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PULSE venues New Wolsey Theatre NWT Civic Drive, Ipswich, IP1 2AS New Wolsey Studio NWS St George’s St, Ipswich, IP1 3NF HEG High Street Exhibition Gallery HEG High St, Ipswich, IP1 3QH

DANCEEAST Jerwood DanceHouse Foundry Lane, Ipswich, IP4 1DW

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PULSE index PULSE info Welcome Ticket Info Access Info

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Thursday 29 May Credible Likeable Superstar Role Model a 8 a9 The Love Project

Friday 30 May Suitcase Prize Day

Storymaker Traveling Treasury Blast Off Pirate And Parrot Titus

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Monday 2 June Words Into The Dark American Boy

Session 1 Brothers of Justice Too Much Too Young Copy Session 2 We Don't Live Here Anymore Agent Everywhere Guinea Pigs On Trial Session 3 WOMANz Schlock!

A Place In The Sun Lie Back And Think Of England Near Gone

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Tuesday 3 June The Forensics Of A Flat Our Fathers

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Frequently Asked Questions A Conversation

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Thursday 5 June a 13

Let Me Stay Raymondo

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Friday 6 June

Saturday 31 May Scratch Day The Backseat Of My Car The New Blur Album Tortoise: Redux Icon For Ipswich Holiday Selfie Eggs Collective Get A Round Stowaway Chicken My Son And Heir Gym Party

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Sunday 1 June Family Day

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Freeze Gods Are Fallen And All Safety Gone Purge

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Saturday 7 June World Factory: The Shop World Factory: The Shirt Chewing The Fat Still Life Feel About Your Body The Bloody Ballad

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PULSE welcome We are delighted to be back at the New Wolsey as Festival Directors for PULSE 2014 and are hugely excited about sharing this year’s programme with you.

The work is as bright and bold as ever: including some awesome finished shows, tantalising work-in-progress, music, family day and loads more.

See the work, meet the artists, be a part of it.

It’s great to be back!

We’ll see you there…

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Ten days of new, inspiring theatre and performance to fill your brain, bust your belly, shake your faith and soothe your soul.

Thank you to our Media Partners:

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Pulse is the artist development programme here at the New Wolsey Theatre, and it also describes how we discover, support and grow talent in the region through a series of collaborative opportunities, residencies and commissions.

All the time we’re looking for theatre makers at every stage in their development who have a great idea and want to come and play here in Ipswich.

We get to share a little of that work all year round through Pulse Presents, but for 10 terrific days we get to take over the New Wolsey Theatre and Studio and some spaces across the town, and fill them with a curated programme of new work and new ideas from some the most inventive and original theatre and performance makers the UK and the world has to offer.

Working with the team from China Plate Pulse Festival 2014 has something for everyone; so not only is there the chance to see some of the best work currently on tour every single day, there’s also the 2nd year of the Suitcase Prize Day which encourages theatre makers to think in an environmentally and economically sustainable way.

Then there’s Scratch Day, Family Day, a new day of dance in association with the team at Dance East, a free band every night, incredible ticket offers and cheap food. The only thing missing is you!

Rob Salmon - Associate Director

So put down your laptop, turn off the TV, and let those box-sets gather some dust.

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t #pulse14 Pulse Tickets , All tickets: £8.50 , Under 26: £5 Frequent Flyers , All tickets: Book 5 or more shows (in the same transaction) and get all your tickets for £5. We’ll tag your account to unlock £5 tickets from then on too. , Under 26: You already get £5 tickets (lucky you) so we’ll throw in free Pulse evening grub each day you have a ticket once you’ve booked 5 or more shows. Just show your ticket to claim your food. , All frequent flyer deals exclude Suitcase Day and Scratch Performances (because they’re already £5, cheeky!).

Suitcase Prize Day Fri 30 May , £15 for the whole day. Thank us later.

Add Near Gone for £5 with a Suitcase Day ticket (in the same transaction).

Scratch Day Sat 31 June , £5 per session , Book all 6 sessions for £15. That’s half price, bargain.

We’ll throw in Gym Party for £5 too if you book all 6 sessions (in the same transaction).

FREE entry (Allocated On The Day) The Backseat of my Car a 14 Traveling Treasury a 21 FREE entry (Advance Booking) a 20 World Factory events a 34 Storymaker Tickets available from:

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PULSE Grub Everything from Bangers and Mash to Fajitas, lunch and dinner, no more than £5 each!

See individual days for food options and leave plenty of time before the show to enjoy!

Vegetarian options available.

A PULSE bites menu is also available.

Get to us:

By train - You can get to Ipswich in just over an hour from London Liverpool Street with trains leaving 3 times an hour. The last train to London from Ipswich is 22.43, although we have many fantastic hotels and B&Bs we can recommend!

If you’re North of us then Norwich and Peterborough also offer a frequent service to Ipswich.

