Selected World Premieres
Fresh from directing Complicite's international hit Lion Boy, James Yeatman's own company Kandinsky premiere Dog Show Hong Kong dog serial killer , Dog Show Spare Tyre premiere a brand new installation experience, The Garden people with dementia and their carers, but open to anyone who wants to find out more about the arts can improve the lives of those affected by dementia, this revolutionary new project is being brought to a public venue for the first time.
Returning to New Diorama in 2016 are internationally renowned and internationally acclaimed NDT Associate Ensemble Idle Motion , with their brand new show, The State We're In Frestonia and the residents who declared themselves, and several Notting Hill streets, independent from Great Britain, against the backdrop of political strife in 1977.
Returning Companies and Productions
The Season sees the return of our own radical stage adaptation of Orwell’s Down & Out in Paris and London Greenwich and Pleasance Theatres from a run at the Edinburgh Festivals. Written and directed by New Diorama’s Artistic & Executive Director David Byrne , this adaptation, the first in 35 years, combines Orwell’s autobiographical tale with Polly Toynbee’s 2003 book Hard Work , which saw her experience the lives of London’s working poor first hand.
NDT Associate Ensemble The Faction return in early 2016 with an ensemble of 21 actors in an ambitious and electrifying Richard III Reptember Reloaded
After their sell-out season, Engineer Theatre Collective also return with Run
New National Partnerships The Lowry and Bristol's Tobacco Factory Theatres , as well as regional producing outfits, such as Dep Arts .
Alongside these longstanding partnerships, we are thrilled to be working with Hull Truck and Newbury's Watermill Theatre for the first time, supporting their exciting emerging companies and bring these shows to London audiences.
Watermill Theatre Associates Rhum and Clay transfer their noir comedy, Hardboiled: The Fall of Sam Shadow Rhum and Clay Theatre Company and The Watermill Theatre , and is a collaboration with director Beth Flintoff .
Hull-based company, Silent Uproar , present the London premiere of police inspired Pig Hull Truck and Hull City of Culture 2017 , combines live music to explore the world either side of the thin blue line.Festivals RIFT are reimagining their sell-out Shakespeare in Shoreditch Festival Hoxton .
After a barn-storming year in 2015, New Diorama and A Younger Theatre's INCOMING Festival Peter Brook Awards , we'll be announcing the 2015 Peter Brook Festival Award shortlist shortly: a prize awarded to the company who present the best show at INCOMING Festival .
Last But Not Least... STAGETEXT , Arts Council England and the Backstage Trus t, New Diorama is delighted to announce that there will be captioned access performances throughout our entire new season . New Diorama are the only small unfunded theatre in the UK offering regular access performances to open up our shows for the benefit of those deaf, deafened, hard of hearing or for whom English is not a first language. With access performances now selling out across our season, we're overjoyed we're able to continuing making the work of our exceptional emerging theatre companies accessible for all.
