camden people’s theatre

SPRINT & SUMMER

SUMMER 2007

Welcome to SprintIt is my absolute pleasure to introduce this year’s Sprintprogramme to you. Now in its tenth year, this Sprint is biggerthan ever featuring 14 companies, six of which we’ve supportedin the development of the pieces presented here. The festivalkicks off in style with Total Theatre Award Winners ChottoOokii’s And Even My Goldfish; other highlights include thereturn of Unpacked and ChoppedLogic who delighted audiencesat last year’s festival, and we end with the Search Party’sThe Long Walk to the Performance - the most uplifting andcharming piece I’ve seen for ages.

Alongside award winners and returning favourites we’ve thenew and unknown. Companies I want you to take a risk on withme. In Britain today it’s increasingly hard for young companiesto establish themselves and this is why platform opportunitiesmust exist. From my personal experience Sprint provided mewith the springboard for my career when CPT took a chance onmy proposal; without that opportunity to prove myself I mightnot be writing this today. So please don’t just stick with whatyou, or somebody else, knows - get in at the beginning, leaddon’t follow.

Following hot on the heels of Sprint is P.I. Network’sGroundwork 5 festival presenting 12 new companies in 6 days,then we’ve the UK premiere of Bicycle, from Korea’s mostcelebrated playwright Oh T'ae-sok, and finally the season endswith the premiere of Freefall’s exploration of sex traffickingNot For Sale, prior to its run at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Please come and join us during this season and explore theexciting work we’re supporting; afterwards why not stay for adrink in our bar and tell us what you thought.

I look forward to seeing you during Sprint and beyond.

Matt Ball,Director

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Summer 2007

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And Even My Goldfish

The Alice Project

Funeral Games

Some Mistakes & Anticlimaxes

The Little Girl Who WasToo Fond Of Matches

A Kiss From The Last Grey SquirrelIn The Broken Down Kindom

Time To Go (dot)

Double Negative

24/7/52

Quartet (for Anna Akhmatova)

The Dark Side

Bed

The Krapp of My Life: Towards aPoor Imitation (of Samuel Beckett)

The Long Walk to the Performance

GroundWork 5

Bicycle

Not For Sale

Camden People’s Theatre

They Say don’t dream your life away,but what if all you’ve got are dreamsand a not entirely uncomfortablechair?

In a world where paranoia reignssupreme, a very tall man decidesto lock himself in a room, hidingthe doorknob in his pocket.

Colourful fragments of distortedmemory merge with bleak realityto create this surreal andbeautiful portrayal of one mindunsettled in time.

Winners of the 2006 Total Theatre,Best Newcomers Award.

“The finest in physical theatreI have seen in a long time...stunning and unforgettable...

If I could, I’d give it six stars!” * * * * * (+)Scene 4 Magazine

“Unforgettable!” * * * *The British Theatre Guide

“Chotto Ookii’s quirky show is a treat...something really special”The Scotsman

“Moments of heartbreaking originality”The Stage

“This surely is what Total Theatre is about”Total Theatre Magazine

And Even My GoldfishChotto OokiiFri 1st - Sun 3rd June, 8pm£12/£8

“The time has come, to talk of many things:of shoes and ships - and sealing wax -of cabbages and kings”

Come with us down the rabbit hole andside step through the mirror into a world ofjazz bars and music boxes, childhoodmemories and love stories.

This international theatre company hasjoined together to explore Wonderlandthrough the looking glass of the21st century.

Developed from a BAC scratch night,this show challenges your nostalgia forCarroll’s tale. It transforms a Victorian storyinto a diverse experience where dreamsand reality merge and desires andnightmares collide.

The Alice ProjectRififi TheatreMon 4th - Wed 6th June, 8pm£12/£8

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Funeral GamesUnpackedThurs 7th - Sat 9th June, 8pm£12/£8

Two brothers reunite to bury the dead and dig up the living. The lights are going out and the water’s coming in. A tale of tea stains, stiffs and brotherly love.

Unpacked uses an original visual languagethat fuses physical theatre, puppetry and new writing. Funeral Games has been developed with the Nightingale Theatre and explores the complexities of male relationships in acrumbling world.

