Junction Sampled: Festival of Performance 2011 by Cambridge Junction

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JUNCTION SAMPLED FESTIVAL OF PERFORMANCE

Welcome

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Junction Sampled: Festival of Performance is a celebration of contemporary work from some of the best experimental theatre makers in the East region and beyond.

A weekend bursting with Edinburgh Festival Fringe highlights (Deborah Pearson’s Like You Were Before, Made In China’s Stationary Excess, Laura Mugridge’s Running on Air), new offerings from artists who have spent time exploring and developing ideas at The Junction (Greg McLaren, RashDash, Foster & Déchery) and a selection of open workshops, interventions, happenings and encounters (195+, The Mobile Library (Annes), Mega, Carpe Minuta Prima). A true festival experience showcased across the whole building: catch at least seven performances in one day, all in the same place, from full length shows and Edinburgh 2011 previews to short intimate works, collaborations and scratch material.

Join our playful Associate Artist and Sampled ‘hostess with the mostess’ Bryony Kimmings as we invite you to navigate your own festival adventure, experience a range of inventive performance work, try something new and talk about what you’ve seen.

Festival Passes Day Tickets: Weekend Tickets:

£14 / £12 con £22 / £20 con

Follow #sampled11 on Twitter for up to date festival news and to share your comments. * Please note some performances have a limited capacity and will need to be signed up for on the day of the event. Don’t worry if these turn out to be full as there are plenty of intriguing options to choose from.

Sat 30 Apr

Ross Sutherland: Comedian Dies In The Middle Of Joke

Hannah Jane Walker: This is just to say

Time: 11am Duration: 1hr Age: 16+ Venue: J2

Time: 11.30am & 6.30pm Duration: 1hr 10 Age: 16+ Venue: Boardroom

November 10th, 1983: the closest the world has ever come to nuclear war. Comedian JJ Walsh is headlining his local comedy club. As if his job wasn’t hard enough this evening, it turns out the venue is trapped inside a six-minute time-loop.

Saying sorry is conversational ellipsis Saying sorry is social glue We use it to make people like us

Written by Ross Sutherland (The Times’ “Top Ten Literary Stars”) Comedian Dies In The Middle Of Joke is an interactive play for ten people, where every audience member takes it in turn to play the part of JJ Walsh. Read the autocue…become the comedian…succeed where JJ Walsh fails, or die trying! R&D process supported by Hide&Seek.

This is just to say is a conversation about manipulation, Britishness, love and winning This is just to say is installation art, performance poetry and good company This is just to say is smudging its make-up, buying bouquets and screening your calls An intimate piece set around a table. Pull up a chair and drink some wine.

* Open Workshop If you’d like to participate, please arrive at 10:55am for seating. Non-participants are welcome to watch from the upper seating level and can drop in and out as they please.

We are very sorry, but we are unable to admit latecomers.

“ One of the most exciting new voices to emerge on the Fringe this year. A real star in the making.” **** The Independent

“ Confident, endearing and engaging, she paints a picture with a kind of clarity and pitch that allows you to both understand her feelings and connect to your own”

* Limited capacity (sign up on the day).

Total Theatre

www.junction.co.uk

www.rosssutherland.co.uk

www.hannahjanewalker.co.uk

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Sat 30 Apr

Tim Clare: How To Be A Leader

Made In China: Dreams of a House High on a Hill

Dancing Brick: Captain Ko and the Planet of Rice

Metis: 195+

Time: 12.45pm Duration: 55 mins Age: 16+ Venue: J3

Time: 2pm Duration: 20 mins Age: 10+ Venue: J2

Time: 3pm Duration: 30 mins Age: 10+ Venue: J3

Time: 3.30pm - 7.30pm Duration: Open workshop Age: 10+ Venue: J1

With dictators falling across the globe, Tim Clare attempts to save the dying art of despotism with a leadership masterclass. Learn how to seize power, how to abuse power, and how to look good while getting shot at.

The girl stands shivering on the doorstep of the house high on the hill.

The plan for 195+ is to create a durational performance event where international commodities become the prizes in an explosive game of empire-building.

Using a mixture of stand-up, video, and unsolicited romantic overtures Tim also explains how he escaped a knife-wielding heckler, reveals the 7 Rules of Leadership, and pays tribute to some of history’s most influential women in a no-holds barred rap battle royale.

Is making the door look like the dark shadow of a man.

