camden people’s theatre

SUMMER 2008

SPRINT

Republic Of FreetanniaThur 29th June

Aegean Fatigue Thur 29th - Fri 30th May

A Kiss From The Last Red Squirrel Sat 31st May - Sun 1st June

The ForgottenTues 3rd - Wed 4th June

15 Storms In A TeacupThur 5th - Fri 6th June

Black TonicFri 6th - Sun 8th, Fri 13th - Sun 15th,Fri 20th - Sun 22nd June

Useful Knowledge To KnowSat 7th - Sun 8th June

Urashima TaroMon 9th - Wed 11th June

Finding My Inner CowboyThur 12th - Sat 14th June

The Long & Winding RoadThur 12th - Sat 14th June

In A Thousand PiecesTues 17th - Wed 18th June

Oh My Green Soap BoxThur 19th & Fri 20th June

NightfallSat 21st June

Chi Chi BunichiSun 22nd June

FishMon 23rd - Tues 24th June

Empire Of FeathersWed 25th - Thur 26th

On The Face Of ItFri 27th - Sun 29th June

Welcome To SprintFor over a decade, Camden People’s Theatre has provided space, support and inspiration for new and innovative theatre makers, acting as a spring-board for many of today’s most exciting artists at the start of their careers. As the companies we’ve nurtured have grown, so have our ambitions; both for them and forourselves. At the heart of our work is a commitment to developing and presenting new work form emerging companies. The beating pulse of this heart is Sprint & Tonic.

Now in its 11th year Sprint has presented work by companies who have gone on to garner awards and international reputations. It was also my own introduction to CPT when I brought Ariadne here in 2004, and will always be an essential element of our work.

Over the last two years we’ve expanded the festival to one month and tried to present a broad cross section of work that we find exciting, exhilarating, daring, challenging and joyous. Some of this work I’ve seen on my travels around the country, and other pieces we chose on the basis of the idea. This year, thanks to funding from the Arts Council of England and Camden Council, we’re able to be more ambitious, and have expanded the festival to include two off site projects, including our first Sprintcommission Black Tonic by The Other Way Works.

Over these four weeks we hope you’ll join us to see the sun go down on midsummers night (Nightfall) experience miniatureecosystems created before your eyes (15 Storms In A Teacup), hear from a man who lived as cowboy (Finding My Inner Cowboy), experience a journey in a parked car (The Long & Winding Road), unravel a detective story in a hotel (Black Tonic) or...I could go on.

Some of the companies taking part you won’t have heard of, much of the work is brand new and being seen for the first time - so how are you supposed to know what it’ll be like? You can't. What we can offer you is something unique, surprising and completely of its time. These are new shows from emerging talents: your best chance to discover the leading artists of the future at the start of their careers. Take a risk with us; lead don’t follow - you might just be blown away.

Matt Ball,DirectorCPT

BOX OFFICE: 08700 600 100

Summer 2008

www.cptheatre.co.uk

Camden People’s Theatre

A Kiss From The Last Red SquirrelRough MemorySat 31st May - Sun 1st June, 8pm£10/£8

This squirrel is an immigrant. An alien. An invader.

Ripe strawberries, yiddishlanguage lessons and attemptsto hold on to what you love. In this sharp and touchingdocu-performance Rough Memory reports from the front line asa battle for survival eruptsbetween red and grey squirrels.

This performance is notsuitable for under 12s.

Aegean FatiguePetra’s PulseThur 29th - Fri 30th May, 8pm£10/£8

Aegean Fatigue - a new work in progress by Petra’s Pulse.

Nine visual songs form a raw and unsettling theatrical album. A misplaced landscapeof lost encounters, broken journeys and unfinished words drawn from the world thatsurrounds us.

Petra’s Pulse were co-founded in 2001 bySelina Papoutseli and Jamie Wood. Theirwork is built on a base of movement practise that includes elements of Butoh, classic European movement theatre, clown and mime. Previous work includes “Donkey Shadow” (SPRINT 2006, Shunt Vaults), “Drinking the Dawn” (BAC, CPT’s 10th anniversary festival) and“Two Feet High in the Sky” (SPRINT 2003, Octoberfest BAC).

