AUTUMN TOUR 2014 Marketing Pack
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Dear Marketing Manager
We’re delighted that Chris Goode & Company’s Longwave is coming to your venue this Autumn, presented in partnership with house as part of their recommission award, allowing artists to revisit a previously successful show.
We’ve pulled together this pack to give you more information about the show, to help you best promote it to your audiences.
Longwave is a funny, surprising and charming piece of work that was a considerable hit with audiences and critics during its first production in 2006. We’re confident your audiences will enjoy this re-imagined production.
Enclosed you’ll find further details on the piece and on the artistic team behind the work. We’ve suggested which audiences we think will most enjoy the show, and provided a couple of templates to help reach them.
If you have any further questions, I’m your first port of call for all things marketing. My contact details are at the bottom of every page.
Looking forward to speaking to you further in the coming weeks.
Ric Watts Producer Chris Goode & Company
+44 7734 227 852 [email protected]
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Contents
SHOW INFORMATION
4. About Longwave
5. About Chris Goode & Company
6. About Chris Goode
7. Marketing Contacts Marketing Tools Available
8 Audiences
9. Critical Acclaim for Longwave
10. Critical Acclaim for Chris Goode
RESOURCES TO USE
11. Show Copy
12. Box Office information sheet
13. Sample Direct Mail
14. Sample Press Release
15. Selection of Production Images
16. Biographies of team members
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About Longwave
Two scientists, stranded in the middle of nowhere.
Living together in a run-down shed.
Working together to try and make sense of the strange and hostile world that surrounds them.
Playing games and making music to help pass the time.
Nothing for company but an old wireless.
But as the radio waves begin to rise up around them, will they sink or swim?
Performed entirely without dialogue by Tom Lyall and Jamie Wood, and created with Chris Goode (“one of the most exciting talents working in Britain today” – The Guardian), Longwave is a seductively bleak comedy with a tender heart.
More details…
Longwave was borne from a desire to make a piece specifically for two brilliant performers Tom Lyall and Jamie Wood. Chris – the director – was also looking for the opportunity to try telling a story without words. He was excited by the challenge of making a show with a strong and compelling narrative in which the tiniest of shifts in facial expression, the smallest nuances of physicality could speak volumes.
The show was also heavily inspired by its design, with Janet’s Bird’s extraordinary detailed shed set creating a detailed and playful world for our two characters.
On its premiere in 2006, the show was loved by audiences and critics – it toured the UK, played a sell-out run at the Lyric Hammersmith in London and was selected for the British Council’s showcase at the Edinburgh Festival.
The show is now being recreated in a new production, as a result of Chris Goode & Company winning the house recommission award.
The 2014 version of Longwave sees the original team come back to together to re-explore the relationship between the two performers that is central to the piece, and make a new version of the show for touring venues around the South East.
Longwave is a proven show that was excellently received during its initial life. It charts a rare line between being highly original and formally experimental, while remaining genuinely accessible for audiences who perhaps are less well versed in contemporary theatre. We hope you enjoy it when it visits you this Autumn.
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Chris Goode & Company is a collaboration between lead artist Chris Goode, producer Ric Watts, writer and critic Maddy Costa and a fluid ensemble of makers, designers and performers.
At the heart of the enemble is a core group of associate artists with whom we work more frequently – Angela Clerkin, Wendy Hubbard, James Lewis, Pauline Mayers and Jamie Wood.
Chris Goode & Company make theatre by creating welcoming spaces and interesting structures for unexpected things to happen in.
We tell stories in ways that are both experimental and at the same time accessible and inclusive, and think out loud about who we all are, hoping to catch a glimpse of how we might live better together.
Our principal aim is to make space for unheard voices. This is done by:
- talking to people about their lives, and using their words to make their work; - involving people in the imagining and making of their work who maybe don’t think of themselves as artists; - recovering and presenting lost or neglected work by artists (both historical and contemporary) whose lives and thoughts have led them to be marginalised or overlooked; - and creating bold original work that represents queer, dissident, and politically nonconformist perspectives.
