Vault Festival

Casting Announced For Summer Nights In Space

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Book tickets for Summer Nights In Space at the Vault Festival

One of the most keenly anticipated events of this year’s gathering in the cavernous spaces beneath the tracks of Waterloo Station is this sci-fi space rock musical by the hugely original and talented Henry Carpenter.  Developed through the good offices of Hannah Elsy Productions, we have seen this brilliant new creation grow from a 3-song skit at Elsy’s Rich Mix ‘Lowdown’ event, via a workshop presentation at the Young Vic, into this fully developed 70 minute entertainment now about to play six performances in the Brick Hall. With a 6-week run of the show’s forerunner, ‘The Quentin Dentin Show’ (seen two years ago at Edinburgh, and last year at Above The Arts), shortly to open in a brand new production by Adam Lenson at a London venue, clearly things are on the up-and-up for the determined and innovative Carpenter and Elsy.  What previews I’ve seen of the show so far … Read more

Poleroid Theatre Brings Play About Home To Vault Festival

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This Must Be The Place to be presented by Poleroid Theatre at the Vault Festival 2017

Following an acclaimed debut performance at the 2016 Latitude Festival, Poleroid Theatre bring their latest work This Must Be The Place to the 2017 Vault Festival from 8 – 12 February 2017. This first-time collaboration between Pinter Commission winning Brad Birch and BAFTA-nominated Kenneth Emson, This Must Be The Place follows Adam, a young Londoner in the midst of crisis, desperately tries for a clean break from technology, love, connectivity and the pressures of city life in an attempt to find home. A million miles away, or perhaps not so far, two friends try to start again in the big smoke as fugitives from their problems but find they are still waiting on the margins. This Must Be The Place expertly interweaves these two stories together but director Justin Audibert also leaves audiences to make their own connections between the plays and character’s stories – are they intertwined or aren’t … Read more

Sci Fi Space Travel Musical Comes To The Vault

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Book tickets for Summer Nights In Space at the Vault Festival

The Vaults are to play host to a brand new science fiction musical odyssey this February when Summer Nights In Space opens as part of this year’s Vault Festival. Presented by Hannah Elsy Productions, Summer Nights In Space is from the creators of the critically acclaimed The Quentin Dentin Show. The show which is billed as a glam space rock musical uses the bizarre setting of musical theatre to combine the song and dance of entertainment with the really big questions. Astronaut John Spartan has finally made it into space – only to discover that it is not all he had hoped. Marooned in space with a ferocious alien and a moody computer, the reluctant crew of Auxiliary Transport Shuttle 4 must stave off Space Madness and work together to survive in the void. But when Spartan receives a distress signal from an attractive Astro-nette, his newfound mission to find … Read more

The magic of The Vanishing Man at Vault Festival

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Vanishing Man at Vault Festival London

David Aula and Simon Evans have teamed up to create a ground-breaking piece of theatre, The Vanishing Man, described as a “time-hopping, misdirection-abusing, mind-bending examination of what really happens when a man, in full sight of his audience, simply ceases to be”. “This is a show about magic. But not a magic show,” they said. It tells of Hugo Cedar, an Edwardian magician known as The Vanishing Man, who created the perfect trick and then disappeared forever. Hugo Cedar, on June 13th 1932, stood on London Bridge for over three hours and then, in front of dozens of onlookers, appeared to vanish before their eyes. No magician has ever been able to work out this trick, yet Aula and Evans explore it here, with their “experiment in magic” that decodes why we like to be lied to. Simon Evans said: ”I’ve been able to work out, deconstruct and rebuild every trick I’ve … Read more

Also on at The Vaults: Eggs by Florence Keith-Roach 24 February to 6 March

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Eggs at the Vault Festival

Eggs is a dark comedy about female friendship, fertility and freaking out. This intimate two-hander by Florence Keith-Roach, which premiered to great acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe 2015, looks at gender disparity and the struggle of growing up as part of Generation Y. It is about young women trying to figure out who they are in a world where the untimely death of a friend, IVF, pop-feminism, Scarlett Johansson, MDMA and Cher’s 90s comeback album all chaotically co-exist. Awarded Rising star of the London Theatre scene (The Evening Standard), Keith-Roach is an actor, writer and director. Eggs is her second play. She has written articles for Grazia, Little White Lies and The Observer and a short film, Frenching The Bully. Keith-Roach is the founder of Orphee Productions, a female- led collective dedicated to telling stories that challenge gender preconceptions. She said: “I wrote Eggs to try to examine the volatility … Read more

Vault Festival Programme Announced

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Vault Festival at Waterloo 2016

An eclectic and jam-packed programme of over 150 events, to be held in one venue across 11 days, has been revealed. VAULT – an arts and comedy festival set in the myriad of vaults underneath Waterloo Station – kicks of on 27 January 2016 and tickets for the range of events – featuring theatre performances, comedy, club nights, workshops and family entertainment – are available now from as little as £5. VAULT Festival 2016 promises to have the “biggest and most diverse programme to date”, including the likes of Trgyve Wakenshaw, The Misfit Analysis and Clout Theatre. There is an international array of events taking place, exploring themes such as gender, mental health and conflict. The shows on offer includes Squidboy, starring award-winning physical theatre performer Trygve Wakenshaw, and, in a VAULT Festival debut, the award-winning company, Clout Theatre present The Various Lives of Infinite Nullity; a dark and intriguing piece of absurdism centered … Read more

REVIEW: Where Do Little Birds Go?, Vault Festival ✭✭✭✭

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Jessica Butcher as Lucy in Where Do Little Birds Go? A new play by Camilla Whitehill

Where Do Little Birds Go? Vault Festival 6 February 2015 4 Stars “My name is Lucy Fuller. I am 24 and I live in Whitechapel. When I was 18 I was kidnapped by the Kray twins, and locked in a flat with an escaped murderer” So reads the poster and teaser for Camilla Whitehill’s new play Where Do Little Birds Go?, the title taken from the song sung by Barbara Windsor in Lionel Bart’s first musical Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be! Lucy Fuller starts the play as a 17 year old innocent, full of youthful bravado and that indestructable belief that comes with youth. It’s not too long before her journey down the rabbit hole of late night London, and the world of the Krays, brings down that bravado leaving her youth shattered. Where Do Little Birds Go? is a one act play that runs at just on 65 … Read more