This performance may contain nudity.

“Petra’s Pulse aremasters of surreal theatre...

entertaining, moving andthought-provoking in equal measure.”

Dorothy Max Prior, Total Theatre

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15 Storms In A TeacupPeople In PiecesThur 5th & Fri 6th June, 8pm£8/£5

This is an attempt to capture weather in jar.

To make an experiment work.

To toy with the impossible.

And help you find your way out of the dark.

How could we get through a disaster.

How to survive.

The ForgottenBadac Theatre CompanyTues 3rd - Wed 4th June, 8pm£10/£8

By 1945 six million Jewish people had been destroyed by the NAZI policy of extermination.

The Forgotten is the story of one of those people.

An anonymous man, at the moment of his liberation, retells his nightmare journey to his watching saviours.

Beginning with the invasion of his city and endingin his imprisonment within the death camp at Auschwitz, he leads us through each stage of hisand his families humiliation, degradation andultimate destruction at the hands of the NAZI’s.

The Forgotten is an intense study of a process that was used to destroy millions of human beings.

This performance contains strong language andis not recommended for under 15 year olds.

“Arnolfini Arnolfini Associate Artists, Peoples in Pieces, make poetic work that contrast the

mundane with the quietly spectacular.

15 Storms in a Teacup was an intimate, hushed and shy performance that mixed

alchemy with anticipation. We enter their world of kitchen sink science and held our breath as low-tech chemical reactions take place before our eyes. The audience willed

the performers on, hopeful for the desired effect, which with a little patience gently

appeared before us.”Arnolfini

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Black TonicThe Other Way Works in co-production with CPTFri 6th - Sun 8th, Fri 13th - Sun 15th, Fri 20th - Sun 22nd June, 7pm, 8pm, 9pm£10/£8

I take a large splinter of glass and hold it up to the light. As I slide it into the skin of my hand I feel something. Something akin to the first time. The first job. This will get me into their room, into their lives for at least long enough to shatter it.

The Other Way Works invites you to unravel this original detective story, where even love can be bought for the price of a cocktail from the mini-bar.

Check-in at Hotel Reception, and journey along corridors and into bedrooms to piece together the clues: a glass of expensive red wine; a housekeeper gripped with inquisitive mania; a hotel receipt from New York; a couple drunk on lust and jet-lag; a sliver of shattered glass; a sleek executive waiting to be caught; a single spot of blood.

Black Tonic is an interactive performance, incor-porating video, audio, and installations, as well as live performers.

Black Tonic is performed in the bedrooms and corridors of a Central London Hotel. Audience capacity is very limited and you will be advised on the location after booking. Suitable for ages 16+

Commissioned and Co-produced by CPT. Project development supported by Arts Council England, Birmingham City Council and The Sir Barry Jackson Trust.

www.theotherwayworks.co.uk

“By placing the audience at the centre of the performance, The Other Way Works is

breaking down traditional barriers between performers and audience, making theatre

something you go to do, not just see.”Metro

“Specialising in the unexpected”What’s On

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Urashima TaroRouge28 TheatreMon 9th - Wed 11th June, 8pm£10/£8

The Ocean contains memories, emotions and legends... Have you ever listened to the stories told by the Ocean? Inspired by one of the oldest tales from Japan, Urashima Taro tells the story of a fisherman who finds himself released from the burden of his poor life by a mysterious Lady.

Urashima Taro is a new solo pieceperformed and devised by Aya Nakamura in collaboration with director Paul Pirisand scenographer Nathalie Maury thatcombines Bunraku style puppetry,kamishibai, story telling and mask work.Urashima Taro is supported by the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation and the Puppet Centre Trust.

www.rouge28theatre.co.uk

Useful Knowledge To KnowChloé Déchery & Chris EleySat 7th - Sun 8th June, 8pm£10/£8

French performer Chloé Déchery gives a snippet from her series of lectures about stuff, you, English and British people, should know. She has a number of tools to help her get her point across including a table, two flowers and a video projector.

