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Four new Made at Curve shows announced for 2024
We have announced details of four new Made at Curve productions joining our line-up in 2024, alongside a new musical in Autumn this year.
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE - Thursday 13 - Saturday 15 June
FANTASTIC FOXES - Friday 26 July - Saturday 3 August
THE MOUNTAINTOP - Saturday 21 September - Saturday 5 October
PIRATES LOVE UNDERPANTS - Monday 2 December 2024 - Sunday 5 January 2025
SUPERYOU - Tuesday 22 October - Saturday 9 November
Our Digital Spring/Summer Highlights brochure is here!
We’re delighted to share with you our new highlights brochure, filled with an array of exciting shows! On the cover of our latest brochure is our returning Made at Curve production of A Chorus Line, and inside you'll find everything you need to know for all of our upcoming productions including our annual New Work Festival, creative opportunities and more.
NEW WORK FESTIVAL NOW ON!
Our New Work Festival - a celebration of talented artists and creativity in the Midlands - is back!
Running throughout March, the festival will include performances, showcases, support for local artists, workshops and discussions. Visit the page below to see what's on!
New Curve in Conversation Episode - Behind-the-scenes of Come From Away Rehearsals!
February's episode of Curve in Conversation is out now!
Join us as we take a step behind the curtain and enter the Come From Away rehearsals.
Featuring interviews with the cast, you do not want to miss this latest podcast!
MY FAIR LADY on sale now for Christmas 2024
We're delighted that our 2024 Made at Curve Christmas production will be Lerner and Loewe's classic musical MY FAIR LADY.
Directed by Nikolai Foster (EVITA, A CHORUS LINE, BILLY ELLIOT), the musical is set to be an enchanting and dazzling treat for all the family.
Running 23 November 2024 to 4 January 2025, tickets are on sale now. Visit the link below to book!
English Touring Opera return this April
Join us this April for a double-header of new productions from English Touring Opera!
Choose from Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress on Mon 15 Apr, or Puccini's Manon Lescaut on Tue 16 Apr, or save 10% when you book for both.
Find out more at the link below, and get a preview of Manon Lescaut in the video above.
First Fridays - New Work Festival Specials
As part of NEW WORK FESTIVAL 2024, which runs throughout March, we are offering a special selection of FIRST FRIDAYS with the wider Curve team so you can benefit from the broad range of skills we have in-house.
Each slot will be for 30 minutes on Teams.
We may not know or have the answers but we will do our best to signpost, share knowledge, listen, and offer resources where we can. We very much want to build our relationships with local artists and will endeavour to be as transparent as possible about what we can and can’t offer in those conversations.
Age recommendation: 18+
New Work Festival: How to have a Queer Career with Rikki Beadle-Blair
Break through the glass ceiling in your mind and learn how to make the most of everything about you in this fun, inspiring and practical workshop, suitable for anyone who wants to represent the LGBTQI+ community and have fun doing it.
Drop the Dead Donkey: The Reawakening!
30 years since the launch of the trailblazing, smash-hit TV series, the Globelink News team are back and now live on stage for the very first time.
Starring the original cast members Susannah Doyle, Robert Duncan, Ingrid Lacey, Neil Pearson, Jeff Rawle, Stephen Tompkinson, and Victoria Wicks, the iconic BAFTA and EMMY award-winning comedy is reimagined in this brand-new topical commentary on the cutthroat world of 24-hour news.
New Work Festival: Rotten Rapid Write Response Sharing
As part of our New Work Festival we set four writers a challenge; one week to write one short piece in response to the script of Josie White‘s brand-new comedy thriller ROTTEN.
Come and see the fruits of their labour, with world premieres of four script-in-hand performances that feature the very best of local creative talent.
CYCC Act 10 - 13: Gargantua
When Mr. and Mrs. Mungus have a baby it isn’t the bouncing blue-eyed boy they were hoping for. After a two-and-a-half-year pregnancy, Mini Mungus gives birth to a monster – one with an accelerated growth rate and an insatiable appetite for anything that moves (including joggers).
When sinister military scientists become intent on cloning an army of giant babies from the giant, he breaks his chains and escapes. The world can only watch in horror as he embarks on learning how to walk and rampant destruction.
Who will stop this monster baby, and who, more importantly, will change his nappy?
CYCC Act 10 - 13: Face - The Play
Everything is going Martin’s way. The holidays have started, he’s got a gorgeous girlfriend, and everyone agrees he’s the coolest dancer around. But when his world is turned upside down by a crash in a stolen car, he has to come to terms with more than his facial injuries.
Benjamin Zephaniah and Richard Conlon deal with issues including prejudice, drugs and disfigurement in this vibrant, gritty adaptation of Zephaniah’s bestselling novel for young people.
This is a powerful, exciting and accessible play. It contains relevant, gritty, contemporary issues and dialogue.
New Curve in Conversation Episode - Behind-the-scenes of Come From Away Rehearsals!
February's episode of Curve in Conversation is out now!
Join us as we take a step behind the curtain and enter the Come From Away rehearsals.
Featuring interviews with the cast, you do not want to miss this latest podcast!
Drop the Dead Donkey in rehearsals!
30 years since the launch of the trailblazing, smash-hit TV series, the Globelink News team are back and now live on stage for the very first time.
Starring the original cast members Susannah Doyle, Robert Duncan, Ingrid Lacey, Neil Pearson, Jeff Rawle, Stephen Tompkinson, and Victoria Wicks, the iconic BAFTA and EMMY award-winning comedy is reimagined in this brand-new topical commentary on the cutthroat world of 24-hour news. Bursting with razor-sharp wit and classic British humour, this hot off-the-press production will leave
you in stitches.
Explore our Digital Learning Resource Library
To support learning around our Made at Curve productions, we have created a number of Education Packs filled with insights and activities that everyone can enjoy.
Delve deeper into Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, A Chorus Line, The Color Purple, West Side Story and more in our resource library at the link below.
Learn with top artists in Curve Classroom
Since January, we're proud to have supported home-schooling during the third national lockdown with our educational initiative, Curve Classroom.
The free sessions cover a range of topics for all ages and are delivered by a host of leading artists including performers Molly Lynch, Garry Robson and Hareet Deol, Designers Grace Smart and Kate Unwin, Director Julia Thomas, Choreographers Arlene Phillips and Mel Knott, Writers Jess Green and Rob Ward, as well as a number of Midlands-based artists local to Curve in Leicester.
Find out more and explore the full archive here.