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  • PULSE 2013

    PULSE Grub

    30 May 2013 - 8 June 2013

    Everything from Pie Night to Pasta Night - and just £5 to join the party. A PULSE bites menu is also available.

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  • The Bullet And The Bass Trombone

    30 May 2013

    There’s an orchestra, trapped in a city during a military coup. Violence erupts, the orchestra becomes separated – lost – trying to find their way home. The composer is left to tell the story.

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  • When I Was Old / When I Get Young

    30 May 2013

    A special community performance, where a small group of local people will step out onto the stage of the New Wolsey Theatre.

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  • Suitcase Prize Session 3

    31 May 2013

    The inaugural Suitcase Prize challenges theatre makers to think in an environmentally and economically sustainable way. The 10 participants compete to win £1,000 by presenting a 20 minute scratch which can be transported on public transport!

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  • Suitcase Prize Session 2

    31 May 2013

    The inaugural Suitcase Prize challenges theatre makers to think in an environmentally and economically sustainable way. The 10 participants compete to win £1,000 by presenting a 20 minute scratch which can be transported on public transport!

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  • Suitcase Prize Session 1

    31 May 2013

    The inaugural Suitcase Prize challenges theatre makers to think in an environmentally and economically sustainable way. The 10 participants compete to win £1,000 by presenting a 20 minute scratch which can be transported on public transport!

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  • Pulse 2013

    On The Beach

    31 May 2013

    John Osborne - star of hit show John Peel’s Shed and writer of award-winning book The Newsagent’s Window (both adapted for BBC Radio 4) - offers a new story.

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  • Scratch Session 3

    1 June 2013

    Some of today’s participants bravely present new work at an early stage of development and ask for your feedback.

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  • Scratch Session 2

    1 June 2013

    Some of today’s participants bravely present new work at an early stage of development and ask for your feedback.

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  • Scratch Session 1

    1 June 2013

    Some of today’s participants bravely present new work at an early stage of development and ask for your feedback.

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  • #TORYCORE

    1 June 2013

    Part gig, part metal-recital, part exorcism, #TORYCORE combines sludge and doom metal with the Budget speech 2013; a pounding subverbal deathgrowl with text samples from the blue suits at Tory HQ.

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  • Slap Talk

    1 June 2013

    James and Gemma are getting ready for a fight. This is the press conference.

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  • Gym Party

    1 June 2013

    A razor sharp and slightly dark show about the universal human desire to win, and win bad, from ‘hot young company" (The Guardian) Made In China.

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  • Ross Sutherland: Stand By For Tape Backup

    1 June 2013

    They say that after a break-up, every song on the radio sounds like it’s being sung just about you.

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  • The Six O’Clock News

    2 June 2013

    Collapse of the ice caps? A herd of bulls rampaging through central Ipswich? Collapse of the coalition government? (Yes please).

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  • The Girl With The Iron Claws

    2 June 2013

    Growing up isn’t easy, especially when you’re in love with a bear.

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  • Kid Carpet & The Noisy Animals

    2 June 2013

    A new rock ‘n’ roll musical for kids (and adults).

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  • Paper People

    2 June 2013

    Paper People brings you street theatre hot off the press! Based around a mobile newspaper stand, newspaper sellers use their stack of newspapers to bring to life a variety of characters and stories.

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  • The Whale

    2 June 2013

    A gentle giant made in metal which swallows audiences one (or two) at a time for an unforgettable 3 minute theatre performance.

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  • Big Story

    2 June 2013

    If you’re 5 or 6 you can leave your family downstairs in the New Wolsey Cafe Bar and come upstairs to meet the Storymaker for an amazing adventure, or an exciting escapade.

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  • Little Story

    2 June 2013

    If you’re 3 or 4 years old and love silly stories and tremendous tales then you’ve got to come and meet the Storymaker.

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  • Mess

    3 June 2013

    Josephine is putting on a play - Boris and Sistahl help. It’s about anorexia. But don’t let that put you off. Unflinchingly they confront big issues (and extremely tiny ones).

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  • I Wish I Was Lonely

    3 June 2013

    I Wish I Was Lonely is a participatory show about contactability.

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  • Major Tom

    4 June 2013

    Victoria is exploring championship dog showing with her basset hound and is participating in beauty pageants as a contestant.

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  • My Heart Is Hitchhiking Down Peachtree Street

    4 June 2013

    An intimate storytelling piece for up to 9 people at a time.

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  • We’re Only Here Today

    5 June 2013

    Two men appear at your house. What they want, who they represent, or what they’re selling is unclear, but they seem to know everything about your life, and they know how to get under your skin.

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  • Predator

    5 June 2013

    A live, interactive re-telling of the 1987 classic film, Predator.

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  • Bitch Boxer

    6 June 2013

    Meet Chloe, 21 from Leytonstone. She likes the simple things in life: cherry sambuca, hairbrush-in-the-mirror karaoke and winding her Dad up.

    Oh, and she’s a boxer.

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  • A Faultline

    6 June 2013

    Hi. Hello. I am Jessica Pam Latowicki. I am privileged to be here with you today. Later in this show I am going to run into that wall there 20 times. As fast as I can. I am going to start at the line and run.

    I am going to do my best not to put my hands up. I am going to run into that wall there 20 times because I can.

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  • The Pain of Desire

    7 June 2013

    Wendy Bevan and Temper Temper create a world of ambiguity sending a shiver to the core.

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  • Best In The World

    7 June 2013

    There is a world that can transport us from the ordinary to the extraordinary, where we are one perfect throw away from greatness, a place where we can all be champions. That world is darts.

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  • The Forest & The Field

    7 June 2013

    The Forest & The Field is a gently seductive, immersive piece of non-fiction storytelling, which asks its audience to look at themselves, and to consider what we’re all doing when we meet in a theatre space.

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  • My Stories, Your Emails

    8 June 2013

    Ursula Martinez has written some true stories. After her infamous magic striptease act Hanky Panky was illicitly posted online, some strangers started sending her unbelievable emails.

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  • Mark Thomas: Bravo Figaro

    8 June 2013

    After walking the wall in the West Bank, becoming Guinness World Record holder for political protests and chasing arms dealers around the country Mark Thomas turns his attention to matters closer to home with a show about his father.

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  • Institute

    8 June 2013

    Critically acclaimed dance theatre company Gecko return with an intimate, funny and revealing exploration of care.

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  • Now I am superlatively, actually awake

    8 June 2013

    Drawing inspiration from the remarkable story of British musicologist Clive Wearing, “Now I am superlatively, actually awake” is a looping audio performance for single audience members that explores what it means to have only moment-tomoment consciousness.

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  • Thompson’s Live

    8 June 2013

    A podcast series by Chris Goode & Company, focusing on conversation around theatre and performance, poetry and music, arts and ideas.

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  • We, Object

    8 June 2013

    Figs in Wigs have been taking objects for granted; exploiting their physical forms by placing them under the gaze of spectators.

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