Theatre Deli London

http://www.theatredeli.co.uk

Theatre Delicatessen explores text-based theatre through working with ensemble casts, and creating immersive performances inspired by alternative performance spaces. In February 2011, Theatre Delicatessen was profiled in The Observer as one of the “Bright Young Things Changing British Theatre”

Over the last 4 years, Theatre Delicatessen has conceived, created and managed performance spaces in a d

15/07/2024

This weekend our Shift+Space performance is 💕Made From Love 💔by

👫Two actors make a play to clarify “the events”. Initially, it’s a classic story: boy meets girl, girl gets accidentally pregnant, boy and girl face a decision: keep the baby or not keep the baby?

➕Listing pros and cons, the protagonists do their best to take control of the situation but just as they find their answer, the play develops a life of its own and nothing turns out as expected.

🔁Through repetition and changes of form - Dance? Avant-Garde? Crime drama? Musical? - this piece explores the abstract, violent and discombobulating experience of miscarriage.

💔As the actors grapple with gender roles, grief and a dehumanising healthcare system, the structure of the play starts to fall apart in this sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking piece.

📆19th and 20th July
📍Theatre Deli London
🎟️£7.50/£5
🔗book at the link in our bio.

Image description:

Background: A black chalkboard. 
Foreground: In the centre, taped to the blackboard is the shape of a large paper heart, attached by three pieces of tape. The heart looks like it was cut from a medical leaflet. In the heart is written the title MADE FROM LOVE is bold, blue lettering. Following this within the heart is a subtitle in black: Information for Patients and Their Partners. The bottom half of the heart has the following text: We are very sorry for your loss. This is a sort of work in progress to clarify what happened. Understand the sequence of events, the point of the story, to make sense of, a clear sense of, what to make of the dramaturgy. Find the answers. The message. Feel all the feelings and process what happened. If you have any questions or concerns, please refer to the lines on page 12.

10/07/2024

🌈📝🪩 The performance this weekend is Out Of The Depths by . This show mixes, Oscar Wilde, clubbing and experiences from LGBTQ+ people today. 🪩📝🌈

Devised from Oscar Wilde’s prison letters - written to his lover when he lost his freedom and his status to a charge of ‘gross indecency’ - this show takes place in a q***r club scene where freedom and expression unite people, despite the familiar threat to their community.

Mixing the narrative of Oscar Wilde’s journey with work devised based on the experiences of the LGBTQ+ community today, and tied together with a live DJ’s music and devised movement, this show explores how we find hope in the darkest places.

Through this project Cutpurse hope to create an avenue for theatre and club culture to support one another.

📆12th and 13th July
📍Theatre Deli London
🎟️£7.50/£5
🌈 link to book in our bio

ID: Text reads Work In Progress, Out Of The Depths, De Profundis, Based On The Writings Of Oscar Wilde (set in a club). The writing is blue, white, and slightly wavey. The background is purple and contains a hand written excerpt of a letter from Oscar Wilde to his lover. We can’t read the handwriting clearly.

Photos from Theatre Deli London's post 04/07/2024

☀️What’s on in July?☀️

Join us for new work-in-progress performances as our Shift+Space program continues. There’s shows about dystopian theatre funding, q***r clubbing, Oscar Wilde, love, loss and much more! We’re also excited for the first Black Lives Natter Po’Jam and The Industry Tea’s speed dating night. 

5 & 6 | Shift+Space: Hello Box Office | In a world where only one theatre in the entire country can get funding, who will come out on top? | PWYC

9 | Speak Easy PoJam with Black Lives Natter | A monthly music, spoken word, poetry & sound open mic night. | £1

10 | Deli Meets: Lou Stein Studio | Confidence building actor training where neurodiverse actors work alongside actors with no known cognitive challenges | Free

12 & 13| Shift+Space: Out of The Depths Explore the prison writings of Oscar Wilde, set in a q***r club. | £7.5/£5

17 | Deli Meets: Lou Stein Studio | Confidence building actor training where neurodiverse actors work alongside actors with no known cognitive challenges | Free

