Dark, stern uniforms, bright haired TV hosts and ominous aprons – they’re all perfectly placed in the dystopia of The Empire Has Fallen, as you can see from these newly released production shots.
PHOTOS: Take a peek at the aftermath of comedy revolution in rehearsals for The Empire Has Fallen
Come the revolution, there will be lots of boxes and tiny toy soldier… certainly if rehearsals for new dystopian comedy The Empire Has Fallen is anything to go by. Check out these candid behind the scenes snaps, then book your tickets for this hilarious new play!
‘What’s the point of telling a story if it’s not exciting?’ Writer David Fenne tells us about dark dystopian comedy The Empire Has Fallen
How does a YouTube video inspire a stage production about a broken world and how important is graphic design to the continuation of humanity? David Fenne tells us all about his debut play The Empire Has Fallen.
NEWS: Umbra Theatre creates comic dystopia as The Empire Has Fallen comes to White Bear Theatre
With the real world feeling like it is constantly on the brink, the White Bear Theatre kicks off the new year with a show set in a world entirely in chaos. Umbra Theatre’s dark comedy The Empire Has Fallen, which runs at the Kennington venue from 22 to 26 January 2019, is set in a dystopia that needs rebuilding.
‘All futuristic dystopias are commentaries on the present’: #TheDivide @oldvictheatre
Alan Ayckbourn’s epic, very, very long satire on religion and sexual segregation prefers comedy to tragedy.
On Broadway: What did an American theatrical anglophile make of Lucy Kirkwood’s The Children?
American dramaphiles tend to view Britain as a hotbed of hyper-verbal and hyper-intellectual plays, especially in comparison to our home-bred musicals that often lack the same resonant depth.
Text of the Day: The Handmaid’s Tale
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
TEXT OF THE DAY: The Pitchfork Disney
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
TEXT OF THE DAY: A Clockwork Orange
.Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE – Park Theatre
Stage version of dystopian classic returns — it’s lively and fun, but also cartoon-like and unmoving.
SONGS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD – Battersea Arts Centre
Jim Walters is the first person sent to colonise Mars. But when a global apocalypse occurs, trapping him in the Earth’s orbit and running out of oxygen, he and his guitar are left to broadcast music to the devastation below. Can anyone hear him? Are there any survivors? Will he ever know?
Edinburgh Fringe: Generation Zero
A nameless couple meet online, fall in love and build a life together. Their lives are comfortably boring, with day jobs, road trips to the beach, holidays in a Yorkshire cottage and lazy weekends snuggling in bed, listening to records.
Edinburgh Fringe: Generation Zero
A nameless couple meet online, fall in love and build a life together. Their lives are comfortably boring, with day jobs, road trips to the beach, holidays in a Yorkshire cottage and lazy weekends snuggling in bed, listening to records.
CARGO – Arcola Theatre
New immersive experience tells its story of people trafficking with considerable power and imagination.
KARAGULA – Styx
Philip Ridley’s latest is an ambitious fantasy epic whose scope and majesty will blow you clean away.
Text of the Day: Escaped Alone
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
EVENING AT THE TALK HOUSE – National Theatre
Latest play by Wallace Shawn stars the playwright and is brilliantly satirical, but not much fun as an experience