When does a lecture turninto a performance?

How does a performance turn intoan operatic disaster?

A show about language and thechallenging task of imparting information (both random and crucially important)

A collaboration between Chloé Déchery, performer, and Chris Eley, documentary film-maker. With assistance fromchoreographer Pia Nordin.

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Finding My Inner CowboyTom MarshmanThur 12th - Sat 14th June, 8pm£10/£8

Tom Marshman tries to locate hisinner cowboy.

Confused about the manly codes ofetiquette he struggles on, in search of enlightenment. Follow his progress as he takes up various cowboy pursuits frombucking broncos to learning to lasso in this intimate, funny and wonderfully offbeat piece.

Developed with support fromArts Council England.

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“One of the most exciting things about Marshman’s work is his ability to pick a

seemingly small subject and peel back the layers to expose something unexpectedly

profound.”The Big Issue

The Long & Winding RoadMichael PinchbeckThur 12th - Sat 14th June, See website for times and locationFree

The Long and Winding Road began on 17 May 2004 when live artist Michael Pinchbeck embarked on a journey in a graffiti covered car from Nottingham to Liverpool. The car was packed with 350 mementoes wrapped up in brown paper and string, tagged and logged. The mementoes in the car are items that belonged to the artist's brother who died in an accident in Liverpool on 17 May 1998. The car tours to festivals until 2008 when Michael will drive the car into the River Mersey. Join him for a travel sweet and a car history. Commissioned by Fierce! Festival.

This performance is not suitable for under 16s

“Audacious.”Metro

“Highly emotive and powerful.”BBC Online

“The Long and Winding Road, is a journey that perhaps in one way or another we have all taken or seen a close friend take.It is about the experience of loss, memory, mourning and recovery”BBC Online

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“The cast have formed a fluid bondwith each other... the freshness and

vibrancy of the piece hint at thepromise this young company show.”

Sara-Mae Tuson - UK Theatre Reviews (‘Shoebox Complex’ 2006)

Oh My Green Soap BoxJumbledThur 19th & Fri 20th June, 8pm£10/£8

For my small audience I willlaunch a really big campaign.This one will be different from othercampaigns. This one will be the onewhere things really change! This onewill make us feel like different people.Or not even like people any more.Like birds, like trees, like the sea,like the mountains.

With some stuff she found in herbedroom, Lucy Foster will attempt toevoke the beautiful white world melting below our feet. She will try not to shoutat you, she will try to keep things merry, and hope that it doesn’t all comeflooding out.

In A Thousand PiecesThe Paper BirdsTues 17th - Wed 18th June, 8pm£10/£8

Suitcases, jig-saws, bus tickets andbuttons tell the physically and visually breathtaking tale of a young girl onher journey to England.

Like Russian dolls shedding skins; settings and worlds are packed and unpacked from battered and bruised suitcases by battered and bruised girls. Lives unfurl; carpets, lamps and washing lines unfold, magically taking audience’s to back streets, back seats and bedrooms.

Like a distorted kaleidoscope ‘In AThousand Pieces’ uses movement, words and live music to trace a touching and delicate depiction of a violent andisolated world that homes thousands of women forced into the sex industry.

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“Her bewildered but enthusiasticeverywoman persona was the perfect

choice to deliver a piece onclimate change that wasn’t in the least

preachy but still made its point.”Daily Info, Oxford

“The Paper Birds are exactly the kind of new, ambitious talent British theatre needs -

expect to hear much, much more from thisLeeds-based company.”

The British Theatre Guide

“The cast have formed a fluid bondwith each other... the freshness and

vibrancy of the piece hint at thepromise this young company show.”

