fuel january-april 2014 season brochure

Welcome to our new season and thank you for taking the time to read our brochure. We hope you’ll find something within it that interests or excites you.

From PictureHouse Cinemas, to the Science Museum in London, we are exploring new and unusual spaces for our performance, films and installations this season. We will be presenting some of our most popular shows in new venues across the UK and returning to some of our favourite towns and cities with brand new performances as well. We hope you’ll join us.

Louise Blackwell and Kate McGrath Co-Directors Fuel

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WELCOME TO OUR

JANUARY–APRIL 2014 SEASON

Aberystwyth• Ring

Belfast• Going Dark

Birmingham• Going Dark

Exeter• Going Dark

Folkestone• Love Letters Straight

From Your Heart

Leeds• Fast Cuts and

Snapshots• Love Letters Straight

From Your Heart• Ring

London• Going Dark

Malvern• Going Dark

Margate• Story Hunt

Newcastle • Everyday Moments

Southampton• Going Dark

Online• It’s the Skin You’re

Living In• Still Life with Dog• Brilliant

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WHERE YOU CAN FIND US

Aberystwyth

Belfast

Birmingham

ExeterFolkestone

Leeds

London

Malvern

MalvernMargate

Newcastle

Southampton

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“ A wonderful piece of theatre” HHHHH Independent

The critically acclaimed Going Dark tours the UK again this spring, including performances at London’s Science Museum.

How far can you see? A mile? A hundred miles? Or perhaps to the edge of our galaxy and beyond? It’s Max’s job to ask the cosmic questions. Passionate about astronomy, he works as the narrator at the city’s planetarium where he challenges his audiences with the mysteries of stars and science.

When his own life takes an unexpected turn, Max discovers that understanding theuniverserequiresadifferentkindof vision...

Sound&Fury use their innovative theatre vocabulary of immersive surround sound design, total blackout and imaginative lighting to reawaken our wonder at the cosmos and reveal how one man’s vision becomes illuminated by darkness.

#GoingDark soundandfury.org.uk

Commissioned by Warwick Arts Centre. Developed as part of Fuel at the Roundhouse and the Jerwood residencies at Cove Park which are supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation. Funded by Arts Council England, the Wellcome Trust, the Institute of Physics and the Science and Technology Facilities Council. Supported by the Linbury Prize for Stage Design (Winner 2011).

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Exeter Northcott Theatre 27 Feb–1 Mar Post Show discussion: 27 Feb exeternorthcott.org.uk

Science Museum, London 5–9 Mar sciencemuseum.org.uk

Malvern Theatres 18–19 Mar Post Show discussion: 18 Mar malvern-theatres.co.uk

Nuffield, Southampton 22–23 Mar nuffieldtheatre.co.uk Subject to funding

mac birmingham 29 Mar macarts.co.uk

MAC, Belfast 2–3 Apr themaclive.com


GOING DARKFUEL PRESENTSSOUND&FURY’S WRITTEN BY HATTIE NAYLORIN COLLABORATION WITH SOUND&FURY



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“Brilliant wraps itself around the children, holding them fascinated in its grasp”

Time Out, on the stage show HHHH

Fevered Sleep’s highly acclaimed theatre show for 3-5 year olds is transformedintoashortfilmforchildren.

Brilliant explores the secret games and the magical imaginings that happen when it’s time to go to sleep. “Imagine it’s bedtime. Imagine it’s time to turn out the light. Imagine the outside, and the stars, bright. Imagine a forest of flickeringtorches,wherethemooncomes down to play.”

Thefilmwillbeavailabletobuyon DVD or to download from feveredsleep.co.uk in spring 2014.

Suitable for children aged 3-5.

Brilliant is planned to be shown as part of Picturehouses’ Toddler Time programme in late April 2014 with exact dates and locations to be confirmedintheNewYear.Formoreinformation please visit http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/toddlertime

Picturehouses’ Toddler Time screenings are especially designed to introduce children to the big screen, featuring 30-minute shows for pre-school children and their parents / carers. Admission is just £3 per child, accompanying adults free, when they become members of Toddler Time (and admission is free).

