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24th June – 3rd July 2016

WELCOME TO INCOMING FESTIVAL 2016!Now in its third year, Incoming Festival returns to New Diorama to bring you the very best emerging theatre companies. From Chris Goode’s experimental performance boyband to Bucket Club’s take on the Loch Ness Monster, from the hilarious Police Cops to the moving Ross & Rachel, Incoming 2016 has something for everyone.

We’re so proud of the line-up this year, and of the fact that all tickets are still just £5, making sure that this exciting work is affordable for all.

The festival would not be possible without the support of Arts Council England and many others. We are grateful to everyone who has helped us to fundraise and spread the word.

Special thanks are due to: Little Angel Theatre for workshop space; Mobius PR for their generous sponsorship of our fundraiser quiz; Equity; the Peter Brook Awards; all the companies and individuals who donated a prize; everyone who came to the fundraiser or bought a raffle ticket.

And, of course, huge thanks to everyone at New Diorama, who open their doors to Incoming Festival and make the whole thing possible.

We hope you enjoy this year’s festival – do come and find us in the bar for a chat.

Eleanor, Jake and DavidIncoming Festival Directors

Incoming Festival gratefully acknowledges the support of:

Arts Council England, Equity, Little Angel Theatre, Mobius PR, Ladbury PR and individual supporters.

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FESTIVAL DIARY

HOW TO BOOKTickets for all shows cost just £5 and can be booked via New Diorama’s website at NewDiorama.com or from the Box Office (14:00 –18:00) on 0207 383 9034.

Information on how to book for workshops will be announced on the Incoming Festival website soon: IncomingFestival.com

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Friday 24th June

19:00 Giant 21:00 Coyote

Monday 27th June

19:00 Garden 20:30 Letters to Windsor House

Thursday 30th June

19:30 Different is Dangerous 20:30 Theseus Beefcake

Sunday 3rd July

19:00 Cosmic Fear Or The Day Brad Pitt Got Paranoia20:30 Tank

Saturday 25th June 19:00 Snakes & Giants 20:30 Fossils

Tuesday 28th June

19:00 Rite of Passage 20:30 Ross & Rachel

Friday 1st July

19:00 Police Cops20:30 Still III

Sunday 26th June

19:00 Cartography20:30 Eurohouse

Wednesday 29th June

19:00 Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons 20:30 Flew The Coop

Saturday 2nd July

19:00 Cornermen 20:30 The Karen

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GIANTTommy, 22, lives with three generations of his family. They’ve learnt to ignore the strange things his nan says over dinner, and the bizarre rumblings coming from the attic. Horribly honest clowns and questionable cabaret acts ignite the stage with the before Human Zoo’s trademark live music, puppetry, poetry and movement. GIANT is an explosive, absurd and visceral coming-of-age adventure… Could Tommy’s nan be more than meets the eye? Supported by Arts Council England.

TheHumanZooTheatreCompany.co.uk @HumanZooTheatre /TheHumanZooTheatreCompany

The Human Zoo

Friday 24th June 19:00

“One of the most visually compelling and inventive productions I have ever seen”

“A must-see show”

Broadway Baby on The Hive

British Theatre Guide on The Girl Who Fell in Love With The Moon

Winners of the Les Enfants Terribles Award 2014

Selected as part of WINDOW 2016

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CoyotePonyboy Curtis

Friday 24th June 21:00

Catherine Love, Exeunt on Ponyboy Curtis at The Yard

“Skin never hurt anyone.” We came to the towns in times of great confusion. We were hot there, and cold there. We were dancing, and we were asking. We built a bonfire of everything our lives had been, and sat around it telling stories of everything we would become. We traded secrets with our tongues in each other’s mouths. We wrote on the walls: we are smashing up the present because we come from the future.

Coyote tells the story so far of Ponyboy Curtis, experimental performance boyband. It’s a semi-improvised mixtape of highlights from the ensemble’s first two shows, plus hints and intimations from the rehearsal room and from behind every slammed-shut teenage bedroom door. Contains nudity, sex, romance, falling, casual astronomy, boardless skate tricks and the cheap music of impossible longing.

