camden people’s theatre

SPRINT

MARCH 2010

Search Party vsSee website for details

GuruGuruThur 4th - Sun 28th Mar

The Post Show Party ShowThur 4th & Fri 5th Mar

Instructions For HeartbreakSat 6th & Sun 7th Mar

ElephantTues 9th & Wed 10th Mar

Jack PratchardTues 9th & Wed 10th Mar

AsphyxiaThur 11th & Fri 12th Mar

Live Art Speed DateSat 13th Mar

Borges & I Mon 15th & Tues 16th Mar

KeepersWed 17th & Thur 18th Mar

The Living CanvasWed 17th & Thur 18th Mar

Under The CoversFri 19th & Sat 20th Mar

The JetsamSun 21st & Mon 22nd Mar

Of Women & Horses I Have KnownTues 23rd & Wed 24th Mar

Dean Gibbons & The Knowledge Of DeathThur 25th & Fri 26th Mar

Grafting & BuddingSat 27th & Sun 28th Mar

OthersSat 10th Apr

Emma Hobbins (Art Exhibition)Sun 21st Feb - Wed 31st Mar

Camden People’s Theatre Sprint 2010This year, the festivals’ 13th, we’re back with a bang, bringingyou a mouth watering line up of established and emergingtalents to delight and surprise you. Some of this work we’veseen on our travels around the country, and other pieces wechose on the basis of the idea.

Some of the companies taking part you won’t have heard of,much is brand new and being seen for the first time - so how areyou supposed to know what it’ll be like? You Can’t. What wecan offer you is something unique, surprising and completelyof its time. These are new shows from emerging talents: yourbest chance to discover the leading artists of the future at thestart of their careers. Take a risk with us; lead don’t follow -you might just be blown away.

Director, CPT

BOX OFFICE: 08444 77 1000 www.cptheatre.co.uk

Search Party vsThur 4th March, DurationalSee website for details, FREE

Search Party are throwing down the gauntlet.They challenge you, the people of London,to a marathon game of Ping Pong. SearchParty vs borrows the notion of team fromsport to examine connections between thepersonal and the geographic, exploringideas of community, place, belonging,team identification and competition.

Spectators and passers-by are invited toform a team and compete against SearchParty; to represent London and to supporteach other through thick and thin. Modes ofbehaviour are suggested, spectators areinvited to sing, to chant, to wear their heart ontheir sleeve, to take their tops off and swingthem round their heads. As the tournamentdevelops and fatigue sets in, newunexpected narratives emerge, rousingteam talks and comfort breaks are neededand the allegiance of each supporter istested. Search party want a good cleanfight, no biting, no diving, no tackling frombehind and the umpire’s decision is final.

The Post Show Party ShowMichael PinchbeckThur 4th & Fri 5th March, 8pm (55mins)£10/£6

We are backstage. We are offstage.We are standing in the wings of thestory. We are inviting you to help us toremember. We are pretending to becharacters in a musical. We arepretending to be ourselves. We arepretending to be each other.

Michael Pinchbeck takes his parentson tour to recreate the post-showparty where they met in 1970 afteran amateur dramatic production ofThe Sound of Music. A poignantre-enactment to the soundtrack of themusical, The Post Show Party Showasks what is present and what isabsent, what is professional and whatis amateur.

www.michaelpinchbeck.co.ukwww.postshowparty.blogspot.com

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“Truly brilliant ****”The Scotsman

“This innovative show is performed in the style of aBrechtian-inspired Morecambe and Wise double act. *****”Edinburgh Guide

“A teasing, gently witty and entertaining piece about theshifting nature of reality... there is something here in theephemeral nature of performance and of life itself.”The Guardian

“This family’s background in theatre, as well as theirdedication to turning their classic story into a creativesuccess, make for a surprisingly engaging performance.”Three Weeks

GuruGuruA Rotozaza ProductionBy Ant Hampton in collaboration with Joji Koyama & Isambard KhroustaliovThur 4th - Sun 28th March (1hr - see website for dates & times)£10/£6

You have been told what to do every momentof the day, for years on end. The voice in yourheadphones has understood who you are andgives instructions which mirror what you’d be doinganyway. A life free of dither and uncertainty!In your job, this voice is a career-saver...but the day has come when you need to come‘off the headphones’. You need help.

Five participants enter a brightly lit room, there arefive chairs positioned around a TV. A session begins,and as each audience member follows differentinstructions via headphones, they begin tounderstand ‘who they are’. Proceedings are led byan on-screen, animated character - whose twinroles of marketing and spiritual Guru are confusedby his reliance on untested and accident-pronetechnologies. The overproduced, digital sheen ofour focus-group world cracks open into a colourfulvolcano of boiling absurdity. A hilarious chaosdevelops, exposing today’s consumer-madinability to distinguish between what we want,and what we need.

www.rotozaza.co.uk

“A fascinating hour.”The Herald

“Hugely entertaining...This smart, mysterious exercise in

programmed thinking and collectivechaos is strange but exhilarating.”

