SPRING 2013
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Forecasting, 1er Stratagème
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This spring we are delighted to present The Basement’s 10th season of contemporary performance. It is five years since the newly developed venue opened up its doors, inviting audiences to venture underground and embrace the unexpected. Our mission was clear: to present the most thrilling and ground-breaking contemporary performance around and support the artists that make it. As the organisation has grown and developed, we have continued to nurture the most promising early career artists. This season features many artists at the very start of their careers as well as those growing in ambition and reputation. Since 2008 The Basement has increasingly become a gateway for international performance, bringing many truly exceptional artists to the UK, often for the first time. We celebrate our 10th season with a particularly rich selection of international work, including many UK premieres. This season we offer workshops led by two outstanding performance makers - Stacy Makishi and Richard Layzell. We continue to support the creation of new work through our commissioning and residency programmes.
The Roddick Foundation
Finally, I would like to thank every one who has made the last 10 seasons such an amazing journey, from the artists who so brilliantly and uncompromisingly put themselves on the line, to the partners, collaborators and funders that enrich the programme and make it possible, and our brilliant audiences, who time after time, take a leap of faith and share in those amazing moments of connection. If you have never visited The Basement before we warmly invite you to join us for our most exciting season of work ever.
Helen Medland Artistic Director
PERFORMANCE UK Premiere
RED HERRING Diederik Peeters (Belgium) Diederik Peeters is afraid. He has a morbid fear of germs and contamination. He is terrified of heights, petrified of ghosts and scared by conspiracies. He suffers from severe paranoia, and is tormented – last but not least – by the holy terror of failing. The origin of these fears: a niggling barrage of sound abusing his ears and mind from off stage. In Red Herring Peeters is victim to the comical potential of irrational fears. Drenched in cold sweat he tries to overcome the ridiculousness of his obsessional and paranoid traits. It is a duet for performer and soundtrack, disguised as a solo, that tries to find out whether Buñuel was right when he stated that ‘sound stimulates the imagination more than image.’ ‘Pastiches of horror films, absurd stories and thoughts are all intertwined as if six different movies are running at the same time here. In its own very funny way Red Herring offers a striking picture of the confusion you experience in a world that is persistently bombarding you with stimuli without beginning, end or cohesion.’ Pieter T’Jonck, De Morgen
THURS 21st MARCH BAR OPENS 7PM SHOW STARTS 8PM £10 / £8 CONCS & UNDER 25’S
Music & Sound: Lieven Dousselaere Set: Sarah & Charles Lighting: Henri-Emmanuel Doublier – assistant light Ivan Fatjo Costume: Christoph Hefti & Carmel Peritore Reflectors: Bill Aitchison & Philippe Production Management: Rina Govers Production: SPIN
Image Credit: Sarah & Charles and Peeters
Co-production: Beursschouwburg, Kunstencentrum BUDA in collaboration with Pianofabriek Kunstenwerkplaats, STUK Kunstencentrum, Kunstencentrum Vooruit and Four Days Association, Prague (CZ) Supported by the Flemish Government and the Flemish Community Commission
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PERFORMANCE UK Premiere
FORECASTING 1er Stratagème (FRANCE) An intriguing hybrid experience, a space-time suspended between two parallel systems of perception. In Forecasting Barbara Matijević and Giuseppe Chico develop a dizzying friction between images and a living body. A collision between two worlds that capture the body of the performer in a paradoxical situation. Barbara Matijević interacts with body size images on a screen. The images are carefully selected amateur videos taken from the world’s largest video-sharing website: YouTube. During the performance she converses “physically” with the images and the bodies and objects on the screen become part of her own body. Her body doubles, it becomes both itself and the others, it is here and elsewhere at the same time, present and absent, actor and spectator. In this zone of indeterminacy, floating in the banality of everyday situations, loom the first hints of how technology has redefined our understanding of narratives and culture, of information-sharing and community. Forecasting is the third part of the performance trilogy Theory of the performance to come or the only way to avoid the massacre is to become its authors?, created by Barbara Matijević and Giuseppe Chico (the first parts being I am 1984 and Tracks).