Since forming in 2011, Chris Goode & Company has created a body of work that includes Monkey Bars (Unicorn Theatre / Traverse Theatre), 9 (West Yorkshire Playhouse), The Forest & The Field (Ovalhouse), GOD/HEAD (Ovalhouse and Theatre in the Mill), The Adventures of Wound Man & Shirley (Edinburgh, BAC and touring), Keep Breathing (Drum Theatre Plymouth) and Open House (West Yorkshire Playhouse / Mayfest). The company is currently making a number of ambitious new shows, including STAND (Oxford Playhouse co- production), Men in the Cities (developed with Royal Court, premiering at Traverse), Albemarle (developed at West Yorkshire Playhouse) and Longwave (house recommission).
To find out more about Chris Goode & Company, and its work, past present and future, please visit: www.chrisgoodeandcompany.co.uk
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About Chris Goode
Chris Goode is a writer, director, performer and sound designer, who has been described as “one of the most exciting talents working in Britain today” (Guardian) and “an extremely highly regarded alternative theatre maker” (Caroline McGinn, Time Out).
Chris is the lead artist of Chris Goode and Company. With CG&Co, his work has included: the Fringe First award-winning Monkey Bars (Unicorn Theatre, Traverse Theatre and UK tour); STAND (Oxford Playhouse); The Albemarle Sketchbook (Transform ’14 at West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Forest and the Field (Ovalhouse and UK tour); The Adventures of Wound Man and Shirley (BAC); 9 (WYP); GOD/HEAD (Ovalhouse and UK tour); Open House (WYP / Mayfest / NT Studio); Where We Meet (home performance, Edinburgh Fringe); Hippo World Guest Book (UK tour); and Keep Breathing (Drum Theatre, Plymouth).
Outside the company, his work has included two other Fringe First award-winning shows: Neutrino (with Unlimited Theatre: Soho Theatre and international tour); and his own solo debut Kiss of Life (Drill Hall), which in 2007 travelled to Sydney Opera House as part of the Sydney International Festival. In 2008 he won the inaugural Headlong / Gate New Directions Award for his production ...SISTERS at the Gate Theatre. In 2010-11 he was part of the international touring cast of Tim Crouch’s play The Author.
Other notable recent work as, variously, writer, director, deviser and performer, has included: MAD MAN, King Pelican and Speed Death of the Radiant Child (all Drum Theatre, Plymouth); Infinite Lives (Tobacco Factory, Bristol); Weird Sisters (Camden People’s Theatre); the Total Theatre award-winning The Worst of Scottee (Roundhouse and international tour); The Loss of All Things (as part of 66 Books at the Bush); Who You Are (Tate Modern) and Where You Stand (Contact Theatre, Manchester); Glass House (Royal Opera House Covent Garden); Landscape / Monologue (Ustinov, Bath); Hey Mathew (Theatre in the Mill, Bradford); Longwave (Lyric, Hammersmith). Between 2009-13 he also made a number of fugitive works in collaboration with Jonny Liron under the duo name Action one19.
In autumn 2014 Oberon will publish Chris’s The Forest and the Field, a book about theatre. Other publications include The History of Airports: Selected texts for performance 1995-2009, and, as editor, Better Than Language: An anthology of new modernist poetries, both published by Ganzfeld. He continues to blog at Thompson’s Bank of Communicable Desire, and hosts the podcast Thompson’s Live.
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Marketing Contact
Producer: Ric Watts +44 7734 227 852 [email protected]
Contact Ric for: all marketing enquiries, interview requests, photos, print, ticket enquiries, press enquiries, template press releases, reviews
Marketing Tools Available
The following resources are available to help you sell the show in your venue:
- A3 Posters and A5 flyers, designed by Manchester based agency Language, with full tour details on them.
- Chris Goode & Company’s website has photographs, media and other useful information. www.chrisgoodeandcompany.co.uk
- Production images taken by Richard Davenport.
- Video trailer hosted on Vimeo with performance footage (to be launched September 2014)
- A collection of excellent reviews from the original production
- Sample press release for use with local press and media (in this document).
