Exchange Theatre Week

Echange Theatre Company translates, produces and promotes theatre based on diversity. The Company has been working to this end since 2006 and has built a repetoire of multicultural shows such as 'The Exchange' at the Hackney Empire (2008), 'The Flies' by J.P.Sartre at Camden People's Theatre (“Incredibly intense” The Scotsman, 2009), and translations of unknown new plays such as 'Bal Trap' (NY off-broadway 2011), or 'Square(d)' (New Wimbledon Studio 2010),

Exchange Theatre is building a bridge between cultures and languages.  The company is currently resident company at the French Institute in London where they work on a unique season of monthly bilingual shows for kids. After developing Scratch projects of new works in July 2011 at the Lion and Unicorn, Exchange Theatre is delighted to return for a showcase week.

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Tickets: £11/ £9/ £7

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Lady MacWata

Written by Magali Muxart
Directed by David Furlong
With Magali Muxart and Elisa Alexis

Wed 8th, Thurs 9th Feb 8pm
Frid 10th, Sat 11th Feb 9:30pm

An actress prepares to play Lady Macbeth. She can’t find her dark and criminal side, and decides to invoke 'Mamie Wata', a witch from her childhood in Africa. Elisa, the cleaner, shows up… A trip in the schizophrenia of actors, in African mysticism, and into the curse of the Scottish play since its first performance... Would these two women be able to undo the spell ?

Written and performed by Magali Muxart, this three act play, is developed by Exchange Theatre under the artistic direction of David Furlong. The multi-national company has produced over the last five years a body of work both in French and English and translated major unknown French plays for the first time in the Uk (Claudel, Durringer, Sartre).

Lady Mac Wata encapsulates this unique cultural bridge created between France, Africa and the UK.”

In French,  1h15

£11 - £9 cons

Around Jules Verne in 80 minutes !

Devised and performed
by David Furlong and Alex Kanefsky

Frid 10th Feb 7:30pm
Sat 11th, Sun 12th Feb 3:00 pm

Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty thousand leagues under the sea, Five weeks in a balloon, Around the world in 80 days, Master Zacharius, Journey to the center of the earth, all in 80 minutes!

With a steampunk pool of ridiculous props, a smoke machine and some costumes. Watch the challenge !  This fantastically funny show features all your favourite characters : Passe-Partout, Phileas Fogg,  Captain Nemo and of course all the incredible machines! Jules Verne pioneered the science-fiction genre. He wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before any of it were even possible. He is the third most translated author in the world. In February, Exchange Theatre takes the young audience in a dazzling journey through all his major books.

David Furlong is known for his comic outing as Lucien in the English Premiere of French farces by Feydeau, and is also the director behind Square(d) and The Flies («It's commendable to see so much innovation and energy» The Londonist). Alex Kanefsky is a founder performer with Paper Balloon Company which currently tours the UK.

In English, for the whole family: 1h20

£11 – £9 cons

Le Deuil sied a Electre,  “Mourning becomes Electra” by Eugene O’Neill.

Sat 11th Feb 7:30
Sun 12th Feb 6:30

Performed by The Troupe, Exchange Theatre amateur’s group.

The story of the curse of the Mannon family is O'Neill's take on the Oresteia and a way for this major playwright, Nobel prize winner, to talk about his own family. It's also a great way for an amateur dramatic company to take their first step into tragedy.

In French, 1h15

£9 – £7 cons