19 & 20 | Shift+Space: Made with Love |Two actors make a play to try and process an intangible loss. | PWYC

24| Date and Play with The Industry Tea | A relaxed, fun evening of games and speed dating- brought to you by The Industry Tea | £10+ £1.95 eventbrite fee

24 | Deli Meets: Lou Stein Studio | Confidence building actor training where neurodiverse actors work alongside actors with no known cognitive challenges Free

26 &27 | Shift+Space: Invisible Space | A journey of redefining strangers, making the audience the center of space. | PWYC  

31 | Deli Meets: Lou Stein Studio Confidence building actor training where neurodiverse actors work alongside actors with no known cognitive challenges | Free   

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27/06/2024

🎊🎉CALL OUT: SHIFT+SPACE🎊🎉

Free performance opportunity for artists to present their work that needs an audience to develop, where artists keep 100% of the Box Office!

Applications for SHIFT+SPACE are now open for Autumn 2024.
Deadline: July 26th 2024, 10am

"My experience with the SHIFT+SPACE was nothing short of amazing! The entire team at Theatre Deli was super helpful and encouraging through the entire process. I would encourage anyone with new work to take advantage of this amazing opportunity."

Jaelon Love, SHIFT+SPACE Artist Spring 2024

Apply here! https://www.theatredeli.co.uk/shiftspace

Image description: Text in white reads- Call Out Shift+Space. Deadline: July 26th 2024, 10am. The Theatre Deli logo is top right corner. The image behind the text is an image from previous Shift+Space artists Natasha Pavey and Meg McGrady in their performance The Planet Is.... They face each other. Meg has short hair, wears yellow dungarees and has their arms outstretched towards Natasha. Natasha has bobbed hair, jeans, jacket and converse trainers, she had her arms by her sides, slightly outstretched.

17/06/2024

This weekend!

That F*cking Seagull or Why Masha Always Wears Black 🪽🖤🖕

Welcome to Russia (use your imagination London!)

With your help Maria (sorry, Masha) uses live cinema, a killer soundtrack, a questionable Russian accent, and the only lines from the play she can remember to transport you to the world of one of Chekhov’s greatest plays. As her attempts to stage a career-defining performance prove futile Maria drowns her sorrows in Masha’s vodka, and the distinction between the actor and the role disintegrates.

We are left questioning whose story we are really watching, where does Masha begin and Maria end? A radical response to Chekhov’s play about failed dreams and the unavoidable disappointments of real life, The Seagull, Or Why Masha Always Wears Black explores the lengths we are prepared to go to to feel loved and be seen.

📆 21st & 22nd June
📍Theatre Deli London
⭐️Part of Our Shift+Space Program
🎟PWYC
https://bit.ly/TD_TheSeagull

Video Description: Video starts in black. Music from Will Hanson fades up and continues to play through video.

We cut between a close up of a woman’s mouth, laughing, drinking from a bottle of vodka and an image of the same woman, lit overhead, barely visible lurking in the shadows.

We hear a voice over saying ‘women are more often drinkers than you might realise. Some of them do it openly, like me, but mostly in secret’.

We cut to black and see the title The Seagull, or Why Masha Always Wears Black and then www.thisisnotatesttheatre.com.

10/06/2024

This weekend Where We Meet by Unwired Dance Theatre 🎧🕺💃

Where We Meet is an interactive, audio-based dance installation where audiences can experience the inner thoughts of a dancer. This piece aims to open up the conversation about mental health and to break down taboos by facilitating an empathetic and intimate experience. It begins with the fundamental notion that we can never truly comprehend what is transpiring in someone's mind if we don’t actively choose to connect and be open to understanding.

Each audience member, equipped with headphones, is tracked in the space. As they walk around the space and choose which performers to engage with, innovative location-tracking technology will trigger audio monologues.

In return, thanks to a wearable device, the dancer can decide which thoughts to share with the audience and invite them to participate in gentle moments of interaction. This version of performance is designed for 2 dancers and 6 participants per session.