Nominated Best Actor Brighton Fringe 2005 Nominated Total Theatre Award Edinburgh Fringe 2006

www.unpacked.org

“Absolute theatrical brilliance...bringing a new vision to the art of

puppetry and physical theatre”Total Theatre

“Dazzling physical theatre...extraordinarily imaginative”

The Scotsman

In association withLinda Lewis Productions

Some Mistakes & AnticlimaxesSleepwalk CollectiveSun 10th - Tues 12th June, 8pm£12/£8

The Little Girl Who WasToo Fond Of MatchesBy Gaétan SoucyAdapted & directed by Marcia CarrImpetuous Kinship Wed 13th & Thurs 14th June, 8pm£12/£8

“We had to take the universe in hand,my brother and I, for one morning justbefore dawn...”

A huge house, a fairytale inspired world. Aliceawakes to find her father dead, the story begins...in an unrecognisable world, full of difficult questions...Is the boy her brother? What’s the terrifying secret inthe vault? and... Who lit the match?

Join award winning Marcia Carr’s pursuit on ajourney with “A performance marked by beingamazingly physical, fluid and energetic.”Manchester Evening News.

www.impetuouskinship.co.uk

On some nights we felt like the world could bea new place. And we collected up the thingswe liked, and the things we didn’t like, like this isevidence, like it’s voodoo. We tried to feel someguilt, wanted to get hurt, thought about gettingdrunk. We attempted to re-draw the world fromscratch. And it was like the words and things allgot mixed up. It was like we were broken.

This is a night for making trouble, for miss-happenings, and for all our wicked mistakes.

Sleepwalk Collective is an internationallydrawn theatre/performance group formed inthe spring of 2006. They are interested inanti-performance, the strange anduncomfortable balance of reality andpretending, and the innate human desire to“feel something”.

www.sleepwalkcollective.com“A subtle seduction and a total pleasure.”

Peader Kirk, MKULTRA

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A Kiss From The Last Grey SquirrelIn The Broken Down KindomRough MemoryFri 15th - Sat 16th June, 8pm£12/£8

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“To fight, let alone to win, a war against sosuccessful an alien as the grey squirrel, weneed intelligence. It is a maxim of all warfarethat one should know one’s enemy. It’s not toolate to save the red squirrel. Our readers arehereby invited to join the front line. Let us all goto war and kill some grey squirrels.”Country Illustrated, Anniversary 2004

Rough Memory re-imagines fear, loss andbelonging in a multi-cultural age of respectand tolerance.

WARNING: this show may contain traces of nuts.

Time To Go (dot)Skinworks Independent Company Sun 17th - Tues 19th June, 8pm£12/£8

Empty boxes - a grotesque and absurdcommunity - a death.

A dark and witty investigation on death’sconsequences: the desire for immortalityand the failure of mourning: an easyrecovery from death feels like a betrayalof the person lost.

The absurdity of human nature isexplored inspired by the broken windowtheory: once one window is broken itwon’t take long for the others to break,the decay is irreversible.

A collaboration between movement,sound and live music.

Double NegativeChoppedLogicWed 20th - Thurs 21st June, 8pm£12/£8

Sometimes in the broadest of daylights they would come, scrunching theirtyres into the gravel and darting inlike mice into a mouse hole. And Ididn’t want to harbour suspicion,like a scorpion in a boot, twitchingthe lace curtains and suspecting.But I wonder. I’ve started to keep a little list.

Mixing language, movement, dance,puppetry, light and sound, ChoppedLogic explore the stories of Mai, trapped andtrying to communicate and John, searching for someone to talk to in the echoing space of suburbia. Humour and darknessinterplay in this story of human trafficking,loneliness and the desire to help, which asks “Can anyone escape?”

www.choppedlogic.co.uk

“A company that really knowshow to tap into the imagination”

The Stage

“One to watch out for”Total Theatre

“Theatre doesn’t get much moreintimate than this”The Morning Star

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24/7/52Bill Aitchison in collaboration with Boris Kahnert & James DunnFri 22nd - Sat 23rd June, 7.30pm £12/£8 (£15 as part of a double bill with Quartet)

A playful exploration of the idea that theatreis not what takes place on the stage,but rather what happens in the mindsof the spectators.

Based on an accident that took placeat La Scala opera house in Italy in 1913,Quartet is dance and theatre performancethat revolves around a simple premise:each of its four components (the movement,the object, the music, the words) is performedalone, one after the other. Never presented asa whole, the audience is invited to connecteach part, slowly imagining and piecing atogether a performance that may ormay not exist.

