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09 10 NO. 5 29 MAY 10pm £3 11 PAPERWEIGHT 30 MAY 12noon, 5pm, 9.30pm £7 12

31 MAY 2pm, 5pm £7 12 THE WORLD’S WIFE 30 MAY 7pm £5 13 WOLF 30 MAY

9.15pm £5 14 SPRINGBOARD REHEARSED READINGS 31 MAY & 7 JUNE 2pm £3 15 THE SNOW GOOSE DIARIES 31 MAY 4.30pm £5 16 BULLY 31 MAY 7pm £5 17 THE CARAVAN

2 to 5 JUNE 1, 6, 6.50, 7.40, 8.30pm £7 18

6 JUNE 1, 1.50, 2.40, 3.30, 4.20pm £7 18 HOLLY RUMBLE’S MOBILE DISCO

19 CIRCUS THEATRE WORKSHOP 2 & 3 JUNE 10am to 4pm £10 20 MISSISSIPPI 2 JUNE 7pm £3 21 THE OCTOBER REVOLUTIONS 3 JUNE 7.45pm £5 22 BRITAIN’S BEST MATES 4 JUNE 7.45pm £5 23 TRACKER + DRIVEN + iD 5 JUNE 7.45pm £7 24-25 PULSE AT A GLANCE 26-27 THE PROCESS OF PAINTING In Progress!

5 JUNE 6 to 8pm 28

6 & 7 JUNE 11am to 5pm 28 THE TRUTH IS I CAN’T STOP TELLING LIES 5 JUNE 8pm £5 29 WRITE NOW 6 JUNE 2pm £3 30 OUT WESTGATE 6 JUNE 7.45pm £5 31 TWO BY TWO + COPE 7 JUNE 7pm £5 32 BEDROOM STORIES 9 JUNE 8.30pm £5 33 JUDE SIMPSON: MAKING HAPPY 10 JUNE 7pm £5 34 THE HISTORY OF THE POMEGRANATE 10 JUNE 8.30pm £5 35 HORSE 10 JUNE 9pm £5 36 KING OF THE GYPSIES 11 JUNE 6pm £5 38 IS EVERYONE OK? 11 JUNE 7.30pm £5 39 LOVEDRUNK 11 JUNE 9.30pm £5 40 EPIPHANY 12 JUNE 7pm £5 41 THE GREAT ESCAPE +THIS IS OUR UNIVERSE 12 JUNE 7pm £5 42 + BASIC DRESSING YOU ARE HERE 12 JUNE 7.45pm £5 43 OH! WHAT A SH*TTY WAR 12 JUNE 9.30pm £5 44 SOUND JOURNEY 13 JUNE 5pm £5 45 DREAMDANCE 13 JUNE 8.30pm £5 46 THE ADVENTURES OF WOUND MAN AND SHIRLEY 13 JUNE 9pm £7 47

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27 MAY 6pm £3 06 28 & 29 MAY 7.4pm £5 07 28 MAY to 13 JUNE 10am to 5pm 08

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09 10 NO. 5 29 MAY 10pm £3 11 PAPERWEIGHT 30 MAY 12noon, 5pm, 9.30pm £7 12

31 MAY 2pm, 5pm £7 12 THE WORLD’S WIFE 30 MAY 7pm £5 13 WOLF 30 MAY

9.15pm £5 14 SPRINGBOARD REHEARSED READINGS 31 MAY & 7 JUNE 2pm £3 15 THE SNOW GOOSE DIARIES 31 MAY 4.30pm £5 16 BULLY 31 MAY 7pm £5 17 THE CARAVAN

2 to 5 JUNE 1, 6, 6.50, 7.40, 8.30pm £7 18

6 JUNE 1, 1.50, 2.40, 3.30, 4.20pm £7 18 HOLLY RUMBLE’S MOBILE DISCO

19 CIRCUS THEATRE WORKSHOP 2 & 3 JUNE 10am to 4pm £10 20 MISSISSIPPI 2 JUNE 7pm £3 21 THE OCTOBER REVOLUTIONS 3 JUNE 7.45pm £5 22 BRITAIN’S BEST MATES 4 JUNE 7.45pm £5 23 TRACKER + DRIVEN + iD 5 JUNE 7.45pm £7 24-25 PULSE AT A GLANCE 26-27 THE PROCESS OF PAINTING In Progress!

5 JUNE 6 to 8pm 28

6 & 7 JUNE 11am to 5pm 28 THE TRUTH IS I CAN’T STOP TELLING LIES 5 JUNE 8pm £5 29 WRITE NOW 6 JUNE 2pm £3 30 OUT WESTGATE 6 JUNE 7.45pm £5 31 TWO BY TWO + COPE 7 JUNE 7pm £5 32 BEDROOM STORIES 9 JUNE 8.30pm £5 33 JUDE SIMPSON: MAKING HAPPY 10 JUNE 7pm £5 34 THE HISTORY OF THE POMEGRANATE 10 JUNE 8.30pm £5 35 HORSE 10 JUNE 9pm £5 36 KING OF THE GYPSIES 11 JUNE 6pm £5 38 IS EVERYONE OK? 11 JUNE 7.30pm £5 39 LOVEDRUNK 11 JUNE 9.30pm £5 40 EPIPHANY 12 JUNE 7pm £5 41 THE GREAT ESCAPE +THIS IS OUR UNIVERSE 12 JUNE 7pm £5 42 + BASIC DRESSING YOU ARE HERE 12 JUNE 7.45pm £5 43 OH! WHAT A SH*TTY WAR 12 JUNE 9.30pm £5 44 SOUND JOURNEY 13 JUNE 5pm £5 45 DREAMDANCE 13 JUNE 8.30pm £5 46 THE ADVENTURES OF WOUND MAN AND SHIRLEY 13 JUNE 9pm £7 47

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WHAT ELSE CAN YOU DO FOR A FIVER?

Watch the next Danny Boyle… but not the ending, Eat five-and-a-half scotch eggs, buy a silver bracelet and have a green wrist, have both big toes pedicured or fly to selected European destinations (price does not include tax, insurance, handling charge, processing fees… or wings). or SEE A PULSE EVENT!!

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We are providing you with an exciting mix of rehearsed readings, works in development and finished pieces to tickle your festival fancy. This year there are new venues added to the line up and a couple of unusual occurrences in strange places! Take for instance The Caravan – which will set up residence outside the New Wolsey Theatre for a week.

Once again were partnering with Town Hall Galleries to present some brand new Visual Arts, including some rather random events in the town that will remain under wraps until 24hours before the event!! Check out page 19 to find out how to get involved.

It’s really important to say that PULSE has become what it is because of you… the Festival Freddie! Without your avid support, bringing this sort of work to Ipswich would be nigh on impossible – so thanks and keep it up!!

Fringe festivals are all about taking risks - with the smallest ramifications!. This year we’re keeping our ticket prices the same as last – so that’s one obstacle gone. We’ve seen a lot of the work around the country and at the Edinburgh Festival – so that’s ‘quality’ sorted and we’re making sure there is an even broader array of work for you to see – so we’ve got the ‘variety’ covered too!!

The only real risk for you is getting from venue to venue in time… which we’ve also taken into account…

TWO BITES OF THE CHERRY

To help you to get the most out of PULSE, evenings when you can see more than one event have been marked with the ‘Two Bites Of The Cherry’ symbol.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

When you see this symbol it indicates that the piece is a rehearsed reading or a work in development. Works in development can be at various stages of production.

Steve Freeman Festival Director

CHECK OUT OUR HANDY ANOTHER BITE OF THE CHERRY’ SYMBOL!!!

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SYMBOLS

TALKBACK

This symbol invites you to participate in a talkback session which will aid the development of the piece and which will be recorded for archive purposes.

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WELCOME TO

WHAT ELSE CAN YOU DO FOR A FIVER?

Watch the next Danny Boyle… but not the ending, Eat five-and-a-half scotch eggs, buy a silver bracelet and have a green wrist, have both big toes pedicured or fly to selected European destinations (price does not include tax, insurance, handling charge, processing fees… or wings). or SEE A PULSE EVENT!!

MEDIA PARTNERS

DAILY TIMES

EASTANGLIAN

DO YOU HAVE TO THINK ABOUT IT??

04

We are providing you with an exciting mix of rehearsed readings, works in development and finished pieces to tickle your festival fancy. This year there are new venues added to the line up and a couple of unusual occurrences in strange places! Take for instance The Caravan – which will set up residence outside the New Wolsey Theatre for a week.

Once again were partnering with Town Hall Galleries to present some brand new Visual Arts, including some rather random events in the town that will remain under wraps until 24hours before the event!! Check out page 19 to find out how to get involved.

It’s really important to say that PULSE has become what it is because of you… the Festival Freddie! Without your avid support, bringing this sort of work to Ipswich would be nigh on impossible – so thanks and keep it up!!

Fringe festivals are all about taking risks - with the smallest ramifications!. This year we’re keeping our ticket prices the same as last – so that’s one obstacle gone. We’ve seen a lot of the work around the country and at the Edinburgh Festival – so that’s ‘quality’ sorted and we’re making sure there is an even broader array of work for you to see – so we’ve got the ‘variety’ covered too!!

The only real risk for you is getting from venue to venue in time… which we’ve also taken into account…

TWO BITES OF THE CHERRY

To help you to get the most out of PULSE, evenings when you can see more than one event have been marked with the ‘Two Bites Of The Cherry’ symbol.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

When you see this symbol it indicates that the piece is a rehearsed reading or a work in development. Works in development can be at various stages of production.

Steve Freeman Festival Director

CHECK OUT OUR HANDY ANOTHER BITE OF THE CHERRY’ SYMBOL!!!

FRINGE TICKET HOTLINE 01473 295 900

SYMBOLS

TALKBACK

This symbol invites you to participate in a talkback session which will aid the development of the piece and which will be recorded for archive purposes.

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SONGS FROM A HOTEL BEDROOM

LOST IN THE WIND

These excerpts from a new musical theatre production introduce the timeless and bittersweet songs of composer Kurt Weill. Set in 1950s America, the scenario tells of a love affair between a touring singer and a writer who are accompanied by two tango dancers.

Kate Flatt with creative team Peter Rowe dramaturg, award winning singer and actress France Ruffelle, and dancers Amir Giles and Tara Pilbow will show material from their research and development phase. www.segue.org.uk

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“inventive, funny and visually striking” Venue Magazine “Spellbinding throughout” The Scotsman  www.lostspectacles.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4eZDNeeebw

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A work in progress

Lost in the Wind follows one man’s struggle as he desperately searches for something unknown. Lost, he finds himself battling for survival against the elements and a group of strange lonely beings. Floating between hilarious comic scenarios and spectacular visual sequences, Lost in the Wind blends clowning, puppetry, object manipulation and delicate physical performance, taking audiences gently by the hand and leading them into a dreamlike other-world.

ONLY APPLIES TO FRIDAY 29 MAY

Lost Spectacles presents NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Thursday 28 & Friday 29 May TIME: 7.45pm TICKETS: £5

photo: Marica Rosengard

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Wednesday 27 May TIME: 6pm TICKETS: £3

Kate Flatt Projects and SEGUE present

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SONGS FROM A HOTEL BEDROOM

LOST IN THE WIND

These excerpts from a new musical theatre production introduce the timeless and bittersweet songs of composer Kurt Weill. Set in 1950s America, the scenario tells of a love affair between a touring singer and a writer who are accompanied by two tango dancers.

Kate Flatt with creative team Peter Rowe dramaturg, award winning singer and actress France Ruffelle, and dancers Amir Giles and Tara Pilbow will show material from their research and development phase. www.segue.org.uk

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“inventive, funny and visually striking” Venue Magazine “Spellbinding throughout” The Scotsman  www.lostspectacles.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4eZDNeeebw

SEE PG 11

A work in progress

Lost in the Wind follows one man’s struggle as he desperately searches for something unknown. Lost, he finds himself battling for survival against the elements and a group of strange lonely beings. Floating between hilarious comic scenarios and spectacular visual sequences, Lost in the Wind blends clowning, puppetry, object manipulation and delicate physical performance, taking audiences gently by the hand and leading them into a dreamlike other-world.