📆 14th & 15th June
📍Theatre Deli London
⭐️Part of Our Shift+Space Program
🎟£16.50 - £20
https://bit.ly/TD_Unwired

A female dancer with short red hair, wearing a light pink top and purple trousers. She is on the floor, balancing on her bottom with her legs and arms extended in front. She is wearing a phone on her arm displaying a colourful interface. A light projection displays a white outline of a circle on the black floor.
Image credit: Romain Tissot

07/06/2024

Want a 20% discount on rehearsal space for your fringe show? This offer is for any artist taking part in any fringe festival or fringe theatre venue. Here’s how..

This discount can be applied on top of our membership discounts - meaning you could get space from just £4 per hour!

To get the discount all you need to do is..

1. Post about your show on our community hub here https://bit.ly/TDLondon_Membership

2. Email [email protected] with a link to your post. We’ll then send you a discount code.

Easy! 20% off to save you money on rehearsal and get your show off the ground. All you need to do now is book your space, make exciting new theatre and break a leg!

**This offer is for fringe artists as part of any 2024 fringe festival or performing in a fringe venue only. This offer if for bookings made from now until the end of August.**

Image description: Text is in pink and reads Are you making a fringe theatre show? Want 20% off rehearsal space? In the background is an image of a group of 7 women in the Makani theatre company laughing and playing a game in studio 6 at Theatre Deli.

03/06/2024

☀ This week at Theatre Deli! ☀

🎭Shift+Space: Baggage Reclaim

An exploration into the lives of people who are hidden by the mundanity of corporate labour

'Baggage Reclaim' is a piece of new-writing produced by Oida! Theatre which explores themes of identity, perception, and mankind’s innate curiosity, often leading them on a search for meaning and understanding. The piece follows three baggage reclaim workers as they appear to make a game out of rummaging through forgotten luggage and imagining stories for the passengers who left it behind. Whilst it may begin as a light-hearted way to pass the time, as the play progresses it's revealed that the characters use the 'game' as an escape from the drudgery of their own day-to-day lives and delve into their personal experiences.

🎟PWYC
📍https://bit.ly/TD_Baggage
📍7th & 8th June

Also!

⭐ Wednesday

Delis Meets: Lou Stein Studio

The Studio offers confidence building actor training in an environment where neuro-diverse actors work alongside actors with no known cognitive challenges.

Free | https://bit.ly/TD_LouStein

⭐ Saturday

Voidspace Live!

A one day festival of grassroots interactive arts

£25 - £45 | https://bit.ly/TD_Voidspace

Image description: A yellow sign that says baggage reclaim in the style of an airport sign. Below it is a suitcase overspilling with clothes.

Photos from Theatre Deli London's post 01/06/2024

☀️🌈🌦WHAT'S ON IN JUNE! ☀️🌈🌦

This month we're welcoming some new artists presenting new, raw, exciting works in progress every Friday and Saturday night. You'll see a slightly different show each night as the artists have time to develop the work with the audiences feedback from Friday night.

Don't forget every Wednesday you can book a free 30 minute call with one of our core team to get advice from anything from funding, self-producing, dramaturgy, story, project management, any of your arty questions, we're here to support you https://bit.ly/TD_DeliDropIn

5 | Delis Meets: Lou Stein Studio | Free https://bit.ly/TD_LouStein

7 & 8 | Shift+Space: Baggage Reclaim | PWYC https://bit.ly/TD_Baggage

9 | Voidspace Live! | £25 - £45 https://bit.ly/TD_Voidspace

12 | Deli Meets: Lou Stein Studio | Free https://bit.ly/TD_LouStein

14 & 15 | Shift+Space: Where We Meet | £16.50 - £20 https://bit.ly/TD_Unwired

19 | Deli Meets: Lou Stein Studio | Free https://bit.ly/TD_LouStein

21 & 22 | Shift+Space: The Seagull or Why Masha Always Wears Black | PWYC https://bit.ly/TD_TheSeagull

24 | Delicious Open Mic | Free

26 | Deli Meets: Lou Stein Studio | Free https://bit.ly/TD_LouStein

28 & 29 | Shift+Space: Up In The Mango Trees | £10 https://bit.ly/TD_Mango

ID1: Poster with pastel blue background. A dancing woman in the middle of a yellow mango shape frame. She is wearing a colourful headwrap and her eyes are closed to signify enjoyment. Beside her, inside the mango frame, is the title ‘Up In The Mango Trees’. On the right hand corner are vibrant green leaves and yellow mangoes. On the bottom left corner of the mango frame are more vibrant leaves with reddish mango.

