camden people’s theatre

March 2011

SPRINT

Naïve Dance MasterclassThur 3rd & Fri 4th Mar

RoadworksThur 3rd & Thur 10th Mar

I ConfessFri 4th Mar

The Uncle Hans-Peter PartyFri 4th & Fri 25th Mar

Kitchen Sink DramaThur 3rd - Sun 27th Mar

Lecture Notes On A Death SceneSat 5th & Sun 6th Mar

Doris Day Can Fuck OffMon 7th & Tue 8th Mar

ExternalWed 9th & Thur 10th Mar

SuspendedFri 11th & Sat 12th Mar

Starting BlocksSun 13th Mar

The Vanishing HorizonMon 14th & Tue 15th Mar

Bohola MenWed 16th & Thur 17th Mar

AnemoneFri 18th Mar

The Balloon GardenerSat 19th Mar

PatchworkMon 21st & Tue 22nd Mar

When Night FallsWed 23rd & Thur 24th Mar

Projector/ConjectorWed 23rd & Thur 24th Mar

The EndSat 26th & Sun 27th Mar

Vagabonds’ Voyage: The Audio TourThur 3rd - Sun 27th Mar

Travelling Sounds LibraryThur 3rd - Sun 27th Mar

SPRINT - 2011It was the best of times; It was the worst of times.

Like many arts organisations we’ve spent the last few months

planning our (uncertain) future and applying for funding.

Throughout this process it’s been clear that Sprint is at the

core of CPT.

For the past 14 years Sprint has brought you the best

emerging artists from the UK and beyond, nibbling at the

edge of what is possible in theatre. This year is no different

featuring audio walks, BMX’s, a man wearing a projector on

his head, a sound library, a fake Bavarian, a performance

posted to your home and a large quantity of balloons!

We’ve also added a peer-led artist development programme,

Starting Blocks, more on which can be found inside and

online at www.CPTstartingblock.wordpress.com.

In this rapidly changing world, by the time this is printed

extra events will have been added and things will have moved

on. What can you do? Follow us on Twitter @CamdenPT,

to get the latest news and for behind the scenes info.

Come on in, try something new; you might just be

blown away.

Director, CPT

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

Naïve Dance MasterclassInconvenient SpoofThur 3rd & Fri 4th Mar, 7.30pm (50mins)£10/£8

Naïve Dance Masterclass is a stand-upand dance-about comedy combiningdeadpan wordplay and expert physicaltomfoolery in a sweet blast of eruditemayhem. Drenched in ecstasy andanguish, ex-contemporary dance star,Matt Rudkin, shares his tale of artisticsalvation through the exertions of riotduty training and the love of animmigrant hula-hoopist. Aiming a pokeat cultural bumf, this second show fromInconvenient Spoof pays heartfelthomage to those heroic geeks whodance without fear, in asexualabandon, subverting the norms of cool.

WARNING: may contain nudity.

www.inconvenientspoof.co.uk

I ConfessFirehouse Creative Productions and Tangled FeetFri 4th Mar, 11.30am - 7pm Free, St Pancras International

Step through the velvet curtains and getready to hear the real life confessionsof a stranger. You might find yourselfrevealing your innermost secrets in return.

I Confess is a unique theatrical experience.One audience member at a time enters aconfessional. An actor, situated on the otherside of the divide, is the confessor. Overthe course of ten minutes the audiencemember is bestowed with two confessions,which range from tender to hilarious. Oneof them will be true to the teller, the otherfiction. An opportunity is open at the end toshare a confession of your own. Directedby Rachel Parish and Nathan Curry.

www.firehousecreativeproductions.comwww.tangledfeet.com

“This is a smart, provocative andmoving gem of a show, directed with alightness of touch and delivered with

a calm assurance which isn’t justrare, it’s almost unheard of. *****”

allthefestivals.com

RoadworksEtta Ermini Dance TheatreThur 3rd & Thur 10th Mar, LunchtimeFree, The Plaza, Regent’s Place, NW1

Roadworks is a 30 minutes dancetheatre work intertwining urbandance and BMX flatland riding.It is set in a typical London streetscene where two dancers and twoBMX riders engage in a humorousbattle. The piece contains highenergy exchanges betweendancers and BMX riders, Hip Hopand contemporary dancesequences, spectacular BMXflatland tricks, theatrical and strongacrobatic elements and quirkysense of humour.

