Edinburgh Showcase 2017: 'The Whip Hand' by Traverse Theatre Company & Birmingham Repertory Theatre
A Traverse Theatre Company and Birmingham Repertory Theatre co-production in association with National Theatre of Scotland.
The Traverse is Scotland’s premiere new writing theatre. Formed in 1963 by a group of passionate enthusiasts, the venue was founded to extend the spirit of the Edinburgh festivals throughout the year. Today the Traverse nurtures emerging talent, produces award-winning new plays and offers a curated programme of the best work from the UK and beyond; spanning theatre, dance, performance, music and spoken word. With two custom-built and versatile theatre spaces, the Traverse’s home in Edinburgh’s city centre is a powerhouse of new work for, and of, our time.
'The Whip Hand' is an explosive new play by multi-award winning Douglas Maxwell. Dougie has just turned 50 and his family is throwing him a party. But it’s him who has a surprise - a bombshell proposal. He wants his ex-wife Arlene to back his new endeavour. He wants to serve a global cause, to make right a terrible wrong, even if it puts their daughter’s future at risk. They can all sense a swindle, but Dougie won’t back down. He is convinced this is his only chance to do something truly glorious, but his motivation may not be as pure as it seems.
Fawlty Towers at The Forum Studio Theatre, Chester, May 2014
Tip Top Productions performance of three episodes of Fawlty Towers at the Forum Studio Theatre 12th - 25th May 2014. Directed by Sally Anglesea.
The Little Dog Laughed by Douglas Carter Beane
Now in rehearsal and coming soon to ACT Studio Theatre. Director Stuart Mohr brings this satirical look at closeted gay Hollywood to the ACT stage featuring Tyler Sloan, Tony Conte, Audrey Stabile and Rachel Swanzy. This Tony award winning comedy runs April 7-22. Tickets are available at 772-932-8880 or online at ACTStudioTheatre.com.
Douglas Pk - Your Own Pay (live Session Soundworks Studio Oxford)
Douglas Pk performing Your Own Pay from debut My Way Live Session at Soundworks Studio in Oxford - UK - July/14
Lux Radio Theatre, 37-06-07 British Agent, Old Time Radio
Lux Radio Theatre, sometimes spelled Lux Radio Theater, a classic radio anthology series, was broadcast on the NBC Blue Network (1934–35) (owned by the National Broadcasting Company, later predecessor of American Broadcasting Company [ABC] in 1943 /1945); CBS Radio network (Columbia Broadcasting System) (1935-54), and NBC Radio (1954–55). Initially, the series adapted Broadway plays[1] during its first two seasons before it began adapting films. These hour-long radio programs were performed live before studio audiences. The series became the most popular dramatic anthology series on radio, broadcast for more than 20 years and continued on television as the Lux Video Theatre through most of the 1950s.
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Prison Game
Solo performance theatre production written and performed by Marcus Hercules of Hercules Productions.
Prison Game.
Development work has been presented at Royal Exchange Studio, Manchester; Action Transport Theatre in Whitby Hall, Cheshire.
PRU and Schools workshops is the next milestone of the development process.
The project is seeking a commissioning organisation and a creative producer for 2014/15.
email with the subject PRISON GAME for more information: herculesproductions@live.co.uk
The following presentations will be followed by post-show discussions and networking opportunities in 2014:
Monday March 3rd 7pm | Action Transport Theatre, Whitby Hall, Stanney Lane, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, CH65 9AE
Friday June 27th 7:30pm | Talawa Theatre, 53-55 East Road, London N1 6AH
Friday July 11th 7pm | The Albany, Douglas Way, Deptford, London SE8 4AG
Edinburgh Showcase 2017: 'PROCESS DAY' by Scottish Dance Theatre
Based at Dundee Rep, Scottish Dance Theatre (SDT) is Scotland’s national contemporary dance company. Under the artistic direction of Fleur Darkin, SDT creates highly polished productions that are led by the power of the dancing body; and is committed to broadening access to dance though bespoke creative learning workshops and activities. Commissioning choreographers from all over the world to make bold new works on a team of outstanding dancers, the company also collaborates with high calibre artists in the fields of music, design and the visual arts.