The Times

“You may find yourself franticallylooking for yourself again in

the moments after the performancehas finished.”The Guardian

Instructions For HeartbreakFrancesca Millican-SlaterSat 6th & Sun 7th March, 8pm (50mins)£10/£6

Ever had your heart broken? Everwanted to have your heart broken?Everyone needs a little heartbreak intheir life and now you can with a fullstep by step program of how to breakyour own heart. This informativeseminar will put you on the road toheartbreak by letting you know whatheartbreak is, where it comes from,where it hurts and how to do it in thecomfort of your own home. If it’s beenfixed - lets break it!

Not suitable for under 14s

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Jack Pratchard Jonathan StoreyTues 9th & Wed 10th March, 8.30pm (1hr)£10/£6

Jack Pratchard is the tale of aman who dies and discovers justwhat is on the other side of life.

This is a charming and strangenew story, told through papertheatre, conceived and createdby Jonathan Storey. With hisrickety ‘machine’, he reveals anever-changing series of beautifullycoloured scenes and characters,creating a world that resemblesan animated painting.

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“The most wonderful cross betweenan incredibly beautiful piece of artwork,a dark and charming fairytale and a feat

of miniature engineering...I would recommend it to anyone.”Ellie Jones, Southwark Playhouse

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ElephantJon HicksTues 9th & Wed 10th Mar, 7.30pm (30mins)£6/£4

One man’s quest for spiritualenlightenment, through feats ofamazement with toy elephants.

Mr Hicks’ meditational anddelusional obsession has createda highly trained coterie of toyelephants that, under his guidance,perform stunts, illusions and acts ofbeauty.

A silent comedy performed to music.

www.thejonhicks.com

“Serene if Sweaty”Audience feedbackThe Great Indoors - Manchester International Festival 2009

AsphyxiaNatasha DavisThur 11th & Fri 12th March, 8pm (1hr)£10/£6

A new solo performance usingphotography, film, sound, stories andpoetry. About suffocation, voicelessness,being trapped and memory. Abouthearts in boxes, strawberries in jars anda few difficult questions.

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Live Art Speed DateStoke Newington International AirportSat 13th Mar, 7.30pm£8 adv/£10 door

Live Art Speed Date Returns!

In collaboration with Camden People’sTheatre, Stoke Newington InternationalAirport present a theatre full of the finestartists, theatre makers and performersready to lay their dates on you. We havecommissioned them to create for you aprivate one-on-one, four minute date.

Upon arrival you are given a Date Card(like an old fashioned Dance Card), whichyou will fill with ‘dates’. The dates aredistributed through a trading mechanismwhich resembles a busy day at the NYStock Exchange, only sexier. Get excitedand trade up your date for the one youwant.

When not engaged in an official date, youmay explore all manner of Auto Dates,fringe dates, and other games that will allend, hopefully, in love. Or something like it.

Originally produced for last year’s StValentine’s day, LASD has taken on a life ofits own with Dates at the Edinburgh Festivaland the Dublin Fringe and most recentlyTokyo, as part of the British Council’sConnected showcase of interactive theatre.After this one LASD travels to the Bristol OldVic for Mayfest (with Forest Fringe) and inthe summer you can catch it at BAC fortheir festival of intimate performance.

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Borges & IIdle MotionMon 15th & Tues 16th March, 8pm (50mins)£10/£6

Driven by his love of words, Jorge Borges constantlyquestioned and translated the world around him,bringing forth images of labyrinths, tigers and auniverse of libraries. Total Theatre Award nominatedIdle Motion explore the parallels between Borges’life, his stories, and his readership,taking you on ajourney where books transform from a flock ofbirds, to a city, to an airplane. As theseworlds collide, a vivid portrait of a manemerges during which we witness theaspirations of a librarian and love foundin a book group.

www.idlemotion.co.uk

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“A true ensemble piece.”The Stage

The Living CanvasFilskit Theatre

Work In Progress Double Bill

Wed 17th &

Thur 18th March, 8pm

- £8/£6

Filskit Theatre invite you to join themat their latest work in progressshowing as part of their LivingCanvas Project, an on goinginvestigation into the relationshipbetween the live performer andrecorded image.

Filskit’s blend of physicalperformance with projected imagetakes the audience on a journeythrough the private lives of fourcharacters. Fleeting images appearand disappear offering a glimpseof truth in a world stripped of socialmasks. A violin morphs into a spi-der, a feather floats and teases outdistant memories, and a lost love!

KeepersPlasticine Men

Two hundred years ago, twenty-two milesout to sea, two men live and work in awooden box fifteen feet across, seventyfeet above the dark ocean...

Based on a true-story, Keepers tells in darkand poetic detail, a tale of sudden loss oflife, and drawn out loss of sanity.

Using little more than a ladder and a pairof creaky chairs, the two performers andlive musician playfully construct theconfines of the infamous Smalls Lighthouse.

The Plasticine Men are a collective oftheatre-smiths, scouring the land forstories that beg to be told onstage.They challenge themselves to simplycreate the extraordinary worlds that lurkon the edge of hearsay and history.