- Sample direct mail letter (in this document).
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Audiences
Longwave is brilliantly accessible and appealing to a wide range of audiences. In particular we think the following audiences might enjoy it:
General Theatre Audiences Existing core drama and theatre audiences in venues will appreciate this piece as a high quality new work from one of the UK’s most exciting companies. It’s also a proven show with critical acclaim, so it has strong credentials. We’re happy to work with you to identify the most suitable past touring work attenders to target.
New Audiences As a house initiative, we’re really keen this work reaches out to new audiences. The production is accessible, inventive, playful, funny, and yet has strong past credentials which we hope will minimise the risk for audiences.
Previous CG&Co Audiences The company’s work has been seen widely around the UK – particularly our shows Monkey Bars and The Adventures of Wound Man & Shirley. We’re happy to explore with you where we have performed locally, to try and arrange data-swaps and cross promotional activity.
Schools / Colleges / Universities The show will appeal to local education groups across the age ranges, particularly tied into courses looking at devised theatre and contemporary British Theatre. We can explore offering a workshop programme with venues who are interested in this, and may have demand from GCSE / A-Level / undergraduates or youth theatres.
Older Audiences The themes of this show – about friendship, companionship, middle-age – may particularly resonate with older audiences, and while it is a gently experimental piece, it’s form is a silent comedy which can be enjoyed by audiences of all ages.
New Writing Audiences Chris Goode is a multi-Fringe First winning writer, and his work is currently being supported by Royal Court Theatre, Traverse Theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Oxford Playhouse and more. Audiences who have seen touring work by writing-led organisations such as Paines Plough, Tim Crouch, ATC might be good to target.
Contemporary Audiences Chris is regarded as one of British Theatre’s ‘mavericks’, with a reputation for constantly surprising people with his work. Previous audiences for companies like Little Bulb, 1927, Fuel, Analogue and Caroline Horton may particularly enjoy it.
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Audiences Because Longwave is a silent comedy, it is well suited for deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences. While there is a sound design running through the show, the two performers tell the entire story through wordless action – meaning it is accessible to deaf audiences without the need for BSL interpretation.
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Critical Acclaim for Longwave (2006 version)
“It’s like the garden shed version of The Great Escape. Tom Lyall and Jamie Wood are outstanding in a quiet, centred, unshowy sort of way, and Chris Goode's production has his trademarks of litany, music and the gently absurd. It is so beautifully judged in the way it suddenly turns the emotional screws that, when your tears start to come, they feel rusty. Small but remarkable” The Guardian
“Who would have thought that an ode to blokes and their sheds could be so beautiful? Directed with an intuitively gentle touch by Chris Goode, Longwave is steeped in the charm and wry humour of much of his work” Metro
“Played with sincerity, humour and ingenuity by Tom Lyall and Jamie Wood. It is visually entertaining, directed well and performed with a concentrated enthusiasm” The Stage
“This is a typical Chris Goode show – inventive, quirky and tenderly sad with finely tuned physical performances” Time Out
“Longwave is a charming, surreal masterpiece” Kultureflash
“Chris Goode is one of the most important theatre makers working in Britain today. Longwave moves from a lightly worn clownishness through moments of genuinely touching pathos, to an absolutely heartbreaking climax” Culture Wars
Promoter Feedback for Longwave (2006 version)
“We’re so pleased to have booked the piece. Once again, Chris and the company came up with a beautifully performed, funny and extremely touching piece of theatre. The audience loved it” Sue Beresford, Nottingham Stages
“The show went really well last night - lovely performances, gorgeous set and the audience really seemed to enjoy it. I'm really pleased that we're able to present such high quality work” Michelle Dickson, Oxford Playhouse
“They all loved it. It's obviously a very special piece of work so you must be delighted” Annabel Turpin, Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead
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Critical Acclaim for Chris Goode’s Work
