joshua Jewkes
Shark written by Kieron Tufft
Directed by Alexandria Anfield
Dorian Grey written by Niamh Headley-Vaugh
Directed by Louis Labovitch
Two of a Kind written by Elizabeth Bryant
Directed by Sean Hollands
Any and All written by Louis Labovitch
Directed by Elizabeth Bryant
These Four Walls written by Amelia O’Loughlin
Directed by Samuel Dunstan
“Original Impact proves what is possible with a strong cast and some directorial creativity” Culturised on Original Impact’s Twelfth Night
Escape 2
- Dates
- Friday 7 July - Sunday 9 July
- Times
- 8:00 pm, 6:30 pm
Friday 7th and Saturday 8th July at 8.00pm, Sunday 9th July at 6.30pm - Days of the week
- Friday - Sunday
- Ticket price
- £10.00
£9.00 (concessions)
£8.50 (southwark residents) - Online booking (incurs 10% booking fee)
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To avoid the online booking fee please ring the box office on 020 7701 0100
LCP Dance Theatre invites their audiences on a journey of awareness of what’s going on in the world.
Escape 2 follows on from 2016’s Escape, recreating and re-telling the emotional journey of a refugee using innovative aerial dance and multimedia, against a stirring soundscape by Stefano Guzzetti. Fusing pole and silks performance with dance theatre, Escape 2 explores the impact of a new environment on a refugee, who must face social, political and psychological challenges in order to integrate with a new society.
Award winning LCP Dance Theatre draws awareness to human rights violations through dance and has been nominated twice at the Edinburgh Fringe for the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award.`
Praise for LCP Dance Theatre's previous work:
“Modern, moving, muscular & magnificent” The Mumble Dance (Escape)
“A compelling dance performance dealing with highly relevant issues” UK Theatre Network (Escape)
“LCP Dance Theatre offered something extraordinary” ★★★★ Female Art (I Am)
LCP Dance Theatre are raising money to bring Escape2 to Edinburgh this year. You can support them here.
J7s Dance Company: An Evening with Giulia
- Dates
- Thursday 13 July - Friday 14 July
- Time
- 8:00 pm
- Days of the week
- Thursday and Friday
- Ticket price
- £9.00
£8.00 (concessions)
£7.00 (southwark residents) - Online booking (incurs 10% booking fee)
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To avoid the online booking fee please ring the box office on 020 7701 0100
J7s Dance Company is a professional dance company based in London. Founded by Italian choreographer Giulia Iurza, the company is particularly interested in the connection between mind and body. Striving to create pieces that psychologically push both dancers and audience, they begin by taking aspects from everyday life and use them as the stimulus to generate movement.
Join J7s at the Blue Elephant to share the journey the company takes in the studio to create their work. The night will feature pieces at different stages of their development, including Shikishin Funi, which premiered at The Place as part of Resolution, and their new work experimenting and collaborating with the composer Mau Loseto again. It will finish off with a Q&A session with Giulia Iurza.
The Break-Up Monologues
- Date
- Wednesday 19 July
- Time
- 8:00 pm
- Ticket price
- £7.00
£6.00 (concessions)
£5.00 (southwark residents) - Online booking (incurs 10% booking fee)
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To avoid the online booking fee please ring the box office on 020 7701 0100
Award-winning comedian and Radio 4 regular Rosie Wilby hosts this themed comedy, storytelling and spoken word night. Rosie is joined onstage by fellow performers Sophia Blackwell, VG Lee and Paula Varjack to look back at their best and worst relationship breakup stories. Tragedy plus time equals comedy, right?
Rosie Wilby's nonfiction book Is Monogamy Dead? is out in 2017 (Accent Press) following a trilogy of shows investigating love and relationships. The Conscious Uncoupling was the final part of this trilogy and was programmed for Southbank Centre Festival of Love 2016 and shortlisted for Funny Women Best Show 2016.
Sophia Blackwell's acclaimed new poetry collection The Fire Eater's Lover is available via Burning Eye Books. She has been described as 'dirty, juicy, knowing and open' by Stella Duffy.
VG Lee's fifth novel Mr Oliver's Object Of Desire is out now. She started performing comedy in her sixties and is a regular favourite at Paul Burston's Polari salon.
Paula Varjack's Letters I Never Sent To You, also published by Burning Eye, has been described as a 'stunning collection of snapshots, memoir and poetry, deeply personal, vulnerable and frank' by Salena Godden.
This event is supported by Southwark LGBT network and will be recorded for a highlights broadcast on Resonance FM.
The Breakup Monologues was first commissioned by Bradford Literature Festival.
Supported by
Blue Cloud Scratch
- Date
- Friday 21 July
- Time
- 8:00 pm
- Ticket price
- £5.00
£3.50 (concessions)
£3.50 (southwark residents) - Online booking (incurs 10% booking fee)
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To avoid the online booking fee please ring the box office on 020 7701 0100
Blue Cloud Scratch is an exciting new dance scratch night, showcasing works in progress from a diverse range of choreographers, and is curated by Blue Elephant Theatre and Cloud Dance Festival. Blue Cloud Scratch aims to encourage and provide emerging dance artists with opportunities to present their works in progress and receive feedback from audiences and peers.
For more about the Blue Cloud Scratch and Cloud Dance Festival, click here.
Here Comes Trouble
- Date
- Thursday 27 July
- Time
- 8:00 pm
- Ticket price
- £10.00
£9.00 (concessions)
£7.50 (southwark residents) - Online booking (incurs 10% booking fee)
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To avoid the online booking fee please ring the box office on 020 7701 0100
Through a series of robust episodes drawing on social and cultural influences from Yorkshire, Ireland and Jamaica, Keira rhythmically weaves together traditional music, authentic song and gutsy dance.
Best described as Irish dance deep in thought, she shares hard hitting and heart-warming chapters of her life to courageously address stereotypes and challenge labels. Witness her build bridges and burn them again, each time revealing a deeper layer of herself and her heritage.
This feisty yet vulnerable performance is entertaining and demonstrates the power and elegance of women in a very real and honest way.
