FREE

Wednesdays- 5-7pm  Ages 13+

Thursday- 4-5.30pm-  Ages 8-12 years

Fridays- 4.30-6pm  Ages 4-12 years 

My Brother the Robot

Once upon a time in the future…

… there will be a little girl called Bobbie. Bobbie will live with her inventor dad in a house filled with technology. Bobbie and her dad will have everything they need – until one day, Bobbie announces that she’s lonely and she wishes she had a little brother.

So Bobbie’s dad locks himself away in his lab and works day and night to create a special present for Bobbie… a robot little brother. Bobbie loves her new little brother, and tells him all about how the world works. But when Bobbie gets into danger one day, will her robot brother save her?

Tall Stories (the company that brought you The Gruffalo, Twinkle Twonkle and The Snail and the Whale) presents its brand new show, combining humour, music and storytelling for everyone aged 4 up.

Times, Prices and Booking

Saturday 16^th March at 1.30pm (extra show!) & Sunday 17^th March at 11.30am & 3pm. £8

3pm show Sold Out online, but we’ve got a few left over the phone so give us a call on 0207 352 1967

The Bridge

Set in London, ‘The Bridge’ tells the story of Lucien, a lonely city rat who watches the pigeons from under Waterloo Bridge and wishes he could join them in the sky. One day he spots the most beautiful pigeon and follows her into the lights of the big city…

Combining puppetry and projection to tell the story, The Bridge is a poignant and poetic tale from exciting new company Page One, who aim to inspire children and adults alike.

www.pageonetheatre.com

Times, Prices and Booking

Sunday 7^th  April, 11.30am & 3pm, £8

Wednesdays Mar–Jun 7.30pm | £5

Chelsea Theatre has gathered some of the most interesting names
in contemporary performance for a series of lectures all about hopes,
dreams and predictions for future practice, and for the future itself.

13 Mar // Franko B

“I’m essentially a painter who also works in performance. I come from a visual art background and not “live art” or theatre, and this is very important to me as it informs the way my work is read.

27 Mar // Mem Morrison

Interested as exploring performance as a healing process and as finding a voice, Mem has been making highly personal work since 1995. 

3 Apr // Lois Weaver

Lecturer, performance artist, director, activist and writer of RUFF in our SACRED season

10 Apr // Rajni Shah

Rajni has been making performance work in public spaces and theatres since 1999. Her work has always made a stand for the quiet, the uncertain, and the reflective. In this talk, she explores what it means to close a chapter, to widen one’s gaze, and to move into the open space ahead.

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17 Apr // Ernst Fischer

Brought up in Munich studying chemistry, Ernst’s work as a gay man and a foreigner in this country is concerned with issues of belonging, domesticity and homliness over three decades.  

24 Apr // Kazuko Hohki

Founder member of the Frank Chickens, Kazuko is an artist, signer, animator, writer, director, performer and storyteller. Ohdoh was commissioned by Chelsea Theatre and presented along the Kings Road in 2007.

8 May // Marisa Carnesky

A modern show-woman, theatrical artiste, director and producer of grand spectacles, including Carnesky’s Ghost Train.

22 May // Karen Christopher

Associate Artist of Chelsea Theatre, long time member of Goat Island performance group, Karen now leads Haranczak/Navarre Performance Projects. She’s listening for the unnoticed, the almost invisible, and the very quiet. 

5 Jun // John McGrath

Founding artistic director of National Theatre Wales, from 1999-2008 John was artistic director of Contact Manchester and has worked as a director in New York and London.

19 Jun // Robin Deacon
Artist, writer and film-maker, currently based in the USA. Much of his work encompassed live performance with lectures that have explored journalistic and documentary practice with a humorous and often satirical approach.

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Inward Out

Guy Dartnell

An experimental participatory event offering two different yet similar experiences. Come and sit, lie, relax in the company of others, in stillness and silence. Contemplate your inner world or witness the “spectacle” of others around you. Or do both. Are they distinct? Is this a non-event or is something ‘creative’ taking place?

Guy Dartnell is an international award winning solo and collaborative artist and filmmaker. He had made five solo shows, and instigated various interdisciplinary research and participatory projects. He is also a long time collaborator with Improbable, Lone Twin Theatre and Heart n Soul.
Inward Out is produced by Dance4
Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

16th February, 18:00-21.00

Running time: The event is durational, lasting up to 3 hours. The audience-participators can stay as long or as little as they like and leave and re-enter as at will.

£5

CLARE SUMMERSKILL presents

‘Well That Explains It!’ 

It’s a one night stand you’ll never forget!

Let’s talk about Sex! Sexual Orientation! Being single, being married, being Gay, Bi, Lesbian, Queer, Straight and those who just see themselves as a little bit on the wonky side…

Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about all these matters but were too afraid to ask …in case someone gave you a funny look!

All is finally explained and revealed by lesbian actress/singer/stand-up, CLARE SUMMERSKILL who in this new show will take you through a fast-moving, song-singing, side-splitting, costume-changing evening of comedy and music.

“One of the funniest women in the country.” What’s On.

“A lesbian Victoria Wood!” Radio 4 Womans’ Hour.

“After last night’s performance by Clare Summerskill my throat’s raw from laughing!” Gingerbeer

As seen on Richard and Judy! C4

DATES, TIMES AND PRICES

16th-21st April 2013

7.30pm (Tuesday 16th, Thursday 18th, Friday 19th and Saturday 20th April) with 4.00pm matinee (Sunday 21st April)

Price £14/£10(cons)

Consumed

Sex, money and the world wide web

2103.  After more than 20 years in the US, Tong Zheng returns from to Shanghai with money on his mind.  But the China he finds is very different from the one he left behind.

A strange love story in a virtual world.

Border Crossings tour their new multi-media production which reunites them with China’s leading contemporary theatre, Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre, following the critically-acclaimed Re-Orientations.

Powerful, witty and visually stunning, Consumed brings together technology and heartbreak in a story that is both personal and global.

‘Impressive, bold in ambition and fluid’
Guardian on Re-Orientations
‘A deeply felt, powerfully performed, beautifully staged production….’
Londonist on Re-Orientations.

www.bordercrossings.org.uk/consumed

Times & Prices

15th March 2013, 7.30pm, £10/£8

20^th May

Stacy Makishi

The Making of Bull : The True Story

The Making of Bull: The True Story is a riff on the Coen brothers’ film Fargo. Laced with Makishi’s trademark wit, this is a solo show about what’s real and what’s fake, how we invent and reinvent and find truth along the way. Disorienting and uplifting, this uncanny tale revolves around a kidnap, an unrequited love, a lost ransom and a woman frozen in the snow.

The Making of Bull: The True Story returns to Chelsea Theatre after touring to Amsterdam, New York, Slovenia, Turkey and Vienna. Produced by Artsadmin. Stacy Makishi is an Associate Artist with Artsadmin, Chelsea Theatre and New Unity.

Stacy Makishi is a transplant from Hawaii who found paradise in Dalston, London in 1994. After graduating from the University of Hawaii she worked as a stand-up comic at the Comedy Store. But when her punchlines punched back, Stacy found herself happiest when making what New Yorkers called Performance. When she eventually washed up on English shores, Stacy began to work in diverse disciplines; her present work is the result of cross-fertilization between live art, performance poetry, theatre, film and visual art. Perhaps it is hard to pigeon-hole because the work has grown out of so many genres and media. It is as complex as it is accessible; humorous as it challenging; visual as it is literate.

20^th May, 7.30pm, £12/£10

SACRED press consultant- Anna Goodman