“Goode’s production, featuring his trademark atmospheric soundtrack, is beautifully pitched. An eye-opening, refreshing pleasure.” Independent on Monkey Bars
“Heartbreaking and hilarious, and often overwhelming. After it, you’ll never hear children in the same way again.” The List on Monkey Bars
“The play is starting, funny and heartbreaking… It’s utterly joyous, often provocative and extraordinarily moving. Wise and wondrous stuff ” The Times on Monkey Bars
“Goode is a star of intelligent leftfield theatre and this deft, gentle piece of invention shows why… if the future of theatre is this Goode, we’ll all be smiling.” Time Out on The Adventures of Wound Man & Shirley
“For storytelling at its finest, you have to get back to a regular theatre and marvel at the unassuming craftsmanship of Chris Goode…a tender tale perfectly told.” Mark Fisher, Scotland on Sunday, on The Adventures of Wound Man & Shirley
“It is exactly the kind of ambitious and imaginative work British theatre needs in order to renew itself.” Lyn Gardner, The Guardian on Speed Death of the Radiant Child
“I loved Chris Goode’s plangent deconstruction of ‘Three Sisters’. This improvisatory piece, where the actors are prompted by random cues, games and sheer whim to riff on the themes of Chekhov’s play, is like jazz-theatre. It is disarmingly beautiful.” Caroline McGinn, Time Out, on …Sisters
“Just occasionally you come across a show that you know is the real thing. Clever without being tricksy, straight from the heart without being sentimental, funny without being self- conscious… it expanded my mind and broke my heart into pieces.” Lyn Gardner, The Guardian on Kiss of Life
“Funny, sweet, surreal, and painfully tender.” Kate Bassett, Independent on Sunday, on Homemade
“(An) offbeat, deceptively simple but profoundly rich piece of spoken-word theatre. Goode is so disarming it feels as if you've been invited into somebody's sitting room to share something precious.” Lyn Gardner, The Guardian, on Keep Breathing
“As a performer, Goode is both a charming stage presence… he manages to extract long stretches of jaw-achingly funny material and moments of strangely haunting poetry. This work both demands and generously rewards proper attention. Essential viewing.” Andrew Haydon, Culture Wars on Hippo World Guest Book
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Show Copy (for brochures) house presents Chris Goode & Company LONGWAVE
LONG COPY (122 WORDS)
Two scientists, stranded in the middle of nowhere. Living together in a run-down shed. Working together to try and make sense of the strange and hostile world that surrounds them. Playing games and making music to help pass the time. Nothing for company but an old wireless. But as the radio waves begin to rise up around them, will they sink or swim?
Performed entirely without dialogue by Tom Lyall and Jamie Wood, and created by writer/director Chris Goode, Longwave is a seductively bleak comedy with a tender heart.
“This wordless and highly eloquent 75-minute piece reels you in until there is no surrender… Tom Lyall and Jamie Wood are outstanding in a quiet, centred, unshowy sort of way” The Guardian ****
MEDIUM COPY (100 WORDS)
Two scientists, stranded in the middle of nowhere. Living together in a run-down shed. Working together to try and make sense of the strange and hostile world that surrounds them. Nothing for company but an old wireless.
But as the radio waves begin to rise up around them, will they sink or swim?
Performed entirely without dialogue, Longwave is a seductively bleak comedy with a tender heart.
“This wordless and highly eloquent 75-minute piece reels you in until there is no surrender… Tom Lyall and Jamie Wood are outstanding in a quiet, centred, unshowy sort of way” The Guardian ****
SHORT COPY (50 WORDS)
Two scientists are trying to make sense of the strange and hostile world that surrounds them. Nothing for company but an old wireless.
But as the radio waves begin to rise up around them, will they sink or swim?
“A seductively bleak comedy with a tender heart.” The Guardian ****
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Box Office Information Sheet
What’s it about? Longwave is a seductively bleak silent comedy with a tender heart. It’s the story of two men, trapped in their shed in the middle of nowhere. They only have each other and the wireless radio for company. It’s comic drama – a combination of genuinely funny and occasionally raw and tender moments.
The show was first made in 2006 where it got excellent reviews, and performed in London, at the Edinburgh festival, and in venues all around the country. It’s being revived for house’s recommission award, which gives an artist the chance to revisit a previous show and tour it around venues throughout the South East.