THURS 28TH MARCH BAR OPENS 7PM SHOW STARTS 8PM £10 / £8 CONCS & UNDER 25’S 16+
Authors: Giuseppe Chico and Barbara Matijević Dramaturgy assistant: Saša Božić Performed by: Barbara Matijević Video: Giuseppe Chico Production: Kaaitheater (Brussels) Co-production: UOVO (Milan) Executive producer: 1er stratagème and De facto
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Image Credit: Olivier Heinry
Supported by: DRAC Ile de France; Croatian Ministry of Culture, the City of Zagreb; the French Institute Zagreb; Beaumarchais-SACD association; PACT Zollverein Essen (residency program)
PERFORMANCE / installation / MUSIC
QUICKFIRE WORKSHOP WITH STACY MAKISHI (UK) Stacy Makishi leads a free, day-long workshop entitled ‘Big Kahuna’. Over the course of the day, each participant will produce a brand new 3-minute solo performance,
Fri 5th April 11AM – 6PM FREE
breaking free of their artistic inhibitions, repressions and neuroses. The results will be presented at Supper Club the following night. It’s not about making a polished piece, but a
To apply see www.thebasement.uk.com/ whats-on
fresh and spicy bite-sized nugget of performance ingenuity. It’s also a great opportunity to work with an effervescent, ballsy and internationally renowned artist, meet other performers and take part in one of the most exciting contemporary performance nights in the country.
SUPPER CLUB VARIOUS ARTISTS, HOSTED BY STACY MAKISHI Maker of mayhem, agent provocateur and performance artist par excellence, Stacy Makishi hosts an evening of the sublime and the ridiculous. Featuring performance, film, music and installations, Supper Club is a fantastic social night of intriguing occurrences and unexpected encounters taking place throughout the venue’s various subterranean spaces. On offer this evening, the provocative poetry of Sabrina Mahfouz, spellbinding storytelling of Ryan Van Winkle, the beguiling Yve Blake and many more. Grab a tasty, home-made bite to eat and see what the night will hold.
SAT 6TH APRIL 8PM – 2AM £8 / £6 CONCS & UNDER 25’S
Image Credit: Vick Ryder
‘Stacy Makishi is a master of mischief. She can draw out the creative juice from any situation in the most inspiring ways. She rocks!’ Shlomo
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performance / DANCE SOUTH EAST DANCE AND THE BASEMENT PRESENT
IT’S GOING TO GET WORSE AND WORSE AND WORSE, MY FRIEND Lisbeth Gruwez / Voetvolk vzw (Belgium) A speech can be a mighty weapon. Throughout the centuries it has enthused countless masses and galvanized them into action, for better or for worse. It has unleashed revolutions and fuelled wars. Just by the power of words. But a speech does not only enthuse the hearers, often it also transposes the speaker into a state of trance. Then he loses himself in a stream of words, in an obsessive, ecstatic way of speaking. The power of a speech often depends on the trance of the speaker. In It’s Going to Get Worse and Worse and Worse, My Friend Lisbeth Gruwez dances the trance of that ecstatic speechifying. In the process, she takes advantage of fragments from a speech by the ultraconservative American televangelist Jimmy Swaggart. Initially the parlance is friendly and pacifying, but from his compulsive desire to persuade transpires growing despair. Eventually it exposes its deepest nature: violence. Rarely have image, movement, light and sound invigorated each other so powerfully. This turns It’s Going to Get Worse and Worse and Worse, My Friend into a subtle masterpiece that has managed to captivate audiences around the world into a nearly magical yet disturbing state.
THURS 11th APRIL BAR OPENS 7PM SHOW STARTS 8PM £10 / £8 CONCS & UNDER 25’S
Concept, choreography & dance: Lisbeth Gruwez Composition, sound design & assistance: Maarten Van Cauwenberghe Styling: Veronique Branquinho Artistic advisor: Bart Meuleman Light design: Harry Cole Light Assistance: Caroline Mathieu Thanks to: Tom de Weerdt Production: Voetvolk vzw Co-production: Grand Theater Groningen, Troubleyn/Jan Fabre, Theater Im Pumpenhaus and AndWhatBeside(s) Death. With the support of: Provincie West-Vlaanderen, Provincie Antwerpen & Vlaamse Gemeenschap
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Image Credit: Luc Depreitere
Diffusion: Key Performance
PERFORMANCE
UNDER CONSTRUCTION Various Artists Under Construction is a platform featuring four work-in-progress performances developed through the east.by.south.east project. This is a fantastic opportunity to see innovative contemporary performance in the making. The event is free and all are welcome to come and give their opinions through the chaired discussions. The platform will feature works-in-progress by a host of the UK’s most exciting emergent artists including Yve Blake and Martin Lewton, look out for other names to be announced on The Basement’s website.
