Theatre Souk Profiles – Curving Road

September 20th, 2010 by admin

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Breathing Corpses by Laura Wade

'A chambermaid enters a hotel room. A man is lying in the bed with the sheet pulled up over his head. This is not the first time, nor will it be the last, that Amy makes a gruesome discovery at work.'

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CurvingRoad is an organization founded on behalf of the artist. Its mission is to find new artists within a variety of disciplines as they make their way along the curving roads of their own, individual artistic lives, nurture them, advise them, and then, when ready, launch them and their work into the public eye. For more info about who we are and what we’ve done, see our website www.curvingroad.com.

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Theatre Souk Profiles – Straight out of line

September 20th, 2010 by admin

Straight Out of Line: Soft Armour
2nd Floor

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Devised by the cast and written by Laura Stevens

This is likely to be the strangest birthday party you've ever attended. In the middle of a morgue there is a woman who doesn't want to celebrate, with a woman who no longer can. Come and discover how in the shortest time we can live out the fullest of narratives in a story about birth, death and how we get marked in between.

Straight Out of Line Theatre is a collaboration of practitioners who met through the Old Vic New Voices network. Our shows are conceived and devised to speak to our generation about collective passions and questions that we feel need to be addressed in a theatrical conceit, outside the boundaries of normal theatre space.

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Theatre Souk Profiles – Counter Number 8

September 19th, 2010 by admin

Counter Number 8
2nd Floor

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The smallest space in the building, hidden between other performances and noise, hardly noticeable, there is an oasis for you. Find it if you can, and think about what you most desire in the next 10 years of your life. A bank from the underworld will become your most helpful banking. Inspired by works of a French Baroque painter Georges de la Tour.

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Theatre Souk Profiles – The Lab Collective

September 19th, 2010 by admin

The Lab Collective: Matador/Bullpen
Ground Floor

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MATADOR: The death knell is sounding for the last trader standing; come and see the Matador perform his swan song. A beautiful apology or an arrogant claim, the solo Matador stands proud in a crumbling arena, but there is still time to sell the bricks for scrap.
Performed by Neil Connolly. Directed by Joseph Thorpe and Natalie Scott.

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BULLPEN: Our modern civilisation should sit on the shoulders of economic brilliance. A wonderful ideal. In reality it is a stampede instigated by the selfish desire to be a winner. Come, play a game which gives you a taste of trading. Choose your team and play out a grand match of chance and skill, to test your resolve in the dangerous world of the market. Two teams will battle it out to extract their last ounce of competitive spirit in the ring. The participants will be trained by elite corporate players, pulled through their high life stories and exposed to their brutal attitudes. Are you game?
Performed by Lauren McCullum, Christopher Jenner Cole, Sophie Carmicheal, Matthew Haigh, Amy Clarke, and Rob Lyndon. Directed by Joseph Thorpe and Natalie Scott.

The Lab Theatre Collective was formed in 2007, and creates theatre which transcends forms. We work across disciplines to stimulate the development of performance, challenging the audience with an active and vivid experience. Recent performances have taken place at the Gladstone Hotel Toronto, The Roundhouse Studios and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

www.thelabcollective.co.uk

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Theatre Souk Profiles – Flabbergast

September 18th, 2010 by admin

Flabbergast theatre: Puppet Poker Pit
1st Floor

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The Puppet Poker Pit is a seedy poker den dominated by the huge characters of two eastern European puppets Boris and Sergey; a foul mouthed Laurel and Hardy double act that will charm and delight. Dripping pipes, bare bulbs, and a sinister presence that lurks just out of sight. try your hand… how good is your poker face?

Flabbergast was set up to make uncompromising and exciting physical theatre drawing on the Bunraku style of puppetry and a belief that all theatre should be engaging and sweaty. It believes that its actors are its single greatest resource and as such endeavours to create theatre through an extensive and collaborative research and development process. The company was founded by the actor Henry Maynard in response to a desire to utilise his hand crafted puppets and puppetry training with Blind Summit.

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