Captain Ko and the Planet of Rice is Dancing Brick’s response to our anxiety towards ageing, and our fear of forgetting. It is about recordings, memory, frontiers. It is a study into neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Semantic Dementia, and how humans cope when faced with these strange realities.

* How To Be A Leader is a work in progress and this will be its first ever live performance. “ Tim Clare has audiences hooting in recognition. Sublime” The Guardian

www.timclarepoet.co.uk

The moon is making the sea look like metal, look like milk

Captain Ko is an investigation into the effect Alzheimer’s disease has on the way the sufferer sees the world, using science fiction, mime, movement, an original soundtrack and video design.

Made In China invite you to sit around their bathtub and bear witness to a beautiful nightmare. Part narrative poem, part installation and part live performance, Dreams of a House High on a Hill is a unique voyage through the landscape of dreams. With music and lots of milk.

195+ takes inspiration from the physicality and atmosphere of competitive fencing. In this open drop-in workshop Metis will be exploring some of the ideas, technologies and audienceperformance relationships that will structure the eventual work (for 2012). 195+ draws on ideas developed in Simon Daw and Zoe Svendsen’s last collaboration, 3rd Ring Out (www.3rdringout.com).

* Durational open workshop (audience members can drop in and out as they please).

* A work in progress showing.

“ dynamic and exciting new company”

“ Bursting with talent, Dancing Brick make people laugh their heads off but also break their hearts” The Stage

“ This is a really great idea, the two performers who lead us through the scenario are outstanding”

www.dancingbrick.net

www.metisarts.co.uk

Nic Wass, the Royal Court

www.madeinchinatheatre.com

Lyn Gardner, The Guardian on Metis’ 3rd Ring Out

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Sat 30 Apr

Tim Clare: Death Drive

Tinned Fingers: The Last Romance Club (ever)

Made In China: Stationary Excess

Foster & Déchery: Epic

Time: 4pm Duration: 55 mins Age: 16+ Venue: J2

Time: 5.30pm Duration: 1hr Age: 14+ Venue: J3

Time: 7.45pm Duration: 30 mins Age: 15+ Price: J3

Time: 8.45pm Duration: 1hr 30 Age: 12+ Price: J2

There’s nothing like seeing your dad have a go at an activity to make it seem suddenly uncool. Turns out suicide is no exception.

We are hopeful. We are looking for love. We want to get lucky. We want to serenade you outside your window at night. We want to give you our last rolo. We can’t sing but, for you, we’ll try.

Stationary Excess (Sometimes I Think I Am Helping But Really I’m Just Making Things Worse) by Made In China

“With Epic we will go on a quest for History; the big one, written about in books… The one with World Wars in it, with memorable dates, but also the personal one, the human one, the one you can relate to.”

Tim Clare’s Death Drive is the story of how a father-son suicide pact turned him from cynical loser to happy failure. With stand-up, poetry, ukulele, and a psychic horse. Tim Clare’s first book, We Can’t All Be Astronauts, won Best Biography/Memoir at the East Anglian Book Awards, and made Grazia’s ‘Must List’. He presented the C4 series How To Get A Book Deal, and has performed his work on BBC2, and Radio 1, 2, 4 and 6.

The Last Romance Club (ever) is an exploration of romance and loneliness and the ways in which the two are implicitly bound up in each other. It is about late night radio stations, long distance truckers and iconic film scenes. It is about notions of a romantic ideal and about nostalgia for the romance we have lost, or never had, and it is about trying to be honest, which is always harder than we expect.

Imprisoned on an exercise bicycle, a lone woman tells the story of an extraordinary man. Stationary Excess is a daringly honest solo performance that evokes the absurdity, pain and hilarity of being alone. A bizarre and intimate experience that will scream out to anyone who has ever loved and lost. Made In China is the collaborative work of Jessica Latowicki (performer) and Tim Cowbury (writer).

* A work in progress showing.

A playful and experimental journey through the past hundred years, Epic combines personal stories, video interaction, fanciful re-enactments of key 20th century events, and a cameo from Bertolt Brecht. Epic creates moments of intimacy while also connecting us to the bigger picture. Foster & Déchery make exciting, accessible, pared-down theatre harnessing the power of the autobiographical to connect us to issues of the moment, while placing this within a rich visual and physical style. * Preview performance.