'PROCESS DAY' is a sensory experience, transforming SDT’s dancers into sleek, androgynous, nocturnal beings that are guided through shadows by a futuristic techno soundtrack. Created by award-winning Israeli duo Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar - choreographers of critically acclaimed works for some of the world's leading companies including Batsheva Dance, Nederlands Dans Theater and Carte Blanche - the show sophisticatedly fuses cutting-edge movement and club culture.
Vocal Warm-Up #1: Breathing
This is the first of four films demonstrating how to warm up your voice, focusing on breathing exercises. Breathing exercises are an essential start to any vocal warm-up; they organise the breathing muscles, extend the capacity of the voice and give a sense of the breath very deep inside the body. Jeannette Nelson is the Head of Voice at the National Theatre.
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Pavilion Theatre Brighton
Saidi Kanda plays with Edward Shearer at the Pavilion Theatre, Brighton, on 1st October 2011to mark the opening of Black History Month.
Corben Kushneryk - Why see a play?
Actor Corben Kushneryk tells us why you should go see a play.
The University of Alberta Studio Theatre presents:
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare
February 4 to 13, 2016 at 7:30 p.m.
U of A Studio Theatre
Timms Centre for the Arts
The Bard’s playful ode to the transformative power of love
Cast:
Helena - Jessy Ardern
Lysander - Bradley Doré
Quince/Cobweb/Egeus - David Feehan
Puck/Philostrate - Sarah Feutl
Demetrius - Morgan Grau
Bottom - Corben Kushneryk
Theseus/Oberon - Stuart McDougall
Hippolyta/Titania - Natasha Napoleao * member of the Canadian Actor’s Equity Association
Snug/ Peaseblossom - Carmen Nieuwenhuis
Hermia/Fairy - Kristen Padayas
Snout/ Mustardseed - Celeste Tikal
Flute/Moth - Jordan Sabo
Creative Team:
Director - Marti Maraden * member of the Canadian Actor’s Equity Association
Marti Maraden is Studio Theatre’s 2016 Mary Mooney Distinguished Visiting Artist
Set, Costume & Lighting Designer - Alison Yanota
This production is Alison Yanota's MFA Theatre Design thesis project
Sound Designer - Matthew Skopyk
Assistant to the Director - Suzanne Martin
Assistant to the Director - Ashley Wright
Assistant to the Lighting Designer - Zoe Rod
Assistant to the Costume Designer - Liza Xenzova
Assistant to the Sound Designer - Aidan Ware
Voice/Speech/Text Coach - Jane MacFarlane
Movement Coach - Lin Snelling
Dramaturg - Lily Climenhaga
Stage Management:
Stage Manager - Cayley Hanson
Assistant Stage Managers - Nyssa Beairsto, Ira Tuzlukova
Faculty Advisors
Design Advisor - Robert Shannon
Stage Management Advisor - John Raymond
Production Team:
Production Manager - Gerry van Hezewyk
Technical Director - Larry Clark
Production Administrative Assistant - Jonathan Durynek
Wardrobe Manager - Joanna Johnston
Cutter / Seamstress - Julie Davie
Sculptor/Finisher - Kathleen Mulder
Stitcher - Karen Kucher
Practicum students - Emma Allarie, Bailey Ferchoff, Caro Vanrensburg
Master Carpenter - Darrell Cooksey
Scenic Carpenter - Ivan Siemens
Head Scenic Artist - Sydney Gross
Scenic Artists - Sarah Karpyshin, Elise Jason
Properties Master - Jane Kline
Props Builders - Allison Robinson
Lighting Supervisor - Jeff Osterlin
Head of Lighting - Maria Burkinshaw
Lighting Technicians - Matt Koyata, Rachael Alexandre, Misha Hlebnicov, Jacinda Maxwell, Allison Robinson, Johnnie Samycia
Sound Supervisor - Matthew Skopyk
Running Crew:
Lighting Operator - Maria Burkinshaw
Sound Operator - Aidan Ware
Stage Carpenter - Misha Hlebnicov
Stagehands - Elise Jason, Sarah Karpyshin, Isabel Bergquist, Jacob Blakely, Tanys Romanuik, Heather Polasek
Thanks to the Citadel Theatre and Patsy Thomas.
YCP03: Gill Douglas - Artist & Printmaker
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Played in Britain: Modern Theatre in 100 Plays
Created by the Victoria and Albert Museum, this new app uses the Mag+ digital publishing platform to create a photographic archive of six decades of British theater history.
