SplitMoon Theatre

Drama with a bold international focus - vivid experience in a site responsive way. Skill of the actor and magic of language

[SplitMoon Theatre @SplitMoonTC]

"Wherever songs flourish will be our home"

Hat's off to our cast and creatives for 5 memorable performances!!
#DesertPoet 💫

📸 Patrick Baldwin

[SplitMoon Theatre @SplitMoonTC]

A glimpse of DESERT POET - just three more to go!
Today 3pm & 7.30pm, Sun 3rd at 4.30pm
Share the journey 'to the navel of dreams!' ....
@cockpittheatre

[SplitMoon Theatre @SplitMoonTC]

DESERT POET opens tonight!! @cockpittheatre
Very best wishes to our wonderful troupe as they take the next stage of this journey 🧡
As #ChurchStreet Xmas lights are lit tonight ✨'a manifest sign' ✨
5 performances only - come & catch the caravan🐪
#desertpoet

[SplitMoon Theatre @SplitMoonTC]

DESERT POET is performed in English except for the lines by Imru' Al-Qays which are also delivered in Arabic.
"And many a riverbed I crossed .... where the wolf is howling with many mouths to feed"

https://t.co/46xVX8e9WW
#desertpoet @cockpittheatre

[SplitMoon Theatre @SplitMoonTC]

Who was Imru' Al-Qays you ask?

Well, he is - a poet - lover - rebel - Prince and Errant King! Born 500 AD in the Arab Peninsula and died 542 AD in Ankara - the father of Arab poetry.
Hear his lines in DESERT POET - 30 Nov - 3 Dec
https://t.co/kIBESKp0bU
#DesertPoet

[SplitMoon Theatre @SplitMoonTC]

4/4 And ...... Hadeel Kamil as The Goddess

#desertpoet @cockpittheatre Opens a week tonight!
5 performances only! 30 November - 3 December
Don't miss it!!
https://t.co/kIBESKp0bU

[SplitMoon Theatre @SplitMoonTC]

3/4 Followed by - Guy Burgess as the Dream Guide and Jaouhar Ben Ayed as the Seeker
#desertpoet @cockpittheatre

[SplitMoon Theatre @SplitMoonTC]

2/4 Meet the next of our #desertpoet cast -
Alhena Al-Ali Douglas as Shamhat and Neetika Knight as Jinan @cockpittheatre

[SplitMoon Theatre @SplitMoonTC]

1/4 We're delighted to introduce our wonderful DESERT POET cast, starting with -
Prince Owusu as Ismael and Ali Zayn as Aboud
#desertpoet @cockpittheatre

[SplitMoon Theatre @SplitMoonTC]

#desertpoet features poetry by Adnan Al-Sayegh, exiled Iraqi poet. Author of the longest poem in Arabic, Uruk's Anthem. Recipient of awards incl Hellman-Hammet International Poetry Award, Rotterdam Intern'l Poetry Award.. His voice is overdue to be heard in London @cockpittheatre

[SplitMoon Theatre @SplitMoonTC]

Timely new drama @cockpittheatre for 5 performances DESERT POET travels from the urban to the ancient Desert and tells the complex rite of passage of many who had to flee their countries
🎟️https://t.co/kIBESKp0bU
#desertpoet

[SplitMoon Theatre @SplitMoonTC]

DESERT POET is on the way to @cockpittheatre - 'Theatre of ideas and disruptive panache' -
we look forward to arriving!

https://t.co/kIBESKp0bU
#desertpoet @alsayeghpoet

[The Cockpit @cockpittheatre]

DESERT POET
30 Nov - 3 Dec

At the shrine in Ankara of poet Imru' Al-Qays a disillusioned young man in search of his roots is sold a dream by a troupe of actors. He encounters poets, lovers & prophets & dreams he is al-Qays himself.

https://t.co/svRkASG9Mz
@SplitMoonTC #theatre

[Rich Mix @RichMixLondon]

Join us this Sunday for Voices for Gaza❤️

Curated by @ArtsCanteen, @amanithepoet Sara Al Ghanem and Sufia Sadullah, the event offers space for creative healing and re-energising.

All proceeds from tickets to be donated to Medical Aid for Palestinians > https://t.co/om4bwBhYNt

[SplitMoon Theatre @SplitMoonTC]

We're delighted to bring this timely drama -
DESERT POET - to @cockpittheatre for 5 performances! An odyssey of drama and poetry
Tickets now on sale
#DesertPoet #ImruAlQays #alsayeghpoet

[SplitMoon Theatre @SplitMoonTC]

Poetry Competition deadline extended to 8 November!
Still chance to hear your lines in #DesertPoet @cockpittheatre subject 'Desert Horse' in English or Arabic - @alsayeghpoet
https://t.co/02xUem2pKn

[SplitMoon Theatre @SplitMoonTC]

DESERT POET comes to The Cockpit -
our caravan departs this Monday as we enter rehearsals with a troupe of poets and actors ...

#DesertPoet @cockpittheatre #poetry #drama

[SplitMoon Theatre @SplitMoonTC]

"a branch of weeping olives
- extend it offer it -
green and soothing
for peace and reconciliation"

[SplitMoon Theatre @SplitMoonTC]

We're delighted to announce our Poetry Competition!

[SplitMoon Theatre @SplitMoonTC]

Congratulations on another year! enjoy the block party.. & thank you for being there! @theatredeli 🎉