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Friday 4 March 2005

Having a Domestic : Artists Talking the Domestic

An afternoon of talks from internationally acclaimed artists co-hosted by cascpp and The AHRB Women’s Writing for Performance project. The artists will reflect on ideas of the domestic in the 21st Century and the ways in which the domestic ‘plays’ into their work. This event complements the Nuffield Theare's mini-season ‘Having a Domestic’.

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Kazuko Hohki





Saturday 5 March 2005 to Sunday 6 March 2005

Having a Domestic : A Curious Double Bill

Helen Paris and Leslie Hill present a distinctly different double bill, a very unusual take on the foreign and the domestic.

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Family Hold Back





Tuesday 8 March 2005 to Wednesday 9 March 2005

Having a Domestic : Curious present On the Scent

A fantastic site-specific performance exploring the link between smelll and memory.

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On the Scent





Saturday 23 April 2005

Niki McCretton and Kathy Hinde : Relative

A promenade theatre piece on the prom in Morecambe, made by choreographer Niki McCretton, compser/filmmaker Kathy Hinde, and local grandparents and grandchildren.

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Relative





Saturday 7 May 2005

Niki McCretton and Kathy Hinde : Relative - work in progress

Artists Niki McCretton and Kathy Hinde are developing the Relative community project, made with local grandparents and grandchildren, into a professional touring piece to open at the Nuffield in our Autumn 2005 season...

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Relative 2





Friday 20 May 2005 to Saturday 21 May 2005

Goat Island : When will the September roses bloom? Last night was only a comedy.

Goat Island is a Chicago-based collaborative performance company whose work combines choreography, performance art, theatrical scenes and sound. The resulting work weaves a complex pattern of poetic associations through movement and text.

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Goat Island





Tuesday 24 May 2005

Marie-Gabrielle Rotie : Incarnate and Mutability

Marie-Gabrielle Rotie's performance work draws on her extensive training in the Japanese dance form of Butoh, experimental vocal work, live art and the projected image. The result is dark, beautiful and mesmerising visual theatre.

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Marie-Gabrielle Rotie





Friday 3 June 2005 to Saturday 4 June 2005

Fittings Multimedia Arts : The Last Freakshow

A delightfully sticky pudding of fear, fun, voyeurism, prurient curiosity and downright bad taste.

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The Last Freakshow





Saturday 15 October 2005

Niki McCretton and Kathy Hinde : Relative2

Relative is a fascinating telescopic look at both ends of the special relationship between grandparent and grandchild.

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Relative





Monday 17 October 2005 to Tuesday 18 October 2005

Lena Simic : Joan Trial

'Aged 5, I was chosen to head the town procession for Tito, our beloved president. I was wearing the second T in his name T I T O. The red T was attached to my white top with some safety pins'

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Lena Simic





Thursday 20 October 2005

Ricochet Dance Productions : Man and Woman

John Napier's incredible sculptural set provides a shifting surface for Fin Walker's choreography in a daring and emotional new work for Ricochet Dance Productions.

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Ricochet Dance





Saturday 22 October 2005

Forced Entertainment : Exquisite Pain

In this simple and intimate performance, based on a project by renowned French conceptual artist Sophie Calle, Forced Entertainment explore how language, memory and forgetting move to contain, preserve or erase events. Exquisite Pain is about love, loss, and the stories we tell ourselves when things have gone wrong.

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Exquisite Pain





Sunday 23 October 2005

Tim Etchells/Forced Entertainment : Words and Pictures

Accounts of journeys to gather stories and photographic evidence, texts and videos donated by friends and strangers, fact, half-truth, autobiography and fiction - a new lecture-performance from Tim Etchells, artistic director of Forced Etertainment.

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Tim Etchells





Wednesday 26 October 2005

The Cholmondeleys : Flesh and Blood film

Unseen film screenings of 'Flesh and Blood' and 'Double Take', plus lecture with director Lea Anderson.

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Cholmondeleys





Saturday 29 October 2005 to Sunday 30 October 2005

Vincent Dance Theatre : Broken Chords

Following the sell-out success of Nuffield commission Punch Drunk, Vincent Dance Theatre’s new production, Broken Chords, is a reflection on growing older and growing up for eight multi-talented performers.

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Broken Chords





Monday 31 October 2005

Odin Teatret : Dona Musica's Butterflies

A rare and exciting chance to see a performance from one of the foremost performers of Eugenio Barba's seminal Odin Teatret: Julia Varley.

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Odin image 2





Tuesday 1 November 2005

Odin Teatret : The Echo of Silence by Julia Varley

The Echo of Silence is a performance demonstration by Julia Varley of Odin Teatret, which describes the vicissitudes of the voice of an actor and the stratagems she invents to 'interpret' a text.

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Odin Teatret





Friday 4 November 2005

Julian Fox : New Spaces for Role Models

New Spaces for Role Models is an extraordinary and fantastical mix of satirical songs, lyrical humour, home video and extremely peculiar dance.

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Julian Fox





Wednesday 9 November 2005

Touchdown Dance : Closer

In this dynamic new show of structured improvisations, the unique integrated company of visually impaired and sighted dancers break the regimentation of traditional choreography.

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Touchdown Dance





Sunday 13 November 2005

Ludus Dance : Dance Cuts 2

This annual showcase event celebrates the work of established and emerging artists from across Lancashire.

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Ludus Dance





Wednesday 16 November 2005

Robin Deacon : Colin Powell

A twisted biography of comparison, performer Robin Deacon provides an alternative perspective on the life and times of former US Secretary of State, Colin Powell.

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Robin Deacon





Wednesday 23 November 2005 to Thursday 24 November 2005

Theatre 102 : Foine Eyes

A visual extravaganza created by 61 students from Lancaster University's Theatre Studies department.

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Wednesday 30 November 2005 to Thursday 1 December 2005

Kazuko Hohki : Evidence for the Existence of Borrowers

After the success of her solo trilogy (Toothless, The Shining Princess, My Husband Is a Spaceman), Kazuko Hohki explores a world inspired by her childhood obsession with the little people.

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Borrowers





Saturday 3 December 2005

Johnathon Pram : Living Room and Cassettesac

A popular hit in our Autumn 04 season, we now present two earlier episodes in the life of Johnathon Pram - an individual struggling to endure the stressful mechanics of a modern world gone wrong.

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Living Room





Thursday 15 December 2005

Bedlam Dance : Shrink'd

An incredible mix of high quality dance and high-tech installation.

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Bedlam Dance





Thursday 26 January 2006

THEA205 & Tim Etchells : Scene By Scene

A group of 18 Theatre Studies students have worked with director Tim Etchells (Forced Entertainment) to create a new performance work.

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Scene By Scene





Friday 27 January 2006

Tim Etchells public lecture : Text/Action/Landscape

Text/Action/Landscape: Connections and Processes in the Work of Forced Entertainment This is the first in a series of public seminars entitled Performance Interventions, hosted by the Centre for the Advanced Study of Contemporary Performance Practice (CASCPP).

