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After their hugely successful Kursk, trailblazing theatre company Sound&Fury return with an illuminating new show about one man’s relationship with the night sky as he begins to lose his sight.

Using immersive surround sound design, moments of total darkness and inventive lighting and projections, Going Dark tells the story of Max, an astronomer who works in his local planetarium. When he is diagnosed with a rare condition that causes him to lose his eyesight, he must re-evaluate his relationship to the world around him.

Devised by Sound&Fury, written in collaboration with award-winning playwright Hattie Naylor and produced by Fuel, Going Dark is the culmination of detailed research into the early stages of adult blindness on the brain, supported by the Wellcome Trust.

Going Dark is directed by Mark Espiner & Dan Jones, co-created by Tom Espiner, designed by Aleš Valášek, with light by Guy Hoare, sound by Dan Jones and projection by Dick Straker.

Tickets and information www.youngvic.org 020 7922 2922

Times

Monday – Saturday: 8pm

Wednesday & Saturday matinees

(10, 14, 17, 21, 24 March): 3pm

Tickets: £15

Previews (6 – 8 March): £10

Audio-described performance: 20 March 8pm

Call the Box Office for more information and to book tickets for audio-described performances

For further details on access performances visit http://www.youngvic.org/visit-us/access

From rediscovered classics to vibrant new writing and outstanding international theatre, our three performance spaces are designed to put you up close to all the action on stage. Our seating is unreserved and every seat has a great view. Ticket prices are designed to be affordable for all, and if you're under 26 there are £10 tickets available for every performance.

Add in London's liveliest new bar and restaurant and the Young Vic is the perfect location from morning to midnight.

SOHO THEATRE & WRITERS' CENTRE

21 Dean Street! W1

Box Office: (020) 7478 0100 (24 hrs - no booking fee)

www.sohotheatre.com

The theatre is fully accessible with an infra red-hearing system

A WALK ON PART
The Fall of New Labour

Wed 21 Mar – Sat 14 Apr, 7.15pm

Press Night: Thu 22 Mar, 7.15pm

Soho Main House

Tickets: Mon & matinees £15, Tue – Thu £22.50 (£20), Fri - Sat £27.50 (£25)

From the diaries of Chris Mullin | Adapted for the stage by Michael Chaplin | Directed by Max Roberts | Starring John Hodgkinson returning to his highly acclaimed role as Chris Mullin

A LIVE THEATRE & SOHO THEATRE CO-PRODUCTION IN ASSOCIATION WITH NEW WRITING NORTH

Following its critically acclaimed sell-out run in both Newcastle and London, A WALK ON PART returns to Soho Theatre’s Main House.

Soho Theatre and Live Theatre in Newcastle bring Chris Mullin's witty, irreverent take on contemporary politics to the stage in A WALK ON PART, reflecting three worlds during a time of crisis and change - the febrile political village of Westminster, the flash points of Africa he toured as a Minister and the fragile community he served as an MP. Adapted for the stage by Michael Chaplin and directed by Max Roberts (The Pitmen Painters), A WALK ON PART provides an insider’s view of the last and most turbulent decade in politics.

SWAMP JUICE

Tue 17 Apr – Sat 05 May, 7pm

Press Night: Thu 19 Apr, 7pm

Soho Main House

Tickets: 17 – 21 Apr £10, 23 Apr – 5 May £15 (£12.50)

A BUNK PUPPETS AND SCAMP THEATRE PRODUCTION

WINNER Total Theatre Award, Edinburgh 2011 | THE STAGE MUST SEE SHOW

Welcome to a swamp like no other: bickering toads, overbearing fairies and a rather gentle swamp monster. Using mind-blowing shadow puppetry, acclaimed Canadian performer Jeff Achtem brings his astonishing award-winning show about life in a swamp with a stunning, jaw dropping 3D finale. This made audiences of all ages literally scream the house down, at the 2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Yes, it's that good!

After the stonking success of Jeff Achtem’s first show, Sticks, Stones, Broken Bones which stormed the UK in 2010, comes the dazzling new show SWAMP JUICE. (Some scenes may frighten under 7s).

BOYS

A new play by Ella Hickson

Wed 30 May – Sat 16 Jun, 7.15pm

Press Night: Thu 31 May, 7.15pm

Soho Main House

Tickets: £10 - £20

A HEADLONG, HIGHTIDE FESTIVAL THEATRE AND NUFFIELD THEATRE SOUTHAMPTON PRODUCTION

What would you do if the look in some old guy’s face told you that being young was as good as it ever gets?

Headlong present the London debut of Ella Hickson’s new play, BOYS, following its premiere at HighTide Festival 2012 and performances at the Nuffield Theatre Southampton. BOYS is directed by Headlong's Associate Director Robert Icke.

It's finals day for the Class of 2011. Benny, Mack, Timp and Cam are due out of their five bedroom flat tomorrow morning; five bedrooms, five chairs, four boys - and one hell of a party. Stepping into a world that doesn’t want them, these boys start to wonder whether there's any point in getting any older. How will they find the fight to make it as adults? Tonight marks the end of an era. It’s hot. And there’ll be girls. Predict a riot.

Ella Hickson is an outstanding new writing talent whose play ’Gift’ was part of Headlong’s ground-breaking 9/11 project, ‘Decade’ in September 2011. Hickson burst onto the theatre scene in 2008 with her debut play Eight, which won a Fringe First, The Carol Tambor ‘Best of Edinburgh’ Award and was nominated for an Evening Standard Award. Eight went on to tour in New York and at London’s Trafalgar Studios and is now regularly performed both here and abroad. Since Eight, Hickson’s other plays include Precious Little Talent (Trafalgar Studios), Soup (Traverse Theatre) and Hot Mess (Latitude Festival and The Arcola tent).

UTOPIA

Wed 20 Jun – Sat 14 Jul, 7.30pm

Press Night: TBC

Soho Main House

Tickets: £10 - £20

A SOHO THEATRE & LIVE THEATRE CO-PRODUCTION

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...

Soho Theatre and Live 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.

Audiences will be able to follow every step in the creative creation of UTOPIA starting from March 2012 with the announcement of the commissioned writers, actors and creative team.

UTOPIA will open at Live Theatre on Thursday 31 May running until Saturday 16 June; these dates will go on sale with their new season in March 2012.

JERMYN STREET STUDIO THEATRE

16b Jermyn Street

(off Lower Regent Street)

BOX OFFICE: 020 7287 2875

www.jermynstreettheatre.co.uk

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