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Past programme
Showcases an eclectic range of fresh and interesting contemporary work, largely by emerging artists
Meet Me In The…
Marks That Behold
Sylvia Ferreira Dance Company
- Director & Choreographer: Sylvia Dos Santos Ferreira
- Musician: John Chambers
- Dancers: Lorraine Smith, Jacqui Johnston & Wang Chen Chang
Marks that Behold has enticed and embodied the dark and light images of the Catholic religion. The work explores the dancers' and choreographer’s interpretation of those images. The piece does not attempt to make a statement about the religion: that is what the audience is there for…
Bäzarre
Being Small Dance
- Directors: Bruno Mathez, Lizzie Sells & Maria Svensson
- Performers: Lizzie Sells & Maria Svensson
- Composer: Benoit Seyrat
- Film Designer: Bruno Mathez
Being Small Dance’s latest work is inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. First performed at Abundance International Dance Festival in Sweden in 2007, this new adaptation sees two dancers and a video artist experimenting more abstractly with the notions of dreams and surrealism.
Six Litres of Air
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- Choreographer: Katja Nyqvist
- Composer: Jacob Shirley
- Performers: Katja Nyqvist & Jacob Shirley
Six Litres of Air explores the idea of breath as a rhythmic stimulus for movement and sound. It is a collaboration between a dancer and a musician playing the electric cello.
Pelleas & The Lady of Shalott
The legends of King Arthur are Britain’s version of the Greek Myths: big stories that are psychologically compelling and dramatically visual in their motifs and language.
Revolving Doors Theatre focuses on two such legends: Pelleas, the young knight's tale of love & betrayal, and The Lady of Shalott, the ill-fated maiden who falls in love with Sir Lancelot.
Pelleas
- Written & directed by Louise Harley
- Cast: Charlotte Ammerlaan, Martina Clarke, Jamie Debbage, Jago Northcote, Caroline Partridge & Patrick Ross
The Lady of Shalott
- Poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
- Adapted & directed by Aaron Paterson
- Cast: Elizabeth Boag, Bodelle de Ronde, Anne Rabbitt & Heather Saunders
Memories of Three
In a Place of Uncertainty
- Choreography: Chris Clow
- Performers: Lauren Aizlewood, Andrej Gubanov & Minami Tamagawa
- Music: Oli Newman
What happens to the world around you, when someone you love becomes a distant memory? In this beautifully crafted trio, three stories are told through an innovative work that blends dance, music, film & lighting.
Human Echo
- Choreography: Maria Korsnes
- Music: Rob Colquhoun
- Lighting: Gregor Knuppel
An atmospheric study of home, of memories of a visual landscape & thoughts about the environment we now find ourselves in. Drawing on personal memories and experiences alike, layers of textures and moods are presented to the viewer by moments of stillness and thought.
Somewhere Between a Self and An Other
- Choreography: Hagit Yakira
- Performers: Yarit Dor & Hagit Yakira
- Lighting: Hagit Yakira
- Costume Design: Ruggiero Desantis
This is a performance based on a lengthy experiment which combined self exploration and movement research with aspects of Lacan's post modern theory on self identity. The work explores inter-personal relationships in a Lacanian context (amongst other post modernists) and discusses how relationships of oneself with an other and oneself with his own memory (memories), influence our individual search for identity.
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Photographic exhibition accompanying 'Memories of Three'
Burstein's dance photography evolves from her experience both as a photographer and a dancer.
She photographs the performing arts, collaborating with choreographers and dancers, creating still images that convey not just the physical aspect of the performance, but the experience as a whole, comprised of all senses; the rhythm; the space; the relationship between the dancers; the relationship between dancers and space; watching the dancers, witnessing the moment, translating and capturing the essence of a transitory creation.
Behind the Mirror
Man loves Woman, Woman loves Man - but Man has a mirror image, hell-bent on ruining everything…
A fast, comic and touching love story - without words.
Behind the Mirror had an Edinburgh run in August 2008 and was nominated for a Total Theatre Award.
Theatre Ad Infinitum became an associate company at The Bush Theatre earlier this year.
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Uncle Barry
Barry is unemployed & angry at the goings-on at the Neighbourhood Watch. This time he thinks he has the answer. Barry has decided to set up his own state. In a pathetic attempt at living-room nation-building, Barry enlists the help of his best friend Mickey and his nephew Pecks, who is brought in to oversee matters of national security. With no idea what they're doing, and no future thought beyond the opening ceremony, this three-man attempt at democracy results in flags being made, anthems being sung and life-long friendships being tested…
"We - Michael Jeremy Davis and Barry NoMiddleName Parfitt - I'm not going to tell you what will happen. But what I will say is this: I've hired a heavy"
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Shall I Kill Mama
- I’m dying Bunter. Just a matter of when.
- What makes you think God’s ready for you yet?
- He’s ready. Told Him I’m coming.
- You told God?
- Yep, and He told me to call you.
Mama may be frail but she’s also feisty. Who will win this mother of all battles?
