Wed 25 – Mon 30 August

What's On

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• Rotations

  Kompany Malakhi (UK)

  Wed 25 & 26 August at 1.15pm & 6.30pm (CANCELLED)

  The 6.30pm performance has sadly been cancelled due to the rain.

  A gritty yet graceful exploration of cause and effect combining the extreme sport of BMX Flatland with breakin’, parkour and contemporary dance in a duet between a flatlander and a B-Boy, twisting and turning in an intricate and elegant game of rumours and whispers. Between shows join the company for workshops in BMX/ Street Dance. www.kompanymalakhi.com

  Watch a trailer about the show on YouTube

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  FREE Kompany Malakhi BMX/ Street Dance Workshops – open to all, sign up in the Square an hour before the start, limited places. Wear loose clothing and feel free to bring your BMX.

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• Watch This Space Bingo Night

  Bring&Share Muscial Bingo

  Fri 27 August at 6.45pm, 9.30pm & 11pm

  It’s eyes down for a night of open air game-playing as we let Jess and Bring&Share out of the Green Room and into Theatre Square – along with some very special ladies to entertain you. www.bringandshare.co.uk

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• Watch This Space Bingo Night

  The Strong Lady

  Betty Brawn (Australia)

  Fri 27 August at 1.15pm & 9pm

  Betty Brawn, the Australian strong-woman, born with the grace of her mother and the strength of her father, will be performing amazing feats including the awesome ‘human carousel’. www.stronglady.com.au

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• Watch This Space Bingo Night

  Une Femme Exposée | Buttafly

  Abi Collins (UK)

  Fri 27 August 6pm & 10.30pm

  Abi Collins introduces you to two of her alter-egos: in Une Femme Exposée, Katinka, the last surviving member of an obscure Soviet circus troupe, recaptures her youthful glory on ballet shoes made from traffic cones. In Buttafly, Angel Rodriguez proves she is more than just an over made-up face – an acrobatic, loud-mouthed, pole-dancing Latina. www.abigailcollins.moonfruit.com

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• The Alternative Village Fete

  Home Live Art (UK)

  Sat 28 August from 1-7.30pm & Sun 29 August from 12-3pm

  View full details of all events on the Home Live Art website.

  An exuberant urban reinterpretation of the traditional village fete, where the usual stalls and vegetable competitions are peopled by a riotous range of avant garde artists, crazy craft-makers and provocative produce, with performances and activities for all the family. You’ll find music from Cut and Shine and Transsiberian Marching, cucumber sandwich throwing with The Chap Olympics, Ladidah’s 1940s exercise routine and wheelchair square dancing with The Rhinestone Rollers – all under the watchful gaze of your host, Paul L Martin. www.homeliveart.com

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• Emergency Shakespeare

  1623 Theatre Company (UK)

  Sat 28 August at 1.40pm, 2.40pm, 3.40pm & 4.40pm

  Sun 29 August at 1pm, 2pm & 2.50pm

  During the fete expect very different outcomes as Shakespearian tragedy meets the St John’s Ambulance Brigade: Ophelia is saved from drowning, Juliet and Romeo are resuscitated and Leontes gets some help for his panic attacks from the St John’s medics. www.1623theatre.co.uk

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• Gentlemen of the Road

  The Chipolatas (UK)

  Mon 30 August at 5pm

  As a Bank Holiday treat, we welcome back the Chipolatas, the 100%-entertaining masters of street theatre with their joyous blend of music, comedy, juggling and ever-so-friendly audience participation. www.chipolatas.com

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• Revolutionary Steps

  Stan’s Café (UK)

  Thu 5 - Mon 30 August (during NT opening hours)

  The story of Danton’s Death has leaked out of the Olivier Theatre and into the foyer, up the stairs and all around the National. The ‘script’ for this radically reimagined version of the French Revolution story is marked out in vinyl footprints, handprints and speech bubbles waiting for you to perform it. Solve the mini performance puzzles to work out what happens in each scene and make the piece your own; act it out with friends and family of all ages. Be playful. Be revolutionary. Have fun.

  Revolutionary Steps is the most recent in the Steps Series by the adventurous theatre company Stan’s Café. www.stanscafe.co.uk

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• Blackbeard the Pirate

  The British Stage in Miniature

  Minature performances projected live on the Flytower Fri 27 & 28 August at 10pm.

  The Toy Theatre first appeared in the early 1800s, miniaturising the great productions of the day into intricately detailed cardboard cut-out versions. Young Blood lovingly recreates these mini-masterpieces in his outsize Corinthian Theatre and his hand-coloured, cut-out figures and scenery burst into life with accompanying music adding a contemporary twist. In Blackbeard the Pirate, experience swashbucklinghigh-sea adventures with the infamous Blackbeard - the Captain Jack Sparrow of his day!

  Find out more about this and all Flytower events

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• Playspace Storytelling

  Amazing Enchantment

  In an inflatable mini auditorium for the younger theatre-goer listen to Amazing Enchantment by sally Pomme Clayton on Friday 27 August. Tickets £3.

  Visit the Playspace page for full details and to book.

• Green Room

  Late bar with music every Fri & Sat 10pm - 1am.

  Join us in the Green Room where the performers for both our indoor and outdoor shows hang out after their performances with the National's resident DJs, Bring&Share.

  Find out more about all events in the Green Room

Week 10: Bank Holiday Hullabaloo

The bank holiday weekend has arrived - join us for open-air game playing, and urban-style village fete and circus fun with The Chipolatas.