Thirsty

Tues 7 Feb 8.00pm

Multi award winning company The Paper Birds present their critically acclaimed, sell-out show Thirsty. Based on our nation’s love affair with alcohol, Thirsty weaves together real stories, memories and booze-based confessions, collected from a ‘drunken hotline’ and an online questionnaire. Fusing live music, verbatim text and stunning physical theatre, The Paper Birds explore the stories and social repercussions of lost memories and gained traumas, bruised knees, uncontrollable laughter, urine stained beds and sore heads, particularly focusing on the women waving the flag for 'Booze-Britain.' A dynamic theatrical exploration delving beyond statistics, facts and figures, Thirsty looks to the faces and the voices of everyone who likes a drink and asks why, as a nation, are we so thirsty? Presented in association with the University of Winchester.

"Terrifically sharp, vibrantly choreographed and sensitively paced, poignant without getting preachy,” The Independent on Sunday’s Top 5 Theatre Recommendations of The Edinburgh Fringe

Less Than Kind

Mon 12 to Sat 17 March 8.00pm, mati Wed 2.00pm and Sat 2.30pm

At once a sparkling comedy of manners and a psychosexual drama, Less Than Kind has astounded critics. An all-star cast is led by James Wilby (Maurice, A Handful of Dust, Gosford Park) and Sara Crowe (Calendar Girls, Four Weddings and a Funeral) in this recently discovered Terence Rattigan play. Here's what the critics have to say.
"A cracking good piece which combines lively comedy with Oedipal tension," Michael Billington, The Guardian
"Even the 1944 setting feels topical: a Tory government, shortages, and a schoolboy rebel denouncing capitalism," Libby Purves, The Times
"They have struck gold with a Terence Rattigan comedy not previously staged...Rattigan is good at sketching the moral ambition of the younger generation and its inevitable disillusion - the old combination of sex and money. The play certainly deserves a West End transfer," Quentin Letts, The Daily Mail

Invisible

Fri 27 Jan 8:00pm

Invisible has been Lyn Gardner's pick of the week in The Guardian Guide for two weeks in a row.

See the review here...
Guardian review

Lara left home convinced that hard work and talent would reward her with a better life. Anton was forced to leave his village and finds himself suspended 16 floors above a city cleaning windows. Malik stands on a beach and looks out towards a country where women apparently walk around half-naked. Felix, a young businessman with a pretty wife and a lucrative future, finds it difficult to get out of bed in the mornings. Amid the world of visas and wind turbines, commuter flights and nightclubs, fairy tales and tabloid press a chance meeting drives disparate lives towards a chilling point of no return…Pre-show talk Mobility in the contemporary world and immigrant identities with Dr Marilena Zaroulia and Dr Synne Behrndt from University of Winchester at CitySpace, Winchester Discovery Centre 6pm and post-show Q & A with cast and dramaturg.