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Stefan Golaszewski and Richard Jordan Productions Ltd in association with the Bush Theatre and United Agents Following their successful debuts at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2008 & 2009, **The Stefan Golaszewski Plays** are presented for the first time together. The plays give us a glimpse into one man's love at two very different stages of life. Stefan Golaszweksi Speaks About A Girl He Once Loved is a bruising one-man show about being 18, in love and unable to cope. In Walthamstow, in 1999, a girl and a boy meet in a pub. One day later it is over. The boy is still trying to deal with it. He has written a play about it. Stefan Golaszewski Is A Widower forms the second part of the evening. In 2054, Stefan Golaszewski's wife died. Now, in 2056, crushed, alone and 76 years old, he revisits their life together and performs a one-man play dedicated to her memory. Stefan Golaszewski was the recipient of a 2008 Fringe First Award and nominated as Best Actor in the Stage Newspaper Acting Awards. As part of comedy troupe Cowards, he has had series on BBC4 and on Radio 4.

Surviving school as a fat kid is tough enough. When your Mum's a teacher, it's hell. What's more, Anna's Dad is obsessed with saving the world and her maverick uncle Terry is dossing on the couch. When Anna hits back at the bullies, she finds herself suspended from school and stuck at home with hapless Terry trying to save her. But Terry needs saving himself, and as the bond between the two deepens, Anna finds herself swept up in a friendship she can't live without. Nick Payne won the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright 2009.

nabokov and the Bush Theatre in association with Watford Palace Theatre and Mercury Colchester 2nd May 1997. An historic victory. The Tories, 18 years in power, are defeated as New Labour sweeps into government. From the euphoria and despair, three deeply personal stories emerge. Tory MP Robert prepares to attend the count. With defeat looming large, he fears becoming a forgotten man while his wife Marie counts the cost of her own sacrifice to politics. Lib Dem footsoldier Ian is no hero but party-crasher Sarah is determined to make him one. Best mates Jake and Will wake up to a new world order and try to memorise the cabinet before their politics A Level class. Jake dreams of Number 10. Will dreams of Jake. A smouldering new play from one of Britain's most exciting young writers about escaping the past, seizing the present and owning the future. **2nd May 1997 on Tour** **20 - 21 Oct** Watford Palace Theatre **22 - 24 Oct** The Mercury Theatre, Colchester **27 - 31 Oct** The Royal Exchange Studio, Manchester Please note that the performance contains smoking, nudity and some bad language.

This production will be performed in French without subtitles. Tour De Force have an excellent reputation abroad and we are delighted to be presenting their only UK performance of this classic tale. This performance is suitable for children and adults, even if your French is a little limited! Here's a charming story about a little prince who falls to earth from Asteroid B-612. What kind of little prince is he? He's a lonely little prince. He's in need of a friend, and so he sets off on a journey across the planets to see who he can find. Tour De Force has been producing exciting and innovative professional work since 1996 for large scale tours across Europe and the Far East. For more information about the company please see www.tdftheatre.com Directed by Peter Joucla Starts at 8pm Tickets: £12/£10

Anticipating Finnissy's opera 'Theres Raquin' to be presented by Nexus Opera at Wilton's in 2010. A rare opportunity to join composer and virtuoso pianist Michael Finnissy in and evening of music, song and performance - including his acclaimed Gershwin Arrangements and previews of his forthcoming theatre work based in Emile Zola's Therese Raquin. Tuesday 13th October at 7.30pm Tickets: £10

This year's Fringe Festival starts Friday and boasts over 200 shows in sixteen days. Here are our picks of the lineup.

Travel through time and memory. An experiment in puppet theatre exploring the life and science of Albert Einstein by US based company Inkfish. We begin with Einstein’s death and journey through fragments of memory - scenes from his life, his most famous thought experiments, his letters to President Theodore Roosevelt which initiated the Manhattan Project, and his last act - a global call for nuclear disarmament. A fantasy of Einstein taking back the bomb. DATES & TIMES Sat 7 (6pm & 9pm) & Sun 8 (3pm & 6pm) Nov TICKETS Adults £12.50 /Concessions £10 BOX OFFICE 020 7226 1787 www.suspensefestival.com

In the beginning there was nothing. And then there was something. And then everyone wanted to have it. To be has become to have. A rusty fairytale full of beautiful images. Glimpses of the spaghetti-western, a shot of Shakespeare and a generous dose of subtle humour combine in this wordless object theatre performance. Witness a duel between an impertinent pair of pliers and a tenacious mole trap, fought by any means necessary. TAMTAM Objektentheater travel from the Netherlands to be part of SUSPENSE. A 15 minute post-show chat follows each performance. DATES & TIMES Fri 6 Nov, 6pm & 8pm TICKETS Adults £10 /Concessions £8 BOX OFFICE: 020 7226 1787 www.suspensefestival.com

Edward Gordon Craig wrote a number of scripts for puppets in a series called Drama for Fools. He also collected English Toy Theatres and once devoted a part of his famous review, The Mask to this subject. Papierthéâtre, the paper theatre devoted company could not resist the desire to join this technique with a Drama for Fools script and chose Romeo and Juliet for the purpose. The company’s passion for the technique is the result of a meeting between Alain Lecucq and George Speaight in 1969 at the Little Angle Theatre. A 15 minute post-show chat follows the performance. DATES & TIMES Thur 5 Nov, 7.30pm. TICKETS Adults £!0/ Concessions £8 BOX OFFICE 020 7226 1787 www.pleasance.co.uk/islington

Told by the Greek Gods themselves and based on the Greek myth of Medusa, this is the adventure of the boy Perseus on his fantastic and humorous journey to slay the terrible Gorgon, whose gaze will turn you to stone. Highly regarded company PuppetCraft use a blend of puppetry, live music, witty drama and entertaining song, performed by a cast of 5 people and 20 puppets. DATES & TIMES Sat 31 Oct & Sun 1 Nov, 3pm & 7pm. TICKETS Adults £12.50 /Concessions £10 BOX OFFICE: 020 7226 1787 www.suspensefestival.com

For adults only, this regular spectacle of dazzling delights has rapidly gained a faithful following. Following huge success in London over the last two years, the cabaret offers an assorted feast of accomplished and new-fangled acts to suit all tastes - an eclectic and entertaining mixture of live puppetry and animated short films. An evening dashed with raciness and raunch, tied together with magnificent and truly skilful puppetry. Comedian Dave Gibson will compere the night - a front runner at the Big Big New Act of the Year, So You Think You're Funny and The New Act of the Year competitions The Cabaret follows its successful run at Assembly at the Edinburgh Fringe 2009. DATES & TIMES Fri 11, Sat 12 & Sun 13 September, 8pm TICKETS Tickets are £12.50 / £10 concessions. BOX OFFICE 020 7226 1787

Anne Hathaway is both theater nerd and Hollywood starlet, do-gooder and glamour-seeker. And this summer, in Central Park, she is also both boy and girl.

As the Queen of Scots or Mrs. Churchill, Janet McTeer demands attention.

The case for a Best-Ensemble Tony.

We pick the contenders and the winners.

Chandra Wilson on Chicago and burnout victims.

The plan had been a night of drunken excess with Jonathan Groff.

Jennifer Westfeldt’s 2001 movie, Kissing Jessica Stein made bi-curiousness cool.

Nothing soggy about Shakespeare in the Park.

On a dreary afternoon, Ashanti is admiring a sketch of a pair of pumps for her red-carpet debut as Dorothy in The Wiz.