THURS 18TH APRIL BAR OPENS 7PM STARTS 7:30PM FREE
Two day-long Under Construction festivals will take place in Autumn 2013, featuring 8 artists who have developed work through the east.by.south.east project. These will take place in both the East and South regions. Previous artists that have been presented in Under Construction 2012 are Emma Bennett, Greg Wohead, Milk Presents, Kindle Theatre, Martha Brown, Sylvia Rimat, Patternfight Performance, 2 Destination Language and There There. east.by.south.east is a two-year Arts Council funded project developing and enriching the infrastructure for the creation, presentation and touring of live art and contemporary performance practices in the East and South East regions.
east.by.south.east Funded by: Arts Council England Partners: Cambridge Junction; Colchester Arts Centre; The Garage, Norwich; The Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury; Norwich Arts Centre; The Point, Eastleigh; The Showroom, Chichester
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PERFORMANCE UK Premiere
THE FATHER, THE SON & THE HOLY FEAST Sadettin KirmiziyÜz (NETHERLANDS) In November 2010 Sadettin Kırmızıyüz made the biggest journey of his life so far. Together with his father he went on a pilgrimage, the Hadj, to Mecca, to continue the family’s tradition. With his father as guide, he is inaugurated in this century-old ritual. Drawing on the experiences of this striking journey, Sadettin Kırmızıyüz presents a performance about fathers and sons, belief and disbelief, Abraham, Isaac, Mohammed, God and Allah. This performance offers a wry reflection on a holy road trip in which everything is true and anything goes.
THURS 25TH APRIL BAR OPENS 7PM SHOW STARTS 8PM £10 / £8 CONCS & UNDER 25’S
The Father, the Son and the Holy Feast is the second performance of four in which Sadettin Kırmızıyüz explores social issues of religion, double passports and migration. The current debates about multiculturalism and migration in the Netherlands and his personal situation as a son of a migrant form the foundation of his theatrical work. ‘Kırmızıyüz energetically tells about the Hadj with his father, an intense confrontation with his roots… Kırmızıyüz is a great story teller. After you leave you have the feeling that you have been to Mecca yourself without knowing.’ Annette Embrechts, de Vokskrant
Concept and played by: Sadettin Kırmızıyüz Coaching: Vincent Rietveld Technician/decor design: Henk Geurds
Produced by: C-mine cultuurcentrum, Theatermakershuis De Queeste, Dommelhof Co-produced by: Het Huis van Bourgondië
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Image Credit: Huisvan Bourgondie
Financial director: Albert van Andel
PERFORMANCE / installation / MUSIC BUZZCUT AND THE BASEMENT PRESENT
QUICKFIRE WORKSHOP WITH RICHARD LAYZELL (UK) Richard Layzell’s work encompasses a multitude of approaches to performing, art production and audience engagement. Always seeking to inform, provoke, challenge, enhance, connect and entertain, he leads a free, day-long workshop for artists and students. Over the course of the day, each participant will produce a brand new 5-minute one-on-one performance. The results will be presented at Supper Club the following night as part of 5 Minutes to Move Me. It’s not about making a polished piece, but a fresh and spicy bite-sized nugget of performance ingenuity. It’s a great opportunity to work with a major force in British performance, meet other performers and take part in one of the most exciting contemporary performance nights in the country.
