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The National Theatre’s River Stage returns to the South Bank for a month of outdoor live music, dance, performance, workshops and family fun. Weekend evenings will see a varied programme of entertainment take place in front of the theatre, with special take-over weekends from The Glory, James Cousins Company, Shubbak Festival and Hackney Empire’s Young Producers.
The takeover weekends will be
June 9-11: The Glory, hosted by Jonny Woo and John Sizzle.
June 16-18: James Cousins Company
June 23-25: Shubbak Festival – the UK’s festival of contemporary Arab cultures.
- Friday: circus artist Said Mouhssine with a spectacular London version of his show, ‘Taroo’; Gnawa Blues All Stars with a set of West African fusion music; Zahed Sultan celebrates marginalised peoples with choir singers, string players and more; finally a high energy DJ set from Boiler Room Saliah.
-Saturday: an interactive installation from Aya Haidar; dance from the all-female Hawiyya Dance Company combining traditional dabke and contemporary dances; a live performance from Berber Diffusion and DJ Sarra Wild.
-Sunday: genre-hopping songwriter Intibint; DJ Ernesto Chahoud’s Beirut Groove Collective brings rare ’60s, ’70s and ’80s clubbing music from the SWANA region; Amira Kheir serves up a mix of jazz, soul, rock and the traditional music of Sudan.
June 30-July 2: Hackney Empire’s Young Producers – a weekend of dance crews, rap battles, big vocals, steel pans, grime and ’90s bangers curated by the next generation of young creatives aged 14-21.
See the National Theatre website for updates.