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Tim Etchells





Wednesday 1 February 2006

Until Thursday : We Should Have stood Still (Then everything Would Have Been Okay)

Manchester-based Until Thursday present a show that promises to deliver an experience that surpasses all expectations… There’s just one hitch. The show wasn’t made for a theatre. It was made for a forest. Until Thursday don’t seem to think this is a problem.

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Until Thursday





Wednesday 8 February 2006

Momentum : Momento Mori

Memento Mori is a one hour, non-stop drama in which the two dancers constantly surprise…made in collaboration withTanya Khabarova from Derevo

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Momentum





Saturday 18 February 2006

Nuffield Theatre : Nuff Said II

This event showcases the results of our Making Money commissioning scheme.

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Nuff Said 2





Thursday 23 February 2006

Dance North West : Xposure! 06

Xposure! is 3 new pieces of contemporary dance specially commissioned by Dance North West. These inspiring, edgy and surprising works are a must-see for all dance lovers.

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Xposure





Thursday 2 March 2006 to Friday 3 March 2006

Sonia Hughes : Weeding Cane

This beautiful and moving piece reveals Sonia Hughes as a talented and innovative playwright

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Weeding Cane





Monday 6 March 2006

Faulty Optic : Horsehead

Not for the faint-hearted, the show contains puppet nudity, confused flashbacks, time-lapsed flesh decay and a hideous clown with a rusty bayonet.

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Faulty Optic





Tuesday 7 March 2006

Shamshad Khan : Word Box (the big blow)

An evening of performance poetry taking beat boxing where it’s never been before.

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Shamshad Khan





Thursday 9 March 2006

Psappha : Pierrot Lunaire & The Soldier's Tale

Psappha present Pierrot Lunaire & The Soldier's Tale (staged) An unmissable double-bill of two of the most influential pieces of music from the last century.

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Psappha





Wednesday 26 April 2006

People Can Run : Aruba

A travel agent who’s going nowhere, a personal trainer who can’t perform and an ad-man who’s started to believe the hype. Paradise is not looking rosy…

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Aruba





Friday 28 April 2006 to Sunday 30 April 2006

Women's Writing for Performance Symposium : Process and Practice

An International symposium for practitioners, emergent practitioners and academics presented by Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts: Theatre Studies. Ticket price includes Split Britches performance

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Family Hold Back





Saturday 29 April 2006

Split Britches : Dress Suits to Hire

By Holly Hughes in collaboration with Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver A mellifluous ode to lesbian eros and a joyful, literate send-up of all romantic fantasy.

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Split Britches





Friday 5 May 2006 to Saturday 6 May 2006

Vincent Dance Theatre : Fairy Tale

Physical theatre, movement, puppetry and live music combine in a brand new production for children aged 6-8 years and their families.

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Fairy tale





Tuesday 9 May 2006 to Wednesday 10 May 2006

Fittings Multimedia Arts : Heelz on Wheels

Fathers and sons. Wigs and wheels. Cross-continent and cross-dressing. Men and masculinity. Heelz on Wheelz from Fittings Multimedia Arts puts it all in the pot and stirs it up.

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Heels on Wheels





Friday 12 May 2006

Demonstrate : Ever the Bull

Demonstrate’s wickedly funny production takes the traditional double-act and drags it into the twenty-second century.

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Demonstrate





Sunday 21 May 2006

Performance Intervention Series : Richard Foreman

Legendary US theatre practitioner visits the Nuffield Theatre to reflect on his artistic ideas and craft.

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Richard Foreman





Thursday 25 May 2006

Herman Diephuis : D'apres J C (According to J C)

In D'après J C (According to J C), Herman Diephuis creates an icon-filled Renaissance art gallery in motion.

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Herman Diephuis





Tuesday 6 June 2006

Philip Dadson : Tok Tok

Fixed media, built instruments, interference, sound, video, costume, installation. Tok Tok is a performance presentation from sound and media artist, composer, performer, and instrument builder Philip Dadson, in collaboration with Amanda Newall and Antti Saario.

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Thursday 29 June 2006 to Friday 30 June 2006

Kerstin Bueschges : ON HAIR, FISHTAILS AND VOICES - A DEMONSTRATION OF BECOMING A MERMAiD

Kerstin Bueschges presents ON HAIR, FISHTAILS AND VOICES - A DEMONSTRATION OF BECOMING A MERMAiD

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Kerstin





Wednesday 5 July 2006 to Thursday 6 July 2006

Beaumont College : Annual Showcase

This annual showcase celebrates the work of final-year Beaumont College art students and is an opportunity for them to perform in a professional theatre.

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Beaumont College





Monday 14 August 2006 to Saturday 19 August 2006

Goat Island : Goat Island Summer Workshop

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Goat Island 2





Wednesday 30 August 2006

Goat Island : A Goat Island work in progress

Goat Island present a work in progress of their new show, as yet untitled.

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Goat Island 2





Saturday 30 September 2006

Deer Park : The Forest Project

Fast-emerging young company Deer Park present a work in progress showing of their current project in Grizedale Forest, Cumbria.

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Deer Park





Friday 13 October 2006 to Saturday 14 October 2006

imitating the dog and Pete Brooks : Hotel Methuselah

Hotel Methuselah is a contemporary ghost story and a searing tale of the destructive power of love. imitating the dog create a unique, immersive experience, fusing spectacular live action and video projection, in a performance that places narrative, emotion and wit at its core.

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Hotel Mehtuselah 2





Saturday 14 October 2006

Practice Reflected : Middle, End, Beginning: adventures in narrative

This symposium draws out one strand of recent Nuffield programming: experiments with narrative in contemporary theatre and performance.

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Hotel Mehtuselah





Tuesday 17 October 2006

Walker Dance Park Music : 5 2 10

Walker Dance Park Music takes you on an evolutionary journey through the human emotions with fervent, powerful music - played live - and dance of heart-stopping athleticism and beauty.

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Walker Dance 5210





Thursday 19 October 2006

Phocomedia Productions & Natalie Steed present : Thalidomide!! A Musical

Mat Fraser and Anna Winslet star in this dark and shockingly funny musical. With the Thalidomide drug scandal of the 1960’s as its backdrop, the show has at its heart a journey of self-discovery and true love.

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Mat Fraser





Thursday 26 October 2006 to Friday 27 October 2006

Forced Entertainment : The World in Pictures

The World in Pictures moves beyond the confines of its incomplete mock-history to touch on memory, mortality, the past, the future and the intricate detail of our own lives.

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World in Pictures 2





Friday 3 November 2006 to Saturday 4 November 2006

Uninvited Guests : It Is Like It Ought To Be: A Pastoral

After immersing themselves in horror movies for their last show, Schlock, Uninvited Guests now take refuge in pastoral romance and the search for an impossible utopia.

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Uninvited Guests





Saturday 4 November 2006

Uninvited Guests : Between You and Us: A Symposium with Uninvited Guests

Eight years after their first show, and at a turning point, Uninvited Guests pause for a while to reflect on past work. A number of invited guests discuss the trajectory towards their current pastoral retreat. These presentations will be interrupted by creative responses to the Nuffield UK premiere of It Is Like It Ought To Be by artistic friends and local artists.

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Uninvited Guests 2





Monday 6 November 2006 to Tuesday 7 November 2006

Reckless Sleepers : Spanish Train

It’s a very simple story. An imagined world, designed to try and make a sense of the real world. An imagined world where a bear and a girl live together.

