The Globe Theatre's annual Concert for Winter is a large-scale
community project, offering local schools and community groups
from across the borough of Southwark the opportunity to perform
on the Globe stage. Joe will be musical director for this event,
and performing alongside Globe actress and storyteller, Debs
Newbold.
Shakespeare's Globe
21 New Globe Walk
Bankside
London SE1 9DT
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well in Paris
Musical Revue
Wednesday 16th - Saturday 22nd November
(performances Mon - Sat)
Joe will be joining the team of this revue show at the
Charing Cross
Theatre, celebrating the work of the iconic singer Jacques
Brel. Joe will be playing accordion for a selection of
performances throughout the show's six-week run (21/25 Oct,
7/8/17/19/21/22 Nov).
Charing Cross Theatre
The Arches
Villiers Street
London WC2N 6NL
Pat Kirkwood is
Angry
Production
Tuesday 10th - Sunday 29th June (performances
Tue - Sun)
Following last year's acclaimed run of The Girl I Left
Behind Me, Joe and soprano Jess Walker are set to return
to the 2014 Brits Off Broadway Festival with Pat Kirkwood
is Angry, a look at the tumultuous life (both on and off
stage) of the legendary singer and actress.
Written by Walker, and in a co-production with the Royal Exchange
Theatre, Manchester, the show tells the story of the most famous
woman you've probably never heard of. Born in Salford in 1921,
Kirkwood was named Britain's first wartime star, and became the
first woman to have her own BBC television series. Yet despite
all her fame and success, Kirkwood's reputation was forever
clouded by rumours of an affair with the Duke of Edinburgh.
In this witty but poignant look at the ephemeral nature of fame,
Jess's dynamic stage presence and superlative singing bring Pat
Kirkwood's story to life again. This show features classic songs
by Noël Coward, Cole Porter and Richard Rodgers, as well as
some rediscovered gems.
A tour-de-force, enthralling throughout... Jessica Walker
brings the woman behind the songs to life. -
WalesArtsReview.org
Masterfully portrayed - Walker's voice soars! - The
Good Review
59E59 Theaters
59 East 59th St
New York City, NY 10022
A Berlin Kabaret
Cabaret
Tuesday 13th - Wednesday 14th May, 9.30pm;
Friday 16th May, 9pm
Performing as part of this year's
Brighton Fringe
Festival, Joe has joined forces with playwright Peter Cox,
director Sue Parrish and Sphinx Theatre Company as arranger and
musical director for A Berlin Kabaret which explores
the challenging and powerful songs penned by Bertolt Brecht and
Hanns Eisler. Extracts of their work are placed alongside other
composers and lyricists from this politically volatile yet
creatively rich period of history (including Kurt Weill and
Friedrich Hollaender) for a musically rich and poetically acerbic
evening.
Joe will be joined on stage by a quartet of phenomenal performers
- Katie Brennan, Sarah Gabriel, Richard Maxted and John Sandeman
- in what promises to be a moving, confrontational, political,
yet also darkly humorous evening of music and theatre.
The Warren, Main House
Russell Place
Brighton BN1 2RG
Premiere of A Globe Round at
the 2014 Wanamaker Festival
Music & Theatre
Sunday 6th April, 4pm
The annual
Sam Wanamaker Festival is Globe Education's largest event.
Every year, two actors-in-training from all 21 of the top UK
drama schools are invited to present scenes from plays by
Shakespeare and his contemporaries in a large festival
performance. Every year, the show culminates in all 42 students
performing together in a traditional jig.
This year, for the first time, the entire company will also join
forces at the beginning of the show to sing a new round,
commissioned by the Globe and composed by Joe. The premiere of
this setting of three lines from the Bard's As You Like
It also coincides the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's
birth. The piece is constructed of three separate round lines,
all of which are sung in canon and simultaneously, resulting in a
complex 7-part texture.
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
21 New Globe Walk
Bankside
London SE1 9DT
The Nine O'Clock Slot
Theatre
Wednesday 26th March - Saturday 19th April
(performances Mon - Sat incl. Sat matinee)
Joe has teamed up with
ice&fire, a theatre
company dedicated to exploring contemporary human rights issues,
to be musical director of their latest show.
The Nine O'Clock Slot confronts the disturbing
rise in the number of so-called "paupers' funerals" in modern-day
Britain in an experimental piece that retraces the stories of
four individuals buried in the same communal grave. The lives
recounted are based on true stories.
This semi-promenade production is the inaugural show at the
Red Gallery in
Shoreditch. Performed in the gallery's warren of underground
industrial spaces, the piece promises to be fully immersive,
powerful and thought-provoking.
Following their sell-out appearance at the Union Theatre in 2011,
Joe reunites with singer and actress Katie Brennan, to present a
follow-up to their show, Song of the Single
Girl.
Loathe Valentine's Day? Sick of sifting through the duds on
match.com? Then this Valentine's Day, join Katie Brennan for a
riotous evening of music and comedy as she navigates the trials
and tribulations of being a singleton in the city. Featuring
special guest performers and accompanied by a live band, you'll
laugh, you'll cry, and you'll want to drink a lot of gin.
The Alleycat
4 Denmark Street
London WC2H 8LP
Nearest Station: Tottenham Court Road
