November 8, 2007 by katie
All those hours spend drafting funding applications have not been in vain… Funding from the Arts Council (GFA) and Birmingham City Council (International Development Scheme) has now been secured, meaning we can start work on our new performance project codenamed ‘Hotel’ (the clue’s in the name). This is great news, and we can’t wait to get started.
October 25, 2007 by katie
We were very pleased to hear that this recent application to the Arts Council has been successful. It was a group bid, together with Breathe and mac, to fund a week of practical exploration into creating one-to-one theatre.
October 15, 2007 by katie
We spotted this graffiti on bins in Milan, and have been greatly tempted to start a similar campaign in Birmingham ever since…
September 17, 2007 by katie
We’ve started work on a new production, currently untitled, but codenamed ‘hotelproject’. The details are pretty under wraps still, but we’ve got a team of 10 artists working away creating new material for a site-specific performance destined to to be performed in hotels.
Initial R&D was carried out in August in Hotels up and down the country, as well as in Greece (by our Greek scenographers). We’d like to thank the following hotels for their support by providing their rooms free of charge: Malmaison Birmingham and Edinburgh, City Inn London.
We’ve got big plans for this project, so watch this space for future developments…
by katie
Katie is off to Ghent in Belgium (by train of course) in a couple of weeks time, to attend the IETM meeting. As part of the conference she will be moderating a session on ‘one-to-one’ theatre.
by katie
Pilot #12 went down well on Thursday night, the audience was almost full, and people seemed to be enjoying themselves on the whole. The performances were, as ever, a mixed bag. The number of applicants for this event, and the breadth, style, and level of maturity of the material both proposed and performed shows the need for events like this. And also for several events like this, to allow for Pilot to show the slightly higher calibre of w-i-p, but for there to still be support and an event for work being made by artists fresh out of training (which would necessarily be ‘younger’).
My highlight was Edward Rapley’s performance (the company is called the Licensees). It was incredibly bold and brave, stripped back and actually honest. He threw a jug of water over the audience, and everyone was glad of it, and finished by "offering himself as a sacrifice" and jumping off the top of a ladder. It was hilarious. The funniest thing for me was that he was friends with my younger brother at school, and used to come round my house as a kid. Small world.
Katie
August 28, 2007 by katie
PILOT #12 features new performances by The Licensees, Engine w Fader,
Fearless Theatre Company, Ambitus, and Rough Memory. Expect live
music, good company and a wealth of comic, touching and surreal
performance.Tickets
are £5 (£4) and can be purchased on the door, which opens
at 7pm. The bar’s open all evening and a live band
plays in the breaks.www.b-theatre.co.uk
August 20, 2007 by katie
Just back from the Green Man festival in Wales. There was a lot of rain, but it didn’t dampen our spirits. We managed to perform Mayfly despite the weather. From inside the tent, while performing the show, you always hear the comments of the people watching outside. At the Big Chill, someone asked our steward if there were robots inside the tent (there aren’t, it’s 2 performers), the steward happened to be my husband, and said "No, its my wife in there." The audience member persisted incredulously, "Is your wife an android?" Too many drugs for that one I think… This time we heard someone describing the tent as looking like a Lava Lamp, and a lot of laughing at the shadow of me trying to swat a fly.
July 4, 2007 by katie
Our light and sound show in a tent ‘Mayfly’ is flying off to events this summer.
You can catch us at The Green Man festival in the Brecon Beacons, and at Upstaging Nature in London during August.
June 24, 2007 by katie
PILOT #11 at Birmingham’s Custard Factory Theatre this coming Wednesday (27th June) from 7pm.
Tickets on the door: £5 (£4) www.b-theatre.co.uk
Also, The Other Way Works will be guest programmers for PILOT #12 taking place on 13th September. Deadline for submissions is this Friday. See www.b-theatre.co.uk for more info and to download the application form.
