AF 2012 PROGRAMME | ALL EVENTS
THE GAMBLER
Company: Theatre Re
Space: Studio Theatre
Date: Thursday 31 May 2012
Time: 8.30pm
Duration: 90mins
Price: £5
Enthralling visual tale combining movement, live music and new writing. The Gambler is the story of Edgar, an old man trapped in his past. As he confronts his addiction, he wonders if his decisions were truly his own. Each spin of the wheel recalls the promise of a life he could have had. He gambles to remember, he gambles to forget.
CRAVINGS OF INTIMACY & SOLITUDE AND LONG WAY HOME
Company: Cando2 (Candoco Youth Dance Company)
Space: Studio Theatre
Time: 5pm
Date: Friday 1 June 2012
Duration: 30min
Price: £5
'Cravings of Intimacy & Solitude' explores what we want and need in order to formulate who we are. This duet is full of playful and fragile moments that look at our relationships, our perceptions of one another and the tension created between our differing needs.
THE NINTH CONTINENT
Company: MENCHcollective
Space: The Hub
Date: Friday 1 June 2012
Time: 6.00 pm
Duration: 45mins
Price: £5
The Ninth Continent is the third in a series of site-responsive endurance performances inspired by Michael Hanekeís film The Seventh Continent. By using every element of its setting as a means to an end, each performance in this series explores domesticity, monotony and frustration.
DANCE 1:1
Company: Charlie Dixon Dance Company, Emco Dance, SAAD dance, NineBOBNote
Space: Studio Theatre
Date: Friday 1 June 2012
Time: 7.00 pm
Price: £10/£8
Dance 1:1 (Dance 1st on the 1st) is the first movement evening organised by the Accidental Festival on 1 June. Dance 1:1 will present works by some of the most prominent dance companies currently working in London, compered by Gitta Wigro, Relationship Manager, Dance, Arts Council England. Gitta will also moderate a Q&A panel discussion after the show. Confirmed panelists include Betsy Gregory, Artistic Director of Dance Umbrella, and Charlie Dixon, choreographer.
LIGHTS! CAMERA! IMPROVISE!
Company: The Scat Pack
Space: The Clore
Date: Friday 1 June 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Duration: 60mins
Price: £7/£6
Oscar has every film ever made, in fact he has every film you could ever imagine. The audience take on their seats in his home cinema and choose a location, theme, title, even what awards the movie has won and it just so happens; the film they have come up with is sitting on top of Oscar's DVD player.
CRIME OF THE CENTURY
Company: ChickenShed
Space: Hub
Date: Saturday 2 June 2012
Time: 11am - show, 12pm - workshop
Duration: 2hrs with with 15min interval
Price: £7
Crime of the Century is a dynamic and explosive piece of dance theatre created by Chickenshed in response to the tragic deaths of three teenagers associated with the company, including Shaquille Smith who, in 2008, was the youngest child to die as a result of knife crime in the UK, aged just 14.
THE BACCHAE
Company: Resuscitate
Space: Studio Theatre
Date: Saturday 2 June 2012
Time: 11:00am
Duration: 60min
Tickets: £5
Merging film, puppetry, physical theatre and live action, Resuscitate brings you the story of Pentheus - a stubborn king, unwilling to accept a new and exciting God, Dionysus.
SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE
Company: Handprint Theatre
Space: The Clore
Date: Saturday 2 June
Time: 2pm
Duration: 60min
Price: £5
Stories which reveal a glamorous portrayal of successful life-through-art or a bitter shattering of our idols? A combination of puppetry, images, music, multi-media and British Sign Language, Something's Gotta Give is a glamorous yet gritty reflection of those idols we love to hate; a stunning yet sickening exploration of the celebrity.
BOX JUNCTION
Company: Wind-Up Collective
Space: The Hub
Time: 2.00 pm
Date: Saturday 2 June 2012
Duration: 75 mins
Price: £5
You probably board the tube on your way to work. The same every day; sweaty, sultry and silent. But todayís different. Fancy boarding a train where you'll be accosted by a blonde bombshell? Or have a busker melodically drool over your every move?
