This is an exciting one. I was hanging around the National Theatre on Sunday and picked up a brochure for the outdoors stuff they’re doing over the summer. There was some really good stuff lined up.
Now, in a pleasingly similar vein, an email about the Hippodrome’s Six Summer Saturdays programme (website coming soon) has dropped into my inbox. There’s a brochure you can read too.
Blurb:
Over six consecutive Saturdays, free scheduled shows will take place at venues across the city including the piazza in front of the theatre on Hurst Street, Arcadian Centre, High Street and Cathedral Gardens.
The programme starts on Saturday 24 July with Vogue Ball, a day and evening of showing off and celebrating the performer in everyone. Audiences will be challenged to step up and step out onto the catwalk, release their inner diva and perform to their heart’s content.
The following weeks will welcome raving grannies on souped-up shopping trolleys, giant kangaroos bouncing around the city, classic puppetry, contemporary mime and international acrobats.
I’m dead excited about this so well done to Sarah Allen, the Hippodrome’s Creative Programme Manager, who I believe was brought in to put this together.
Congratulations are also due to the designers of the marketing materials who’ve had to cope with so many logos.
Also, giant kangaroos FTW.
While we’re on Hippodrome stuff – Liz Leck, their Education and Audience Development Manager, has put up a blog post about a typical week for her. Fascinating stuff and the sort of thing most people wouldn’t know goes on in that building.