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Adolf, 4th February, 20:00
What made Adolf Hitler so compulsive? How could any cultured person
follow him to destruction, desolation and genocide to leave a long
deep scar on the 20th century? Created from the words of Mein
Kampf and Table Talk, Pip Utton’s amazing play
furnishes an acute anatomy of fascism; its ideological
justifications, its poisoned utopias. He takes his audience on a
journey into themselves, gently coaxing an understanding of the
mindset of a nation that could allow a man such as Hitler to take
control. This is live theatre at its best - powerful, challenging
and divisive, illustrative and educational. It is utterly
provocative and totally necessary. Everyone should experience it.
The Wind in the Willows, 7th to 9th February,
19:30
St Gabriel’s returns to Arlington Arts once again with a lively and
colourful production of that quintessentially English favourite,
The Wind in the Willows. As the action moves from
the riverbank to Toad Hall via the Wild Wood, the gaol and the
canal, we follow Toad’s adventures and disasters, supported by his
faithful friends and (almost) thwarted by the treacherous gang of
weasels and stoats. With a large cast of actors, musicians and
dancers and Alan Bennett’s wonderful script, this is a show which is
sure to delight and entertain you and send you out into the February
gloom with a smile on your face.
The Third Tunnel, 8th to 10th March, 19:45
Following the success of last year’s Scurrilous,
A Class Act return with a brand
new version of David Slade’s The Third Tunnel. The
Blitz is at full strength and half of London is sheltering in the
London Underground except for Alby, a local wise-cracking cockney,
who not only loses his clothes, his house and his flaming dignity
during an air strike, but also ends up with his backside laced like
a football after being mistaken for a looter by his neighbour’s dog
during another. Charlie and Winnie are sheltering down the tube when
they meet Connie and Alice, two of London's socialites. Can Connie
change Charlie? Is he really a conscientious objector? Ralph, a
typical East End Spiv, loves a scam and has his eye on the local
copper's wife. With the help of some London street kids he gets what
he wants but the children nearly lose their lives when everything
goes off in The Third Tunnel.
Alice in Wonderland, 15th to 17th March, 19:30
and 15:30 on Saturday
Join Alice’s madcap adventures in Wonderland as she chases the White
Rabbit, races the Dodo Bird, gets tied up with the Tweedles, raps
with the Caterpillar, and beats the Queen of Hearts at her own game!
This fast-paced stage adaptation of Alice in Wonderland features the
classic Disney songs as I’m Late, The Un-birthday Song
and Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah. A
Newbury YoungStars production.
For more details
see the Arlington Arts Centre web site at www.arlingtonarts.co.uk.