Best of BE FESTIVAL Barbican Centre
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Best of BE FESTIVAL

BE Festival is an annual celebration of boundary pushing international work within theatre, dance, comedy, circus, music, visual and performing arts. ...
BU21 Theatre503
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BU21

BU21 imagines the possibility of a major terrorist attack in London. Terrorists acquire a surface-to-air missile, and from a discrete location in Vaux...
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Wail

Wail is a product of the Big Ideas project, run by Nuffield Theatre - which pairs artists with academics in the hope of nurturing creative responses t...
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People, Places, Things

The experimental psychiatrist R.D. Laing once argued that what is widely regarded as mental illness is in fact a rational response to an irrational si...
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The Truth

Alice and Michel are having an affair. Their respective partners, Paul and Laurence, are also having an affair - although it is not until the final mi...
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I See You

Ben is a nineteen-year-old university student living in South Africa. Born after the Apartheid and having lived abroad for several years, he has “norm...
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Correspondence

It’s 2011 - a young man has just immolated himself in Tunisia and the Arab Spring is kicking off across the Middle East. Meanwhile in Stockport Ben wr...
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The Devil Speaks True

The Devil Speaks True is a reworking of Macbeth told from the point of view of Banquo. Like Complicite’s The Encounter (on at the Barbican this week) ...