July – December 2012Fresh work for adventurous people by inspiring artists

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Over the next six months we will be visiting festivals, touring the UK and delving into the digital sphere. There will be more Body Pods podcasts to listen to, and you can enjoy the first fruits of our new foray into film, which will be available to watch online.

If you’re up north, join us at Glasgow’s Tramway, where we’ll be presenting a festival of the very best of our touring work.

You can also catch shows under summer skies, as Inua Ellams tours Knight Watch through London and beyond, and Fevered Sleep’s new piece for three and four year olds, Little Universe, plays festivals over the summer months.

We hope you enjoy what’s on offer this season.

Kate McGrath and Louise Blackwell Directors, Fuel

Keep up to date with the latest at Fuel fueltheatre.com, facebook.com/fueltheatre and @fueltheatre

Welcome to our new season

London

Newcastle

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CheltenhamOxford

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Glasgow

BournemouthPoole

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Milton Keynes

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H Bournemouth Little UniverseH Bridport Black T-shirt Collection H Brighton Black T-shirt CollectionH Bristol RingH Canterbury Going DarkH Cheltenham RingH Colchester RingH Coventry RingH Crewe Ring H Glasgow Black T-shirt Collection Body Pods Make Better Please Ring The Simple Things in LifeH Goodrich Black T-shirt Collection

H Kendal Little Universe Ring H London Black T-shirt Collection Clod Ensemble workshops Going Dark The Good Neighbour Knight WatchH Medway Little Universe H Milton Keynes Little Universe H Newcastle Knight Watch Black T-shirt CollectionH Nottingham Black T-shirt CollectionH Oxford Black T-shirt Collection Everyday MomentsH Poole RingH Sheffield Knight Watch

Where you can find us this summer and autumn

H Southwold Knight WatchH Stockton Black T-shirt Collection Knight WatchH Winchester Little Universe

H Online Body Pods It’s the Skin You’re Living In Kursk Still Life with Dog

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Fuel presents

The Simple Things in Life

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The award winning The Simple Things in Life comes to the Tramway in Glasgow, as part of a festival of work produced by Fuel in November 2012. A haven in the hubbub of a busy city, we bring you two short experiences to celebrate the simple things in life. Lewis Gibson’s Lost in Words takes you on a journey through a good book and Makiko’s Shed is a surreal and mesmerising dance choreographed by Frauke Requardt. Each is found inside a garden shed for you to discover.

Herald Angel Award Winner 2011

“ Each shed is a treat in itself: cumulatively, they foster something of the wonderment that floats through childhood days of first discoveries” HHHHH The Herald

Funded by Arts Council England. Box office supported by Spektrix.

Tramway, Glasgow21–25 Novtramway.org 0845 330 3501

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Fuel presents Inua Ellams’

Black T-shirt CollectionHe unfurls, slow, like a dust flower, except, he is looking at his black shirt. Santana’s footprint: stamped on his chest; perfect stone crystals glinting in the grooves.

From Fringe First winner Inua Ellams comes a new story about two foster brothers building a global t-shirt brand. On their journey from a market in Nigeria to a sweatshop in China, Matthew and Muhammed discover the consequences of success.

Inua Ellams was born in Nigeria in 1984, and moved to the UK as a teenager. He merges visual art, poetry and theatre, telling stories with iconic imagery, humour and beauty. He writes about his upbringing, the experience of immigration, and of living in the UK today, bringing words to life with pace, rhythm, cadence and intonation. The poet and performer behind The 14th Tale and Untitled performs his new work, Black T-shirt Collection following a run at the National Theatre.

“ You sink into his storytelling, which paints vivid mental images” HHHH Time Out

“ Black T-Shirt Collection is a fluent, intense 70-minute confection and a tinglingly resonant celebration of the art of solo performance.” HHHH Evening Standard

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Burton Taylor Studio, Oxford 28–29 Sep, 7.30pm Tickets: £10/£8 oxfordplayhouse.com 01865 305305

Northern Stage, Newcastle 16–17 Oct, 8pm Tickets: £14.50/£12 northernstage.co.uk 0191 230 5151

ARC, Stockton-on-Tees 18 Oct, 7.45pm Tickets: £8.50/£6.50 arconline.co.uk 01642 525199

Goodrich Village Hall 20 Oct, 7.45pm Tickets: £10/£6 artsalive.co.uk 01600 890 502

