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Gob Squad's Kitchen - Nottingham Contemporary - Sunday 29th and Monday 30th May

From May 26th, the Nottingham Playhouse is host to the general assembly of the European Theatre Convention, of which it is a member. Accompanying this is a huge arts and theatre festival which will take over venues around the city. It is an opportunity for our beloved city to show off its creative output to theatre bigwigs from across Europe and for Nottingham audiences to see plays, music, comedy, films, dance, poetry, readings, opera, visual art and children's theatre by both local and European artists.

Events will take place at a wide variety of venues including the Playhouse, Lakeside Arts Centre, Royal Centre and the Nottingham Contemporary as well as less conventional spaces such as streets, buses, Nottingham Forest's City Ground, the Galleries of Justice and the Castle. In the vanguard of the festival is the Playhouse's production of The League of Youth which opened on 13th May.

LeftLion will be covering the whole festival with reviews of nearly all the major and minor productions. You can get all the festival coverage here and by following @LeftLionStage on Twitter.

LeftLion Magazine issue 41 includes an interview with Giles Croft, Artistic Director of NEAT11.

Our coverage of the NEAT11 festival is shown below. Check back here for more reviews at the festival unfolds.

 

Giles Croft - Artistic Director Read our interview with Giles Croft, Artistic Director of the Nottingham Playhouse and the NEAT11 festival.

 

The League of Youth - Review   A politician espousing liberal views abandons his principles at the first sniff of power...

 

Andy Barrett Read about the work that local playwright and director Andy Barrett has done for the festival, including adapting Ibsen's The League of Youth.

 

Rastarella Falade Read our interview with Rastarella Falade, founder of Cultural Vibrations and live music programmer for NEAT11.

 

Three Sisters - Weds 8th to Sat 11th June   A special collaboration between Cheek By Jowl and the Chekhov International Festival will see his most famous play performed at the Theatre Royal in June.

 

The Illusionist - Thurs 9th June   At the end of the 1950s we meet an ageing magician who’s trying to find an audience for his outdated act, only to be upstaged by TV shows and rock ‘n’ roll bands.

 

Luminarium: Levity III Read our interview with Architects of Air, creators of the Luminarium. See more pictures from inside the Luminarium.

 

Mouthy Poets - Sat 11th June Read our interview with Deborah Stevenson, founder of Mouthy Poets.

 

Lady Chatterley's Lover - Review D.H.Lawrence's tale of a relationship between a gamekeeper and a sexually frustrated toff is brought to the stage...

 

Bo Burnham - Tues 7th June Bo Burnham, who rose from an internet sensation to Edinburgh award winner, brings his comedy music show to Nottingham.

 

The Sorrows of Young Werther - Review A story of heartbreak and tragedy told with music, song, comedy, poetry and waffle batter.

 

Ulrike and Eamon Compliant - Review A solo walk guided by mobile phone that leads you through the streets of Nottingham and the mind of a terrorist.

 

Threads - Review An audio walk through the Lace Market telling a story about loss, possibility, revolution and angels.

 

Daniel Kitson - Review A very funny, tragic, completely made up but absolutely plausible tale detailing the last twenty four years of a dead stranger’s life.

  

Gob Squad's Kitchen - Review Gob Squad recreate Andy Warhol's film in which not much happens Read our interview with Gob Squad's Sarah Thom

 

Fakebook - Review One mother’s nightmare journey into cyber world.

  

Maps by Nats Nus Dansa - Review Maps is the arrival of strangers and the leaving of friends with this brilliant children’s dance-theatre production.

 

Edith Piaf - The Songs. - Review Un petit goût of post-war Paris comes courtesy of this unfussy, warm-hearted show

 

Momentum Scratch Night 1 - Review Writers compete to have their scripts selected for development into a play.

 

Six by Arian Krasniqi - Review A woman sentenced to death for killing her boyfriend has six very good reasons not to repent.

  

Court in the Act! - Review A man who stuffs dogs with tomatoes is in court for breaching a super injunction about a footballer on Twitter. Eh?

 

The Crossing - Review Three men from Ghana take a long journey in search of EUtopia in this superb play by Esther O'Toole.

 

Sugar Statues - Review In her one-woman show, Krissi Musiol investigates her Polish heritage through a series of partly remembered, partly imagined stories.

 

Marvin Brown - Review Welcome to the house of soul! Creativity meets talent in an all inclusive set of laid back vibes and smooth vocal power.

 

Aquabelles - Review A secret synchronised swimming club made up of three hairy thirty-something men, one of whom transforms into an otter.

 

Woyzeck - Review A thought-provoking dip into the abyss of human existence.

 

The Last Supper - Review The last meals and final moments of the famous and not so famous.

 

Hans Christian, You Must Be An Angel - Review "I explained to my 7-year-old we were to see 45 minutes of experimental Danish theatre that blurred the boundary between installation and performance art. He was not impressed."

 

The Cries of Silent Men - Review A community-based theatre production about the dissolution of the monasteries.

 

A Bridge To The Stars - Review Young people from Britain and Germany perform a rites-of-passage story about prejudice and isolation.

 

Poland 3 Iran 2 - Review A pub conversation about an historic football match, preceded by a bus ride through a fan's youth.

 

Moliere - Review The film stands as a fine testament to Poquelin’s life and work since it, in itself, is something of a farce...

 

The White Ribbon - review The brutal realism of the film is where the emotion is found; the believability never compromised by embellishing the mysterious goings-ons

 

Mufaro and Ashdown - review Two Nottingham writers each read hard hitting plays exploring family and conflict...

 

Three Sisters - review Cheek by Jowl brings its magnificent all Russian cast to Nottingham for arguably one of the best written plays of the 20th Century ...

 

Mique - review Singing from a young age with her Grandmother in church, Mique brings old school soul and modern R’n’B through her compositions...

 

Gaza Monolgues - review An intimate, brutal view into the lives of those affected so deeply by a war which, although officially over, continues to destroy lives...

 

Faust  - review Would you sell your soul to the devil in return for youth, wealth and love? ...

 

Break Your Own Pony / Horse - review This equine double-bill was delightfully bonkers and off the wall, while funny, thought-provoking and well executed

 

The Free Theatre of Belarus - review An underground theatre company perform an emotionally intense work about disappearances in Belarus

 

Here's how you can find out more:

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