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BUZZCUT AND THE BASEMENT PRESENT
SUPPER CLUB VARIOUS ARTISTS, HOSTED BY RICHARD LAYZELL
Image Credit: Jo Stockham
Hosted by seminal performance innovator Richard Layzell, May’s Supper Club is presented in partnership with Buzzcut, Glasgow’s artist-led festival of new performance. Colliding the brightest new talent from North and South of the border, the event builds on Buzzcut and The Basement’s shared passion for unexpected encounters and new experiences. Featuring performance, film, music and installations, Supper Club is a fantastic social night of intriguing occurrences taking place throughout the venue’s various subterranean spaces. Grab a tasty, home-made bite to eat and see what the night will hold.
SAT 4TH MAY 8PM – 2AM £8 / £6 CONCS & UNDER 25’S
Buzzcut Festival 27th – 31st March 2013 throughout Glasgow http://glasgowbuzzcut. wordpress.com/
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performance BRIGHTON FESTIVAL AND THE BASEMENT PRESENT
TABLE MANNERS (UK)
Welcome. Take a seat. Have some wine. Make nervous eye contact with your fellow dinner guests. Join us on a trip to the end of etiquette. Three performances explore the rituals of food and dining that enshrine our social hierarchies and hang-ups. What happens when the manners that separate us from the animals crumble before our eyes?
Please note: there will be no toilet break throughout the 2 hour experience, all bags and coats must be left in the secure cloakroom Image Credit: Christa Holka
Hunt & Darton offer a piquante entrée to this intimate experience, with a sharp tang of embarrassment and a melange of the ridiculous. For the main course, Future Ruin’s highly acclaimed black comedy Exterminating Angel serves up a shocking insight into the darkness that lurks beneath the casual veneer of a dinner party where all logic gradually disintegrates. Finally, The Honest Crowd offer Glasshouse a snappy, surrealist dessert of fractured language and suburban hysteria.
MON 6th MAY – WED 8th MAY 3PM, 6PM, 8:30PM £20 18+
Image Credit: Chris Lince
Future Ruins - Exterminating Angel Hunt & Darton - Delia - We’ve Been Thinking (UK Premiere) The Honest Crowd - Glasshouse (UK Premiere)
Hunt & Darton Jenny Hunt and Holly Darton
Table Manners produced by: The Basement
The Honest Crowd Hannah Breslin, Patrick Dishman, Olivia Ivens, Lea Kalinna, Valentina Muhr and Kate Treadall
Glasshouse commission and dramaturgy by: The Basement, supported by The Roddick Foundation
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Image Credit: Kieron Boyle
Future Ruins Cast: Christina Carty, Gerry Howell, Tom McHugh, James Rigby, Sara Vevers Devised and Directed by: Jack McNamara
PERFORMANCE UK Premiere BRIGHTON FESTIVAL AND THE BASEMENT PRESENT
VOLCANO Clerke and Joy (UK) This is a show about eruption and tension and release and geology and human beings and a pilot and the Righteous Brothers’ Unchained Melody. It is funny and deadly serious. And it’s about letting go, because sometimes you’ve just got to get it out.
FRI 10th MAY BAR OPENS 6:30PM SHOW STARTS 7:30PM £10
Part performance, part lecture, part school science experiment, Volcano follows the story of a pilot’s personal eruption whilst grounded during the Eyjafjallajökull ash cloud in April 2010. It uses lo-fi props to recreate gigantic events, and gigantic events to illuminate small lives with pathos and a deep sense of life’s absurdity. Clerke and Joy combine the trashy world of pop culture and international media with global events; they respond to the apocalyptic and sublime through the lens of the everyday.
Created by: Rachael Clerke and Josephine Joy Performed by: Rachael Clerke, Josephine Joy and Adrian Spring Dramaturgy by: The Basement and Karen Christopher Commissioned by: The Basement, supported by The Roddick Foundation. Developed at: University College Falmouth and The Basement Supported by: Arts Council England
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PERFORMANCE BRIGHTON FESTIVAL AND THE BASEMENT PRESENT
MAJOR TOM Victoria Melody (UK) Victoria Melody is Mrs Brighton. Major Tom is her faithful basset hound. Together they explore the strange and sometimes ruthless world of competitive beauty: As Major Tom enters the most prestigious event in the dog show calendar, Crufts, his owner attempts to lift the crown of Mrs England 2013.