Pavillion Theatre, Brighton Dome 24 Oct, 7.30pm brightondome.org 01273 709 709

Bridport Arts Centre 27 Oct, 8pm Tickets: £10/£9/£7/£3 bridport-arts.com 01308 424 204

Nottingham Playhouse 9–10 Nov, 8pm Tickets: £12/£10 nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk 0115 941 9419

Tara Theatre, London 19–20 Nov, 7.30pm Tickets: £13/£9 tara-arts.com 020 8333 4457

Tramway, Glasgow 22 Nov, 7.30pm tramway.org 0845 330 3501

Commissioned by Warwick Arts Centre. Developed with the support of the Arvon Foundation and the National Theatre and the Jerwood residencies at Cove Park which are supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation. Funded by Arts Council England.

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Fuel presents Inua Ellams’

Knight WatchIn a world where tower blocks are stone mountains and city walls are urban tapestries retelling epic fights, Michael keeps away from the warring tribes until a passerby helps him out of a tight situation.

In rhythmic, sizzling poetry, and with a live soundtrack from Zashiki Warashi drum and flute duo (Akinori Fujimoto and Mikey Kirkpatrick), Inua Ellams conjures the violence of a city not unlike London and imagines a more beautiful world beyond it.

Knight Watch is performed outside in hidden corners across the city. Please contact the venues and festivals direct for information about the location of the show, and please dress appropriately for the weather.

Commissioned by the Albany. Funded by Arts Council England. Developed with the support of the Almeida Theatre.

Greenwich+Docklands International Festival 23–24 Jun, 7pm festival.org Booking via Greenwich Theatre 020 8858 7755

International Student Drama Festival, Sheffield 26 Jun, 11pm nsdf.org.uk 020 7036 0927

Camden People’s Theatre 29 Jun, 6pm & 9pm 30 Jun, 5pm & 9pm cptheatre.co.uk 08444 77 1000

Almeida Festival, Spa Fields, Clerkenwell 2–3 Jul, 7.30pm almeida.co.uk 020 7359 4404

Tara Theatre @ Coronation Gardens, Southfields 5–7 Jul, 9pm 6 Jul: Sign interpreted performance tara-arts.com 020 8333 4457

Arcola Theatre at the Dalston Eastern Curve Garden 10 Jul, 8pm arcolatheatre.com 020 7503 1646

The Last Refuge, Peckham 11 Jul, 8pm To book tickets visit fueltheatre.com

Latitude Festival, Southwold, Outdoor Theatre Stage 14 Jul, 3.30pm latitudefestival.co.uk 0870 060 3775

Southbank Centre, Central London 22 Jul, 8.30pm southbankcentre.co.uk 0844 847 9910

Stockton International Riverside Festival 2–3 Aug, time TBC sirf.co.uk

Live Theatre in association with NewcastleGateshead Bridges Festival 4 Aug, 7.30pm 5 Aug, 7.30pm & 9pm live.org.uk 0191 232 1232

The Albany at Deptford Lounge 21 Sep, 8pm thealbany.org.uk 020 8692 4446

“ Ellams’ poetry gleams with dusty, worn, deeply original beauty and he remains such wonderfully generous company to keep on stage” Metro on The 14th Tale

Fuel presentsSound&Fury’s

Going DarkWritten by Hattie Naylor in collaboration with Sound&Fury

How far can you see? A mile? A hundred miles? Or to the furthest shores of the universe to a far away galaxy?

When his own life takes an unexpected turn, Max discovers that understanding the universe requires a different kind of vision...

Sound&Fury use their innovative theatre vocabulary of immersive surround sound design, total darkness and imaginative lighting in Going Dark to reawaken our wonder at the cosmos and reveal how one man’s vision becomes illuminated by darkness.

Commissioned by Warwick Arts Centre. Developed as part of Fuel at the Roundhouse and the Jerwood residencies at Cove Park which are supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation. Funded by Arts Council England, the Wellcome Trust, the Institute of Physics and the Science and Technology Facilities Council. Supported by the Linbury Prize for stage design.