ID2: Artwork for The Seagull. A black and white photocopy-style image. In the foreground is a figure of a woman (waist up), holding a bouquet of flowers. The flowers are highlighted in hot pink and her mouth is covered with a hot pink rectangle. The background looks like grid-patterned paper, with repeated playing-card hearts and drawings of two swallows, a treble clef, a martini glass and a burlesque dancer surrounding the figure.

ID3: Artwork for Baggage Reclaim. A yellow sign, similar to the signs in an airport spells the show title. There is a grey suitcase with clothes spilling out of it.

ID4: Artwork for Where We Meet. A male dancer with dark hair and short facial hair, wearing a grey and black suit. He is on the floor balancing on his shoulders with his legs up in the air and feet flexed. He is looking at the camera. A projection displays a thin white outline of a squiggly circle on the black floor.
Image credit: Clemence Debaig

29/05/2024

🥳 We are thrilled to be partnering with our friends Scrum Theatre as they open up their new beautiful, high quality, affordable rehearsal space in the heart of Hammersmith.

The spaces at SCRUM Studios exist with the aim of creating a diverse artistic community and are subsidised for individual artists, small groups, small charities and small theatre companies.

There are studios that are carpeted or with a dance floor, access to a kitchen, piano and one of the studios is wheelchair accessible. Studio users also have access to a quiet room to relax and decompress if needed.

We’re pleased to support Scrum as they embark on this new venture. If we don’t have availability at our Leadenhall Street venue, if the City of London isn’t the most convenient place for your project or if you’d prefer the masses of natural light in these spaces, here is how you can book!

Bookings are made here https://bit.ly/ScrumBooking

If you would like to make a commercial booking, please contact [email protected].

Any questions, feedback or suggestions please email [email protected]. We’re always happy to hear them.

Image description: Text reads New Studios Alert! Book space with our friends Scrum Theatre at their studios in Hammersmith. The background is an orange paint effect. There are blue photos of people moving and they are made in to an abstract pattern.

28/05/2024

This weekend The Trash Supper by 🍽 ✝️ 🗑

With one foot in the Church and one in the sewer, "The Trash Supper" is a cross-genre live art show, currently in its early stages of development, that takes as a starting point an absurd, visceral, and anarchic restaging of the Passion of Jesus.

Drawing from drag culture, post-pornography, Catholic iconography and Lucia's own existential mess, "The Trash Supper" merges the political with the autobiographical whilst investigating abjection, identity, consumption, and Lucia's autistic mind.

📆31st May 1st June
📍Theatre Deli London
⭐️Part of Our Shift+Space Program
🎟Pay what you can

https://bit.ly/TDTrashSupper

Photos from Theatre Deli London's post 27/05/2024

What's on this week? So glad you asked 🥳

Monday

27| Deli Meets: Merlin Nova Players’ Circle Players’ Circle is a dramatic play and theatrical games session for adults. | Free https://bit.ly/TD_PlayersCircle

Tuesday

28| Deli Meets: Introduction to the Chubbuck Technique Actors, get a free intro to the Chubbuck technique, the process made famous by actors such as Brad Pitt, Halle Berry and Charlize Theron.| Free https://bit.ly/TD_FreeChubbuck

Wednesday

29| Deli Meets: Lou Stein Studio | The Studio offers confidence building actor training in an environment where neuro-diverse actors work alongside actors with no known cognitive challenges. | Free https://bit.ly/TD_LouStein

29| Comedy: Live At The Leadenhall! | Join us for a night of laughs at Theatre Deli- Leadenhall, London's hottest new comedy night in the heart of the city! | £13.50 https://bit.ly/TD_LiveatLeadenhall

