Seven young fathers in prison sign-up for an education programme. They attempt to rise up the prison pecking order, but they’re confronted with more than expected, as they face up to their relationships with their children, their own fathers and ultimately themselves.
Around the Royal is an intimate and spectacular journey around East London's most iconic Victorian theatre, devised and performed by 20 young people. Behind the scenes and revealing hidden corners, they present stories, characters, song, music and dance from the last 100 years.
Do we know where we stand in relation to the real and the unreal? Life and its hidden streams? The abstract and the concrete? The story and the ritual? The performer and the person? The body and its' language?