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Spanish Train





Monday 13 November 2006 to Tuesday 14 November 2006

Lone Twin Theatre : Alice Bell

This is the simple story of Alice Bell, a fictional character born into a fictional conflict. In a tale for our times, Alice seeks happiness in a divided land, finding love and companionship but at a terrible cost.

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Alice Bell





Monday 27 November 2006

A Lanwest Triple Bill : Greg Foster, Jo Docherty, Sophia Di Martino

Three exceptional new artists from the North West deliver a triple-bill of quirky, moving and amusing performances.

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Lanwest





Tuesday 28 November 2006

Angel Club (north) and Juliet Ellis : Obstacles to Coming Home / hidden thread

A double bill of new work from the North West featuring a perfromance from Angel Club (north) and a stunning installation by Juliet Ellis.

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Angel Club





Saturday 2 December 2006

Ludus Dance : Dance Cuts 2006

This annual showcase event celebrates the work of established and emerging dance artists from across Lancashire and, as in previous years, promises to be an inspiring and diverse evening.

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Dance Cuts 06





Monday 11 December 2006 to Tuesday 12 December 2006

Company Fierce and Quarantine : Susan & Darren

A first for the Nuffield: an alternative Christmas Show! An event with dancing created with and performed by Darren Pritchard and his mum, Susan. Quarantine and Company Fierce join forces with writer Sonia Hughes and choreographer Jane Mason for a performance where real life doesn’t stop when the show starts.

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Susan and Darren





Wednesday 24 January 2007 to Thursday 25 January 2007

Theatre Studies : LAST ACT

A new piece created by Second Year students from Lancasater Institute for Contemporary Arts working with director Tim Etchells.

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Last Act





Tuesday 30 January 2007

Sean Tuan John : KILL THE KLOWNS

Three bitter failed comedians taunt and torment each other as they re-enact and destroy old vaudeville dreams of hysteria and happiness.

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Sean Tuan John





Thursday 1 February 2007

Until Thursday : It’s a Question of Taste

It’s a Question of Taste is a new piece of theatre from Until Thursday, the company that created Droppin’ Shoppin’, the unforgettable finale to Nuff Said II.

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Question of Taste





Wednesday 7 February 2007

Wendy Houstoun : Desert Island Dances

Wendy Houstoun has developed a uniquely distinctive style that combines movement with text, and meaning with humour.

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Wendy Houstoun





Tuesday 13 February 2007

Union Dance : Heaven On Earth

Entrancing images, Afro-European dance and Hip-Hop meet to create a breathtakingly emotive evening.

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Union Dance





Friday 16 February 2007 to Saturday 17 February 2007

Lone Twin : Nine Years

Nine Years brings together, for the first time, this extraordinary company’s entire body of work.

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Nine Years





Friday 16 February 2007 to Saturday 17 February 2007

Lone Twin : I Can't Go On Like This - Approaches on Lone Twin

A major public event reflecting on a decade of Lone Twin, with responses from artists, writers and academics.

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Nine Years 2





Wednesday 21 February 2007 to Saturday 24 February 2007

Athletes of The Heart : Glass Body

GLASS BODY plunges the spectator into the depths of obstetrics ultrasound technology to provoke questions about our interior visibility as a lived experience.

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Glass Body





Wednesday 7 March 2007 to Thursday 8 March 2007

Bobby Baker : How To Live

Big questions call for big answers, and Bobby Baker is ready to answer the biggest question of all: how to live?

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Bobby Baker





Tuesday 13 March 2007 to Wednesday 14 March 2007

Adrian Howells : Salon Adrienne

‘Short back and sides, sir?’ Or how about ‘something for the weekend’?’ Well, if you venture into Byron's Hair salon you’ll certainly get more than just a trim and some chit-chat as Adrienne sets up shop there for 'Salon Adrienne’.

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Adrienne





Saturday 14 April 2007

Dukes Youth Theatre : Unless Supernatural Grace Intervenes

Swen Steinhouser (director of Deer Park and Nuffield Theatre associate artist), is making a devised show with ten members of the Dukes Youth Theatre, aged between 11 and 16.

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Thursday 26 April 2007

Forecast dance / Collision : Moving Words (dance double bill)

Moving words is a fascinating dance double bill featuring two new works that play with the relationship of movement and words in performance. It features two of the most exciting companies around working in this field, Forecast dance and Collision.

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Forecast





Tuesday 1 May 2007

Al Seed & Ben Faulks : The Endurance

Al Seed (Fringe First Winner 2004) and Ben Faulks (Companions of Pram / Winner of the Manchester Evening News Theatre Award 2004) collaborate in this new work.

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Endurance





Thursday 3 May 2007

Mishimou : The 3 Little Pigs

This gloriously eccentric show subverts the children’s classic tale. Funny, sinister and very naughty.

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Mishimou





Monday 7 May 2007

Decadance : Decadance hip-hop workshops

Brooklyn's super-talented all-female hip-hop troupe Decadance are leading a series of workshops aimed at 7-11 years, 12-14 years and 15 + - adult.

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Friday 11 May 2007

Niki McCretton : SPACE 50

A theatrical voyage to mark 50 Years of Space travel

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Space 50





Saturday 12 May 2007

Niki McCretton : Muttnik - The First Dog in Space

A physical theatre show for children over 3 and childish adults, devised and performed by Niki McCretton.

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Muttnik drawing





Sunday 24 June 2007

dirtytheatre : All Just Fields

A slide-show performance with words and sound, featuring 5 extraordinary buildings, as part of Architecture Week.

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All Just Fields





Thursday 5 July 2007 to Friday 6 July 2007

Proto-type Theater : WHISPER

An audio-driven performance work by Proto-type Theater.

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Whisper





Wednesday 11 July 2007

Beaumont College : Beaumont College Annual showcase

Beaumont College ArtsFest07 - Annual Showcase: ‘More than the sum of its parts’

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Beaumont College2





Friday 13 July 2007 to Sunday 15 July 2007

Neil Callaghan and Simone Kenyon : Unknown Terra-tories (FULL)

Over three days 12 artists interrogate their own practice whilst walking in the mountains of the Lake District. Led by Neil Callaghan and Simone Kenyon.

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Unknown Territories





Friday 27 July 2007 to Sunday 29 July 2007

FrenchMottershead : Live Art Campers - SPACES STILL AVAILABLE

SOME LAST-MINUTE SPACES HAVE OPENED UP FOR THIS EVENT. IF YOU'RE INTERESTED, CALL FRENCH MOTTERSHEAD DIRECT ON 07914 420709. Come for a weekend away! Country walks, sitting around the fire, drinking and chatting til late, interspersed with 'fun' professional development sessions led by FrenchMottershead.

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Live art campers





Tuesday 28 August 2007

Tara Brandel and co : MAKING SPACE 1: The Body Project

A work-in-progress performance as part of a two-week development period. This is a collaborative project between Tara Brandel’s Croi Glan Integrated Dance Company, Wendy Hesketh’s Wired Aerial Theatre, and Steve Lewis's Deep Cabaret.