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Kitchen Sink DramaOnce - Arts & CeremoniesThur 3rd - Sun 27th Mar, At your convenience£10 (Can be purchased online inc P&P, or from our box office)

Kitchen Sink Drama - Whose turn is it to dothe washing up tonight then?

A mystery parcel in the post contains all youneed for you and a friend to be transported at yourkitchen sink out of the humdrum and ontoenchanting journeys, turning your washing up intoa meditation on your ambitions and place in theworld. A voyage from the plughole to the rolling seas.

Create a unique miniature performance in yourown kitchen.

Who: You & a friendWhere: Kitchen with a sinkWhen: Your choice, you need about an hour ofpeace and quiet

www.once.uk.com

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The Uncle Hans-Peter PartyA Let Me Feel Your Finger First ExperienceFri 4th Mar, 9pm & Fri 25th Mar, 8pm (80mins)£10/£8

The Uncle Hans-Peter Party incorporatesanimation, masquerade andperformance in a ‘live’ comic strip wherethe audience don plastic masks andcollectively assume the persona of theprotagonist Uncle Hans-Peter. Hans-Peteris the patriarch of the Let Me Feel YourFinger First family. He’s a hunter. Anoperator. He enjoys tying up his nephewson hot summer afternoons. As Bavarianstereotypes in their own comic narrative,participants act out a series ofperformative exchanges with ananimated Uncle Hans-Peter. Dress code:smart casual, lederhosen optional.

Not suitable for under 16s

www.letmefeelyourfingerfirst.com

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“Deliciouslyperverse”Time Out

Critics Choice

Lecture Notes On A Death SceneAnalogueSat 5th & Sun 6th Mar, 12 - 9.30pm (1/2 hour slots)£10/£8 (Advance booking essential)

In an intimate encounter betweenyourself and your reflection, the mirror infront of you becomes a window to anout of body experience, placing youbehind the steering wheel of someoneelse’s life.

You are a lecturer driving a passengerhome on a rainy night. You are thepassenger in the back seat. You areboth simultaneously; the performer andthe audience. You are in the headlightsof a past that is catching up with you...

Lecture Notes on a Death Scene is anunusual and atmospheric encounter forone audience member at a time.

Developed at Farnham Maltings,Pulse Festival Ipswich and The Lowry

www.analogueproductions.co.uk

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“Analogue is a young company certainto make its mark on British theatre.”The Guardian

Doris Day Can Fuck offGreg McLarenMon 7th & Tue 8th Mar, 8pm (1hr)£10/£8

Greg has been singing, toeveryone, everywhere. Wherehe would speak he must sing.He’s recorded his encountersand mashed them up to createa slippery world between whatis meant and what is expressed,what is created and what isfound. It’s a fantastically oddand moving journey from placeto place, voice to voice thatslips between reality andimagination, and light socialself-harm. It’s a peculiarlyplayful and dangerous oneman opera performed withutterly offhand conviction.

www.gregmclaren.com

ExternalGetInTheBackOfTheVanWed 9th & Thur 10th Mar, 8pm (50mins)£10/£8

Jen wants to talk to you. Lucy wants more.They’ve got some stuff they found in a garage,a strict no-touch policy, and conflictingideas about how to keep you happy.

Maverick makers GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVANwent to see a show where the performerswrote them letters. They didn’t write back -instead this unravelling game of truthand lies is their response.

External hurls a conversation about authenticity and originality right out intothe open and forces it to fight for its life,giggling, gnashing and doing its own head in.

Let’s get the party started.

www.getinthebackofthevan.com

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“a one-of-a-kind experiencefor the theatregoer”

Whatsonstage

“fresh, intense andimmensely liberating”

The Evening Standard

SuspendedNatasha DavisFri 11th & Sat 12th Mar, 8pm (1hr)£10/£8

Suspended in the space between twoworlds, can one of them ever becomehome? How do memories preserveidentity? Does dust ever settle on thepast? Does grass grow over it?Natasha Davis’ third solo showcompletes her trilogy on body, identityand migration. Her poetic journeyevokes migratory bodies burdened withpast memories, present fears and futureanxieties.