Thursday

30| Deli Meets: Move to Thrive Feel-good release flows to unwind, energizing Bollywood dance to uplift mood, soothing breathwork practice to de-stress. Let's stress less & thrive more via movement play. | Free https://bit.ly/MoveToThrive

Friday and Saturday

31 & June 1| Shift+Space: Lucia Trash Supper An absurd, visceral, and anarchic restaging of the Passion of Jesus. | PWYC https://bit.ly/TDTrashSupper

ID1: Artwork for Players circle,on the left are 2 lifelike sketches of horses, on the right is a black and white checkerboard with a 3d image of a horse statue with a yellow halo, on a green grassy floor.

ID2: image of Lucia for their show The Trash Supper, they have a messy blonde wig filled with baubles, dolls, nails and ci******es, they have eyes covered in smudgy black make up and smeared lipstick that looks bloody.

ID3: A photo from the chubbuck class, Rich has a hand outstretched while two actors work on a scene with scripts in hand.

ID4: Image description: Title is live at leadenhall in chunky graphic writing. 29th May 19.45 £13.50 tickets at theatre deli.co.uk, 107 Leadenhall Street. Half of the image is yellow and half is orange with a graphic skyline of the gherkin and the leadenhall building. Theres 5 headshots of the 5 comics who will be performing. Their names are Aisha Amandure, Ed Mulvey, Yazz Fetto, Robert White and Danny Ward

Photos from Theatre Deli London's post 20/05/2024

⭐🥳Whats on this week! ⭐🥳

We're celebrating creativity and wellbeing week with a clay workshop, a voice class and a movement and music session. As well as our sessions with Lou Stein and Rich from 12 Steps to Acting.

Tuesday

Deli Meets: Introduction to the Chubbuck Technique | Actors, get a free intro to the Chubbuck technique, the process made famous by actors such as Brad Pitt, Halle Berry and Charlize Theron | Free https://bit.ly/TD_FreeChubbuck

Wednesday

Deli Meets: Lou Stein Studio | The Studio offers confidence building actor training in an environment where neuro-diverse actors work alongside actors with no known cognitive challenges. | Free https://bit.ly/TD_LouStein

Creativity and Wellbeing Week: A trauma-informed voice class | A trauma-informed voice class that integrates EFT acupressure points & EMDR bilateral brain stimulation to improve emotional wellbeing. Free https://bit.ly/TDEmbodiedVoice

Thursday

Creativity and Wellbeing Week: Make with Clay |A 'Clay' workshop hosted by Make with Mermaid | Free https://bit.ly/TD_Clay

Friday

Creativity and Wellbeing Week: Give Or Take Workshop | Improvisational movement community workshop with Bold Mellon CollectiveFree https://bit.ly/TD_GiveorTake

Deli Meets: Building Magic: Learn the technical aspects of magic and how to start interpreting magic in your own way. 7-9pm https://bit.ly/BuildingMagic

Image description 1: 2 people facing each other doing an acting exercise in a blue studio. One person is facing the other and is smiling with a hand up.

Image description 2: a close up of a torso in a lotus position with hands resting on their knees.

Image description 3: 2 people who are smiling facing the camera in a peach filter.

Image description 4: a collection of colourful pottery from a make with mermaid workshop.

13/05/2024

This weekend! ‘The Planet Is _____’ is a new verbatim musical about climate justice, friendship and what it means to be an activist.

It’s the 29th June 2022, the day after the Police, Crimes, Sentencing and Courts Bill has come into effect in the UK. Meg and Tash, two young climate activists, decide to document how protest is affected in the next year. A lot can happen in a year. This is their story.

Written by Meg McGrady and Natasha Pavey , the show has been created from poetry written and interviews captured between June 2022 and June 2023.

