Time: 6pm & 8pm
Location: The Scoop at More London
Admission: Free

The More London Free Festival finishes with six weeks of free theatre.  As with the Free Film Festival in June and the Free Music Festival in July, there is no need to book.  Space is allocated on a first come first served basis.  Please remember that many of the events reach capacity so early arrival is recommended.

Free theatre will be performed live in The Scoop at More London every Wednesday to Sunday from 31 July - 7 September 2008

This year's productions are Blood Wedding by Federico García Lorca, in a new version by Ted Hughes and Mark Artell's Petit Rouge.

See below for dates and times.

Blood Wedding

by Federico García Lorca, in a new version by Ted Hughes

A village in Andalusia bustles with preperations for a rural wedding . . . but at midnight it isn't the hansome groom who races his stallion through the moonlight to claim his bride!

Under the starss heady brew of jealousy, desire, forbidden love and an ancient family feud simmer as the as the whole community is caught up in the pursuit of the lovers - knives flash in the darkness.

But as the certainties of daylight slip away, the watchful moon brings his poetry, magic and the figure of death to taunt the villagers.

Spanish playwright, Federico Garcia Lorca, was inspired by a newspaper account of a local woman who abandoned her husband-to-be on their wedding day to escape with her childhood sweetheart. Taking these few facts as a starting point he explores desire, repression, ritual and the dilemmas of a rural community blighted, like ours, by knife crime. 

A unique chance to experience one of the twentieth century's most powerful plays in a version by the celebrated poet Ted Hughes that is much admired for the way it captures the spirit and letter of the original Spanish.

Petite Rouge 

Everyone loves the story of Little Red Riding Hood and this lively new family musical version from New Orleans, based on Mike Artell's best-selling children's book, will delight children and adults alike.
   
Joan Cushing's laugh-out-loud script and toe-tapping songs mix lively jazz with sultry Cajun music to tell the story of brave Petite Rouge and her cowardly cat TeJean as they dodge wily alligator Claude through the swamps of Louisiana and the fun of Mardi Gras en route to Grandmère's house.
  
Expect the blend of award-winning comedy, puppetry, song and dance in this irresistible helping of horrendous French, happy endings and hot HOT sauce!