Shakespeare and cabaret at Warwick’s Dream Factory

The Warwick-based youth drama company will start 2012 by hosting Future Shorts, the world’s largest pop-up film festival, on Thursday January 12, placing emphasis on a season when theatre will meet all media in a series of projects.

In February, the Shakespeare Young Company present a double-edged season, as The Red Company create an immersive Jacobean world of poisonings and haunted sleeps in Nightshade, while The White Company stage, in-the-round, two plays from the 1500s, when Shakespeare was setting out on his career, Titus Andronicus and The Two Gentlemen Of Verona.

Following this will be Playbox Theatre’s JINKS company’s re-working of Goethe’s poem The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, the work that inspired a Mickey Mouse magic-fest in the 1942 film Fantasia.

For Easter at the Dream Factory in Warwick, with touring dates at Coventry Cathedral and Holy Trinity Church in Stratford, the company will restage 2011’s reworking of the Medieval Mystery Cycle, The Mysteries, taking audiences on an epic journey from the creation of the world to Doomsday.

Also coming up will be The Wreck of the Titanic, O.U.T Spells Out - a drama centred around the post-war child migration programme between the UK and Australia, summer circus, cabaret, musical theatre and dance and George MacDonald’s The Light Princess.

Tickets for all productions are available from tomorrow (Saturday). Call 419555 or go online.