Praise for Meg McGrady’s Previous Work ‘The Phase’:

**** “Meg McGrady’s score is upbeat and lively at times and filled with emotion at others.” - Lost In Theatreland

**** “It is a complete delight to experience a new British musical with both a catchy and structurally sophisticated score that matches its quick, witty and emotionally intelligent book pound for pound.” - All That Dazzles

📆17th and 18th May
📍Theatre Deli London
⭐️Part of Our Shift+Space Program
🎟 PWYC
https://bit.ly/TDThePlanetIs

Video Description: Meg and Tash are wearing yellow outfits, they dance and sing into a mic on stage and discuss climate anxiety.

07/05/2024

THIS WEEKEND Sorry? by Sophie Halstead

"Sorry?" is a one woman show reflecting on Sophie’s relationship with her deafness.

The show slides between humility and extravagance, offering a generous performance about discovering oneself. Sophie guides the audience through a journey of establishing identity by transitioning through scenes reminiscent of her experience of the world contending with her deafness.

She has worked with the ideas of concealing and revealing through the use of lights and costume as an extension of the body, to create a piece of DIY visual art theatre. She approaches this with a charming and honest performance style. The piece uses the space creatively, with moments of close proximity with the audience, encouraging them to immerse themselves within Sophie's dance.

'I actually laughed out loud because it was so brilliant!'

📆10th and 11th May
📍Theatre Deli London
⭐️Part of Our Shift+Space Program
🎟 £6
https://bit.ly/TDSorry

Image description: A portrait photo of Sophie mid twirl– a white woman with dark hair pushed away from her face. The photo has a long exposure effect which gives a blurry abstract effect.

Photos from Theatre Deli London's post 06/05/2024

⭐⭐What's on in May ⭐⭐

6| Deli Meets: Merlin Nova Players’ Circle | Free https://bit.ly/TD_PlayersCircle

7| Deli Meets: Introduction to the Chubbuck Technique | Free https://bit.ly/44qywJE

8| Deli Meets| Lou Stein Studio | Free https://bit.ly/TD_LouStein

10| Deli Meets: Building Magic | Free https://bit.ly/BuildingMagic

10&11| Shift+Space: Sorry? | £6 https://bit.ly/TDSorry

14| Deli Meets: Introduction to the Chubbuck Technique | Free https://bit.ly/44qywJE

15| Deli Meets| Lou Stein Studio | Free https://bit.ly/TD_LouStein

17&18| Shift+Space: The Planet Is __ | PWYC https://bit.ly/TDThePlanetIs

21| Deli Meets: Introduction to the Chubbuck Technique | Free https://bit.ly/44qywJE

22| Deli Meets: Lou Stein Studio | Free https://bit.ly/TD_LouStein

22| Creativity and Wellbeing Week: A trauma-informed voice class | Free https://bit.ly/TDEmbodiedVoice

23| Creativity and Wellbeing Week: Make with Clay | Free https://bit.ly/TD_Clay

24| Creativity and Wellbeing Week: Give Or Take Workshop | Free https://bit.ly/3UIaqqv

27| Deli Meets: Merlin Nova Players’ Circle | Free https://bit.ly/TD_PlayersCircle

28| Deli Meets: Introduction to the Chubbuck Technique | Free https://bit.ly/44qywJE

29| Deli Meets| Lou Stein Studios | Free https://bit.ly/TD_LouStein

29| Comedy: Live At The Leadenhall! | £13.50 https://bit.ly/TD_LiveatLeadenhall

30| Deli Meets: Move to Thrive | Free https://bit.ly/MoveToThrive

31 & June 1| Shift+Space: Lucia Trash Supper | PWYC https://bit.ly/TDTrashSupper

ID1: The artwork for creativity and wellbeing week, give and take workshops with Bold Mellon. 2 people in a peach filter smiling next to each other.

ID2: Lucia, looks solemn in a wild blonde wig covered in baby dolls, nails, fake blood and a catholic candle. They have a lot of black smudged eye make up and fake blood smearing their mouth

ID3: Two people facing each other bathed in purple the person on the left is standing with their arms by their sides and the person on the right has their arms outstretched towards to the other person . Between them is a large speaker and the name Eddie projected on to the wall.

