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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 derelict college building between Selfridges and St Christopher’s Place on the fringes of London’s Oxford Street, and a disused workshop at 295 Regents Street. In doing so, they have pioneered ongoing collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders in the commercial sector – through in-kind contribution of buildings, organising fundraising corporate events and donations. This entrepreneurial approach – of approaching private companies as prospective collaborators, rather than simply as sponsors – has been an important part of the company’s success to date. Theatre Delicatessen is led by the directors Jessica Brewster, Frances Loy and Roland Smith, with support from a number of other artists and an active volunteer programme to engage young artists and the local community in every part of the production process. Recent main productions have included: Theatre Souk produced and curated by Theatre Delicatessen, Mercury Fur by Philip Ridley, directed by Frances Loy, The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare, directed by Jessica Brewster, Pedal Pusher by written and directed by Roland Smith – which transferred to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, To***co Factory, Bristol and Norwegian Literary Festival in Lillehammer – and The Doll’s House by Henrick Ibsen, directed by Frances Loy – which transferred to Latitude Festival 2011. Theatre Delicatessen has also created installation performances for the Big Chill Festival and the Old Vic Tunnels in support of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes.

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.

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.

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

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Theatre Deli, 107 Leadenhall Street
London
EC3A4AF

Opening Hours

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

Telephone

+442037353771

Website

http://www.theatredeli.co.uk/

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