ONLY APPLIES TO FRIDAY 29 MAY

Lost Spectacles presents NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Thursday 28 & Friday 29 May TIME: 7.45pm TICKETS: £5

photo: Marica Rosengard

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Wednesday 27 May TIME: 6pm TICKETS: £3

Kate Flatt Projects and SEGUE present

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BEAUTY – A Peep Show Beauty is a study of social perceptions of beauty that focuses on the local community and its surroundings.

The project brings together multiples of media and human senses: sight, sound and smell. Through its multi-sensory installation the public are invited to peer in to an aperture to view a kaleidoscopic explosion of colour, image and sound from a series of collected, abstract video footage of surrounding beauty.

The local community has been incorporated in the creation of the piece to highlight the diversity of what is perceived as ‘beautiful’.

Beauty was originally conceived as a collaboration between Tom Purcell and Rapid Arts Project in Avis, Portugal.

OUT THERE Polly Cruse explores the relief felt when distracted from everyday reality.

Polly constructs and places objects and ornaments and also photographs these in the interior and exterior landscape to capture moments of dreamt freedom. Her images hint at childhood fantasies about objects becoming animated and lively.

PICK UP A MAP AT: Town Hall Galleries or at the New Wolsey Theatre from 28 May

TOWN HALL GALLERIES ON THE CORNHILL DATE: Friday 28 May to Saturday 13 June TIME: 10am to 5pm [Tues to Sat only]

Tom Purcell presents

The photographs reference a snapshot of fleeting moments of pleasure and escape.

Cruse’s recent work employs the everyday poster form, a mode of display found in commercial street advertising, which she has chosen for its potential to freely engage with a wide and varied audience. She seeks to distract and amuse everyday passers-by, whilst demonstrating an alternative to the usual publicly displayed images that try to sell us products and influence our lives.

www.rapidarts.eu RAPID Arts is a 2 year EU funded culture project delivered

by SeaChange Arts (the arts development agency for Great Yarmouth Borough) working with partners from Portugal and Finland, developing creative residencies in each country for young emerging artists and local communities.

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BEAUTY – A Peep Show Beauty is a study of social perceptions of beauty that focuses on the local community and its surroundings.

The project brings together multiples of media and human senses: sight, sound and smell. Through its multi-sensory installation the public are invited to peer in to an aperture to view a kaleidoscopic explosion of colour, image and sound from a series of collected, abstract video footage of surrounding beauty.

The local community has been incorporated in the creation of the piece to highlight the diversity of what is perceived as ‘beautiful’.

Beauty was originally conceived as a collaboration between Tom Purcell and Rapid Arts Project in Avis, Portugal.

OUT THERE Polly Cruse explores the relief felt when distracted from everyday reality.

Polly constructs and places objects and ornaments and also photographs these in the interior and exterior landscape to capture moments of dreamt freedom. Her images hint at childhood fantasies about objects becoming animated and lively.

PICK UP A MAP AT: Town Hall Galleries or at the New Wolsey Theatre from 28 May

TOWN HALL GALLERIES ON THE CORNHILL DATE: Friday 28 May to Saturday 13 June TIME: 10am to 5pm [Tues to Sat only]

Tom Purcell presents

The photographs reference a snapshot of fleeting moments of pleasure and escape.

Cruse’s recent work employs the everyday poster form, a mode of display found in commercial street advertising, which she has chosen for its potential to freely engage with a wide and varied audience. She seeks to distract and amuse everyday passers-by, whilst demonstrating an alternative to the usual publicly displayed images that try to sell us products and influence our lives.

www.rapidarts.eu RAPID Arts is a 2 year EU funded culture project delivered

by SeaChange Arts (the arts development agency for Great Yarmouth Borough) working with partners from Portugal and Finland, developing creative residencies in each country for young emerging artists and local communities.

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DOUBLE BILL LAST ONE STANDING A sensitive and humorous interpretation of game playing explored through contemporary South Asian dance.

This multi-media piece features film by filmmaker Maria Årkesson. www.seetapatel.co.uk Mayday presents

LES ANGLES MORTS DanceEast introduces Canadian dancer/choreographer Mélanie Demers whose work has been taking European audiences by storm.

Les Angles Morts is a powerful duet for dancer and musician/DJ that questions our ability to understand the world from another point of view and observes from every angle, even the blind spots, the small details that make us all the same and perfectly distinct.

While we live in a blind society that forgets, ignores, kills and cleans up at the same time, we often choose not to know! We’d rather close our eyes and wait for better times.

presents

NO. 5 Highly visual, astonishingly physical and gloriously cinematic, Gecko create theatre for anyone who is willing to dream a little and imagine a lot.

Fresh from a three week run of The Overcoat at the Lyric, Hammersmith, Gecko return home to The New Wolsey to experiment with and share some new ideas.

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Friday 29 May TIME: 10pm TICKETS: £3

In their second artistic collaboration, Seeta Patel and Kamala Devam present a reworking of the piece created for the Kadam Choreography Prize 2008.

photo: Richard Haughton

To some it’s just a game. To others, the game is everything. Who will be the last one standing?

Gecko is an Associate Company of The New Wolsey Theatre.

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NEW WOLSEY THEATRE DATE: Friday 29 May TIME: 7pm TICKETS: £7

“Mélanie Demers does not waste a single second in submerging us in her world… It is very difficult to qualify or even quantify Les Angles Morts because it works at such an experimental level that discussing it inevitably feels futile. The only way to truly appreciate it is to experience it. It will move you to action, and even maybe to creation.” Sylvain Vestricht, Indyish

SEE PG 11

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DOUBLE BILL LAST ONE STANDING A sensitive and humorous interpretation of game playing explored through contemporary South Asian dance.

This multi-media piece features film by filmmaker Maria Årkesson. www.seetapatel.co.uk Mayday presents

LES ANGLES MORTS DanceEast introduces Canadian dancer/choreographer Mélanie Demers whose work has been taking European audiences by storm.

Les Angles Morts is a powerful duet for dancer and musician/DJ that questions our ability to understand the world from another point of view and observes from every angle, even the blind spots, the small details that make us all the same and perfectly distinct.

While we live in a blind society that forgets, ignores, kills and cleans up at the same time, we often choose not to know! We’d rather close our eyes and wait for better times.

presents

NO. 5 Highly visual, astonishingly physical and gloriously cinematic, Gecko create theatre for anyone who is willing to dream a little and imagine a lot.

Fresh from a three week run of The Overcoat at the Lyric, Hammersmith, Gecko return home to The New Wolsey to experiment with and share some new ideas.

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Friday 29 May TIME: 10pm TICKETS: £3

In their second artistic collaboration, Seeta Patel and Kamala Devam present a reworking of the piece created for the Kadam Choreography Prize 2008.

photo: Richard Haughton

To some it’s just a game. To others, the game is everything. Who will be the last one standing?

Gecko is an Associate Company of The New Wolsey Theatre.

SEE PG 07

NEW WOLSEY THEATRE DATE: Friday 29 May TIME: 7pm TICKETS: £7

“Mélanie Demers does not waste a single second in submerging us in her world… It is very difficult to qualify or even quantify Les Angles Morts because it works at such an experimental level that discussing it inevitably feels futile. The only way to truly appreciate it is to experience it. It will move you to action, and even maybe to creation.” Sylvain Vestricht, Indyish

SEE PG 11

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PAPERWEIGHT

THE WORLD’S WIFE

Devised by: The company Directed by: Jamie Wood Performed by: Tom Frankland and Sébastien Lawson

An adaptation of the Carol Anne Duffy poetry collection

13.14.15.16.17 (CHECK TIMES CAREFULLY)

Paperweight is the absurd story of two men trapped in mindless office jobs. As the pressures of work and the ever present threat of the telephone ringing increase, chaos descends. An (almost) silent comedy, of escalating intensity and surprising tenderness.

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A sell out show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe last year, Paperweight received critical acclaim, winning a Scotsman Fringe First Award and a Total Theatre Award nomination. Top of the World is Tom Frankland, Sébastien Lawson and Jamie Wood. Their collaboration fuses surreal humour, visual poetry and arresting storytelling to present a bold and uncompromising theatrical experience.

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From Mrs Faust and Frau Freud to Queen King and Mrs Midas, this delightful show slices through history and myth, whilst also casting an astute glance over the modern world. Laced with dark humour and acerbic wit, this passionate exposé will enthral lovers of Duffy’s poems and newcomers alike.

Linda Marlowe has enjoyed great acclaim for her previous solo work including Berkoff’s Women, which toured internationally and played West End seasons. In this new show her virtuoso performance of Duffy’s brilliant and often controversial verse is interspersed with commentary about the poems.

“the observations of office life are so acute they belong in an emergency room” Metro 

“Very funny, inventive and subversive” The Sunday Telegraph

“it’s a funny, sad, truthful and surreal piece” The Scotsman  “a small thing of transient beauty” Financial Times 

“A consummate actress, gorgeous to look at, slinky and sexy, sensual and impassioned, breathtakingly versatile” The Scotsman on Linda Marlowe

Evening Standard 

Recommended for ages 14+

The Herald 

www.theworldswife.com www.lindamarlowe.com

Developed at Camden People’s Theatre.

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A new stage version of the acclaimed poems that imagine the wives’ perspective of famous men through the ages.

SEE PG 12 . 14

Linda Marlowe, James Seabright and LMP presents

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Saturday 30 May TIME: 7pm TICKETS: £5

Office on arrival

IN AN OFFICE AT THE NEW WOLSEY THEATRE PLEASE NOTE Latecomers will DATE: Saturday 30 May Sunday 31 May not be admitted.

TIME: 12noon, 5 & 9.30pm 2pm & 5pm Check in at the New Wolsey Box TICKETS: £7 £7

Top of the World presents

Recommended ages 14+

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PAPERWEIGHT

THE WORLD’S WIFE

Devised by: The company Directed by: Jamie Wood Performed by: Tom Frankland and Sébastien Lawson

An adaptation of the Carol Anne Duffy poetry collection

13.14.15.16.17 (CHECK TIMES CAREFULLY)

Paperweight is the absurd story of two men trapped in mindless office jobs. As the pressures of work and the ever present threat of the telephone ringing increase, chaos descends. An (almost) silent comedy, of escalating intensity and surprising tenderness.

*

A sell out show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe last year, Paperweight received critical acclaim, winning a Scotsman Fringe First Award and a Total Theatre Award nomination. Top of the World is Tom Frankland, Sébastien Lawson and Jamie Wood. Their collaboration fuses surreal humour, visual poetry and arresting storytelling to present a bold and uncompromising theatrical experience.

*

From Mrs Faust and Frau Freud to Queen King and Mrs Midas, this delightful show slices through history and myth, whilst also casting an astute glance over the modern world. Laced with dark humour and acerbic wit, this passionate exposé will enthral lovers of Duffy’s poems and newcomers alike.

Linda Marlowe has enjoyed great acclaim for her previous solo work including Berkoff’s Women, which toured internationally and played West End seasons. In this new show her virtuoso performance of Duffy’s brilliant and often controversial verse is interspersed with commentary about the poems.

“the observations of office life are so acute they belong in an emergency room” Metro 

“Very funny, inventive and subversive” The Sunday Telegraph

“it’s a funny, sad, truthful and surreal piece” The Scotsman  “a small thing of transient beauty” Financial Times 

“A consummate actress, gorgeous to look at, slinky and sexy, sensual and impassioned, breathtakingly versatile” The Scotsman on Linda Marlowe

Evening Standard 

Recommended for ages 14+

The Herald 

www.theworldswife.com www.lindamarlowe.com

Developed at Camden People’s Theatre.

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A new stage version of the acclaimed poems that imagine the wives’ perspective of famous men through the ages.

SEE PG 12 . 14

Linda Marlowe, James Seabright and LMP presents

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Saturday 30 May TIME: 7pm TICKETS: £5

Office on arrival

IN AN OFFICE AT THE NEW WOLSEY THEATRE PLEASE NOTE Latecomers will DATE: Saturday 30 May Sunday 31 May not be admitted.

TIME: 12noon, 5 & 9.30pm 2pm & 5pm Check in at the New Wolsey Box TICKETS: £7 £7

Top of the World presents

Recommended ages 14+

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They have inspired and terrified us since the beginning of time.

