The Folk Contraption on Southbank
Rogues’ Gallery are pleased to announce a brand new Folk Contraption for the Summer.
On May 26th we’ll be at the Speigeltent on Southbank at 3pm and 9pm: Book Here
“We wish they were doing a longer run so that the whole of London – hell, anyone who’s ever even just set foot in the capital – could see it. If you get the chance, pop down to see this gem of a show. You won’t regret it.” –Itchy City on The Folk Contraption at the Heritage Arts Company’s Vault Festival.
The Folk Contraption at the Vaults
We’ll also be at Latitude Festival later in the summer.
Take a look at the show page for more details about the show and past Rogues’ work.
The Folk Contraption
Heritage Arts Festival, 16th-19th February, Old Vic Vaults.
Rogues’ Gallery is pleased to announce The Folk Contraption as the first in a bumper crop of shows for 2012.
Gather round the storage heaters and we’ll tell you a tale…Join Rogues’ Gallery for an evening of stories, music, laughter and love as we journey through the city to find the beautiful, the black-hearted and the downright odd. The Folk Contraption is an eclectic evening of stories and music; part play, part gig and part magical mystery tour. Rouse yourself with the Troglodytes Anthem, laugh at the Saga of the Soho Nose and lament the Lady and Matty G. So grab your drink, shrug your day off at the door and join us in the secret world below…
Ideas Tap interviews Oliver Rose, Artistic Director of Rogues’ Gallery
Ideas Tap has interviewed Oliver Rose, Artistic Director of Rogues’ Gallery and director of our latest show The Boy I Love Is Up In The Gallery.
To read the interview, click here.
Oliver in rehearsals
Reviews in for both shows – check them out below!
We’ve received fantastic reviews for The Boy I Love Is Up In The Gallery and She Stoops To Conquer - check them out below!
The Boy I Love Is Up In The Gallery
“The Boy I Love Is Up In The Gallery is a most wonderful evening of entertainment, with all the charm, wit and sauce of the Music Halls… the actors’ real talent, like the light bulbs dangling above them, well and truly shines.”
British Theatre Guide – read the full review here.
She Stoops To Conquer
“This was a laugh-out-loud affair from beginning to end. Highly recommended”
Live at your Local – read the full review here.
“Oliver Goldsmiths’s She Stoops To Conquer is brought to life by Matthew Evans, this year’s JMK Award winner, with precision and a genuine love of farce”
Diana Damien – read the full review here.
“Replete with music and more lovely details than I can list, this double bill left me laughing and singing and thinking well into the night”.
A Younger Theatre – read the full review here.
To book your tickets, click here
Check out the latest pictures from Rogues’ Gallery!
Set your sights on these brand spanking new pictures from Rogues’ Gallery’s latest fantastic double bill at Hoxton Hall: She Stoops To Conquer and The Boy I Love Is Up In The Gallery.
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To see pictures for She Stoops To Conquer, click here.
To see pictures for The Boy I Love Is Up In The Gallery, click here.
To book tickets for either show, click here.
The Boy I Love special guests announced!
Every performance of The Boy I Love Is up In The Gallery will have a special guest performer as part of the show and we’re very excited to announce our latest performers!
For a full list, click here, or check out a few highlights below:
AJ James – 13th October
AJ James is a speciality act blending acrobatic stunts, stand up and audience participation.
“One of the best all round cabaret acts currently working the circuit.”
Catia, Magic Night Cabaret, Madam Jo Jo’s, Soho
Beau Burlington – 14th October
A trained clown and dancer, Beau Burlington describes her performances as ‘Bouffon Burlesque.’ An innovative and skilled rising star, Beau’s live performances seep with energy and entertainment, making them exciting, delightful and unmissable.
“Fabulous”
Mika
Myra Dubois - 15th October
A boozy club singer from the North of England, Myra takes her audiences right up to the edge (Of what? She isn’t quite sure); flipping between rants, anecdotes and songs in her trademark caustic style. Be it singing anything from Rage Against the Machine to Britney Spears to Musical Theatre (and sometimes all at once) or ‘effortlessly dispensing wit’ in the role of hostess, she makes it her personal mission that YOU have a good time. Which is nice of her.
“Challenging the out-moded nature of end-of-the-pier-drag, DuBois is drag at it’s most progressive.”
***** WhatsOnStage
Dusty Limits - 24th October
Dusty Limits – also known as Dorian Black – is a singer, comedian and compere and one of the leading performers on the New Cabaret scene. With his three-octave vocal range he has surprised and delighted audiences from London to Dublin, New York to Berlin. He sings everything from Cole Porter to Portishead, often with the words changed, as well as his own original songs, usually with darkly comic themes.
“One of the form’s very best”
Time Out London
Christian Lee – 25th October
Christian Lee is a talented and award winning comedian/magician, wowing audiences with a unique and diverse style that made him a finalist of the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year and winner of the BBC 1′s Slammer.
“The King of Comedy Magic”
Time Out
For a full list of acts and dates, click here.
To book tickets, click here
Ticket offer – dinner and a show for just £30!
We’ve teamed up with Bacchus Pub and Kitchen (bang opposite Hoxton Hall) to offer you an exclusive meal-deal ticket offer:
See either She Stoops To Conquer or The Boy I Love Is Up In The Gallery and enjoy a 2 course meal at Bacchus Pub and Kitchen all for just £30!
To book for She Stoops To Conquer, click here.
To book for The Boy I Love Is Up In The Gallery, click here.
For more about Bacchus and their mouth-watering menu, click here.
Rehearsal room update from Oliver Rose, Director of The Boy I Love Is Up In The Gallery
So we’re now two weeks in to The Boy I Love Is Up In the Gallery. As I write Sitembu Goro is working away on the script turning the last two weeks of inspiring, exhausting, hilarious work into a fully rounded script. The cast have gelled magnificently and we’re on course for a totally unique evening of theatre.
She Stoops to Conquer is also going well. I hear from Matthew Evans, the show’s director, that they’ve had a equally productive fortnight. All I can hear from the rehearsal rooms upstairs is music, laughter and the sound of good theatre being made (yes, it does have a specific sound.) The cast are buzzing about the show during breaks as well.
Tickets are now on sale so it would be great if you could make it along to see one or both of the shows. I think they’re going to be a great pair, with some interesting contrasts between the two, not least in the different ways which our amazing designer Amy Cook has come up with us to play with Hoxton Hall’s beautiful theatre. Keep looking back for new updates over the next fortnight before the show opens as cast and crew alike will be blogging about our progress.
To book tickets for either show, click here.
Silent Screens
Come and celebrate the roaring Twenties with Silent Screens, for our first fundraiser – a night of DJs, films, bands and 1920s frivolity!
THE NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE – a fantastic duo featuring Johnny Kenton
from Gold Future Joy Machine
WOMAN’S HOUR – www.myspace.com/womanshour
EAST END CABARET – www.eastendcabaret.com
and beat-boxing from MAX MACKINTOSH
featuring DJ sets from DYLAN and JINKSY AND FRIENDS
Tickets only £5, period dress is encouraged.
So come on you Dapper Dans and Flapper Girls – put on your glad rags and come dance the night away.
