I’m performing A Cure for Ageing for one night as part of the British Science Festival in Birmingham on the 9th September. Then later in the month (25th-27th) it will be part of BOLD Festival at The Albany, a festival celebrating the arts and older people. I’m delighted to end the tour of this piece with showings at these two events.

British Science Festival
mac, Birmingham
Tuesday 9th September
7.30pm, Tickets £6
Booking: www.britishscienceassociation.org/british-science-festival.

BOLD Festival
The Albany, Deptford
Thursday 25th & Friday 26th September, 7.45pm
Saturday 27th September, 5pm
5pm, Tickets £10
Full info about the festival & booking: www.thealbany.org.uk.

Forest Fringe are super excited to be running our first microfestival in New York this autumn, in collaboration with the brilliant Abrons Arts Center. We’ll be there 3rd-5th October 2014, and I’ll be performing put your sweet hand in mine as well as Made In China’s Gym Party as part of a programme of fantastic UK and New York artists.

Tickets are $25 for a festival pass, full details of all events can be found at www.abronsartscenter.org.

On the 11th July I performed at a fundraiser for friends Ellie Stamp & Sh!t Theatre to help them get to Edinburgh this summer. I was trying out a small experiment, tentatively titled Be Gentle With Me, towards a new show I will be making this year around health and illness. It was a great opportunity to test something out, and somebody has written very nicely and generously about the showing here:
http://www.londoncitynights.com/2014/07/holy-sht-stamp-at-theatre-delicatessen.html

I’m really pleased that A Cure for Ageing is going to be at The Albany in Deptford, London, in September 2014. The show is part of the brilliant BOLD festival, a festival of arts and older people. 

Thursday 25th & Friday 26th September, 7.45pm
Saturday 27th September, 5pm
Tickets £10/£5
Book tickets here: www.thealbany.org.uk

I’m delighted to say that I have been accepted on to DepArts’ Incubate scheme – an artistic development and producing support programme which will see me working with DepArts and ARC Stockton for a year from April 2014. Fellow Incubate artists this year are Angela Clerkin and Middle Child. More about DepArts and Incubate 2014 here.

I’m doing a one-off performance of A Cure for Ageing in London on Tuesday 1st April, as part of Tristan Bates Theatre’s festival of solo performance, FIRST. Full details below.

Tuesday 1st April 2014, 7.15pm
Tristan Bates Theatre
Tickets £10/8

You can book tickets and check out the full FIRST festival programme here: www.tristanbatestheatre.co.uk

A Cure for Ageing from Ira Brand on Vimeo.

I’m very excited to be able to say that A Cure for Ageing has been chosen to be part of the caravan symposium 2014.

The symposium takes place as part of Brighton Festival from 11th-13th May, and will present 22 England-based companies to an audience of international promoters and delegates. The full list of participating artists is here.

A Cure for Ageing will be doing a small tour in Spring next year. Confirmed gigs so far are:

Norwich Arts Centre
Wednesday 29th January 2014
8pm, Tickets £5/£3
Box office 01603 660352 or book online here.
www.norwichartscentre.co.uk

The ShowRoom, Chichester
Thursday 13th February 2014
7.30pm, £10/£6
Book online here.
www.theshowroomchichester.co.uk

The Bike Shed Theatre Exeter
Monday 24th February 2014
7.30pm, Tickets £12/£8
Box office 01392 434169 or book online here.
www.bikeshedtheatre.co.uk

Word of Warning at Z-arts, Manchester
Wednesday 26th February 2014
Double bill with Age Concerns (Nicki Hobday & Sara Cocker)
8pm, Tickets £9/£5
Box Office 0161 232 6089 or book online here.
www.wordofwarning.org

Colchester Arts Centre
Wednesday 9th April 2014
8pm, Pay what you can
Book online here.
www.colchesterartscentre.com

Caravan Symposium, Brighton
11th-13th May 2014
Date & time tbc.
www.caravanshowcase.org.uk

Battersea Arts Centre
11th, 14th-15th, 18th, 21st-22nd February 2014
Book tickets here.
www.bac.org.uk

ARC Stockton
6th March 2014
Book tickets here.
www.arconline.co.uk

Northern Stage
7th & 8th March 2014
Book tickets here.
www.northernstage.co.uk

Norwich Arts Centre
19th March 2014
Book tickets here.
www.norwichartscentre.co.uk

Colchester Arts Centre
26th March 2014
Book tickets here.
www.colchesterartscentre.com

West Yorkshire Playhouse
30th March 2014
Part of Transform 14
Full programme and ticket booking here: www.wyp.org.uk/what’s-on/2014/transform-14/

Warwick Arts Centre
25th April 2014

The Bike Shed Theatre Exeter
6th & 7th June 2014

I will be touring Gym Party with Made In China Theatre and Christopher Brett Bailey in Spring 2014.

Cambridge Junction
19th February 2014, 7.30pm
Book tickets here.
www.junction.co.uk

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
4th & 5th March 2014, 8pm
Book tickets here.
www.traverse.co.uk

Embrace Arts, Leicester
13th March 2014, 8pm
Book tickets here.

Folkestone Quarterhouse
21st March 2014, 7.30pm
Book tickets here.
www.quarterhouse.co.uk

West Yorkshire Playhouse
28th March 2014, time tbc
Part of Transform 14
Full programme and ticket booking here: www.wyp.org.uk/what’s-on/2014/transform-14/

Manchester Royal Exchange
4th April, 7.30pm & 5th April, 8pm
Book tickets here.
www.royalexchange.co.uk

Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry
23rd & 24th April 2014

South Street Arts, Reading
6th May 2014, 8pm
Book tickets here.
www.readingarts.com/southstreet

Colchester Arts Centre
7th May 2014, 8pm
Book tickets here.
www.colchesterartscentre.com

Caravan Showcase, Brighton
11th – 13th May 2014
Exact date and time tbc.

Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
16th & 17th May 2014, 8pm
Book tickets here.
www.chapter.org