FRI 10th – SAT 11th MAY BAR OPENS 8:45PM SHOW STARTS 9:15PM £10
Always on the hunt for bizarre pass-times and intriguing subcultures, Victoria seized the opportunity to join two exclusive members-only clubs with some interesting parallels. Major Tom and Victoria immerse themselves deeper and deeper into the obsessive and confusing realm of personal scrutiny as genuine contestants with a steely determination to win. Laying bare the British fascination with celebrities, beauty and winning, this one-woman, one-dog show follows their quest for perfection. ‘The veracity of her work is both charming and disconcerting, boundaries are crossed, and issues are raised. She asks questions that the rest of us don’t and creates personal observations that are both poignant and funny and throws them out for public consideration and debate.’ Bridget Cussack, Curator at Millais Gallery.
Created and performed by: Victoria Melody Commissioned and produced by: Farnham Maltings
Supported by: Arts Council England
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Image Credit: Liquid Photo
Developed at: BAC, The Showroom Chichester MAKE, Ireland and The Basement
performance UK Premiere BRIGHTON FESTIVAL AND THE BASEMENT PRESENT
THE WAY YOU TELL THEM Rachel Mars (UK) Rachel Mars has always relied on humour. After 32 years of life, she knows that if anything goes wrong she can remedy the situation with a joke. But what would happen if she couldn’t fall back on laughter? Turning the spotlight on the inner workings of comedy, The Way You Tell Them interrogates the desire and sometimes uncontrollable - compulsion to be funny.
SAT 11th – SUN 12th MAY BAR OPENS 6:30PM SHOW STARTS 7:30PM £10 16+
In her latest solo performance, Rachel goes in search of what is beyond the gags, jokes, and pratfalls. Using real-life material, classic oral sex jokes and a wolf suit she weaves a thoughtful and provocative story that questions how we use and abuse humour. ‘Hugely entertaining, intellectually provocative and important’ Brian Logan, Comedy Critic ‘Electrifying’ The Guardian ‘Hilarious and uncomfortable’ The Upcoming
Created and performed by: Rachel Mars Directed by: Jamie Wood Commissioned by: The Basement supported by The Roddick Foundation
Image credit: Pollak.Menace
Developed at and with ongoing support from: Camden People’s Theatre and The Basement Supported by: Arts Council England
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PERFORMANCE BRIGHTON FESTIVAL AND THE BASEMENT PRESENT
YOUR BROTHER. REMEMBER? Zachary Oberzan (USA) An elaborate experiment with the concept of Beforeand-After photographs, Your Brother. Remember? splices and dices home videos, Hollywood film footage and live performance. As kids in rural America, Zachary and his older brother Gator loved making parodies of their favourite films, most notably Jean-Claude Van Damme’s karate opus Kickboxer, and the notorious cult film Faces of Death. Then twenty years passed. Just as in Mr. Van Damme’s life, the simple childhood desire for love gets confused with fame, drugs and ambition. Estranged from his family, Zack returned to his childhood home to re-create these films, shot for shot, but now seen through a twenty-year lens of emotional and physical wear and tear. One brother became an actor. The other selfdestructed. Which is which? How different are these lives? Could this story have turned out the other way around? Maybe…
WED 15th MAY BAR OPENS 7PM SHOW STARTS 8PM £12 16+
Conceived, directed, edited and performed by: Zachary Oberzan Featuring: Gator Oberzan on video Texts by: Zachary & Gator Oberzan Light/sound/video technician: Thomas Barcal, David Lang
Co-production: Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2010, Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival, Grand Theater Groningen and brut Wien
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Image Credit: Zachary Oberzan
Assistant director/tour management: Nicole Schuchardt/brut Wien
PERFORMANCE UK PREMIERE BRIGHTON FESTIVAL AND THE BASEMENT PRESENT
BOOK BURNING Pieter De Buysser & Hans Op de Beeck (Belgium) Hans created an object. Pieter wrote a story and together they made a show. Book Burning is a cross between a blood-curdling tale and a risky road movie. An enigmatic trunk undergoes a remarkable metamorphosis, revealing landscapes and visions from the past. A man in a suit has a story to tell: a contemporary fable of personal freedom, feeling and resistance. Two worlds unfold; separate but gradually interweaving to create a richly poetic universe that is at once personal and political. Book Burning is a compelling and atmospheric meditation on democracy and freedom, communication and utopia, the need to create new narratives and challenge authority. But the spectre of the totalitarian book burnings of the past loom heavily over proceedings.