Check times and prices at: nationalrail.co.uk

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SUMMER 2014

GECKO

1 – 3 MAY

NUNO SILVA 9 MAY

HOFESH SHECHTER COMPANY 16 MAY

HEADSPACEDANCE 6 JUNE

ARACALADANZA in association with MOKO DANCE 27 & 28 JUNE

PROFESSIONALWORKSHOPS DEVELOPMENT CONTACT IMPROVISATION

25 APRIL, 23 MAY, 20 JUNE, 18 JULY

GIVING CREATIVE FEEDBACK 7 MAY

MASTERCLASS WITH HOFESH SHECHTER COMPANY 17 MAY

HEALTHY YOUNG DANCER: ENSURING SAFE PRACTICE 25 MAY

DANCE & WRITING IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS 9 JUNE

PROFESSIONAL CLASS WITH STEPHANIE SCHOBER DANCE a6 20 JUNE

PULSE info Age Recommendations

Access

You will see stickers like this:

You can download a PDF or audio version of the PULSE brochure from our website pulseipswich.co.uk. Alternatively email access@wolseytheatre.co.uk to request copies by email/post.

Accessible Performances on performances that have an age recommendation.

As you read our varied and exciting programme, you'll see that there is content that contains subjects or themes you wouldn't want your children / young people to see.

We have tried our best to allocate the right age to the right show based on conversations we have had with each company, but if you aren't sure please get in contact with our Ticket Sales team who will be able to advise.

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ive-Captioning: a stage to text transcription live L on stage for those who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Credible Likeable Superstar Role Model a 8

Contains British Sign Language Interpretation and Audio Description Let Me Stay a 30

Booking New Wolsey Theatre Box Office has a low level service counter and an induction hearing loop system – to use, turn your hearing aid to T. You can also live chat with one of our Ticket Sales Assistants on the website.

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Hearing Enhancement A Sennheiser Infrared hearing enhancement system operates at the New Wolsey Theatre. Headsets are available from the Box Office, which can be used with or without a hearing aid. A refundable deposit of £10 is required for each headset. We regret that there is not a hearing enhancement system at the New Wolsey Studio.

Venue Access New Wolsey Theatre, New Wolsey Studio, the HEG (High Street Exhibition Gallery) and DanceEast are accessible to wheelchair users - please advise at point of booking. Assistance dogs are welcome at all PULSE venues, let us know in advance if you can.

Parking We recommend Wolsey Pay and Display Car Park - accessible from Black Horse Lane, then left to the end of Chapman Lane where there are 5 Blue Badge Parking Bays. Parking charges do apply. You can also drop off outside the New Wolsey Studio on St George’s Street or the HEG on Museum Street.

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BRYONY KIMMINGS

Credible Likeable Superstar Role Model In an audacious protest against flagrant global attempts to sexualise and commodify childhood for profit, awardwinning artist Bryony and her niece Taylor, nine, decided to play the global tween machine at its own game by inventing dinosaur-loving, bike riding, tuna pasta-eating, alternative pop star Catherine Bennett.

Credible... is Taylor's and Bryony’s theatre show. Set in a fantasy land far from our own, where lines are drawn in the sand, girls become knights, eyeballs are gouged, wars are waged and people sell their souls. A tale of hopeless protection, blind fury, 9-year-old brains and taking on the world with your family.

In typically outlandish fashion, Kimmings, (Sex Idiot and 7 Day Drunk) begs the question, what does it take to be a Credible Likeable Superstar Role Model for a child of the 21st century?

Fringe First Winner 2013

"Bold, Brave and very brilliant" ★★★★★ The Independent "An unabashedly wacky sweetheart with a delightful anything goes air" ★★★★★ The Times Contains Live Captioning ? New Wolsey Theatre P 7pm (70 mins) , £8.50/£5

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Funded by Arts Council England and The Jerwood Charitable Foundation.

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Live Music HORSE PARTY ? New Wolsey THEATRE P Straight after The Love Project. See pages 38/39

Every Day

The Love Project

Cora and Bill were married in 1956 and still remember the smell of the old Citroën that Bill proposed in; Kate bought a house with her fiancé only to split up a few months later; Myles found himself dangling from a rooftop in pursuit of love; and Imke is still waiting.

Following on from a hugely successful Edinburgh debut awardwinning company Every Day present their verbatim piece on the subject of love. Created from interviews, The Love Project paints an ultimately heart-warming human picture of the people we meet, the feelings we have, the unique lives we all lead.

“Documentary theatre with a big heart.” ★★★★ The Independent “Strikes at the essence of human existence.” ★★★★ Three Weeks

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PULSE Grub Bangers and Mash £5 Vegetarian option available.

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Friday 30 May Suitcase Prize Day The Suitcase Prize challenges theatre makers to think in an environmentally and economically sustainable way. The 10 participants compete to win £1,000 by presenting a 20 minute scratch which can be transported on public transport!

Yes, literally in a suitcase! The judging panel will consider your feedback throughout the day at #pulsesuitcase

Session 1

Lawrence Speck and Joe Wild have decided to take on the problems of the world head on.

Their Goal: To dislodge apathy and evil within our society and the wider world. It is obvious that we have become more apathetic as people… but why? How do we take responsibility and control of our communities and our shared future? They are unlikely to succeed in the 20-minute slot they have been allocated this afternoon, however some secret guest stars just might be able to help out.

