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Claire Dowie On TRE EA H RG.UK O T THEATRE. L RARY RARY THEATRE TA O O T NTEMP 2008 | O NG I NG C I PR P S lo E 01 | V UE - DE ISS 20 | THEATRE L TA O VOLUME T TOTAL MAGAZINE COME INSIDE TO FIND: QUEER THEATRE – JOIN THE NEVER-ENDING REVOLUTION OF ENDLESS BECOMING MEET COUNTRY AND WESTERN SINGER TURNED LESBIAN PERFORMANCE ARTIST TAMMY WHYNOT AKA LOIS WEAVER SURPRISE YOURSELF WITH TOM MORRIS AT THE LONDON INTERNATIONAL MIME FESTIVAL BE THERE AT MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH WITH PUNCHDRUNK THEATRE HELP! AN ABSOLUTE BEGINNEr’s GUIDE TO THE ROLE OF CREATIVE PRODUCER REVIEWS OF COMPLICITE, FORKBEARD FANTASY, TOLD BY AN IDIOT, LIMF 2008 AND MORE FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT IN THE STREETS AND ON THE BEACHES TOTAL THEATRE: £5 www.puppetcentre.org.uk Animations In Print “essential reading for anyone interested in puppetry and all its diverse theatrical manifestations” As the influence of puppetry on theatre practice grows ever more prevalent, from the stages of the National Theatre to the packed houses of Improbable, Animations In Print explores the state of the art in the UK. Volume 1 of the series, Animated Encounters, includes articles by John Fox and Ken Camp- bell and an interview with Anthony Min- ghella, and is available now for just £15 plus £2.50 p&p. To order your copy please send your name, address and a cheque for £17.50 payable to Puppet Centre Trust to Volume 2 will be PCT, BAC, Lavender Hill, available in May 2008. London. SW11 5TN. 2 TOTAL THEATRE - DEVEloPING CONTEMPORARY THEATRE Manchester (UK) School of Theatre Manchester Metropolitan University We are now recruiting students for the following taught MA Programmes MA Movement Practice for Theatre MA Acting Skills, principles and research for movement directing and Run in Poland in collaboration with Piesn Kozla. facilitating. A practical vocational one year programme to train A practical vocational one year programme taught in movement teachers and directors for theatre. Poland by the international theatre company Piesn Kozla. Auditions will be held in USA and Europe Auditions will be held in USA, Asia and Europe Next intake September 2008 Next intake September 2009 MMU School of Theatre is a member of the Conference of Drama Schools and also offers BA (Hons) Acting accredited by the NCDT. For further information please contact Niamh Dowling [email protected] +44 161 247 1308 TOTALTHEATRE.ORG.UK 3 TOTAL THEATRE MAGAZINE VOLUME 20 | ISSUE 01 | SPRING 2008 Editor TOTAL THEATRE - DEVELOPING CONTEMPORARY THEATRE DOROTHY MAX PRIOR TOTAL THEATRE VOLUME 20 ISSUE 02 WILL BE PUBLISHED MAY 2008. [email protected] Editorial Forum EDITORIAL CONTENTS ROBERT AYERS FRANC CHAMBERLAIN RICHARD CUMING ANTHONY DEAN This issue of Total Theatre brings you a special REGULARS focus on queer theatre. Chris Goode, in his article LAURA EADES Endless Becoming, beautifully sums up what we BARRY EDWARDS News & Previews P05 MARIGOLD HUGHES might think of as ‘queer’: ‘ Queer exceeds any MIRIAM KING and all of the standardised options for describing Performer & Company Updates P08 BECCY SMITH sexuality, to touch on much wider questions of Out & About P10 EDWARD TAYLOR identity, power and difference’. Pippa Bailey MISCHA TWITCHIN An investigation of identity, power and difference Total Theatre Events: Surprise! P11 CASSIE WERBER is at the heart of the work of our Voices artist, Lois Richard Cumming reports TOM WILSON Weaver, co-founder of lesbian feminist theatre Voices P16 Listings Editor company Split Britches. Lois Weaver of Split Britches JOHN ELLINGSWORTH Also within these pages you’ll find features on Media P36 [email protected] performance in shop windows; the New York marathon that was Performa07; a professional Features Sub-editor T FEATURES LAURA EADES O development project on the streets and seaside TA promenades of Aberystwyth; and a meeting with L Editorial Assistant THEATRE the toast of London town, Punchdrunk. Focus on: Queer Theatre P12 NATALIA CAPRA Endless Becoming by Chris Goode Talking of Punchdrunk, we also bring you a different approach to ‘reviewing’, with our Claire Dowie soundbites Advertising reflection on Punchdrunk’s Masque of the Red Celebrating 30 Years of Drill Hall [email protected] MAGAZ Death placed with three other responses from the Subscriptions: same night, written by producer Colin Marsh and Aberystwyth Mon Amour P17 two company cast members. [email protected] I NE | Brian Popay & Ric Jerrom in the More regular-style reviews include a selection streets and on the beaches Design vol STUDIO TONNE from this year’s London International Mime [email protected] UEERUPNORTH 2008. PHOTO STEVEN MAY MENENDEZ. 