Sara-Mae Tuson - UK Theatre Reviews (‘Shoebox Complex’ 2006)

Chi Chi BunichiChi Chi BunichiSun 22nd June, 5.30pm, 8pm£10/£8

Ladino folksong meets contemporarychoreography in a nomadic journey through Sarajevo to Jerusalem; Dalstonvia Famagusta. Unfurled in a domestic urban gathering, Chi Chi Bunichi is anintimate dance with harmonium, ukulele, recorded and live voices celebratingstories of diaspora, displacement, dollars and desire. Come fall into the arms ofreal people... remember... sip tea...

Performed and created by Daphna Attias, Robert Cook, Yaniv Fridel, Ayse Tashkiran, Konstantinos Thomaidis, Jenny Hayton, Mark Jones

NightfallThe Special GuestsSat 21st June, 9.10pm£10/£8

Join The Special Guests for a special Summer Solstice performance of their new time-specific show Nightfall. Taking place at sunset, Nightfall playfullyexamines the transitional worlds we inhabit at this twilight hour. A light meter measures the diminishing light levels; pseudo goths explain how the earth orbits the sun, and a late-night radio DJ accompanies into the small hours with tales of blackouts and power cuts.

Nightfall uses the language of classroom physics and practical demonstrations to explore the shifting borders betweenscience, theatre and philosophy.

An Arnolfini We Live Here Commissionfunded by Arts Council England.

www.thespecialguests.co.uk

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“It’s hard not to feel upbeat and moved bythis evening of Ladino song and

specially created dance.”The Londonist

Empire Of FeathersGiant BirdWed 25th - Thur 26th June, 8pm£10/£8

A roaring industrial age of concrete oceans and steel-scraped skies drawsto a close and three men set off in search of the infamous Red Sylvester, the rarest bird of all. Rifle Lancaster, a ruthless hunter hopes to look death in the eye; Lucey Fair, a decadent painter seeks to create a work of pure truth, and Ball Manhattan, a tycoon socialite strives to bring proofof magic back into the world. Giant Bird transforms everyday objects into the extraordinary: a crumpled map becomes a mountain range and a string of fairy lights an endless waterfall in this vivid adventure.

This performance is not suitable for under 12s.

FishKieran & Fi Theatre CompanyMon 23rd - Tues 24th June, 8pm£10/£8

Two people that haven’t looked ateach other, properly, for ages. Who is fisherman without the fishand who does wife become whenshe finally washes herself clean?

A duet that sees contemporarydance blend with literal andabstract movement styles.

Told without words inspired by fairytales, folk music, pretty things and a passionto keep really looking at each other -to really see each other.

There is no catch.

This production contains dead fish,and is not suitable for persons underthe age of 16.

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On The Face Of ItJenevieve ChangFri 27th - Sun 29th June, 8pm£10/£8

“Looked at from the West,I am from the EastLooked at from the East,I am from the West...”

On The Face Of It is set in a timecapsule of buried chronicles, usingthe historical and contemporarynotion of “otherness” as a point ofdeparture. Created in Beijing during2008, this montage of physical andvisual language performs the humancondition in its struggle to understandthe unnameable, and the universalhope to be understood.

Created and Performed byJenevieve Chang.

Visual collaborator: Lushan Liu (Beijing).

Developed with the assistance of Arts Council England, Camden People’s Theatre & Platform China.

This performance may contain strobelighting and is not suitable forthose under 16.

www.jenevievechang.com

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Tonic & Developed at CPTA key part of our work at CPT is the support and development of emerging artists. Thishappens in many ways, from providing a supportive working environment, to making time for a cup of tea and a chat; or more direct assistance with training, development andin-kind support. Since 2002, we have also offered selected companies a more structuredprogramme of training, mentoring and support through our Arts Council of England funded Tonic scheme. To find out more please visit our website, www.cptheatre.co.uk

Some of the projects we’re currently involved in:

Little Wonder, Meet Me Halfway

Artistic Directors, Sara Kewly and Katherine Maxwell-Cook have been friends for over 25 years and are drawing upon their own shared history to create material for the show. Current work is looking into how we remember the past and exploring all the senses as a way to invokestories and trigger memories. For this productionLittle Wonder are excited to be collaborating with Mark Whitelaw as director and Anna Bruder as designer.

