Vault Festival

Vault Festival 2019 Preview

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Vault Festival London

Mark Ludmon picks out some of the highlights of this year’s Vault Festival in London Vault Festival just gets bigger and bigger. After growing to more than 300 shows last year, it is back for its seventh year with over 400, featuring more than 2,000 artists. Over the next eight weeks from January 23, there will be theatre, comedy, immersive experiences, cabaret, late-night parties and other live performance. We have been sifting through the programme to pick out some of the new theatre highlights. BOOK TICKETS AT THE VAULT FESTIVAL 2019 BOX OFFICE One of the headline shows is Counting Sheep, the award-winning immersive Ukrainian folk opera, playing throughout the eight weeks. It is a deeply personal retelling of the revolution in Ukraine, where creators Mark and Marichka Marczyk met and fell in love on the barricades. It was an acclaimed sell-out hit at Edinburgh Fringe in 2016 but, after a world … Read more

UPCOMING: I Have A Bad Feeling About This, Vaults Festival

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I Have A Bad Feeling About This at Vaults Festival

I Have A Bad Feeling About This House of Blakewell, Vaults Festival 21 – 25 February 2018 Book Now For those of us who are HOB virgins, the prospect of finally being able to discover the ins and outs of this fringe cult is a pleasant one indeed, and this year the Vaults Fest regulars return with a new show, new songs, new material, reaching out to new audiences as well as keeping their growing fan base happy.  Announced as a ‘cabaret musical’, and festooned with wreaths of laurels gathered from previous productions, Harry Blake and Alice Keedwell’s latest offering opens on 21st February and is sure to prove a popular draw.  The pair took some time out from rehearsals – and life – to speak to me about it. Harry composes the music and Alice the lyrics and text, although there seems to be quite a lot of give … Read more

Vault Festival 2018 Preview

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Vault Festival 2018 London

Mark Ludmon previews this year’s Vault festival in and around The Vaults in Waterloo, London Our pick of theatre and performance at Vault 2018 Every year, Vault arts festival just gets bigger and bigger. For 2018, more than 300 shows will take place around London’s Waterloo from January 24 to March 18, focused on The Vaults beneath the station but now bringing in new spaces including Waterloo East Theatre. It features comedy, film, live performance and theatre – a lot of theatre in fact, presenting exciting new talent and new writing. We pick out some of the shows that caught our attention. NeverLand Following Vault’s sell-out hit The Great Gatsby last year, The Guild of Misrule and Theatre Deli return with a Peter Pan-inspired new, immersive musical. Dive into a dark and dangerous world of mermaids, rum and glittering pirates. Expect food fights, absinthe bars and soaring live music from a … Read more