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Past programme
Showcases an eclectic range of fresh and interesting contemporary work, largely by emerging artists
22 Death Scenes
Jumbled look to harness the power of autobiographical material and direct address, and explore placing this in the context of richer visual and theatrical worlds. Through ongoing collaboration with sound-maker Nick Gill, Jumbled closely links live sound with action, to create a multi-layered experience.
We don't want to die but we know people who have. We'd fight for you, we'd lie for you, you know it's true, everything we do we do it for you. Before your very eyes, Jumbled will die not once, not twice, but 22 times. Watch us as we meet our ends simply, quietly, loudly, gloriously, haltingly, beautifully.
Listen as we tell you about the scenes we wished we had seen, and play you the music we wished we had heard. Sob as we breathe our last breath, scream as we are mercilessly butchered, gasp as we escape unscathed only to be gunned down at the last minute.
Angels Don't Dance
In the psychiatric unit of a large urban hospital, Dr Jones conducts a first interview with Jamie:
"Am I broken?"
"I think you are"
"You see the cracks?"
"Some"
But things are not so straightforward. Unseen to Jones, Jamie is shadowed by Angella, a second personality you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy…
A practising psychiatrist, Brockman’s play is based on true accounts. His work was included in the Samuel French Best Short Plays of 2001 & 2005.
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Hazmat & Me
Just after the end of the world, a lonely survivor clings on to better times with a bicycle-powered reading lamp and a dusty old gramophone. He's fed up, he's had enough and he's ready to die.
So it's a shame that his friend Hazmat, an eight-foot radiation suit with a penchant for mischief, is having none of it. Hazmat has a different take on the man's past and won't let him go before he's made to face the truth…
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Plasmas
Anwesha Ahmed Company’s project to redefine Manipuri dance in the light of the contemporary world began what was to become a radical process. The title of the piece, Plasmas, is inspired by the notion of the stripping of electrons from atoms to create free-flowing Plasmas –the fourth state of matter.
Five dancers present this journey accompanied by a specially commissioned score, which combines live and improvised music. The instrumentation includes the sarangi, the kartal (played by one of the dancers) as well as the violin and congas.
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The Highway Crossing (or A Tale of a Golden Fish)
Three people. One night. Four billion dollars.
How far would you go for four billion dollars?
Would you give up the love of your life?
The Highway Crossing follows a young couple as they embark on an evening they will never forget. A witty and dark piece about human nature and the choices we are forced to make at a moment's notice.
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Actor
A performance reflecting on the realities of being an actor and a dancer: the ‘actor’ is the essence of a show, equipped with a body to move and act according tothe script, but he is also a person in his own right with his own emotions, experiences and thoughts.
Welcome Goodbye/Adeus Obrigada - Drama: Five Shipwrecks & a Twilight (Cinco Naufrágios e um Crepúsculo)
Based on texts by Austro-Hungarian dramatist Odon Von Horvath, Eugene O’Neill & others, Drama by Cão Solteiro weaves together people and places - both disparate and linked - like pieces of a jigsaw: the drowned, the hanged, the Devil, spectres, unborn children, old English songs and sharks… All come together under the black veil of night, at twilight…
Welcome Goodbye/Adeus Obrigada - Singularity
Built through a set of images alternating between memories of times past and present, Singularity questions the philosophical concept of a ‘body without organs’: a body longing for desire and thriving in chaos and absurdity, refusing to conform to normality.
A physical theatre piece using the language of dance and movement.
Welcome Goodbye/Adeus Obrigada - Flatland
The tragic story of a two-dimensional man who realises his life lacks a third dimension. He discovers that, through film and theatre, his existence in the three-dimensional world is possible so long as there are spectators to watch.
Happy with the discovery but unhappy with the dependency, Flatman organizes a strategy to try and conquer this…
A multimedia performance where moving text is projected and voiced so that it can be read, heard and watched as the story unfolds.
Welcome Goodbye/Adeus Obrigada - Eurovision
Music and drama, dreams and disappointments…
Eurovision is a multi-language performance in three moments: past, present and future. Taking Europe as a starting point, the borders are opened and a new world order is signified from where there is no going back.
May the best man win…
Springheeled
Hannah Bruce: Rising Passing
Coy-Motion (Rebecca Convoy): Shhhhh!
Sarah Dowling: Where Were We?
Josephine Dyer: Viva la Vida
Levantes Dance Theatre (Elena Edipidi) (Winner of the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award 2009): I was Engaged to Diego Maradona
Amy Voris: Overlap. Music: James Buchanan. Designer: Susannah Henry.
Art in the Balkans - Half Life
Whoever's spent some time wandering around the concrete shopping centres, tube stations, underpasses and old library buildings all over the Balkans would have been struck by the number of computer centres and internet cafés to be found. In them, all day and all night, youths in designer clothes are busy playing violent interactive video games with loud music playing in the background. "What else is there to do?” asks one of the characters in Filip Vujosevic’s play Half Life.
This is the reality, or rather the virtual reality, experienced by many young people in the Balkans: they live with their parents, are unemployed and without any real prospect of getting a job. They are in Europe , with satellite TVs, Champions League, mobile phones and all the global imagery of success in the 21st century. Half Life follows Bole, Crooks and Killer Belgrade as they prepare for the Counter Strike competition.
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Art in the Balkans - Dead Man's Coat
Vera lives in an apartment in post-war Belgrade. She is bullied by Nenad, who claims the missing owner, Jovan, is presumed dead and the apartment is his by right as it had been snatched from his grandfather by the ‘communists’ in the first place. Then a man returns home. He is the keeper of a terrible secret.
Apart from a dead man’s coat, everything else seems unreal, like a dream, like a nightmare. After the war, the abyss, the void.
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Art in the Balkans - Pedalo
Two couples from Sarajevo are spending their holiday on the Croatian coast. The war in Bosnia is now part of the past, but the bombing of Serbia still lingers. One morning, they hire a pedal boat and venture away from the coast line. Something breaks and the pedal boat floats towards the open sea...
The emptiness ahead transforms them, bringing out selfishness, aggression, fear of death, desire to control, betrayal and the incapability for love... the war is again present but without a uniform, its tentacles reaching out to strangle humanity.
Art in the Balkans - Rehearsed Readings
Two of Us (Dvije)
by Tena Stivicic [Croatia]
Directed by Dawn Walton
Can I Seduce You? (Vas lahko zapeljem)
by Mateja Perpat [Slovenia]
Directed by Sladjana Vujovic
Dear Dad (Dragi tata)
by Milena Bogavac [Serbia]
Directed by Steve Harper
Tracks (Sine)
by Milena Bogavac [Serbia]
Directed by Nuria Benet
Tobelija
by Ljubomir Djurkovic [Montenegro]
Directed by Antonio Ribeiro