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Void

daver — Tue, 15 May 2018 03:05:42 +0000

Based on JG Ballard’s cult novel Concrete Island, VOID meshes experimental dance and abstract glitch-video landscapes. Taking in typically Ballardian themes of dystopian worlds, liminal spaces and urban paranoia, Mele Broomes performs risk-taking choreography to the backdrop of an industrial soundscape.

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The Hit

daver — Tue, 15 May 2018 03:05:29 +0000

The Hit’s black comedy explores the nature of cognitive dissonance and how we are perhaps not the autonomous individuals we believe we are. Breaking Bad meets Team America in a show designed to blow your mind.

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Backup

daver — Tue, 15 May 2018 03:05:03 +0000

North Pole, 4 am. Under a snowstorm powerful enough to wrestle with a sequoia, a used-up van finds its way across the icecap. Three reporters land on the ice as if stepping on the moon for the first time. A bear stares straight at them. The team gets ready...

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Alma, a Human Voice

daver — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 05:04:54 +0000

The Italian company Nina's Drag Queens explores drag queen aesthetics, blending songs, film extracts and lip-syncing with theatre, live acting and choreography.

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May I Speak About Dance?

daver — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 05:04:26 +0000

A dancer dances, while another explains. A quirky performance-lecture about the problems of dance and meaning, referencing iconic figures in contemporary dance such as Yvonne Rainer, Tatsumi Hijikata and Jérȏme Bel, and getting tangled in non-dance, Butoh and somatic practice.

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Katie & Pip

daver — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 05:04:22 +0000

Katie & Pip celebrates the relationship between Katie, a 15-year-old Type 1 Diabetic girl and Pip, her five-year-old border collie, trained by Katie to save her life on a daily basis.

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Everything Not Saved

daver — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 05:04:13 +0000

The team behind last year's five-star double-bill, Love+ and BlackCatfishMusketeer, is back. This one's for anyone who wants to be tickled, provoked, or has a brain and has ever worried about what it's not telling them.

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Blackout

daver — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 05:04:03 +0000

Blackout is the honest, brutal, uplifting and darkly comic story of alcoholics, and ultimately of their hope in recovery.

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Big Aftermath of a Small Disclosure

daver — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 05:04:02 +0000

Big Aftermath explores how lives can turn on a word and the allure of the self-destruct button. Comedy and tragedy collide in a play about what happens when one person wants to go and the other wants them to stay.

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