Funded by Arts Council England

Quartet (for Anna Akhmatova)A solo performance by Augusto CorrieriSat 23rd June, 9pm £5 (£15 as part of a double bill with 24/7/52)

24/7/52 is a performance about time: how weexperience it and how we tell it. A kaleidoscopeof a show that walks a fine line betweenminimalism and vaudeville, 24/7/52 is agame that plunges head-first into certainfailure producing meticulously structuredchaos that calls upon multi-tasking adabsurdum to create the relentlessness that is24/7/52.

Developed at BAC and co-produced byPlateaux Festival Mousonturm.

Bill Aitchison is a theatre and performanceartist based in London. He has creatednumerous solo performances and events, is aregular collaborator with Apocryphal Theatreand and has performed widely across Europeand the US. 24/7/52 has been developed incollaboration with Boris Kahnert (lightingdesign) and James Dunn (sound design).

“humorous, intelligent, sensuous theatre”Frankfurter Allgemeine

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The Dark SideTickle Theatre Sun 24th - Mon 25th June, 8pm£12/£8

Time for...

Abundance. Birth. Coffee. Death.Ecstasy. Fun. Games. Hate. Isolation.Jerking-off. Kicking. Love. Me.Nightmares. Oooooooo. Procreation.Quilt. Ranting. Stories. Trauma. Union.Virility. Whispering. Xylophones. You.Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Time for bed.

BedKnavish SpeechTues 26th - Thurs 28th June, 8pm£12/£8

Devised by the company.

Directed by Jennie Fellows.Writing by David Lane.

Cast includes Jenny Harrold and MarkStevenson.

“I am the man for which no God waitsBut for which the whole world yearnsI'm marked by darkness and by blood And by a thousand powder-burns.”

You are going to die. We are all going to die.So you might as well be happy about it.

Tickle return with their unique mixture oftheatrical inventiveness and comic anarchy.

Join us. We dare you.

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The Krapp of My Life:Towards a Poor Imitation (of Samuel Beckett)Corpus Soma Fri 29th June - Sun 1st July, 8pm£12/£8 (£18/£12 as part of a double bill withThe Long Walk to the Performance)

The Krapp of My Life... is a bouquet of re-processedspam™. Delving deep down beneath internetculture and the everyday lives of everydaypeople... hello? Is there anybody there? J. Krapp islike any other: (still) living in Clapham. Planning,waiting, doing (nothing. ;-) So much to do, so littledone. The Krapp of My Life fuses visceral physicalperformance with excessive disorder. Happinessneeds sympathy. The Krapp of My Life is a work inprogress inspired by a genius (created by idiots.-).

Welcome to Generation K... deal with it.

Corpus Soma activate human sensitivity throughmulti-disciplinary theatre.

The Long Walk to the PerformanceSearch PartySun 1st July, 9.15pm£12/£8 (£18/£12 as part of a double bill withThe Krapp of My Life)

This is a party, a search party and we made itjust for you. Put on your best outfit, let your hairdown and dance like no-one’s watching. Thisparty can’t last forever, so let’s make the mostof it while we can.

Join Search Party as they re-tell and re-enactstories of hope and optimism, of tragedy andregret. Search Party are determined to remainoptimistic but as the tragedies accumulateand the failures escalate, it becomes a test ofoptimistic endurance.

www.searchpartyperformance.co.uk

Developed with support fromThe Exeter Phoenix.

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GroundWork 5P.I. NetworkTues 3rd - Sun 8th July, 7.30pm & 9pm£7

No sooner has the dust settled from GroundWork 4...we bring you GroundWork 5.

Presenting another 12 professional theatrecompanies in this rolling programme covering6 days. With two performances per night,GroundWork is a statement of what happenswhen performance comes first.

GroundWork is an independent profit-share theatreplatform program. Launched in 2005, GroundWorkhas to date produced over 30 theatre companieswork within 4 week-long events in central London.

GroundWork is supported by P.I. Network, anorganisation that supports theatre artists in thecreation and production of their work.

Full programme listed on www.perform.tv

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BicycleTheatre Company E’ziTues 10th July - Sat 29th July (except Mondays), Tues - Sat 7.30pm, Sat Matinee 3pm, Sun 5pm£10/£8

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“One night I fainted because the ghost of ayoung woman called out to me from hergrave by the side of the road. I was so scaredthat I began to shake and, later, I got sick.Whereupon I submit this report of absence.”

