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Theatre Collection Presents Pinky Cagebirds

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If you are looking for a top night out at the theatre go and see the latest play from the Theatre Collection.
After David Campton

“There is nothing either good or bad, But thinking makes it so”.
William Shakespeare

Set in a bird-cage, each of the birds is totally absorbed in her own particular characteristics. But then the Mistress introduces the Wild One who tempts them to fly for freedom.

Directed by Victor Sobchak

October 30 – November 11

Tuesday – Saturday 7:30pm
Sunday 5pm

Tickets: £12/10

Booking:

www.theatrecollection.net

Phone: 07966597190

 

Theatre Collection

51 Camden Park Road

London NW1 9BH

www.theatrecollection.net



THEATRE COLLECTION was founded in 2009 by Victor Sobchak (Artistic Director) and Shaban Arifi (Producer,Director and Actor)

TC is the sequel of the highly acclaimed ‘ART-VIC’(Anglo-Russian Theatre) and ‘Act Provocateur Int.’ With a history spanning for 15 years.

During this period our companies have produced over 100 productions which gained great interest and awards from both audiences and Press all over the world.

We have performed at 11 Edinburgh Fringe Festivals and in various National and International festivals in USA, Africa, Europe and Russia.

TC will continue to justify its name presenting to the audience a collection of very different styles: from medieval farce to experimental theatre, from classic to modern International drama and new writing.

Theatre Collection Presents The Three Sisters

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The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov

Like many of Chekhov’s works, it is about the decay of the privileged class in Russia and the search for meaning in the modern world. In the play, Olga, Masha, and Irina are refined and cultured young women in their twenties who were raised in urban Moscow but have been living in a small, colorless provincial town for eleven years. With their father dead, their anticipated return to Moscow comes to represent their hopes for living a good life, while the ordinariness of da
y-to-day living tightens its hold.

Directed by Victor Sobchak

Wednesday – Saturday 7:30pm
Sunday 5pm

Tickets: £12/10

Booking:

www.theatrecollection.net

Phone: 07966597190

THEATRE COLLECTION was founded in 2009 by Victor Sobchak (Artistic Director) and Shaban Arifi (Producer,Director and Actor)

TC is the sequel of the highly acclaimed ‘ART-VIC’(Anglo-Russian Theatre) and ‘Act Provocateur Int.’ With a history spanning for 15 years.

During this period they have have produced over 100 productions which gained great interest and awards from both audiences and Press all over the world.

They performed at 11 Edinburgh Fringe Festivals and in various National and International festivals in USA, Africa, Europe and Russia.

TC will continue to justify its name presenting to the audience a collection of very different styles: from medieval farce to experimental theatre, from classic to modern International drama and new writing.

Theatre Collection present Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Theatre Collection present Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Adapted and directed by Victor Sobchak
 
Crime and Punishment was always going to be an ambitious undertaking, especially with limited stage space and the necessary shortening of the literary epic for the stage. However there is a great deal to like about this production.

 The story itself has always fascinated me, offering psychological insight into the nature of morality, and the many forms of punishment that exist, reaching far beyond simple incarceration. Seeing the play in 2012 also makes me question whether criminals today may be so plagued by guilt and unable to enjoy ill-gotten gains.

 We follow Raskolnikov (played with impressive intensity by Shaban Arifi) an anti hero and our central character. Pressured by the poverty surrounding him, he feels forced to kill and rob a woman who by all accounts is morally bankrupt. In the course of this crime he is interrupted by her sister, whom he also kills.

 The punishment he brings on himself for these heinous acts – despite intermittently justifying them to himself and, at times, others – is enthralling to witness. With money the motivating factor, both for himself and his mother and sister, it is symbolic that he finds himself unable to use the money at all, becoming a miserable and tortured shadow of himself.

 With these issues as the subject, set in Nineteenth Century St Petersburg, the portrayal was always going to be bleak, and while at times the intensive, tortured performances were hard to watch, they felt true to the novel. The use of space, lighting and music was particularly impressive and I really did feel swept away – albeit bleakly – in the performance.

 This won’t be a play for everyone and I wonder if people who haven’t read the novel would get as much from it as I did, but overall I would highly commend such an ambitious and largely successful undertaking.

By Meredith Ettridge

Stars Shaban Arifi and Lucia Edwards.