Who is presenting it? Chris Goode & Company is a new company formed to support the work of Chris Goode - an acclaimed director, writer and performer. Our recent work has included the award winning Monkey Bars which saw us put the words of 7-12 year olds into the mouths of adults; 9 at West Yorkshire Playhouse where nine non-professional performers made their own solo piece; and The Adventures of Wound Man & Shirley, Chris’s charming solo storytelling show.
Who will like it? We think that most audiences will enjoy this show. However, there are particular audiences it will appeal to, including: • Audiences of new plays, contemporary and experimental theatre, as Chris Goode is a highly respected theatrical innovator. • Young people in either formal education (schools, college groups), or youth groups, drama clubs, and similar networks. • New audiences who might not regularly go to theatre events, but are willing to take a risk on something new – this is funny and accessible theatre.
Key Box Office Information
Running time: Approx 80 minutes (no interval) Content: Nothing inappropriate Language: No strong language Age Guidance: Recommended for 12 years and above. Special Effects: No strobes, flames, bangs, nudity.
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Sample Direct Mail Letter
Dear NAME
As someone who has recently seen SHOW at VENUE, we thought you might enjoy Longwave from “British theatre’s greatest maverick talent” (Guardian) Chris Goode.
Two scientists, stranded in the middle of nowhere. Living together in a run-down shed.
Working together to try and make sense of the strange and hostile world that surrounds them. Playing games and making music to help pass the time. Nothing for company but an old wireless.
But as the radio waves begin to rise up around them, will they sink or swim?
Performed entirely without dialogue by Tom Lyall and Jamie Wood, and created by writer/director Chris Goode, Longwave is a seductively bleak comedy with a tender heart.
Longwave was originally produced in 2006, where it was loved by critics and audiences:
“This wordless and highly eloquent 75-minute piece reels you in until there is no surrender…. Tom Lyall and Jamie Wood are outstanding in a quiet, centred, unshowy sort of way, and Chris Goode's production has his trademarks of litany, music and the gently absurd. It is so beautifully judged in the way it suddenly turns the emotional screws that, when your tears start to come, they feel rusty. Small but remarkable. .” The Guardian ★★★★
Longawave comes to VENUE as part of a national tour on DATES HERE. It promises to be a surprising, funny and moving night out for all.
SIGN OFF, DATES ETC.
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Sample Press Release house presents Chris Goode & Company LONGWAVE
Chris Goode’s 2006 hit is reimagined for touring in 2014
Longwave is one of Chris Goode’s most loved productions, and in 2013 was the winner of the house recommission Award, which offered companies and artists the opportunity to revisit a past hit show and re-stage it specifically for touring venues on the house network around the South East.
On its 2006 premiere, the wordless show was met with acclaim from national critics and audiences alike, during runs in London, Edinburgh and a national tour:
“Who would have thought an ode to blokes and their sheds could be so beautiful? Metro “This highly eloquent 75-minute piece reels you in until there is no surrender.” Guardian
The show tells the story of two scientists, played by Tom Lyall and Jamie Wood, who are stranded in the middle of nowhere and living together in a run-down shed. They work together to try and make sense of the strange and hostile world that surrounds them, paying games and making music to help pass the time, with nothing for company but an old wireless. But as the radio waves begin to rise up around them, will they sink or swim?
For the 2014 version, Chris is particularly fascinated about returning to the relationship between the two performers that is central to the piece: “Since the original production, Tom and Jamie have both developed their own distinctive and hugely exciting practices, not least as makers of their own solo work, with their skills deepening and their practices and interests slightly diverging. The idea of revisiting and recreating Longwave accurately whilst also allowing it to reflect those changes is massively exciting – an opportunity you very rarely get to enjoy.”
The Autumn 2014 tour visits 11 house venues around the South East, including it’s original producing partner Corn Exchange Newbury, plus visits to Plymouth, London, Crewe and Lincoln.