Brilliant will also feature as part of the Hijack Children’s festival in Brighton in April 2014.

Supported by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Arts Council England.

#fsBrilliant

BRILLIANT: THE FILMA FEVERED SLEEP FILM, INSPIRED BY THE FEVERED SLEEP/POLKA ORIGINAL PRODUCTION. PRODUCED IN ASSOCIATION WITH FUEL


It’s the Skin You’re Living Inisamulti-platformfilmproject that explores and challenges images of climate change.

In spring 2014 It’s the Skin You’re Living In will be available as a free to download iPhone app. Using wireless video sync technology, the app lets a group of people experience this unique piece of art on their phones, in real time, in real life, together.

The8minutefilmversionisavailabletoviewanytimeonline.feveredsleep.co.uk/films

Subject to licensing.

Supported by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and The Leverhulme Trust.

@feveredsleep #fsSkin

A FEVERED SLEEP FILM

PRODUCED IN ASSOCIATION

WITH FUELiPHONE APP


Ashortfilmontime,ageingandchange.

Performed by seven female performers, from a seven-year-old girl to a woman over 80, it takes the idea of the “seven ages of man” and through a series of repeated images, hints at the accumulation of objects and memories over a lifetime, the transience of life itself, and the profound physical changes that take place as we age.

Available to view anytime online at feveredsleep.co.uk/films

@feveredsleep #fsDog

Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

A FEVERED SLEEP FILM

PRODUCED IN ASSOCIATION WITH FUEL

“The future of British theatre” The Times on Daniel Bye

History wasn’t made here. Not in Margate. This is somewhere history happened to. Or is it?

Story Hunt is a treasure hunt-meets-walking-tour of Margate’s many presents: those that have been and those that are yet to come.

Stroll by sights no longer to be seen. Marvel at monuments yet to be raised. Look! That man diving in the river in 1786 is changing the world, now!

History was made here, and it will be made again. You are, we are, all part of that history. And this means that we all, every one of us, can change it.

From the award-winning maker of The Price of Everything and How To Occupy An Oil Rig.

Funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Arts Council England, through New Theatre in Your Neighbourhood. Developed through Fuel’s Jerwood Residencies at Cove Park which are supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation.

#StoryHunt danielbye.co.uk


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Theatre Royal Margate 12 April theatreroyalmargate.com

WRITTEN & PERFORMED BY DANIEL BYE

DIRECTION & DRAMATURGY BY

SARAH PUNSHONSTORY HUNTARC STOCKTON

&FUEL PRESENT


Late night, with headphones, in a completely utterly dark room, with some space to move by Hofesh Shechter

A sound installation for one audience member in a completely dark room.

Hofesh Shechter’s podcast, designed to be listened to alone, in a dark space, is an invitation to move without inhibition – the way you always wished you could when no one is watching.

Originally produced as part of the Everyday Moments podcasts, produced in collaboration with Roundhouse Radio. Funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Arts Council England.

#everydaymoments hofesh.co.uk

“�Combining�elements�of�both�the�site-specific�and one-on-one theatre, the results are intriguing, fun and, at times, exquisitely touching” Exeunt Magazine (on Everyday Moments series of podcasts)

Dance City, Newcastle3–15 Mardancecity.co.uk

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WRITTEN & PERFORMED BY DANIEL BYE

DIRECTION & DRAMATURGY BY

SARAH PUNSHON

FUEL PRESENTS

EVERYDAY MOMENTSBY HOFESH SHECHTER

“I�haven’t�been�affected�by�a�show�as�profoundly in a long time” Wired

Following sell out runs in London and Edinburgh in 2013, Ring returns for more performances this spring.

Ring is a sound journey in complete darkness and an antidote to choice. Wearing headphones that amplify every intimate detail, you are transported to another room very similar to the one you entered… But in this room you have been recognised.