“ the most compelling solo performance on the Fringe this year” *****

“ Tinned Fingers are one of the most interesting companies out there at the moment”

“ visually engaging, fabulously performed… the complete package”

WhatsOnStage

Andrew Haydon, Postcards From The Gods

British Theatre Guide

“ A brave, understated performance, a wonderfully poised, multi-layered text that plants lines in the mind that linger on.” The Stage on Oh, My Green Soap Box by Lucy Foster

www.timclarepoet.co.uk

www.tinnedfingers.co.uk

www.madeinchinatheatre.com

www.epictheshow.com

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Sun 01 May

non zero one: the time out

The Other Way Works: Avon Calling

JAM

Time: 11am/12pm/1.40pm/2.20pm Duration: 20 mins Age: 14+ Venue: J3

Time: 11.30am & 1.45pm Duration: 1hr Age: 14+ Venue: J2 Dressing Room

Time: 12.30pm Duration: 1hr Age: 12+ Venue: J2

You are told that in 9 minutes and 39 seconds, you will be facing something huge - something you might not normally do, alongside people you may never have met. As the size of the task ahead becomes clear, time stops.

Ding, dong. “Avon Calling”. Join the Avon Lady in the cosy surrounds of The Junction’s dressing rooms for an intimate Avon Party with a twist. Have fun with vintage Avon products and adverts, test and maybe even purchase new Avon cosmetics and toiletries. Hear the Avon lady’s own story, and share your own memories of Avon.

JAM, The Junction’s experimental scratch platform, is an opportunity for artists to share new ideas, early collaborations and take risks in a supportive, informal environment.

What will you need to know about the people in this room to feel ready to take on the task together? What will you ask, what will you tell, and what difference will any of it make? This early work in progress uses the moment before a huge event, when time seems to stand still, to interrogate how we build teams, what our roles as individuals are within them, and where we draw the line between the two.

Avon Calling is a new piece in development from The Other Way Works, a Birmingham-based theatre company that creates theatre that draws the audience into the very heart of the experience.

non zero one are supported artists of The Basement, Brighton.

Created by Katie Day and Louise Platt, and performed by Louise Platt. Mentoring by Alexander Kelly, Third Angel. Commissioned by mac. Supported by Arts Council England. Development supported by Pilot Nights and Warwick Arts Centre.

* Limited capacity (sign up on the day).

“ Intelligently crafted and totally engaging… it will haunt my imagination for a long time.”

“ a dynamic young company that is successfully exploring the possibilities of what theatre can and might be.”

Evening Standard on none zero one’s would like to meet at The Barbican

Work often has its first public outing at JAM, so the audience has a significant role to play too; the chance to share feedback, join in critical debates and help shape the direction of a future piece of work. This special afternoon JAM will feature: Maison Foo: The Double Act and the Shoemaker After a successful sell out run at Edinburgh festival last year, Maison Foo join us to scratch, sniff and itch their way into a new visual fairytale for grown ups, based (very loosely) around a retelling of classic fairytale The Elves and the Shoemaker. Equipped with: A pile of objects, 2 pairs of hands, a fascination with double acts and an obsession with shoes, Maison Foo invite you to be part of this exciting and no doubt chaotic experiment!

Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

www.maisonfoo.co.uk www.nonzeroone.com

www.theotherwayworks.co.uk

Molly Naylor: Crap Wedding Photo A work in progress sharing of Molly Naylor’s new work in the early stages of its development. Crap Wedding Photo is a storytelling show about fear, family and purpose. Framed by an impending wedding, it shares interlinked stories about three generations of a family, and their fears. Each must conquer a fear in order for the wedding to go ahead. Meet Harry, the bride’s 7-year-old step-brother who’s scared of sleep, the sea, and the school bully. Meet Jack, the father of the bride, terrified of public speaking and death in equal measures. Meet Eliza, the bride… who has just realized she is afraid of marriage. www.mollynaylor.com Dan Canham: 30 Cecil Street In 2009 Dan Canham (Kneehigh, DV8, Punchdrunk, Fabulous Beast) made a film in a rotting, dilapidated theatre in Limerick, Ireland. Using that film as source material, this brand new piece of dance-theatre sees a lone figure stream through fragments of memories in a series of poignant and evocative dances. With an original soundtrack made up of interviews and found sounds, this poetic and moving piece looks at the life of a once-mighty building and what is left when a theatre closes its doors to the public. See the original film at: www.stillhouse.co.uk

Sun 01 May

Michael Pinchbeck: The End

Bill Aitchison: The Customer Is Always Wrong

Time: 3pm Duration: 1hr Age: 16+ Venue: J2 Two men. Two bear suits. Two blindfolds. 1000 index cards. Inspired by the stage direction in The Winter’s Tale, “Exit pursued by a bear,” The End explores endings and exits and continues an interest in the re-enactment of real life events to investigate absence and loss. The End asks why we perform and how we will know when to stop and is Michael Pinchbeck’s last piece for the theatre.