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Nuffield photo





Saturday 1 September 2007

Jenny McCabe and co. : Morecambe Dances: Outdoor Film Screening

A unique film screening at the Eric Morecambe Statue, Morecambe. Morecambe Dances is a short film devised by a team of artists led by Jenny McCabe (Lancaster) Vicky Van Mechelen (Morecambe) and Helen Bendon (London).

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jenny McCabe





Saturday 15 September 2007

Simon Bowes : MAKING SPACE 2: Fare-well

A work-in-progress performance as part of North West-based artist Simon Bowes' Making Space project to develop a piece mapping out the vacated spaces of the Nuffield's histories.

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Nuffield photo





Saturday 15 September 2007

Antti Sakari Saario : MAKING SPACE 3: Sonic Nuffield

A work-in-progress performance from Lancaster-based sound artist and composer Antti Sakari Saario. His Making Space project involves creating a sonic portrayal of the Nuffield Theatre through an original fixed media sound work.

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Nuffield photo





Saturday 22 September 2007

Leentje Van de Cruys : Nine

Making Space 4. Belgian artist Leentje Van de Cruys has been working with a small group of local pregnant women on creating a performative response to pregnancy.

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Pregnancy





Monday 24 September 2007

Ben Faulks : Hammer and Tongs

A work-in-progress performance. The results of a two week development period of a devised work by Ben Faulks and 10 performers and trampolinists.

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Tramps





Thursday 11 October 2007 to Saturday 13 October 2007

Neil Mackenzie and Mole Wetherell : After Dubrovka

A theatre installation by Neil Mackenzie and Mole Wetherell, with sound artist Spencer Marsden

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After Dubrovka2





Thursday 18 October 2007

Rosie Dennis : Hitting a Brick Wall and Access All Areas

Rosie Dennis is a Sydney-based artist who mixes movement and text to create deceptively simple and intensely evocative performances.

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Rosie Dennis

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Thursday 25 October 2007

Malika Booker : Unplanned

Spellbinding, intimate and wickedly funny, Unplanned is the new show from mesmerising performer and writer Malika Booker.

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Malika Booker

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Friday 2 November 2007

Taylor Mac : The Be(A)st of Taylor Mac

A flamboyant chameleon of words, music and socio-political tirades, multi-award-winning New York sensation Taylor Mac sings of life and love, doubt and fear.

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Taylor Mac





Monday 5 November 2007

Rajni Shah : Mr Quiver

Exquisite costume and technical trickery combine in this new performance installation featuring Rajni Shah as Elizabeth I and an Indian bride.

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Rajni Shah2





Thursday 8 November 2007

Hofesh Schechter : deGENERATION Triple Bill

Award winning choreographer/composer Hofesh Shechter presents deGENERATION a gripping triple bill of exhilarating physicality and nuanced drama.

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Hofesh Shechter1

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Tuesday 20 November 2007 to Wednesday 21 November 2007

63 : Stranger Than Kindness

63 performers. 63 audience-members. 63 desks. 63 light-bulbs… 63 declarations of love. 63 false confessions. 63 awkward silences. 63 fond farewells.

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Stranger Than Kindness

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Friday 23 November 2007 to Saturday 24 November 2007

Tim Crouch : An Oak Tree

A remarkable play that expands ideas of performance and story-telling.

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An Oak Tree1





Tuesday 27 November 2007 to Wednesday 28 November 2007

Cupola Bobber : The Man Who Pictured Space From His Apartment

Chicago-based duo Cupola Bobber make physical performance that hangs somewhere between staged theatrics and the beautifully familiar.

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Cupola Bobber





Wednesday 5 December 2007

Victoria present Miet Warlop : Propositions 1 & 2

This is both a performance and an installation from the exciting young artist Miet Warlop who works under Belgian company Victoria’s wings in their project ‘De Bank’ (The Bank).

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Miet Warlop1

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Thursday 6 December 2007

These Horses : Take it Home

In this unorthodox dance show from These Horses, Take it Home draws on popular and alternative dance cultures, the iconography of live music and the spectacle of sporting events.

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Thursday 24 January 2008

Third Year Theatre Students with Tim Etchells and Andrew Quick : Cast Out

No one learns anything. It's just spills and thrills.

In Cast Out 36 characters are cut loose from their usual stories and thrown together on an empty stage. Figures from drama, cabaret, kids performance and movies, from classical theatre, the freakshow and pantomime face-off, rub shoulders and lock horns until sparks begin to fly.

Created by Third Year Theatre Studies students with Tim Etchells (Forced Entertainment) and Andrew Quick.

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Tuesday 29 January 2008

Neil and Simone / Augusto Corrieri : Live Art Double Bill

A double-bill from young artists emerging on the live art and performance scene.

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Tuesday 12 February 2008

Maresa von Stockert - Tilted Productions : Glacier

A virtuoso new work of physical dance theatre by award-winning choreographer Maresa von Stockert.

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Monday 18 February 2008

Abattoir Ferme : Tourniquet

UK Premiere performance from accclaimed Belgian theatre collective.

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Wednesday 20 February 2008 to Thursday 21 February 2008

Vincent Dance Theatre : Act One

Vincent Dance Theatre present the company’s first ever double-bill, featuring solos by outstanding Polish performers: Janusz Orlik and Aurora Lubos.

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Thursday 28 February 2008 to Friday 29 February 2008

Goat Island : The Lastmaker

Final performance work from Goat Island, one of the world’s leading contemporary performance ensembles.

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Saturday 1 March 2008 to Sunday 2 March 2008

Goat Island : Lastness, raiding the archive, and pedagogical practices

Practice Reflected at the Nuffield Theatre, in association with Dance4 presents 'Goat Island: Lastness, raiding the archive, and pedagogical practices in performance'. PLEASE NOTE: SYMPOSIUM TICKETS DO NOT INCLUDE THE PERFORMANCE OF LASTMAKER (THU 28 OR FRI 29 FEB) - THESE MUST BE BOOKED SEPARATELY, FROM THE SYMPOSIUM ALLOCATION HELD WITH THE BOX OFFICE ON 01524 594151.

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Wednesday 5 March 2008

Live Art North West : In Transit

Showcasing the freshest performance talent from the northwest and beyond, with playful and dark stories taking the audience on a journey from Moss Side to Italy, via Lancaster.

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Saturday 26 April 2008

Various artists : Nuff Said By the Sea

The Nuffield Theatre is delighted to announce the third Nuff Said festival: Nuff Said by the Sea. This is a special opportunity to join the Nuffield in a day and night celebration of innovative artists and performances. The festival will centre around the conclusion to Rules & Regs, a national project which challenges artists to work in response to a set of rules devised by the host venue. (If you are unable to come to the above there will be a one off preview performance of the Rules & Regs pieces on the 25th April at 7pm, tickets at the special offer price of £3)

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Tuesday 29 April 2008 to Wednesday 30 April 2008

Gravity and Levity : Shift

Contemporary dance, airborne circus and live music collide within a stunning sculptural environment.

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Saturday 3 May 2008

Ludus Dance : Dance Cuts 2008

This annual showcase celebrates the work of established and emerging dance artists from across Lancashire.