"A Mama wants to die. She needs her son’s help. He should help, plain and simple. It’s his duty. What’s all this about motivation? I wanted a son, I get Hamlet…"
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Tea is Essential at Afternoon Meetings
"The innovative design group Team" The Guardian
A selection of self-initiated projects including:
A proposal to the British Wind Energy Association to establish the image of wind-farms as a quintessential part of the British countryside;
An advertising campaign called 'Boycott Oxfam';
A soundtrack for the east of England;
A series of products that answer needs generated around the cigarette break phenomenon;
The Vending Machine Project: a vending machine that makes you consider whether it should be your responsibility to put the good of society above your own interests.
Writers At Work
Werfel Vs Odets
- Writer: Michaela Ronzini
- Translator: Penny Black
- Director: Christopher Gutmann
- Cast: Saul Reichlin & Tom Sykes
- Writer: Emily Hunka
- Director: Emma Hewitt
- Cast: Sian Breckin, Laura Glover, Gareth Richardson, Simon Ryerson, Alex Watson, Fiona Whitelaw & Ben Wigzell
- Writer: Dorit Makleff
- Director: Ellie Joseph
- Cast: Matthew Delgaram-Nejad , Leanne Hall, Jessica Knight, Sam Lester, Robert Pearce & Julie Sandiford
- Writer: Duncan Gates
- Director: Serena B Robins
- Writer/Director: Serena B Robins
Los Angeles 1943: Franz Werfel has written a play based on his personal experiences in exile from the ever increasing expansion of the Nazis. The United States Theatre Guild brings in former leading New York playwright Clifford Odets to give the play a 'make-over' to appeal to American audiences. In this fictional account of an actual event, who will win this battle for Broadway?
Good Hands
A child is taken away from its family. Better off? Or in some imaginable danger in the hands of people that think they know best?
A look at the intricacies of family relationships, how children are cared for and when things are taken too far.
God Explodes Laughing
Part love story, part dreamlike soul-searching, God Explodes Laughing invites us to consider free will versus predestination through the lives of Udi, an Israeli photographer who lost his legs as a young soldier, and Lora, a British news reporter who travels the world telling other people’s stories instead of living her own.
The Defence
A young man is accused of killing a police officer, but after the dust has settled, who is really on trial? A play about love, evil, innocence and belief, where accusation is easy and defence is the hard part.
Experiments with Chai
A group of friends reunite after ten years and discover how differently their lives have changed. What painful secrets are shared over a cup of 'Chai'? And what courageous choices have to be made?
Not Knowing Who We Are
A man sets out to learn the art of conversation. A girl sets out to find her father. A mother has a box with two keys. Kevin has a spare room and a photograph no-one wants to see…
Preoccupied with books and photographs and talking only to himself and his imaginary wife, a man sets out to learn the art of conversation. He stumbles upon relationships built on lies and deceit where his odd behaviour gives rise to prejudice and accusations. When his brother comes to the rescue, truths emerge and a claustrophobic world is broken apart.
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Everything Is Different
In 1929, Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy published a volume of short stories entitled Everything is Different. Inspired by the tale Chains or Chain-Links - where the characters believed that any two individuals could be connected through at most five acquaintances - this evening of music, dance & visual art looks at the simple connections we make in everyday life, magnifying these points to find beauty in the details.
35 Cents
It's election time on the romantic Caribbean island of Jamaica. The campaign has, however, been completely overwhelmed by extreme apathy & disillusionment.
Fatigued by the ever increasing levels of poverty, debt & corruption, a new student organization called the 'No Confidence Movement' emerges in an attempt to lead the electorate on a national boycott of the general elections. With various bilateral and multinational interests now at stake, a US-led military invasion is initiated to neutralize growing support for the boycott. It is from within this cauldron that the students of the 'No Confidence Movement' take us on a frenetic journey that will ultimately determine the political future of their island .
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Springheeled Two
Fish in a Bowl/Anthony Kurt:
AB sens 2
Iisa Ilona Jäntti
Ditto (interdisciplinary circus work)
Levantes Dance Theatre/Eleni Edipidi
(Winner of the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award 2009)
Gin & Satsumas (a dance theatre piece)
Etta Ermini Dance Theatre:
Archetypical Encounter of the Third Kind (physical theatre)
Rosalind Noctor & Martha Moopette:
Hedgehogs & Honeybeads (dance film)
Cathy Seago & Dancers:
How We Know We Are Here: Part 1 Cupp for Three (multimedia work)
The Inhabitants of the Moon are Noses & Diary of a Madman
Do noses really live on the moon?
The Inhabitants of the Moon are Noses/Diary of a Madman explores the thin line between imagination & madness, with a double-bill of Nikolai Gogol’s dark, hilarious masterpiece & Steve Hennessy’s new play about Gogol’s life.
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Weights
An island nobody ever leaves, the Bermuda Triangle, something like that.
Cuban-American writer Jesse Quinones charts a day in the life of a slum estate in Havana .
Cuba: a tropical idyll where the sun never sets, or a stifling prison where the days never end?
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