Something Very Far Away

Unicorn Theatre
22 May

We loved, and felt the rush of stars and space
on hilltop and park bench, our fingers locked
and bodies bent for every utterance.

She was my light and sky and all my happiness,
her every glance and kiss
a lovely lesson in what courtship is;

and now she’s gone I’d give up time and space
for one last glimpse, a final sight of her
across the universe, so very small, so very far away.

Something Very Far Away runs at the Unicorn Theatre until 2 June
http://unicorntheatre.com/something-very-far-away-2013

The Low Road

Royal Court
11 May

A penny-poaching, swaggering,

penny-feather-in-his-hat rapscallion, Jim.

A brothel foundling, raised on whores

and honey, out for a gentleman.

Luckless and naked, scaredy cat he swims

in free trade seas, trading in time and sex,

freedom and finery; for here money’s king

and there’s no place in sanity for charity.

Johnny Flynn in The Low Road

The Low Road ran at the Royal Court until 11 May
http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/the-low-road

Mies Julie

Riverside Studios

8 May

Red wine, her father's best.

Red cotton dress, glaring

upon her breasts.

Their evening lust

burning down walls

and spilling blood.

Their fingers worn

upon a bruise red floor,

beneath which history

and hate will beat

and lay to rest

all hope of love.

Bongile Mantsai and Hilda Cronje in Mies Julie

Mies Julie runs at Riverside Studios until 19 May

http:www.riversidestudios.co.uk/cgi-bin/page.pl?l=1346162841

Orpheus

Battersea Arts Centre
18 April

His fingers fly, dark eyes

fixed on the distance:

the guitar his accomplice.

Red velvet dress, red wine,

and a woman enchanted;
the guitar is his promise.

Orpheus, by Little Bulb, runs at the BAC until 11 May
www.bac.org.uk
www.littlebulbtheatre.com/orpheus.html

Table

The Shed at The National Theatre
10 April

Table of love and hope.
A wedding gift

of scars. A leopard's claw.
A line of ink, urine

or blood. The weight
of age and family.

A wooden board, heavy
with stones and stories.











Table runs at The Shed until 18 May

http://theshed.nationaltheatre.org.uk/events/table

Blown Away

Polka Theatre
6 April 

Like fireflies above a sleeping world, 
star-lit, soaring, playing 
above the city and the sea, sliding 
down red rooftops and dancing 
over distant green meadows. 

Retreat to pillowy soft clouds
and hide and seek and taste 
your favourite flavour in the wind, 
chocolate and butterscotch 
bursting upon your tongue. 

 

Blown Away by Birdsnest Theatre

is on tour until 20 April

http://birdsnesttheatre.com/blown-away/

Above Me The Wide Blue Sky

28 March

Young Vic

The sky is quiet now the birds have gone,

the fields green and bare without flowers.

The path is there beneath a line of trees,

but where the silver fish flashing the stream?

Laura Cubitt in Above Me The Wide Blue Sky

Above Me The Wide Blue Sky by Fevered Sleep 

ran from 7 - 28 March at the Young Vic

http://www.youngvic.org/archive/above-me-the-wide-blue-sky