THURS 16th MAY BAR OPENs 7PM SHOW STARTS 8PM £12 16+ Concept: Pieter De Buysser & Hans Op de Beeck Text & play: Pieter De Buysser Light design & technician: Herman Sorgeloos Dramaturgy: Marianne Van Kerkhoven (Kaaitheater) Production: Margarita Production Co-production: KunstenfestivaldesArts, Kaaitheater, Festival Baltoscandal (Rakvere) (E), Belluard Bollwerk International (CH), Teater Avant Garden (N), Bit Teatergarasjen (N), Brut Wien (A)
Image Credit: Anne Vijverman
Project co-produced by: NXTSTP, with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union With the support of: Koninklijke Bibliotheek België, Göteborgs Dance & Teater Festival, The Flemish Government
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MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / FILM THE GREAT ESCAPE, Electronic Voice Phenomena and The Basement Present
JUKEBOX FURY For this special Jukebox Fury, The Basement teams up with The Great Escape, Europe’s answer to SXSW, to bring you a fantastic and eclectic programme of music throughout the evening. Alongside this Electronic Voice Phenomena to present a heady mix of psychedelic glitch, distorted poetry and twisted sounds.
FRI 17th MAY 8:30PM £8 / £6 CONCS & UNDER 25’S
Part séance, part avant-garde cabaret, EVP features exclusive new commissions and collaborations from poets Ross Sutherland, Hannah Silva and SJ Fowler, indie experimenters Outfit, and many more. Liverpool band Outfit who were recently part of BBC 6Music’s Best EPs of 2012 will provide a haunting live soundtrack to the night, whilst Ross Sutherland, with his unique and wickedly funny brand of spoken word performance, mines The Crystal Maze for feedback loops and moments of Jungian synchronicity. Hannah Silva‘s cut-up vocals will delve into politics and the occult, channelling ghostly utterances from the past and restlessly experimental writer SJ Fowler introduces Electric Dada, reconfiguring early recordings of Klezmer and German erotica. Europe’s leading festival for new music, The Great Escape, presents an eclectic blend of music throughout the evening.
Electronic Voice Phenomena Produced by: Mercy and Penned in the Margins Supported by: Arts Council England
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Image Credit: Jenna Foxton
In its eight year history, The Great Escape has earned a enviable reputation for presenting artists on the brink of universal discovery, having seen seminal performances from Adele, Bat For Lashes, The XX, Foals, Django Django, Alabama Shakes, Haim and Alt+J to name but a few.
PERFORMANCE BRIGHTON FESTIVAL AND THE BASEMENT PRESENT
David Rosenberg & GLEN NEATH (UK) fuel presents...
RING You may not know us by name, but we will probably seem familiar. Maybe we have driven you home, engaged you in small talk, smiled at you across a crowded train. We are the reassuring voices in your ear (not the ones in your head – they are your own business). You are already a valued member of the group and we’re thinking about you more and more.
FRI 24th MAY – SAT 25th MAY BAR OPEN FROM 5:30PM 6PM, 8PM, 10PM £15 16+
Ring is a sound journey in complete darkness and an antidote to choice. Wearing headphones that amplify the intimate details of the room, you are transported to another room that is very similar to the one you entered. But in this room you have been recognized. At times seductive, at times unnerving, Ring places you at the centre of a thrilling attack on your own identity. From director David Rosenberg (Motor Show, Electric Hotel, Shunt) and writer Glen Neath (The Outgoing Man and Romcom by Rotozaza). Please be aware that a total blackout is used for the majority of the performance. Recommended for age 16+. “you become the beating heart of this exciting and disconcerting piece” What’s On Stage
Conceived and directed by: David Rosenberg Written by: Glen Neath
Image Credit: Susanne Dietz
Music and sound by: Ben and Max Ringham Supported by: Triggered@Warwick Funded by: Arts Council England
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MELTING VINYL
THE SPACE
Melting Vinyl is a truly independent promotions company, inspired by the creative, buzzing sunny shores of Brighton.