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Top of the World, Paperweight

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 ofescalating intensity and surprising tenderness.

Following successful showings at CPT in January, Top of The World are taking Paperweight to this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it can be seen at the Assembly Rooms from 1st-24th August.

For more details see: www.topoftheworld.org.uk

Unpacked, Jumping Mouse

Following the success of No Obvious Trauma and Funeral Games, Unpacked are developing their first productionfor children.

Unpacked take the audience on a magical bus journey with high-octane physicality, puppetry, live music and a transforming set built from parts of old London buses. It has their usual commitment to visual storytelling, whereall elements are used as richly as possible, combining humour with the darker truths of stories.

www.unpacked.org

Pear-ShapedNathalie GuinamardFrom Wed 28th MayFree Exhibition

In this exhibition Nathalie Guinamard is showing a mixture of work made whilston a residency in Beijing and at home. Through both collage and installationshe explores the relationship betweeninterior and exterior space by a processof disrupting scale and architecture.

Working with images collected fromnewspapers, magazines and old interior design books, she is interested in howthese unaltered images can fit togetherto form something unique, and theirjuxtaposition provoke new connotations.She has always been interested inrepetition as a process of making workand the effect of a repeated elementwithin an image, and derives inspiration from observations of everyday culture,popular sayings, nursery rhymes and idioms.

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Sprint

BOX OFFICE: 08700 600 100

Summer 2008

www.cptheatre.co.uk

Camden People’s Theatre - Diary

Republic of FreetanniaComic Character Creations

Aegean FatiguePetra’s Pulse

A Kiss From The Last Red SquirrelRough Memory

The ForgottenBadac Theatre Company

15 Storms In A TeacupPeople In Pieces

Black TonicThe Other way Worksin co-production with CPT

Useful Knowledge To KnowChloé Déchery & Chris Eley

Urashima TaroRouge28 Theatre

Finding My Inner CowboyTom Marshman

The Long & Winding RoadMichael Pinchbeck

In A Thousand PiecesThe Paper Birds

Oh My Green Soap BoxJumbled

NightfallThe Special Guests

Chi Chi BunichiChi Chi Bunichi

FishKieran & Fi Theatre Company

Empire Of FeathersGiant Bird

On The Face Of ItJenevieve Chang

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camden people’s theatre

www.cptheatre.co.uk

58-60 Hampstead Road,London NW1 2PY.

Admin: 020 7419 4841Box Office: 08700 600 100 (24hrs)

Fax: 020 7813 3889Email: admin@cptheatre.co.ukwww.cptheatre.co.uk

Office Hours: 11am - 6pm, Tues - Fri

Camden People’s Theatre is dedicated to the creation of new work and new ways of working. Both in programming work from visiting companies and in developing work in-house, we place special emphasis on movement, gesture and visual impact,recognising that these are integral inmaking our work accessible on across-cultural basis.

“Very well-spent evening. Lovely intimate venue. Very friendly, relaxed place. The performance was f***ing brilliant!”Recent audience feedback

Front cover photo: Lushan Liu

Camden People’s Theatre is a registered charity: 1058723Registered Company Number: 3256616BOX OFFICE: 08700 600 100

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GETTING HERETubes: Warren Street, Euston & Euston SquareBuses: 24, 27, 29, 30, 73 & 134Train: EustonParking: Free on-street parking after 6.30pm

Access: Full wheelchair access to theauditorium. Adapted toilet facilities.

BUYING YOUR TICKETOn the web: www.cptheatre.co.ukBy phone: 08700 600 100 (24hrs)In person: At CPT from 45 mins before the show.When collecting tickets from CPT, please do so30 mins before the performance.

Refreshments: Fully licensed bar available.

The information in this brochure is available in large print on request.