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GREAT YARMOUTH MOSTLY FREE! SAT 16 – SUN 17 SEPTEMBER CIRCUS MUSIC COMEDY ACROBATICS STREET ARTS outtherefestival.com Out There on the east coast, where the sand meets the sea, in an historic old seaside town, is a festival jam-packed full of thrills, spills and bellies full of laughter. A world-class gathering of crazy comedy, community spirit, spectacular circus and street performance. Join in. Be part of it. Get Out There! outtherefest seachangearts seachangearts1 seachangearts It’s mostly free! As always, almost all the shows at the Out There Festival are FREE – that’s around 80 hours of fantastic, world-class entertainment. We regularly stage a couple of ticketed events as part of the festival. This year IOU’s Rear View (p24) and the UK premiere of Compania Vavel Circus’ Garbuix (p23) are ticketed. To make sure as many as people can see them as possible, tickets are ‘pay what you can’. Further information and booking at outtherefestival.com. Support Out There! The Out There Festival is produced by SeaChange Arts, a registered charity. In addition to annual grants, we rely on the generosity of our audience, supporters and local businesses. Please help us continue to bring you future events by making a small donation to our on-site collectors. We suggest £5 for your great day out… but every little helps! If you’ve no cash, you can make a one-off donation of £1, £2, £3, £4, £5 or £10 by text. Text OTGY00 and the amount to 70070 e.g. OTGY00 £10. Charity Registration No: 1063853 Stay in touch Join us online for news, programme updates and a behind-the-scene look at The Out There Festival and all the work SeaChange do. Follow us on social media or visit outherefestival.com where you can sign-up to receive our e-news. 2 Opposite: Compania Vavel Circus’ Garbuix at the Drill House, Saturday night – see p23. outtherefestival.com THE PROGRAMME ST GEORGE’S PARK 6-13 TRAFALGAR ROAD 14-18 MARKET PLACE AND REGENT ROAD 19 THE DRILL HOUSE 20-21 SATURDAY NIGHT AT OUT THERE 22-23 LIBRARY & ST GEORGE’S PLAZA 24-25 How To Do Out There 26-28 XTRAX / Out There Festival International Showcase 29 Your Out There Festival 30-31 Site Plan and Diary 32-36 Beyond Out There 38-39 Thank You! 42 PITCHES – Most shows are performed on pitches on streets and in the park. You can locate the pitches and other venues on the siteplan on p32-33. Walkabout acts are on the move, but their approximate location will be indicated on siteplan. SIGNED PERFORMANCES – A small number of performances are signed. These will be indicated in the programme. 12+ AGE GUIDANCE – Most shows and activities are suitable for all. Some guidance on show suitability is provided where applicable. 3 WELCOME Welcome to the Out There International Festival of Circus & Street Arts. It’s been 10 years since we began an international odyssey to establish Great Yarmouth as a mecca for the circus and street arts world and to bring audiences from across the country to enjoy all that this little corner of our coastline has to offer. The enthusiasm does not dim after a decade and this year we see another line-up of incredible acts. We welcome UK premieres from, amongst others, Barcelona’s Vavel Circus (p23) and France’s Compagnie 2.1 (p9). Our membership of the Without Walls Consortium has helped develop two new shows by Yarmouth based artists, Dizzy O’Dare (p10) and Matthew Harrison (p17). We’ve been leading Coasters, a three year Arts Council funded national project to reimagine how audiences see coastal towns. The project brings us several shows including an exciting collaborative piece that forms our Saturday night headline show – Sense of Unity (p22). Around 100 artists from at least ten nations join us this year. We’ve a live music stage, a new family zone, and a programme of shows and workshops at our home, The Drill House. Our thanks, as always go to those who’ve helped fund the festival, particularly Arts Council England, Great Yarmouth Borough Council and Greater Yarmouth Tourism & Business Improvement District. Here’s to another 10 years! Joe Mackintosh, Artistic Director Below: Joe at the Drill House during the construction of Matthew Harrison’s The Actual Reality Arcade. 2010 The iconic Bivouac takes to the streets. 4 outtherefestival.com 10 YEARS 2008 2009 OF OUT THERE! 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Audiences of around half-a-million 60 World and UK premieres 2008 Surreal McCoy set the seaside theme, bringing surreal street 5000 local theatre to Yarmouth market 2009 our major international ZEPA participants project brings Les 3 Points De Suspension to the UK 2011 NoFit State Circus take to the seafront in an aerial extravaganza, Barricade 2012 Generik Vapeur’s Waterlitz is a Cultural Olympiad event 2013 France’s Cirque Jules Verne comes to Approx £9m the Hippodrome in their 110th year 2014 A riot of colour from injected into France’s Artonik 2015 Transe Express bring Mexican celebrations to the Golden Mile 2016 Manic clowning from Pickled Image local economy celebrates the reopening of the Drill House. 