New Diorama Theatre are today announce their 2017/18 season. Following a year which saw NDT win The Stage’s Fringe Theatre of the Year Award 2017 and the 2016 Peter Brook Empty Space Award, this season is our best yet – full of premieres of new work from the UK’s most exciting companies.
Highlights of the season include:
Kicking Us Off
The season opens with The Pretend Men following their first multi-award-winning smash hit-show with the sequel Police Cops In Space in a double bill with Emergency Chorus, fresh from selling-out INCOMING Festival and winning awards at National Student Drama Festival with their Sunday Times Playwrighting Award-winning show Celebration.
In-House Production
New Diorama will transfer our new in-house production Secret Life of Humans back from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Inspired by the international best-seller, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, the show will run for four weeks at New Diorama before transferring to Greenwich Theatre. The production is written and directed by New Diorama Artistic & Executive Producer David Byrne, and co-directed with Kate Stanley.
Brand New Supported Shows
Our new season features many brand new shows from some of the UK’s most exciting theatre companies. Multi-award-winning Kandinsky return with a new show Trap Street, directed by Complicite Associate James Yeatman, focusing on urban planning and the dreams behind inner-city council estates. Last season Kandinsky’s work sold out so quickly that we’re also bringing their hit show Still Ill back for a limited two week run.
Following hit shows The Beanfield and Tank, total theatre award-winners Breach Theatre are delving into the world of emergency preparedness scenarios with the The Drill, co-commissioned with New Diorama, BAC, Bike Shed and HOME.
Lost Watch return to New Diorama with a new social work inspired show Left My Desk, which premieres at NDT in May, 2018. This season will also see Lost Watch joining New Diorama as one of our four NDT Associate Ensembles.
ND2
As a special addition this season, New Diorama will be hosting several large scale events and productions in ND2, our new rehearsal and development space – located just next door to the theatre at Regent’s Place.
The first ND2 production will be a brand new production of Mike Bartlett’s Contractions, presented by Deafinitely Theatre, in co-production with New Diorama. Performed in the shadows of a deserted trading floor, this new production will be Deafinitely Theatre’s first site specific piece.
The second will be an immersive show presented by Gruff Theatre, most recently seen presenting Caryl Churchill’s The Striker as part of the Styx 90’s season. It Made Me Consider Me will focus on history, memory and forgetting.
Transfers
Throughout the season we’re transferring some of the most successful productions of the last year to New Diorama.
Straight from its Off-Broadway success, Bucket Club’s Fossils will run at NDT for two weeks this Autumn. Having sold-out and won prizes at Vault Festival, Smoke and Oakum’s brilliant Kings transfers to NDT for a three week run.
Thirty Christmases will run throughout December, transferring from the Oxford Fire Station where it successfully ran throughout Christmas 2016. Written by Jonny Donahoe (Every Brilliant Thing) and with songs from Jonny and the Baptists, the show stars Jonny himself, Paddy Gervers and Chortle Award nominee Rachel Parris.
Barrel Organ’s Lulu Raczka & Ali Pidsley’s production A Girl in a School Uniform (Walks into a Bar) receives its London premiere at NDT, in co-production with West Yorkshire Playhouse.
And One Last Thing…
New Diorama has a strong commitment and reputation for access. We will be hosting a record number of captioned and relaxed performances across our 2017/18 season – ensuring this collection of exciting and unmissable work from the UK’s most exciting theatre makers is accessible for everyone.
