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return of The Furies
This week Kindle Theatre bring The Furies out of hibernation for some choice dates in the wondrous cities of Cambridge and Wolverhampton. The Furies is theatre which resembles a rock gig. It’s a glam-rock music-driven interpretation of Aeschylus’s tale of Clytemnestra, in which the three vengeful Furies are summoned to exact punishment upon a brutish Agamemnon. […]
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Tags: Fury, Kindle Theatre, The Furies
memento mori
In the Stan’s Cafe rehearsal room, working on “The Anatomy of Melancholy”, our adaptation of Robert Burton’s Jacobean compendium on health & wellbeing. The show premieres at Warwick Arts Centre, 12th – 15th March.
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Tags: melancholia, melancholy, memento mori, Robert Burton
Cardinals in The Roundhouse
In a rare visit to the Capital, Stan’s Cafe are performing The Cardinals this week at the Roundhouse Studio, Chalk Farm. The show is part of a programme of visual theatre that makes up this year’s London International Mime Festival. Like our Roundhouse neighbours, the Argentinian adrenaline-junkies Fuerzabruta, who are currently performing in the Main House, Stan’s Cafe are […]
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piloted
Some documentation from ‘A Dark Lady’ – piloted at The Courtyard, RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon on 12th July ’12 (Photos by Stewart Hemley). A RSC / Pilotnight collaboration, presented as part of the World Shakespeare Festival 2012. ‘A Dark Lady’ is a music-theatre duet for voice and bassoon, and a setting of Sonnets 128/129. Devised and performed by Graeme Rose and Gretha […]
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Tags: Bassoon, duet, RSC, Shakespeare, sonnets
in the midlands today
http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b01ndbjk/ clip starts at approx 18:00
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the war caravan
The magnificently decorated ‘War Caravan’, my temporary home for the duration of EAT!, this month’s site-specific theatre collaboration between Black Country Touring and the Birmingham Rep. Here is a link to designer Purvin, talking about his involvement with the project. Photo by John James.
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in repertoire
I’m in the Production wing of Birmingham Rep’s temporary HQ in the Jewellery Qtr., waiting for a wardrobe fitting session, when I notice an old poster on the wall. Actually it comes as no surprise to me, because I’ve been willing this thing to appear – so determined was I to find some evidence of […]
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Tags: 1972, Birmingham Rep, David Edgar, Rep100
food for thought
EAT! Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Black Country Touring in association with Foursight Theatre 18th – 27th October 2012 Rep@The Roundhouse, Sheepcote St., Birmingham Link to Rep Box Office FEASTING, FASTING, FAMINE and FOOD FOR THOUGHT We take food for granted; we diet, overindulge, grab it on the go, but rarely do we delve into its […]
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EAT! some
EAT! is a show developed from dozens of interviews with residents of Birmingham and the Black Country. The task of the interviews was to collect a body of material that reveals something of the myriad significance of food in our culture. From its fundamental capacity to sustain us, to examples of the weird and wonderful ways […]
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Tags: EAT! Fiddle&Bone Roundhouse
#3weekwindow
Via the Make Shift project, theatre companies Tin Box and Little Earthquake (with thanks to Point Blank) have taken charge of the prime-site empty shop at no.99 New Street, Birmingham, filling it with a dizzying programme of eye-catching, day-long performances/installations/artworks over the course of the last three weeks. Later today is the turn of Kindle […]
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