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