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Thursday 8 May 2008

Precarious : Druthers

An exquisite concoction of visual theatre, digital effects and text, from exciting young theatre company Precarious.

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Tuesday 13 May 2008

Ockham's Razor : Arc / Every Action / Memento Mori

Ockham’s Razor is a critically-acclaimed aerial theatre company, specialising in airborne physical theatre on innovative pieces of suspended equipment.

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Monday 28 July 2008 to Friday 1 August 2008

Cupola Bobber : Nuffield Summer School 08

The Nuffield Theatre's 3rd annual Artists Summer School, led by Chicago-based company Cupola Bobber.

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Monday 6 October 2008

Faulty Optic : Fish Clay Perspex

World-renowned for their haunting tales and strange animated figures, Nuffield favourites Faulty Optic present their eccentric new puppet show, Fish Clay Perspex

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Wednesday 8 October 2008 to Thursday 9 October 2008

Station House Opera : Mind Out

Station House Opera is one of the most important and influential theatre companies of the last 30 years. Mind Out builds on the company’s fascination with ideas of identity in performance, explored in previous works including Roadmetal Sweetbread and the stunning Nuffield sell-out show Mare’s Nest.

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Monday 13 October 2008 to Tuesday 14 October 2008

Lone Twin Theatre : Daniel Hit By A Train

Following the fantastic Alice Bell (Nuffield Autumn 06), audience favourites Lone Twin Theatre are back with a new show co-commissioned by the Nuffield. In Daniel Hit By A Train the company stage 53 true stories. In each story a person loses their life in the attempt to save the life of another.

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Tuesday 14 October 2008

Lone Twin Theatre : Lone Twin Masterclass

This session, led by members of Lone Twin Theatre company, explores various approaches to narrative employed in the making of Alice Bell and Daniel Hit by a Train; two of a trilogy of works foregrounding ideas of storytelling and biography.

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Friday 17 October 2008

Shakespeare Schools Festival : Something Wicked This Way Comes

The UK’s largest youth drama Festival comes to Lancaster. This year 50 theatres across the country will stage 500 abridged Shakespeare productions. 4 local schools from Lancaster, Morecambe and the surrounding area stage 4 different half-hour Shakespeare plays.

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Tuesday 21 October 2008 to Wednesday 22 October 2008

Forced Entertainment : Spectacular

Following an extraordinary run of Nuffield visits in recent years, including Exquisite Pain, Bloody Mess and the World in Pictures, Spectacular is Forced Entertainment's playful and provocative new show. Please note, the 21 October performance is now SOLD OUT.

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Thursday 23 October 2008

Apples and Snakes : Speechless

Speechless brings together new poetry from five specially commissioned writers from across South East Asia and four brilliant UK-based poets on the theme of freedom of expression in an exceptional new multi-lingual spoken word show as part of Lancaster’s Litfest 2008. Hosted by Francesca Beard.

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Monday 27 October 2008

1927 : Between The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

1927’s multiple award-winning show cleverly combines live music, performance and storytelling with stunning films and animation. An ingenious blend of fractured fairytales and silent film unfolds as the audience go on a surreal journey through enchanting, skewed and sinister landscapes.

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Tuesday 4 November 2008

Gob Squad : Gob Squad Masterclass

This masterclass for practitioners will focus on introducing participants to Gob Squad methodologies around site-related work, urban intervention, working collaboratively and interactive performance.

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Wednesday 5 November 2008 to Thursday 6 November 2008

Gob Squad : Gob Squad's Kitchen

In their first Nuffield visit, Berlin-based Gob Squad deliver a stunning new live film with bad coffee, nervous breakdowns, wild parties and modern hairstyles, taking Andy Warhol’s film, Kitchen, as its starting point.

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Wednesday 19 November 2008 to Thursday 20 November 2008

55 Boxes : LA SeCluedo

Lancaster University's Theatre Studies first year students present a fascinating Mystery Tour - an installation promenade performance using the full expanse of the Nuffield Theatre.

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Wednesday 26 November 2008 to Thursday 27 November 2008

Rajni Shah : Give What You Can, Take What You Need

In the lead-up to new Nuffield-based show Dinner With America (see WHAT'S ON section), London based artist Rajni Shah delivers a free participatory experience taking place in St Nicholas' Arcade in the centre of Lancaster.

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Saturday 29 November 2008 to Sunday 30 November 2008

Rajni Shah : Dinner With America

Dinner with America is the second in a trilogy of performance installations addressing the complexities of cultural identity in the 21st Century. Where the first piece in the trilogy, Mr Quiver (Nuffield Autumn 07), explored Indian and English stereotypes, this piece questions what America means to us.

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Tuesday 2 December 2008 to Wednesday 3 December 2008

Reckless Sleepers : The Pilots

Reckless Sleepers are one of the foremost exponents of devised theatre in the UK. Their use of varied models and processes for developing performances are central to their work. The company mark 20 years of cutting-edge contemporary theatre by going back to the beginning. A theatre. An audience. Two men pretending to be pilots…

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Monday 8 December 2008 to Tuesday 9 December 2008

Talking Birds : Trevor Goose and his Dark Night of Lights

IS IT A GIG? IS IT A PANTO? IS IT A MISJUDGED DANISH CABARET? Well it’s all three, as performance heroes Talking Birds arrive in Lancaster with a Christmas Show for those who like their festive entertainment skewed and a little bit heartbreaking.

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Thursday 29 January 2009

The Strange Names Collective : The Gratitude of Monsters

The Gratitude of Monsters combines three performances, each asking questions about progress and civilisation...

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Tuesday 3 February 2009

Live Art North West Showcase : In Transit 3

This is the third year that The Nuffield have supported In Transit, a touring project presenting work from the next generation of boundary pushers working in live art and contemporary theatre in the North West...

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Thursday 5 February 2009

Tim Etchells & Jim Fletcher : Sight is the Sense...

The performance – a virtuoso piece of recall – tumbles from topic to topic to create a vast, failing iteration and explanation of the world.

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Wednesday 11 February 2009

Hauser : I Made You A Submarine

I Made You a Submarine is a multi-layered devised theatre performance that begins with Billy the Kid’s dying friend Charley Bowdre and ends by the sea-side with a lobster...

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Wednesday 18 February 2009

Candoco : Candoco Masterclass

A 3-hour Masterclass : Candoco dancers will lead a professional level company class followed by teaching demanding sections from Hofesh Shechter and Nigel Charnock's new works from the company's 2008/2009 season. See What's On Section for performance details.

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Thursday 19 February 2009

Candoco Dance Company : Still and The Perfect Human

Candoco is an important contemporary dance company, made up of disabled and non-disabled dancers. They aim to push the boundaries of dance and make us rethink what dance is and who can dance.

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Friday 20 February 2009 to Saturday 21 February 2009

Plungeboom : The Vegetable Nannies

Wheeling an ancient Victorian pram laden with a prized collection of vegetables, the Nannies will be out for the weekend, showing off their allotment cherubs and telling many a tale, like any proud parent would.

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Saturday 21 February 2009

Lancaster International Concert Series : Steve Reich Symposium

Steve Reich's instantly recognizable musical language combines rigorous structures with propulsive rhythms, and the construction of complex sounds out of simple materials.

