7 Day Drunk

WED 29th FEB
7:30pm
Full £10, Conc £6

Bryony Kimmings is NOT an alcoholic. But she has always had a rocky relationship with booze. It seems the dark stuff is intrinsically linked to her confidence as an artist as well as blame for most genius and most hideous creations. 2 parts song and dance routine, 1 part breakdown with a twist of sobering reality, the show follows Bryony as she cracks open her own creative psyche with the help of a film-maker, a team of scientists, carers and an American IT expert. Created solely from material made during a seven-day experiment, in which Bryony was kept in various states of scientific drunkenness. Performed sober.

“A bold, brassy yet sobering show with lots of bottle…
disarmingly mad and honest.”

Guardian

Photo credit: Christa Holka

2012

THU 9th FEB
7:30pm
Full £5, Conc £3

3Fall is a dance company comprised of 14 talented third year dance students from the University of Chichester. The company has been running for over 10 years; working with a number of accomplished artists such as Lea Anderson (The Cholmondeleys) Martin Lawrence (Richard Alston Dance Company) and Philip Van Huffel (Retina Dance Company). This year, the current company will be performing repertoire by choreographers Cai Tomas, Aya Kobayashi and Liz Richards. The rehearsal process combined both intensive weeks as well as regular rehearsals over a period of four months; resulting in three very exciting and varied new works inspired by both the choreographer and the dancers themselves. The show also features selected works which were choreographed by promising third year dance students from the University of Chichester. The company have been touring throughout England, with the Showroom being 3Fall’s final performance.

Photo credit: Jessica Palmer Malt

Predator (finishing off what I started when I was five)

THU 19th JAN
7:30pm
Full £4, conc £3
(15+)

At five years old my brother and I snuck down stairs after my parents had gone to bed and taped the film Predator off the TV, we would watch the film religiously thereafter and began creating our own version. What started out as a scene for scene re-creation soon turned into our own re-imagining, unfortunately we never finished what we had started.

So here’s my chance!
With a little bit of your help I will finish off what’s been in the making for 20 years, using some of the same techniques that my brother and I started with, as well as bringing to life and realizing the fantasy that we wished we were able to achieve in 1991.

So please, sit down and join me at my table, as we play with remote control cars, action men, puppets and our own imaginations to complete our own version of the film Predator and finally finishing off what I started when I was five.

Photo credit: Robert Daniels

mapdance 2012

THU 15th MAR
7:30pm
Full £10, Conc £6

At Minerva Theatre, Oaklands Park
Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 6AP.
Tel: +44 (0)1243 781312

Celebrating its sixth year, mapdance, one of the leading postgraduate dance companies in the UK, returns to the ShowRoom Theatre with a preview of work from their 2012 programme.This year the company has commissioned works by Nigel Charnock, Matteo Fargion, Saju Hari as well as restaging Keira Martin’s Strange Journey (2010). Ranging in style and emotion, mapdance’s programme offers a diverse and refreshing mixture of dance theatre, lyrical choreography, punchy physicality and intriguing humour. It is a mixed bill that offers something for everyone.

“Inches from its audience, the troupe radiated energy. A sharp and pithy showcase. rare to find and thrilling to watch”

Total Theatre 2009