They have been reviled, hunted and then invited back into our lands. In fairy tales, fables and films they have slipped between the identities of human and beast.

SEE PG 12. 13

Wolf explores the ecology, psychology and mythology of these extraordinary animals, and in turn, asks how wild we humans may be.

Wolf is about our ears, all the better to hear you with. And about our noses, all the better to smell you with. And it is about how we understand the pack, the family, the loner, and our place on the planet.

SPRINGBOARD, The New Wolsey’s series of drama writing workshops, took as its starting point playwright David Greig’s provocative statement that “nothing should be on stage that doesn’t demand to be there”.

Between January and April of this year, 16 aspiring writers, guided by writer and workshop leader Danusia Iwaszko, have been on an imaginative journey together, attempting to unlock each writer’s voice and to unearth the topics that most urgently call out to be explored. Come and enjoy the results – two evenings of fresh and original new writing, directed by The New Wolsey’s Associate Director Rob Salmon.

Up to 8 pieces will be presented at each performance.

12 . 16 . 17 (31 May) 32 (7 June)

Text by: Iain Finlay Macleod

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WOLF

SPRINGBOARD REHEARSED READINGS

TOWN HALL GALLERIES ON THE CORNHILL DATE: Sunday 31 May & Sunday 7 June TIME: 2pm TICKETS: £3

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Saturday 30 May TIME: 9.15pm TICKETS: £5

Kath Burlinson in association with The Weird Sisters presents

See the first Wolf-in-development showing of this extraordinary new work. A theatre of the senses, where you will smell, touch and feel… dare you miss it?

Kath Burlinson brought the award-winning The Mother’s Bones to Pulse in 2008 Recommended for ages 12+

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They have inspired and terrified us since the beginning of time.

They have been reviled, hunted and then invited back into our lands. In fairy tales, fables and films they have slipped between the identities of human and beast.

SEE PG 12. 13

Wolf explores the ecology, psychology and mythology of these extraordinary animals, and in turn, asks how wild we humans may be.

Wolf is about our ears, all the better to hear you with. And about our noses, all the better to smell you with. And it is about how we understand the pack, the family, the loner, and our place on the planet.

SPRINGBOARD, The New Wolsey’s series of drama writing workshops, took as its starting point playwright David Greig’s provocative statement that “nothing should be on stage that doesn’t demand to be there”.

Between January and April of this year, 16 aspiring writers, guided by writer and workshop leader Danusia Iwaszko, have been on an imaginative journey together, attempting to unlock each writer’s voice and to unearth the topics that most urgently call out to be explored. Come and enjoy the results – two evenings of fresh and original new writing, directed by The New Wolsey’s Associate Director Rob Salmon.

Up to 8 pieces will be presented at each performance.

12 . 16 . 17 (31 May) 32 (7 June)

Text by: Iain Finlay Macleod

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WOLF

SPRINGBOARD REHEARSED READINGS

TOWN HALL GALLERIES ON THE CORNHILL DATE: Sunday 31 May & Sunday 7 June TIME: 2pm TICKETS: £3

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Saturday 30 May TIME: 9.15pm TICKETS: £5

Kath Burlinson in association with The Weird Sisters presents

See the first Wolf-in-development showing of this extraordinary new work. A theatre of the senses, where you will smell, touch and feel… dare you miss it?

Kath Burlinson brought the award-winning The Mother’s Bones to Pulse in 2008 Recommended for ages 12+

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www.kathburlinson.co.uk

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THE SNOW GOOSE DIARIES

BULLY

The first production by the newly-formed Out of Argyle Theatre Company, founded by actor, director and Lecturer in Performing Arts Brian Theodore Ralph and Suffolk College Performing Arts graduate Abram Rooney.

SEE PG 12 . 15 . 17

It is 1947 in rural Russia. Young Pyotr has been given the opportunity of moving away to the city in order to pursue a career as a writer. On the eve of his departure, he reflects upon his life in his native village. We are presented with a series of the incidents and memories that coloured and shaped this young life.

Will these recollections of his family and friends stirred by his recorded journal and the recent death of his grandfather affect his decision to abandon the life that he has known?

Recommended for ages 14+ www.outofargyle.co.uk

Written and performed by: Richard Fry One day you wake to find that you’ve become your dad... and all you once dreaded now stares back at you... and the cycle of violence continues...

A taste for malice haunts the males of his bloodline vampirically passing from grandfather to father to first born son with the exactitude of clockwork. But, as the timid younger brother, spanning his life from tragic childhood to tainted adulthood, Fry charts the inner afflictions of a well meaning soul who tries to break the cycle by becoming a sufferer... rather than the bully.

SEE PG 12 . 15 . 16

Theatre Tours International presents

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Sunday 31 May TIME: 7pm TICKETS: £5

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Sunday 31 May TIME: 4.30pm TICKETS: £5

Out of Argyle Theatre Company presents

With no resources other than his own sharp tongue to convey a deeply moving and edifying study of the human condition, this sincere, eloquent rendering of a timeless theme is reminiscent of Greek tragedy in all its sturdiness and spoken in dextrous verse. You will admire its art, its wit and verbal dexterity, and thrill at the frequently vulgar, slang-addled story. A sell-out sensation at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Bully is a mesmerising experience and a powerful monologue. ”Let Richard Fry take you in and you will feel the tears rolling down your cheeks within no time.” Three Weeks  Recommended for ages 14+ www.theatretoursinternational.com

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THE SNOW GOOSE DIARIES

BULLY

The first production by the newly-formed Out of Argyle Theatre Company, founded by actor, director and Lecturer in Performing Arts Brian Theodore Ralph and Suffolk College Performing Arts graduate Abram Rooney.

SEE PG 12 . 15 . 17

It is 1947 in rural Russia. Young Pyotr has been given the opportunity of moving away to the city in order to pursue a career as a writer. On the eve of his departure, he reflects upon his life in his native village. We are presented with a series of the incidents and memories that coloured and shaped this young life.

Will these recollections of his family and friends stirred by his recorded journal and the recent death of his grandfather affect his decision to abandon the life that he has known?

Recommended for ages 14+ www.outofargyle.co.uk

Written and performed by: Richard Fry One day you wake to find that you’ve become your dad... and all you once dreaded now stares back at you... and the cycle of violence continues...

A taste for malice haunts the males of his bloodline vampirically passing from grandfather to father to first born son with the exactitude of clockwork. But, as the timid younger brother, spanning his life from tragic childhood to tainted adulthood, Fry charts the inner afflictions of a well meaning soul who tries to break the cycle by becoming a sufferer... rather than the bully.

SEE PG 12 . 15 . 16

Theatre Tours International presents

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Sunday 31 May TIME: 7pm TICKETS: £5

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Sunday 31 May TIME: 4.30pm TICKETS: £5

Out of Argyle Theatre Company presents

With no resources other than his own sharp tongue to convey a deeply moving and edifying study of the human condition, this sincere, eloquent rendering of a timeless theme is reminiscent of Greek tragedy in all its sturdiness and spoken in dextrous verse. You will admire its art, its wit and verbal dexterity, and thrill at the frequently vulgar, slang-addled story. A sell-out sensation at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Bully is a mesmerising experience and a powerful monologue. ”Let Richard Fry take you in and you will feel the tears rolling down your cheeks within no time.” Three Weeks  Recommended for ages 14+ www.theatretoursinternational.com

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THE CARAVAN Original concept: Mimi Poskett Edited by: Liam O’Driscoll, Ben Freedman and Mimi Poskett In summer 2007 severe flooding across the UK brought misery to thousands of people, destroying homes and livelihoods. As a result of the ensuing chaos, over 2000 households were still living in caravans a year after the event, with over 100 families still stuck in caravans two Christmases later. Following months of research and interviews, Look Left Look Right presents the stories of real people word for word, alongside visual and audio footage inside their very own caravan.

HOLLY RUMBLE’S MOBILE DISCO To take part in the world’s most portable and surreptitious disco, text ‘DISCO’ to 07807 956410 and Holly will let you know where and when. Be ready to respond quickly!

TEXT ‘DISCO’ TO: 07807 956410 for more information

PLEASE NOTE Latecomers will not be admitted.

Check in at the New Wolsey Box 20 . 21 . 22 . 23 . 24 . 25 . 29 . 30 . 31 (CHECK TIMES CAREFULLY) Office on arrival

Dancing is optional!

With fascinating memories of what happened and moving accounts from the people who were worst affected, The Caravan is a timeless piece of theatre that explores the resilience of human nature. Following a Fringe First Award, wide critical acclaim and sell-out runs at the Edinburgh Festival and The Royal Court Theatre in London this is your chance to experience a documentary up close – in a caravan.

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IN A CARAVAN OUTSIDE THE NEW WOLSEY THEATRE DATE: Tue 2 to Fri 5 June Sat 6 June TIME: 1, 6, 6.50, 7.40, 8.30pm 1, 1.50, 2.40, 3.30, 4.20pm TICKETS: £7 £7

Look Left Look Right presents

“an important piece of work that never loses sight of the fact that it is there to entertain as well as inform. Fun, eye-opening theatre that’s an absolute must-see.” Metro  Pick of the Fringe in The Independent, The Guardian and The Sunday Times.

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Recommended for ages 12+

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www.lookleftlookright.com

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THE CARAVAN Original concept: Mimi Poskett Edited by: Liam O’Driscoll, Ben Freedman and Mimi Poskett In summer 2007 severe flooding across the UK brought misery to thousands of people, destroying homes and livelihoods. As a result of the ensuing chaos, over 2000 households were still living in caravans a year after the event, with over 100 families still stuck in caravans two Christmases later. Following months of research and interviews, Look Left Look Right presents the stories of real people word for word, alongside visual and audio footage inside their very own caravan.

HOLLY RUMBLE’S MOBILE DISCO To take part in the world’s most portable and surreptitious disco, text ‘DISCO’ to 07807 956410 and Holly will let you know where and when. Be ready to respond quickly!

TEXT ‘DISCO’ TO: 07807 956410 for more information

PLEASE NOTE Latecomers will not be admitted.

Check in at the New Wolsey Box 20 . 21 . 22 . 23 . 24 . 25 . 29 . 30 . 31 (CHECK TIMES CAREFULLY) Office on arrival

Dancing is optional!

With fascinating memories of what happened and moving accounts from the people who were worst affected, The Caravan is a timeless piece of theatre that explores the resilience of human nature. Following a Fringe First Award, wide critical acclaim and sell-out runs at the Edinburgh Festival and The Royal Court Theatre in London this is your chance to experience a documentary up close – in a caravan.

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IN A CARAVAN OUTSIDE THE NEW WOLSEY THEATRE DATE: Tue 2 to Fri 5 June Sat 6 June TIME: 1, 6, 6.50, 7.40, 8.30pm 1, 1.50, 2.40, 3.30, 4.20pm TICKETS: £7 £7

Look Left Look Right presents

“an important piece of work that never loses sight of the fact that it is there to entertain as well as inform. Fun, eye-opening theatre that’s an absolute must-see.” Metro  Pick of the Fringe in The Independent, The Guardian and The Sunday Times.

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Recommended for ages 12+

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www.lookleftlookright.com

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The Ornate Johnsons present

CIRCUS THEATRE WORKSHOP

MISSISSIPPI

This workshop will be physically demanding.

A new comedy by Louise Law and Brian Mitchell

A rehearsed reading with: Beth Fitzgerald Winner: Herald Angel 2007 Winner: Best Actress Brighton Festival 2008 Winner: The Stage Best Actress Award 1996

Set in a Deep South themed restaurant somewhere in Worthing in 1987, Mississippi follows one chaotic day in the life of its nineteen-year-old manager, Helena, as she battles with booze, her domineering parents’ disastrous marriage, unruly staff, a Yugoslavian hen party, suicidal impulses, an absentee boss, the not wholly unwanted attentions of the waiter, Mud Pies, and the meat order.

