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Tricycle Theatre

269 Kilburn High Road, Kilburn, NW6 7JR
Tel: 020 7328 1000

Righteous community theatre built in the 80s, destroyed by fire and now rebuilt with a larger 380 seat auditorium and a cinema attached. The Tricycle is in the heart of trendy North London and has a history of staging plays which deal with controversial issues, problems facing minorities, or both.

In recent years the Tricycle has taken this seriousness even further with a series of plays based around real enquiries such as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the Hutton Inquiry and the Savile Bloody Sunday inquiry. Naturally, these plays were conhtroversial, and incited a great deal of debate about whether they were distortions, proper drama, etc. But they were also jaw dropping.

A stylish, well equipped and comfortable place to watch a bit of serious, high minded drama. Or a Christmas panto.
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Upcoming Events at Tricycle Theatre

FIRST BLAST: Proliferation 1940-1992

FIRST BLAST: Proliferation 1940-1992

Friday, 10 Feb ( 8:00PM)
First Blast is part of Nicholas Kent's final season as artistic director of Tricycle Theatre, in which he explores the nuclear bomb. This series has the potential to be as successful as the Tricycle's...
FIRST BLAST: Proliferation 1940-1992

FIRST BLAST: Proliferation 1940-1992

Saturday, 11 Feb ( 4:00PM)
First Blast is part of Nicholas Kent's final season as artistic director of Tricycle Theatre, in which he explores the nuclear bomb. This series has the potential to be as successful as the Tricycle's...
FIRST BLAST: Proliferation 1940-1992

FIRST BLAST: Proliferation 1940-1992

Saturday, 11 Feb ( 8:00PM)
First Blast is part of Nicholas Kent's final season as artistic director of Tricycle Theatre, in which he explores the nuclear bomb. This series has the potential to be as successful as the Tricycle's...
FIRST BLAST: Proliferation 1940-1992

FIRST BLAST: Proliferation 1940-1992

Saturday, 18 Feb ( 3:30PM)
First Blast is part of Nicholas Kent's final season as artistic director of Tricycle Theatre, in which he explores the nuclear bomb. This series has the potential to be as successful as the Tricycle's...
FIRST BLAST: Proliferation 1940-1992

FIRST BLAST: Proliferation 1940-1992

Sunday, 19 Feb ( 2:30PM)
First Blast is part of Nicholas Kent's final season as artistic director of Tricycle Theatre, in which he explores the nuclear bomb. This series has the potential to be as successful as the Tricycle's...
FIRST BLAST: Proliferation 1940-1992

FIRST BLAST: Proliferation 1940-1992

Monday, 20 Feb ( 2:30PM)
First Blast is part of Nicholas Kent's final season as artistic director of Tricycle Theatre, in which he explores the nuclear bomb. This series has the potential to be as successful as the Tricycle's...
FIRST BLAST: Proliferation 1940-1992

FIRST BLAST: Proliferation 1940-1992

Monday, 20 Feb ( 7:00PM)
First Blast is part of Nicholas Kent's final season as artistic director of Tricycle Theatre, in which he explores the nuclear bomb. This series has the potential to be as successful as the Tricycle's...
FIRST BLAST: Proliferation 1940-1992

FIRST BLAST: Proliferation 1940-1992

Thursday, 23 Feb ( 8:00PM)
First Blast is part of Nicholas Kent's final season as artistic director of Tricycle Theatre, in which he explores the nuclear bomb. This series has the potential to be as successful as the Tricycle's...
FIRST BLAST: Proliferation 1940-1992

FIRST BLAST: Proliferation 1940-1992

Saturday, 25 Feb ( 3:30PM)
First Blast is part of Nicholas Kent's final season as artistic director of Tricycle Theatre, in which he explores the nuclear bomb. This series has the potential to be as successful as the Tricycle's...
FIRST BLAST: Proliferation 1940-1992

FIRST BLAST: Proliferation 1940-1992

Sunday, 26 Feb ( 2:30PM)
First Blast is part of Nicholas Kent's final season as artistic director of Tricycle Theatre, in which he explores the nuclear bomb. This series has the potential to be as successful as the Tricycle's...
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Reviews

Tony Glazier Saturday, 20 June
This is a lively and colourful visual production with a lot of African village drum music and Zulu singing. It contains the usual, but very short, shabeen scene like Umoja and Foreplay.

The play is predominently in English but there are quite a lot of Zulu bits and it seems the story is sometimes a little difficult to follow just in English without an understanding of the Zulu!

In a remote and poor village a young girl, Thozama, struggles to survive finding it difficult to get any meat. Her father is a drunken layabout who gives his daughters virginity in return for his gambling debts.

She becomes pregnant and gives birth. A chance and terrifying encounter with an escaped moose change her life for ever. She kills the moose and has meat but then she is arrested by the police who find her cooking the Moose meat. The senior police man is WHITE ! ( Thats the part not the actor! ) He falls for her but at first cannot find a way to take her away from her poverty.

At the end, part of the African aspect of the play which does not seem well understood by UK reviewers, is that the girl is going to a "better place" with her "white man" ! Thats accompanied by the Zulu church song "We're going to a better place".

This would be enjoyed by anyone who loves the drum music, African singing and dancing and appreciates the versatility of the actors who play a multiplicity of parts. A 6' man sucking his thumb when he is a child for example!

Tony Glazier