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Company number: 3724349
"Thinking big for a little venue"
"A prime and welcoming destination of imaginative theatre and performance"
"The wonderful Blue Elephant Theatre"
"Camberwell's coolest venue"
Current show: For How Much? / Underfoot
For How Much
Faceless .... Distorted fingers reaching out to the skies... Spinning coins on the ground... Is this the cost of the goods we buy and consume? Is this the cost we do not have to pay?
Originally commissioned by the International Organisation for Migration U.K. (IOM) as part of their Buy Responsibly campaign, this dance theatre piece takes inspiration from the lives of the people who have worked under forced labour in India, Africa, South America and parts of Europe and from the sculptures by London-based artist May Ayres and her critique of consumerism and capitalism.
- Choreography
- Annarita Mazzilli
- Original music
- Andy Higgs
- Lighting Designer
- Simon McCabe
Underfoot
Underfoot is an intimate and sideways exploration of that which we share and stand on. Dwelling, shifting and zooming through structures and improvisation.
"The moment one gives up one's verticality, the first thing one discovers is that even the smoothest ground is not flat. The ground is grooved, cracked, cool, painful, hot, smelly, dirty." (Andre Lepecki)
Next show: Machines for Living
Reclaim the heavens! Cities in the sky! Concrete solutions!
Two architects believe they can design life and move into the tower block they have built; engineered to encourage kinship and social harmony. But can their marriage survive the strain of cuddling up to cockroaches, as the building degenerates and the blame falls on them?
Combining black humour with a tragic scope, Let Slip explores the legacy of Britain’s tower blocks in
an irreverent, dynamic and visually arresting production.
Let Slip was founded at the Jacques Lecoq Theatre School in Paris. Machines for Living is the company’s second show, after its debut Hamster Town was staged at Camden People’s Theatre in August 2011.
Last show: ConcertTheatre - Sonata Movements
Exemplifying the possibilities of cross art form collaboration, ‘ConcertTheatre’ combines classical music and theatre to create a new performance experience for audiences with enhanced opportunities to make meaning from what’s onstage.
Sonata Movements pairs up four short pieces of theatre with four pieces of classical music structured in the form of a sonata. The four plays are linked by a common character of alienated relationships between people. A coherent performance will be created through characters, music, costumes and the performance space and it tells the journey of a musical sonata.
Reviews
Review in London Festival Fringe
Programme
| Abortive | Caryl Churchill (1938-) | Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828) | Sonata D. 960 Mv. I (with adapted development) |
| Other People's Gardens | Kenneth Emson (1983-) | Frederic Chopin (1810 - 1849) | Nocturne Op.9 Nr.2 Ballade Op.38 Concerto Op.22, Mv.III |
| Portrait of a Lady | T.S. Eliot (1888 - 1965) | Sergei Prokofief (1891 - 1953) Frederic Chopin |
Sonata Op.28 Prelude in E Minor |
| Swan Song | Anton Checkhov (1860 - 1904) | Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) | Sonatas (Last Movements) Op.81a Op.53, Op.57 Op.31 Nr.3 |