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Tuesday 24 February 2009 to Wednesday 25 February 2009

Weeding Cane : Song of Songs

Song of Songs delicately explores the impossibility of love through the lives of the women on stage... A show with a great soundtrack, a few dance routines and some intimate, fragile stories.

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Wednesday 4 March 2009 to Friday 6 March 2009

Reckless Sleepers : The Last Supper

Reckless Sleepers invite you to dinner, to sample the last meal requests of the famous and the not so famous.

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Thursday 9 April 2009

Neil Callaghan : From Where I'm Standing

What if the city of Lancaster suddenly vanished? Disappeared? What memories would remain? What stories would we tell? A collaboration between Nuffield Theatre associate artist and director Neil Callaghan, and a group from the Dukes Youth Theatre.

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Wednesday 22 April 2009

Maysles Films : Grey Gardens

ADULTERATED TALES FESTIVAL EVENT

To mark the premiere of Proto-type Theater's new show, and to open Adulterated Tales Festival, we're delighted to offer a rare late-night showing of the amazing film Grey Gardens...

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Wednesday 22 April 2009 to Thursday 23 April 2009

Proto-type Theater : Virtuoso (working title) World Premiere

ADULTERATED TALES FESTIVAL EVENT

A television show that doesn't exist... A spot on the wall... Three performers stage the story of a stagnant American suburbia, where the minutiae of everyday life have become strange: glass windows portend violence, a spot on the wall promises freedom and a stranger appears in the living room...

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Tuesday 28 April 2009 to Thursday 30 April 2009

Quarantine : The Soldier's Song

ADULTERATED TALES FESTIVAL EVENT

An installation by Renny O’Shea exploring the world of currently serving British soldiers through the music they listen to.

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Tuesday 28 April 2009 to Thursday 30 April 2009

imitating the dog : Kellerman

ADULTERATED TALES FESTIVAL EVENT

KELLERMAN is a gothic tale of obsessive desire, demonic doctors and monstrous nurses, combining film, animation and live action, this is a moving and accessible new performance from the creators of the critically acclaimed Hotel Methuselah.

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Wednesday 6 May 2009 to Thursday 7 May 2009

Vanessa : Look Mummy, I'm Dancing

ADULTERATED TALES FESTIVAL EVENT

Belgian artist Vanessa Van Durme, born a boy in 1948, talks with surprising honesty about her sex change in an attempt to break down the public’s prejudice, demonstrating that people who are different are also people.

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Saturday 9 May 2009

Blind Summit : Low Life

ADULTERATED TALES FESTIVAL EVENT

A man dances a love duet with a beer glass, a diva drinks to forget, Bud the action-hero-plumber is literally drowning in drink and Jack Belane, tiny private detective, totally screws up a case. These are the characters of the “Low Life cabaret”, a world where puppets tell their tales to a soundtrack of Tom Waits. Your world will never be the same again

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Friday 19 June 2009 to Saturday 20 June 2009

DT3 with Nuffield Theatre, Ludus Dance etc. : Postcards to Africa

The Postcards to Africa Project provides young people from Lancaster and Morecambe the opportunity to get involved in a professional event led by The Dukes, and in collaboration with Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster, Ludus Dance and others.

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Thursday 13 August 2009

Every house has a door : Let us think of these things always. Let us speak of them never

Work-in-progress event.

After 9 performances as co-founders of Goat Island, Lin Hixon and Matthew Goulish and have formed a new company - Every house has a door.

Every house has a door was formed with the intention of creating project-specific collaborative productions as performative encounters, with irregular groups of international guests.

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Wednesday 19 August 2009

Reckless Sleepers : It Was Never Called Snowman

WIP of new piece by Reckless Sleepers

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Sunday 30 August 2009

Talking Birds : Nuffield Artists Summer School 09

4th Nuffield International Artists Summer School: Theatre Spectres - led by Talking Birds

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Saturday 26 September 2009 to Sunday 27 September 2009

Rajni Shah : (it's going to be) Glorious!

Artist Rajni Shah is looking for up to ten participants to take part in a free two-day workshop over the weekend of September 26th and 27th (daytimes). There will be an informal showing of the work developed at 3pm on the 27th. The workshop is not for professional artists, enthusiasm and curiosity is all that's required. Participants will create short simple performances based on autobiographical material using a combination of voice, text and objects. Workshop participants need not have prior experience in any of these areas - in fact enthusiasm and curiosity will be valued above experience.

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Tuesday 6 October 2009 to Wednesday 7 October 2009

Faulty Optic : Fish Clay Perspex

World renowned for their haunting tales and strange animated figures, Nuffield favourites Faulty Optic present their eccentric puppet show, Fish Clay Perspex.

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Tuesday 6 October 2009

Public Arts at Lancaster University : 2009 Season Launch Event


NEW SEASON LAUNCH NIGHT

In the gallery - FutureEverything – ENVIRONMENT 2.0
In the theatre - Faulty Optic – FISH CLAY PERSPEX

Come along to the Great Hall Complex at Lancaster University on the 6th of October and celebrate the opening of an exciting new season of work and an innovative new artistic venture for the region.

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Wednesday 7 October 2009

NUFFIELD THEATRE MASTERCLASS : Faulty Optic MASTERCLASS

Workshops for those interested in learning some basic puppetry skills and puppeteers wanting to try different techniques.
Max 12 participants

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Sunday 11 October 2009 to Saturday 17 October 2009

A2 : The Future of Death / part 5
Unique workshop and performance opportunity for local residents

We are seeking local participants from all ages and backgrounds to take part in The Future of Death / part 5, by performance company A2 and commissioned by Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster (funded additionally by Awards for All). This is an evolving performance installation in which 40 local people gradually bury each other with earth, following workshops exploring the inter-relationship between Living & Dying. This project will be presented at the Storey Gallery in Lancaster on the 23rd and 24th of October.

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Tuesday 13 October 2009 to Saturday 17 October 2009

Quarantine : Soldier's Song

A sound-based installation by Renny O’Shea (of theatre/research company Quarantine), made with and about currently-serving British soldiers and taking the form of an intimate karaoke booth.

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Thursday 15 October 2009 to Friday 16 October 2009

Mem Morrison : Ringside (performance)

Ringside draws on a lifetime of Turkish Cypriot family weddings, and is an intimate attempt to belong to a culture, to a family and to someone. This site-specific performance will be performed with a group of 30 local female co-performers, playing the roles of Mem’s potential wives and wedding guests.

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Friday 16 October 2009

Shakespeare Schools Festival : We Are Such Stuff...

We are once again delighted to be one of 65 host venues around the country supporting 10,000 young people to perform in professional theatres...

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Wednesday 21 October 2009

Oliver Bray : Villa

Oliver Bray, known to Nuffield audiences from his work with Until Thursday Theatre Company (It’s A Question of Taste, Droppin’ Shoppin’), is performing solo in this new work based around a Russian family’s tragic story of loss.