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Canterbury Festival14–16 Oct, 7.30pmTickets: £14canterburyfestival.co.uk01227 787787

Young Vic, London4–21 Dec, 8pm 7 Dec, 7pm13, 20, 22 Dec, 5pm8, 11, 15, 18, 22 Dec, 2pmNo performances on Sundays22 Dec, 2pm: Audio Described PerformanceTickets: £19.50 (previews £10)youngvic.org020 7922 2922

“ Sound&Fury are going boldly where few companies have gone before… this is a dazzling achievement that deserves a rich scattering of critical stars” The Daily Telegraph HHHHH

“ A pulse-quickening poem… a wonderful piece of theatre” The Independent HHHHH

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Sound&Fury’s award-winning production Kursk is part of the 2012 Space commissions, in partnership with Arts Council England.

In collaboration with film and TV director Amanda Boyle, and following a sell-out run at Sydney Opera House in October 2011, Kursk (Young Vic 2009 and 2010, UK tour 2010) will be transformed into a film available on The Space through computer, tablet, smartphone and connected TV. A re-imagining of a landmark theatre production for a digital audience.

In partnership with radio producer Julian May, Fuel will also produce a series of short podcasts, inspired by the story of the Kursk. They will delve into the untold stories of the submariners who were sent on spying missions during the Cold War, and the underground world of secrecy and codes.

This film is an adaptation of the original stage production Kursk. Created by Sound&Fury in collaboration with Bryony Lavery. Directed by Mark Espiner and Dan Jones. Sound&Fury are Mark Espiner, Tom Espiner and Dan Jones. Co-produced by Fuel and the Young Vic. Commissioned by the Junction. Funded by Arts Council England, a Wellcome Trust Arts Award and the Genesis Foundation.

Available on thespace.org from August 2012.

A Fuel filmWritten by Bryony Lavery and Sound&FuryDirected by Amanda Boyle

Sound&Fury’s Kursk

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You may not know us by name, but we will probably seem familiar. Maybe we have driven you home, engaged you in small talk, smiled at you across a crowded train. We are the reassuring voices in your ear (not the ones in your head - they are your own business). You are already a valued member of the group and we’re thinking about you more and more.

Ring is a sound journey in complete darkness and an antidote to choice. The audience wear headphones that amplify the intimate details of the room, transporting you to another room that is very similar to the one that you entered. But in this room you have been recognised.

A sound journey in complete darkness from director David Rosenberg (Electric Hotel, Shunt) and writer Glen Neath (The Outgoing Man, and Romcom by Rotozaza).

The show takes place in total darkness. It is sound based and involves wearing headsets. Recommended for age 16+.

Triggered at Warwick Arts Centre. Funded by Arts Council England.

Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal 3 Oct, 8pm Tickets: £12 breweryarts.co.uk 01539 725133

Axis Arts Centre, Crewe 4 Oct, 7.30pm Tickets: £8/£5 axisartscentre.org.uk 0161 247 5302

Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham 10 Oct, 7.30pm Tickets: £10/£8/£5 parabolaartscentre.co.uk 01242 707 338

Bristol Old Vic 16–17 Oct, 7pm 18–20 Oct, 7pm & 9pm Tickets: £12/£8 bristololdvic.org.uk 0117 987 7877

Lighthouse, Poole 23 Oct, 7pm & 9pm Tickets: £12/£10 lighthousepoole.co.uk

0844 406 8666

Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry 31 Oct–1 Nov, 7.15pm Tickets: £10.50/£8.50 warwickartscentre.co.uk 024 7652 4524

Lakeside Theatre, Colchester 15 Nov, 6.30 & 8.30pm Tickets: £10/£7/£5 essex.ac.uk/artson5 01206 873 288

Tramway, Glasgow 20–21 Nov, 7.30pm tramway.org 0845 330 3501

Clod Ensemble

Open Workshops

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Anatomy Through Movement Wellcome Collection, London 12 Jul, 7pm–8.30pm, 14 & 15 Jul, 2pm–3.30pm

Drawing on Leonardo Da Vinci’s anatomical drawings as inspiration this 90 minute workshop encourages participants to engage with their own anatomy through a series of gentle movement exercises.

Led by Associate Artist Leon Baugh and Suzy Willson, Artistic Director of Clod Ensemble.

This event is FREE. Booking opens Thursday 28th June, advance booking is recommended. wellcomecollection.org

Physical Thinking The Queen’s Gallery, London 12, 13, 14 Sep, 5.15pm–7.45pm

Enjoy the Leonardo Da Vinci: Anatomist exhibition after the crowds have gone home, letting yourself ‘be moved’ by his anatomical studies. In this short course participants will have the opportunity to discover the artists notes and drawings through a series of structured movement and performance exercises which take place in the gallery.