5 PROGRAMME IN ST GEORGE’S PARK St George’s Park is the traditional hub of the festival. Enjoy shows of all sorts across a number of pitches… or just stumble into something wonderful. Alternatively, kick back and relax in our food village. AVANT GARDE DANCE COMPANY (UK) TABLE MANNERS A stunning new outdoor performance, set around, on and underneath a dining table. With raw and complex MADE IN choreography, the show explores the GREAT K. Giorgis Minyahil Photo: YARMOUTH complexities of human relationships LIGHT THE FUSE & and behaviour when it comes to our SCRIBBLED THOUGHT (UK) very different cultural connections with food and dining. Avant Garde invite PLAYGROUND VICTORIES audiences to join in, play and banter as A huge playground waits to be conquered. we turn the tables on what is assumed Four performers climb, crawl, swing and to be ‘polite’ in various dining contexts. storm over it, playing children, adults, PITCH 4 | Sat 2.15pm & 5.25pm teenagers, drunken students, single mums Sun 12.50pm & 4.20pm | 40mins and ninja Granddads. Joyfully funny and physical, Playground Victories captures the highs and lows of our playground past, present and future, from first snogs to Table Manners has been commissioned by Without Walls, Hat Fair, the Out pirate adventures. There International Festival of Circus & Street Arts and Stockton International PITCH 5 | Sat 12.30pm & 4.30pm | 35mins Riverside Festival. 6 outtherefestival.com “Out There completely redefines how I feel about Great Yarmouth.” HUMANHOOD (UK) ORBIS An outdoor duet that explores the relationship between humankind and the Moon. Performed as a contemporary ritual and revisiting the mystical place the Moon holds in the history of human culture, Orbis is accompanied by a 360degree surround sound score. Immerse yourself into an outdoor spectacle that will take you beyond the realms of planet Earth. PITCH 2 | Sat 1.05pm & 5.05pm Sun 1.30pm & 5pm | 15mins AGE 6+ Orbis has been commissioned by Without Walls, Brighton Festival and Norfolk & Norwich Festival. Co-commissioned by Dèda Derby. 7 ST GEORGE’S PARK Photo: NNF17, Dibs McCallum NNF17, Photo: HORSE + BAMBOO (UK) COCOLOCO (UK) THEATRE FOR ONE WILLY & WALLY IN ASSOCIATION WITH LEMPEN PUPPET THEATRE Up to their necks in mountains of plastic, Willy and Wally are in a constant fever of Delightful tiny tales performed on a bereavement for their outcast state, but one-to-one basis. Discover Diamond Water they carry on clowning regardless. Forest, place your head inside a snoozing lion’s jaws, or peer inside the ‘Belescope’. As well as talking a load of rubbish, they perform a multi-dimensional melange of PITCH 12 | Sat 1.30-4.30pm vaudeville, slapstick, dramatic monologue and Sun 1.45-4.45pm | 3min shows poignant climate change dialogue. A comic exercise in nonsense and sustainability. Theatre for One has been commissioned WALKABOUT PARK, STARTS PITCH 13 by Without Walls and Sat 1.30pm & 5.30pm | Sun 1.30pm & 3.30pm Just So Festival. 45mins Some adult language Willy & Wally has been AMBARADAN (ITALY) commissioned by Without Walls and the Out There International Festival THE TAMARROS of Circus & Street Arts. Summon up that disco fever with a marching band dressed up with afro wigs, mirrored sunglasses, flared trousers and a rainbow of glitter and sequins. Boogie along to classic dance hits like I Will Survive, Sex Bomb and My Sharona in a musical performance filled with gags, choreography and... embarrassing situations! WALKABOUT PARK Sun 6.10pm | 20mins UK PREMIERE CATCH THEM ON THE STREETS p19 AND AT THE DRILL HOUSE p22 8 outtherefestival.com LA COMPAGNIE 2.1 (FRANCE) UN PETIT AIR DE CABARET From France, four circus artists unite for a sparkling show packed full of foolish fun. These circomédiens come together to twist classic circus into a contemporary competition in which they jostle, joust and joke with juggling, clowning, acrobatics, aerial and a dash of rock ‘n’ roll. PITCH 1 | Sat 3.05pm & 6.30pm Sun 2.30pm & 5.20pm | 50mins AGE 6+ A CONTAGIOUS COMEDY SHOW PACKED FULL OF INVENTIVE TWISTS! UK PREMIERE Photo: Office de Tourisme, Emilie Tourisme, Garcin de Office Photo: THE MIRACULOUS THEATRE COMPANY (UK) CHARLIE O’TANEY – THE BROOKLYN HEALER After unexpectedly receiving the healing gift from a dying Chinese man, Charlie O’Taney was forced to make an abrupt career change… from Mafia Hitman to Brooklyn Healer. Step inside Charlie’s faithful automobile, a veritable cabinet of miracles, and a mobile therapy room where you become the centre of a profound and refreshingly funny miracle.