Co-writer and Ornate Johnsons founder member Brian Mitchell scored a hit at PULSE 08 with Spy, described as “hilarious, twisted… truly ingenious and genuinely funny” East Anglian Daily Times

SEE PG 18 . 20

Participants must be aged 18+

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18 . 21 (2 May) 18 . 22 (3 June)

2 DAY WORKSHOP AT NEW WOLSEY THEATRE DATE: Tuesday 2 & Wednesday 3 June TIME: 10am to 4pm TICKETS: £10

Artistic Directors of Company FZ, Flick Ferdinando and JohnPaul Zaccarini, invite you to a workshop that explores the space in between tragedy and comedy, the floor and the air and to give that space a value. Using their experience in theatre, dance and the circus arts they will show how to make work that comes from a personal place or interest and how humour and pathos, success and failure are often closer to each other than we think.

ST NICHOLAS CENTRE DATE: Tuesday 2 June TIME: 7pm TICKETS: £3

photo: Dominic Travers LIMITED NUMBER OF PLACES AVAILABLE

Company FZ presents

This new piece, read by many of the same “troupe of consummate actors”, is a fresh and funny exploration of another kind of power struggle altogether – the Family – as Helena learns that, although you can run away from home, you cannot always escape it.

Developed with The Nightingale Theatre.

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www.ornatejohnsons.com

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The Ornate Johnsons present

CIRCUS THEATRE WORKSHOP

MISSISSIPPI

This workshop will be physically demanding.

A new comedy by Louise Law and Brian Mitchell

A rehearsed reading with: Beth Fitzgerald Winner: Herald Angel 2007 Winner: Best Actress Brighton Festival 2008 Winner: The Stage Best Actress Award 1996

Set in a Deep South themed restaurant somewhere in Worthing in 1987, Mississippi follows one chaotic day in the life of its nineteen-year-old manager, Helena, as she battles with booze, her domineering parents’ disastrous marriage, unruly staff, a Yugoslavian hen party, suicidal impulses, an absentee boss, the not wholly unwanted attentions of the waiter, Mud Pies, and the meat order.

Co-writer and Ornate Johnsons founder member Brian Mitchell scored a hit at PULSE 08 with Spy, described as “hilarious, twisted… truly ingenious and genuinely funny” East Anglian Daily Times

SEE PG 18 . 20

Participants must be aged 18+

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18 . 21 (2 May) 18 . 22 (3 June)

2 DAY WORKSHOP AT NEW WOLSEY THEATRE DATE: Tuesday 2 & Wednesday 3 June TIME: 10am to 4pm TICKETS: £10

Artistic Directors of Company FZ, Flick Ferdinando and JohnPaul Zaccarini, invite you to a workshop that explores the space in between tragedy and comedy, the floor and the air and to give that space a value. Using their experience in theatre, dance and the circus arts they will show how to make work that comes from a personal place or interest and how humour and pathos, success and failure are often closer to each other than we think.

ST NICHOLAS CENTRE DATE: Tuesday 2 June TIME: 7pm TICKETS: £3

photo: Dominic Travers LIMITED NUMBER OF PLACES AVAILABLE

Company FZ presents

This new piece, read by many of the same “troupe of consummate actors”, is a fresh and funny exploration of another kind of power struggle altogether – the Family – as Helena learns that, although you can run away from home, you cannot always escape it.

Developed with The Nightingale Theatre.

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www.ornatejohnsons.com

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THE OCTOBER REVOLUTIONS

BRITAIN’S BEST MATES

SEE PG 18 . 20

By: Brian Mitchell BBC scriptwriter Philip and eager, young art student Kath hover frustratingly in that awkward region somewhere between friendship and love. Over the course of three meetings in three parks over three Octobers, they jockey, vie, scheme and battle for position – in a process of continual revolution – with comical, and sometimes brutal, results. Can the romantic setting of the Blue Peter Italian Garden bring the outcome Philip desires? Or will his hopes remain sunken?

From the award-winning writer behind The Ornate Johnsons and Spy (both sell-out hits at PULSE 07 and 08), this new play is a touching yet hilarious portrait of just how rubbish humans can be in the pursuit of love.

Spend a hysterical hour with Britain’s Best Mates and you’ll never look at lads the same way again. Funny and touching, compelling and silly, these two delusional young men have created a world for themselves where they never have to see reality, for if they do their world would collapse.

Following their award-winning series for Comedy Central, Jamie Glassman and Matthew Steer bring their lovable characters to the stage. Obsessed with sports, lads’ mags, girls and each other Phil & Phill share the secrets of their bizarre, award-winning friendship.

Matthew’s credits include regular roles in EastEnders and Silent Witness, the West End play Shades and touring the UK playing Hamlet.

SEE PG 18

Double Gusset Productions present

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Thursday 4 June TIME: 7.45pm TICKETS: £5

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Wednesday 3 June TIME: 7.45pm TICKETS: £5

The Ornate Johnsons present

Jamie has been nominated for an Emmy Award for his writing on the Ali G series for HBO and is currently consulting on Mr Baron Cohen’s latest Hollywood venture.

“Hysterical…comic geniuses” GQ

“A superb two-hander, both funny and moving, written with unflinching honesty and great generosity of spirit.” Philip Reeve, Carnegie-Medal-winning novelist.

“The next Ant & Dec” Phil & Phill

“Two brilliant actors with spotless writing and direction make this a highly entertaining, very funny production.” Latest 7

www.britainsbestmates.com

Recommended for ages 14+

Co-developed with The Nightingale Theatre and The Mill Studio www.ornatejohnsons.com

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THE OCTOBER REVOLUTIONS

BRITAIN’S BEST MATES

SEE PG 18 . 20

By: Brian Mitchell BBC scriptwriter Philip and eager, young art student Kath hover frustratingly in that awkward region somewhere between friendship and love. Over the course of three meetings in three parks over three Octobers, they jockey, vie, scheme and battle for position – in a process of continual revolution – with comical, and sometimes brutal, results. Can the romantic setting of the Blue Peter Italian Garden bring the outcome Philip desires? Or will his hopes remain sunken?

From the award-winning writer behind The Ornate Johnsons and Spy (both sell-out hits at PULSE 07 and 08), this new play is a touching yet hilarious portrait of just how rubbish humans can be in the pursuit of love.

Spend a hysterical hour with Britain’s Best Mates and you’ll never look at lads the same way again. Funny and touching, compelling and silly, these two delusional young men have created a world for themselves where they never have to see reality, for if they do their world would collapse.

Following their award-winning series for Comedy Central, Jamie Glassman and Matthew Steer bring their lovable characters to the stage. Obsessed with sports, lads’ mags, girls and each other Phil & Phill share the secrets of their bizarre, award-winning friendship.

Matthew’s credits include regular roles in EastEnders and Silent Witness, the West End play Shades and touring the UK playing Hamlet.

SEE PG 18

Double Gusset Productions present

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Thursday 4 June TIME: 7.45pm TICKETS: £5

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Wednesday 3 June TIME: 7.45pm TICKETS: £5

The Ornate Johnsons present

Jamie has been nominated for an Emmy Award for his writing on the Ali G series for HBO and is currently consulting on Mr Baron Cohen’s latest Hollywood venture.

“Hysterical…comic geniuses” GQ

“A superb two-hander, both funny and moving, written with unflinching honesty and great generosity of spirit.” Philip Reeve, Carnegie-Medal-winning novelist.

“The next Ant & Dec” Phil & Phill

“Two brilliant actors with spotless writing and direction make this a highly entertaining, very funny production.” Latest 7

www.britainsbestmates.com

Recommended for ages 14+

Co-developed with The Nightingale Theatre and The Mill Studio www.ornatejohnsons.com

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TRIPLE BILL

NEW WOLSEY THEATRE DATE: Friday 5 June TIME: 7.45pm TICKETS: £7

Physical theatre/performance-art De Jong walks – resolutely outlandish – towards freedom, without hesitation, exploring all kinds of facets of womanhood. She jumps with ease between theatre and dance, while she’s sometimes singing too. Renewing herself every performance, she externalizes a series of inner worlds for the audience.

Neel de Jong is trained as an actress and a dancer and throughout her whole professional career, she combines these two artdisciplines in order to reveal psychic realities. The silence is – of late – an active partner for her on stage. Pianist Augusto Pirodda accompanies her live during the performance.

Recommended for ages 15+

DRIVEN

www.neeldejong.com or www.myspace.com/neeldejong

“de Jong transports us to a beautifully different world..., magical and profound.”

Three Weeks 

Neel de Jong presents

“always she retain a childlike capacity for wonderment, …beatific,…a blessing to the day.” The Herald

photo: Tony Stubbings

Tracker was made from the inside out. And Begin. There is a space, a game and a seed of thought. There is a birth (of a sort) and from there, there is instinct, learning and development of skills. And because everything is new, there is insecurity, hesitancy and exploration. There are relationships (of a kind) and because there is intellect, learning is contagious and growth is inevitable.

So now there is energy, exertion and imagination; subtlety, detail and texture. There is rushing, silence, rhythm and feeling. There is movement, movement, thought and more movement.

“An altogether gripping little slice of dynamic intelligence” The Times

TRACKER

www.liladance.co.uk

Lîla Dance presents

iD

iD maps graffiti through the body via explosive movement and raw sound. Leila McMillan, an emerging London based choreographer, has re-worked iD (originally created in 2008) for 5 physical female performers. It is a contemporary dance piece that fuses explosive movement with eclectic/raw sound and experimental fashion to form an energy driven, physical and abstract interpretation of graffiti found in East London. It incorporates the art and philosophy of graffiti along with the sound of the urban city to take the audience on a visual experience of graffiti through the eyes of contemporary dance.

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Choreographer by: Leila McMillan Dancers: Elkie Phillips, Kate Zamira Mumery, Jessica Spalis, Megan Saunders and Martina Bussi Original sound score by: Oliver D-B Productions Costumes: Siouxsie Lighting: Nina Feldman

photo: Irvene Lewis

SEE PG 18

Leila McMillan presents

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TRIPLE BILL

NEW WOLSEY THEATRE DATE: Friday 5 June TIME: 7.45pm TICKETS: £7

Physical theatre/performance-art De Jong walks – resolutely outlandish – towards freedom, without hesitation, exploring all kinds of facets of womanhood. She jumps with ease between theatre and dance, while she’s sometimes singing too. Renewing herself every performance, she externalizes a series of inner worlds for the audience.

Neel de Jong is trained as an actress and a dancer and throughout her whole professional career, she combines these two artdisciplines in order to reveal psychic realities. The silence is – of late – an active partner for her on stage. Pianist Augusto Pirodda accompanies her live during the performance.

Recommended for ages 15+

DRIVEN

www.neeldejong.com or www.myspace.com/neeldejong

“de Jong transports us to a beautifully different world..., magical and profound.”

Three Weeks 

Neel de Jong presents

“always she retain a childlike capacity for wonderment, …beatific,…a blessing to the day.” The Herald

photo: Tony Stubbings

Tracker was made from the inside out. And Begin. There is a space, a game and a seed of thought. There is a birth (of a sort) and from there, there is instinct, learning and development of skills. And because everything is new, there is insecurity, hesitancy and exploration. There are relationships (of a kind) and because there is intellect, learning is contagious and growth is inevitable.

So now there is energy, exertion and imagination; subtlety, detail and texture. There is rushing, silence, rhythm and feeling. There is movement, movement, thought and more movement.

“An altogether gripping little slice of dynamic intelligence” The Times

TRACKER

www.liladance.co.uk

Lîla Dance presents

iD

iD maps graffiti through the body via explosive movement and raw sound. Leila McMillan, an emerging London based choreographer, has re-worked iD (originally created in 2008) for 5 physical female performers. It is a contemporary dance piece that fuses explosive movement with eclectic/raw sound and experimental fashion to form an energy driven, physical and abstract interpretation of graffiti found in East London. It incorporates the art and philosophy of graffiti along with the sound of the urban city to take the audience on a visual experience of graffiti through the eyes of contemporary dance.