Writer, performer and director Chris Goode’s prolific body of work includes Monkey Bars (Traverse, Unicorn, touring); STAND (Oxford Playhouse); The Forest & The Field and God/Head (Ovalhouse), The Adventures of Wound Man And Shirley (Pleasance and BAC) and …Sisters (2008, with Headlong and The Gate). Chris Goode is lead artist of Chris Goode & Company, which he runs with producer Ric Watts and critic Maddy Costa. chrisgoodeandcompany.co.uk | @chrisgoodeandco | #longwave Running Time 80 minutes | Suitable for ages 12+
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Selection of Production Images
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Biographies
Chris Goode is a writer, director, performer and sound designer, who has been described as “one of the most exciting talents working in Britain today” (Guardian) and “an extremely highly regarded alternative theatre maker” (Caroline McGinn, Time Out). His work has included two Fringe First award-winning shows: Neutrino (with Unlimited Theatre: Soho Theatre, London, and international tour), and his own solo debut Kiss of Life (Pleasance, Edinburgh; Drill Hall, London), which in 2007 travelled to Sydney Opera House as part of the Sydney International Festival. In 2008 he won the inaugural Headlong/Gate New Directions Award for his production ...Sisters at the Gate Theatre. More recently he was part of the international touring cast of Tim Crouch’s controversial and acclaimed play The Author, winner of the John Whiting Award and a Total Theatre Award for Innovation. Other notable recent work has included: The Forest & The Field (Ovalhouse and touring); Monkey Bars (Traverse Theatre, Unicorn Theatre and touring); 9 (West Yorkshire Playhouse); GOD/HEAD (Ovalhouse and Theatre in the Mill); Open House (West Yorkshire Playhouse and Mayfest); The Adventures of Wound Man and Shirley (BAC and UK tour); Keep Breathing (London Word Festival and Drum Theatre Plymouth); The Loss of All Things (as part of Sixty-Six Books at the Bush); a trilogy, Who You Are (Tate Modern); Where You Stand (Contact Theatre, Manchester) and Where We Meet (site-responsive, Edinburgh); Glass House (Royal Opera House Covent Garden); Landscape and Monologue (Ustinov, Bath); Hey Mathew (Theatre in the Mill, Bradford); King Pelican and Speed Death of the Radiant Child (Drum Theatre, Plymouth); Longwave (Lyric, Hammersmith). Chris’s The History of Airports: Selected texts for performance 1995-2009 was published in 2009 by Ganzfeld. As a poet he has published three chapbooks with Barque Press, and he has recently edited Better Than Language: An anthology of new modernist poetries for Ganzfeld.
Tom Lyall trained at LAMDA and Ecole Philippe Gaulier. He is based in London, where he has worked for ten years in devised and experimental theatre. Principally known as a performer, he has also contributed writing, choreography, music and elements of scenic design to collaboratively- developed shows with a number of companies. Among other things he has been a key creative contributor to many pieces by Chris Goode and is an associate artist of Shunt. He has recently been awarded an honorary research fellowship at Birkbeck University’s Centre for Contemporary Theatre to develop work as a theatre maker in his own right. DEFRAG_ is his first solo work. Theatre work includes Interregnum (R&D, National Theatre Studio); Sports Play (Just a Must); Ring (Fuel); The Devil Gets All the Best Tunes (Mighty Fin); The Witch of Edmonton (R&D, Headlong); ...Sisters (Headlong/The Gate); Money, Amato Saltone, The Tennis Show (Shunt); Monkey Mind (R&D, The Opera Group); Longwave, Weepie, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, The Consolations (Signal to Noise); Escapology, Napoleon in Exile (CPT); I Wonder Sometimes Who I Am, Figments, The Last Man, Klamm's Dream (Mischa Twitchin); Donkey Shadow (Petra's Pulse); Slender (Mapping4D); The Terrific Electric (Boileroom); The Prometheus Experiment, Invitation to a Beheading (Discreet Theatre); I Am a Cloud (Song Theatre); Skinless (Six of One); Pelleas and Melisande (Beguiled Eye); Alice in Wonderland (Forbidden Theatre); Princess Plimsole (Incarnate); Closer to Ormsby (Glen Neath).
