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Hey folks! We've just announced the directors for Back & Forth over at our sister blog, interactivity.org.uk. James Farrell will be directing Still Life, John Kay Steel is helming Reverie (the full length play based on Dreams May Come), and our revival of Later Showers will be directed by... yours truly.

So if you want to catch Tom's latest work, or re-live the passion and poetry Later Showers (again starring Michael), then be sure to catch Back & Forth, as part of The Reactivity Season.

Head to the original blog post to find out the details, and be sure to subscribe to the blog while you're there.

Have a Happy New Year, and I hope to see you in January!

Labels: interactivity, later showers, reactivity season, reverie, still life

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With snow falling in London - and rather more in Buxton - it's time for 3C to head off for a mini Christmas break. Even more snow for Michael however who is off to some unnamed French mountain to ski (or rather drink hot chocolate, learn his lines and avoid any pre-show injuries).

Of course it's only a mini break as our first London season starts on Monday 4th January at the Tristan Bates Theatre.
We're performing Play On Words - with a fantastic new design by Amy Penrose - every evening.

Our interactive comedy show Adventure Time will be mixing things up on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday nights (if the audience can save the day)

Each Saturday sees a day-long Interactivity Symposium - complete with experimental performances in the Interplay Sessions afterwards.

And Back & Forth sees two new plays by Tom Crawshaw - Still Life and Reverie - given staged readings, as well as the London premiere of Later Showers (in scratch form).

Find out more at www.play-on-words.net

and www.reactivity.org.uk (for everything else)

Keep up to date by following Three's Company or The Reactivity Season on Twitter.

And, as a special Christmas present to all our Blog followers, we'd like to offer a half-price deal to see Play On Words, which can be used any time in the first week (4th - 11th Jan). Just quote "3C Blog Deal" when booking in person or by phone (from the 4th Jan).

So from all of us at Three's Company, have a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, a pudding-and-stocking-filled and carbon-free holiday and we hope to see you all in January 2010!

Labels: adventure time, christmas, later showers, london, play on words, reactivity season, reverie, still life, tristan bates

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Exciting news theatre fans!

Hot on the heels of another wonderful Edinburgh Fringe, Three's Company have just been offered a three-week slot at top London theatre the Tristan Bates (near Leicester Square) this January.

We're still putting the finishing touches to our exact plans for this season but here's what we've got so far:


Play On Words makes its London transfer (after a critically-acclaimed sell-out run at the Pleasance Dome) from January 4th-23rd. Bigger and better than ever before and (hopefully) ready to take London by storm.

Alongside this flagship production we'll be hosting the Reactivity Season. This is a festival of new work celebrating and exploring audience intereaction in theatre. Featuring:

An Interactivity Symposium on the three Saturdays (9th, 16th, 23rd). Talks and debates with an invited panel and performances from guest theatre companies. Bringing together everyone currently working in - or interested in - interactivity in theatre. A chance to take stock, share ideas, learn from others experiences and plan the future for this exciting, new and emerging genre.

Adventure Time: after trials around the country, we bring our anarchic, interactive, spoof radio series back to the Tristan Bates where we'll be staging the full series of pun-dimensional episodes. Can the audience save the on-air broadcast that will make Comedy Trio's name? Come along and find out / decide.

Play readings of two new works (and one in need of refreshment) by Tom Crawshaw. Still Life which explores the place of religion in modern urban life and Reverie which follows a young man on a journey to harness the power of dreams. Joined by Later Showers which makes its London premiere after wowing critics in Buxton and Edinburgh in 2005 (starring Michael Grady-Hall and directed by Yaz Al-Shaater). All readings welcome feedback to help the development of the works afterwards.

So it's all happening at the Tristan Bates theatre, 4th-23rd January. There'll be plenty more information to follow but feel free to email fun@threescompany.co.uk if you'd like to know any more. We hope to see everyone there at some point, whether you like watching, interacting or joining discussions.

Labels: adventure time, comedy trio, later showers, play on words, reactivity season, reverie, still life, tristan bates

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