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Sun 01 May

Greg McLaren: Doris Day Can Fuck Off

Deborah Pearson: Like You Were Before

Time: 4.30pm Duration: 1hr Age: All Venue: J3

Time: 6pm Duration: 1hr Age: 14+ Venue: J2

Time: 7.30pm Duration: 45 mins Age: 16+ Venue: J3

One of a kind performance artist, traveller and all round professional eccentric Bill Aitchison has been taking the citizenship test for the last three months… in Xiamen, South China.

Greg has been singing, to everyone, everywhere. Where he would speak he must sing. He’s recorded his encounters and mashed them up to create a slippery world between what is meant and what is expressed, what is created and what is found.

Using a video from the last day she lived in Canada five years ago, Deborah Pearson tries to re-insert herself in the frame.

Alicja Rogalska

Kevin Edwards

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Fresh off the plane and still swimming through jet lag, he will give a new performance of imperfect translations, misunderstandings and insights into how the British (i.e. Bill) come over to the good citizens of Xiamen. Expect a humorous and insightful take on identity confusions in the 21st century.

It’s a fantastically odd and moving journey from place to place, voice to voice that slips between reality and imagination, and light social self-harm. It’s a peculiarly playful and dangerous one man opera performed with utterly offhand conviction.

Like You Were Before is a lament to the fact that time can’t be put on pause, to the tender fragility of magnetic-media and mental storage. This is a show for people who sit backwards on trains, who re-read emails from over two years ago, and who hate seeing anything new or unfamiliar when they visit their hometown. This is a show about moving forward backwards.

Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Commissioned by Chester Performs and developed at The Junction, Brighton Dome and Festival, New Art Exchange (Nottingham) and Lakeside Arts Centre (Nottingham).

Supported by British Council China and Arts Council England.

Greg McLaren has been in residence at The Junction and across the streets of Cambridge as part of the research and development process for Doris Day Can Fuck Off.

Winner of a Herald Angel, 2010 Shortlisted for the Total Theatre Award for Innovation, 2010 Shortlisted for the Arches Brick Award, 2010

“ An individual practice that is powerful and compelling”

“ McLaren is outstanding”

ArtArtArt Magazine

“ deliciously lunatic stage show… an irresistible hour-long outdoor romp through the most wildly conceived and delusional of conspiracy theories” British Theatre Guide on Bill Aitchison’s 2012

“ A beautiful, accomplished, bittersweet and philosophical work on love, loss and memory” **** The List

www.michaelpinchbeck.co.uk

www.billaitchison.co.uk

Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

www.gregmclaren.com

www.deborahpearson.com

THROUGHOUT THE WEEKEND

RashDash: Scary Gorgeous

Brian Lobel: Carpe Minuta Prima

Time: 9pm Duration: 1hr 30 Age: 16+ Venue: J2

Time: Throughout day (From 11.30am) Duration: 5 mins (approx) Age: All (U16’s must be accompanied) Venue: Throughout the building

“Hello. I’m Abbi and this is Helen. And this show is a true story. We did something, we wish we hadn’t, and now we’d like to apologise. This is a story about the pictures that tell us how to live and love. This is a story about a girl and a boy very much in love. This show’s scary and it’s gorgeous. We’re going to pretend to be other people, and we’re going to be ourselves. There’s a live band, there’s singing, there’s dancing.

Brian Lobel adds an unusual twist to the age old question “Can I have a minute of your time?”

