“Who is on trial in this case? Karen Andre?
No! It’s you, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, who are here on trial.”

A smash hit on Broadway in the 1930s, Night of January 16^th takes the form of a New York courtroom drama, a murder trial, in which members of the audience become the Jury and decide the verdict. Through snappy dialogue, cut-throat cross-examinations and diverse characters, the story unravels in thriller-style, with plenty of wit, suspense and surprise.

New York’s top attorneys battle it out, with bankers, gangsters and two determined women, to get to the truth behind the mysterious death of Bjorn Faulkner, an international tycoon who held a whip over the financial world. As we learn about the dead man, the witnesses and what happened on the Night of January 16th, it becomes clear that it is not the man or his mistress who are on trial, but the audience themselves.

This is the inaugural production of the newly-formed, audience-centred Half Door Theatre company, and it will be the first London revival of Ayn Rand’s revised and authorised script.

Ayn Rand (1905-1982) has had an undeniable and contentious impact on the literary, philosophical, economic and political history of the 20th century. Most notably, her values have influenced Alan Greenspan, the American economist and ex Chairman of the US Federal Reserve. As a writer, she is most famous for her best-selling and controversial novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and for developing a philosophical system called Objectivism.

Performance Dates:
31st January – 25th February 2012
Tueday to Saturday 7.30pm,
Sunday 6pm

Tickets: £14 (£10 Conc.)
Box Office: 020 7793 9193
 

Ondine is strange, my lord. You saw her tonight in the storm. It’s not that she’s in the storm. She is the storm.

When Hans and Ondine meet, the worlds of a mortal man and a magical creature of the water dangerously collide and Ondine is forced to make an inexorable pact, which will change both their lives forever. Should he betray her, he must die and, along with her time on earth, be erased completely from her memory for her to return to the world of the lake forever.

By turns comic, enchanting, and tragic, Ondine is believed to have been Giraudoux’s finest work. Written in 1938, the play was adapted in 1954 by Maurice Valency, and opened on Broadway in a production by Alfred Lunt with a cast that included Audrey Hepburn as Ondine, the role that made her a star. Ondine won the 1954 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play. The London premiere of Ondine was presented by The Royal Shakespeare Company and directed by Peter Hall in 1961. The White Bear and Lost in the Dark present this enduring magical tale of tragic love in an exciting new production directed by Cat Robey.

Performance Dates:
28th February - 19th March, 2012.

Monday – Saturday at 7.30pm,
Sundays at 6.00pm

Tickets: £13 (£10 Conc.)
Box Office: 020 7793 9193
 

M Productions and Fragile Force
present a double bill
Critical Chance & Surgery and Cigarettes

After a successful evening at the Etcetera Theatre, Camden, Fragile Force and MProductions passion for presenting entertaining and exciting theatre together, in a joint venture to be performed at the White Bear Theatre in Kennington.

Critical Chance

I read a hundred stories of crime and violence suspected to be linked to organised crime. Some really interested me. The ones caused by something quite imperceptible but something that kick starts into motion a series of events. A domino effect if you like, with each domino falling harder and harder. And every time they fall the reverberations become more and more pronounced.
Everything in this universe started from something smaller than itself. There is nothing minor that doesn't have the potential to become major.
Mark and Chris are twenty-something travellers, collecting, amongst other things, a lifetime of memories and stories to be told. This is a story of chance and the way that it weaves its way around our lives creating a tapestry that may appear improbable but still quite evidently possible.
This piece was first performed at the Accidental Festival in the Roundhouse in May 2011 and later at the Etcetera Theatre, Camden.

Surgery and Cigarettes

In a series of comedic twists and turns, Surgery and Cigarettes follows a man being operated on by his surgeon best friend. Unbeknownst to the patient (before its too late), his friend has planned to keep him awake from the head up so that they can have a catch up.
The comedy was devised by Fragile Force Theatre and is returning to the public eye after its first performance in October 2011 at the Etcetera Theatre, Camden.

Fragile Force was formed in 2010 by Alister Austin and Mike Burton, who are both students of the Collaborative and Devised Acting Course at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

MProductions are a resident company of Trestle Arts Base, St Albans, founded in the summer of 2008 with the aim of creating productions by young people with fresh and innovative approaches to theatre. Music is at the heart of the company and its influence is always key feature in the many productions we produce. It is also in our interest to work with external collaborators to produce pieces for other companies and gain experience in order to develop as a group of emerging theatre practitioners. <

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Performance Date:
Monday 13th February at 7.30pm

Tickets: £8 (£6 Conc.)
Box Office: 020 7793 9193