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www.leilamcmillan.com

Choreographer by: Leila McMillan Dancers: Elkie Phillips, Kate Zamira Mumery, Jessica Spalis, Megan Saunders and Martina Bussi Original sound score by: Oliver D-B Productions Costumes: Siouxsie Lighting: Nina Feldman

photo: Irvene Lewis

SEE PG 18

Leila McMillan presents

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NEW WOLSEY STUDIO NEW WOLSEY THEATRE SIR JOHN MILLS THEATRE ST MARY’S ON THE QUAY ST NICHOLAS CENTRE TOWN HALL GALLERIES

EVENTS LISTING At a glance WEDNESDAY 27 MAY

TUESDAY 2 JUNE

Time: 6pm

PG

SONGS FROM A HOTEL BEDROOM

06

09

Time: Time: 10am to 5pm

PG

BEAUTY

08

Time: 7.45pm

LOST IN THE WIND

PG

07

FRIDAY 29 MAY

* OUT THERE

Time: 10am to 5pm

09 PG

BEAUTY

08

Time: 7pm

PG

LAST ONE STANDING + LES ANGLES MORTS Time: 7.45pm

LOST IN THE WIND Time: 10pm

NO.5

10 PG

07 PG

11

Time: 10am to 5pm

BEAUTY Time: 12noon, 5pm 9.30pm

PAPERWEIGHT Time: 7pm

THE WORLD’S WORST WIFE Time: 9.15pm

WOLF

Time: 2pm

PAPERWEIGHT SPRINGBOARD Time: 4.30pm

THE SNOW GOOSE DIARIES Time: 5pm

PAPERWEIGHT Time: 7pm

BULLY

26

PG

Time: 10am to 5pm

09

BEAUTY

08 PG

08

THE PROCESS OF PAINTING

28

PG

Time: 1, 1.50, 2.40, 3.30, 4.20pm

PG

18

MISSISSIPPI

Time: 2.00pm

PG

WRITE NOW

30

Time: 7.45pm

OUT THERE

09

Time: 10am to 4pm

PG

CIRCUS WORKSHOP

20

Time: 10am to 5pm

PG

OUT WESTGATE

PG

31

SUNDAY 7 JUNE

* OUT THERE

Time: 11am to 5pm

FRIDAY 12 JUNE

* OUT THERE

28

SPRINGBOARD

15

TWO BY TWO + COPE

PG

32

EPIPHANY

09

PG

Time: 1, 6, 6.50, 7.40, 8.30pm

THE CARAVAN Time: 7.45pm

42

Time: 7.45pm

PG

YOU ARE HERE

BRITAIN’S BEST MATES

09

Time: 10am to 5pm

PG

BEAUTY

08

Time: 8.30pm

PG

BEDROOM STORIES

33

FRIDAY 5 JUNE

* OUT THERE

* OUT THERE

PG

23

* OUT THERE

Time: 10am to 5pm

09

Time: 10am to 5pm

PG

BEAUTY

08 PG

45

Time: 8.30pm

DREAMDANCE

09

BEAUTY

08

Time: 9.30pm

PG

Time: 7pm

PG

09

BEAUTY

08

JUDE SIMPSON: MAKING HAPPY

THE ADVERTURES OF WOUND MAN AND SHIRLEY

PG

Time: 1, 6, 6.50, 7.40, 8.30pm

PG

Time: 8.30pm

12 15

THE CARAVAN

18

Time: 6pm to 8pm

PG

PG

THE PROCESS OF PAINTING

28

16

Time: 7.45pm

PG

PG

TRACKER + DRIVEN + iD

THE HISTORY OF THE POMEGRANATE Time: 9pm

HORSE

PG

35

Time: 8pm

PG

PG

THE TRUTH IS I CAN’T STOP TELLING LIES

29

47

HOLLY RUMBLE’S MOBILE DISCO

19

THERE * OUT Pick up a map at Town Hall Galleries

or at The New Wolsey Theatre

24-25

12

PG

UNKNOWN DATE & TIME

PG

36

PG

46

Time: 10am to 5pm

34

09 PG

Time: 5pm

SOUND JOURNEY

OUT THERE

PG

44

SATURDAY 13 JUNE

WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE

*

43

Time: 9.30pm

OH! WHAT A SH*TTY WAR

18 PG

41

THE GREAT ESCAPE THE TWO OF US + BASIC DRESSING

TUESDAY 9 JUNE

* OUT THERE

09 PG

08

PG

Time: 7pm

PG

40

PG

THE PROCESS OF PAINTING

22

LOVEDRUNK

BEAUTY

Time: 2pm

THE OCTOBER REVOLUTIONS

Time: 9.30pm

Time: 7pm

08

PG

PG

39

09

PG

18

38

PG

BEAUTY THE CARAVAN

IS EVERYONE OK?

Time: 10am to 5pm

Time: 1, 6, 6.50, 7.40, 8.30pm Time: 7.45pm

THE KING OF THE GYPSIES Time: 7.30pm

18

PG

08

14

THE CARAVAN

21

WEDNESDAY 3 JUNE

*

09 PG

Time: 6pm

BEAUTY

Time: 7pm

Time: 10am to 5pm

08

Time: 1, 6, 6.50, 7.40, 8.30pm

THE CARAVAN

* OUT THERE

PG

08

PG

PG

BEAUTY

BEAUTY

PG

Time: 10am to 5pm Time: 11pm to 5pm

PG

13

09

PG

Time: 10am to 5pm

12

*

THURSDAY 11 JUNE

OUT THERE

20

PG

SUNDAY 31 MAY

* OUT THERE

Time: 10am to 4pm

THURSDAY 4 JUNE

SATURDAY 30 MAY

* OUT THERE

09

CIRCUS WORKSHOP

THURSDAY 28 MAY

* OUT THERE

*

SATURDAY 6 JUNE

OUT THERE

TWO BITES OF THE CHERRY

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NEW WOLSEY STUDIO NEW WOLSEY THEATRE SIR JOHN MILLS THEATRE ST MARY’S ON THE QUAY ST NICHOLAS CENTRE TOWN HALL GALLERIES

EVENTS LISTING At a glance WEDNESDAY 27 MAY

TUESDAY 2 JUNE

Time: 6pm

PG

SONGS FROM A HOTEL BEDROOM

06

09

Time: Time: 10am to 5pm

PG

BEAUTY

08

Time: 7.45pm

LOST IN THE WIND

PG

07

FRIDAY 29 MAY

* OUT THERE

Time: 10am to 5pm

09 PG

BEAUTY

08

Time: 7pm

PG

LAST ONE STANDING + LES ANGLES MORTS Time: 7.45pm

LOST IN THE WIND Time: 10pm

NO.5

10 PG

07 PG

11

Time: 10am to 5pm

BEAUTY Time: 12noon, 5pm 9.30pm

PAPERWEIGHT Time: 7pm

THE WORLD’S WORST WIFE Time: 9.15pm

WOLF

Time: 2pm

PAPERWEIGHT SPRINGBOARD Time: 4.30pm

THE SNOW GOOSE DIARIES Time: 5pm

PAPERWEIGHT Time: 7pm

BULLY

26

PG

Time: 10am to 5pm

09

BEAUTY

08 PG

08

THE PROCESS OF PAINTING

28

PG

Time: 1, 1.50, 2.40, 3.30, 4.20pm

PG

18

MISSISSIPPI

Time: 2.00pm

PG

WRITE NOW

30

Time: 7.45pm

OUT THERE

09

Time: 10am to 4pm

PG

CIRCUS WORKSHOP

20

Time: 10am to 5pm

PG

OUT WESTGATE

PG

31

SUNDAY 7 JUNE

* OUT THERE

Time: 11am to 5pm

FRIDAY 12 JUNE

* OUT THERE

28

SPRINGBOARD

15

TWO BY TWO + COPE

PG

32

EPIPHANY

09

PG

Time: 1, 6, 6.50, 7.40, 8.30pm

THE CARAVAN Time: 7.45pm

42

Time: 7.45pm

PG

YOU ARE HERE

BRITAIN’S BEST MATES

09

Time: 10am to 5pm

PG

BEAUTY

08

Time: 8.30pm

PG

BEDROOM STORIES

33

FRIDAY 5 JUNE

* OUT THERE

* OUT THERE

PG

23

* OUT THERE

Time: 10am to 5pm

09

Time: 10am to 5pm

PG

BEAUTY

08 PG

45

Time: 8.30pm

DREAMDANCE

09

BEAUTY

08

Time: 9.30pm

PG

Time: 7pm

PG

09

BEAUTY

08

JUDE SIMPSON: MAKING HAPPY

THE ADVERTURES OF WOUND MAN AND SHIRLEY

PG

Time: 1, 6, 6.50, 7.40, 8.30pm

PG

Time: 8.30pm

12 15

THE CARAVAN

18

Time: 6pm to 8pm

PG

PG

THE PROCESS OF PAINTING

28

16

Time: 7.45pm

PG

PG

TRACKER + DRIVEN + iD

THE HISTORY OF THE POMEGRANATE Time: 9pm

HORSE

PG

35

Time: 8pm

PG

PG

THE TRUTH IS I CAN’T STOP TELLING LIES

29

47

HOLLY RUMBLE’S MOBILE DISCO

19

THERE * OUT Pick up a map at Town Hall Galleries

or at The New Wolsey Theatre

24-25

12

PG

UNKNOWN DATE & TIME

PG

36

PG

46

Time: 10am to 5pm

34

09 PG

Time: 5pm

SOUND JOURNEY

OUT THERE

PG

44

SATURDAY 13 JUNE

WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE

*

43

Time: 9.30pm

OH! WHAT A SH*TTY WAR

18 PG

41

THE GREAT ESCAPE THE TWO OF US + BASIC DRESSING

TUESDAY 9 JUNE

* OUT THERE

09 PG

08

PG

Time: 7pm

PG

40

PG

THE PROCESS OF PAINTING

22

LOVEDRUNK

BEAUTY

Time: 2pm

THE OCTOBER REVOLUTIONS

Time: 9.30pm

Time: 7pm

08

PG

PG

39

09

PG

18

38

PG

BEAUTY THE CARAVAN

IS EVERYONE OK?

Time: 10am to 5pm

Time: 1, 6, 6.50, 7.40, 8.30pm Time: 7.45pm

THE KING OF THE GYPSIES Time: 7.30pm

18

PG

08

14

THE CARAVAN

21

WEDNESDAY 3 JUNE

*

09 PG

Time: 6pm

BEAUTY

Time: 7pm

Time: 10am to 5pm

08

Time: 1, 6, 6.50, 7.40, 8.30pm

THE CARAVAN

* OUT THERE

PG

08

PG

PG

BEAUTY

BEAUTY

PG

Time: 10am to 5pm Time: 11pm to 5pm

PG

13

09

PG

Time: 10am to 5pm

12

*

THURSDAY 11 JUNE

OUT THERE

20

PG

SUNDAY 31 MAY

* OUT THERE

Time: 10am to 4pm

THURSDAY 4 JUNE

SATURDAY 30 MAY

* OUT THERE

09

CIRCUS WORKSHOP

THURSDAY 28 MAY

* OUT THERE

*

SATURDAY 6 JUNE

OUT THERE

TWO BITES OF THE CHERRY

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Juliet Holton participated in Pulse 2008 with an exhibition of new paintings. This year she has been invited back as resident at Key Arts’ St Mary on the Quay. Juliet’s work focuses on the process of paint. She uses a variety of mediums including gloss, oil, ink, varnish, acrylic, spray paint and pastels to produce Action Paintings, a style in which paint is dribbled or splashed onto the surface instead of being carefully applied.

This year she will engage viewers through the physical act of painting itself, this time involving the audience in the process.

You are invited to donate paint and bring your own surfaces (2-d/ 3-d) for her to respond to or incorporate into the ‘action’.

Through the live creation of new work viewers have the chance to see how the artist works, and the artist can experience how the viewer responds to the process. Each can engage in reciprocal discussion as fresh outcomes are revealed.

THE TRUTH IS I CAN’T STOP TELLING LIES A new one man show from Señor Tam Hinton, creator of such brain-boggling performance as The Naked Soul of Kirk Godless, the soul-altering play The Package and boxing/poetry spectacle Hard Bards.

In this latest slice of hi-octane absurdity, Hinton invites us again to meet more of the strange residents of the Bernard Hepton Housing Estate, an area which, of course, we all know only exists in his head… right?

Taking us on a journey through the artistic medium of LIES, he will seek that rare beast, the TRUTH. He tells of tortured genius Simon Crevice – a man driven mad by Boris Johnson; Enid Beveridge, a woman turned on by electrocution; Brenda Surplus, part-girl, part-dog; and Lonely Barry Ungswater, the only truly normal person in the world.

