Steptoe and Son

Lyric Hammersmith

20 March

Step to it son,

spinning your song

and dance upon

this cart heavy

with scrap; dreaming

beneath the moon,

a ticking clock,

an old, chipped plate.

Pour us a drink,

stay in and let

the world spin by

the two of us;

forget the girl

who glows in your

desperate dream

of her embrace.

 

 

Steptoe and Son runs at the Lyric until 6 April

http://www.lyric.co.uk/whats-on/production/steptoe-and-son/

Little Sunshine, Little Rainfall

Tara Arts

9 March 

Quiet, the garden 

where the green-eyed frog watches
the moonlit pool,

until a red fox,

whirling his tail, stirring

the trees and breaking

branches, lands, light-pawed

and hungry, full of mischief,

asking for trouble.

Little Sunshine, Little Rainfall, by A Thousand Cranes

is on tour until 4 August

http://athousandcranes.org.uk/current-shows/little-sunshine-little-rainfall/

De Gabay

National Theatre Wales
3 March

Take this: a book, a song.

Walk with it in the cold.
Follow the crowd,
a dancing woman
and a silver-tongued

young man, leading you
into Wales, Africa.
Pass through the barrier
into the past: history

in your feet

and on your tongue.

Your story. Your song.

De Gabay was performed in Butetown,
Cardiff, on 3 March 2013
http://www.nationaltheatrewales.org/degabay

This House

National Theatre
28 February

The moon-faced clock

above counts in
and out, as they,
precarious,

cling to the edge.

Forward and back

they go, one man

one vote, alive

or hanging
by a thread;

until the pulse
of Westminster
is silenced,

and their breath

hangs in the balance.

 

This House runs at the National Theatre until 15 May

http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/this-house

A Chorus Line

The London Palladium

18 February

Hopeful and bright as birds

in finery, pointing their toes

and stretching out their necks;

see them back step and twirl,

the music unfurling like flowers

at their feet. See them unload their souls

of all the dreams and demons

driving them; of how they live

and why they love to dance.

 

A Chorus Line runs at the London Palladium

http://www.achoruslinelondon.com/?gclid=CNKvlpiwwrUCFcbKtAodNXUALQ

In The Beginning Was The End

 

Somerset House

13 February

 

Enter the web:

a gadget universe.

Traverse the corridors,

a silent guest.

Forget the world above

and lose yourself 

in this blissful but broken

prophet house. 

In The Beginning Was The End by dreamthinkspeak

runs at Somerset House until 30 March

http://www.dreamthinkspeak.com/in-the-beginning-was-the-end.htm 

Prophecy

Blackall Studios

14 February

These are the children, old before their time,

who eyeball prophecy and smirk at fame;

ahead are crowns and ships and bloody war,

but now they scratch in sticky-fingered game.

 

Prophecy by BAZ Productions runs at Blackall Studios until 2 March

http://www.bazproductions.co.uk/productions.html