@BeMyPonyboy

“These beautiful, ravishingly brave boys”

“Theatrically rigorous, sensual and weirdly both very funny and very sad

at one and the same time”Simon Stephens

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Snakes & GiantsFrom critically-acclaimed, international award-winning company behind Beulah, Babylon and Fable comes a fantastical fusion of spoken word, dance and a heavy, soulful soundtrack. A nation loses itself in the crowd. A defiant love breaks all bounds. A woman dances wildly on the cliff edge. Winding together three distinct narratives, this is an expansive journey, a search for our kin. Fresh from being awarded Best Collective at Adelaide Fringe Festival, and an Off-Broadway transfer of Fable, The Flanagan Collective head to Incoming Festival in advance of running at Summerhall at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

TheFlanaganCollective.com @FlanCol/FlanaganCollective

The Flanagan Collective

Saturday 25th June 19:00“Stratospheric” “Gorgeous”

The Herald on Fable

The Scotsman on Beulah

The Guardian on Babylon

A Younger Theatre on Beulah

ThreeWeeks on Beulah

The Skinny on Beulah

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FossilsBucket Club

Saturday 25th June 20:30

“A triumph of layered, lo-fi storytelling”

The Stage on Lorraine & Alan

Broadway Baby on Lorraine & Alan

Fest on Lorraine & Alan

Vanessa’s life is science. Fact based, evidence led, no nonsense, no monsters. But when a photograph surfaces showing something in Loch Ness, she must embark on a very personal research project.

An extinct fish, a missing father and breath-taking live electronic sound in a new play from the makers of multi award-winning Lorraine & Alan.

Supported by Tobacco Factory Theatres.Bucket Club are an associate company at Farnham Maltings.

BucketClub.co.uk@WeAreBucketClub/BucketClub

Winner: Brighton Fringe Award for Excellence

MTN Award for Innovation

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CartographyA story about maps, wanderlust and grabbing life by the proverbial balls. A tattered OS map. Outdated, well-loved and a nightmare to fold. Sarah is busy dying, counting down her heartbeats. She is studying maps of places she never intends to go. John is driven to travel by the need to be someone interesting. Both are looking for a future when they meet each other.

Through song, string and a bright red anorak, this is a show that asks if we’ll know happiness when we get there.

FlickbookTheatre.com @FlickBookTC /FlickBookTheatre

Flickbook Theatre

Sunday 26th June 19:00“A testament to the power of

the imagination… Guaranteed to put a smile on your face”

A Younger Theatre

“A must-see show” British Theatre Guide on The Girl Who Fell in Love With The Moon

National Student Drama Festival Commendation for Devised Theatre

Edinburgh Fringe 2015

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Eurohouse“This brand new piece is a response to the EU crisis, and seeing as British people will be asked to decide ‘IN’ or ‘OUT’ in June, it is important for us to present and discuss this new piece whilst people are still reeling from the referendum.”Nasi Voutsas and Bertrand Lesca.

Eurohouse attempts to present the reality of people living in Greece from the perspective of two EU citizens living in the UK and seeing unemployment and discontent rising in their home countries. Developed between Bristol, London and Athens, Eurohouse will be presented at the Edinburgh Fringe this summer.

Nasi Voutsas and Bertrand Lesca, co-produced by FellSwoop Theatre

Sunday 26th June 20:30“Brave and beguiling look at the most

pressing issues facing the world today”A Younger Theatre on Current Location

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GardenHow Small How Far

Monday 27th June 19:00“Quietly revolutionary”

The Scotsman

“Grace’s performance is a breath of fresh air”

ThreeWeeks

“Gives its audience a thirst to live their own lives with a little more

joy & spontaneity”

The Skinny

An intimate show about reconnecting with the world when you feel out of step with everyone else in it.

Monday to Friday, Lucy catches the 8am train to London Bridge. At 9am her day begins at Insignia Asset Management where she is in charge of the photocopier, printer, scanner, shredder and binder. She’s starting to wonder how this fits into The Grand Scheme Of Things. One day, Lucy decides to rescue the abused office pot plant and her life alters. Inside her flat 24 floors up, she starts to plant, cultivate and nurtureher own personal wilderness. The tour of Garden has been supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

HowSmallHowFar.com@HowSmallHowFar

Shortlisted for the Brighton Fringe Award for Excellence

at Edinburgh Fringe 2015

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Letters to Windsor HouseSh!t Theatre are Louise Mothersole and Rebecca Biscuit. From their kitchen in Windsor House they’ve been watching a London and a friendship that’s changing. This housing crisis gets personal. Starting with letters they found in the flat they moved into, this yet again potentially illegal piece by Sh!t Theatre takes advantage of a loophole in the Postal Service Act that says you can open other people’s mail under certain circumstances. This is that certain circumstance. Songs, politics, dodgy landlords and detective work: A show for Generation Rent. Commissioned by the Harlow Playhouse. Supported by Arts Council for England. Sh!t Theatre are Associate Artists of Camden People’s Theatre.