Led by Suzy Willson, Artistic Director of Clod Ensemble.

Tickets: £40/30 for full course, includes admission to the exhibition. Booking opens June/July check www.clodensemble.com for updates.

“ His work is stylish and suggestive, creating an atmosphere that stays with audiences – and troubles them too.” In Praise of David Rosenberg, Guardian, June 2010

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Ring

Conceived and directed by David Rosenberg Written by Glen Neath Sound by Ben and Max Ringham

Clod Ensemble will also be hosting a Performing Medicine Symposium in the Autumn exploring some of the current thinking in the area of arts in medical training. clodensemble.com Twitter: @clodensemble

Leading on from last year’s Anatomy Season Clod Ensemble is running a series of open workshops from July culminating in a Symposium in Autumn 2012.

Highlights include two workshops inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci’s anatomical drawings, currently on public exhibition for the first time since 1972.

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Little Universe Created by Fevered Sleep

Fevered Sleep’s brand new outdoor show for children opens this summer.

From the biggest of galaxies to the smallest things in the world, Little Universe reveals the patterns and movements that set everything in motion. Visually striking and playful, Fevered Sleep presents a new performance for four and five year olds, created especially for the outdoors.

Follow @feveredsleep or search #fsUniverse for more information.

Produced in association with Fuel. A Small Wonders Commission.

Still Life with DogA Fevered Sleep film Produced in association with Fuel

Inspired by Fevered Sleep’s On Ageing, Still Life with Dog is a short film featuring seven remark-able female performers.

Inspired by the idea of the ‘seven ages of man’, Still Life with Dog hints at the accumulation of objects and memories over the course of a life, the strange ways in which we experience time, and the profound physical changes that take place as we age.

Available to view at feveredsleep.co.uk from August 2012. Follow @feveredsleep or search #fsWithDog for more information.

It’s the Skin You’re Living InA Fevered Sleep film Produced in association with Fuel

It’s the Skin You’re Living In playfully challenges some of the visual and conceptual misconceptions about climate change... that it’s about saving natural habitats rather than human ones or it’s confined to remote polar landscapes rather than the places where we live.

Created with Fevered Sleep’s beautifully poetic style, the film follows a migration from the high Arctic to urban London. Discover an animal that is sometimes man, sometimes bear; a hybrid species moving and dancing, trying to find a new habitat, a place to live, a place that could be home.

It’s the Skin You’re Living In is available as an app from September 2012. A longer version will be released in 2013.

Follow @feveredsleep or search #fsSkin for more information.

Fuse Medway Festival, Kent 16–17 Jun fusefestival.org.uk 01634 338319

Hatfair, Winchester 6–7 July hatfair.co.uk 01962 849841

Milton Keynes International Festival 21–22 July ifmiltonkeynes.org 01908 280800

Mintfest, Cumbria 1–2 Sept lakesalive.org/our-events/mintfest-2012 01539 720252

Bournemouth by the Sea 29–30 Sept artsbournemouth.org.uk/festival 01202 451 805

The Future Playground11 Oct

An event and online network that celebrates, reflects on and supports the changing landscape of work for children. The event at The Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester, is an opportunity for artists, leaders, producers and promoters to come together to reflect on the extraordinary creative opportunities that are offered when we make work for children

For more information or to request a place please email admin@feveredsleep.co.uk.

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Fuel presents Uninvited Guests’

Make Better PleaseIn collaboration with Lewis Gibson

Bring us the troubles of the world, this city’s crises and the hope in your hearts.

Uninvited Guests are in town. We call on the people to gather with us, to read the day’s newspapers together, to speak and to listen.

We will give voice to the concerns of the hour! We will question the powers that be! We will make things better! We will make things better!

This is a town hall meeting and a radio broadcast, a public protest and the news of your world. In these times of crisis we make a collective ministry with you, our society of friends. Possessed by the spirits of corporate fat cats, cabinet ministers and media tycoons, we invoke the demons of the day, in order to banish them forever. Frothing at the mouth, we dance it out, rock out and rage on your behalf.

Each show will draw on the day’s news and will be about whatever matters to you. We’ll speak the unspeakable and do the unthinkable for you.

Commissioned and developed by Theatre Bristol, Bristol Old Vic and BAC. Funded by Arts Council England. Developed with the support of Beaford Arts.

Tramway, Glasgow 23–25 Nov, 7.30pm tramway.org 0845 330 3501

How well do you know your insides? Ever wondered why you have an appendix or how your ears work out the source of a sound?