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Too Much Too Young

Jack Bennett thinks it’s daft that we ask teenagers to make really big decisions about their lives.

He had to, and it’s done him no good whatsoever. He was going to be a world-renowned musician, but one wrong turn and look at him… a two-bit actor with an identity crisis.

So he’s decided to ask some pretty big questions. What’s learning for? Why all the rush?

And if we were inventing education now, what would it look like?

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Brothers Of Justice

Jack Bennett, in association with ARC Stockton

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“I hate my life. I have a cardboard cut-out of myself delivered to my desk at work.

My Boss gives it a high five” Phillip doesn’t want to be Phillip. What if anyone could be Phillip instead? Maybe they already are. This is a show about invisibility and impersonation and vicariousness and narcissism.

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This is the story of us. My Dad, Jim, the dreamer. My Mum, Esther, the mystery. And me...'

Set in a decade of fear, uncertainty, big hair and big dreams, this intimate, resonant solo performance tells the story of the disintegration of a family from the point of view of the eleven-year-old daughter. Opening with a dramatic disappearance in a city, it takes us deep into the dark heart of the countryside.

Developed through WalesLab, National Theatre Wales artist development initiative.

Agent Everywhere

Let’s keep this lean. No excess fat on the bones of this experiment. Each thing on this list we must successfully visualize. Or kill.

Somewhere between an interrogation and a late night quiz show on a channel you didn’t know you had, Agent Everywhere is a fast-moving and ridiculous text game that pits creation against destruction and language against time.

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We Don’t Live Here Anymore

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Catherine Dyson

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Guinea Pigs On Trial

Sh!t Theatre have decent bodies.

They are trying to sell them.

Pharmaceutical trials such as FLU CAMP are being marketed to jobseekers and students as a way of making money, essentially turning poor people into guinea pigs. Delving into the murky ethics of Big Pharma, broke Sh!t Theatre ask – is ‘guinea pigging’ a good cure for an empty bank account? And what happens when profit takes priority in the creation of medicine?

Using song, satire, spoken word and movement, Sh!t Theatre follow up their multi-award winning show ‘Job Seekers Anonymous 2013’ with ‘Guinea Pigs On Trial’.

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Friday 30 May Suitcase Prize Day

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Tessa Waters

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Womanz

Schlock!

A Place In The Sun

The nature of WOMANz is irrepressible!

A high-octane physical comedy celebrating what it means to be a woman by acclaimed Melbourne comedian Tessa Waters.

“Funny as Hell!” The Age Combining physical comedy, dance and a killer soundtrack, join your host the insatiable ‘Woman’ as she journeys through her world of wobbly, femmy, sexy, lovey, cakey, wanky, twerky, dancey good bits.

Schlock! is the result of a collision between Fifty Shades of Grey, the radical punk-pirate Kathy Acker and the sounds of Sonic Youth. In the grand tradition of literary terrorism, Hannah Silva layers, loops and subverts in pursuit of a violent sexual feminist satire.

There are no safe words.

Inviting you to pull up a sun-lounger and enjoy your place in the sun.

This all-inclusive holiday experience brings the complete package of seven deadly sins: lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride around the glorious pool. Eat as much as you like, prejudice and xenophobia at every turn.

“radical, political, courageous” ★★★★★ What’s on Stage [Opposition]

PULSE Grub

Lunch Stuffed Pittas £3.75 Dinner Salad Boxes (salad, olives, hummus) £3.75 Chilli Con Carne with Potato Skins £5

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"One of the most exciting things about Marshman's work is his ability to pick a seemingly small subject and peel back the layers to expose something unexpectantly profound."

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Live Music Mick Squalor ? New Wolsey THEATRE P Straight after Ceremony See pages 38/39

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Lie Back And Think Of England

Near Gone

An anarchic performance lecture, led by a super shy, awkwardly confident, other worldly teacher.

Armed only with an unruly flip chart and the erotic puppetry of felt tip pens, this absurd, physical comedy, takes a sideways look at British culture’s excitement, embarrassment and ineptitude around the unspeakable subject of... sex.

It's basically a clown teaching sex education.

Delivered in English and Bulgarian, with pounding gypsy-inspired music, this beautiful performance fills an empty space with two performers, hundreds of fresh flowers and a storm of emotion. A performance piece that packs a punch - transforming your very sense of what it is to be a mother, a father, a child. And you’ll leave more fully alive than ever. ? New Wolsey Theatre P 9pm with a post-show talk , £8.50/£5

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Saturday 31 May Scratch Day Some of today’s participants bravely present new work at an early stage of development and ask for your feedback. It’s an ideal opportunity to engage with some of the UK’s most innovative and exciting artists, to explore new ideas and be inspired.

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John Osborne

The Backseat Of My Car The New Blur Album (And Other Safe Places)

An interactive true storytelling piece for one audience member at a time that takes place in a parked car. It’s about being a teenager and those moments when you’re on the verge of something exciting. It’s just me and you, and it kinda feels like something could happen.

“A truly intimate one-on-one coming of age journey whose gentle and richly evocative narrative brings audience and performer into genuine emotional closeness.” Total Theatre ? car in a car park There will be opportunities to sign up to time slots throughout the day.