Adele in studio
Adele showing where she recored her album 21.
Monster Raving Loony - A Theatre Royal Plymouth Production
By James Graham
Sat 06 - Sat 27 Feb 2016, Theatre Royal Plymouth
#MonsterRavingLoony
Monster Raving Loony is a fast-paced, hilarious theatrical feast for the heart and mind. This moving journey through the life and political exploits of Screaming Lord Sutch features a full house of iconic cameos including Alan Partridge, Monty Python, Morecombe and Wise and Blackadder.
Seen through the eyes of one extraordinary man, Monster Raving Loony asks if the British sense of humour can begin to uncover who we are, where we have been and where we are going next.
A Theatre Royal Plymouth production written by James Graham.
Age recommendation: 12+
With thanks for support from the John Ellerman Foundation and THE LECHE TRUST.
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****Joseph Alessi – Older Male****
Joseph Alessi’s recent theatre credits include The One That Got Away (Bath Ustinov Studio), The Hook (Liverpool Everyman), Brief Encounter (Broadway/ US & Australian tour), Midsummer Night’s Dream (Royal & Derngate), The Wind in the Willows, Privates on Parade, Jerusalem (all West Yorkshire Playhouse), Wonderful Town (Royal Exchange Theatre/UK tour), Antony & Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, The Tempest (all RSC). His television credits include I Live with Models, Mummy’s Boys, Mr Selfridge, God on Trial, Revelations, In a Land of Plenty, Wing and Prayer, Kavanagh, Pie in the Sky, All in the Game, The Chief. His film credits include The Other Woman, Family Business, Bridget Jones’ Diary, London Kills me and Chaplin.
****Camilla Beeput – Younger Female****
Camilla Beeput’s recent theatre credits include In The Red and Brown Water (Young Vic), Bad Girls (Garrick Theatre), Daddy Cool (Shaftsbury Theatre), West Side Story (Leicester Haymarket) and Money To Burn (The Venue). Her television credits include Partners In Crime, New Tricks, Bull, Grantchester, Birds of a Feather, Legends, Scott and Bailey, Me and Mrs Jones, White Van Man, Peep Show, Death in Paradise and Top Boy. Her film credits include Writer’s Retreat, Mortdecai, Superbob and Harry Hill The Movie.
****Joanna Brookes – Older Female****
Joanna was born in London and trained at Webber-Douglas. Recent theatre includes: The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (West Yorkshire Playhouse and Birmingham Rep) The Importance of Being Earnest (Nottingham Playhouse) The Physicists (Donmar Warehouse) The Rivals, Spring and Port Wine and The Admirable Crichton (The New Vic Stoke), The Daughter in Law (Watford Palace Theatre) The Biggleswades (Southwark Playhouse) The Waltz of The Toreadors (Chichester Festival Theatre) The Best 100 Plays of the Century (The Royal National Theatre).
Television includes: Uncle, The Tunnel, Mr Selfridge, Law and Order UK, Boomers, Siblings, Doctors, Holby City, Taking The Flak, Phoneshop, Dancing on the Edge, Mrs Biggs, Bad Girls, Fifteen Storeys High, John Mortimer’s Titmuss Regained and Julian Mitchell’s Screen Two film Survival of The Fittest.
Radio includes: Ed Reardon’s Week, The Exorcist, Votes For Women, The Archers, Mr Bridger’s Orphan, Up The Junction, Georgy Girl, The Author of Himself, Weekending, House of The Spirit Levels, Double Income No Kids Yet.
Films include: In the Loop, The Infidel, Little Dorrit, Under Suspicion, Their Finest Hour and a Half, Pauline.
****Jack Brown - Younger Male****
Jack trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.
