Nola Rae
WORKSHOP
31 Jan - 4 Feb
Barbican,
The Pit
UK PremiereTue 31 Jan - Sat 4 Feb
Tue - Sat 7.45pm, Sat mat 2.30pm
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Runs:
55 mins/no interval
Age Guidance: 14+ (alcohol consumption and references to marijuana smoking)
£18 + booking fees.
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After-show discussion:
Wed 1 Feb (BSL interpreted)
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"Buoyant, mesmerising, joy-inducing. This isn’t the party that Bill had hoped to have. But for the audience his 44th is a gift"
The New York Times - Critics PickThe streamers are hung, the punch has been spiked, the cake is just begging to be eaten.
Our host has a papier maché head, a jaunty hat, Tom Selleck moustache and a trayful of crudités. He’s planned his party to the last detail, there’s great music and dreamy lighting and he’s worked tirelessly on his disco moves. Now all that remains is for guests to arrive. Desperate to fill his apartment with camaraderie and celebration, Bill’s imagination runs riot.
Bill’s 44th is a poignant, puppet tragi-comedy for grown-ups, created in pre-vaccine, pandemic times. A wordless spectacle about the ingenuity of the mind and having to make do for so long without the people we wished would surround us.
Come to Bill’s party - you know you want to. You won’t regret it!
“One party you will not want to miss”
Drama“Poignant, comic puppet play… as much about the ingenuity of the mind as it is about loneliness”
The New York Times - Critics Pick
Dorothy James
& Andy Manjuck
bills44th.com (USA)
Creators: Dorothy James & Andy Manjuck
Performance: Dorothy James, Andy Manjuck, Jon Riddleberger
Composer: Eamon Fogarty
Lighting: M. Jordan Wiggins
Creative Collaboration: Jon Riddleberger, Nick O'Leary, Leigh Walter
Dramaturg: Helena Pennington
Additional set/prop construction: Taryn Uhe, Peter Russo, Joe Silovsky
Production Coordinator: Taryn Uhe
Photography: Benjamin W. Smith and Richard Termine
This engagement is supported in part by Mid Atlantic Arts through USArtists International, a program in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Trust for Mutual Understanding.
Thanks to: The Jim Henson Foundation, Cheryl Henson, St. Ann's Warehouse, the New York State Puppet Festival, and Dixon Place
Thanks to: The Jim Henson Foundation, Cheryl Henson, St. Ann's Warehouse, the New York State Puppet Festival, and Dixon Place