Warwick Arts Centre new season

The arts centre at Warwick University’s campus has just announced its programme of theatre and dance for the autumn.

Among the first shows on Thursday September 6 will be a live screening of the National Theatre’s production of Mark Haddon’s Booker Prize-winning novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, starring Una Stubbs and Luke Treadaway. Arts centre audiences will have other chances to see National Theatre productions on Thursday October 11 and Sunday October 14, when Julie Walters will star in The Last of the Haussmans, a new play about a family losing its grip, and on Thursday November 1, when Simon Russell Beale will play the lead role in Shakespeare’s fable of riches and ruin Timon of Athens. Tickets for all three cost £15 or £10 for seats with a restricted view.

On Tuesday and Wednesday October 4 and 5, adults will act out the words of children in Monkey Bars in the arts centre studio.

With a soundtrack by dance pioneers Underworld, Beautiful Burnout (October 9 to 13,, matinees October 11 and 13) is set in the world of boxing and tells the story of five young fighters aiming to escape the streets of Glasgow.

And Massive Attack collaborator Jon Hopkins and composer Joby Talbot provide the music while world renowned choreographer Wayne McGregor explores the connection between body and mind in Entity on Tuesday October 16 and Wednesday October 17.

Rags and bones will come to the Arts Centre stage from Tuesday October 23 to Saturday October 27 with Kneehigh Theatre’s production of Steptoe and Son, telling the tale of Galton and Simpson’s ever feuding father and son.

Cycling and the Olympics might briefly have held sway in the summer, but Ridiculusmus will look at life through the lens of the nation’s favourite sport in Total Football in the arts centre studio on Tuesday and Wednesday October 30 and 31.

Production company Fuel will take audiences on a sound journey in complete darkness in Ring the Helen Martin Studio on October 31 and November 1.

Flamenco maestro Paco Peña’s latest production Quimeras (Friday November 2) is about longing for a better life and an imagined reality that turns out to be false.

Theatre company Forced Entertainment return to Warwick Arts Centre with a destabilising new show The Coming Storm on Tuesday and Wednesday November 6 and 7.

Greek drama in the shape of Euripedes’ tragedy Medea will be brought to Warwick by Headlong Theatre from Tuesday November 13 to Saturday 17, and Paper Cinema will tell the tale of Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey as a silent film using paper puppets, cinematic projection and a live score on Monday and Tuesday November 19 and 20.

The focus will be on Middle America in Triggered@Warwick’s Action Hero: Hoke’s Bluff on Friday and Saturday November 16 and 17 from 7.15pm.

Friends Jess and Chris muddle their way through life with a coolbox full of beer and some funky dance moves in Made In China’s We Hope That You’re Happy (Why Would We Lie?) on November 21 and 22, while writer Ursula Martinez combines true to life tales with unbelievable missives from her inbox in My Stories, Your Emails on December 5 and 6. The show is for people aged 16 or over.

Contemporary dancer Wendy Houston rebels against ageism in her latest solo work 50 Acts in the arts centre studio on Thursday and Friday November 8 and 9, while Vincent Dance Theatre delve into what it means to be a woman in their new show Motherland on November 20 and 21.

Call 024 7652 4524 for times, prices and bookings or visit www.warwickartscentre.co.uk