The event is open to all. To learn how you can become part of Juliet’s Process of Painting contact Julia Devonshire, Arts Project Officer, Ipswich Borough Council:

These tall tales are presented with Hinton’s customary twisted zeal and sharp suited aplomb. But as he weaves his twisted fibs, we come to fear that they may after all contain a kernel of terrible truth… But how much? Oh god… surely THAT bit can’t be true?

email. Julia.Devonshire@ipswich.gov.uk tel. +44 (0)1473 432 862

Recommended for ages 16+

SEE PG 18

By: Juliet Holton

Tam Hinton presents

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Friday 5 June TIME: 8pm TICKETS: £5

ST MARY’S ON THE QUAY DATE: Friday 5 June Saturday 6 & Sunday 7 TIME: 6 to 8pm 11am to 5pm

THE PROCESS OF PAINTING In Progress!

www.kirkgodless.com

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Juliet Holton participated in Pulse 2008 with an exhibition of new paintings. This year she has been invited back as resident at Key Arts’ St Mary on the Quay. Juliet’s work focuses on the process of paint. She uses a variety of mediums including gloss, oil, ink, varnish, acrylic, spray paint and pastels to produce Action Paintings, a style in which paint is dribbled or splashed onto the surface instead of being carefully applied.

This year she will engage viewers through the physical act of painting itself, this time involving the audience in the process.

You are invited to donate paint and bring your own surfaces (2-d/ 3-d) for her to respond to or incorporate into the ‘action’.

Through the live creation of new work viewers have the chance to see how the artist works, and the artist can experience how the viewer responds to the process. Each can engage in reciprocal discussion as fresh outcomes are revealed.

THE TRUTH IS I CAN’T STOP TELLING LIES A new one man show from Señor Tam Hinton, creator of such brain-boggling performance as The Naked Soul of Kirk Godless, the soul-altering play The Package and boxing/poetry spectacle Hard Bards.

In this latest slice of hi-octane absurdity, Hinton invites us again to meet more of the strange residents of the Bernard Hepton Housing Estate, an area which, of course, we all know only exists in his head… right?

Taking us on a journey through the artistic medium of LIES, he will seek that rare beast, the TRUTH. He tells of tortured genius Simon Crevice – a man driven mad by Boris Johnson; Enid Beveridge, a woman turned on by electrocution; Brenda Surplus, part-girl, part-dog; and Lonely Barry Ungswater, the only truly normal person in the world.

The event is open to all. To learn how you can become part of Juliet’s Process of Painting contact Julia Devonshire, Arts Project Officer, Ipswich Borough Council:

These tall tales are presented with Hinton’s customary twisted zeal and sharp suited aplomb. But as he weaves his twisted fibs, we come to fear that they may after all contain a kernel of terrible truth… But how much? Oh god… surely THAT bit can’t be true?

email. Julia.Devonshire@ipswich.gov.uk tel. +44 (0)1473 432 862

Recommended for ages 16+

SEE PG 18

By: Juliet Holton

Tam Hinton presents

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Friday 5 June TIME: 8pm TICKETS: £5

ST MARY’S ON THE QUAY DATE: Friday 5 June Saturday 6 & Sunday 7 TIME: 6 to 8pm 11am to 5pm

THE PROCESS OF PAINTING In Progress!

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Established in 1999, Synergy Theatre Project works towards rehabilitation with prisoners and ex-prisoners through theatre, whilst placing the wider issues surrounding imprisonment in the public arena.

SEE PG 18 . 31

The New Wolsey Theatre’s Creative Learning Team, in association with Synergy, recently appointed local playwright Danusia Iwaszko to lead a 10-week playwrighting course at Hollesley Bay Open Prison. The course culminated with a rehearsed reading by professional actors of an excerpt from each of the participants’ work. The final pieces were then submitted to Synergy’s National Prison Script Writing competition Write Now.

OUT WESTGATE Rural Suffolk is the best place to retire to, the safest place to raise kids in and the finest place to cover up old secrets...

Rural Suffolk isn’t as idyllic as they’d have you believe...

Set on the day of John Peel’s funeral in 2004, Out Westgate, written and directed by Drew Taylor, is a blackly comedic 21st century drama. Set in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, the play explores our need to suppress, forget, and “carry-onregardless”. Our forgotten childhood misdemeanours will always return to haunt us as adults...

SEE PG 18 . 30

Synergy Theatre Project’s second national prison script writing competition.

proudExposure presents

Press quotes from previous production in association with Glasgay!

This is your unique chance to see some work from the competition performed by professional actors specially selected for the PULSE Fringe Festival.

The Scotsman 

Recommended for ages 14+

Recommended for ages 16+

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Saturday 6 June TIME: 7.45pm TICKETS: £5

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Saturday 6 June TIME: 2pm TICKETS: £3

WRITE NOW

“directed with sensitivity and insight” The Herald www.proudExposure.has-the-best-website.com

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Established in 1999, Synergy Theatre Project works towards rehabilitation with prisoners and ex-prisoners through theatre, whilst placing the wider issues surrounding imprisonment in the public arena.

SEE PG 18 . 31

The New Wolsey Theatre’s Creative Learning Team, in association with Synergy, recently appointed local playwright Danusia Iwaszko to lead a 10-week playwrighting course at Hollesley Bay Open Prison. The course culminated with a rehearsed reading by professional actors of an excerpt from each of the participants’ work. The final pieces were then submitted to Synergy’s National Prison Script Writing competition Write Now.

OUT WESTGATE Rural Suffolk is the best place to retire to, the safest place to raise kids in and the finest place to cover up old secrets...

Rural Suffolk isn’t as idyllic as they’d have you believe...

Set on the day of John Peel’s funeral in 2004, Out Westgate, written and directed by Drew Taylor, is a blackly comedic 21st century drama. Set in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, the play explores our need to suppress, forget, and “carry-onregardless”. Our forgotten childhood misdemeanours will always return to haunt us as adults...

SEE PG 18 . 30

Synergy Theatre Project’s second national prison script writing competition.

proudExposure presents

Press quotes from previous production in association with Glasgay!

This is your unique chance to see some work from the competition performed by professional actors specially selected for the PULSE Fringe Festival.

The Scotsman 

Recommended for ages 14+

Recommended for ages 16+

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Saturday 6 June TIME: 7.45pm TICKETS: £5

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Saturday 6 June TIME: 2pm TICKETS: £3

WRITE NOW

“directed with sensitivity and insight” The Herald www.proudExposure.has-the-best-website.com

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DOUBLE BILL ANHNGDANCE presents

TWO BYE TWO Created for Union Dance, Two Bye Two is an emotional journey of a relationship between two humans, a roller-coaster which leads the audience in the dance by a flowing and powerful duet as well as a great piece of music for Avol Apart ‘Frates’.

“Given its awesome provenance, choreographing to Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring is a brave, or barmy, move. Anh Ngoc Nguyen did surprisingly well, marshalling his seven dancers to speedy, dramatic effect…” Evening Standard www.randomdance.org/the_company/dancers/anh_ngoc_nguyen www.youtube.com/user/anhnguyendance

COPE NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Sunday 7 June TIME: 7pm TICKETS: £5

Cope is a new piece by emerging company Kieran Sheehan Dance Theatre, combining filmic movement, spoken word, dance, poetry, design, live and pre-recorded music to create powerfully expressionistic dance theatre.

Combining a slick aesthetic with a visceral cathartic theme, Cope will leave you breathless.

Recommended for ages 14+ www.kieransheehan.com

BEDROOM STORIES A cow escapes from the slaughterhouse, a jealous lover struggles with the exes, a smelly sea forces the pirates ashore...

From the intimacy of the bedroom, emerge these three darkly humorous stories, innovatively told in a physical and vividly imaginative way that interweaves live and pre-recorded music with movement and a lyrical text.

“A very inventive piece of storytelling. He moves with the grace and precision of a dancer. But he’s got the mischievous spirit of a comedian and satirist.” The Star Phoenix “There’s something compelling about a performance that’s just so danged different.” Orlando Sentinel Recommended for ages 13+ www.fergusrougier.com www.uk.youtube.com/fergusrougier

COPE

COPE

SEE PG 30

Cope is the story of two women unable to move on from the events of their past, trapped in a world where every noise, touch and taste stings with the memory of what came before. The Women are watched by the Witness. Like looking at a car crash, the deeper the pain, the more horrific the memory, the more desperately they suffer, the more she needs to witness. And so a cycle of dependency is established linking the three women, a dependency on never dealing with the pain, never getting over the issue, never entering a dialogue.

Fergus Rougier presents

SIR JOHN MILLS THEATRE DATE: Tuesday 9 June TIME: 8.30pm TICKETS: £5

Kieran Sheehan Dance Theatre Company (KSDT) presents

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DOUBLE BILL ANHNGDANCE presents

TWO BYE TWO Created for Union Dance, Two Bye Two is an emotional journey of a relationship between two humans, a roller-coaster which leads the audience in the dance by a flowing and powerful duet as well as a great piece of music for Avol Apart ‘Frates’.

“Given its awesome provenance, choreographing to Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring is a brave, or barmy, move. Anh Ngoc Nguyen did surprisingly well, marshalling his seven dancers to speedy, dramatic effect…” Evening Standard www.randomdance.org/the_company/dancers/anh_ngoc_nguyen www.youtube.com/user/anhnguyendance

COPE NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Sunday 7 June TIME: 7pm TICKETS: £5

Cope is a new piece by emerging company Kieran Sheehan Dance Theatre, combining filmic movement, spoken word, dance, poetry, design, live and pre-recorded music to create powerfully expressionistic dance theatre.

Combining a slick aesthetic with a visceral cathartic theme, Cope will leave you breathless.

Recommended for ages 14+ www.kieransheehan.com

BEDROOM STORIES A cow escapes from the slaughterhouse, a jealous lover struggles with the exes, a smelly sea forces the pirates ashore...

From the intimacy of the bedroom, emerge these three darkly humorous stories, innovatively told in a physical and vividly imaginative way that interweaves live and pre-recorded music with movement and a lyrical text.

“A very inventive piece of storytelling. He moves with the grace and precision of a dancer. But he’s got the mischievous spirit of a comedian and satirist.” The Star Phoenix “There’s something compelling about a performance that’s just so danged different.” Orlando Sentinel Recommended for ages 13+ www.fergusrougier.com www.uk.youtube.com/fergusrougier

COPE

COPE

SEE PG 30

Cope is the story of two women unable to move on from the events of their past, trapped in a world where every noise, touch and taste stings with the memory of what came before. The Women are watched by the Witness. Like looking at a car crash, the deeper the pain, the more horrific the memory, the more desperately they suffer, the more she needs to witness. And so a cycle of dependency is established linking the three women, a dependency on never dealing with the pain, never getting over the issue, never entering a dialogue.

Fergus Rougier presents

SIR JOHN MILLS THEATRE DATE: Tuesday 9 June TIME: 8.30pm TICKETS: £5

Kieran Sheehan Dance Theatre Company (KSDT) presents

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JUDE SIMPSON: MAKING HAPPY

THE HISTORY OF THE POMEGRANATE

Stand-up poet Jude Simpson brings her unique blend of observational comedy, witty wordplay, poetry, rap and song to the subject of happiness. Do you have to wait for happiness, or can you make it happen? Can you only be happy by being good?

And if not, why do most books on happiness seem to be written by monks?

Performed by: Lewis Barfoot Directed by: Peta Lily Music composed and performed by: Litha Efthymiou Design by: Michelle Reader Supported by: Old Vic New Voices

From a lament about the clichés of falling in love, to a poem on the beneficial habits of reptiles and a song praising the humble spleen, Jude has wide appeal, a strong feel-good factor and the ability to leave you with a suspicion that maybe, just maybe, everything’s going to be OK… “one of the few fringe shows that will leave you feeling warm inside and content with the world… her charming sideways look at life is impossible not to enjoy” Skinny Fest on Growing Up Games  Recommended for ages 13+ www.judesimpson.co.uk www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqpBfUpCQX4

SIR JOHN MILLS THEATRE DATE: Wednesday 10 June TIME: 8.30pm TICKETS: £5

Lewis Barfoot of Three Beyond The Sea presents

Working with a composer and sculptor, Lewis Barfoot deftly brings to life The History of The Pomegranate in a show combining visual theatre, live music and song.

