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.