Theatre includes: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Micheal Grandage Company/West End), Symphony (Soho Theatre/Nabokov/NT Watch This Space/UK tour), Home (Theatre Royal Stratford East) The History Boys (Theatre By The Lake), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Torch Theatre/UK tour), Early Doors, Oi For England (Not Too Tame), Pedro Paramo Is Dead (Elan Frantoio), Foot and Mouth (Soho Theatre/NYT),
Film includes: Razors, Mighty Milk, Minuet, Nectar, Saturday Saturday, When We Were Wolfs
Television includes: Skins, World Without End, Meet Sam, Caerdydd
Radio includes: And Then We Came To The End, Doctor Who
****Samuel James – Sutch****
Theatre work includes: Fault Lines (Hampstead Theatre), Abigail’s Party (UK tour), The Man On Her Mind (Charing Cross Theatre), Decade (Headlong), Twelfth Night (National Theatre), Women Beware Women (National Theatre), Grand Guignol (Theatre Royal Plymouth), Holes (Wimbledon Studio), Stockholm (Theatre Royal Plymouth / Frantic Assembly), The Things Good Men Do (Old Red Lion), The Wizard of Oz (Birmingham Rep), Ragtime (Piccadilly Theatre), The Full Monty (Prince of Wales Theatre)
Television work includes: Birds of a Feather (Retort), Critical (Hat Trick), New Worlds (Company), Casualty (BBC), Eastenders (BBC), The Shadow Line (Company), The Bill (Talkback Thames), Poirot (Granada), Rose and Maloney (Company), Battle of Britain (United)
Film work includes: The Man on Her Mind, Closer. Radio work includes: The Franchise Affair, The Eliza Diaries
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Reece Shearsmith introduces Theatre of Blood
Actor Reece Shearsmith (The League of Gentleman) introduces Theatre of Blood, Douglas Hickox's darkly comic British horror starring Vincent Price as a vengeful actor, as the film that inspired him.
BFI Screen Epiphanies, in partnership with American Express:
Every month a prominent figure from the arts and culture community talks about a film which inspired their passion for cinema, accompanied by a screening of the film, exclusively for BFI Members. Join today at bfi.org.uk/join.
Unpredictable Radio #2
UNPREDICTABLE RADIO: A LIVE EVENT AND BROADCAST - PROGRAMME #2
Unpredictable Series is taking over Raven Row, presenting Unpredictable Radio in a series of 4 live-streamed events!
Unpredictable Radio is dedicated to sound art, improvised music and experimental art forms, presented in front of a small audience.
Each programme will focus on a specific subject that will be investigated between interviews and live acts.
On Friday the 15th of March we will look at the work of Iris Garrelfs, superconductr aka Matthias Kispert, Douglas Benford. & Ng Chor Guan.
Programme #2 will be live streamed on our website unpredictable.info from 18.30. Featuring
- Iris Garrelfs works on the cusp of music, art and technology across improvised performance, multi-channel installation and fixed media projects. She is interested in the relationship between listening to and reflecting on our world. She often uses her voice as raw material.
Her work has been presented nationally and internationally, including Tate Britain, National Gallery London, Royal Academy of Arts (London), fruityspace (Beijing), Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Rome), MC Gallery (New York), Transmedia Borders (Mexico). Residencies have included Grizedale Art, Institute of Modern Art Celje (Slovenia), Onassis Cultural Centre (Athens).
Garrelfs lectures in Sonic Art at Goldsmiths, University of London where she also co-heads the Sound Practice Research Unit. She also edits the open access journal Reflections on Process in Sound.
- Matthias Kispert aka Superconductr is an artistic research project into conditions of on-demand labour distributed through digital platforms. superconductr’s work involves interventions that utilise the functionalities of existing digital labour platforms, participation in activism for precarious labour rights, and theoretical investigations. The name superconductr refers to Michel Foucault’s description of power as the conduct of conduct, which here also takes into account conduction as the transmission, control and mining of data streams in networks that facilitate the capture and extraction of human labour power. superconductr is a project by artist Matthias Kispert. superconductr.org
- Douglas Benford
As a composer and sound artist, Douglas has been involved in various audio genres since the late 1980s, performing at many
institutions/venues in the UK (Bristol’s Arnolfini, London’s Science Museum, Cafe Oto, Tate Modern, The Roundhouse, ICA and Glasgow’s CCA), festivals worldwide (eg Mutek, Synch, Transmediale) and had installation work in numerous UK galleries (Inc. London, Swansea, Gloucestershire and Essex). After many electronica releases in his ‘si-cut.db’ and other guises, in the past decade, he has focused on acoustic improvisation and installations, using field recordings, classical instruments, vocals and children’s toys. As well as often playing with the London Improvisers Orchestra and Confront Recordings / Mark Wastell’s The Seen collective, his regular collaborators include poet Tamar Yoseloff, Angharad Davies, Lina Lapelyte, Adam Bohman, Clive Bell, Sue Lynch, sculptor Rob Olins, as well as – in the past – pop group Saint Etienne, Jem Finer (The Pogues), Momus, Rod Thomas (Bright Light Bright Light), Scanner, Stephan Mathieu. He was also co-curator with Iris Garrelfs, established in 1996, of Sprawl experimental audio events in London for over 12 years.
