Sat 08 Nov 08
- Sun 16 Nov 08
See schedule for the list of performances each night.
Apocryphal Festival
presented by Apocryphal Theatre
£12.00
Concs: £6.00
*Festival pass for all shows £36/£18, Sat 15th PWYC fundraiser
Once again Apocryphal showcases work of its lab members and the group’s work together in this mini-festival. Some of these works have been developed following their scratch performance at Lorem Ipsum Gallery, London in January-February 2008. We will also revive The Jesus Guy and show a first blush performative response by the lab to our next major project: Besides, you lose your soul, or the History of Western Civilization.
Julia Lee Barclay, and members of Apocryphal, will lead an intensive workshop in our working methods and discoveries, which will culminate in workshop participants creating their own short piece using the Apocryphal tools, for an informal showing on the final day of the festival.
Schedule of performances:
Monday, 10th November: 2012, and This Is How I Lost My Memory
Tuesday, 11th November: 2012, and Strung Together
Wednesday, 12th November: This Is How I Lost My Memory, Strung Together, Feldroehren I + II, and Jumbled Wonder
Thursday, 13th November: The Jesus Guy
Friday, 14th November: Humming Bird, Jumbled Wonder, and Future Worlds: Tricorn Init!
Saturday, 15th November: Besides You Lose Your Soul or The History Of Western Civilization PWYC fundraiser
Sunday, 16th November:
4pm: Informal showing of workshop participants' pieces - free and open to the public.
8pm: Humming Bird, Future Worlds: Tricorn Init!, and A Surprise!
Show Descriptions:
2012: by Bill Aitchison. Fresh from its premiere at the Wunder Der Praerie Festival, Mannheim , 2012, Bill Aitchison's new apocalyptic show will get its first showing this Autumn. In the performance 2012, independent researcher, Dr Aitchison, reveals a sequence of facts covering Mayan astronomy, the war on terror, dog cloning, Saddam Hussein's novels and the end of the world. 2012 concerns itself with the space where conspiracy theories, propaganda, science, art and politics cross over with one another becoming indistinguishable. Intricately constructed and sharp as a scalpel, 2012 is a snapshot of uncertainty, of where desire, and fear, leads the contemporary imagination.
This Is How I Lost My Memory: Because you are the centre of your world it feels like this is the apocalypse. It's not, you're just disintegrating. They're taking you from the inside …” Written/Directed by Lucy Avery
Strung Together: The piece is best described by scrabbling the phrases below and inserting all possible antonyms whilst listening to the sound of scrabbled phrases. Deep violin growls. The voice of an old German shepherd. She smiled affectionately at the memory of her faithful friend. Master appeared in a dream. A song of bones loved and lost. a Burstein. Howls and clattering wood end in silence. Tall tale. Short tale. A faint trace of Bach? Tailed.
Feldröhren I+II: Created by Boris Kahnert, A Light to Sound Performance
Jumbled Wonder: Created/Performed by Faculty of Wonder and Jumbled (aka Rachel Ellis and Lucy Foster) Two performers decide that something is missing. So they drink some wine and start writing …They are hoping for a new creation, a celebration, an audience reaction, to live the dream before the moment has passed. And, slowly, words fill the room with a wavelength they are both on.
The Jesus Guy: Written/Directed: Julia Lee Barclay Created/Performed by Bill Aitchison, Lukas Angelini, Lucy Avery, Zoë Bouras, Rachel Ellis, and Birthe Jorgensen.Originally presented in 2006, Apocryphal bring The Jesus Guy back for one night only. Five performers create a show, improvising with written and improvised text, scores, ideas and visual materials accumulated during rehearsals and performances. A visual artist throws them new objects she creates to play with. No one has a space to call their own. The Jesus Guy is a trip through the collective grid of unconscious desires, which lead and mislead us to look to Someone In Charge to ask for the name of our own nameless experience.
Humming Bird: Performed/Directed by Lukas Angelini Text by Sara Angelini and others 'A performance about emptiness and fullness. Simply that!
Future Worlds: Tricorn Init!: Written/Performed by Julia Lee Barclay in collaboration with Scale Project (Paul Burgess and Simon Daw). Future Worlds is a cut-up of official and unofficial words found inside the Tricorn Centre days before it was demolished. Scale Project took video and photos from inside the structure on the same day and will be making this element part of Barclay's performance. The Tricorn was voted the ugliest building in all of Britain, but was one of the only venues for punk and alternative music in the 80s and its passing was mourned by a small but vocal minority in Portsmouth, as it will inevitably be replaced by something slick and soul-less
Besides you lose your soul or the History of Western Civilisation: Written/Directed: Julia Lee Barclay Created/Performed by Bill Aitchison, Lukas Angelini, Lucy Avery, Zoë Bouras, Rachel Ellis, Birthe Jorgensen and Boris Kahnert. “Besides, you lose your soul” is the last line of an interview of a U.S. Army officer from a New Yorker article about the inefficiencies of the use of torture for gathering accurate information. Besides, you lose your soul attempts (with the humour that results from certain failure) to search through the remnants of Western Civilization in order to find out who's to blame for the creation of the individual soul (that can apparently be lost or recovered) which can lead to those we do not recognize being branded soul-less. It's a bumbling cut-up detective story searching for clues as to how to get out of this mess. ‘This mess’ meaning the use of God v. Godless (soul v. soul-less) to justify the ruthless realpolitik of all the unholy Holy Wars (on Terror, on the Godless Infidels, on the Axis of Evil, on women’s bodies, etc.). We will fail of course, but perhaps we will stumble onto something in the course of our struggling that can open up a door to...not sure where really.
Also during the festival:
An Apocryphal Workshop with Julia Lee Barclay: Sat-Sun, Nov. 8-9 and 15-16: 12-4pm £100/£50 An intensive workshop in our working methods and discoveries, which will culminate in workshop participants creating their own short piece using the Apocryphal tools, for an informal showing on the final day of the festival. If you are interested in our work, how we do it, and searching for ways to stimulate your own practice with new tools, this would be a good workshop for you. The workshop will be small (no more than 12 people), so if interested send along your CV to julialeebarclay@yahoo.com for consideration. The workshop will take place in the main theatre space.
*Festival pass for all shows: Full £36 Concessions £18 except: Besides, you lose your soul performative response, which is a fundraiser and workshop showing which is free
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Fri 08 Oct 10
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Sat 09 Oct 10
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Sat 09 Oct 10
7.30PM
The Balloon Gardener - Previews
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