Lost & Found by Nick Palmer • 23 – 25 November 2011

"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps…"

What if Shakespeare's missing follow-up to Love's Labours Lost turned up in the Lost Property Office of the London Underground?

What if Shakespeare's missing follow-up to Love's Labours Lost was the Lost Property Office of the London Underground?…

LUTheatre's 2011/12 Shakespeare Season kicks off with with this re-imagining of one of the most intriguing problems of scholarship…

Dates:
Wednesday, 23 November 2011, 7.30 pm
Thursday, 24 November 2011, 7.30 pm
Friday, 25 November 2011, 7.30 pm

Venue:
The Queen's Hall [02 Academy 2], Percy Gee Building

Tickets [available on the door]
£7 – general public; £5 – students and concessions; £4 – LUTheatre members

A Night at the Musicals • 30 Nov, 1 & 2 December 2011

Sometimes the brightest star to shine is friendship.

Six university students are home for Christmas; with the alcohol and the memories flowing, revelations and celebrations are soon to follow. Before they realise, they'll be breaking into song...

With songs from all your favourite musicals and script by LUTheatre's very own Emma Ingleton and Sara Slack, come along and enjoy a cabaret style evening.

Dates & Venue:
Wednesday, 30th November, 7.30
Thursday, 1st December 7.30pm
Friday, 2nd December 7.30pm

Venue:
The Square, Percy Gee Building

Tickets [available on the door]
£8 – general public; £5 – students and concessions; £4 – LUTheatre members

Measure for Measure • 8 – 10 December 2011

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall…

Vice and depravity are rife in the city of Vienna. Duke Vincentio resolves to appoint the virtuous Lord Angelo as his deputy. But Angelo's moral crusade goes awry when he makes an example of young Claudio – and Claudio's sister, a novice nun, pleads for her brother's life. The bargain Angelo offers thows Isabella into turmoil.

Will Isabella trade her virtue for her brother's life?
Does the meddlesome Duke have an ulterior motive?
Will Angelo succumb to temptation?

Dates:
Thursday, 8th December, 7.00
Friday, 9th December 7.00pm
Saturday, 10th December 7.00pm

Venue:
The Queen's Hall [02 Academy 2], Percy Gee Building

Tickets [available on the door]
£8 – general public; £5 – students and concessions; £4 – LUTheatre members

Spring Season 2012

The Importance of Being Earnest • 8 – 10 March 2012

When everyone loves Ernest, who is earnestly in love ?

LUTheatre brings you a classic comedy that teaches the importance of being romantic, the importance of being faithful and the importance of being earnest.

All is not as it seems, as these perfect manners and ideal romances are revealed to be a little on the Wilde side. As the number of mistaken identities increase, it will leave hats left askew and tea cups shaken with laughter. In a brilliant exposé of social follies it is made clear that there are a few too few Ernests earnestly courting.

Dates:
Thursday, 8th March, 7.00pm
Friday, 9th March 7.00pm
Saturday, 10th March 7.00pm

Venue:
The Queen's Hall [02 Academy 2], Percy Gee Building

Tickets [available on the door]
£9 – general public; £6 – students and concessions; £4 – LUTheatre members

Stand Up & Jump by James Staynings • 14 - 19 March 2012

"It's about time I started living on the edge…".
"Yeah… it's the only place where I feel safe…"

Jack is a third year Chemistry student who has everything going for him.
His sister, Ripley, a first year geologist, is ready to quit. Tension is rife amongst the family, as their 'disowned' brother, Danny, is returning home for Easter. However, this tension is destroyed in the worst way imaginable.

Only a day before Danny's scheduled return, the whole family reunites for the first time in eight years when Danny tries to kill himself, and their reunion occurs around his unconscious body in a hospital in London.

Questions are asked not only about why he did it, or what became of the boy in theis hospital bed. Tragedy looks inward for answers: how you see the world, how you look at yourself.

Dates:
Wednesday, 14th March 2012
Thursday, 15th March 2012
Friday, 16th March 2012

Venue:
The ARC, Percy Gee Building

Tickets [available on the door]
£7 – general public; £5 – students and concessions; £4 – LUTheatre members

Romeo and Juliet • 21 – 23 March 2012

 

LUTheatre teams together with De Montfort University to perform this classic Shakespearean tragedy.

This is a tale of romance, fate and rivalry will take an interesting dynamic with the relationship between the two universities.

A plague on both your houses!

Dates:
Wednesday, 21st March 2012
Thursday, 22nd March 2012
Friday, 23rd March 2012

Venue:
The Queen's Hall [02 Academy 2], Percy Gee Building

Tickets [available on the door]
£8 – general public; £5– students and concessions; £4 – LUTheatre members