Institute program

Photo: Richard Haughton

Institute GECKO | UNITED KINGDOM | CREATED BY AMIT LAHAV

INSTITUTE GECKO | UNITED KINGDOM EVEREST THEATRE SEYMOUR CENTRE 25–28 JANUARY 75MINS, NO INTERVAL Created by

Amit Lahav Producer

Rosalind Wynn Production Manager

Nathan Johnson Devising Performers

Chris Evans Amit Lahav Ryen Perkins-Gangnes François Testory Set Design

Rhys Jarman & Amit Lahav Lighting Design

Chris Swain & Amit Lahav Original Music

Dave Price Associate Directors

Rich Rusk & Helen Baggett Sound Design

Nathan Johnson Costume Supervisor

Amy Cook Technical Stage Manager

Andres Velasquez Company Stage Manager

Tanya Stephenson Re-Lighter

Gareth Green

STILL LIFE DIMITRIS PAPAIOANNOU | GREECE

DIRECTOR’S NOTE When the time comes, will anyone really care? This feels to me like the right time to be asking this question. We are entering a time in which we are potentially more fractured and disconnected from each other than ever before. Are we losing our ability to read each other and therefore protect and care for one another? Alongside this, the notion of care has become a political currency, spoken about in the media every day. Institute is driven by Gecko’s desire to explore the complexities in human nature; our impulse to care and our complete reliance on one another. We’ve created a very intimate, funny and revealing experience in Gecko’s physical, honest and generous style. A world where everyone relies on someone to catch them.

Amit Lahav INSTITUTE: THE STORY SO FAR In 2012 Gecko’s Artistic Director Amit Lahav began to develop Institute.

Interested in the idea of care, he explored its role within our modern society. During development in early 2013, Gecko invited a select panel of inspirational artists, support workers, patients and carers of various fields into the room to explore a range of themes and relationships relating to care. The rich findings of this extraordinary initial development and the personal stories that emerged have fuelled Institute. With each new show they build on their established working methodology of physical exploration and theatrical invention. Institute premiered in 2014 and toured across the UK before a month long run at the Edinburgh Fringe

in 2015. The show continues to tour both nationally and internationally.

ABOUT GECKO Founded in 2001, Gecko is an awardwinning, internationally acclaimed physical theatre company led by Artistic Director Amit Lahav. With an expanding ensemble of international performers and makers, they create work through collaboration, experimentation and play, working across diverse age groups, nationalities and forms. A Gecko show is visual, visceral, ambitious theatre crafted to inspire, move and entertain. They strive to make their work wide open to interpretation, putting the audience at the heart of the narrative.

GECKO General Manager

Belinda Farrell Finance Manager

Andy Brumwell Administrator

Pippa Fox Book Keeper

Terri Winwood Administrative Intern

Thomas Holloway Gecko is supported by Arts Council England and Ipswich Borough Council.

Institute is a Gecko production co-commissioned by Derby Theatre, Warwick Arts Centre and New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich, in association with DanceEast and Northern Stage.

CARRIAGEWORKS 27–29 JANUARY

“BRILLIANT.” DAGENS NYHETER