1pm - 3pm, 4pm - 6pm, 6:30pm - 7:30pm and 8:30pm - 9.30pm. There will be five performances per hour.

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From the writer and performer behind hit Edinburgh shows John Peel’s Shed and On The Beach this is a first chance to see John Osborne’s new piece The New Blur Album.

The story of a life charted by where you were the day each new Blur album was released. ? New Wolsey STUDIO P 10am (30mins) , £5

PULSE Grub BREAKFAST FROM 10am til 11am Sausage Breakfast Roll & Tea/Coffee £2.40 ? New Wolsey Theatre

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Tortoise: Redux

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It’s Christmastime! Presents, tinsel, chocolate, Prozac, straightjackets. Three very different thirty something women are spending the festive period in a locked NHS psychiatric ward.

By turns funny, touching, and serious, Tortoise is an all-female production about the nature of normality and gender.

People of Ipswich! Your beautiful town has been chosen as the beneficiary of a new type of socio-industrial experiment. With rumours that the proposed new nuclear build at Sizewell will never rise from the sand, we at AtomKraft propose clean energy and mass employment: The Icon for Ipswich. There will be nothing but benefits from a nuclear powered world class culture venue which includes olympic sports facilities, enviable retail centre, and property, descending from a glorious penthouse down to affordable housing for all. Power is created by people and so you are invited to a public consultation to discuss the development.

It will be chaired by the artist Greg McLaren who has been commissioned to design and lead the project.

Atomkraft is a series of performance events exploring the production and distribution of power.

Supported by Arts Council England.

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Saturday 31 May Scratch Day ? New Wolsey Studio P 12:10pm to 1pm , £5

PULSE Grub JACKET POTATOES from 1pm £3.75

Sophie WoolLey and Gemma FairlIe

Eggs Collective

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Eggs Collective Get A Round

Sophie went on holiday from herself, completely escaped. Best. Holiday. Ever. *smugface* Her true story of how she did it, and what happened next, will BLOW YOUR MIND. A bold new hybrid of sound art and storytelling, written and performed by Sophie Woolley, directed by Gemma Fairlie, produced by award winning Tin Bath Theatre.

Eggs Collective are a female performance quartet from Manchester peddling shambolic, anarchic comedy. Get A Round will be their first full length show stuck in an ambitious, godforsaken soap opera storyline. Expect visions of dark cabaret theatrics, lovingly raucous interactions and a satirical eye cast over popular culture.

“Razor-sharp tongues and impeccable comic timing” Bryony Kimmings “A company destined for big things” Scottee

"fast paced, funny, sad, violent, loving… everything that life can be.” ★★★★★ Whatsonstage.com (Fight Face)

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Eastern Angles

Stowaway

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The wheels of a Boeing 777 unfold out of the belly of a plane as it begins its descent towards Heathrow. The frozen body of a stowaway is tipped out.

In the carpark of a suburban DIY superstore, Andy looks up. Something is falling out of the sky. A man crash-lands on the ground in front of him.

An early glimpse of a new show from Analogue (Beachy Head, 2401 Objects).

‘If they all ganged up on us, they could rule the word. We wouldn’t stand a chance’.

A rehearsed reading of extracts from Molly Davies’ new play for Eastern Angles.

East Anglian born Molly won the Westminster Prize for No Fairy Stories (Soho Theatre) and is currently working on new plays for the Royal Court and National Theatre

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Saturday 31 May Search Party

The Spring Festivals Commissions Pulse has joined forces with MayFest, CPT’s Sprint and Cambridge Junction’s Night Watch festivals to commission brand new pieces of theatre.

Search Party’s My Son and Heir is this year’s brand new commission and last years commission Gym Party by Made In Chain returns in its finished form.

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My Son & Heir is an anarchic celebration of the everyday heroism of parenthood, set amongst a never-ending mess of plastic, flashing-beeping, bubble-blowing chaos.

Search Party are parents, they have a son born in the same year as ‘Baby Cambridge’, and that’s where the similarities end. My Son & Heir confronts the spectacle of the ‘New Royals’ and their strategic attempts to appear just like us. In a playful examination of the relentlessness of raising children, and the guilt-ridden one-upmanship of mainstream baby culture, Search Party consider what sort of man their son and heir will become.

Part of Search Party’s Growing Old With You series, a life-long performance project exploring their changing perspective of age, as they grow old together.

My Son and Heir was commissioned by The Showroom Projects, Bristol (UK), made with support from the University of Chichester, (UK).

Co-comissioned by Pulse, MayFest, Sprint and Night Watch

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Wobbly Lamps ? New Wolsey THEATRE P Straight after Gym Party See pages 38/39

Gym Party A razor sharp and darkly comic exploration of our universal desire to win.

Three intrepid contestants compete in a series of games, from the hilariously stupid to the arbitrary and downright heartbreaking. Chris, Jess and Ira fearlessly do whatever it takes to win - to please you, the audience. They are also eager to share their stories, perspectives and awkward dances in between.

Anarchic, comic and thoughtful, Gym Party speaks to anyone who frets about the state of the world – then gets distracted by a dumb celebrity tweet.

