Islington Community Theatre

The final bow for 2009-10

ICT — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:30:18 +0000

Our final project for the 2009-10 season has come to an end, with the EGA Oracle Project performing a short showing inspired by the idea of being a girl with puppets and some astonishingly mature and inciteful poetry.

More photos from the project here.

Listeners spotted

ICT — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:33:00 +0000

Our first outing of our new Hide and Seek interactive play, Listeners, went brilliantly today at the Pleasance's Big Day Out festival. Over 300 people played 'spot the human test escapee'.

We hope to perform it again soon.

If you were a spotter, we'll be emailing you soon to let you know if you spotted the right people.

Oracle and out

ICT — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:26:48 +0000

A great day for two of our Oracle Projects, with the IAMS Oracle visiting the Highbury Group to see their show A to B and in between at Highbury Grove School.

The two groups are really different in that a majority of the IAMS Oracle (at their end of year picnic, above) have now been with the company for two years and are moving into Year 8 so won't be part of the project any more. The newer Highbury group, meanwhile, is made up almost entirely of Year 5 students. The picture of them below shows them straight after their show to over 100 parents, friends and invited guests.

Listen up at the big day out

ICT — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:17:09 +0000

We've put together a strange little happening for the Pleasance Theatre's BIG DAY OUT on Saturday, all day at the Pleasance Theatre.

We need your help to find the Listeners.

Come and see us from 3pm to find out more.

A brand new Oracle

ICT — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:12:45 +0000

With most of the ICT office busy getting ready for the Highbury Oracle performance of A to B and in between on Thursday and Saturday, we're also delighted to announce that we'll be starting a brand new Oracle group next week at Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Language College, an all girls secondary school in Angel.

The project will be led by Effie Woods, who last worked with us on One Year On, Rochelle Rose and Esther Uwejeyah. We'll know the full title by Friday, but we know it'll focus on what it is to be a girl and will involve a promenade element.

We're really excited to be starting our third Oracle - slightly later than expected. Check back here soon for more information.

Big thanks for tiny plays

ICT — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:31:38 +0000

Huge thanks to everyone who came to see the Tangled shows on Thursday and Saturday, as well as congratulations to over 70 of our members who performed during the mini-festival.

There are photos of the performances now online in our production gallery.

Tangled starts tonight

ICT — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:46:38 +0000

Our mini festival of short, experimental new plays-in-development opens tonight at the Pleasance Theatre Islington.

Click here to read more about TANGLED.

There are still tickets available for tonight's show, please come and join us and see Islington Youth Theatre and Work in Progress's devised performances.

Both groups will be joined by the IAMS Oracle Project on Saturday's matinee performance, which starts at 12noon.

Back to Bare Bones

ICT — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:48:07 +0000

Four of our Work in Progress performers were at Bare Bones at the Old Red Lion last night, performing Time, Please by Joy Wilkinson, a play first written for our Embryonic project earlier this month.

Ehireme Omoaka, Rochelle Rose, Esther Uwejeyah and Daniel O'Keefe, who also co-directed the piece alongside Ned Glasier, performed alongside professional actors in plays by Mike Miller, Charlie Hughes D'eath and Poppy Corbett.

Time, Please is a ten minute play that imagines how falling in love would feel if we only had seconds to do it - and then if we had unlimited time. It was very well received by the audience and a great opportunity for our young people to get on stage in a professional fringe venue.

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ICT — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:42:36 +0000

One of our newest projects, the Highbury Oracle Project, will present their first ever showing of work on Thursday 8th and Saturday 10th July at Highbury Grove School.

Over the last 9 weeks, 26 young people aged 9-12 have been working with ICT's Associate Director Anne Tipton to create a brand new piece of theatre about the journeys we take and how safe we feel on them.

A to B and in between has been commissioned by Cambridge Education @ Islington to explore ideas of personal safety amongst young people in Islington and the process has included regular workshop visits to 6 Highbury Primary schools. The final piece uses movement, projection and shadow puppetry.

If you're interested in coming along to a showing, please contact us.

Tangled Mini-Festival

ICT — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:06:59 +0000

We've finally confirmed all the details for our teensy festival of new plays created by three of our young companies.

The Oracle Project, Islington Youth Theatre and Work in Progress will all be performing in TANGLED, which takes place on 1st and 3rd July at the Pleasance Theatre.

Lots more information here.