
BandBazi’s latest aerial production takes its inspiration from Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra and the first passionate meeting between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Love Indeed is a heady drama performed 20 feet in the air.
Within both the public and private realm of these iconic characters, love and pleasure conflicts with lust and power. On a film set in Italy in 1961, two actors meet. She’s a superstar, he’s a Shakespearian actor. They have both come to make the film Cleopatra. Over 12 intense scenes the dynamic of their relationship is explored from falling in love, to jealously, infidelity and obsession.
This is a vibrant piece of new writing with a strong narrative line. Scenes from Shakespeare’s mature romance are interwoven with a contemporary love story, contrasting his sublime poetry with sparse modern text to create a piece that explores universal themes of middle aged love and relationships.
BandBazi’s is a Brighton based company known for its creative productions, combining circus with theatre. Its last production Breakfast at Audrey’s won a 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe First.
Brighton’s Argus called Love Indeed “A touching and beautiful love story, drenched with a joy of performing and storytelling, which adds a cheeky hint of modernity to an ancient and enduring tale.”
Tour dates:
Mon 28 Sep
Brighton, Pavilion Theatre
8.00pm
Tue 29 Sep
Maidenhead, Norden Farm Centre for the Arts
7.30pm
Wed 30 Sep & Thu 1 Oct
Reading, South Street
8.00pm
Fri 2 Oct
Maidestone, Hazlitt Arts Centre
7.30pm
Mon 5 Oct
Poole, Jellicoe Theatre
7.30pm
Tue 6 Oct
Eastbourne, College Theatre
7.00pm
Thu 8 Oct
Worthing, Northbrook College Theatre
7.30pm
Thu 15 Oct
Bristol, Circomedia
7.30pm
Sun 18 Oct
Bracknell, South Hill Park
7.30pm
Thu 22 Oct
Glasgow, G12 Gilmorehill
2.00pm & 7.30pm
Sat 24 Oct
Musselburgh Brunton Theatre
7.30pm
BandBazi
Young Peoples Centre, Ship St, Brighton, BN1 1AE
01273 245584
07805 451530
mail@bandbazi.co.uk
www.bandbazi.co.uk <http://www.bandbazi.co.uk>
BandBazi is a professional circus theatre company and an associate company of Norden Farm Centre for the Arts in Maidenhead. BandBazi runs an inclusive youth circus theatre for young people aged 11-25 years, with a focus on young refugees and asylum seekers, and provides workshops for community and school groups in trapeze, circus skills, drama and creative writing.

