Making More Waves is back for its 4th year with a great programme to enjoy, running from Tuesday 12 - Sunday 16 November!
A performing arts festival presented by Looping the Loop & ARK, Making More Waves celebrates all types of performance and offers fantastic platforms for discussion, learning, showing and sharing. Making More Waves features some of Kent and Essex's best-loved creatives alongside emerging performers presenting new work, as well as workshops and professional development opportunities - and great networking!
JOIN US OVER THE WEEK TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THEATRE AND MEET THE PEOPLE YOU NEED TO KNOW!
Making More Waves Programme
Weds 12 Nov 7.30pm Something Borrowed
World Poetry Slam winner Harry Baker starts the festival with a special edition of Something Borrowed, featuring a surprise guest!
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Thurs 13 Nov 11am - 1pm Panel Discussion:
Do I have to Sell my Soul to Sell my Work?
An open discussion with an industry panel including Sally Lampitt (Applause), Barra Collins (Las Theatre), Millie Brierley (Marlowe Theatre) and Mandy Hare (Creek Creative); a chance to explore the challenges facing creatives today, share your views and get great up-to-the-minute advice.
Thurs 13 Nov 7- 9pm Scratch Night
4 early-stage performances are shared with the audience and a group of industry professionals. Join us for The Apartment (new musical by Greg Link) The Endless Hotel (rock musical by Weaver Line Music) Beach Babe (inclusive dance theatre by Jodie Cole) and a hiphop adventure with Sadie @ Detriore Music. You are invited to respond to the works and hear the views of the panel: Lara Clifton (Screaming Alley), Jan Ryan (ARK director) and Applause Rural Touring.
Fri 14 Nov 2pm
Working as a Self-producing Performance Artist
Alice d'Lumiere explores the variety of challenges you have to master and juggle in order to succeed when, like her, you do it all yourself!,
Fri 14 Nov 8pm Troubled
1993 - Belfast is burning so Mum won’t let Alice go to Funderland.
‘How about Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves and Chinese chicken balls instead?’
2023 - Alice falls for Tim, but can she escape the legacy of a childhood shaped by conflict or is this the moment everything unravels?
Accessible and entertaining,Troubled fuses movement, music and storytelling, as it explores the clash between lived experiences, illusion & delusion.
Sat 15 Nov 2 - 4pm Family Scratch
Join 3 artists/companies trying out new work for families. We welcome The Drop of The Ocean (Rebel Tales Theatre), Pyweasel (Zoe Hammond & Jamie Pattenden) and Sweet Tender Hooligan (Motormouse Theatre). We'd love to hear feedback from children and parents, alongside the professional advisors Liz Bate (Las Theatre) and Sally Lampitt (Applause) to help the artists take their work forward.
Sat 15 6.30pm Plebbing Up
Written and created by Curly Wordy aka Louise Hale, former community journalist and poet rooted in real voices, Plebbing Up is a spoken-word-led theatrical experiment that personifies London through its poetry, its people, its freindhsips and its disappearing Cockney rhythms. It's a first leap from page to stage: raw, rhythmic, and ready to be tested live.
Sat 15 Nov 8pm The Trans Lady Sings
Two years ago, a Performance Poet, self-confessed outsider in gender and 50+ late starter in opera, challenged herself to overcome a childhood inability to sing. Alice d’Lumiere now reveals if she’s able to hold a note. Contralto? Baritone? No Limits!
Combining prose, verse, comedy and a dash of gender-fluid performance art, with original music and possibly some foolhardy attempts at the classical repertoire…
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Sun 16 Nov 10am - 12pm The Art of Puppetry
Artist, designer and puppet-maker James Frost shares his love and expertise around the art of puppetry and its history - from exploding chickens to a life-size elephant!
James works to commission in set design, prop, puppet and mask making. He is an educator and is currently teaching modules in Theatre Design at Canterbury Christ Church University, as well as being a Creative Practitioner for the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury.
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Sun 16 Nov 1 - 5pm Puppet Making Workshop
Join us for a hands-on workshop where you'll help build a life-sized elephant with a water-squirting trunk and a magnificent lion with an articulated jaw! Using traditional materials like willow for the structure and muslin for the skin, you'll learn the techniques to bring these incredible creatures to life.
For all ages - we need adults as well as families to make these great creatures!
Sun 16 Nov 8pm You're Not in the West End Now!
Join us for our close to this year's Making More Waves with Katie McGarry’s riotous, heartfelt musical comedy that flips the glitz of London's theatre scene on its head. Born from the grit of Medway and the chaos of real life, this one-woman show is a love letter to musical theatre - with a twist.
