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queued up in coventry
Q MOB from MINDRIOT PRODUCTIONS on Vimeo. … a few glimpses of the Q Mob on the first of 2 days spent pampering the queueing public of Cov. as part of the London 2012 Open Weekend. Next week (29th/30th July) the Q Utility Vehicle makes its way to Birmingham City Centre. Look out for performances […]
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The Q
‘Queue Enhancement Specialist’ Rose break-dances his way round Talking Birds’ FarGo rehearsal unit, sporting crisp-out-of-the-bag tangerine streetwear (see pic). By way of celebrating the London 2012 Open Weekend (1 whole year to go ’til the Olympics) Talking Birds will introduce The Q to the precincts of Coventry this coming friday and saturday. The Q team will illustrate […]
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prize-winning act
Alexa Fury reveals the face of Cassandra in Kindle Theatre‘s cultish drrty grrl band version of The Furies…. The show had its second outing last week as part of the remarkable BE Festival 2011 at AE Harris. On Saturday, at the closing awards ceremony, The Furies received the ACT touring award, with its prize an invite to the […]
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“…be again, BE again…”
…With those strains of Beckett still trailing me, I return to Brum with a vigour, and time to focus on overdue work that’s suffered from the disruptions of touring. Meanwhile, as summer festival-time approaches, I’m feeling the thrill of a three-pronged performance assault ; 1. BE festival. Just what Birmingham needed….and the BE Team actually […]
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looking like krapp
Beckett locates his 1958 play thus; A late evening in the future. “Wearish” old man Krapp listens to the declamations of his younger self via a thirty year-old reel-to-reel tape recording. He skirts any sentimental reflection over the death of his mother, brooding instead on memories of an anonymous nurse or the incomparable bosom of a passer-by. […]
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Tags: Bodies in Flight, ed dimsdale, krapp's last tape, simon jones
still moving
Four days of buzzing between B’s… Berlin>B’ham>Balham>Bristol. …strictly speaking the Berlin part was actually elegant Potsdam, full of Schloss und Wasser, where the excellent Fabrik Tanztage played host to a visit of Stan’s Cafe’s The Cleansing of Constance Brown last week. We were looked after, fed gloriously and leave lovely friends behind. After a sleepless final night of de-rig, […]
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scoop
<p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/groups/20806/videos/23119588″>Scoop</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/mindriot”>MINDRIOT PRODUCTIONS</a> on <a href=”http://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p> Created by Talking Birds and MindRiot Prods. as stimulus for an education project with Coventry schools.
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watch this space
This week marked the 70th anniversary of the first (and worst) nights of Hull’s wartime Blitz and I’m in the city supervising a site-specific theatre residency with students from the University. Watch This Space is a promenade performance taking in several sites along Hull’s Fruitmarket (aka. Humber Street). Students’ research for the project incorporates a range of […]
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blah blah blah
Currently en route to Hull for the first outing of a new improvisational piece which I’ve been working on with Jill Dowse. Blah Blah Blah will be presented later today at the Red Gallery, as part of a rolling programme of events promoted by Compass Live Arts across Yorkshire and Humberside. Blah Blah Blah is […]
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being Krapp
Back at Bristol University this past week, working with Bodies in Flight on a one-man performance double-bill, which will grace the stage of the Wickham Theatre in two months’ time (9th June). There will be a rendering of Beckett’s class act Krapp’s Last Tape followed by the latest, taut re-working of BiF’s Model Love. Context […]
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