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Friday 23 October 2009 to Saturday 24 October 2009

A2 Company : The Future of Death /part 5 (performance)

London based A2 Company, the collaboration between artists Anton Mirto and Alit Kreiz, began research for this sensitive piece working with the terminally ill in palliative care, seeking to discover the changes of heart made on the verge of death, and how this knowledge might be put into practice.

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Monday 26 October 2009 to Tuesday 27 October 2009

Ridiculusmus : Tough Time, Nice Time

A secret, a spa in Bangkok, and two naked Germans...

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Tuesday 27 October 2009

NUFFIELD THEATRE LECTURE DEMO : Ridiculusmus

Comedy - a dialogue between Dr Jonathan Haynes and Dr David Woods (Co-artistic Directors of Ridiculusmus)

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Monday 9 November 2009

Michael Pinchbeck / Kings of England : A Family Double Bill

Performers Michael Pinchbeck and Simon Bowes each bring their parents to work for this double-bill of distinctly personal performance, reflecting on family histories and the passing of time.

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Wednesday 18 November 2009 to Thursday 19 November 2009

LICA : A Night To Remember

LICA's first year Theatre Studies students present a brand new devised performance.

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Tuesday 24 November 2009 to Wednesday 25 November 2009

Quarantine : Make-believe

Following their unforgettable show Susan & Darren (Nuffield Theatre 2007), Quarantine are back with their latest theatre piece, the dark and joyous Make-believe.

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Wednesday 25 November 2009

NUFFIELD THEATRE MASTERCLASS : Quarantine

Quarantine’s masterclass will explore some of their approaches to devising Make Believe.
Max 16 participants

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Friday 27 November 2009 to Saturday 28 November 2009

Tim Crouch : ENGLAND

Written to be performed by two guides within an existing art exhibition, and recently presented by the National Theatre in London’s Whitechapel Gallery, the triple award-winning ENGLAND travels the trade routes of art and human beings through space and across borders.

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Wednesday 2 December 2009

New Art Club : Extra Ordinary World

'A double act who marry stand-up comedy with choreographic minimalism and a touch of philosophy’ - The Times

New Art Club aim to ensure that audiences are entertained by the possibilities of mixing dance and stand-up comedy.

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Thursday 3 December 2009

NUFFIELD THEATRE MASTERCLASS : New Art Club

This masterclass will not study set repertoire per se but rather offer an insight into the working practices of the company through studying its choreographic devices.
Max 30 participants

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Tuesday 19 January 2010 to Wednesday 20 January 2010

THEA307 and Pete Brooks : The Set Up

Lancaster Third Year Theatre Studies students present 'The Set Up' on Tuesday 19th January and Wednesday 20th January at 8pm in The Nuffield Theatre.

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Tuesday 26 January 2010

Retina Dance : Antipode

Retina is an ambitious contemporary dance company led by Filip Van Huffel. Working from Belgium and the UK, Van Huffel's work affects the viewer theatrically through physically vibrant movement. Please see the next event for info on the Masterclass, taking place the day after the performance on 27th Jan.

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Wednesday 27 January 2010

Retina Dance Co : Retina Masterclass

A technique-based masterclass from the fantastic Belgium/UK company Retina Dance.

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Saturday 30 January 2010

Nic Green : Trilogy

Green and her company deliver relentless, raw energy in this thrilling new art-work designed to challenge, inspire and make way for positive change.

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Tuesday 2 February 2010

Random People : Versions 1-5

Versions 1-5 is a unique theatrical experiment from a young international company exploring the boundaries of performance.

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Thursday 4 February 2010 to Friday 5 February 2010

Gorge-Arse Theatre : Hideously Self-Indulgent! (We're losing Ourselves!)

Through blokes in frocks and women in suits, semi-nudity, loud club music, a live pianist and singers, repetitive movement, puerile humour, screwed up language; a whole mess up of wigs, joke shop masks bizarre outfits and high heels; parodies of and homages to Shirley Bassey, Michael Jackson and Russell Brand; and featuring a very sexy guy in a pair of Speedos, this performance intends to explore the possible tensions between the out-there, public and personal/private moments of self-indulgence.

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Tuesday 9 February 2010 to Wednesday 10 February 2010

Vincent Dance Theatre : If We Go On

In a succession of splintered transactions, where words lose their strength, music strains to be heard and movement meanders into exhaustion, If We Go On asks: If you had one last dance in you, what shape would it take?


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Tuesday 16 February 2010 to Wednesday 17 February 2010

Proto-type Theater : Third Person (redux)

Delivered in the third person through a variety of lo-fi media including video, drawings, slides and audio recordings, THIRD PERSON (redux) is a lecture-demonstration-cum-performance that investigates the events that unfolded out of the electric meeting of two of history’s most infamous lovers, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.

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Friday 19 February 2010 to Saturday 20 February 2010

Lancaster University Theatre Group : Neverwhere

"Now is the time to be afraid of the dark..." Richard Mayhew is a normal businessman living in normal London with a normal fiance, Jessica. That is, until he helps a wounded young woman called Door, and his whole life is turned upside down. Dragged down into the confusing parallel city known as London Below, encountering strange places and stranger people, Richard goes on a quest to help Door, along with the charismatic Marquis de Carabas and the mysterious Hunter, and hopefully find his way home.

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Monday 22 February 2010 to Tuesday 23 February 2010

Cupola Bobber : Way Out West, the Sea Whispered Me

An internal adventure of miniscule proportions, Way Out West, the Sea Whispered Me studies the action of the Sea, both as mythology and as presence, and asks: why is it people are drawn to the Sea?

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Tuesday 2 March 2010

Julian Fox : You've got to love dancing to stick to it

Fluttering somewhere between theatre, comedy and performance art, Radio 4 star Julian Fox makes a welcome return to the Nuffield Theatre.

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Thursday 4 March 2010

Lemn Sissay : Why I don't hate white people

With his trademark sharp humour, Lemn investigates why it is that he doesn’t hate white people, in a whirlwind tour of race seen through the unique and intensely personal perspective of one man’s life.

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Thursday 4 March 2010

PANDA Spotlight On : Next Steps for Performing Arts Graduates

Choosing what to do next. Tools for getting your performing arts career started.

Performing Arts Network and Development Agency (PANDA) are pleased to announce details of the first event in our Spotlight On programme for 2010, run in partnership with Nuffield Theatre.

This free practical panel-led information and networking event is open to all performing arts students and graduates in the North West. Join us as our panel of guest speakers share their experience on how to make the transition from university into a career in the performing arts.

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Thursday 18 March 2010 to Friday 19 March 2010

imitating the dog : Bar of Lost Souls - at The Dukes, Lancaster

Don't miss this opportunity to see imitating the dog at THE DUKES in Lancaster. This is a brand new piece of work made with an international cast at the National Theatre of Greece last summer. Featuring the company's trademark explorations with projected film and live performance, this piece is a visual and narrative treat.

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Saturday 24 April 2010 to Sunday 25 April 2010

Ludus Dance and Nuffield Theatre Lancaster : Dance Cuts 2010

An important collaboration between Ludus Dance and the Nuffield Theatre, Dance Cuts 2010 is a weekend-long opportunity to see the most exciting emerging and developing dance artists from across the region, as well as take part in workshops and panel sessions to help launch your dance career.