It’s about sex. And sexiness. And the difference. And it’s about love. And love. And love.” Scary Gorgeous is the first RashDash show on which the company have worked alongside a writer. Chris Thorpe (Unlimited, Third Angel) has played a vital role in helping structure the story and find the most effective way of voicing the company’s ideas. * Preview performance. “ delightful…wonderfully uplifting…stunning” The Scotsman on RashDash’s Another Someone

www.rashdash.co.uk

Throughout the day Brian will ask festival-goers to sell him a minute of their life for £1. If they agree they will be filmed for one minute and asked to sign over exclusive rights of that minute to Brian. At the end of the day all the collected minutes will be unveiled to the public and available to buy for £1. Meaning seize the minute, Carpe Minuta Prima playfully explores themes of economy the value of our time and our work and what it means to sign away your soul. Carpe Minuta Prima is a site-specific encounter that is directly informed by the people who participate. The installation at Sampled will reflect the people who attend, making it completely unique.

Sat 30 Apr & Sun 01 May

Laura Mugridge: Running on Air

Bryony Kimmings: Mega

Sat Time: 11am/1pm/4pm/6.45pm Sun Time: 11am/1.45pm/4.30pm/6.30pm Duration: 45 mins Age: 14+ Venue: Campervan (outside venue)

Time: Throughout day (From 11.30am) Duration: 10 mins (approx) Age: 11+ Venue: Outside venue

Performed in a vintage, yellow VW campervan called ‘Joni’ parked outside The Junction, Running On Air is an award-winning show by comedian Laura Mugridge, performed for just five audience members at a time. Recreating the beauty of the great outdoors inside the campervan, Laura invites you on an intimate journey from Lands End to Edinburgh, sharing her experience of marriage, camping and her love of the good life. With her own brand of quirky and charming comedy, Laura describes a journey that involves fell running and a performance in front of three kestrels: a joyful investigation into the beauty and complexity of domestic life. * Limited capacity (sign up on the day).

“ the urge to use our time more profitably and live life to the full is a strong one, and something Carpe Minuta Prima cunningly taps into”

“ A life-affirming, love-affirming odyssey full of exquisite tiny details…while her show may be brilliantly simple, she is simply brilliant” *****

The Guardian

Metro

www.blobelwarming.com

www.lauramugridge.co.uk

Christa Holka

Sun 01 May

Christa Holka

Sun 01 May

Joe Martin

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Back in 1990 hopeful property developers, sensing that a coming American airbase brought with it great riches, built a space-ship shaped restaurant on the side of the A14 motorway. This restaurant was called Megatron. As a 9 year-old Bryony Kimmings remembers the hysteria this Mecca of overpriced hamburgers, complete with touch screen ordering and robot waiters, brought to her town, the lasting memory however was its sad demise. Bryony Kimmings invites you to become her 9 year-old self, pull on a shell suit, grab a Walkman and embark on a trip down memory lane. This is a coming of age tale of one hot summer, schoolgirl dreams and those moments in life when the magnificent becomes the mundane. Bryony Kimmings is a Junction Associate Artist. * Individual audio experience, collect headphones from foyer. “ One of the funniest, most charming things I’ve seen in an age” **** Time Out on Bryony Kimmings’ Sex Idiot

www.bryonykimmings.com

Info

THROUGHOUT THE WEEKEND Sat 30 Apr & Sun 01 May

Sat 30 Apr & Sun 01 May

Maison Foo: The Mobile Library (Annes)

Other Things to Look Out For...

Time: Age: Venue:

Throughout the weekend All Throughout the venue

Keep an eye out for two intriguing and rather nosy librarians over the weekend as Maison Foo try out ideas for their new street theatre piece. On a mission to stamp, file and collect you and your stories, they will be traveling through the Junction posing as a rather curious looking Mobile Library! So hide those overdue books, get those library cards at the ready and prepare to be thoroughly investigated.

Booking Info Festival Passes Day Tickets: Weekend Tickets:

Throughout the weekend All Throughout the venue

Maison Foo Seaside Shenanigans... In need of a holiday?! Well never fear, Maison Foo will be bringing their recession busting, budget seaside to the festival. So make sure you take time to sit back, relax and join in the holiday spirit. www.maisonfoo.co.uk Night Light Orchestra The Night Light Orchestra are a three part musical ensemble and a human jukebox with a base in Cambridge. Playing original songs, covering classic tunes and telling ludicrous stories everywhere they go. Night Light Theatre’s Director, Rich Rusk is a Junction Associate Artist and the company’s orchestra will provide late night festival tunes and merriment in our bar. www.nightlighttheatre.co.uk

* P.S. Shhhhhhhhhh! “ The highlight was a surreal and hilarious tour of the city centre with Maison Foo” The Guardian on Derby Feste

www.maisonfoo.co.uk

Bryony Kimmings Our Associate Artist and Sampled ‘Hostess with the Mostess’ Bryony Kimmings will be on site all weekend to make you feel welcome, point you in the right direction and deliver a good dose of Great British Holiday Camp malarkey! www.bryonykimmings.com

Access £14 / £12 con £22 / £20 con

Day and weekend tickets will be exchanged for wristbands at the Box Office on the day of attendance.