SHOWS, DATES & TIMES :: September 2017 – July 2018
POLICE COPS IN SPACE – The Pretend Men
Thur 7 – Sat 16 Sept 2017 (no performances Sunday & Monday)
20:30
TICKETS
£10; £8 concessions
CELEBRATION – Emergency Chorus
Thur 7 – Sat 9 Sept 2017
19:00
TICKETS
£12.50; £10.50 concessions
TESTOSTERONE – Rhum & Clay
Tue 12 – Sat 16 Sept 2017
19:00
TICKETS
£15; £12.50 concessions
FOSSILS – Bucket Club
Tue 19 – Sat 30 Sept 2017 (not Sundays & Mondays)
19:30
TICKETS
£13; £11 concessions
KINGS – Smoke & Oakum
Tue 3 – Sat 21 Oct 2017 (not Sundays & Mondays)
19:30
TICKETS
£15.50; £13.50 concessions
SPARE TYRE TAKEOVER WEEK – Spare Tyre
Tue 31 Oct – Sat 4 Nov 2017
Times vary – full schedule to be announced in September 2017
TICKETS
TBC
CONTRACTIONS – Deafinitely Theatre
Location: ND2
Wed 1 – Wed 29 Nov 2017 (not Sundays & Mondays)
20:00
TICKETS
£12.50 previews 1 – 7 Nov
£14.50; £12.50 concessions 8 – 29 Nov
ALL IN – Atresbandes
Tue 7 – Sat 11 Nov 2017
19:30
TICKETS
£12.50; £10.50 concessions
THIRTY CHRISTMASES – Supporting Wall
Mon 4 – Sat 23 Dec 2017 (no performances Wednesdays or Sundays)
19:30
TICKETS
£10.50 previews 4 – 7 Dec
£14; £10 concessions 8 – 23 Dec
£15; £13 concessions Fri & Sat evenings
MISTERO BUFFO – Rhum & Clay
Tue 9 – Sat 13 Jan 2018
19:30
TICKETS
£15; £12.50 concessions
STILL ILL – Kandinsky
Tue 16 – Sat 27 Jan 2018 (not Sundays & Mondays)
19:30
TICKETS
£15; £12 concessions
IT MADE ME CONSIDER ME – GRUFF Theatre
Location: ND2
Wed 24 Jan – Wed 21 Feb 2018 (not Sundays & Mondays)
20:00
TICKETS
£10 previews 24– 26 Jan
£15; £12 concessions
A GIRL IN A SCHOOL UNIFORM (WALKS INTO A BAR) – Ali Pidsley
Tue 30 Jan – Sat 17 Feb 2018 (not Sundays & Mondays)
19:30
TICKETS
£12.50; £10.50 concessions
INVISIBLE WOMEN MINI-FEST – Spare Tyre
Tue 20 – Sat 24 Feb 2018
Times vary – full schedule to be announced in September 2017
TICKETS
TBC
THE BOLD KNIGHTS OF BRITAIN – Silent Uproar Productions
Tue 27 Feb – Sat 3 March 2018
19:30
TICKETS
£12.50; £10.50 concessions
TRAP STREET – Kandinsky
Tue 6 – Sat 31 March 2018 (not Sundays & Mondays)
19:30
TICKETS
£15; £12 concessions
SECRET LIFE OF HUMANS – New Diorama Theatre
Tue 10 April – Sat 5 May 2018 (not Sundays & Mondays)
19:30
TICKETS
£15; £13.50 concessions
ENGINE BRAKE – Plasticine Men
Tue 8 – Sat 12 May 2018
19:30
TICKETS
£12; £10 concessions
THE DRILL – Breach Theatre
Tue 15 May – Sat 25 May 2018 (not Sundays & Mondays)
19:30
TICKETS
£12.50; £10.50 concessions
LEFT MY DESK – Lostwatch Theatre
Tue 29 May – Sat 16 June 2018 (not Sundays & Mondays)
19:30
TICKETS
£12; £10 concessions
INCOMING FESTIVAL 2018 – New Diorama Theatre & A Younger Theatre
Mon 25 June – Wed 4 July 2018
Performances @ 19:00 & 20:30 daily
TICKETS
£5
STAGETEXT CAPTIONED PERFORMANCES
Thursday 14 September TESTOSTERONE @ 19:00 // POLICE COPS IN SPACE @ 20:30
Thursday 28 September FOSSILS @ 19:30
Thursday 19 September KINGS @ 19:30
Friday 10 November ALL IN @ 19:30
Thursday 21 December THIRTY CHRISTMASES @ 19:30
Thursday 25 January STILL ILL @ 19:30
Thursday 15 February A GIRL IN SCHOOL UNIFORM (WALKS INTO A BAR) @ 19:30
Thursday 1 March BOLD KNIGHTS OF BRITAIN @ 19:30
Thursday 29 March TRAP STREET @ 19:30
Wednesday 2 May SECRET LIFE OF HUMANS @ 19:30
Thursday 14 May LEFT MY DESK @ 19:30
Thursday 24 May THE DRILL @ 19:30
RELAXED PERFORMANCES
Wednesday 13 September TESTOSTERONE @ 19:00 // POLICE COPS IN SPACE @ 20:30
Wednesday 27 September FOSSILS @ 19:30
Wednesday 18 October KINGS @ 19:30
Thursday 9 November ALL IN @ 19:30
Thursday 14 December THIRTY CHRISTMASES @ 19:30
Wednesday 28 March TRAP STREET @ 19:30
Thursday 26 April SECRET LIFE OF HUMANS @ 19:30
Thursday 7 June LEFT MY DESK @ 19:30