THE FISH AND THE DENIM RIVER
Company: Theatre Eclectic
Space: Studio Theatre
Date: Saturday 2 June 2012
Time: 2.30pm
Duration: 20 mins
Price: £4
A a passionate ensemble, Theatre Eclectic playfully use live music and chorus work for their adaptation of the Grimm Brothers' fairytale 'The Fisherman and his Wife'. An enchanted fish, a gluttonous woman and a sea of denim frame their show The Fish and the Denim River.
AIRPORT
written and directed by Benjamin Lyon-Ross
Space: Studio Theatre
Date: Saturday 2 June
Time: 4.15pm
Duration: 75mins
Price: £5
Set in Manchester's Northern quarter, Airport is a stark and contemporary observation of modern youth, telling an authentic story about love, family, desire and the potentially devastating effect that dreams can have on social mobility.
THE FERMENTED PICKERS
Company: The People Pile
Space: The Hub
Date: Saturday 2 June 2012
Time: 4.30 pm
Duration: 20min
Price: £5
The Fermented pickers are coming down from the trees to snatch your eyes and jig your joy into a land of of dandy dances and obscure circumstances. Come and enjoy this delicious fleeting moment.
YOU ARE CURRENTLY THE HIGHEST BIDDER
Company: A Method of Breaking Horses
Space: The Clore
Date: Saturday 2 June 2012
Duration: 60 min
Time: 5.45pm
Price: £7/£5
One audience (fun, thoughtful) required for performance (new, with tags). Chewing gum (un-chewed, flavour flexible) requested in exchange for chance to win FREE holiday flights (bookable during show, conditions apply). Relying on trading and bartering, and featuring more instability than a bad day on the stock exchange, you need to purchase this blend of social experiment and performance that may go bust.
THE TRAIN PEOPLE: THE LAST LEAFER
Artist: Joe Bone
Space: The Hub
Date: Saturday 2 June 2012
Time: 6 pm
Duration: 75 mins
Price: £7/£5
Ticket Deals: Watch Champions (Clore, 8pm) & The Last Leafer (Hub, 6pm) for £10! Phone 0844 482 8008, or visit The Roundhouse's box office in person.
There are creatures that you've missed; it's hardly surprising as they're no bigger than your thumbnail, but doubtless you have missed them.
COMMA, COMMA, COMMA, COMMA, COMMA, COMMEDIA
Companies: School of Comedy, Fat Kitten Improv, Casual Violence and Grand Theft Impro
Space: Studio Theatre
Date: Saturday 2 June 2012
Time: 7pm
Duration: 2hrs 15 mins, incl. 15 min interval
Price: £10/£8
The Studio Theatre Team from the Accidental Festival have put together a glorious blend of four of the funniest comedy groups in the country for a fun filled Saturday night.
CHAMPIONS
Company: Ed Eales-White
Space: The Clore
Date: Saturday 2 June 2012
Time: 8.00 pm
Duration: 60min
Tickets: £7/£5
Deal: Watch Champions (Clore, 8pm) & The Last Leafer (Hub, 6pm) for £10! Phone 0844 482 8008, or visit The Roundhouse's box office in person.
Join us for a hilarious night in the Clore as Ed Eales-White presents his debut one-man sketch show Champions.
SHUTTERLAND
Company: Rhum and Clay Theatre
Space: The Hub
Date: Saturday 2 June 2012
Time: 8.30pm
Duration: 60mins
Price: £10/£8
Shutterland: a landscape of recorded voices and lost stories. When a secret is discovered, it reveals a hidden past.
THREE WEDDINGS
Company: Smooth Operators
Space: The Clore
Date: Sunday 3 June 2012
Time: 11.15 am
Duration: 90 mins
Price: £5
Ticket deals: Puppet Festival Ticket (Smooth Operators, Trembling Hands & Odd Doll) £12
As part of the Student Puppet Festival Smooth Operators are going to present Three Weddings. In this triple bill they engage with texts written specifically for puppet theatre.
YOU OBVIOUSLY KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT
Space: Studio Theatre
Company: How It Ended Productions
Date: Sunday 3 June 2012
Time: 12.30pm
Duration: 50 mins
Price: £5
Blending beautiful live music and delicate physical performance You Obviously Know What I'm Talking About is a joyous and immersive theatrical experience about those days when if anything can go wrong it will and inevitably at the worst possible moment.