The Space is a unique regular entertainment, arts and media event, presenting a line-up of high calibre special guests, discussing their work and achievements.
Chris Wood
TERRY RAWLINGS & MARTYN WARE
With Special Guests
HOSTED BY LISA HOLLOWAY
FRI 26th APRIL DOORS 7:30 pm
£12 adv / £14 ON THE DOOR
Melting Vinyl are thrilled to welcome back rising folk star Chris Wood performing at The Basement in April. Self-taught on guitar and violin, Chris Wood is a lifelong autodidact – and his independent streak shines through in his composition and studio work. Always direct and unafraid to speak his mind, his song writing has been praised for its surgical clarity.
TALKS
TUES 5TH MARCH DOORS 7PM £10 Exclusive interviews with film editor Terry Rawlings (Alien, Blade Runner and Chariots of Fire) and Martyn Ware of pioneering electronic-pop act Heaven 17.
DOUG NAYLOR & JEFF WAYNE HOSTED BY BRIGGY SMALE THURS 13TH JUNE DOORS 7PM £10
King Creosote (Duo) With Gummi Bako
Interviews with creator of Red Dwarf, Doug Naylor, and Jeff Wayne, composer of the Musical Version of The War of the Worlds.
MON 29TH APRIL DOORS 7:30 pm £12 adv / £14 ON THE DOOR Melting Vinyl are delighted to announce the return, after a sold out St Georges show in 2012, of the legendary Scottish singer-songwriter King Creosote who will be performing at the intimate setting of The Basement this coming April. Kenny Anderson, more commonly known by his stage name King Creosote, has over forty releases under his belt and 2012 showed no signs of slowing down for him, including a nomination for a Mercury with Jon Hopkins. The end of 2012 marked the release of It Turned Out For The Best, his third EP release to come from the infamous Domino records.
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BRIAN COSGROVE & GLENN FREEMANTLE HOSTED BY LISA HOLLOWAY TUES 6TH AUG DOORS 7PM £10 An exclusive interview with legendary children’s television producer and animator Brian Cosgrove (Danger Mouse, Chorlton and the Wheelies, The BFG, Jamie and the Magic Torch) – the other guest is film sound designer Glenn Freemantle (Danny Boyle’s Trance; The Woman in Black; Dredd; Slumdog Millionaire; Quartet; Love Actually; 28 Days Later; Yentl).
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COMMISSIONS
THE BASEMENT COMMISSIONS Supported by The Roddick Foundation The Basement is delighted to announce its commissions of new performances by outstanding and innovative artists working in contemporary performance. The commissions are supported by The Roddick Foundation. As well as a financial contribution to their development, these works will be supported with dramaturgical guidance, space and technical resources.
Martin Schick and Damir Todorovic (Switzerland) Holiday on Ice Mixing personal stories, global media and current affairs Holiday on Ice is a subversive and provocative exploration of luxury, glamour, profit and loss, commercial competition and winners and losers. Tracing the commodification of the body across the world, Martin Schick and Damir Todorovic will create an elaborate spectacle of conspicuous skill and flamboyant costumes, presenting before your very eyes, real celebrities and authentic asylum seekers. Holiday on Ice is a co-production with Festival Belluard Bollwerk Int., Gessnerallee ZĂźrich, Dampfzentrale Bern, Brut Vienna, Beursschouwburg Brussels and The Basement Brighton. http://martinschick.wordpress.com/
Stacy Makishi (UK) The Falsettos
www.stacymakishi.com
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Image Credit: Will Munro
A second thrilling tale of sleuthery by Hawaiian performance-maker Stacy Makishi, exploring midlife, mobs, meatballs and moms via Barbra Streisand, E.T., and The Sopranos. Masterfully grafting the trappings of gangster film onto domestic drama, The Falsettos is a humorous solo show on the mysteries of love, loss and separation. The Falsettos is co-commissioned by Chelsea Theatre, The Basement Brighton and Colchester Arts Centre. Look out for the finished show in The Basement’s Autumn 2013 programme. Stacy Makishi is Associate Artist with Chelsea Theatre and Artsadmin.