Discover the weird, beautiful, and surprising human body in Body Pods, a series of 12 podcasts by artists and scientists, each one exploring a different part of your body.

The artists making podcasts in this period are Chris Thorpe, Richard Thomas, Stacy Makishi, Alice Oswald, David Harradine and Terje Isungset, collaborating with scientists including Joe Cain, Graham Foster, Michael Klaber and Glenn Gibson.

Download the podcasts at fueltheatre.com, or look for our listening stations, touring theatres, hospitals and universities throughout the year, including BAC, London and Tramway, Glasgow.

Funded by a Wellcome Trust Arts Award. Also released as the Guardian Culture Podcast and on Time Out each month.

Fuel, Roundhouse and the UCL Ear Institute present

Give Me Back My Broken Night

In collaboration with Circumstance

Give Me Back My Broken Night is a mobile theatre work using pervasive technology that asks audiences to collaboratively imagine the future of their city. This site-specific science fiction uses location sensitive mobile devices and portable projectors to create an intimate cinematic experience for participants.

Guimarães, PortugalFor more information visit fueltheatre.comguimaraes2012.pt

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Fuelfest at TramwayFollowing on from a fantastic festival of shows at the Unity Theatre in Liverpool last season, we are thrilled to be collaborating with the Tramway in Glasgow to bring you a season of new work.

We are taking over Tramway 1 with shows from David Rosenberg & Glen Neath, Inua Ellams and Uninvited Guests. In the foyer you can catch The Simple Things in Life, our short experiences in garden sheds, and listen to Body Pods, a series of podcasts about the human body.

This is the second time we have collaborated with a venue to produce a festival and we hope it’s something we’ll continue to do as we try to tour our shows to as many people as possible. We hope you enjoy the festival.

Research & developmentIn addition to the seventeen projects you can read about in this brochure, we run an active and in-depth development programme for artists and new work. With the help of Arts Council England and the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, we’re able to offer artists creative residencies at Dartington Hall and Cove Park, where they can dream up new ideas. This is our lab, where much of the work we produce begins its life.

We are currently fundraising to support artists in this way in 2013 and beyond. Please contact us if you think you could help.

Make your mark on FuelAt Fuel we are constantly working with artists to create new experiences for you to enjoy. We believe in these aims and work hard every day to make them happen. We hope you’ve enjoyed the journey so far. If you would like to make your mark, visit our website at fueltheatre.com and click on ‘support’. There are lots of ways you can get involved; just £5 a month will help make our ambitions real. In return we’ll give you exclusive benefits and the inside story on what we’re up to. You’ll make great ideas come to life for the broadest possible audience.

Firefly From £5 a month (or £60 per annum).

The Fireflies swarm helps us to keep everything alright, making sure we’re able to keep doing everything we do.

Kindling £500 per annum

Our Kindling are the foundations of Fuel. They add their own energy to the mix and enable us to take risks and say yes to crazy ideas.

Spark £1000 per annum

Our Sparks enable new ideas to light up. They get to know the artists they support and see the show take form at the very first stages.

Generator £5000 per annum

Our Generators are a very special group of people. They provide the extra push to enable an idea to become a reality. We work in partnership with our Generators to keep the Fuel engine room going apace.

Ring 20–21 Nov, 7.30pm

The Simple Things in Life 21–25 Nov, various times

Black T-shirt Collection 22 Nov, 7.30pm

Make Better Please 23–25 Nov, 7.30pm

Body Pods Experience the podcasts throughout the season in the listening station in the foyer.

tramway.org 0845 330 3501

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Late night, with headphones, in completely utterly dark room, with some space to move

by Hofesh Shechter

A sound installation in a completely dark room at Oxford Playhouse.

In 2011, Fuel commissioned a series of podcasts from different artists inspired by their favourite everyday moment, designed to be listened to at a particular time and in a particular place.

Hofesh Shechter’s podcast, designed to be listened to alone, in a dark space, is an invitation to move without inhibition. It will be installed at Oxford Playhouse this August.

Originally produced part of Everyday Moments podcasts, produced in collaboration with Roundhouse Radio.

Originally supported by Esmee Fairbairn Foundation and Arts Council England.

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Everyday MomentsBurton Taylor Studio, Oxford 13–18 Aug Every 15 minutes from 7pm to 10pmTickets: £3oxfordplayhouse.com 01865 305 305

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