Hello everyone!
It’s the spookiest week if the year!
In a great coincidence, there seems to be a lot of really good stuff on this week so you’re getting a bumper edition of etude.
There’s so much to chose from!
Hope you find somehting you love or something that spooks you
free
Wednesday 27th October
Take part in a unique meditative experience about psychology and quantum physics
Paul Gato has been through a lot. He has been signed off from the university again. His colleagues say he has not been himself. He has been sending them e-mails filled with ramblings and Feynman diagrams. He said, “There is nothing more dangerous than being trapped between mirrors”. Paul might be losing his mind, but he might still be right. Dare you take part in his final experiment?
An online immersive experience for headphones and a mirror.
The Mirror Trap is a short headphone play/experience/installation/horror story about psychology and quantum physics.
Content Note : The show features loss, car accidents, suicide and uses psychological illusions that could prompt disturbing visions.
Online Haunted House presented by RISD FAV's Live Performance for Online Audiences class
free
Tuesday 25th October
Join us for a spooky evening of haunted digital spaces and online performances! Return to this page at 8pm ET on Tuesday, October 26th to attempt to survive our online haunted house.
The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare
from £15
27th - 30th October
A little later than now, in the ruins of a theatre, three witches make a prophecy.
A warrior and his wife enter the darkness. A war begins.
Yaël Farber directs James McArdle and Saoirse Ronan, in an elemental production about a world in transformation, the shadows in all of us, and one couple’s spine-chilling quest for power.
£24.99
Booking closes 31st October
December 2040. Violet is the name on everyone’s lips. A global megacorp that pumps money into fashion, entertainment and spectacle. Behind the glitz, a mess of celebrities and influencers, board members, dynastic family figureheads and those behind the scenes.
Your industry is glamour. The business of art is second only to that constant hunger for more you can never satisfy - more lights, more sparkle, more cash. For some of you this is the only life you ever knew, for others the constant presence of the streets just out of the corner of your vision is reminder enough of what you escaped.
The virtual fashion show at The Colossus is an extravagant first in the latest form of high class entertainment. Attendees from all over the globe, wearing VR helmets to control avatars, rub shoulders with other elites in the opulent secret desert location. There are always mini rebellions and gang violence, and the run up to the event has been no exception; the little people do their thing and you do yours.
But now an error message flashes across your vision and you find yourself unable to remove your VR headset. A voice seems to laugh on the desert wind “Welcome, honoured guests to the Tenements’ finest spectacle: The Vengeance Gauntlet! 20 sinners, 1 walks free. Good luck…”
[CTRL]EXECUTE is an online cyberpunk larp that combines physical props and online roleplay exploring themes of excess and desperation, revolution, and retribution. It is a dark, socio-political game with secrets to uncover. This is a game that would appeal to players who like talking, emotional role play, character manipulation, and puzzle solving. It is an expansion of the Tenement 67 universe, but is a closed-circuit, stand-alone event, There is no need to be familiar with previous Tenement 67 events or their setting.
The Glad Game by Phoebe Frances Brown
£15
Until 31st October
Phoebe is an actor.
From her childhood impressions of Dolly Parton to grown up roles at The National Theatre, The Donmar Warehouse and New York Theatre Workshop, acting has defined who and what she is.
In November 2018 Phoebe was diagnosed with an incurable tumour in the area of her brain that controls speech, language and memory.
In this specially made-for-screen version of The Glad Game, filmed across Nottingham Playhouse, Phoebe shares the story of finding herself in the bleakest of times, of discovering gladness in the saddest of moments and about how who and what you love can pull you through.
The Canary and the Crow by Middle Child
from £5
25th October until 31st October
The Canary and the Crow is award-winning grime and hip hop-inspired gig theatre about the journey of a working class Black kid who’s accepted to a prestigious grammar school.
This lyrical, semi-autobiographical play from writer and performer Daniel Ward uses original live music from Prez 96 and James Frewer to tell a story of the struggle between a new environment that doesn’t accept you and an old one that has no opportunity.
Tschewengur by Studio Platonow
from £3
Friday 29th October
»In that hour, perhaps, happiness itself sought those who would be happy, but the happy were resting after their social worries of the day and did not remember their kinship with happiness.« (Tschewengur, English translation by Anthony Olcott)
A new world generates a new language. Andrei Platonov searched for this different sound his entire life. The rhythm for his expedition was set by the railway: Born into the working class in Voronezh in southern Russia in 1899, he was sent to work in a locomotive factory as a child. The revolution 1921 enabled him to become an engineer, a dreamer of machines and their possibilities, who fought on the front of the revolution and encountered hunger, utopia and violence in the steppe landscapes of the civil war. In the novel Tschewengur, his magnum opus, these elements flow together into a linguistic work of art. His perspective is that of those who suffer the most, the farmers subject to famine and drought, the roamers without land or property, those people without language, writing and history. Built on the threshold of death, their world is broken into by mechanisation and reorganization through the revolution. They are supposed to become »subjects« and create a new world, instead of enduring the old one. Sent by the young Communist party, two extremely different anti-heroes set out to find communism in the expanses of the steppe landscape. They encounter a mythical world inhabited by strange creatures, a world in which humans are part of the structure of things and no longer its rulers, in which the syntax of life together is built anew. In the small town Tschewengur, which they finally reach, the stuff of everyone’s dreams appears to have been achieved: the end of all disagreements.
100 years later, the utopia of socialist landscapes that has coagulated into cement itself looks like a conquered nature, an urban steppe, abandoned and forgotton. A landscape of concrete and oblivion, wasteland and artificiality. It is in the remnants of socialist urbanity that the group Studio Platonov situates its unusual Tschewengur film. It will be presented live at the Gorki – and will later be streamed online.
Sanctuary City by Martyna Majok
from $30
until November 21st
DREAMers. Love(r)s. Life-long friends. Negotiating the promise of safety and the weight of responsibility, they’ll fight like hell to establish a place for themselves and each other in America. 2018 Pulitzer Prize winner, NYTW Usual Suspect and former 2050 Fellow Martyna Majok brings us an unforgettable story that asks what we’re willing to sacrifice for someone we love. Rebecca Frecknall, director of the 2019 Olivier Award-winning Summer and Smoke, helms the highly anticipated production which returns to the stage after performances were halted in March 2020.
8 shows! Wild. Hopefully there’s more treats than tricks in this selection!
Thanks again for reading and talk to you next week
Josh xx