‘One marvellously unusual hour… Gym Party finds the sweet spot between pure play, sociopolitical satire and personal confession... sharp, silly and suprisingly tender’ ★★★★ The Times K madeinchinatheatre.com

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Commissioned by and developed at Battersea Arts Centre.

Co-commissioned by Pulse, Mayfest, Sprint and Sampled festivals. With support from the Almeida Theatre and National Theatre Studio. Funded by Arts Council England.

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? New Wolsey Theatre P 7:30pm (60mins) , £8.50/£5 Add Gym Party for £5 when booking for all 6 Scratch sessions

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Sunday 1 June

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Storymaker Join us for a fun-filled day with a mix of

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and ticketed events, a BBQ and live music throughout the day.

PULSE Grub All Day BBQ

Available from 12noon with hot-dogs and burgers cooked to order.

See you there!

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If you’re 3 to 6 you can leave your family downstairs in the New Wolsey Cafe Bar and come upstairs to meet the Storymaker for an amazing adventure, or an exciting escapade.

Mums, dads, grans, grandads, big brothers and big sisters can come too, but they’ll have to join in with the fun. ? New Wolsey Theatre P 12noon, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm and 4pm , FREE - advance sign up recommended

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Traveling Treasury

Blast Off

Traveling Treasury is a magical story telling experience that takes places in a beautifully transformed caravan.

Audiences are invited to step inside the pages of a book and where stories unfold, quite literally before their eyes.

Traveling Treasury allows you to think, dream and believe as you are taken on a wonderful journey through sound, stunning visual paper creations and animated story telling. A wonderful experience for all ages!

Traveling Treasury has received fantastic and very positive audience reactions: “Wonderful” “Amazing” “It reminded me of being a child again” “So very emotional”.

Producers Vortex Creates and Highly Sprung are thrilled to be able to offer the experience of the Traveling Treasury to audience across the UK in 2014.

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The Noisy Animals are the biggest band in the world, and they’re about to blast off into outer space on a super duper really fast adventure around a rock ‘n’ roll musical universe.

Kid Carpet and The Noisy Animals are back at the BT Studio with brand new adventure Blast Off! which features an entertaining mix of live music, silliness and lots of laughs.

"Great melodies and infectious pop hooks... if only all pop music could be this fun". iDJ Magazine on Kid Carpet ? New Wolsey Theatre P 1pm (50mins) , £8.50/£5

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Sunday 1 June FAMILY DAY A Little Commitment and Red Earth Theatre Company in association with mac birmingham

Pirate And Parrot Pirate and Parrot is a coproduction between Red Earth Theatre, one of the UK’s foremost touring organisations with a reputation for excellent and inclusive work, and A Little Commitment, one of the freshest, most energetic, comedic companies to emerge in recent years.

Set on the pirating high seas, a perfectly capable, yet diminutive Pirate (the world’s smallest) and a dowdy Parrot of gigantic proportions (the world’s largest) meet in a strange twist of fate.

Follow this hilarious odd couple as they discover bountiful hidden treasures sailing through giant storms on rough seas, fighting untold scary-things in their journey of discovery and friendship: to find somewhere safe that they can call home.

This is a funny and entertaining show for the whole family. ? New Wolsey Theatre P 3pm (50mins) , £8.50/£5

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fun workshop Join A Little Commitment for a fun workshop aimed at parents, carers and children that explores the concept that everyone is different.

Great for families with a child affected by disability and/or parents who aren’t directly affected but want their child to be adaptive to different social situations and different people.

Through social games and play the workshop evelops problem solving, fosters a positive attitude to integrated game playing with mixed levels of ability and most importantly everyone has fun!

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The Pancakes ? New Wolsey TERRACE P All Day

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Titus A drama about telling big lies and small truths. About pigs that fall in love. About crows that talk. About fish that fall from the sky. About running away and finding yourself.

The story of a 10 year-old boy on the edge – literally on the roof of his school – confronted by a situation that seems hopeless. He can either give up or fight.

This new English language version of one of Europe’s most successful plays for young people was a smash hit with critics and audiences during its 2013 Edinburgh Fringe run.

“A completely compelling piece of theatre” ★★★★ The Scotsman ★★★★ The Times ★★★★ The List ★★★★ The Herald ★★★★ Fest Magazine ★★★★★ ThreeWeeks ★★★★★ Edinburgh Guide

By Jan Sobrie, new English version by Oliver Emanuel.

Directed by Lu Kemp, produced by macrobert. ? New Wolsey STUDIO P 6pm (40mins) , £8.50/£5

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Monday 2 June Welcome to our first ever Dance Night!

Hosted by and programmed with our friends at Dance East, the festival will be relocating to the Jerwood DanceHouse down on the waterfront for the night. #weareipswich

Wendy Houstoun

Words into The Dark A work in progress: Just words, moving forward, in time, keeping in time, keeping it up in the air, keeping up with it all.

Stand up meets vaudeville eccentricity in this performance of organised chaos. Using word association and loose improvisation.

A hyperlinked entertainer grapples with big ideas and petty trivialities. It’s an all or nothing kind of affair.