ShitTheatre.com @ShitTheatre /ShitTheatre

Sh!t Theatre

Monday 27th June 20:30

“Surreal, clever and hilarious”

“Swaggering, smart and side-achingly funny”

The Telegraph on Women’s Hour

What’s On Stage on Women’s Hour

Total Theatre ‘best emerging company’ Award winners 2013

Arches Brick Award winners 2013

Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award nominees 2014

Three Weeks Editor’s Choice Award winners 2015

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Rite of PassageTheatre KinAesthetic

Tuesday 28th June 19:00“An original, funny,

emotional and much needed show on being a man”

“A beautiful and honest take on masculinity”

Sarah Sansom, Time Won’t Wait

Amber Massie-Blomfield, Camden People’s Theatre

Filling your father’s shoes. The hardest thing you can never do. In an explosion of physicality and verbatim theatre, Rite of Passage explores the paths we pursue to becoming ‘men’... Expect trials and triumphs, failures and bubble baths as we delve deep into memories and experiences of uncertain days.

TheatreKinAesthetic.com@TheatreKin /TheatreKin Theatre Delicatessen Departure

Point Artists 2015

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Ross & RachelLook at all those couples. Which one will leave. Which one will run. Which one is cheating on the other. Which one will die first. Him. Him. Her. Him.

Ross & Rachel tells the mind-bending, heart-breaking story of what happens when a couple that was always meant to be together, gets together. And stays together. 

In this disquieting duologue for one performer, 2015 Olivier-nominee and 2016 Critics Circle Most Promising Playwright winner James Fritz (4 Minutes, 12 Seconds, Hampstead/West End) takes an unflinching look at the myths of modern love. Molly Vevers reprises her award-winning performance after the show’s critically acclaimed, sold out world premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe 2015 and 2016 New York transfer. Supported by public funding from Arts Council England.

MotorTheatre.com

Produced by MOTOR. Written by James Fritz

Tuesday 28th June 20:30“Shockingly good... a virtuosic piece of writing, playful, post-modern and devastatingly serious all at once”

Time Out

“A startling pieceof new writing”

The Stage

The Stage Award for Acting Excellence 2015

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Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons LemonsThe average person will speak 123,205,750 words in a lifetime. But what if there were a limit? Bernadette and Oliver are about to find out.

Walrus’s award-winning debut show imagines a world where we’re forced to say less, examining how we express ourselves, personally and politically, through the lens of one couple’s relationship. It’s about what we say and how we say it; about the things we can only hear in the silence; about dead cats, activism, eye contact and lemons, lemons, lemons, lemons, lemons.

@WalrusTheatre

Walrus Theatre

Wednesday 29th June 19:00“A beautiful play about the beauty and

preciousness of language. About as promising as debuts get’’

“A seething critique of austerity politics Bright, light and sharp”

Time Out

What’s On Stage

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Flew the CoopRosa and Horace are about to create a little slice of history, and steal a lot of chickens along the way. Multi award-winning Lost Watch presents Flew the Coop, inspired by the true story of Horace Greasley, the British prisoner of war who escaped more than 200 times. Rosa is a translator at her father’s prisoner-of-war camp. There she meets a barber from England. Rosa’s conversational English has improved considerably.

Horace is going to be a war hero, not just a barber. He already has a best-selling autobiography in mind. That is, until he is captured a week into deployment.

LostWatchTheatre.co.uk @LostWatchTC/whereisyourwatch

Lost Watch

Wednesday 29th June 20:30

“Sparkling script...leaves you touched,

empowered and uplifted”

Lyn Gardner on Goodstock

The Stage on Goodstock

“Goodness, it’s the kind of thing I come to the fringe to see”

Winner of NSDF Emerging Artist Award 2014: KATE

New Diorama Theatre Emerging Company 2015

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Different is Dangerous“He thinks I’m Spanish… great! Well, I’m hardly gonna say no, am I? Oh, what, turn around and say, ‘Yeah, I’m a Paki, actually’?”