Spirits of an earlier time swirl together withinhabitants of the present as a town clerk tellsof the mysterious events which led to hisprolonged absence from work. Haunted bythe bloody history of his family, Yun’s journeyhome one night reveals the tragic legacyof the Korean War through the strange,humorous and disturbed characters hemeets.

Theatre Company E’zi proudly presents theUK premiere of Bicycle, by Korea’s leadingplaywright Oh T’ae-sok. Combiningexperiences of his own family in the war withtraditional Korean storytelling, Oh’s play is ahauntingly eloquent exploration of a darkpast and its implications for the present.

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Not For SaleFreefall Theatre CompanyTues July 31st - Sat August 4th, 8pm, 2pm Matinee on August 4th£10/£8

How are people stolen from themselves,bit by bit? Just how far will people go to fulfiltheir dreams and fantasies? What brings aperson through the doorway to an encounterthat will change them forever?

Fusing movement, image and text Freefall’sdynamic new production delves into thebrutal world of UK sex trafficking. A story ofviolence, loss, imprisonment, guilt and desireunfolds as we follow the downward spiral ofall those trapped in the web surroundingpay-as-you-go sex. Commissioned by CHASTE,one of the major charities calling for the endof contemporary sexual enslavement, Freefalltell the real story of the user and the used, theabuser and the abused.

It’s happening today. It’s happening here.The faceless victims are given a voice.They’re screaming.

SprintFri 1st - Sun 3rd June

Mon 4th - Wed 6th June

Thurs 7th - Sat 9th June

Sun 10th - Tues 12th June

Wed 13th - Thurs 14th June

Fri 15th - Sat 16th June

Sun 17th - Tues 19th June

Wed 20th - Thurs 21st June

Fri 22nd - Sat 23rd June

Sat 23rd June

Sun 24th - Mon 25th June

Tues 26th - Thurs 28th June

Fri 29th June - Sun 1st July

Sun 1st July

SummerTues 3rd - Sun 8th July

Tues 10th - Sat 29th July(except Mondays)Tues 31st July - Sat 4th Aug

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Summer 2007

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Camden People’s Theatre - Diary

And Even My GoldfishChotto OokiiThe Alice ProjectRififi TheatreFuneral GamesUnpackedSome Mistakes & AnticlimaxesSleepwalk CollectiveThe Little Girl Who WasToo Fond Of MatchesImpetuous KinshipA Kiss From The Last Grey SquirrelIn The Broken Down KindomRough MemoryTime To Go (dot)Skinworks Independent CompanyDouble NegativeChoppedLogic24/7/52Bill AitchisonQuartet (for Anna Akhmatova)Augusto CorrieriThe Dark SideTickle TheatreBedKnavish SpeechThe Krapp of My Life:Towards a Poor Imitation(of Samuel Beckett)Corpus SomaThe Long Walk to the PerformanceSearch Party

GroundWork 5P.I. NetworkBicycleTheatre Company E’ziNot For SaleFreefall theatre company

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www.cptheatre.co.uk

58-60 Hampstead Road,London NW1 2PY.

Admin: 020 7419 4841Box Office: 08700 600 100 (24hrs)

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Office Hours: 11am-6pm Tues-Fri

Camden People’s Theatre is dedicated tothe creation of new work and new ways ofworking. Both in programming work fromvisiting companies and in developing workin-house, we place special emphasis onmovement, gesture and visual impact,recognising that these are integral inmaking our work accessible on across-cultural basis.

“Very well-spent evening. Lovely intimatevenue. Very friendly, relaxed place. Theperformance was f***ing brilliant!”Recent audience feedback

Front cover photo: Unpacked, Funeral Games

Camden People’s Theatre is a registered charity: 1058723Registered Company Number: 3256616BOX OFFICE: 08700 600 100

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GETTING HERETubes: Warren Street, Euston & Euston SquareBuses: 24, 27, 29, 30, 73 & 134Train: EustonParking: Free on-street parking after 6.30pm

Access: Full wheelchair access to theauditorium. Adapted toilet facilities.

BUYING YOUR TICKETOn the web: www.cptheatre.co.ukBy phone: 08700 600 100 (24hrs)In person: At CPT from 45 mins before the show.When collecting tickets from CPT, please do so30 mins before the performance.

Refreshments: Fully licensed bar available.

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