CAPITAL's production of Lorca's Play without a Title directed by Jonathan Heron will be revived for one performance as part of this one-day symposium at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry on 1 November 2008.

The CAPITAL Centre Box Office will now open during the following times for the purchase of theatre tickets:

 10.00am - 12.00pm

and

 2.00pm and 4.00pm

Please note that the office is open between 9.00am and 5.00pm for all other enquiries.

Exploring the relationship between theatre, politics and poetry, as well as the distance between reality and illusion, this lost classic represents Lorca's quest to stage 'the impossible'. As part of their Residency at The CAPITAL Centre, Fail Better lead Warwick University students in a new translation of Lorca's audacious one-act play by David Johnston. This is their first new production since last year's Diary of a Madman (after Gogol) which was named 'Best Fringe Show of 2007' in Time Out London (Tamara Gausi, 19/12/07).

Performances at CAPITAL:

Thursday 2nd October  7.30pm

Friday 3rd October  7.30pm

Saturday 4th October  4pm

Monday 6th October  7.30pm

Tuesday 7th October  7.30pm

Wednesday 8th October  7.30pm

The company will also perform at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry on Saturday 1^st November as part of their Lorca symposium Beyond Spanish: The Many Lorcas http://www.belgrade.co.uk/site/scripts/show_details.php?showID=270

The company have been set the challenge of recording the process and we will hold a small exhibition of these materials in CAPITAL's foyer during the run. One is these records is available on-line at http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/playwithoutatitle                        

Tickets are limited, but the box office can be contacted via playwithoutatitle@googlemail.com

For further information: www.failbetter.co.uk

 The fourteen images exhibited here constitute a history of poster art at the Royal Shakespeare Company, beginning with the very first graphically designed theatre poster, by John Goodwin and George Mayhew for the David Warner Hamlet 1965. If theatre holds a ‘mirror up to nature’, and Hamlet holds a mirror up to us, when you look at these images, what do you see?  

1.           1965 Royal Shakespeare Theatre 
2.           1965 Aldwych Theatre, London 
3.           1970 Royal Shakespeare Theatre 
4.           1975 The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon 
5.           1980 Royal Shakespeare Theatre 
6.           1981 Aldwych Theatre, London 
7.           1984 Royal Shakespeare Theatre   
8.           1988 Comedy of Errors/Hamlet tour 
9.           1989 Royal Shakespeare Theatre   
10.         1992/1993 Barbican Theatre, London/Royal Shakespeare Theatre 
11.         1997 Royal Shakespeare Theatre   
12.         2001 Royal Shakespeare Theatre   
13.         2004 Royal Shakespeare Theatre   
14.         2008 Royal Shakespeare Theatre   

Advice for playwrights

During my office hours on a Tuesday (11am-1pm), I will be on hand as a resource to advise any student who might be interested/occupied with writing a play (either as a personal project or as part of one of the English Creative Writing modules). At the point at which you want to think about how the play might work in performance, I am on hand to give my advice and to suggest ways of deepening and sharpening your thinking about the three-dimensional, multi-sensory, lived experience of the characters. Students should email me (tomcornford@googlemail.com ), attaching a draft of at least a complete scene and a list if questions or factors they want to address and I will respond with an appointment at the earliest opportunity.

Tom Cornford is a freelance theatre director and Artist in-Residence (2008/9) at The CAPITAL Centre. This year, he will be doing a long project on Hamlet at Warwick, investigating the play through rehearsal and performance and by partially re-creating the lost or never-made Hamlets of Stanislavsky and Edward Gordon Craig, Meyerhold, Michael Chekhov and Andrey Tarkovsky. The project will culminate in a performance, lecture and exhibition at The CAPITAL Centre.