Following the orderliness of 50 ACTS this is a first attempt

by Wendy Houstoun to try and see what happens when there is no script.

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Wendy is currently supported by: Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham with Dance4, The Nightingale Theatre Brighton, Southbank Centre, South East Dance and DanceEast, with additional support using public funding by Arts Council England.

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Hetain Patel

American Boy Following the success of his performance works TEN and Be Like Water, visual artist Hetain Patel takes once again to the stage, this time as a solo performer, with a personal and humorous take on identity shape-shifting.

Inspired by American movie culture and homegrown TV programmes, Hetain looks at the multiple identities that we all inhabit in our day-to-day lives. Through a seamless synthesis of vocal and physical imitations, he revisits character impressions from his playground days: see Agent Smith from the Matrix get physical with Spider-Man whilst Eddie Murphy argues with Michael Caine. ? DanceEast P 9pm (50mins)

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Hetain is a Sadler’s Wells New Wave Associate.

Co-produced and Commissioned by Sadler’s Wells, London. Co-produced

by BDE London 2012 Consortium.

Development supported by Mercy, Liverpool, and Penned in the Margins, London. American Boy is supported with public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

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Tuesday 3 June FranCESCA Millican-Slater

THE FORENSICS OF A FLAT (and other stories) “I live in a flat made of wooden walls, 70’s carpet and locked doors. In the dark of the night, I listen to the building. It tells of fingerprints on door handles, skins cells in the carpet, ghosts in the plumbing.”

A dissection of a building and its surrounding area, Francesca tells stories about her beloved flat, the area it stands in, what it used to be, what it will become and the people that have populated it.

It’s a bit stand up, a bit biography, a bit documentation, a love affair with a local area to the tune of bad Karaoke.

Produced by Pippa Frith, in association with Birmingham REP, supported by Pulse Festival & Arts Council England.

? New Wolsey STUDIO P 7pm (60mins) , £8.50/£5

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KEEP UP ? New Wolsey THEATrE P Straight After Our Fathers See pages 38/39

Babakas

OUR FATHERS

A new play by Babakas ‘Unforgettable’ The Observer ‘Genuinely moving’ The Guardian Mike’s dead dad’s friend’s daughter wants him to father her child. His boyfriend Bert isn’t convinced.

Their housemate Sofia has her own fish to fry. She needs to find a man before it’s too late, but her dad keeps getting in the middle.

A critically-acclaimed journey through fatherhood past and present, full of inventive comedy and unforgettable emotion.

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‘A young, international company with both talent and great ideas.’ ★★★★ Daily Telegraph ★★★★ Time Out ★★★★★ Three Weeks ★★★★ A Younger Theatre ★★★★ Exeunt Magazine Winner of the Bite Size Commission 2012.

Commissioned by China Plate, mac birmingham and Warwick Arts Centre. Supported by Arts Council England.

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Wednesday 4 June New Wolsey Young Associates

Frequently Asked Questions

A 10 step guide to adult life: by teenagers.

Some of the greatest questions about life answered for just the price of your ticket, plus the chance to win a pack of Justin Bieber stickers!

The New Wolsey Young Associates tackle some of the fundamental questions that have puzzled generations: What’s love got to do with it? Why is the fluff in your belly button always blue? War, what is it good for? *

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The production will scratch as a part of the Curtain Up season at the Garage in Norwich, and will close A Younger Theatre’s INCOMING Festival at the New Diorama Theatre London in June before embarking on the Young Theatre Makers tour. * Absolutely nothing, say it again y’all.

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LEMONPARTY ? New Wolsey THEATRE P Straight After A Conversation See pages 38/39

A Conversation

In 1927 Ethel Cotton wrote a Course in Conversation.

In twelve lessons she promised a fascinating new way to win poise, charm and personality.

Award winning Shunt artists Nigel Barrett and Louise Mari use this book to provoke a conversation between this woman of the past and us now… What conversation will we have?

Will we win poise, charm and personality?

Will we feel reborn into the world with a new understanding of ourselves and others?

Or will we leave feeling more alone than we have ever felt? ? New Wolsey Theatre P 9pm (60mins) , £8.50/£5

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‘Incredibly inventive, strikingly unique and engrossing theatre’ ★★★★★ What’s Peen Seen ‘Fascinating, brilliantly performed, hilarious’ Exeunt

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Thursday 6 June Vital xposure

Let Me Stay

A tender and unique exploration of the impact of Alzheimer's on family relations. Julie McNamara has recorded her Mother's songs and stories, filmed and photographed her in all her glory,over many years. The result is a compelling piece of theatre, an extraordinary love letter straight from the heart, welded with a wicked underlying humour.

Let Me Stay is a celebration of life and love as seen through the eyes of Shirley McNamara,Queen of the Mersey. Alzheimer's does not have to be a tragic and apologetic withdrawal from life.

Think of it as a shedding of all care, with two fingers at the world and a constant sense of glee. It's a lifestyle choice for some...

