PREVIEW
Spring season programme launch at The Point, Eastleigh

 

EASTLEIGH’S main theatre boasts a whole range of dance, theatre and comedy highlights this spring.

Kick-starting The Point’s season is a special homage to Eastleigh-born writer David Nicholls’s One Day.

Marking its 25th anniversary Eastleigh Library is hosting An Audience with David Nicholls on January 24 at 3pm, a prelude to the screening of the film One Day – an adaptation of his popular book.

The story follows university friends Em and Dexter depicting one day each year of their lives.

February 5 sees the world through the eyes of a homeless man. Mr Sole Abode is a world-renowned architect, master chef and an outlandish inventor, who lives in a fridge under a bridge.

This poetic tale, created by Leo Kay in 2006 with Benji Reid, explores sanity and madness and is inspired by The Famished Road – an award-winning novel by Ben Okris, as well as David Bohm’s writings on the nature of reality.

ZoieLogic Dance Theatre brings SAFE to the stage on February 12. A thrilling performance sees a troupe of heroic construction workers during the 30s set against the imagined backdrop of New York’s famous Empire State Building.

Then on March 8 community dance groups come together for D-Fuse – as part of the New Dimensions in Dance Programme, a new initiative designed to get more people in Hampshire dancing supported by the county council.

The piece includes the Point Youth Dance Company and Next Steps Dance Company, as well as other local groups.

American stand-up comedian Rich Hall brings his unique brand of cut-throat humour on March 7.

Star of TV shows QI and Have I Got News For You, the award-winning Montana native is renowned for his expertly crafted tirades and quick-fire banter with audiences, as part of his latest show Rich Hall 3:10 to Humour.

A “choral sound bath” is set for March 11-13 with HUG by Verity Standen.

Each member of the audience is blindfolded and then individually hugged by a singer to experience the performance through sound, breath and vibrations of the body.

Little ones can enjoy Rosie’s Magic Horse on March 14 – a story of heart-warming aspiration and friendship as well as a little bit of mischief with catchy songs, ideal for everyone aged three and over.

Lead choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh returned with acclaimed ballet La Bayadère on April 2.

Her dance company, made up of talented ballerinas aged eight to 80, starts the evening with a curtain-raiser.

The Ninth Life has been commissioned by the Royal Ballet Studio Programme and premieres in London in March before coming to The Point.

And last but not least Deluge – an immersive dance piece – follows on April 30 bringing four strangers together cast adrift in a safe house. With only the clothes on their back they find themselves asking what had been lost and what there was left to lose.

This boundary-defying piece by Lila Dance will have audience members grappling with reality.

To find out more or to book tickets call the box office on 023 8065 2333 or go online at thepointeastleigh.co.uk.