Autumn Winter 2024
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The Coronet celebrates 10 years since the restoration of this historic building with a season that reflects its style, ambition and the relationships built over the last decade.
We have brought together The Berliner Ensemble with Brecht, in his own words; Korea’s Ambiguous Dance Company to create the theatre’s first site specific experience; we will premiere our co-production of The Wild Duck with The Norwegian Ibsen Company and Den Nationale Scene, Bergen; Kentaro Kujarai with breath-taking contemporary butoh from Japan and Byron Wallen to curate the annual international Jazz Festival.
This season also marks the beginning of the next decade for this remarkable building, our family of artists, and the ones we have yet to meet.
Come and join the artistic adventure.
Ambiguous Dance Company: The Belt
Tue 10 – Sat 14 Sep
The Coronet Theatre’s first ever site-specific performance.
This September Korea’s highest-profile dance company will make a series of world premieres – a fully staged performance and a series of site-specific pieces – created specially for the atmospheric backstage corners of this 19th century theatre. High octane and daring, Ambiguous Dance Company‘s CV includes collaborations with Coldplay and the V&A’s Korean Wave exhibition.
Poetry Club: Imtiaz Dharker & Sasha Dugdale
Thu 19 Sep
Our ever-popular Poetry Club returns for an evening of readings in our intimate auditorium. For this instalment in the series, we are delighted to welcome award-winning poets Imtiaz Dharker and Sasha Dugdale to read from their recent work – two extraordinary collections with very different voices, united by a strong thread of war.
The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen
Fri 18 Oct – Sat 02 Nov
The Norwegian Ibsen Company makes a very welcome return to The Coronet with a new production of one of Ibsen’s best known plays, The Wild Duck. As always, the NIC brings its distinctive Norwegian perspective on the dramatic and comic genius of one of Norway’s greatest writers. Its sell-out productions of When We Dead Awaken in 2022 and The Lady from The Sea in 2019 received both audience and critical acclaim.
Using Ibsen’s original text, this brand new staging, which will be performed in Norwegian with English surtitles, will have a cast of some of Norway’s most celebrated actors, and will be directed by Hedda Award-winner Alan Lucien Øyen.
Seoul Manner by Bek Hyunjin
Fri 08 – Sat 09 Nov
Korean legend and innovator, Bek Hyunjin – actor, contemporary artist, installation artist, performance artist, and musician – presents an exhilarating evening of entertaining, meaningful performance that draws you into the enigmatic beauty and drama of Korean lyrics and art.
Kentaro Kujirai: U-BU-SU-NA
Thu 14 – Sat 16 Nov
Award-winning choreographer Kentaro Kujirai creates a new Butoh piece using his distinctive hyper-expressive choreography. U-BU-SU-NA, is an old Japanese word meaning “the mystical divine power that protects the land where people were born and raised, and those who live there”.
Butoh or the ‘Dance of Darkness’ is an idiosyncratic and physically demanding dance practice which breaks from more traditional forms to explore taboo topics. A specialised art form which takes dancers years to master, Butoh mixes the traditional with the contemporary to create a potent and compelling experience.
Dead Poets Live: Autumn Journal
Sun 17 & Sun 24 Nov
A thrillingly intimate and powerful dramatic monologue.
Dead Poets Live‘s Autumn Journal returns to The Coronet following a sold-out performance last year.
Autumn Journal, Louis MacNeice‘s 1938 masterpiece, describes his response to a season of intense anxiety and uncertainty. It’s a diary poem, which frets and argues with itself and blends the personal – a love affair, the daily round in London, the leaves falling and Christmas coming – with the overwhelming and terrifying inevitability of an approaching war.
Berliner Ensemble: Stranger than the Moon
Wed 04 – Fri 06 Dec
Bertold Brecht – in his own words. Tender, funny, furious, and moving between cabaret, opera and prose, Stranger Than The Moon is an exhilarating concert portrait of the life of a giant of 20th Century theatre.
Berliner Ensemble is one of the most renowned and long-standing theatres in Germany, and is part of international theatre history. This is the Berliner Ensemble’s first visit to the UK since 2020’s The Tin Drum, also at The Coronet Theatre.
The cORONET Theatre Jazz Festival 2024
Thu 12 – Sat 14 Dec
BBC Jazz Innovation award-winner Byron Wallen returns to The Coronet Theatre to curate a sensational festival of international jazz.
The Coronet Theatre is the perfect festival venue; grab a drink in ‘the most atmospheric bar in the known universe‘ (The Telegraph), celebrate with friends or family, and enjoy some of the best jazz artists in the world performing live in one of the most beautiful venues in London.
Don’t miss out on the opportunity to see these extraordinary performances in this very special season! We look forward to welcoming you soon.