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Under The CoversZoo IndigoFri 19th & Sat 20th March, 8pm (55mins)£10/£6

We couldn’t get a babysitter tonightso we had to bring our babies with us.Please could you keep an eye onthem so we can get on with the show?

In an interactive media performanceZoo Indigo virtually take their babieson tour so they can perform while youbabysit. Combining autobiographyand cutting edge technology, theperformance duo attempt to re-enactthe movie star roles they aspire to withhelp from two flat pack daddies, butthe day-to-day-ness of their real liveskeeps interrupting.

Under the Covers is an intimate, tenderand humorous meditation on the wayin which artists juggle the work theymake with the lives they choose tolead. In re-visiting real-life in themaking of their latest work Zoo Indigomarks a return to performance after apregnant pause.

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The JetsamPellegrinoSun 21st & Mon 22nd March, 8pm (50mins)£10/£6

Sat at the screen browsing, somethingbites online. Sails billow, tentaclessnatch you under, and you encounterThe Jetsam.

Take a deep breath as Pellegrinodescend beneath the www.waves totrawl the Internet’s rotten, salty undertow.From the tangled rigging of ashipwrecked theatrical space, watchlonely creatures venture from thedepths, and reckless surfers drift out oftheirs. One man’s online obsession withpiracy weaves a tale of perversion,walking planks and plankton.

Please note this is a promenadeproduction, and you may be standingfor the length of the performance.

Of Women And Horses I Have KnownSlip Of SteelTues 23rd & Wed 24th March, 8pm£10/£6

‘The most unpleasant woman I have everknown’. How do you become a story?An anecdote?

A generation that fell out of the war andonto the turf. A couple that bred the mostsuccessful racehorse of the twentieth cen-tury. A woman addicted to speed whodrank a bottle of gin a day. A story ofgambling, violence, extravagance andword play.

An international company bring you thisvery English, very equine story, and try tounscramble how someone becomes theperson they are thought to have been.

‘I have a spirit like a slip of steel, the moreyou bend it the higher it springs’ TheBrigadier Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Dean Gibbons And The Knowledge Of DeathInconvenient SpoofThur 25th & Fri 26th March, 8pm (1hr)£10/£6

Based on the claims of evolutionarypsychology and set amidst the twinthreats of ‘peak oil’ and climatechange, this darkly comic showcombines expert physical performance,delicate puppetry, a fact-packed textand striking visual effects in a work ofsocial-science-fiction. By conveyingcurrent scientific research within acompelling fictional narrative, wepresent an accessible, informativeand enlightening show that engagesa varied public with fresh perspectiveson the nature of our predicament.Contains long sentences.

Not suitable for under 14s

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Grafting & BuddingSheila GhelaniSat 27th & Sun 28th March, 8pm (40mins)£10/£6

Grafting and Budding is a performanceexamining ideas surrounding race,heritage, and mixing. Playing withideas and actions borrowed fromsurgery, science, cookery andalchemy, Sheila Ghelani manipulatesand sculpts apples in front of theaudience into a collection of motleyhybrids. Originally made in 2005 thispiece was the first outcome of aseries of investigations Sheila hasbeen carrying out into crossings,blood, skins, skinning, carefullycontrolled experiments, well-oiledmachinery, colour, genetics, joiningand love.

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“Quietly fervent, totally genuine - youcould send this piece out, well beyond arthouses and live art festivals, and it wouldspeak to people”Mary Brennan, 2007

The Fragmented Museum - Emma HobbinsArt ExhibitionSun 21st February - Wed 31st MarchFree

A collection of intriguing artefacts - created/curated by Emma Hobbins. They were made toexplore what museums are. The wholefragmented collection alludes to many things,sometimes bizarre, sometimes whimsical andoften comic. Ordinary biscuits such as theGaribaldi and the Nice are transformed intovehicles for musing on national identity,military history and what makes a cultural icon.The collection appears as a type of Cabinet ofCuriosities, and comes with its own ‘catalogue’.The Fragmented Museum has been describedas ‘enchanting, mysterious and a tiny bitobsessive’.

Emma Hobbins studied anthropology atUniversity College London, before working inGwynedd Museum. She has recently obtained anMA in Book Arts at Camberwell College of Arts.

OthersThe Paper BirdsSat 10th April, 8pm (45mins)Pay what you can

Multi award-winning collective ThePaper Birds, return to Camden People’sTheatre for an exclusive sharing of thecompany’s new work-in-progress. Underthe working title of ‘Others’ theperformance will be based on anexchange of letters and emails with anIranian artist, a prison inmate and acelebrity facing persecution.

Deconstructing the stories and voices ofwomen from east and west, from theother side of the television screen anddifferent sides of the law, The Paper Birdsexplore what it means to be a womanand what it means to be ‘other’.

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CPT is dedicated to artists and audiencestaking risks, making exciting choices andpursuing excellence. We produce, promote,support, mentor and provide resources fornew, emerging and established performancecompanies and solo artists who work inways that extend theatre and performance.

“CPT is one of the very first places that waswelcoming to me as a young artist. It’s greatto have somewhere so central that can offergrassroots support and a place to experimentfor younger artists in London.”Rajni Shah

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