Welcome to Sprint 2014!
Sprint is our annual festival of new and unusual theatre. It’s a cavalcade of the best brand new performance we can find, from artists you’ve never met before, and artists whose work you already love. Many of them are making theatre happen in ways you didn’t know were possible – which is just how we like it.
Early bird tickets, £9 before 1st March on most shows
Double bill tickets: £18 for 2 shows in 1 night
Sprint pass: 5 shows for £40
This year, we’re delighted to be welcoming superstars of the indie theatre scene Kindle, with two new shows; the premiere of
UNPACK by Shunt and Rotozaza veteran Glen Neath in collaboration with Neil Bennun; Daniel Bye, with the London premiere of his Edinburgh Fringe smash
How to Occupy an Oil Rig; two short shows from Tim Crouch sidekick
Andy Smith; and many more. There are also CPT debuts from first-timers including
PinchVanish,
MingBeast,
The Same But Different and others.
We’ve also got performances of this year’s Spring Festivals Co-Commission,
My Son and Heir, “an anarchic celebration of the everyday heroism of parenthood” from Bristol-based Search Party. We have an action-packed one-off night dedicated to intimate performance. And we end the festival with a day of hot-off-the-press showings by participants on our
Starting Blocks 2014 artist development scheme.
Oh, and then there’s CPT@20, an all-new, year-long strand of work marking our twentieth (twentieth!) birthday. The celebrations are launched at Sprint, with a
Party Like It’s 1994 knees-up, and the first shows in our
Passing the Baton series – which sees great artists from our past select new and emerging artists to make work at CPT.
There’s lots going on. It’ll be extraordinary. We hope you’ll join us.
Brian, Jenny, Freya, Anna and all at CPT
Thu 06 Mar 2014 - Fri 07 Mar 2014
An intelligent, urbane look at the nature of desire
Tickets: £10 / 8 (conc)
Thu 06 Mar 2014 - Fri 07 Mar 2014
A celebration of the greatest relationship we can ever have - the one we have with ourselves
Tickets: £12 / £10 (conc)
Sat 08 Mar 2014
Come and join us to celebrate CPT's birthday and all things 1994
Tickets: £15 - includes a glass of bubbly
Sat 08 Mar 2014
Recipient of the 2014 Spring Festivals Co-commission, an anarchic celebration of parenthood
Tickets: £10 / 8 (conc)
Mon 10 Mar 2014
A solo show remembering the artist's nan, and her home in deepest suburbia
Tickets: £10 / 8 (conc)
Mon 10 Mar 2014
A live soundtrack inspired by found images and memories of Tom Adams' life
Tickets: £12 / £10 (conc)
Tue 11 Mar 2014
A performance about fame; how we idolise it, hunger for it and loathe it.
Tickets: £10 / 8 (conc)
Tue 11 Mar 2014 - Wed 12 Mar 2014
A cryptic, chaotic exploration of how we remember and why we might prefer to forget
Tickets: £10 / 8 (conc)
Wed 12 Mar 2014
A look at the 'degenerate generation' and what it means to remember someone else’s nostalgia
Tickets: £10 / 8 (conc)
Thu 13 Mar 2014 - Fri 14 Mar 2014
Two top-notch short work-in-progress performances
Tickets: £12 / £10 (conc)
Thu 13 Mar 2014
A new show about the realities of unemployment.
Tickets: £10 / 8 (conc)
Fri 14 Mar 2014 - Sat 15 Mar 2014
A performance for anyone who's ever picked up an instrument and put it down again
Tickets: £12 / £10 (conc)
Sat 15 Mar 2014 - Sun 16 Mar 2014
Old time vaudevillian Sid Lester takes one last shot at the big time...
Tickets: £12 / £10 (conc)
Mon 17 Mar 2014 - Tue 18 Mar 2014
A passionate love story that examines the complexity of the human brain
Tickets: £12 / 10 (conc)
Mon 17 Mar 2014 - Tue 18 Mar 2014
A provocative music-theatre show about Welshness
Tickets: £12 / £10 (conc)
Wed 19 Mar 2014
Commonwealth; and All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
Tickets: £12 (£10 conc.)
Thu 20 Mar 2014
Part of our Sprint / Beyond the Joke night of standup theatre.
Tickets: £10 / 8 (conc)
Thu 20 Mar 2014
Part of our Sprint / Beyond the Joke night of standup theatre.
Tickets: £12 / 10 (conc)
Fri 21 Mar 2014
Tickets: £15 - one ticket gains you entry to 4 one-on-one experiences, plus 2 durational performances taking place around CPT
Sat 22 Mar 2014 - Sun 23 Mar 2014
A playful and provocative show about protest
Tickets: £12 / £10 (conc)
Sat 22 Mar 2014
An experimental journey into space.
Tickets: £10 / 8 (conc)
Sun 23 Mar 2014
A time-travelling murder mystery starring Johnny Knoxville from Jackass
Tickets: £10 / 8 (conc)
Mon 24 Mar 2014 - Tue 25 Mar 2014
Absurd, darkly comic show about a travelling circus
Tickets: £12 / £10 (conc)
Mon 24 Mar 2014
A motor-mouthed collage of spoken word and storytelling
Tickets: £10 / 8 (conc)
Tue 25 Mar 2014
Celebrating the lives and extraordinary memories of elderly people in care homes
Tickets: £12 / 10 (conc)
Wed 26 Mar 2014
Double-bill of new CPT commissions as part of our CPT@20 activity
Tickets: £12 / £10 (conc)
Thu 27 Mar 2014
Funny, honest and often intimate show about Lucy’s search for femininity
Tickets: £12 / £10 (conc)
Thu 27 Mar 2014 - Fri 28 Mar 2014
"I want to tell a story – well, my family’s story. Some of it may be true and some may not"
Tickets: £10 / 8 (conc)
Fri 28 Mar 2014 - Sat 29 Mar 2014
An enquiry into how we construct memory
Tickets: £10 / 8 (conc)
Sat 29 Mar 2014
Bumper Saturday afternoon of electrifying short performances
Tickets: £12 / £10 (conc)
Sat 29 Mar 2014
A gig/lecture about nuclear energy, dangerous technology and the death of the cowboy
Tickets: £12 / 10 (conc)
Sun 30 Mar 2014
Brand new work created on our unique Starting Blocks programme
Tickets: £12 / £10 (conc)