Pied Piper returns to the Barbican for Christmas!
Following a successful run earlier this year in the Barbican Theatre, the Olivier Award-winning hip-hop street dance spectacular Pied Piper returns this Christmas due to popular demand for a four-week run from Thursday 10 December 2009 – Sunday 3 January 2010.
The show, originally produced by Theatre Royal Stratford East in 2006 where it thrilled sell-out houses, closely follows the structure of the original poem by Robert Browning but this version of the morality tale is told from an edgy, modern perspective.
In a typical urban setting the rats become ASBO’d hooded youths. The Pied Piper, played by Kenrick ‘H2O’ Sandy, the show’s choreographer and co-founder of Boy Blue Entertainment, promises to rid the streets of the so-called vermin of society but when the city Governors renege on their deal the Pied Piper takes his revenge. The exhilarating energy of the young dancers creates an innovative and thrilling 90-minute performance.
Pied Piper is created by Boy Blue Entertainment. Original music is by Boy Blue Entertainment co-founder Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante and the show is directed and designed by ULTZ, an associate artist with Theatre Royal Stratford East.
Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante and Kenrick ‘H20’ Sandy founded Boy Blue Entertainment in 2001, with the aim of encouraging teenagers to embrace dance while teaching discipline, team building and exposing them to performance and story-telling. Since then it has provided access to dance training to more than 500 young people – many of whom perform in Pied Piper – and it is now East London’s most innovative street dance troupe.
LISTINGS INFORMATION
Venue: Barbican Theatre
Dates: Thursday 10 December 2009 – Sunday 3 January 2010 (28 performances)
Tickets: £10.00 – £26.00 (all seats £10.00 on 16 December)
No performances on Tuesday 15, Thursday 24 and Friday 25 December or on Mondays
Running time: 90 minutes / no interval
Age guidance: 10+
SHOWTIMES (Thursday 10 December 2009 – Sunday 3 January 2010)
Thursday 10 December 7.45pm
Friday 11 December 7.45pm
Saturday 12 December 7.45pm
Sunday 13 December 3.00pm
Monday 14 December NO PERFORMANCE
Tuesday 15 December NO PERFORMANCE
Wednesday 16 December 1.00pm and 7.45pm
Thursday 17 December 8.45pm
Friday 18 December 7.45pm
Saturday 19 December 2.30pm and 7.45pm
Sunday 20 December 1.00pm and 5.00pm
Monday 21 December NO PERFORMANCE
Tuesday 22 December 2.30pm and 7.45pm
Wednesday 23 December 2.30pm and 7.45pm
Thursday 24 December NO PERFORMANCE
Friday 25 December NO PERFORMANCE
Saturday 26 December 3.00pm and 7.45pm
Sunday 27 December 1.00pm and 5.00pm
Monday 28 December NO PERFORMANCE
Tuesday 29 December 7.45pm
Wednesday 30 December 2.30pm and 7.45pm
Thursday 31 December 7.45pm
Friday 1 January 7.45pm
Saturday 2 January 2.30pm and 7.45pm
Sunday 3 January 3.00pm
No performances 14, 15, 21, 24, 25, 28 December
FURTHER SHOW INFORMATION: http://www.barbican.org.uk/pied_piper
BUY TICKETS ONLINE: https://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing/performancelist.asp?shoid=17116
Barbican box office 0845 120 7550 (open 9.00am – 8.00pm Monday – Saturday; 11.00am – 8.00pm Sundays and Bank Holidays)
DISCOUNTS
Bite Multi-Buy: save 10% when buying tickets for three or more performances in the bite season in the same transaction.
Barbican Corporate Membership: 25% off ticket price.
Barbican Members (Barbican Theatre and the Pit): 20% off all performances.
Groups of ten or more: 20% off ticket price.
Students: 50% off ticket price on Wednesday evenings. Advance booking necessary. Proof of eligibility must be shown.
Families: 50% off ticket price for up to three under-16s with each full paying adult.
Members of the Barbican Access Membership Scheme: May be eligible for discounted tickets. Advanced booking necessary.
Schools (Barbican Theatre): £12.00 Stalls, £8.00 Circle.
All discounts are subject to availability and cannot be combined to make greater saving.
came to see the show at Northern Stage in Newcastle.
You are amazing!!
Do you work in schools? I work in an inner city school in Sunderland.
Can you work with us?
Please contact
Vicky Foster Academy 360 Pennywell Sunderland fos1@btinernet.com
Dear BoyBlue,
I’ve seen Pied Piper twice and I really want to know where I can get hold of the soundtrack. I asked at the Barbican but they said they only had the tunes from the show before Pied Piper. Cold you tell me where I can get my hands on it? keep doing what you’re doing,
Cheers,
Ben
Just saw your last show at the Barbican and it gave me goosebumps pretty much all the way through. The kids were amazing, the music powerful and the dancing mesmirising. It’s a shame it was the last performance in London i know a lot of people that would have loved it. A great piece of work – Lovin’it!
I missed it! When it’s coming back again….?