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Sound & Fury
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Uninvited Guests
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Cartoon de Salvo
Since 1997 Cartoon de Salvo have been creating imaginative and irresistible
theatre. Our work is fresh and fun, and blends storytelling, script-defying
impro and live music. We have performed our work everywhere from
Edinburgh to the Glastonbury Festival, via tiny Cornish village
halls, allotments in Surrey and Nottinghamshire and cultural centres
in Hong Kong.
Cartoon de Salvo have recently been awarded major funding from ACESE
for organisation development. 2007 plans include Beauty and the
Beast and forming a jug band to create an improvised show Hard Hearted
Hannah and Other Stories.
Cartoon de Salvo and The Darkroom
We spent a week in the Dark Room with Toby Sedgewick. Toby's work
with his original company The Moving Picture Mime Show had an immeasurable
influence on the country's greatest devising companies. We worked
with Lecoq techniques including the larval Basal masks and then
with Toby’s photograph story making techniques. Toby's acknowledgement
of visual detail – what you see and how you see it in performance
as opposed to what is said and how it’s written in a text
– was the most fantastic thing to take away with us. This
immediately went into our next R&D work on The Ratcatcher of
Hamelin but more importantly his openness, curiosity and faith as
an artist will stay with the Salvo’s ethos and continues to
inspire us.
http://www.cartoondesalvo.com
Mapping 4d
Mapping4D is a company of artists working together since 2002, to
make devised work in the space between theatre, happening, and live
art. The company won the 2004 Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust
Award. Mapping4D celebrates the live communication possible in theatre
and explores the boundaries of its possibilities. We aim to catalyze
unusual and dynamic relationships between the audience and the performance
they encounter. The work is playful and delicate- revelling in the
flamboyant as well as exposing itself in anti-theatrical bareness.
Each project investigates the ways in which we are connected to
one another in imagination and society - the intricacies of accountability,
love, honesty, risk and possibility.
Mapping4D and the Dark Room
Mapping4D worked with playwright Lin Coghlan; the first time we
had collaborated with a writer as a company. We approached the week
as an exhilarating opportunity to be disoriented and to learn from
collision, disarming ourselves by deliberately putting aside most
of our normal practices and beginning from nothing but the encounter
between our very different preconceptions about what theatre can
and should be. This included an unsettling of the roles individuals
normally play within the company. The resulting week became an organic
(occasionally unnerving) and important process of wrestling, offering,
trying and beginning to make real sense to one another. By the last
two days we began to find ways to catalyse each other in an exciting
exchange: Lin's ability to create powerful, unexpected, emotionally
committed text feeding and pushing the structured improvisations
we created, which in turn generated further possibilities and shapes.
The work we made on the last afternoon surprised all of us and felt
like the very beginning of a much bigger piece of work to come.
http://www.mapping4d.co.uk
Talking Birds
Talking Birds is a Coventry-based company of artists that specialises
in acts of transformation. Often these are theatre works and structures
which transform the experience of buildings or sites. Other times,
they are smaller, more intimate artworks which transform a computer
screen, or a telephone call. The company has been working in the
UK and abroad since 1992. Its theatre work has toured from Slovakia
to Seattle; its film work screens at festivals from Edinburgh to
Volgograd; and its web work has active participants from across
the globe. It is a Regularly Funded Organisation of ACE West Midlands.
Talking Birds & The Darkroom
The company worked with verbatim theatre specialist Alecky Blythe
with a specific content-based agenda. By exploring the world of
the submariner, the company was able to experience new forms of
text generation, and interrogate its attitude towards editing, storytelling,
and the place of the ‘real’ in its performances. Like
many valuable experiences, there was something of a depth charge
effect as a result of the Dark Room – significance at the
time was intuited, but didn’t appear concrete until later
when the material generated led to the creation of a big tin whale
a few months later. During the week itself, it was as important
to switch off our own individual specialisms as it was to experience
a different creative catalyst, though one probably follows the other.
http://www.talkingbirds.co.uk
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