Jamie Wood is a performer and director with a strong record in creating striking and accessible theatre. His work reflects a training combining fine art, theatre, clown and dance and ranges from the comic and darkly surreal plays of The Frequency D’Ici (Paperweight, Fringe First 2008, Director and devisor) to the physical and visual poetics of Petra’s Pulse (Aegean Fatigue, National Review of Live Art 2008, Co-director and Performer). His work has been widely recognized for its originality and quality. In 2008 he won a Fringe First with Paperweight. In 2009, he was short-listed for a Stage Acting Award (Best Ensemble) for Icarus 2.0, devised with director Matt Ball. Paperweight, Icarus 2.0, Homemade and Longwave were all shortlisted for the Total Theatre Award for Best Devised Production. This year Beating McEnroe was shortlisted for a Total Theatre Award for Innovation, Experimentation and Playing with Form. Jamie is an Associate Artist with Chris Goode & Company. As a long-term collaborator with Goode, Jamie devised and performed in Escapology (2004), the critically acclaimed Homemade (2005) and Longwave (2006), and co-directed Hey Matthew (2008) and 9 (2011). Over the past fifteen years he has devised work for national and international tours with For more information contact Ric Watts on 07734 227 852 or ric£@ricwatts.com 16
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artists including Rachel Mars, Caroline Horton, Spike, Toby Park (Spymonkey), Guy Dartnel, Mischa Twitchin (Shunt), Niki McCretton and most recently with The Belarus Free Theatre and Chris Thorpe. Jamie is also a Clown Doctor, working with hospitalized children through the world- renowned charity Theodora’s Children’s Trust.
Janet Bird is a Theatre Designer. Rcent designs include SCIENCE MUSEUM LIVE; A TASTE OF HONEY for Edinburgh Lyceum; LIGHTHEARTED INTERCOURSE for Bolton Octagon; a national tour of ROUGH JUSTICE; DANDY DICK for ATG; THE MADNESS OF GEORGE III (West End and national tour); HAY FEVER at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis; THE HISTORY BOYS on national tour; WAY UPSTREAM for Salisbury Playhouse; AGE OF AROUSAL for Edinburgh Lyceum (nominated for a CATS award); HOBSON'S CHOICE for Sheffield Crucible; THE RISE AND FALL OF LITTLE VOICE for Dundee Rep; TELL ME ON A SUNDAY on national tour; THE HISTORY BOYS for West Yorkshire Playhouse; the national and international tours of Shakespeare's Globe's THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR; Edinburgh Lyceum's 5-star production of THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE; A DOLL'S HOUSE for the Northcott, Exeter; ALPHABETICAL ORDER at Hampstead Theatre; THE ADVENTURES OF WOUND MAN AND SHIRLEY for Ric Watts and Queer Up North; a national tour of SINGLE SPIES; A SMALL FAMILY BUSINESS at Watford Palace; ROCKY HORROR SHOW on national and international tour; HOLDING FIRE! at Shakespeare's Globe; A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park; the costumes for MAHABHARATA at Sadlers' Wells; GABRIEL for RADA; COMEDY OF ERRORS at the Globe Theatre.!! She is currently working on A LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT at the Edinburgh Lyceum and ADULT SUPERVISION, a new play at the Park Theatre.
James Lewis is a set designer and builder working mainly in theatre. For Chris Goode & Company he has worked on GOD/HEAD (Ovalhouse and touring); THE ADVENTURES OF WOUND MAN AND SHIRLEY (Pleasance, Edinburgh, BAC, and touring) and KEEP BREATHING (London Word Festival), and as one of the five collaborators in the core team for OPEN HOUSE (West Yorkshire Playhouse and Mayfest). Previous work with Chris includes KISS OF LIFE (Sydney Opera House) and LONGWAVE (Lyric Hammersmith). Other current and recent projects include work with Scottee, How It Ended, The Frequency D’ici, Analogue, Niki McCretton, Guy Dartnell, Toby Wilsher, and Plested and Brown.
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