UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD
AU T U M N / W I N T E R 2 0 1 6 WWW. B R A D F O R D. AC .U K / T H E AT R E
AUTUMN/WINTER 2016
DIARY SEPTEMBER
NOVEMBER
Saturday 17th September
Friday 25th - Saturday 26th November Ties - Two Tonne
I, Myself & Me - Rachael Young Thursday 29th September They Live Next Door - Ieva Kunikis
DECEMBER
OCTOBER
Saturday 10th December Interchangeable Bodies Louisa Claughton
Tuesday 4th – Saturday 8th October The Northern School - Bent Architect (at Bradford Playhouse) Saturday 8th October THESMO - Natalie Diddams Thursday 13th October You Forgot the Mince - Imagine Theatre Wednesday 19th - Thursday 20th October KISSING THE SHOTGUN GOODNIGHT Christopher Brett Bailey Friday 28th October Figurines and Two To Tune - Lola Maury
Celebrating
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Theatre in the Mill exists to support artists to develop new work and to put our audiences right at the heart of that development. We aspire not to do work for people, but with them, to explore the stories of our community and the place in which we live, to start conversations about art and the world. WE DO THIS IN THREE WAYS:
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OPEN SPACE: a place for artists to play, explore and develop new ideas. A place to dream and think and a place to test with an audience. THEATRE IN THE MILL COMMISSION: development commissions for artists whose work we love to create performances that can be toured. VISITING WORK: we host companies whose work adds to the conversation about what theatre is and what it can be.
Image credit: Layla Sailor
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SATURDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER, 7.30PM
I, MYSELF & ME
RACHAEL YOUNG £10 FULL/£6 CONCESSIONS/£4 DISCOUNTED
Rachael spends her days dodging suffocating visions of nuclear families in show homes, whilst trying to ignore the impending doom that she’s running out of eggs. Inspired by autobiographical material, I, Myself & Me is a solo show about what it means to be a single woman in her 30s. It’s about loneliness, it’s about breaking free of the pressures we put on ourselves, the ones that we’ve been reminded of since birth. It’s about risking it all, it’s about bravery and it’s about just showing up. ‘She’s bonkers, but she’s brilliant’ Hackney Post
THURSDAY 29TH SEPTEMBER, 7.30PM
THEY LIVE NEXT DOOR IEVA KUNISKIS
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(work in progress) TICKETS: £4
They Live Next Door is a physical theatre piece for two mature male dancers, accompanied by live music. Through a series of linked vignettes a relationship between the two men unravels, weaving memories, flirtatious bouts and domestic rituals. With this poignant, visceral and humorous piece, Ieva Kuniskis sets out to ask how social stereotypes affect our identity and our relationships with each other. How do we navigate the conflict between desire, instinct, and expectation? Ieva (pronounced: Yeah-va) Kuniskis is a Lithuanian choreographer based in London. She combines dance and theatre creating unique movement language and distinct authentic characters to share stories about the everyday life. Ieva interweaves universally relevant themes with affecting, personal stories that audiences can relate to, inviting them to follow their own emotional journey in parallel to that of the characters. Supported by: Swindon Dance, Pavilion Dance, The Point, Theatre In The Mill and Laban Theatre. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
TUESDAY 4TH – SATURDAY 8TH OCTOBER, 7.30PM BENT ARCHITECT IN ASSOCIATION WITH BRADFORD PLAYHOUSE, THEATRE IN THE MILL AND THE NATIONAL MEDIA MUSEUM PRESENT:
THE NORTHERN SCHOOL
VENUE: BRADFORD PLAYHOUSE
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TICKETS: £12/£10 CONCESSION. BOX OFFICE: 01274 800415. A brand new site specific theatre experience… Set at the end of the 1950’s, featuring a live rock ‘n roll band, a beatnik jazz café, video and film projection, we go behind the scenes of Esme Church’s legendary Northern School of Acting, where many famous names took their first steps to stardom. Esme offers a way out of the mills and shopfloors and onto the stage! They must learn to look, walk and talk like real actors, like Laurence Olivier. But the kitchen sink era of the early 60’s is looming, the kids at the Northern School want to look and sound like themselves. A clash of cultures is about to explode.
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THURSDAY 13TH OCTOBER, 7.30PM
YOU FORGOT THE MINCE
IMAGINE THEATRE
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£10 FULL/£6 CONCESSIONS/£4 DISCOUNTED
“And in the end, we were all just humans, drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.”