Limited Capacity Shows A number of shows throughout the weekend are intimate affairs with limited capacity. Your day or weekend ticket does not guarantee you entry to these shows. To ensure your place, enter your details on the sign-up sheets in the J2 foyer. Sign-up sheets will be available from 11am each day. But don’t worry if you miss out, there are plenty more intriguing options to choose from.

Box Office Telephone: Online: Email:

01223 511 511 www.junction.co.uk tickets@junction.co.uk

The Junction has access throughout the ground floor with wheelchair accessible toilets and lifts to the first floor levels. Dedicated NCP parking spaces for disabled customers can be found in front of the building and on the ground floor of the multi-storey car park, which are both accessible via Clifton Way. Please advise the Box Office of any access requirements at the point of booking. To discuss any access issues prior to your visit, please call the Box Office on 01223 511 511 or email tickets@junction.co.uk

THE TEXT IN THIS BROCHURE IS AVAILABLE IN LARGE PRINT ON REQUEST

Age Policy The suggested age suitability is listed for each show. The Junction recommends and requests that all under 14s are accompanied by an adult. Please contact the Box Office if you have a specific enquiry.

Twitter: Website:

#sampled11 www.junction.co.uk

Schedule

Sunday Time

Saturday Time

Act

Venue

11am Ross Sutherland: J2 Comedian Dies In The Middle Of Joke 11am Laura Mugridge: Campervan Running on Air (outside venue) From Bryony Kimmings: Outside venue 11am Mega 11.30am Hannah Jane Walker: Boardroom This is just to say 12.45pm Tim Clare: J3 How To Be A Leader 1pm Laura Mugridge: Campervan Running on Air (outside venue) From Maison Foo: Throughout 1pm The Mobile Library (Annes) the venue 2pm Made In China: J2 Dreams of a House High on a Hill 3pm Dancing Brick: J3 Captain Ko and the Planet of Rice 3.30pm Metis: J1 195+ 4pm Tim Clare: Death Drive J2 4pm Laura Mugridge: Campervan Running on Air (outside venue) 5.30pm Tinned Fingers: J3 The Last Romance Club (ever) 6.30pm Hannah Jane Walker: Boardroom This is just to say 6.45pm Laura Mugridge: Campervan Running on Air (outside venue) 7.45pm Made In China: J3 Stationary Excess 8.45pm Foster & DĂŠchery: Epic J2

Duration

1hr (open workshop)

45 mins

10 mins (approx), throughout the day

1hr 10 mins

55 mins

45 mins

Throughout the day

20 mins

30 mins

4hrs (open workshop)

55 mins

45 mins

1hr

1hr 10 mins

45 mins

30 mins

1hr 30 mins

Act

Venue

Duration

11am non zero one: J3 20 mins the time out 11am Laura Mugridge: Campervan 45 mins Running on Air (outside venue) From Bryony Kimmings: Outside venue 10 mins (approx), 11am Mega throughout the day From Maison Foo: Throughout Throughout 11am The Mobile Library (Annes) the venue the day 11.30am The Other Way Works: J2 Dressing 1hr Avon Calling Room From Brian Lobel: Throughout 5 mins (approx), 11.30am Carpe Minuta Prima the venue throughout the day 12pm non zero one: J3 20 mins the time out 12.30pm JAM feat. Maison Foo, J2 1hr Molly Naylor & Dan Canham 1.40pm non zero one: J3 20 mins the time out 1.45pm The Other Way Works: J2 Dressing Room 1hr Avon Calling 1.45pm Laura Mugridge: Campervan 45 mins Running on Air (outside venue) 2.20pm non zero one: J3 20 mins the time out 3pm Michael Pinchbeck: J2 1hr The End 4.30pm Bill Aitchison: J3 1hr The Customer Is Always Wrong 4.30pm Laura Mugridge: Campervan 45 mins Running on Air (outside venue) 6pm Greg McLaren: J2 1hr Doris Day Can Fuck Off 6.30pm Laura Mugridge: Campervan 45 mins Running on Air (outside venue) 7.30pm Deborah Pearson: J3 45 mins Like You Were Before 9pm RashDash: J2 1hr 30 mins Scary Gorgeous