- NG CHOR GUAN
Artist/ Composer /Thereminist /Creator /Theatre-Maker /Cyclist /Artistic Director of Toccata Studio
Guan is a prolific artist whose diverse body of work is rooted in the contemporaneous currents of technology and proves to transcend categories in the performing arts.
His most recent project with Toccata Studio, titled ‘2020’, is a project five years long: a multidisciplinary performance powered by the concepts of multiple futures and time travel, 2020 is both a meditation on the future and an active progression into the future.
Piccadilly Revisited in Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, London
Piccadilly Revisited - Silent film with fusion music, modern film making and conemporary dance, produced by Chinatown Arts Space in London.
This is a 2 min cut to sample Cheng-Ying Chuang's appearance as a countertenor & Chinese lutenist (liuqin/zhongruan) in this project.
Music Ruth Chan (composer/keyboard/violin/various), Suki Mok (composer/guitar/various)
featuring special guest musicians
Soname (Tibet singer) + Cheng-Ying Chuang (countertenor/Chinese lutenist on liuqin & zhongruan) +
other guest musicians (I am AMW sung by Alice Lee)
Actress (as AMW) Calita Leong Rainford
Dancers Yuyu Rau, Quang Kien Van
Text Alice Lee, David Tse Ka-Shing
Choreography Sin-Man Yue, Nguyen Ngoc Anh
Short film sequences Shan Ng, O Zhang
Costumes Jennifer Ng Matthews
Set Wai Yin Kwok
Lighting Douglas Kuhrt
Director David Tse Ka-Shing, assisted by Uma Jackson
Time: 31st March, 7.45pm
Venue: Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9DD
再訪皮卡迪利 - 好萊塢默片時代 皮卡迪利 重新製作的綜合藝術，含現代舞、影片交疊、爵士樂、中國彈撥樂、西方早期音樂和西藏音樂元素。本影片是莊承穎演唱假聲男高音和演奏柳琴/中阮的兩分鐘片段剪輯。
時間: 2010年3月31日 7:45 pm
地點: 倫敦皇家歌劇院林柏里劇場
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An Evening with Michael Douglas | Full Q&A [HD] | Coolidge Corner Theatre
On November 29, 2018, Michael Douglas joined WGBH Executive Arts Editor Jared Bowen onstage for a conversation about his career and the presentation of the #CoolidgeAward????.
About the Coolidge Corner Theatre
Widely regarded as one of New England’s most beloved cultural landmarks, the Coolidge Corner Theatre is one of the nation’s most prominent independently operated movie theatres, run by the not-for-profit Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation.
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PUNK ROCK by Simon Stephens (2018 Toronto Premiere) - Trailer
“I feel like I’m earthed. Here. And watch what happens if I let go.”
In the library of a fee-paying grammar school outside of Manchester, England, a group of hyper-intelligent seventeen-year-olds prepare for their final exams. As anxiety builds and hormones rage, the students must prepare for a future that seems uncertain – and survive the volatile rites-of-passage of an unstable world.
A bubbling cauldron of fear, anger and self-loathing that threatens to destroy the adolescent fantasy, PUNK ROCK is a painful reminder of the dormant violence that lurks in the shadows of any civilized society.
The Howland Company is thrilled to present the Toronto Premiere of
PUNK ROCK by Simon Stephens
March 29 - April 14, 2018
Crow's Theatre, Streetcar Crowsnest Scotiabank Community Studio, 345 Carlaw Ave. Toronto
Tickets: $15-40
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by phone: 647-341-7390
in person: Crow’s Theatre, Streetcar Crowsnest
345 Carlaw Ave. Toronto
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Trailer by Neon Grey
Song: I Want to Die - Late Bloomers by Grievances
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Concept by Hallie Seline
Special Thank You to: Adam Cook & Nicholas Marinelli, Rapier Witt Toronto, Daniel Levinson, Brittany Kay, Allison Reed, Joey Graff, Celia Beketa, Alex Spyropoulos, Alex Crowther