The latest installment in the Tricycle’s award-winning ‘Tribunal Play’ series opens next week!
Edited by Richard Norton-Taylor and running from 2 June – 2 July, TACTICAL QUESTIONING brings together scenes from the Public Inquiry into the death of Baha Mousa in 2003.
Rehearsals are well under way and we’ve got some exclusive shots of the cast and crew in action.
Hello Art Lovers!
The Tricycle are very proud to present an exhibition of art work by our very own Young Artists Group. On display in the Tricycle Gallery until 28 May. The Young Artists are aged 9-19 and live or go to school in Brent. They meet on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons for art classes with our Artist in Residence Natalie Ryde.
Highlights of the exhibition include mini Tricycle Theatres inside boxes. You can take a photo through the peep hole for your very own exhibition souvenir! You will marvel at Leon Ellis’s detailed drawings of circuit boards and take in the vibrant shop fonts of Kilburn High Road by the Junior Young Artists.
Join us on Sunday 22nd May from 1-2pm to celebrate with us and try out some printmaking. It’s free and all are welcome.
Following the success of the Tricycle’s previous eight Tribunal Plays, we are proud to announce the world premiere of Tactical Questioning: Scenes from the Baha Mousa Inquiry, edited by Richard Norton-Taylor and directed by Nicolas Kent. The production examines the British Army’s handling of detainees in Iraq and the death of Baha Mousa in 2003 and will run at the Tricycle Theatre from 2 June until 2 July 2011.
For more information and to book tickets, click here
The Tricycle, in common with the majority of Arts Council funded organisations has received an 11% cut over the next 3 years. We are naturally very disappointed especially as the Arts Council Stage 1 assessment recommended an uplift in funding, but our stage 2 assessment made it clear that the money was not available – it said:
Tricycle Theatre was assessed as making a strong contribution to our goals and priorities. We recommend funding, based in part on the organisation’s excellent track record to date, and the planned activity adding value to our five goals. However, we found that we could not fully fund all strong applications to the levels requested because the budget was limited and we needed to ensure there was a balance of contributions to our five goals across the area.
We understand that Government cuts forced the Arts Council into making difficult decisions, but these cuts will lead to higher unemployment, a diminished Arts sector, and less access through higher prices.
Nicolas Kent
Artistic Director
30th March 2011
As we get ready for Shared Experience’s ‘transcendentally beautiful’ BRONTË which comes to the Tricycle from 5 – 30 April we’re giving you a sneak peak of the company in rehearsal.
The Shared Experience cast and creative team have a very intense rehearsal period. The end production is a result of a real collaboration in the rehearsal room between director, acting company and creative team.
With only 9 days to go till we hold our 30th Birthday Party the excitement, nerves (occasional panic!) are mounting!
This year we’re making 30 years of the Tricycle the focus of our annual fundraising event and we’ve set ourselves the goal of giving our guests the best party ever and raising record amounts. The party is catered by top London company The Cellar Society and is being held at a rather chic venue in Holland Park, the Louise Blouin Foundation.
There will be entertainment from the gorgeous Jessie Buckley (who was the runner up in the Andrew Lloyd Webber series auditioning for ‘Nancy’ in Oliver!) and Imelda Staunton. The Tricycle Singers will be kicking off the entertainment and have been rehearsing hard for weeks for this opportunity to perform. Our party host and MC is Jim Carter, who will keep everything moving at a fair pace and is, in his own words, a ‘merciless auctioneer’! (more…)
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