Is it possible that a fruit could transcend every religion, every continent and make you live longer? Could the old sages be right? Is the pomegranate really the symbol of everlasting life?

If so, why did Persephone have to dwell in the Underworld after eating the ruby red flesh?

SEE PG 34 . 36

SEE PG 35 . 36

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Wednesday 10 June TIME: 7pm TICKETS: £5

Making Box Productions presents

The History of the Pomegranate? You might ask. Well, this show will unearth the mysteries of this fecund fruit and leave you wondering whether Eve was actually tempted by an apple in the garden of Eden, or a pomegranate.

Recommended for ages 12+ www.threebeyondtheseatheatre.wordpress.com/pomegranate/

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JUDE SIMPSON: MAKING HAPPY

THE HISTORY OF THE POMEGRANATE

Stand-up poet Jude Simpson brings her unique blend of observational comedy, witty wordplay, poetry, rap and song to the subject of happiness. Do you have to wait for happiness, or can you make it happen? Can you only be happy by being good?

And if not, why do most books on happiness seem to be written by monks?

Performed by: Lewis Barfoot Directed by: Peta Lily Music composed and performed by: Litha Efthymiou Design by: Michelle Reader Supported by: Old Vic New Voices

From a lament about the clichés of falling in love, to a poem on the beneficial habits of reptiles and a song praising the humble spleen, Jude has wide appeal, a strong feel-good factor and the ability to leave you with a suspicion that maybe, just maybe, everything’s going to be OK… “one of the few fringe shows that will leave you feeling warm inside and content with the world… her charming sideways look at life is impossible not to enjoy” Skinny Fest on Growing Up Games  Recommended for ages 13+ www.judesimpson.co.uk www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqpBfUpCQX4

SIR JOHN MILLS THEATRE DATE: Wednesday 10 June TIME: 8.30pm TICKETS: £5

Lewis Barfoot of Three Beyond The Sea presents

Working with a composer and sculptor, Lewis Barfoot deftly brings to life The History of The Pomegranate in a show combining visual theatre, live music and song.

Is it possible that a fruit could transcend every religion, every continent and make you live longer? Could the old sages be right? Is the pomegranate really the symbol of everlasting life?

If so, why did Persephone have to dwell in the Underworld after eating the ruby red flesh?

SEE PG 34 . 36

SEE PG 35 . 36

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Wednesday 10 June TIME: 7pm TICKETS: £5

Making Box Productions presents

The History of the Pomegranate? You might ask. Well, this show will unearth the mysteries of this fecund fruit and leave you wondering whether Eve was actually tempted by an apple in the garden of Eden, or a pomegranate.

Recommended for ages 12+ www.threebeyondtheseatheatre.wordpress.com/pomegranate/

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WHAT IS IT? Escalator is an Arts Council England, East initiative which aims to identify, nurture and develop artistic talent in the East. Escalator Performing Arts and Escalator East to Edinburgh are both strands of this larger scheme run by The Junction in partnership with Colchester Arts Centre. Both schemes provide structured support for performing artists and companies who want to develop artistically and establish a market place for their work.

Escalator Performing Arts focuses on research and development whilst Escalator East to Edinburgh prepares artists / companies for The Edinburgh Festival Fringe and beyond.

The programmes have championed a wide range of artists and companies including Hoipolloi, New International Encounter (NIE) and New Art Club.

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Wednesday 10 June TIME: 9pm TICKETS: £5

Company FZ presents

HORSE Performed by: Flick Ferdinando Created by: Flick Ferdinando, John-Paul Zaccarini and Derek Ives

“Escalator has been invaluable… It is vital for the industry to have creative hubs to provide a safe and facilitating environment for making new, exciting, challenging and innovative work.”

Cat Moore: General Manager / Producer, NIE groups together a selection of Escalator artists and companies over one weekend…

The woman sits alone in a stable where she delves into a life of horse thoughts and gallops through observations of horsey behaviour. She conjures a world where imaginary horses are ridden, tragic songs are sung and hilarious antics on a gym horse dissolve into a desperate desire to have one of her own.

SEE PG 34 . 35

Horse is funny, tragic and surprising.

Horse is a thrilling piece from Company FZ, renowned for their unique syntheses of comedy, visual imagery, text and circus inspired choreography which is human and compelling to watch.

KING OF THE GYPSIES PAGE:

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IS EVERYONE OK? PAGE: 39

LOVE DRUNK PAGE: 40

Recommended for ages 14+ www.companyfz.com GREAT ESCAPE PAGE: 42

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WHAT IS IT? Escalator is an Arts Council England, East initiative which aims to identify, nurture and develop artistic talent in the East. Escalator Performing Arts and Escalator East to Edinburgh are both strands of this larger scheme run by The Junction in partnership with Colchester Arts Centre. Both schemes provide structured support for performing artists and companies who want to develop artistically and establish a market place for their work.

Escalator Performing Arts focuses on research and development whilst Escalator East to Edinburgh prepares artists / companies for The Edinburgh Festival Fringe and beyond.

The programmes have championed a wide range of artists and companies including Hoipolloi, New International Encounter (NIE) and New Art Club.

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Wednesday 10 June TIME: 9pm TICKETS: £5

Company FZ presents

HORSE Performed by: Flick Ferdinando Created by: Flick Ferdinando, John-Paul Zaccarini and Derek Ives

“Escalator has been invaluable… It is vital for the industry to have creative hubs to provide a safe and facilitating environment for making new, exciting, challenging and innovative work.”

Cat Moore: General Manager / Producer, NIE groups together a selection of Escalator artists and companies over one weekend…

The woman sits alone in a stable where she delves into a life of horse thoughts and gallops through observations of horsey behaviour. She conjures a world where imaginary horses are ridden, tragic songs are sung and hilarious antics on a gym horse dissolve into a desperate desire to have one of her own.

SEE PG 34 . 35

Horse is funny, tragic and surprising.

Horse is a thrilling piece from Company FZ, renowned for their unique syntheses of comedy, visual imagery, text and circus inspired choreography which is human and compelling to watch.

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Recommended for ages 14+ www.companyfz.com GREAT ESCAPE PAGE: 42

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KING OF THE GYPSIES

IS EVERYONE OK?

Written by: Pauline Lynch with original verbatim sourced material Directed by: Matt Cullum

By: Joel Horwood

“All they do is steal from us, wreck our countryside and de-value our property. They pay no taxes and contribute nothing to society.

Get them out!”

SEE PG 39 . 40

Today’s gypsy and traveller communities face bad press, local hatred and a level of prejudice verging on the insane… Deserved? Or not?

King of the Gypsies follows a gypsy bare knuckle fighter whose memories and fading dreams haunt him; his victories, his losses, his every choice reflected in the objects that are carried with him on his ceaseless travels.

Daisy’s job is on the line and whilst she can’t remember why she has it, she’s sure she can’t afford to lose it. Meanwhile Em’s about to become a self-elected single mother and Cameron doesn’t know what to do with these strange warm feelings that the office temp has infected him with…

Is Everyone OK? is a sixty-minute joyride for the lost and bewildered.

Three people trying to work out if they are doing okay or if everything’s going to shit – people who can only connect from behind a microphone. Three stories about us, now, and how terrified we are.

A brand new theatrical experience for anyone who has ever hit 30 and asked themselves what they’re doing with their life.

This ‘work in development’ combines verbatim text and new writing in a vibrant amalgam of image and sound. Due to premiere in August at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, King of the Gypsies journeys into a deeply private and secretive community, a community about which we actually know very little…

Is Everyone OK? is a dazzling tour-de-force, blurring the boundary between stand-up comedy and stand-up tragedy. A collaboration between Fringe First winning playwright Joel Horwood and internationally acclaimed new writing company nabokov.

Recommended for ages 12+

“A team brave enough to strip an uncomfortable subject down to its uncomfortable reality… proving that political theatre does have a place in the 21st Century.” The List, Edinburgh

www.thesecolours.com

SEE PG 38 . 40

nabokov presents

SIR JOHN MILLS THEATRE DATE: Thursday 11 June TIME: 7.30pm TICKETS: £5

SIR JOHN MILLS THEATRE DATE: Thursday 11 June TIME: 6pm TICKETS: £5

These Colours presents

Recommended for ages 16+ www.nabokov-online.com

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KING OF THE GYPSIES

IS EVERYONE OK?

Written by: Pauline Lynch with original verbatim sourced material Directed by: Matt Cullum

By: Joel Horwood

“All they do is steal from us, wreck our countryside and de-value our property. They pay no taxes and contribute nothing to society.

Get them out!”

SEE PG 39 . 40

Today’s gypsy and traveller communities face bad press, local hatred and a level of prejudice verging on the insane… Deserved? Or not?

King of the Gypsies follows a gypsy bare knuckle fighter whose memories and fading dreams haunt him; his victories, his losses, his every choice reflected in the objects that are carried with him on his ceaseless travels.

Daisy’s job is on the line and whilst she can’t remember why she has it, she’s sure she can’t afford to lose it. Meanwhile Em’s about to become a self-elected single mother and Cameron doesn’t know what to do with these strange warm feelings that the office temp has infected him with…

Is Everyone OK? is a sixty-minute joyride for the lost and bewildered.

Three people trying to work out if they are doing okay or if everything’s going to shit – people who can only connect from behind a microphone. Three stories about us, now, and how terrified we are.

A brand new theatrical experience for anyone who has ever hit 30 and asked themselves what they’re doing with their life.

This ‘work in development’ combines verbatim text and new writing in a vibrant amalgam of image and sound. Due to premiere in August at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, King of the Gypsies journeys into a deeply private and secretive community, a community about which we actually know very little…

Is Everyone OK? is a dazzling tour-de-force, blurring the boundary between stand-up comedy and stand-up tragedy. A collaboration between Fringe First winning playwright Joel Horwood and internationally acclaimed new writing company nabokov.

Recommended for ages 12+

“A team brave enough to strip an uncomfortable subject down to its uncomfortable reality… proving that political theatre does have a place in the 21st Century.” The List, Edinburgh

www.thesecolours.com

SEE PG 38 . 40

nabokov presents

SIR JOHN MILLS THEATRE DATE: Thursday 11 June TIME: 7.30pm TICKETS: £5

SIR JOHN MILLS THEATRE DATE: Thursday 11 June TIME: 6pm TICKETS: £5

These Colours presents

Recommended for ages 16+ www.nabokov-online.com

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One man’s world crumbles when his girlfriend leaves.

Lovedrunk is a story about loving somebody who does not love you anymore. Visually stunning and highly inventive, this new show from El Toro combines physical theatre, video projection and emotive music to explore falling out of love.

Physical theatrical storytelling for the You Tube generation.

SEE PG 38 . 39

“Hauntingly beautiful” Total Theatre, 2005 on Shadows Recommended for ages 12+ www.eltorotheatre.co.uk

EPIPHANY THEATRE IS… and Throwdown UK collaborate in a fusion of breakin, locking, popping, spoken word and the unique ‘multi’ vocals of MC Xander.

Epiphany explores the moment in our personal histories when we found our ‘element’, the place we love to be, where our passion meets our talent. It’s personal and it’s raw as Bugz, Yami and Charlie Blue use the medium of theatre to expose their bare boned battle against violence and bigotry. Watch and engage as they fight for their creative lives in this new promenade performance.

THEATRE IS... and Throwdown UK lead in developing the talent and creative capacity of the young people of the East of England.

SEE PG 44

LOVEDRUNK

Produced by THEATRE IS…and Throwdown UK in association with The Hat Factory

Recommended for ages 14+ www.theatreis.org www.throwdownuk.com

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NEW WOLSEY THEATRE DATE: Friday 12 June TIME: 7pm TICKETS: £5

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Thursday 11 June TIME: 9.30pm TICKETS: £5

El Toro presents

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One man’s world crumbles when his girlfriend leaves.

Lovedrunk is a story about loving somebody who does not love you anymore. Visually stunning and highly inventive, this new show from El Toro combines physical theatre, video projection and emotive music to explore falling out of love.

Physical theatrical storytelling for the You Tube generation.

SEE PG 38 . 39

“Hauntingly beautiful” Total Theatre, 2005 on Shadows Recommended for ages 12+ www.eltorotheatre.co.uk

EPIPHANY THEATRE IS… and Throwdown UK collaborate in a fusion of breakin, locking, popping, spoken word and the unique ‘multi’ vocals of MC Xander.

