North East Tickets On Sale

Tickets are now on sale for all three North East World Shakespeare Festival venues.

The Rest Is Silence, In A Pickle and Macbeth: Leïla and Ben - A Bloody History are playing at Northern Stage. Julius Caesar is is playing at Theatre Royal Newcastle. West Side Story is playing at The Sage Gateshead.

There is a discount if you book to see a World Shakespeare Festival production in each of the three venues.

World Shakespeare Festival Regional Festival Discount
A special Festival Discount is available for those who book to see a production at all three North East World Shakespeare Festival venues: The Sage Gateshead, Theatre Royal and Northern Stage.

Book to see three of the following productions (at least one from each venue) and receive 15% off the total cost of your tickets (20% off if you are a ‘Friend’ of Theatre Royal or a ‘Sage Supporter’). The Festival Discount is only available from 4th November until 31st December from Theatre Royal on 08448 11 21 21.

dreamthinkspeak Reviews

Reviews for Before I Sleep

'The cumulative effect is extraordinary. Unforgettable, actually.'
Times

'All I can say is that Before I Sleep is the most mesmerising, atmospheric, visually exquisite piece you are likely to see at this festival, or indeed anywhere.'
Independent

'It is a gorgeously rich experience and, like Chekhov, blends amusement masterfully with melancholy'
Financial Times

'Trust me, go.'
Telegraph

'dreamthinkspeak has devised a tremendous promenade piece…Tristan Sharps brilliantly exploits the original purpose of the Co-op.'
Observer

Reviews for One Step Forward, One Step Back  

'The journey takes about an hour; it will sustain you for a lifetime.'
Guardian

'The performance takes about an hour, but in terms of impact and resonance it is transforming and timeless.'     
Times

'A show of intricate detail and endless possibilities that merits close scrutiny.'
Independent        

'Dazzling.'
Telegraph

'an extraordinary promenade event… fabulous installations…Unforgettable.'
Independent on Sunday                            

Reviews for Don't Look Back

'This is a fantastic piece of work ….a triumph'
Guardian

'It will be impossible to see Somerset House in the same way again.'
Sunday Times

'Don't Look Back was British artist Tristan Sharps's poetic journey through an abandoned building. It was one of the most original and thought-provoking dramatic inventions I've seen in years'
Australian

'Astonishing…..dreamthinkspeak have here confirmed their reputation as one of Britain’s most fascinating theatre groups with this unique show.'
Scotsman

• Running Time 90 Minutes - No Interval

• Director Tristan Sharps

An ambitious textual and visual deconstruction of Hamlet, interweaving performance, film and installation to create a vigorous new interpretation that cuts to the heart of the play.

Boldly juxtaposing scenes and speeches, the company aims to examine themes and characters from a variety of angles, bringing new meaning to one of Shakespeare’s most performed works.  

Meditative and dreamlike in quality, the hallmark of dreamthinkspeak’s productions, The Rest is Silence will be performed within a specially designed and multilayered structure, allowing the action to unfold on different levels and on all sides.  

Commissioned by Brighton Festival with LIFT and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

dreamthinkspeak

dreamthinkspeak
Created in 1999 by artistic director Tristan Sharps, dreamthinkspeak interweaves live performance with film and installations to create extraordinary journeys that are ambitious in scale, visually layered and popular with audiences wherever they are performed.

Previous Works
Previous works have taken place in a variety of physical and architectural contexts from Register House in Edinburgh, to the Majestic Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, to the magnificent Old Treasury building in Perth, Australia. Their work has been seen to great acclaim all over the world, most recently in Australia, Malaysia, Romania, Russia, Slovenia and Syria. Over the years, the company has evolved into an ensemble of artists and craftspeople, including carpenters, metal workers, architectural and 3D modellers, graphic designers, scenic artists, performers and technicians with a wide range of practical and artistic skills.    

In 2000 they created Who Goes There?, a deconstructed site-responsive production of Hamlet, which transformed a range of sites into world of Elsinore including BAC in 2002. The following year, Don't Look Back premiered at Brighton Festival and has since been recreated for a total of twelve sites in the UK and beyond. Underground, inspired by Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, was commissioned by Brighton Festival and The Barbican for the Bite:05 Young Genius season and played to sell-out audiences at the Theatre Royal Brighton and a vast underground former abattoir in Clerkenwell. One Step Forward, One Step Back, inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy, was commissioned by Liverpool Capital of Culture for Gilbert Scott’s Anglican Cathedral, also to great acclaim. In 2009 Absent, a walk-in installation inspired by the rise and fall of socialite Duchess of Argyll, was presented at the Royal Opera House in London as part of Ignite 09. Most recently, Before I Sleep, commissioned by Brighton Festival, played to packed audiences over a ten week extended run at a vast disused department store in central Brighton.  

dreamthinkspeak Online
Website www.dreamthinkspeak.com