From unprovoked attacks, hijabs and segregation to Coronation Street, boyfriends and Tu Pac, Two’s Company explore multicultural life and the challenges of ethnicity. Different is Dangerous gives a unique insight into the lives of the Asian Leeds locals. Two’s Company began writing Different is Dangerous whilst studying at Leeds University, living in a mixed community of students. Nyla lived two roads away from one of the 7/7 bombers. However, there is more to this community than the papers would have you believe. Being of mixed ethnicity themselves (Indian-Canadian and Palestinian-Finnish), Two’s Company are interested in the significance of identity and culture.

@TwosCompanyltd /TwosCompanyltd

Two’s Company

Thursday 30th June 19:00“Impressive... Fascinating”

“The humour and wryness strucka bittersweet chord”

Broadway Baby

Audience feedback

Audience feedback

“A fresh approach to dealing with race and equality”

Nominated for the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award 2014

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“‘Compelling’ doesn’t come close. ‘Oh my God!’ doesn’t come close.

‘Earth-shattering’ doesn’t come close”

Bellyflop on Rite of Spring

Theseus BeefcakeA hero and minotaur are locked in the ultimate death match. 

Theseus Beefcake journeys into the dark labyrinth of masculinity, colliding with mixed martial arts, death metal, American frat culture, rodeos, pornography and Greek mythology along the way.

PanicLab, Joseph Mercier and Jordan Lennie push against their personal thresholds of pain and pleasure in this unforgettable duet exploring masculine excess, fantasy, friendship and competition.

@PanicLab /PanicLab PanicLab.co.uk

PanicLab

Thursday 30th June 20:30

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Police CopsReturning from sell-out runs at Soho Theatre, The Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2016 and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2015, the Police Cops are back in town. Police Cops is The Pretend Men’s adrenaline-fuelled, three man cop parody featuring supercharged physical theatre, cinematic style and uncompromising facial hair.

PRESENT DAY (1976). Straight-laced rookie Police Cop Jimmy Johnson is out to avenge his brother’s death. With the help of his new partner, a retired renegade named Harrison, the pair begin to unearth the secrets that the case holds. Police Cops is a cinematic joyride, speeding down Adventure Avenue in a souped-up squad car. Oh, and the steering wheel is made out of guns.

@ThePretendMen/PoliceCopsShow

The Pretend Men

Friday 1st July 19:00“Supercharged trio create an

unbeatable physical cop parody”

“A joy to behold”

“The juggernaut of cheesyparody Americana has rolled

into town”

The Stage

EdFest Mag

The Scotsman

Winner of The Stage Award for Acting Excellence – Best Ensemble 2015

Winner of Brighton Fringe Award for Excellence 2015

Winner of Pulse Festival Suitcase Award 2015

Winner of The VAULT Festival People’s Choice Award

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Still IllFollowing the success of Dog Show (which premiered at Incoming Festival 2015), Still Ill is the new show from Kandinsky, using the surprisingly common but little understood Conversion Disorder to explore neurology and psychology, and where they meet.

With three actors, inventive physical theatre and live music, Kandinsky looks at the search for meaning that follows a difficult diagnosis and how it feels to be told there’s nothing physically wrong with you when your brain’s telling you you’re sick.

@KandinskyOnline /KandinskyTheatre Kandinsky-Online.com

Kandinsky

Friday 1st July 20:30

“The kind of theatre which tickles its audience: accessible,

inventive,entertaining”

“As finely crafted and well-honed a piece of theatre

as one will find anywhere”

“Intricate, compelling, hilarious, moving and multifaceted””

Exeunt on Dog Show

Reviews Hub on Dog Show

Flaneur Magazine on Dog Show

Peter Brook Emerging Company Award 2015

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Cornermen“What else am I going to do? Be a doctor?”

Mickey and his team of cornermen never seem to have much luck in the boxing world. The fighters they manage always end up losing and, after a disastrous last outing, no one wants to work with them. Until, that is, they sign a young boxer whose winning ways catapult them into a world of success they’ve never had before.

However, you can’t win all the time and soon Mickey has to choose between the life he’s enjoying, and the wellbeing of his young charge. Both tragic and funny, Cornermen returns to the New Diorama after critically acclaimed runs at the Edinburgh Festival, the Vault Festival and Otherplace Brighton.