The story paints an exquisite picture of life in Liverpool during the sixties and seventies, reflecting cultural and historical changes in the city and the impact on family life. ? New Wolsey Theatre P 7pm (70mins)

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The show includes: BSL Interpretation Audio Description

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Live Music Serafina Steer ? New Wolsey THEATRE P Straight after Raymondo See pages 38/39

Raymondo

A show about growing up for grown ups.

Raymondo and Sparky have been locked in the cellar underneath their house for 6 years. An accident involving a pigeon provides a means of escape – but do the brothers have the skills to negotiate a haphazard and sometimes cruel world? Playwright/ performer Annie Siddons (Kneehigh, BAC, Unicorn, Bristol Old Vic) weaves this dark, funny lyrical narrative of love and survival over an atmospheric live score by multi-instrumentalist Marcus Hamblett (Laura Marling, Willy Mason, Sons of Noel and Adrian, Eyes and No Eyes) ? New Wolsey STUDIO P 9pm (70mins) , £8.50/£5

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Directed by Justin Audibert.

Produced by Ruby Glaskin.

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Friday 6 June Theater Aan Zee, Richard Jordan Productions, Big in Belgium and Theatre Royal Plymouth

Freeze

Once in a while something raises the hair on the back of your neck. Something incredibly minimal, beautiful & breakable. This is that show. Small in approach, big in ideas. When he was a child Nick Steur balanced rocks on top of each other.

At a crucial time in his artistic career, he rediscovered this skill and created a performance with mindboggling stone sculpturing. No glue, cement or any other trick is involved. Seeing is almost believing…it’s all about concentration and “finding the balance between your own force of will, and that of the stone”.

Share some of his focus and realize that true happiness lies in the luxury of being occupied with one thing only. ? High Street Exhibition Gallery P 7pm (35-60mins) , £8.50/£5

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Greyscale

Gods Are Fallen And All Safety Gone

Gods Are Fallen And All Safety Gone is an investigation into what happens when we discover that our parents are flawed human beings, and that at some point, sooner than we think, they are suddenly going to disappear from our lives.

Two imagined women, a lifetime of experience apart.

Two men, becoming those two women for an hour of their lives.

A mother and daughter quietly observing it all.

Intimate and funny, this play presents a lifetime of conversations, condensed into one hour.

“For as long as it’s not too late to talk to your mother, Gods Are Fallen may not break your heart.” Natalia Antonova, The Moscow News. ? New Wolsey STUDIO P 8:30pm (50mins) , £8.50/£5

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Live Music Uprock DJs ? New Wolsey THEATRE P Straight after Purge See pages 38/39

BRIAN LOBEL

Purge

Part game show, part love story, part lecture exploring modern friendships.

In 2011, Brian Lobel played a brutal game of friendship maintenance: over 5 days in café’s in both London and Kupio, Finland, Brian gave strangers one minute to decide which of his 1300 Facebook friends to keep or delete.

The deleting was real, the pace was maniacal, the results were final. 50 hours of performance, 800 emails from angry, amused and intrigued friends and over 2500 comments from people watching via live stream later, Purge the stage show is an interactive performance lecture exploring the process of, and fallout from, Purge and examines how we emotionally and socially interact with digital media.

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Saturday 7 June Metis

Metis

World Factory: The Shop World Factory: The Shirt WORLD FACTORY THE SHOP

Immerse yourself in the world of the global textile industry Drop intoTower Ramparts Shopping Centre to find out about and participate in the pop up METIS World Factory installation. World Factory investigates the relationship between China and the UK through the lens of the global textile industry. After a residency in a Tower Ramparts unit in April, METIS will be back for one day as part of Pulse, exploring Ipswich’s relationship to clothes, mass manufacture, and the resurgence of make-do-and-mend.

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WORLD FACTORY THE SHIRT

28 Hands Make Light Work Director Zoë Svendsen and artist Simon Daw present The Shirt, part of the METIS World Factory project.

Collaborating with Shanghai-based theatre director, Zhao Chuan, to research the topic of the global textile industry, Zoë and Simon have decided to (attempt to) participate in the system, by having a shirt made in a Chinese factory. This is however no ordinary shirt – buyers of the shirt will be able to use a bespoke app to discover the world behind its production.

Come and find out how they are getting on and hear from specialists on the truth behind the textile industry today.

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Chewing The Fat

Still Life

PHOTO : The National Portrait Gallery

FAT!

An Audience with Henrietta Moraes

That’s what I’m making a show about. My fat.

Your fat, maybe. Fat.Our bodies and egos are fragile, our ways of talking about them inadequate, so I can understand that you might not be up for talking about fat for an hour. So I’ll make you some promises:

Written and portrayed by Sue MacLaine.

The New Wolsey hosts model-in-residence Henrietta Moraes at the High Street Exhibition Gallery. Henrietta was model and muse to Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Maggi Hambling. She was the uncrowned Queen of the 1950’s Soho set. Hers was an itinerant and rackety life, sustained by the tolerance of friends, oiled by alcohol and fuelled by an astonishing variety of drugs. The Guardian obituary, after her death in 1999, gave her profession as Bohemian.

Still Life blends performance with life-drawing, encouraging those attending to engage with this intriguing woman as both audience member and artist.

