We would like to introduce an exciting preview performance from fellow Birmingham based company RoguePlay...

RoguePlay Theatre present;

‘Blood Wedding’

‘One man, one woman, and nothing else!’

A bride and groom hold two families hope for a
better future, but the past is always waiting, desire cannot be tamed and even
the moon is hungry for blood.
Lorca's scorching tale of passion, morality
and vengeance is reinvented with RoguePlay’s unsurpassable Physical
Theatre style, combined with stunning innovative aerial circus, making this
classic story of the uneasy marriage of two villagers against a backdrop of
betrayal and violence all the more eloquent and evocative.
Saturday 3rd March, 7.30pm
Sticky Dance Studio, Lower Trinity Street,
Digbeth.
£8. Tickets available on www.rogueplay.co.uk
Please note, tickets need to be booked in
advance as the space has a limited capacity of 60
seats.

Tickets for Edward II are now booking at the following venues-

The Old Joint Stock Theatre, Birmingham

27-28th Apr-2012 7.30pm

www.oldjointstocktheatre.co.uk

0121 200 0946

The Cockpit Theatre, Marylebone, London

17-18 May- 2012 7.30pm

thecockpit.org.uk/show/edward_ii

020 7258 2925

The Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton

8th June 2012 7.30pm

www.arena.wlv.ac.uk

01902 321321

'Edward II' an evocative new adaptation of Marlowe's classic...

Jadis Shadows Productions present their new evocative presentation of Edward II.

The production has been specially adapted and devised for the company from Christopher Marlowe’s classic tale of love, lust and ambition… a tale which tells the tale of the tragic rule and downfall of King Edward II. Edward, a man who was never truly designed to be a monarch, who let his heart rule his head, allowed his passion for another man to influence his each and every decision: whether in matters of state or in regards to more personal intrigues.

Edward has a Kingdom, an army and a court of pleasure at his disposal; yet he also has a wife, a seemingly long suffering wife, who he wedded under instruction from his father. Isabelle, a French Princess of great pride and breeding, displays a controlled and proud manner respected by all, especially regarding her ‘saintly’ reaction to her husband’s openly homosexual romance… yet under the surface murderous rage and exuberant passions brew… passions which, in her turmoil, have risen with force to the forefront of her being. A play of contrasting personalities; of the gulf between emotions openly admitted and enjoyed and those kept locked tight. A play which shows how society sees public figures and judges them due to their public behaviour rather than looking beneath the hypocrisy of façade and of popular opinion.

There is no right or wrong, there is no black or white; simply two people who have been thrown together by fate; yet their personal war of indifference and revenge could, with ease, bring about the fall of a nation.

Touring to Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Central London venues as well as headlining at Nottingham's Pride festival.

Details to follow very soon indeed!

2012 Programme

We are thrilled to announce our basic programme for 2012!

Our Spring/Summer offering will be a new evocative presentation of-
'Edward II'
The production has been specially adapted for the company from Christopher
Marlowe’s classic tale of love, lust and ambition.
Edward II will be director Zak Marsh's premiere production with Jadis Shadows Productions and will excitingly be the our first production presented in a central London venue.

Our Summer tour will be a presentation of a new play written especially for the company-
'The Queen's Heads'
A historical drama revolving around the lives, and deaths, of two of Henry VIII's wives: cousins Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard. What did they really feel about their royal husband, what were their hopes and dreams and what finally lead them both facing the dreaded headsman in the Tower of London?

And finally our exciting Autumn presentation-
'Electra' & 'Salome'
Two especially adapted tragedies, by the greats Sophocles and Oscar Wilde, on the same bill!
Both plays focus on two contrasting yet women doomed... one by pride and obsession and the other by her passions and lust... a warning to any who allow their driving emotions to overbear reason.

Past Productions...

Here are a few images from past touring productions over the last few years.

These have travelled to venues such as the Birmingham Old Rep, Birmingham's Old Joint Stock Theatre, Wolverhampton Arena, The Regent's Centre Christchurch, the Lichfield Garrick, Evesham Arts Centre and the Cotswold Playhouse.

The productions include- Mary Stuart, I Am A Camera, Macbeth, Revenger's Tragedy and The Country Wife.