@SmokeAndOakum1 /SmokeAndOakumTheatre

Smoke and Oakum

Saturday 2nd July 19:00

“A striking new play by an exciting new writer”

“A fascinating foray into a relativity untouched world”

London Theatre

“If you’re faintly intrigued by the nature of human triumph, ambition,

self-doubt, and pride, you’ll be floored by Cornermen”

“A real achievement”

The Scotsman

Broadway Baby

EdFringe Review

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The KarenSoundBoxed Collective

Saturday 2nd July 20:30Through live music and immersive theatre, this explosive performance explores the visceral fears and hopes of a generation battling against the city. SoundBoxed smash together a bold blend of spoken word, heavy back beats and physicality. Fuelled by a punk energy, the performers reflect both personal and widespread feelings about city living quality.

The Karen is our focus. She/it symobolises the forces against us, the people, and ritualistically we shall all take her down and look forward to a new age, new empowerment, new collective ownership!

Why did the Estate Agent cross the road? To get her thigh-high leather boots polished.

SoundBoxedCollective.com@sound_boxed /soundboxedcollective

“One of the most evocative, seductive and downright exciting

shows I saw last year”

“To say singing does not capture the dexterity and depth of the sonic

landscape they create”

“I’ve given myself to the beat: I’m swaying, chanting and I’m practically rushing my tits off”

Don’t Panic on The Development

Time Out on The Development

Roland Smith, Artistic Director, Theatre Delicatessen

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Cosmic Fear Or The Day Brad Pitt Got ParanoiaPLANET EARTH! Here I come! LA is filled with traffic jams under heavy smog, trees are drifting under floods in Bangladesh and, in China, incinerators are burning holes in the ozone layer. Brad fears the future. Brad is a man of action and he’s not here to entertain, but to make a difference. Brad embarks on the great universal love project: to Save Planet Earth.

Can the ultimate blockbuster be made to transform the consciousness of the entire world before it’s too late? Shortlisted for the Peter Brook Emerging Company Award.

EmptyDeck.co.uk @EmptyDeckCo /EmptyDeck

Empty Deck

Sunday 3rd July 19:00“Terrifying and engulfing”

Exeunt on Then Silence

Theatre Bubble on Then Silence

“Brilliantly directed – explosive and dynamic”

“No play has embraced the unpredictability of theatre with such

schizophrenic dynamism”Dean Hodge, Freelance Journalist and Reviewer

“There is so much to like about this play it’s hard to know where to start”

Postcards from the Gods on Then Silence

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TankEnglish, all the time! Don’t even think in your own language. In 1965, a researcher lived with a dolphin for ten weeks to try and teach him to speak English, part of a NASA-funded research project into human-animal communication.

Condemned by the wider scientific community as an elaborate circus trick, the experiment remains a controversial episode in the space race between the two Cold War superpowers. Commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre, Breach’s follow-up to critically acclaimed multimedia show The Beanfield explores the politics of language, the power of culture and what happens when you inject a cetacean with LSD.

BreachTheatre.com @Breach_Theatre /BreachTheatre

Breach Theatre

Sunday 3rd July 20:30

“Very funny ... genuinely unsettling”

“Theatrically ambitious and boldly political”

“Hard-hitting ... empathetic and outraged and, frankly, great”

“A truncheoning force”

The Stage on The Beanfield

Sunday Times on The Beanfield

The Guardian on The Beanfield

Fest on The Beanfield

Winner of the 2015 Total Theatre Award for an Emerging Company

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FINDING THE NDT

New Diorama Theatre is based at the heart of Regent’s Place, London NW1 which can be found on the Euston Road at the top of Tottenham Court Road, between Warren Street and Great Portland Street tube stations.

By tube:New Diorama Theatre is within walking distance of: Great Portland Street Station (5 mins walk); Warren Street Station (5 mins walk); Euston Square (5 mins walk); Euston (10 mins walk); Regents Park (8 mins walk); Kings Cross (15 mins walk).

By bus:New Diorama is on the following bus routes: 18, 27, 30, 88, 205, 453, C2, N18.

By train:New Diorama is within walking distance of both Kings Cross St. Pancras (15 mins walk) and Euston station (10 mins walk).

By car:Full directions from your location can be found using our postcode (NW1 3BF) but please note there is no parking at the theatre and Regent’s Place Estate is pedestrianised.

By bike:There are a number of bike stands on Regent’s Place Estate.