Tropicana
A Shunt Event
In collaboration with the National Theatre
Do you know where you are?
A door leads from the commuter hall of London Bridge station to a vast labyrinth beneath. This is the new home to Shunt, an artists' collective whose Dance Bear Dance won last year's Time Out Live Award. The door opens each Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening for their new show Tropicana, on one of the most exciting and unsettling spaces in London.
'Many of us at the National saw Shunt's last show, Dance Bear Dance, under some railway arches in Bethnal Green. We loved it, maybe because they make the kind of theatre we never make. It was strange, wild, beautiful and funny, and it conjured astonishing things out of the darkness'
Nicholas Hytner, Director of the National
'Radical, original, incredible' Time Out
'Thrillingly inventive' Independent on Sunday
No seating is allocated for this show. Tropicana involves some walking, standing and sitting for the audience.
The show is not suitable for the under 12s.
The venue is dusty, please wear suitable clothes.
The Shunt Vaults, Joiner Street, London SE1The entrance is opposite the main exit of London Bridge underground station. Joiner Street is a pedestrian tunnel within the station complex.
Show starts 9pm
Doors open 8.30pm
Late comers not admitted.
UNDERGROUND Northern or Jubilee line to London Bridge. Take the mainline station exit.
RAIL London Bridge station. Take the escalator to Joiner Street.
BUS From London Bridge station, take the escalator to Joiner Street. 17, 21, 43, 47, 48, 141, 149, 343, 381, 521, 705, RV1.
CAR 24-hour car park on Kipling Street.
Tropicana finished on: 25 June 2005