] I promise to tell the truth.* ] I promise to make it funny.* ] I promise that your body is a Wonderland (copyright John Mayer) and so is mine. * I can’t guarantee that any of these promises will be kept. p.s. Bring Snacks Selina invites you to her own version of a midnight feast: somewhere between the confessions made over coffee at weight watchers, and the sloppy drunken story-telling of a 3am kebab. ? New Wolsey STUDIO P 2:30pm (70mins) , £8.50/£5

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Saturday 7 June New Art Club

Live Music RAGGED STRING BAND P Straight after The Bloody Ballad See pages 38/39

Feel About Your Body A brand new show from New Art Club.

An uplifting, life-affirming and hilarious spectacle about how we ‘feel’ about our bodies.

Of course, the show title has a double meaning – it’s sexy AND intellectual. Expect silliness, see a man talk to his bottom and find out what not to do during a heart attack.

Warning: This show has already left some people feeling ‘a little bit dirty’; contains some brief nudity (long enough to see ‘the works’); contains some brief dancing (silly and emotional); contains some puerile songs (there’s a good one about a shed).

Loved by audiences and critics alike New Art Club return with another beautifully engineered blend of physical and verbal lunacy.

“Physical comedy with brains, I laughed ‘til my face hurt.”

Stephanie Merrit, The Observer ? New Wolsey Theatre P 7:30pm (60mins) , £8.50/£5

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The Bloody Ballad

Murderously sexy, riotously bloody, dark and debauched with Rockin’ live music. Gig-theatre like you’ve never seen before!

Meet Mary, a girl with a troubled past who’s had one hell of a week and she’s gonna tell you all about it! Grimms meets Tarantino in this brutal love story between two lost souls, set around a dusty dead-end town in 1950‘s America.

Love, betrayal, murder, revenge and all accompanied by her incredible band The Missin’ Fingers.

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"Amusing, gripping and riveting" The Observer "Gruesome Good Fun" The Times ? New Wolsey STUDIO P 9:30pm (70mins) , £8.50/£5

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PULSE MUSIC

Not only have we brought together some of the most relevant and exciting theatre makers around, but we've created a mini music festival for you to enjoy at the end of each day. , All music events

are free to attend and we hope you can stay and join us after the shows and enjoy this incredible line-up over a drink or two.

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Friday 30 May

A three-piece from Bury St Edmunds trading in a harmony of raw, lo-fi expression and liberating rock-your-cares-away hooks. Described by God Is In the TV Zine as “sounding like The White Stripes playing Fugazi covers with Beth Ditto” ? New Wolsey Theatre

Mick Squalor is Ben Brown, frontman of Manningtree’s finest exports Dingus Khan. Fresh from a gig in the gents toilets at the Steamboat Tavern, which gained nationwide publicity from ITN and the Independent, Mick Squalor will be playing a totally unamplifed solo acoustic set. ? New Wolsey Theatre

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Monday 2 June

Dan once swapped a chair for a beautiful inlaid box guitar. Jamie was given a ‘pro-harp’ harmonica by a friend who couldn’t play it.

As new stars are formed from the exhausted gas of other dead stars, so arrived The Pancakes. ? New Wolsey Theatre

An electronic music project from multi-instrumentalist Christopher Brett. Weaving homemade samples to construct beautiful, textured worlds punctuated by warm shuddering sub-bass and shuffling, fluttering drums.

Equally suited on the dance floor or headphone home-listening, ? DANCEEAST

Horse Party

The Pancakes

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Brooches

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Thursday 5 June

‘Wobbly Lamps bloodthirstily pummel minimalistic garage riffs the way Billy Childish used to...

Imagine the Country Teasers devoid of the abject misanthropy and replaced with a pop seam that squirts out at the edges like a fresh donut.’ - Rough Trade Records ? New Wolsey Theatre

A frantic, skittering brand of funk rock. This is not a band anyone will forget in a hurry. With funk riffs keeping it tight while making sure they stay focussed on entertaining they coerce the audience into movement! Short on artistic pretensions, and long on uncompromising, unselfconscious good times. ? New Wolsey Theatre

Serafina Steer is a hugely talented and original harp playing multi-instrumentalist and vocalist. Her Jarvis Cocker produced 2013 album ‘The Moths are Real’ has been described as ‘One of the finest updates of the British folk tradition we’ve heard in years’ - The Quietus. ? New Wolsey Theatre

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Keep Up were born in 2013, fresh from the ashes of The Kabeedies. Their first two singles ‘Ah Tonight’ and ‘New Crowns’ received support and spins from both Tom Robinson and Chris Hawkins at BBC 6Music, as well as numerous BBC Introducing plays across the country. ? New Wolsey Theatre

Purveyors of good. new. music.

Uprock hosted early Ipswich gigs from the likes of Mumford & Sons and Ed Sheeran, the trio then carved themselves a regular DJ residency at the Swan, their sole criteria being quality music to get the party started ? New Wolsey Theatre

Formed accidentally in a pub garden in 2007, Essex five-piece the Ragged String Band have since peddled their glorious brew of old time americana, country, blues and folk across festival stages from Bestival to Maverick ? Check online for details

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