Created in collaboration with MartyLangthorne and Bob Karper and withgenerous mentorship from Ju Row Farrand Dominic Johnson.

Developed through a residency withBlast Theory and a residency atClarence Mews. Supported by the ArtsCouncil England, Chelsea Theatre andCamden People's Theatre.

www.natashaproductions.com

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Starting BlocksSun 13th Mar, 3pmFree

Developing work with companies has always been at the heart of what wedo at CPT, so we're delighted to have launched our new artist developmentscheme: Starting Blocks.

Designed to feed into our Sprint festival,Starting Blocks will see a peer-supportedgroup of 5 Solo artists or companies developing work over a ten week period,culminating in these work-in-progress sharings, which will be accompanied by discussions on artist development:

The Participants are:

Anoushka Athique - Samuel Armstrong

Barometric - Escape Velocity (bye bye bye)

Ben Buratta & Barry Fitzgerald - Temperance

Francesca Millican-Slater - I Promise To Swim The Channel (or the story of how I might)

Ira Brand - Keine Angst

For more info and to follow their progress go to:http://cptstartingblocks.wordpress.com/

Starting Blocks has been supported by Fenton Arts Trust.

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The Vanishing HorizonIdle MotionMon 14th & Tue 15th Mar, 8pm (55mins)£10/£8

Total Theatre Award nominated IdleMotion trace aviation of past andpresent in this Fringe sell-out show.Using luggage, maps and paperairplanes, the roaring twenties and thepioneers of aviation are remembered,when flight was exciting and we beganto carve our way through silent skies.From this, the modern story of a womanemerges who is on a journey todiscover her past through the crowdedairports of our world to another, restingabove the clouds.

www.idlemotion.co.uk

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“A little jewel of a show”The Guardian

“beautiful, accomplished, innovative”The Stage

“A masterclass in staging,narrative and theatrical imagination”

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Bohola MenDenis BuckleyWed 16th & Thur 17th Mar, 8pm (45mins)£10/£8

“In 1985 a British tabloid called for Irishrepatriation. I read the editorial withother Irishmen in a London railwaysiding. We weren’t worried, we didn’texist anyway”.

BOHOLA MEN is a Performance Balladon the Irish immigrant’s financialcontribution to a fledgling Free State.Kerry born Live Artist Denis Buckleyrelates experience of arriving inEngland from the bar of The BoholaHouse Bethnal Green mixing livenarration, personal testimonies, songand film archive in a timely reminder ofcollective responsibility.

www.denisbuckley.com

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The Balloon GardenerCirco RidiculosoSat 19th Mar, 2.30pm & 7.30pm (45mins)£10/£6

Danny the Wild Balloon tamer has run out ofballoons and must grow his own. Thetamer turns gardener. Seeds of hilarityare sown as Danny attempts to cultivatebold, colourful, latex shapes in pots.The plot thickens with problem pests,wacky weather and weeds you havenever even dreamed of. Contemporaryclowning puts the rubber into shrubbery;this fool for flowers creates an organicgarden of delights. Blooming marvelous!

Suitable for children and adults aged 4+

www.circoridiculoso.com

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AnemoneThisNowThisFri 18th Mar, 6pm, 6.30pm, 7pm, 8pm & 8.30pm (20 mins)£6/£4

You enter a pitch-black space, lit only by thetorch in your hand. You hear whispers, breath,the shimmer of movement all around you.Hands, heads, bodies play on the edges ofyour vision. But each time you catch somethingin your torch beam, it flinches from your gaze.It recoils as if touched, disappearing from view.

Anemone explores the need to speak, but alsolets us feel the vulnerability of exposure, ofbeing watched. The vulnerability that makesthe speaker stutter, the celebrity duck theflashbulbs, the new lover shy away from beingunderstood too well.

thisnowthis creates immersive, visuallyengaging experiences.

www.thisnowthis.org

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When Night FallsInstant DissidenceWed 23rd & Thur 24th Mar, 6pm - 9pmPay what you thought it was worth

When Night Falls (2010) takes place in adark space. Before you enter the spaceyou are given a gas lighter and warnedthat you will not be able to leave thespace until it goes dark. If you decide toproceed you agree to this performativecontract.

