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Inter(ACT) Showcase 2014

Inter(ACT) is a showcase of contemporary theatre and performance, made up of selected undergraduate work from students at the University of Chichester. Inter(ACT) is an opportunity for Students from sixth form and colleges as well as arts professionals to come and see the diverse work created on the Theatre & Performing Arts programme.

For more information and if you wish to attend this free event, please contact:

Andy Roberts – email: showroom@chi.ac.uk with the amount of tickets you wish to be reserved.

Unfinished Business

A micro festival and symposium involving postgraduate performance students from Chichester’s MA Performance (Theatre and Theatre Collectives) programme, alongside selected works from contemporary arts programmes in the UK. This two-day event involves a programme of full-length performance works, keynote speeches by invited speakers, workshops, presentations, talks and seminars.

For more information and if you wish to attend this free event, please contact:

Andy Roberts – email: showroom@chi.ac.uk with the amount of tickets you wish to be reserved.

Archived Events/ Autumn 2013

Neil Bartlett

Live Art Agency DIY Project

Sun 3 Nov 7.30pm Admission free | Age 16+

University of Chichester and Live Art Agency – DIY 10
Acclaimed director and performer Neil Bartlett grew up in Broyle Close, just ten minutes away from the site of The Showroom. For six years, he cycled past it every day on his way home from school……Since then, his early notoriety ( performing naked in derelict warehouses; directing
Complicite’s first award-winning show ) has lead to a career that has taken him to the Royal Court, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Opera House and the Royal Vauxhall Tavern – not neccessarily in that order ! – and now , for the first time in nearly forty years, he’s coming back to Chichester to make a new piece of work.

Working with a group of local young performers for just 48 intensive hours, Neil is going to dive back into his past and create a new piece of performance that explores what it feels like to come back to the streets and buildings that he knew so well as a small-town teenager. What does it feel like to go back ? Is going back a good way to start going forward again?

I LIVE HERE is being developed by The Showroom in association with LADA’s DIY programme.
This first scratch Sunday night showing of the piece will be free, with no booking required – just turn up on the night for a glimpse of a very special artist at work.

To find out more about Neil and his work, go to www.neil-bartlett.com.

Archived Events/ Autumn 2013

Caroline Horton & Company

Mess

Thu 5 Dec 7.30pm Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 14+

China Plate presents Caroline Horton & Company – Mess

Josephine is putting on a play – Boris and Sistahl help. It’s about anorexia. But don’t let that put you off. Unflinchingly they confront big issues (and extremely tiny ones). Today they will tackle a particularly thin elephant in the room. Obsession, addiction and not wanting to get out of bed: a play with songs from 2013 Olivier Award nominated Caroline Horton (You’re Not Like Other Girls Chrissy).

Winner: Stage Award for Best Ensemble 2012.

“Comes perilously close to genius and announces Horton as a major major talent”
Time Out.

www.carolinehorton.net

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Archived Events/ Autumn 2013

Liz Aggiss

Survival Tactics

Thu 24 Oct 7.30pm Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 15+

From a glamorous, blonde bombshell in high-heels to a pigeon toed, bow legged, oddball in big pants – Survival Tactics upturns the usual perception of the female stage body on its head. Inspired by Ausdruckstanz, with a fascination for grotesque dance, and a penchant for British music hall, Liz Aggiss pays comedic homage to her historical mentors, and herself, through a seamless fusion of movement, text and film.

“Liz Aggiss wowed us with her Survival Tactics, a bravura volley of agile mischief with ideas and limbs flying in brilliantly ridiculous directions”
Mary Brennan Glasgow Herald.

www.lizaggiss.com

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Archived Events/ Autumn 2013

Scottee

The Worst of Scottee

Thu 17 Oct 7.30pm Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 15+

Scottee encounters past flames, ex-friends and people who no longer like him in attempt to find out where he went wrong. Scottee wants to find out what people really think of him. Why he pretended to have AIDS, what prompted him to steal money from his Nan, why did he pretend his friend committed suicide and what caused all this behavior in the first place? Performed in a photo booth you are exposed to four snap shots of his troublesome teens. This show will give you reasons not to like him – it is Scottee at his very worst.

Scottee won Time Out Performer of the Year in 2010 and is currently an associate artist at Roundhouse and Duckie. He is a regular contributor on Radio 4’s Loose Ends and the creator of the ‘beauty pageant for fat people’ Hamburger Queen, variety show Camp and presenter of iTunes Top 10 podcast After The Tone. The Worst of Scottee is his debut solo tour.

Directed by Chris Goode.

Supported by Arts Council England. Developed with Roundhouse.

“Director Chris Goode is a theatre-maker who’s up there with the very best”
The Guardian.

www.scottee.co.uk

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Archived Events/ Autumn 2013

Flexer & Sandiland

Weightless

Thu 10 Oct 7.30pm Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 15+

Weightless is the brand new work from Flexer & Sandiland. Celebrating the company’s 20th anniversary Weightless, in a tongue in cheek way, references its own historical position. It questions the ‘weight’ of history, both personal and aesthetic: what is it that roots us down physically and emotionally? What might it feel like to let go or take flight?

Engaging and thoughtful, this show carries Yael Flexer’s recognisable stamp of witty text and wry humour combined with fast paced, space-hungry movement and a driving musical score by composers Dougie Evans and Karni Postel. A collaboration with Nic Sandiland, Weightless includes live digital projection and a sonic environment of disembodied voices and after images with text by Wendy Houstoun.

“Dance that is unforced, unaffected, charming and smart”
Time out.

www.flexerandsandiland.com

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