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  • 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/ Spring 2016

    Made In China

    Tonight I’m Going To Be The New Me

    Tonight I’m Going To Be The New Me

    THU 14 APR | Full £10 Conc £6 | 7.30pm | AGE 16 plus

    A woman takes to the stage. A man watches from the wings. They both wonder if their love will survive what’s about to happen.

    Tonight I’m Gonna Be The New Me is an arresting physical endurance act that crashes headfirst into an impossibly true love story – and out the other side. It exposes how we perform our relationships amidst a reality that just won’t live up to what the movies promised.

    Disarmingly honest and comically imagined, Tonight I’m Gonna Be The New Me pierces the bloody heart of our obsession with outlasting hardship. Intimate and startlingly immediate, it defies you to watch, in spite of yourself.

    “Slippery and teasing, murderously entertaining”
    ★★★★ The Guardian

    “Tantalisingly edgy…a stinging piece of entertainment”
    ★★★★ The Times

    www.madeinchinatheatre.com

    Image credit – Richard Davenport

  • 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

    Sleeping Trees

    Sleeping Trees, Western?

    Western?

    THU 21 APR | Full £10 Conc £6 | 7.30pm | AGE 13 Plus

    The Sleeping Trees continue their cinematic pilgrimage and are back with another sordid tale, this time from the sandy depths of the wild west.

    The show follows unlikely hero Harry Sudds, as a simple trip to the town bank quickly descends into the worst day of his life. Soon enough Harry has to deal with native red indians, talking wasps and one of the most majestic tumbleweeds ever seen in Louisiana.

    With another rip roaring live score, the Sleeping Trees bring their fast, physical and farcical comic style to one of the most well loved film genres of all time.

    Directed by Tom Parry (Pappy’s).

    “With a script that steers left field of convention and indulges every whim, Sleeping Trees have created a lawless comedic style of their own”

    BOOK NOW

    ★★★★★ Broadway Baby

    www.sleepingtreestheatre.co.uk

    Image Credit – Sleeping Trees

  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2015

    Owl Young (Bring Your Own)

    Iron MAM

    Iron M.A.M

    Thu 03 Dec | 7.30pm | FREE

    “I am a predator. I am a reaper. I am an avenger. I will end your world with the push of a button.”

    Caught somewhere between a TED talk and a coming-of-age action thriller, this one man theatre event explores the rarely discussed world of drone warfare, and why the Iron Man films might just be the perfect metaphor.

    Owl is military aged, but he’s also a geek. He’s not a soldier, but he does play a lot of video games, and that’s got him thinking. As he looks back over his childhood, examining the links between masculinity, technology and warfare, he finds himself asking the question: would he use a drone?

    In 2013, Iron Man 3 became the fifth highest grossing movie of all time, most popular with 18-33 year olds. This is the same demographic the UK government defines as military aged: the pilots and targets in drone warfare.

    Between playing with action figures and wirelessly commanding the show via his PlayStation controller, Owl condenses a lifetime of technology into an hour of engaging performance that combines the fictional and factual, and takes a close look at remote killing.

  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2015

    Chris Thorpe

    Chris Thorpe

    Warwick Arts Centre and China Plate present

    Confirmation

    Thu 19 Nov | 7.30pm | Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 16+

    If you pinned me against a wall, I’d probably admit to being a liberal.
    Of course, pinning me against a wall is exactly what I’d expect from someone like you.

    Confirmation is a show about the gulfs we can’t talk across, and about the way we choose to see only the evidence that proves we’re right. Working with research into the phenomenon of Confirmation Bias, Confirmation attempts to have an honourable dialogue, real and imagined, with political extremism. From multiple award winning Chris Thorpe (Unlimited, Royal Exchange, Hannah Jane Walker) and Rachel Chavkin (The TEAM).

    Fringe First award winner – 2014

    “Rachel Chavkin’s fast-moving, kinetic production offers us an absolutely compelling performance from a man who is fast becoming one of the most powerful performers in the UK”
    ★★★★ The Scotsman

    www.chinaplatetheatre.com | @youroldchina | @piglungs

  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2015

    Tavaziva Dance

    travaziva dance

    AfriCarmen

    Thu 8 Oct 7.30pm | Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 15+

    Tavaziva’s AFRICARMEN is a sumptuous and evocative dance production loosely based on Georges Bizet’s popular opera Carmen.

    Through a synthesis of ballet, contemporary and African dance, Bawren Tavaziva’s powerful choreography is performed by a cast of outstanding dancers.

    Played out through the entanglement of desire, deceit and corruption in a township of oil-laden Equatorial Guinea, lingering ancestral voices are at work here amongst the dreams of a better life.

    With a new score composed and arranged by Fayyaz Virji of the acclaimed Warriors International, AfriCarmen is Bawren Tavaziva’s most ambitious work to date.

    Tavaziva’s previous show was rated ★★★★★ and described by press and audiences as:

    “A contemporary African masterpiece – amazing, sublime, truly inspirational”

    www.tavazivadance.com