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 Special Guest and local legend Rachel Long to share something old, something new, Something Borrowed, and something blue. Sometimes poems, sometimes music, always a good time. Alongside some chat and performance from Harry and Rachel, there will be an open mic where you are welcome to come and perform a poem or song (either your own or Something Borrowed (!))
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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 (LAStheatre), Millie Brierley (Marlowe Theatre) and Matthew Jones (1DegreeEast); a chance to network, to explore the challenges facing creatives today, share your views and get invaluable up-to-the-minute advice.
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Thurs 13 Nov 7- 9pm Scratch Night
4 early-stage performances are shared with the audience and a group of industry professionals.
The Apartment by Greg Link is a contemporary song cycle written for bass-baritone and piano, set over the course of one man's tenure living in a flat. His experiences of love, loss and life are condensed into five musical vignettes.
The Endless Hotel by Weaver Line Music centres on Myra, an undervalued employee at The Endless Hotel (a place between the ordinary and dreaming worlds). She is the only one awake after a mysterious outsider puts everyone to sleep. The only way to save them is by finding an all-powerful key before the doors to dreaming close forever.
Beach Babe by Jodie Cole is dance theatre about escaping to the sea, finding love on the shores of Margate and trying not to mess it all up. Ever wonder why the British seaside is making an almighty comeback? Jodie has, so she moved there to see what all the fuss was about! In this piece Jodie asks, can the sea really heal us all?
Sweet Tender Hooligan by Motormouse Productions is a gritty new play exploring immigration, choices and surprising connections. Bo knows the tunnels and the dangers they hold. When Gadoa arrives, he's just another immigrant, another transporter for the gang's activity. But Gadoa brings his own defiance, and with it shakes up Bo's world.
The audience (YOU!) are invited to respond to the works and hear the views of the panel: Lara Clifton (Screaming Alley), Jan Ryan (ARK Director), Mandy Hare (Creek Creative and Sally Lampitt (Applause Rural Touring).
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 2pm Family Friendly Scratch
Join 3 artists/companies trying out new work suitable for families and youth audiences.
The Drop of the Ocean by Rebel Tales Theatre is a specially created story for under 6's. The sun, the moon and the ocean are best friends. But they only get to play together at dusk and dawn because the sun must sleep by night and the moon must sleep by day. The answer to playing all day and all night is hidden deep in the magical waves. Join them on their musical, magical journey to find the answer.
aGenesis by Detrivore is a multimedia musical story featuring poetry, electronic music, live music and projections for teenagers. Audiences are invited to dance for the final act.
Pyweasel by Zoe Hammond, Peter Hammond & Jamie Pattenden is based on original stories by local author David King. The story is aimed at young children and their families and will be interactive and BSL signed.
After the performances, the adults and children in the audience will be asked to give feedback to help the theatre-makers continue to develop the shows alongside the professional advisors Liz Bate (LAStheatre), Mandy Hare (Creek Creative) and Applause Rural Touring.
Sat 15 Nov 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 friendships 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…
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!
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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 Musical Theatre’s high kicks and jazz hands 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. It's part personal memoir , part parody, and all heart. Come for the showtunes, stay for the hilarious and heartbreaking truth.
