Entries from Londonist tagged with 'peacocktheatre'
November 14, 2008
Next Saturday, Ctrl.Alt.Shift comes to the Peacock Theatre with 5 young contemporary dance companies from the UK and Africa in a new performance commissioned by Sadlers Wells, tackling the stigma surrounding HIV. Hot local talent will be represented by Blue Boy Entertainment and East London Dance. This is the culmination of a project that has seen the street dancers working with high profile mentors, inspired by Nothing To Declare - a campaign against travel......
Continue Reading "Preview: Ctrl.Alt.Shift - Dance Activism!"May 29, 2008
Fed up with this ever changing weather and longing for some summer sultriness? Well, a taste of Cuban culture, live on stage, could be just what you need. Havana Rakatan is an infectious explosion of Cuban music and dance featuring 14 hot and sexy dancers and a live band. Refresh your love of latin grown on Strictly Come Dancing and see the whole gamut from slinky rumba to vibrant cha-cha-cha performed in cool and......
Continue Reading "Win Havana Rakatan Tickets! "February 5, 2007
Theatre is a form of escape but oddly, while we like to believe our seat in the upper circle is a way out of our daily grind of office / home / office / home / office / home, sometimes we're in the theatre watching plays about... the office. Office politics. Workplace romances. Corporate backstabbing. Corporate responsibility. Corporate irresponsibility. Or we're watching, on our night out away from the kitchen sink and the push......
Continue Reading "Typo and Jump: Home and Office In Theatre This Week"February 8, 2006
Jump is a high octane display of the ancient Korean fighting art of Tae-kwon-do, jaw-dropping flips, dazzling acrobatics and sword fights… crossed with a sit-com. Let's review: martial arts plus comedy. Finally, our prayers have been answered. Jump, which opened yesterday at the Peacock Theatre, was a big hit at the Edinburgh Festival last year thanks to its "Jackie Chan meets Buster Keaton" philosophy. The premise, which could best be described as 'slight', revolves......
Continue Reading "Jump At The Peacock"November 1, 2004
The Londonist is yet to purchase Greg Dyke's "revealing memoir": Greg Dyke: inside story, but it's one of those books we may put on our Christmas list. As everyone knows Dyke was booted out of his director general's chair at the BBC this year after a little thing called the Hutton Report, and he hasn't shut up about it since. Apart from the book, there have been numerous magazine and newspaper interviews, a one-off TV......
Continue Reading "Greg Dyke Speaks"