Los(t) Anghel-ease

Visual Art – Paintings
Wed October 19th 12-1pm
Venue: Bishop Otter Campus: Room LO3
Free admission

These angel things are a bit of an anomaly. I’ve been making them for years, as missives, and shadows…. but never before as an exhibition …. and I’m not sure they’re too mad about the idea now. And why angels? – it’s to do with the intangible, the ineffable. Angels offer an image for essence, and for change; they’re elementals, portents, orisons, harbingers; they are of us, of materiality.,,,, and yet of otherness. They can, by turns, be importunate and taciturn, mischievous and solicitous, resplendent visions and unconsidered trifles – that unexpected shiver, that flicker on the edge of vision…….

Work in progress
*** EVENT CANCELLED ***

WED 30 NOV
7:30pm
Full £4 / Conc £3 / Schools & Colleges £3
Age 14+

The neo-cabaret-tandem-riding-jack-of-all-theatre-trades Milk Presents stage a selection of ideas for their new show. Returning from their successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe they offer a taste of their latest work. Sharing their curiosity of gender roles in common stories  through analogue contraptions, this is recycled theatre with anarchic storytelling at its heart.

“Amidst all their madcap capers, they really do tell the story, and tell it rather well”
FringeGuru.com.
www.milkpresents.com.

*** EVENT CANCELLED ***

Due to strike action at the University of Chichester on 30/11/11 we are sorry to have to cancel Milk’s production of Work in Progress. Apologies for any inconvenience.

The Making Of Bull: The True Story

THU 24 NOV
7.30pm
Full £10 / Conc £6 / Schools & Colleges £5
Age: 14+

‘Let’s get this straight folks, Bull: The True Story was a pack of lies!’
‘Bull: The True Story was a cover up, it was a performance set up to upstage the truth.’

The Making of Bull: The True Story unravels mysteries…including the mysteries of why we make art and how our art makes us. It questions what’s real and what’s fake. Inspired by the film Fargo, which proclaims in its prologue, ‘This is a true story’, Stacy Makishi finally comes out and tells the whole truth as she brings forth an elliptical tale trying hard not to tell itself. Just what is she hiding? You’ll have to see it to believe it.

Here lies a true story about lies, Fargo, maps, donut holes, murder, secrets, kidnaps and how to get lucky. It’s a tall tale and a love story that goes anywhere but straight. Part mystery, part satire, part How to Make A Performance…it’s about partings and the absence that defines us. The Making of Bull: The True Story is a fusion of physical theatre, music, film and text. The stage is a battleground between truth and lies; what’s spoken and what’s omitted; what’s fiction and what is documentary.

www.stacymakishi.com.

Bull Baby Balls

THU 20 OCT
7.30pm
Full £4 / Conc £3 / Schools & Colleges £3
Age: 14+

What happens in a second? A child smiles, an idea orgasms, a popcorn pops, a sperm penetrates, a bull stands in the sun, a gun fires… We have at least 25 arms. Using 70s cinefilm footage of babies playing naked in the garden, stop motion animation, an experimental Wendy house, cooking and Shiva, this is the beginning of a trip into the depths of a second.

Beady Eye have been working in the studio at Chichester as part of their development of the piece. Tonight’s sharing will bring together these ideas before the show tours in spring/autumn 2012.
Ideas that are being explored in the piece include baby and bull movement, childhood and memory, and what happens when we become aware of each instant.

BULL BABY BALLS is being developed through a Puppet Centre Trust Residency at Farnham Maltings and an Incubate Residency at Little Angel and CSSD, with support from Theatre Royal Margate.

Praise for Beady Eye’s last show Everything Must Go:
“Full of delicious moments of invention.”
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

www.kristinfredricksson.mfbiz.com.

Operation Greenfield

THU 6 OCT
7.30pm
Full £10 / Conc £6 / Schools & Colleges £5
Age: 11+

An exploration of music, faith and friendship

Somewhere in middle England four unlikely teenagers are preparing for judgement day with ladders, Elvis and Forest Fruits squash – Stokely’s annual talent competition is nigh. With a stage full of instruments and an eclectic mix of recorded music, Little Bulb Theatre capture the confusing, awkward and beautifully naïve time of adolescence. The time when the once simple beliefs you held dear need re-adjusting to face the complexities of adulthood.

“Recklessly talented…insanely brave”
**** Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

“their musicianship is superb, and their ability to conjure the pains of youth uncanny.”
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

“…abundant sparks of originality and moments when the audience were left beaming.”
***** Fringe Review

www.littlebulbtheatre.com.