- January–February 2013
- June 2012
Are you dreading summer exams? Worried about the economy? Fed up with the collective speech impediments of the shadow cabinet? Then why not come along to an evening of musical comedy and political satire with Ed Clarke? A regular on the London circuit, Ed has performed for celebrities and a host of foreign dignitaries. Ed is in the Larkum Studio for four nights on the second stop of his 2012 'Giving Ed' tour.
- February 2012
Ava and Daniel lead separate lives in Liverpool. Both facing difficult decisions, for once they each find someone that listens.
Moments is the story of how a few chance encounters can impact on the rest of our lives. A play about the comfort of strangers, what we’re willing to share and what we keep to ourselves.
‘Do you really need to know someone to tell them your story?’
- November 2010
One actor. Two stories. Twenty characters.
Based on the public readings of Charles Dickens, 'Pickwick & Nickleby' promises a night of absolute insanity with a sound literary basis. First enter the nineteenth-century courtroom for a gripping case of thwarted marriage, scorned passion and the sordid truth about warming-pans. Pickwick stands trial, Buzfuz gets contentious and the Judge is deadly drunk. Then it's off to darkest Yorkshire for a class with Wackford Squeers. Deduce the regional spelling for 'window' or he'll take the skin off your back... As though spearheading some crazed Victorian séance, one desperate actor will resort to every trick imaginable to lure Dickens's ghost to the stage.
Come bask in the humour, horror and boundless heart of England's greatest comic writer. It's the character actor's audition from hell, and you'd be mad to miss it.
You can follow the production's progress online at www.pickwickandnickleby.blogspot.com.
- February 2010
Behold! A COMPLETELY SILENT SWASHBUCKLING PIRATICAL ADVENTURE, live! Never has such a thing been attempted by humankind! Based on the lives real pirates, and brimming (brimming!) with the deafening howl of silent gales, the tempting jingle of silent treasure, the deafening roar of silent explosions, the pitiful cries of silent maidens, the erotic singing of silent mermaids, the boom of silent canonfire, rumbunctious silent drinking songs, silent bravado, silent love, silent rivalry, silent swordplay, silent dead people, silent hats, silent weevils in silent biscuits, really cool silent facial hair and the clamour of silent battles, this unique, mighty, rollicking, almost dangerously exciting once in a lifetime piece of insane theatrical daring is coming to the Larkum Studio in real, genuine, tangible form from 10th to the 13th of February! Huzzah!
- January 2010
A tortured apprentice clockmaker, a deadly mechanical knight, and the sinister Dr Kalmenius, who some say is the devil himself. Put them all together on a cold winter’s evening and what do you get? An unstoppable story of gothic proportions.
Adapted from the novel by award-winning author Philip Pullman, this unique family show is performed in the intimate surroundings of the Larkum Studio using physical theatre and shadow puppetry to bring to life a fantastical tale of wolves, castles and forests.
But be warned: this is not a safe tale: it's twisty turny. Once you wind this story up, nothing will stop it. Tick tock, tick tock…
“This talented company is telling the story with verve and swiftness and clarity, and with the right sort of fairy-tale freshness. It’s a real pleasure to see a director trusting the story so fully and letting the events make their own impact. I hope the audience enjoys it as much as I do.” – Philip Pullman on Mutabilitie’s adaptation of ‘I Was a Rat!’
- March 2009
Churchill’s new ten-minute play, which has just finished its run at the royal court, is in Cambridge this week. Seven scenes of family life from recent Jewish and Israeli history create a powerful and human drama. PS: it’s free.
- February 2009
Martin Cranmer, self-made entrepreneur and overbearing patriarch, is dead. The family he left behind gather on the eve of his funeral. His widow Judith faces a clouded and uncertain future, his brother John must confront his true feelings for her, his three sons must find a new place within the family, and his two uncommunicative, very different daughters must face the true pain of the past they long to escape. As night stretches into morning, each one’s relationships with everyone else is questioned, and the effect the authoritarian, uncompromising father had on each of them is brutally realised. In an ambitious, intensely powerful piece of new writing, Adam Hollingworth exposes the weak foundations of supposedly unconditionally loving bonds, the damaging and reverberating effect of abuse, and the struggles which lie at the heart of family loyalty and personal liberation.
- January 1997
This show is a dummy used by Camdram for testing purposes only.
