An award-winning free festival is returning to East London this summer with more than 50 events. The Greenwich + Docklands International Festival is an outdoor festival of free theatre and performing arts, spanning 16 days and a variety of performances.
The festival takes place every year at various performance spaces across East London, from the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich through to the University of East London. And best of all – each of the events are all free to watch.
The full programme for the festival has been announced today (July 25) and includes some huge names from the theatre world. The festival will open with a street theatre show called Silence!, which promises to fuse percussion and pyrotechnics in Woolwich.
Also included in the 16 day programme is an 8-hour aerial performance on a 2.5 tonne melting block of ice, called THAW. This performance will also be live streamed to audiences across the world, and hopes to highlight the need for world-wide action to tackle the climate crisis.
Physical theatre companies Good Chance and Gecko will also be bringing a new show to the festival, which will look at children’s right to safe passage, the festival has said. But the festival isn’t just theatre – there’s also a celebration of dance in Dancing City with a line-up of some of the biggest names in dance.
And for children, there will be a new two-day bank holiday programme for kids in Stratford Park which will include sculptural games, dance, theatre and circus.
For more information, and to see the full programme, click here.
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