COMMISSIONS
THE BASEMENT COMMISSIONS Supported by The Roddick Foundation
The Honest Crowd (UK) Photo: Kieron Boyle
Glasshouse The Honest Crowd invite their guests to join them around the table as they playfully endure the obstructions laid before them during this somewhat curious fine dining experience, which pulls apart the logic of the social staple of the dinner party. Originally created as the final project for their MA in Performance Making at Goldsmiths, University of London, The Basement will be premiering Glasshouse in the Brighton Festival as part of Table Manners on Monday 6th – Wednesday 8th May.
Clerke and Joy (UK) Volcano Part performance, part lecture, part school science experiment, Volcano follows the story of a pilot’s personal eruption whilst grounded during the Eyjafjallajökull ash cloud in April 2010. Volcano was Rachael Clerke and Josephine Joy’s degree show piece at University College Falmouth 2012 and the company have been developing the work with dramaturgical support from The Basement. This new commission will be premiered on Friday 10th May as part of Brighton Festival. Supported by Arts Council England. www.clerkeandjoy.com
Rachel Mars (UK) The Way You Tell Them Image Credit: Pollak.Menace
In her latest solo performance Rachel Mars turns the spotlight on the inner workings of comedy, and interrogates the desire and - sometimes uncontrollable - compulsion to be funny. The Way You Tell Them is commissioned by The Basement, supported by The Roddick Foundation and developed and supported at Camden People’s Theatre as part of Starting Blocks 2012. Supported by Arts Council England. Catch the new show on Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th May. www.rachelmars.org
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east.by.south.east is a two year Arts Council funded project designed to develop the infrastructure for the creation, presentation and touring of contemporary performance practices in the East and South-East regions. In 2012 east.by.south.east delivered residencies for over 25 artists developing new works. Of these, six works were selected to receive further support, leading towards a showcase of finished works in Autumn 2013. These works were: Sylvia Rimat: If You Decide To Stay (premiered at Inbetween Time February 2013) Kindle Theatre: A Journey Around My Skull Christopher Brett Bailey: This Is How We Die Patternfight Performance: Bad Wife Jo Bannon: Exposure Milk Presents: Self Service This partnership with Cambridge Junction; Colchester Arts Centre; The Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury; Norwich Arts Centre; The Garage, Norwich; The Point, Eastleigh and The Showroom, Chichester will provide opportunities for artists to create and present new performance within the region, for venues to expand the range of their programming into exciting new territories and for a wider audience to experience live art and contemporary performance. The Basement is committed to supporting the development of new work by artists from across the UK. Residencies allow artists to spend time in our rehearsal spaces, providing them with a focused and critical context where they can develop their works and enrich their practice.
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Over the course of 2013, The Basement is delighted to be working with Thomas Frank from Brut in Vienna, Kristof Blom from Campo in Ghent and a group of seven experienced and influential performance programmers and producers from across the UK and Ireland. The UK group, Matt Burman (Warwick Arts Centre), Helen Cole (InBetween Time), Matt Fenton (LICA), Emma Gladstone (Sadler’s Wells), Roise Goan (Dublin Fringe), David Micklem (independent producer) and Jackie Wylie (The Arches, Glasgow) will undertake two research trips to the European venues, exploring new models of creative and critical support for the development of new performance. The first research trip, to Brut in March will feature a packed schedule of presentations, discussions and sharings of works-in-progress from leading international dramaturges, producers and artists including Stefanie Carp (Vienna Festwochen), Judith Staudinger & Andrea Salzmann (Dramaturges of Doris Uhlich), Sandra Noeth (dance dramaturge at Tanzquartier Wien), Kerstin Schroth (producer & dramaturge of Gerald Kurdian), Philippe Riera (Artistic Director, Superamas). This exploratory first trip will provide insight and inspiration for the strategic development of the landscape of contemporary theatre in the UK. The participating group may evolve and change over time to embrace a wide range of voices with a commitment to developing new performance practices. The second research trip to Campo, Ghent will take place in October.
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