At times seductive, at times unnerving, Ring places the audience at the heart of a thrilling attack on their own identity.

Triggered @ Warwick Arts Centre. Originally funded by Arts Council England.

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Aberystwyth Arts Centre6–7 Febaberystwythartscentre.co.uk

West Yorkshire Playhouse, Transform Festival, Leeds28–29 Marwyp.org.uk

CONCEIVED & DIRECTED BY DAVID ROSENBERG

WRITTEN BY GLEN NEATH

MUSIC & SOUND BY BEN & MAX RINGHAM

RINGFUEL PRESENTS

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Sevenyearsafteritsfirstperformance,Love Letters Straight From Your Heart feels as fresh as it did in 2006, and continues to move audiences on tour.

Let’s raise our glasses to long lost loves and current lovers, to mums, to dads and to absent friends.

Uninvited Guests stage an event that is somewhere between a wedding reception, a wake and a radio dedication show. We speak of our own and other’s loves – deep, passionate, ambivalent and unrequited – and dedicate songs to them.

If you want to join us on this happy occasion, send a dedication to someone you love to [email protected].

Your letters of love may become part of the show, romantic gestures or signs of friendship, shared publicly between us. Be our witnesses and we’ll be yours.

ABACScratchandanArnolfiniWeLiveHerecommission.AlsocommissionedbyLeedsMetStudioTheatre.Originally funded by Arts Council England.

#LoveLetters uninvited-guests.net

Quarterhouse, Folkestone15 Febquarterhouse.co.uk

West Yorkshire Playhouse, Transform Festival, Leeds27 Marwyp.org.uk

“It is a marvelous piece of theatre that blowtorches away Britishness and forces you to feel” Time Out

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UNINVITED GUESTS AND FUEL

LOVE LETTERS STRAIGHT FROM YOUR HEART

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For some members of the African diaspora, barber shops are the cultural equivalents to pubs. Everything is discussed in heated detail, frommasculinitytoblossomingfilmindustries,fromgovernmentpolicy to autism, from racism to football, the political to the intimate, to the intensely personal. As part of the Transform Festival, Inua will be sharing stories from his research in England, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Ghana and Nigeria.

Commissioned by Oran Mor’s a Play, a Pie and a Pint, supported by the National Theatre of Scotland. This project was developed with the support of the National Theatre Studio, West Yorkshire Playhouse, The Binks Trust and British Council Connect ZA.

Subject to funding

#FastCutsandSnapshots inuaellams.com

West Yorkshire Playhouse, Transform Festival, Leeds28 Marwyp.org.uk

Fuel presentsInua Ellams’

Fast Cuts and Snapshots

Shows to see in development


Fuel produces fresh work for adventurous people by inspiring artists.

We work in partnership with some of the UK’s most exciting contemporary theatre artists to develop, create and present new work for all. All the artists we work with create shows, performances or experiences that have direct and playful relationships with their audiences. They appeal to the emotions and the intellect: can make you laugh or cry, and take place in theatres, on the streets, online, or in unique, surprising places.

For more information visit fueltheatre.com@FuelTheatre

Research and development

In addition to the productions you can read about in this brochure, we run an active and in-depth development programme for artists and new work. With the help of Arts Council England and the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, we’re able to invite artists to take part in creative residencies at Cove Park, where they can dream up new ideas. This is our lab, where much of the work we produce begins its life.

@covepark covepark.org.

We need your help to make inspiring ideas come to life for the broadest possible audience. There are lots of ways you can get involved; just £5 a month can have a real impact. And because we’re now registered as a charity, we’re able to add Gift Aid to your donation – so your support will go even further. In return, we’ll give you exclusive benefitsandtheinsidestoryonwhatwe’reup to. To make your mark, visit our website fueltheatre.com/support-us


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FUNDERS & PARTNERS

“Fuel is on the side of the angels… the living, breathing equivalent of good deeds in a naughty world.” The Herald

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