ID4: Sketches of horses next to an image of a white ceramic horse sculpture next to a red ball. The background is a black and white checkerboard and at the bottom if the image is CGI grass

ID5: An array of colourful pottery creations

30/04/2024

THIS WEEKEND! A Ship Of Fools by Liu Diyu

During the pandemic, individuals considered to pose a risk of contagion were placed on a large ship known as the " Narrenschiff."

This vessel docked at ports in various cities, awaiting the transportation of individuals listed on it before setting sail for the next destination. No one knew where it was heading, and no one knew when the people on board could disembark. Thousands of individuals, separated from their familiar environments, lived collectively in the confined space with strangers.

The first challenges for those forcibly boarded were the daily necessities of eating, drinking and sleeping. Subsequently, they realized a more desperate issue: waiting, waiting for the uncertain notification of when they could disembark.

Based on real events occurred in China, using reporting and interviews as a starting point, employing theatrical techniques to depict the lives of several ordinary people under high-pressure conditions, providing a different perspective on "resistance'

📆3rd 4th May
📍Theatre Deli London
⭐️Part of Our Shift+Space Program
🎟Pay what you can
https://bit.ly/TDAShipOfFools

Image Description: a medieval painting of banqueting table surrounded by fools and jesters. On the heads of the fools have been photoshopped black and white photographs of the cast of the play Ship Of Fools.

23/04/2024

THIS WEEKEND! The Mute Messiah by Paul Koloman Kaiba

"The Mute Messiah" is a hybrid theatrical exploration that centers on the struggles of a young person on benefits in the UK.

The narrative unfolds as the protagonist navigates the complexities of the benefit system, becomes a symbol of resilience in the face of societal challenges. The characters we follow include the mute messiah, their sister, and outside figures such as social workers and government officials.

The play intricately weaves together themes of class struggle, modern-day miracles, the power of believe and faith, challenges faced by those reliant on social support, and the performative cruelty of the current system and its proponents. The intersection of art and activism is a core element of the piece, with the play aiming to shed light on the daily struggles faced by benefit-class and working class individuals, prompting reflection and dialogue on the broader societal issues of empathy and understanding.

"The Mute Messiah" seeks to provoke thought, inspire empathy, and contribute to conversations about the experiences of overlooked, marginalized individuals in contemporary society.

📆26th & 27th April
📍Theatre Deli London
⭐️Part of Our Shift+Space Program
🎟Pay what you can
https://bit.ly/TDMuteMessiah

Image Description A painting of 4 cubist faces in brown, grey and beige colours. All of the 4 faces look look sad and downcast

Photos from Theatre Deli London's post 22/04/2024

🎤📝🎭🧘 This week at Theatre Deli

Monday

Delicious Open Mic Night | Free
A DELI-cious Poetry Open Mic!
22nd April 7-7.45pm

Theatre Deli Leadenhall Street
https://bit.ly/TD_OpenMicNight

Tuesday

Deli Meets: Women Writers Bar | Free
A workshop to encourage our participants to network and share creative ideas through writing and directing.
23rd April 7-9pm

Theatre Deli Leadenhall Street
https://bit.ly/3VQJ6HG

Wednesday

Deli Meets: Lou Stein Studio | Free
Inclusive skills training of professional actors and creatives
24th April 2-5pm
Theatre Deli Leadenhall Street
https://bit.ly/TD_LouStein

Thursday

Deli Meets: Move To Thrive | Free
Mindful Movement Play to De-Stress & Find Joy

25th April 6-9pm
Theatre Deli Leadenhall Street
https://bit.ly/MoveToThrive

Friday and Saturday

Shift+Space: The Mute Messiah | PWYC
A theatrical exploration of the UKs benefits system, taking the audience on a Kafkaesque journey, filled with contradictions & performative cruelty, and juxtaposed with modern day miracles, compassion and solidarity.
26th and 27th April 7.30-8.30pm
Theatre Deli Leadenhall Street
https://bit.ly/TDMuteMessiah

ID1: A picture of the last open mic at Theatre Deli, framed by twikling fairy lights an audience watch someone performing a poem on stage.
ID2: A cubist painting of 4 faces in greys and browns looking sad - this is the artwork for The Mute Messiah.
ID3: Aditi from Move To Thrive, lunges and twists slightly to one side. Her hands appear to be cradling an invisible ball
ID3: Framed by purple with a yellow star in each corner, there is a grid of 3 images of women writing and working, one image is filtered in green, another blue and another in pink.