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Wednesday 5 May 2010 to Thursday 6 May 2010

Curious : The Moment I Saw You I Knew I Could Love You

Curious (Leslie Hill and Helen Paris) has an international reputation for edgy, humorous performances that interrogate contemporary culture and politics. Led by questioning and research, their work is as smart as it is seductive.

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Saturday 8 May 2010

Lone Twin : The Catastrophe Trilogy

The fantastic Lone Twin Theatre present their major trilogy of shows exploring biography and storytelling.

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Lone Twin Festival

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Thursday 20 May 2010

National Dance Network : Dance3

Dance 3 is a new initiative supporting UK choreographers in the early stages of their careers. A triple bill of distinctly different dance pushing at the edges of contemporary dance, capoeira and breakdance.

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Dance 3

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Saturday 22 May 2010 to Saturday 5 June 2010

Art for Kids : Creative workshops for children on Lancaster University Campus

Fun and creative workshops taking place with a variety of local artists aimed at 5-10 year olds.

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Tuesday 22 June 2010 to Friday 25 June 2010

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Friday 25 June 2010

Drunken Chorus : And Hell Followed With Him _ WIP

On behalf of performance company Drunken Chorus, the Nuffield Theatre (Public Arts) would like to invite you to a work-in-progress showing of the company's latest work, and Hell Followed with him. In this performance Drunken Chorus explore what happens when you transfer the Horror Genre from film to stage, using filmic references and personal writing.

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Friday 6 August 2010

Duncan Speakman and Paul Clarke from Uninvited Guests : Public Performance: Nuffield Artists Summer School 2010

Presented by Nuffield Theatre Lancaster and taking place at the Storey Creative Industries Centre and in the streets of Lancaster

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Imagine walking through a film, but it’s happening on the streets you live in – it’s a film without cameras.

Come and see the results of this year's summer school, led by Bristol-based sound artist Duncan Speakman and Paul Clarke from performance company Uninvited Guests. Over this week Paul and Duncan are delivering a 6-day school exploring how mobile technologies in performance can reframe and fictionalise real spaces.


On the final day, Friday 6th Aug, you are invited to listen (via headphones) and witness the fruits of their labour in a performance of sorts in Lancaster city centre. The nature and location of the presentation is yet to be decided… all we know now is that at a specified place between 2pm and 4pm, something will happen! If you are intrigued by the process and interested in the outcome, keep those hours free and we’ll keep you updated throughout the week and inform you of final details. This performance is free but you must sign up in advance. Audience capacity is limited to 20. For further details contact Ele via e.kinchin-smith@lancaster.ac.uk

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Saturday 18 September 2010 to Sunday 26 September 2010

Sap Dance and Louise Ann Wilson Company : JACK SCOUT

Jack Scout is a beautifully-crafted all-weather walking performance. You will be led by a Guide through the bewitching beauty of a heath and shore line by Morecambe Bay. Share the secrets of this remarkable place as live music, voice, dance and art evoke its land, sands, skies and sea. Full of surprise and wonder, this is the natural world as you’ve never seen, heard or touched it before.

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Tuesday 12 October 2010 to Wednesday 13 October 2010

Forced Entertainment : THE THRILL OF IT ALL

UK PREMIERE (16 Years +)

After the minimalism of Spectacular and the animated graphic novel of Void Story, internationally renowned innovators Forced Entertainment return with a large cast on a big stage, filled with ragged dances and distorted voices.

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Friday 15 October 2010

Litfest in partnership with Live at LICA : Carol Ann Duffy at Lancaster Literature Festival

Since becoming Laureate, Duffy has written poems about current issues including MP’s expenses, the volcanic ash cloud, and a poem entitled ‘Achilles’ about the footballer David Beckham, which mixes references to the ancient battlefield hero with allusions to battles on the football pitch.

“In the world of British poetry Carol Ann Duffy is a superstar”
The Guardian

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Tuesday 19 October 2010

Ludus Dance & Nuffield Theatre : Consequences

For this electrifying triple bill production, Ludus Dance has attracted 3 of the UK’s most prominent choreographers – Nigel Charnock, Yael Flexer and Ben Wright.

Each choreographer takes you on a compelling journey of cause and effect… push and pull… through a pulse-racing mix of energetic dance, theatre and music.

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Friday 22 October 2010

Inspector Sands : If That’s All There Is

Winner, Edinburgh International Festival Fringe Prize 2009 and Guardian ‘Pick of the Fringe’

If That’s All There Is takes shape as a mini-epic of longing, envy and psychobabble that examines our obsession with feeling happy at any cost. A couple are teetering on the brink of marriage. As the happiest day of their lives approaches, the panic begins to rise. And everyone’s watching…

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Friday 29 October 2010

Reckless Sleepers : It's Going To Be A Long Long Time

Commissioned by the Nuffield Theatre, Reckless Sleepers’ new show is about time, and travelling, and the rehearsals for the lunar landings. It’s about what happens when performers become moon-rock, re-enact a zero gravity moonwalk, or leave footprints that will never disappear. Dancing to the songs that astronauts sung as they went into orbit, it’s a 40th anniversary trip to the moon.

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Tuesday 2 November 2010

Levantes Dance Theatre : Room Temperature Romance

Time Out ‘Critics Choice’, Room Temperature Romance is a charming story about the moments that mean nothing and everything in life’s daily routine. A fantasy voyage that invites you to indulge in the delights of ordinary and extraordinary behaviour, and ultimately just making you smile.

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Thursday 4 November 2010

Hetain Patel : TEN

Somewhere between Bolton, Barbados, Scotland and India, three men – Hetain, Mark and Dave – make a journey of discovery. Subtly combining music, body percussion, dance and performance, and taking the Indian ten-beat rhythm cycle as a starting point, this show delves with honesty and humour into questions of cultural identity.

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Tuesday 9 November 2010

Sankalpam : Corpo-realities

Corpo-realities is choreographed by a stellar line-up: Stephanie Schober, Southbank Centre resident choreographer; Luca Silvestrini, Artistic Director of Protein Dance; Stella Uppal Subbiah, Co-Artistic Director of Sankalpam, and internationally renowned theatre director Phillip Zarrilli.

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Friday 12 November 2010 to Saturday 13 November 2010

Ockham’s Razor : The Mill

Ockham’s Razor create daring physical theatre on specially created aerial equipment. In The Mill, a large wheel made of wood and steel is suspended from a 7-metre high rig, linked into a system of ropes and wooden drums to create an intricate set.

Powered by the performers using all their strength and weight, they create a precarious world where small decisions or actions gather momentum and impetus beyond their control.

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Tuesday 16 November 2010

Rouge 28 Theatre : Urashima Taro

Inspired by Japanese mythology, Urashima Taro combines striking visuals and video projections with life-size Bunraku-style puppets and Kamishibai, the traditional Japanese paper theatre that is the origin of Manga. The result is a fascinating and unsettling story of lust, betrayal and loss.

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Tuesday 30 November 2010

Pete Edwards : FAT

FAT tells the journey of a gay, disabled man in search of his heart’s desire. Combining movement and images with poignant anecdotes, FAT follows James in his surreal quest to find the fat man, eat some spaghetti and live happily ever after.

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