THEATER

BULLET CATCH THE ARCHES (, UK)

Emmett Robinson Theatre at College of Charleston June 5 at 8:00pm; June 6 and 7 at 10:00pm; June 7 and 9 at 1:00pm; June 8 at 7:30pm

SPONSORED BY GLASERDUNCAN, CPAs

Writer/Director/Performer Rob Drummond Co-Director David Overend Arches Artistic Director Jackie Wylie Stage Manager Deanne Jones Stage Designer Francis Gallop Lighting Designer Simon Hayes Sound Designer Ross Ramsay

PERFORMED WITHOUT AN INTERMISSION.

Special thanks to all the staff and management at the Arches, Glasgow. Bullet Catch is supported by Creative as part of Made in Scotland.

These performances are made possible in part through funds from the Spoleto Festival USA Endowment, generously supported by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina.

ABOUT THE COMPANY ROB DRUMMOND (writer/director/ The Arches, one of Europe’s leading cultural venues, is both performer) is an award-winning playwright, presenting and production house with an international reputation performer, director, and theater maker as an exciting hub of ground-breaking creativity. Housed within based in Glasgow, Scotland. His wide-ranging seven Grade A-listed Victorian railway arches in Glasgow, the work includes the critically-acclaimed Rob venue presents a year-round program of theater, performance, Drummond: Wrestling, for which he trained dance, visual art, live music, corporate events and club nights. as a professional wrestler and performed in The programming team employs calculated risk-taking in all of a ring at The Arches in 2011, and a modern its creative decisions, nurturing emergent talent and rewarding retelling of The Passion, which premiered bold approaches with a supportive environment for further in George Square in Glasgow in 2011. Bullet Catch was a huge innovation. Alongside performance by emergent Scottish artists, hit at the 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, winning both a Herald the last few years have seen international artists and companies Angel Award and a Total Theatre Award. The production tours to such as The TEAM, Derevo, Ann Liv Young, Mammalian Diving festivals and venues worldwide throughout 2013–14, including Reflex, Ontroerend Goed, Akhe, Taylor Mac, and Tim Crouch Cultura Inglesa in Brazil, Spoleto Festival USA, National Theatre perform in the venue. The Arches regularly takes work to the in London, Brighton Fringe, and Brits off Broadway at 59E59 in Edinburgh Festival Fringe and has won numerous awards there, New York. Drummond is currently developing The Riot of Spring, including several Fringe Firsts, Herald Angels, and Total Theatre his interpretation of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, where he will Awards. www.thearches.co.uk work with a choreographer as part of The Arches and National ’s Auteurs Project. The performance will premiere at Glasgow’s Tramway in May 2013 as part of the Arches’s annual BEHAVIOUR festival. He is also developing work with Òran Mór, BBC Radio, and the Traverse Theatre.

DAVID OVEREND (co-director) trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and was associate artist at The Arches (2007–10). His current project is The Pirate by Stuart Hepburn with Òran Mór, Glasgow, May 2013. Other directing credits include Rolls in Their Pockets and Top Table by Rob Drummond, also with Òran Mór; A Work on Progress, Midland Street, and Underneath the Arches with The Arches; Postshow, Demises, and The Gyntish Self with Liars; and Salome by Oscar Wilde with RADA. Overend is also a lecturer in performance at the University of the West of Scotland. www.davidoverend.net

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