Rift Zone

New Diorama Theatre

18 March

We meet in a void,

a mythic place

where two plates meet.

Born of an egg, I was

unwound into the cold

and left out in the street

to be discovered. You,

across the ocean, grew up

in a land of mountains;

you were bound to be

different.

Rift Zone by Night Light Theatre runs at New Diorama until 5 April

http://newdiorama.com/whats-on/rift-zone 

Analog.Ue

National Theatre
9 March

Here he is, a voice
on thin black tape,
a quiet web of long lost love,
all but forgotten but
for this delicate link of sound
between the story
and the present moment.

Daniel Kitson performs Analog.Ue at the National Theatre until 20 March
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/analogue

I Do

Hilton London Docklands Riverside
28 February

Between the rumpled sheets

and rose petals, the running

in and out with messages

and revelations,

all the secrets, sex, 

hairdryers, hats, beginnings 

and endings, it is hard to say

who is the happiest, if any.

I Do by Dante or Die runs at the Hilton London Docklands Riverside 

until 9 March. Presented by the Almeida Theatre

http://www.almeida.co.uk/event/i-do

The Mistress Contract

Royal Court
26 February

There is a glass house
in the desert where
they carve their own
contract of coupling,
and the terms
of compensation;
sit there in the dark,
drink wine, make love,
safe in the strictures
of their love evasion.


The Mistress Contract runs at the Royal Court until 22 March
http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/the-mistress-contract

Orlando

Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester

24 February 

Here are time’s whippet fingers

running on, lifting the boy
who lies beneath the bowing oak tree

casting rhymes;

he barely breathes

before she has him by the ankles,

twirling his stockings,

barely a breath or rosebud kiss

upon his lover’s cheek,

a rush of ice beneath his feet

as he sweeps down the frozen river

to the sea, before

the last few seconds of the century

usher him on, a woman now,

learning the artfulness

of her own body

and the tricks that time may yet

have up her sleeve,

tugging her bodice, pulling her up

and on, into a circle, spinning,

lamp-lit, and the stark realisation

of the present moment.

Orlando runs at the Manchester Royal Exchange until 22 March
http://www.royalexchange.co.uk/event.aspx?id=778

Ellen Terry with Eileen Atkins

Sam Wanamer Playhouse, Shakespeare's Globe
16 February

By golden candlelight

they tumble out: 

women of heart and wit;

weedy Ophelia, Viola pale,

cleverest Portia,

Beatrice strong as steel.

Ellen Terry with Eileen Atkins ran in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare's Globe from 11 January - 13 February
http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/theatre/whats-on/sam-wanamaker-playhouse/ellen-terry-with-eileen-atkins

The Robbers

New Diorama

15 February

Bandits and shoe-boozers,

burning brains and writing up

the body count.
 

 Robbers by The Faction runs at New Diorama until 22 February

http://newdiorama.com/whats-on/the-robbers