20 | Festival. And this seems an opportune moment to Here’s Looking at You P18 draw attention to our elegant new website, which Edward Taylor on shop Q Printing iss brings you news, listings and a great deal more reviews than we are able to fit into these pages. window performance ANDUS UE 01 | S See www.totaltheatre.org.uk [email protected] History in the Making P20 Total Theatre Magazine as always features an Published by: eclectic mix from the world of contemporary A multi-voiced response to TOTAL THEATRE NETWORK PR theatre & performance, including physical & Performa07 Robert Ayers with RoseLee The Power Station I Coronet Street NG devised theatre, performance art, new circus, Goldberg, Rachel Lois Clapham, and London N1 6HD 2008 and street arts. Work we believe is not properly Mary Patterson represented, documented or reflected on in the mainstream media – in contrast to Arts Council Tel 020 7729 7944 England which feels that there is no need to Every Picture Tells a Story P24 Fax 020 7729 7945 support Total Theatre any longer as, apparently, Punchdrunk interviewed by www.totaltheatre.org.uk the job is done (see Pippa Bailey’s Out & About Dorothy Max Prior Creative Director column for more on this). PIPPA BAILEY On that topic I’d like to cite a few examples of Being There P26 [email protected] the massive ignorance still to be overcome. Item A new approach to re-viewing Board one, Toby Young’s assertion in the Independent on This issue: Punchdrunk’s ANTHONY DEAN Sunday that ‘physical comedy… no longer works Masque of the Red Death DEB DURRANT on stage. It is simply too unrealistic.’ Apparently, JASON HIRD we are too used to TV and film to be willing to JONATHAN HOLLOWAY suspend disbelief in a theatre unless what we REVIEWS P30 see on stage is seamless naturalism. Item two: LYNNE KENDRICK the endless commentary on the new ‘wordless SANJIVAN KOHLI play’ The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other London International Mime Festival DANNY SCHLESINGER OVER: TAYLOR MAC, TOURING EUROPEOVER: TAYLOR AND APPEARING AT ANGHARAD WYNNE-JONES at the National Theatre that expresses open- C mouthed surprise that theatre can be without Complicité’s A Disappearing Number words – where have these cultural commentators Mime Action Group been for the past twenty years? Item three: the & Peter Brook’s Fragments T/A Total Theatre ongoing inability of most of the mainstream media Reg. Charity No. 1052358 to review physical/visual theatre, circus, street Plus reviews of: Told By An Idiot; Reg. Company No. 3133599 arts, live art or anything that is sited outside of Forkbeard Fantasy; Jane Turner’s Troop; a regular theatre venue – unless, as is the case with Punchdrunk, the audience take the initiative Nigel Jamieson’s Honour Bound at BITE; and provide such a phenomenal sell-out that it James Thierree’s Au Revoir Parapluie; becomes impossible to ignore. and more… The job is far from done. As, with Total Theatre Volume 20, we enter our third decade of fighting the good cause, let it be known: Honey, we ain’t even hardly started. Watch this space. © Total Theatre. Dorothy Max Prior All rights reserved. ISSN 0960-6106. Total Theatre Magazine is published quarterly Comments on this or anything else in this issue of by Total Theatre Network, Total Theatre Magazine welcome: the UK network for physical and visual performance. The views expressed or opinions stated in Total Theatre Magazine [email protected] are not necessarily the views of the editor or publishers. Similarly, statements made or opinions expressed by the advertisers are not necessarily shared by the editor or publishers. Reasonable care has been taken to avoid error in the magazine but no liability will be accepted for any errors which may occur. No material in this publication may be reproduced in any way without the consent in writing of the publisher. The publishers will not accept responsibility for the safe return of unsolicited material. We assume permission to publish any unsolicited material unless otherwise stated in writing. 4 TOTAL THEATRE - DEVEloPING CONTEMPORARY THEATRE NE W S & PREVIE S W W S & S W ITH HAPPY TOGETHER,ITH HAPPY W NE PREVIE THE SHOUT & PROTEIN DANCE A BRIGHTON COMMISSION FESTIVAL BRIGHTON FESTIVAL 3–25 MAY 2008 The Brighton Festival is a multi-artform, curated event which is now under the wing of theatre producer Jane McMorrow – good news for Total Theatre as she has a long history of dedication to experimental, devised and site-responsive work. Sites for theatre and performance in the 2008 festival include a graveyard, a nightclub, and numerous parks – as well as major venues like Brighton Dome, Theatre Royal Brighton, Fabrica gallery and The Basement. Highlights of the theatre/performance programme include: Happy Together, a Festival commission for composer Orlando Gough and his vocal group The Shout who join forces with choreographer Luca Silvestrini (Protein Dance) in a highly entertaining promenade performance inspired by the city’s reputation as the perfect hen and stag party destination; An Infinite Line, a commissioned installation-performance from Fevered Sleep written/directed by David Harradine and inspired by the quality of light in Brighton; So Close to Home, written by Mark Wheatley, whose background includes writing for Complicite, an explosive story of migration, sited in a disused pizza restaurant; Norman, a mesmerising new show from mixed-media masters Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon (aka 4D Art) about filmmaker Norman McLaren, featuring dancer and choreographer Peter Trosztmer who will literally inhabit McLaren’s cinematic universe.
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