Archived Events

  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2016

    Flexer and Sandiland

    flexer and sandiland

    Disappearing Acts

    Thu 20 Oct 6.00pm & 7.45pm Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 16+ (limited seating)

    Disappearing Acts is the latest immersive performance by digital dance team Flexer and Sandiland.

    Looking at the idea of illusion and its disintegration from a choreographic point of view, the work weaves together movements that we see and movements that we think we see. Working at low light levels, the Company explores the uncertainties of perception; movement that disappears into the shadows or which slips through unseen gaps in the curtains leaving lingering traces on the retina.

    Drawing together personal stories and political threads around darkness, five dancers interpret specially written texts by Wendy Houston to a sound score by Karni Postel and Nic Sandiland and direction from Pete Phillips (Search Party).

    Choreography is by Yael Flexer and the company, with bespoke lighting by Natalie Rowland and Nic Sandiland.

    www.flexerandsandiland.com

  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2016

    Sh!t Theatre

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    Women’s Hour

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

    Women’s Hour – I’M FINE – Women’s Hour. First on Women’s Hour: Men, then us. Women’s Hour.

    Later on Women’s Hour: Ankle Socks? Women’s Hour.

    Commissioned by Camden People’s Theatre and winner of Three Weeks Editors Choice award 2015, Women’s Hour is a cabaret piece of “giddy, freewheeling silliness” (Exeunt) about what happens when women are given just one hour a day to think about what it is to be a woman.

    “Frantically funny and unapologetically forceful, this show isn’t just a must see, attendance should be compulsory”
    ★★★★★ Three Weeks

    “Surreal, clever and hilarious…the standing ovation at the end was equal parts male and female”
    ★★★★★ Five Best Plays to see in Edinburgh

    www.shittheatre.co.uk

  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2016

    Action Hero

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    Wrecking Ball

    Thu 29 Sep 7.30pm Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 15+

    A male photographer is taking a photograph of a female celebrity. She wants to be reinvented.
    She wants to be For Real. Wrecking Ball is about consent, power, authorship and putting words in other people’s mouths. It’s about the seductive power of make-believe. That’s not a real pineapple she’s holding, that’s not his real cooler full of beers, those aren’t her real thighs, those aren’t his real feelings. But does the real really matter?

    In this funny, surreal and unsettling new play for 2 performers and an audience, “maverick company” (The Guardian) Action Hero ask who’s really in control and how subtle abuses of power shape our relationships –with art, language and with each other.

    Commissioned by the Spring Festivals Commission 2015: Sprint, Watch Out, Mayfest, Pulse and Latitude Festival.
    Seeded by greenhouse, A Farnham Maltings initiative, and developed with the support of the National Theatre Studio, The Point,
    Eastleigh and The West End Centre.
    Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

    “Action Hero, who cleverly play on the act of theatre and its suspensions of disbelief, make us complicit in this cunningly constructed and entertaining show”
    The Guardian

    “They create and wreck imaginary worlds with an explosive force”
    Exuent

    www.actionhero.org.uk

  • Archived Events/ Spring 2016

    Jamie Wood

    Jamie Wood

    O NO!!

    THU 3 MAR | Full £10 Conc £6 | 7.30pm  | AGE 16 Plus

    A psychedelic ride, and a wonky homage to the woman damned for destroying the Beatles, O No! borrows Yoko Ono’s art instructions to ask whether falling in love is always catastrophic.

    A sell-out success and one of the most talked about shows of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2015.

    Funny and surprising in equal measure this show from a multi-award winning theatre maker, is about reckless optimism, avant-garde art and what we might yet have to learn from the hippies.

    Supported by Arts Council England, Ovalhouse, CPT, National Theatre Studio and Physical Fest Liverpool

    “Fractious, hilarious and punctuated by undeniable beauty, Jamie Wood’s tribute to Yoko Ono is a thing of mischief and magic”

    ★★★★★ The Stage

    www.jamiewood.org.uk

    Image Credit – Jamie Wood
  • Archived Events/ Spring 2016

    Chris Dobrowolski

    Chris Dobrowolski

    Antarctica

    THU 10 MAR | Full £10 Conc £6 | 7.30pm  | AGE 16 plus

    Antarctica is the most inhospitable climate in the world. It’s the driest, windiest place on Earth, synonymous with failed expedition attempts, with no artists for miles around. A place that Chris Dobrowolski decided was perfect for him.

    For three and a half months Chris lived and worked alongside the medical professionals, researchers and crew members at the British Antarctic Survey, trying to experiment creatively whilst (crucially) trying to survive. He discovered that sometimes it’s very difficult to justify your position as an Artist whilst everyone around you is a Hero.

    Antarctica is an adventure story-presentation about professional failure and navigating real life via tales of overzealous seals, Ladybird books and a sledge built out of gold picture frames.

    “He takes us from the personal to the political, across a great swathe of 20th Century history, all without leaving the driving seat of the Triumph Herald”

    ★★★★ The Scotsman (All Roads Lead To Rome)

    www.cdobo.com

    Image Credit – Alister Doyle