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MORE NEW WORK COMING SOON Fri 27 May

Thu 07 & Fri 08 Jul

Fri 15 Jul

Night Light Theatre Company: Romeo and Juliet

The Paper Birds: Thirsty

Badac Theatre Company: Al Nakba

Bryony Kimmings: 7 Day Drunk

Time: 8pm Duration: 30 mins (plus informal feedback) Age: 12+ Price: £5 / £4 con / J3

Time: 8pm Duration: 45 mins (plus informal feedback) Age: 13+ Price: £5 / £4 con / J3

Time: 8pm Duration: 1hr Age: 14+ Price: £8 / £6 con / J1

Time: 8pm Duration: 30 mins (plus informal feedback) Age: 18+ Price: £5 / £4 con / J2

This work in progress sharing of Night Light Theatre’s Romeo and Juliet will provide an insight into the forthcoming production at an unfinished stage…

The Paper Birds present a work in progress sharing of Thirsty, a theatrical exploration into the upsurge of the binge drinking culture currently gripping the UK.

An ensemble of people and life sized puppets set out to inspire, excite and entertain in this new version of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece.

Thirsty looks past the facts and figures of binge drinking to the faces and voices of women admitted into A&E in the dead of the night and of the lone girls sitting on pavements unable to stand.

In December 2008, the Israeli armed forces launched a 22-day offensive in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian people living within Gaza were bombed relentlessly, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of men, women and children.

Bryony Kimmings has always had a rocky relationship with alcohol. It seems that drinking is intrinsically linked to her confidence and self worth as an artist and is to blame for some of her most genius as well as her most hideous creations.

Throughout the bombardment Palestinian civilians lost their homes and their livelihoods. The infrastructure of their society was specifically targeted and for 22 days they fought to survive.

Of course this is no new conundrum, for years artists have struggled with their addictions and its effects on their creativity: Truman Capote, Jackson Pollock, Charles Bukowski…all case in point.

Al Nakba focuses on one family and their struggle to live through the onslaught. It explores both the physical and psychological effects of the attacks and aims to highlight and communicate the human rights abuses that the Palestinian people were forced to endure.

So what is it about alcohol that moves artists to create? Is the work that comes from these states actually any good? Where in the brain do these brilliant ideas come from? How does the body cope with such abuse?

The show focuses heavily on creativity, imagination and vivid theatrical storytelling. Live music, magic and passion will fuel the production which is set in a Verona unlike any previously seen. Night Light Theatre welcome feedback from the audience following this sharing of Romeo and Juliet. Rich Rusk, Night Light Theatre’s Artistic Director is a Junction Associate Artist.

“ Rich Rusk is known for creating ingenious, visually arresting Fringe theatre.” The Metro ****

Thirsty explores the stories and social repercussions of lost memories and gained traumas. This is the tale of bruised knees, uncontrollable laughter, forgotten moments and urine stained beds…a story that repeats itself across the UK and beyond every Friday night.

Badac Theatre Company produces intense physical pieces of theatre that aim to highlight human rights abuses and what they actually mean to the individuals that experience them.

Research and Development process supported by The Junction.

“The Paper Birds proves itself an accomplished company, capable of devising highly inventive and relevant work.”

“ The visceral power of the work is extremely rare.”

Christa Holka

Fri 13 May

MORE NEW WORK COMING SOON

This one woman show is created entirely in states of intoxication in collaboration with a documentary filmmaker, neuroscientist, pharmacologist, sociologist, psychologist and IT professor. Join Junction Associate Artist Bryony Kimmings for a work in progress showing. “The Pam Ayers of Performance Art” The Guardian

Steven Berkoff

The Stage

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www.thepaperbirds.com

www.badactheatre.com

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We are here

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The Junction also presents a unique and acclaimed programme of theatre, dance, comedy, clubs and live music. For further details of all upcoming events visit www.junction.co.uk

Address:

The Junction, C lifton Way Cambridge, CB1 7GX

Email:

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Cover Image: Bryony Kimmings Photo:

Christa Holka