This is a work where you take an activerole in choosing how to experience it, itslength, and its monetary value. Butremember the contract you agreed to:you won’t be able to leave until it goes dark.

www.instantdissidence.co.uk

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PatchworkThe Honourable Society Of Faster CraftswomenMon 21st & Tue 22nd Mar, 8pm (1hr)£10/£8Accompanying exhibition in the foyer during the festival

A fast and funny mega-monologue aboutambition, workaholism and wasps, set toa throbbing soundtrack and animatedby an epic slide show of riotous drawings.

Part live spoken word gig, part daringconfession, this adrenaline-fuelledmultimedia performance is theautobiography of a woman holed upin the attic, so industriously drawing thatshe is oblivious to the world downstairs.

Her words will draw you in, shake you up,and spit you out feeling a lot happierabout the fact you may never be arock star.

www.fastercraftswomen.com

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“Great imagination”The Scotsman

“A deft piece of work”The Telegraph

Projector/ConjectorMamoru IriguchiWed 23rd & Thur 24th Mar, 8pm (40mins)£10/£8

Boy’s called Projector. Because a videoprojector’s attached to his head. Girl’scalled Conjector. A TV’s attached to herhead. Boy meets girl on screen. Theydance through the screens.

Projector/Conjector is a duo dancepiece about two characters calledProjector and Conjector. Projectorprojects bigger-than-life images allaround him and lives in the world heproduces. Conjector, on the other hand,captures what really lingers in the air(for example dust particles or humanemotions) and displays them ontelevision screen. The two charactersmeet, fall in love and part through theelectronically-produced imagery.

This performance contains explicitimages.

www.iriguchi.co.uk

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The EndMichael PinchbeckSat 26th & Sun 27th Mar, 8pm (1hr)£10/£8

It’s time to call it a day. This will be thelast time I perform. This will be the laststage I stand on. You will be the lastaudience I face. This will be the lastspotlight I stand in. This will be the lastsoundtrack I speak over.

Inspired by the stage direction fromThe Winter’s Tale, ‘Exit pursued by abear’, The End explores endings andexits and reenacts real life events toinvestigate absence and loss. MichaelPinchbeck asks why we perform andhow we will know when to stop in hislast piece for theatre.

www.makingtheend.wordpress.comwww.michaelpinchbeck.co.uk

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Vagabonds’ Voyage: The Audio Tourlittle wonderThur 3rd - Sun 27th Mar, (45mins)Free

Innovative storytellers, little wonder, take youon an audio journey along the Regent’sCanal in King’s Cross. Following the successof their sell out, site-specific, promenadeperformance Vagabonds’ Voyage(‘a delightful 90 minutes, with plenty tocharm ‘Lyn Gardener’), the company hascreated an audio tour based on the piece.Inspired by the rich history of the canal anddrawing the participant into the hiddenheritage at the heart of London, emergingtheatre makers little wonder offer a uniqueopportunity to capture the subterraneanworld of London’s most historic backwaterat a time when the landscape is beingchanged forever due to regeneration.

To find out more and download the tourgo to: http://bit.ly/CPTvvaudio

Travelling Sounds LibraryForest FringeThur 3rd - Sun 27th MarchFree (Ask at the box office)

The Forest Fringe Travelling SoundsLibrary is a touring library of audioartworks, bringing together pieces bysome of the most exciting artists inthe UK - sound collages, sonic art,instruction-based encounters, andwhispered stories. This satisfyingly richand exciting collection features workby Blast Theory, Duncan Speakman,Unlimited Theatre, and a host of otherfantastic artists. Pick up a book andfind yourself immersed in a world ofbeguiling audio encounters.

www.forestfringe.co.uk

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Office Hours: 11am - 6pm, Tues - FriGallery Opening Times: Tues - Fri 2-5pm andfrom 45 minutes before performances.

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 in waysthat 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

“Great unpretentious venue. All about the work.”Recent audience feedback

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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: 08444 77 1000 (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.

The information in this brochure isavailable in large print on request.

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