SATURDAY 8TH OCTOBER, 7.30PM
THESMO
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NATALIE DIDDAMS (work in progress showing) TICKETS: £4 A funny fusion of stand-up, sketch, lecture and performance that celebrates and interrogates the disruptive power of women doing comedy. Created by theatre-maker/comedylover/academic Natalie Diddams and performed by real life funny women, THESMO will take you through the gender politics of comedy (and the comedy of gender politics) of the past 2500 years.
Rosa lives with her grandma Lily. She’s just finished College and she can’t wait to leave Yorkshire and all the people in it … until she meets Niko. They fall head over heels in love, and the future is looking bright. But their love for each other is tested to the limit; Rosa leaves for London, Niko ends up in prison and Lily won’t stop baking cakes. Everyone’s world is falling apart, but no-one’s talking about it. How are they going to get their lives back on course? “You Forgot the Mince is a raw and honest story dealing with the issues of domestic abuse. It is a timely and important story that gets to the heart of a crucial and emotional subject.” Michael White, Co-founder of Square Peg Theatre Company
You can follow Natalie’s process on www.thesmoblog.wordpress.com
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WEDNESDAY 19TH - THURSDAY 20TH OCTOBER, 7.30PM
KISSING THE SHOTGUN GOODNIGHT
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CHRISTOPHER BRETT BAILEY TICKETS: £10 FULL/£6 CONCESSIONS/£4 DISCOUNTED
KISSING THE SHOTGUN GOODNIGHT, a neo-noir fever dream and a 120 decibel suicide note. Bailey’s words deliver a linguistic kaleidoscope of caustic cartoons, crackpot prophesies and demented erotica. a dense, poetic blend of the hallucinogenic and the hardboiled, all set to a warped collision of haunting musics and ear-popping noise. a sumptuous, cinematic melting pot of psycho-acoustic trickery, futurist soundscaping and dark psychedelia. Recommended for those with an aural fixation. no kids. no dogs. rated R. 100 mins. colour, 3D. Commissioned by Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Cambridge Junction, Ovalhouse, Theatre in the Mill, and Theatr Iolo. Supported by Arts Council England. With thanks to Hackney Showroom.
Image credit: The Other Richard
FRIDAY 28TH OCTOBER, 7.30PM
FIGURINES AND TWO TO TUNE
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LOLA MAURY
TICKETS: £10 FULL/£6 CONCESSIONS/£4 DISCOUNTED
Figurines
An exercise in transformation and perpetual movement, Figurines is inspired by whirling Dervish Dance. A dancer sets off on a spinning journey of becoming by shaping and re-shaping herself continuously. Audience members witness the performer swirling through a neverending flow of representations, to be lead on a meditative ride where images emerge, fuse and disappear relentlessly. Two to Tune is a sweaty game celebrating instinct. Both in dual & duel, two partners battle an emotional game charged with tension. Incorporating participatory game concepts into the choreographic mix, Lola brings to Two to Tune both physical complexity and emotional intensity in the coming together, or tuning, of two people through a gestural contest in which mutual understanding and acceptance, rather than winning, are the ultimate goals. Lola Maury
Image credit: Nathan Hoste
Lola is part-based between London and Lyon and works within dance choreography and participatory game creation.
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FRIDAY 25TH - SATURDAY 26TH NOVEMBER, 7.30PM
TIES
TWO TONNE
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10 FULL/£6 CONCESSIONS/£4 DISCOUNTED ‘Ties:
SATURDAY 10TH DECEMBER, 7.30PM
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INTERCHANGEABLE BODIES LOUISA CLAUGHTON
Old school
TICKETS: £4
the ones that really bind…
You’re invited to come and play for a while, to retrace our steps and try to work out how we got here. Is it as simple as pink and blue? And if it isn’t then where did that come from? This piece isn’t about finding the answers. It’s about exploring what we personally think the answers could be. Exploration with curiosity, openness and playfulness.
Ties is about power and power that feels invulnerable. About the vulnerable. About children and celebrity and politicians. About silence that lasts beyond the grave.’
Ties is the first production by Two Tonne, a new performance and performance research/development company led by Iain Bloomfield.
Interchangeable Bodies is about figuring out what gender means to us, where these perceptions come from and how they shape us. A huge amount of what we do and experience uses male and female, masculine and feminine, as a starting point. In this performance myself and the audience will explore what these terms mean to different people and how we as individuals relate to them (or don’t). Louisa Claughton makes honest and personal work which puts the audience at the centre of the performance. Her work often incorporates elements of stand up, spoken word, visual and live art.
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