Epiphany explores the moment in our personal histories when we found our ‘element’, the place we love to be, where our passion meets our talent. It’s personal and it’s raw as Bugz, Yami and Charlie Blue use the medium of theatre to expose their bare boned battle against violence and bigotry. Watch and engage as they fight for their creative lives in this new promenade performance.

THEATRE IS... and Throwdown UK lead in developing the talent and creative capacity of the young people of the East of England.

SEE PG 44

LOVEDRUNK

Produced by THEATRE IS…and Throwdown UK in association with The Hat Factory

Recommended for ages 14+ www.theatreis.org www.throwdownuk.com

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El Toro presents

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DOUBLE BILL Helix Dance presents

THE GREAT ESCAPE The Great Escape is a comic solo written, choreographed and performed by DanceEast Associate Artist Isobel Cohen. While nominally a piece about cheap underwear and other unforeseen disappointments, its primary purpose is to explain why an otherwise intelligent and rational individual would choose to be a contemporary dancer.

“The fluid physical work of a highly trained modern dancer…

This is certainly dance for the masses.”

ThreeWeeks on The Great Escape  Recommended for ages 14+

Gagged Theatre presents

YOU ARE HERE By: Lucy Godfrey

Experiment 86 presents

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Friday 12 June TIME: 7pm TICKETS: £5

THIS IS OUR UNIVERSE and BASIC DRESSING Devised and performed by: MThomas J Millington and Michael Moussoulides Co-written by: Bob Pritchard 2 Men. 1 Sofa. But whose is it?

A moving story documenting a grandfather’s perilous escape from Poland to Great Britain during World War II, told by his grandson as he retraces his steps.

Gagged Theatre brings this cross-generational odyssey to life with a fusion of theatre, documentary and photography, resulting in a dynamic live performance.

SIR JOHN MILLS THEATRE DATE: Friday 12 June TIME: 7.45pm TICKETS: £5

www.helixdance.co.uk www.myspace.com/helixdance

“upbeat, sexy, slickly choreographer, funny and shocking too” Daily Mail on Shot www.gaggedproductions.com

SEE PG 44

A fusion of movement, text and song to unravel the two stories of these two men in a familiar but unfamiliar environment. Will they find a way to open up their minds as well as their front door?

Includes an unconventional lesson in how to get dressed in the morning. www.myspace.com/experiment86 Facebook – Search for Experiment 86

SEE PG 44

THIS IS OUR UNIVERSE

They laugh. They cry. They fight. They sing. But for what? Or who for?

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DOUBLE BILL Helix Dance presents

THE GREAT ESCAPE The Great Escape is a comic solo written, choreographed and performed by DanceEast Associate Artist Isobel Cohen. While nominally a piece about cheap underwear and other unforeseen disappointments, its primary purpose is to explain why an otherwise intelligent and rational individual would choose to be a contemporary dancer.

“The fluid physical work of a highly trained modern dancer…

This is certainly dance for the masses.”

ThreeWeeks on The Great Escape  Recommended for ages 14+

Gagged Theatre presents

YOU ARE HERE By: Lucy Godfrey

Experiment 86 presents

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Friday 12 June TIME: 7pm TICKETS: £5

THIS IS OUR UNIVERSE and BASIC DRESSING Devised and performed by: MThomas J Millington and Michael Moussoulides Co-written by: Bob Pritchard 2 Men. 1 Sofa. But whose is it?

A moving story documenting a grandfather’s perilous escape from Poland to Great Britain during World War II, told by his grandson as he retraces his steps.

Gagged Theatre brings this cross-generational odyssey to life with a fusion of theatre, documentary and photography, resulting in a dynamic live performance.

SIR JOHN MILLS THEATRE DATE: Friday 12 June TIME: 7.45pm TICKETS: £5

www.helixdance.co.uk www.myspace.com/helixdance

“upbeat, sexy, slickly choreographer, funny and shocking too” Daily Mail on Shot www.gaggedproductions.com

SEE PG 44

A fusion of movement, text and song to unravel the two stories of these two men in a familiar but unfamiliar environment. Will they find a way to open up their minds as well as their front door?

Includes an unconventional lesson in how to get dressed in the morning. www.myspace.com/experiment86 Facebook – Search for Experiment 86

SEE PG 44

THIS IS OUR UNIVERSE

They laugh. They cry. They fight. They sing. But for what? Or who for?

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Imagine if The Muppets has become embittered with their careers, gone off the rails and performed their kid’s show through a haze of gin and schadenfreude. That’s Sh*tty Deal!

Following highly successful runs at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2007 and 2008, Oh! What a Sh*tty War is Sh*tty Deal Puppet Theatre Company’s third full-length show. After tackling such diverse themes as Art and Oppression, this rag-tag crew of foulmouthed puppets turn their withering gaze on the entire history of warfare, as cynical clown puppet Mr Doper takes his innocent sidekick Bobby on a hilarious journey through battles and bloodshed to find out why warfare is as endemic to the human condition as back hair.

Recommended for ages 15+ Contains strong language, puppet violence and, yes, Barbie nudity! www.axisofevilproductions.com www.youtube.com/axisofeviluk

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SOUND JOURNEY Created and performed by Afro-Brazilian master percussionist Adriano Adewale, Sound Journey is a solo work of worldmusic-theatre which uses percussion, voice and dance to explore its contemporary themes of cultural identity, migration, immigration and climate change. The themes are developed though seven performance pieces, each with a very distinctive identity but which taken as a whole have a strong narrative unity.

Sound Journey employs conventional, traditional, organic and experimental instruments, each carefully chosen and with a specific role to play in the telling of the story. Although most instruments come from Brazil it is possible to hear strong influences from India, Europe, the Middle East and, in particular, the African Continent.

SEE PG 46 . 47

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SEGUE presents

SIR JOHN MILLS THEATRE DATE: Saturday 13 June TIME: 5pm TICKETS: £5

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Friday 12 June TIME: 9.30pm TICKETS: £5

Axis of Evil Productions and Sh*tty Deal Puppet Theatre Company presents

Join Adriano on his remarkable Sound Journey from African to South America, desert to rain forest, from city to village in this moving and intimate work of worlds-music-theatre. www.adrianoadewale.co.uk

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Imagine if The Muppets has become embittered with their careers, gone off the rails and performed their kid’s show through a haze of gin and schadenfreude. That’s Sh*tty Deal!

Following highly successful runs at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2007 and 2008, Oh! What a Sh*tty War is Sh*tty Deal Puppet Theatre Company’s third full-length show. After tackling such diverse themes as Art and Oppression, this rag-tag crew of foulmouthed puppets turn their withering gaze on the entire history of warfare, as cynical clown puppet Mr Doper takes his innocent sidekick Bobby on a hilarious journey through battles and bloodshed to find out why warfare is as endemic to the human condition as back hair.

Recommended for ages 15+ Contains strong language, puppet violence and, yes, Barbie nudity! www.axisofevilproductions.com www.youtube.com/axisofeviluk

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SOUND JOURNEY Created and performed by Afro-Brazilian master percussionist Adriano Adewale, Sound Journey is a solo work of worldmusic-theatre which uses percussion, voice and dance to explore its contemporary themes of cultural identity, migration, immigration and climate change. The themes are developed though seven performance pieces, each with a very distinctive identity but which taken as a whole have a strong narrative unity.

Sound Journey employs conventional, traditional, organic and experimental instruments, each carefully chosen and with a specific role to play in the telling of the story. Although most instruments come from Brazil it is possible to hear strong influences from India, Europe, the Middle East and, in particular, the African Continent.

SEE PG 46 . 47

OH! WHAT A SH*TTY WAR

SEGUE presents

SIR JOHN MILLS THEATRE DATE: Saturday 13 June TIME: 5pm TICKETS: £5

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Friday 12 June TIME: 9.30pm TICKETS: £5

Axis of Evil Productions and Sh*tty Deal Puppet Theatre Company presents

Join Adriano on his remarkable Sound Journey from African to South America, desert to rain forest, from city to village in this moving and intimate work of worlds-music-theatre. www.adrianoadewale.co.uk

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By: Nicola Werenowska Experimental cabaret for theatregoers with a sense of adventure, Dreamdance explores the relationship between two women in the decadent but dangerous world of the 1920’s Weimar Cabaret.

Their painful story is told against a surrealscape of music, movement and dance where the audience are invited into the world of cabaret. A world where to survive is to trust no one.

Recommended for ages 14+

SEE PG 45

www.footprintstheatrecompany.co.uk

THE ADVENTURES OF WOUND MAN AND SHIRLEY By: Chris Goode Shirley is a teenage boy with a girl’s name, growing up in suburbia and feeling like the weirdest kid in the school. Nothing makes much sense to him except uncool pop music and his comic books, and his heart belongs to a classmate who barely knows he exists... Wound Man is an unconventional superhero with a silver thong and an alarming assortment of weapons sticking out from every part of his body who has just moved into a house on Shirley’s street - and he happens to have a vacancy for a teenage sidekick...

SEE PG 45

DREAMDANCE

A Ric Watts and Queer Up North co-production, in association with Contact

NEW WOLSEY THEATRE DATE: Saturday 13 June TIME: 9pm TICKETS: £7

ST JOHN MILLS THEATRE DATE: Saturday 13 June TIME: 8.30pm TICKETS: £5

Footprints Theatre Company presents

The Adventures of Wound Man and Shirley is a new solo show from Chris Goode that combines intimate storytelling with original animation to tell the story of two unlikely friends and their escapades together. A funny and touching bedtime story for grown-ups and for weird teens everywhere.

“British theatre’s greatest maverick talent” The Guardian Recommended for ages 14+ www.queerupnorth.com

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By: Nicola Werenowska Experimental cabaret for theatregoers with a sense of adventure, Dreamdance explores the relationship between two women in the decadent but dangerous world of the 1920’s Weimar Cabaret.

Their painful story is told against a surrealscape of music, movement and dance where the audience are invited into the world of cabaret. A world where to survive is to trust no one.

Recommended for ages 14+

SEE PG 45

www.footprintstheatrecompany.co.uk

THE ADVENTURES OF WOUND MAN AND SHIRLEY By: Chris Goode Shirley is a teenage boy with a girl’s name, growing up in suburbia and feeling like the weirdest kid in the school. Nothing makes much sense to him except uncool pop music and his comic books, and his heart belongs to a classmate who barely knows he exists... Wound Man is an unconventional superhero with a silver thong and an alarming assortment of weapons sticking out from every part of his body who has just moved into a house on Shirley’s street - and he happens to have a vacancy for a teenage sidekick...

SEE PG 45

DREAMDANCE

A Ric Watts and Queer Up North co-production, in association with Contact

NEW WOLSEY THEATRE DATE: Saturday 13 June TIME: 9pm TICKETS: £7

ST JOHN MILLS THEATRE DATE: Saturday 13 June TIME: 8.30pm TICKETS: £5

Footprints Theatre Company presents

The Adventures of Wound Man and Shirley is a new solo show from Chris Goode that combines intimate storytelling with original animation to tell the story of two unlikely friends and their escapades together. A funny and touching bedtime story for grown-ups and for weird teens everywhere.

“British theatre’s greatest maverick talent” The Guardian Recommended for ages 14+ www.queerupnorth.com

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PULSE ticket holders can get an exclusive 25% discount on meals before/after a performance at The Greyhound Pub (corner of Anglesea Road and Henley Road) on presentation of your ticket. So don’t forget to pick up your ticket first. (Offer applies to food only).

A special PULSE menu and 15% off food and drink will be available to PULSE ticket holders from The New Wolsey Theatre Café Bar throughout the festival.

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book tickets call 01473 295 900.

ickets are also available on the door but check availability T before you turn up!

MEAL DEAL

PULSE ticket holders can get an exclusive 25% discount on meals before/after a performance at The Greyhound Pub (corner of Anglesea Road and Henley Road) on presentation of your ticket. So don’t forget to pick up your ticket first. (Offer applies to food only).

A special PULSE menu and 15% off food and drink will be available to PULSE ticket holders from The New Wolsey Theatre Café Bar throughout the festival.

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