Photos from Theatre Deli London's post 15/04/2024

🪄💃🏳️☕🖊This week at Theatre Deli

Tuesday

Deli Meets: Developing Your Playwriting Through Structure | Free head
16th April 2-4pm
Theatre Deli Leadenhall Street
https://bit.ly/RebelliousHead

Wednesday

Deli Meets: Lou Stein Studio | Free
Inclusive skills training of professional actors and creatives
17th April 2-5pm
Theatre Deli Leadenhall Street
https://bit.ly/TD_LouStein

Thursday

Deli Meets: Move To Thrive | Free
Mindful Movement Play to De-Stress & Find Joy

18th April 6-9pm
Theatre Deli Leadenhall Street
https://bit.ly/MoveToThrive

The Industry Tea | £3.50 - £5
An event designed to help people thrive both professionally, financially and personally.

18th April 7-10pm
Theatre Deli Leadenhall Street
https://bit.ly/IndustryTea

Friday

Deli Meets: Building Magic | Free
Learn the technical aspects of magic and how to start interpreting magic in your own way.
19th April 7-9pm

Theatre Deli Leadenhall Street
https://bit.ly/BuildingMagic

Friday and Saturday

Shift+Space Another Flag | PWYC
A live, multimedia project to collectively re-create the fabric of a world that is safe for women and artists.
19th and 20th April

Theatre Deli Leadenhall Street
https://bit.ly/TDAnotherFlag

ID1: Aditi smiles with her eyes closed - sitting in a lotus position with one arm at 90 degrees
ID2: A white sheet or flag, its slightly creased and there are 2 hands touching it at the botton of the image
ID3: Flyer for The Industry Tea: On a navy blue background, theres the industry tea logo of a cup of tea, the text below reads: Presents money, business & property, 18th April 2024, 7pm at Theatre Deli 107 Leadenhall Street London EC3A 4AF Expert panel, prizes to be won and more
ID4: Tobias sits on the floor looking thoughtful surrounded by playing cards scattered all around.

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This weekend’s #ShiftSpace is @mangotreesplay by britnyvirginiaa 🥭🌴💃🏾Tas’xi life revolves around college, MaMae’s stall ...
🎤BLN-Live: Speakeasy Po’Jam 🔥🎹 @blacknatter invites Black & Global Majority artists to an experimental night of music an...
This weekend! ‘The Planet Is _____’ is a new verbatim musical about climate justice, friendship and what it means to be ...
🏳️#ShiftSpace Another Flag 🏳️This Friday and Saturday - last few tickets remaining! “Another Flag” by @dia_tria is a liv...
🐦‍⬛Don’t miss Black Bird by @jaelonkennedy 🐦‍⬛With inspiration from William Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth, “Black Bird” is ...
Invisible Targets by  /theinfluencerTK5th, 6th April PWYC tickets - https://bit.ly/InvisibleTargetsTDOur new #ShiftSpace...
We're thrilled to announce our participation in @VoilaFest 2024. This November Voila! invites artists to share new Europ...
🖼️Seen our new artist of the month exhibition in the cafe? ☕️Jasmine Kahlia has been invited by Theatre Deli to exhibit ...
The Cycle by Vilma Jackson Productions @vcrj90_productions We are pleased to present a screening and Q&A of the powerful...
📕📗@black_lives_natter needs your books! 📚📖We want to share a message from our lovely friends at Black Lives Natter - BLN...
Where is Theatre Deli?? We know it can be hard to find and it doesn’t seem obvious that an arts space and rehearsal stud...
We are always amazed by all the different activities going on at any one time at Theatre Deli. We’re so grateful for the...

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Tuesday 10am - 10pm
Wednesday 10am - 10pm
Thursday 10am - 10pm
Friday 10am - 6pm
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