MOON PLAY
Company: Trembling Hands
Space: The Clore
Date: Sunday 3 June 2012
Time: 1.30 pm
Price: £5
Ticket deals: Student Puppet Festival (Smooth Operators, Trembling Hands & Odd Doll) £12
As a lone puppet performs a magical fertility ritual to the moon, the barren world around her mysteriously comes to life. Puppetry, music, object manipulation and movement combine in this touching and poetic piece.
YOU REMIND ME OF SOMEONE I ONCE KNEW
Company: CODA Dance Company
Space: The Hub
Date: Sunday 3 June 2012
Time: 2.00 pm
Duration: 18 min
Price: £5/£3
A thought-provoking new work from CODA Dance, first performed at Resolution! 2012, You remind me of someone I once knew is a moving portrayal of perspectives on grief after a mother's diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.
UNFASHION
Company: Marquez & Zangs
Space: The Hub
Date: Sunday 3 June
Time: 3pm
Duration: 15min
Price: £5/ £3
Created by four recent graduates of Trinity Laban's MA Choreography course, Unfashion stages a fashion-show-like performance that continually undoes its own idioms. The company ask what it means to be live on stage through real time choreography.
THE TRICK
Company: Odd Doll
Space: The Clore
Date: Sunday 3 June 2012
Time: 3.30 pm
Duration: 60 mins
Price: £5
Ticket deal: Puppet Festival Ticket (Smooth Operators, Trembling Hands & Odd Doll) £12
Afraid of your own shadow? You should be. What if it was to share your secrets with the rest of the world?
FOUR PLAY
Writers: Adam Wittek, Gabriel Bier Gislason, Ruth Hawkins, Susanna Herbert
Space: Studio Theatre
Date: Sunday 3 June 2012
Time: 4.15pm
Duration: 2hrs 15mins
Price: £7/5
The Studio presents Four Play, an afternoon of four new plays, each 30 minutes in length.
TOOTSIE ROLLERS
Company: The Tootsie Rollers
Space: The Clore
Date: Sunday 3 June
Time: 6pm
Duration: 60min
Price: £6/£5
They dazzle audiences with their sizzling sound and high energy performances. Their music is a striking fusion of glamorous, golden-era classics, sprinkled with contemporary magic to give them a totally Tootsie twist.
CAGE IN MOTION
Company: Harrison Ensemble feat. Animated Dance
Space: The Hub
Date: Sunday 3 June 2012
Time: 6.15 pm
Duration: Duration
Price: £7/£5
Ticket deals: £1 off with tickets for CODA Dance and Marquez&Zangs
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of John Cage's birth, Cage in Motion highlights his legendary partnership with choreographer Merce Cunningham.
MUSIC BOX: THE IMPROVISED MUSICAL
Company: Music Box
Space: The Clore
Date: Sunday 3 June
Time: 8.15pm
Duration: 60 mins
Price: £7/£5
Music Box improvise a different one-act comedy musical every show. Songs and lyrics are plucked from thin air. Stories and characters emerge from nothing.
PERFORMANCE SHED
Company: Various Artists
Space: Public Spaces
Date: Friday 1st - Sunday 3rd June 2012
Time: 12pm - 5pm
Price: Free
The Accidental Festival Team have compiled a selection of artists, each to perform in our very own 'Performance Shed' on the Roundhouse's Terrace.
GALEN WAINWRIGHT
Company: Galen Wainwright
Space: Public Spaces
Time: 12pm - 5pm
Date: Sunday 3rd June 2012
Price: Free
Galen Wainwright is a freelance illustrator and artist with a recognisable cartoon and expressionist style. He is going to create a large-scale drawing in the public spaces, whilst responding to and engaging with the audience.
CIRCUIT OF JOY
Company: The Lab Collective
Space: Public Spaces
Time: 12pm - 5pm
Date: Friday 1st - Sunday 3rd June 2012
Price: Free
Feeling tired, short tempered and overwhelmed by your busy lifestyle? Help is at hand...
PROMENADE
Artist: Rob Hesp
Space: The Hub
Time: 12pm
Date: Sunday 3 June 2012
Duration: 60mins
Price: Free
The tuxedos. The dresses. The limo and cheesy music. A central rite of passage at the hub of contemporary youth culture. But behind the artifice of helium balloons and disco lights, something extraordinarily real cries out.
FOXY AND HUSK
Artist: Foxy and Husk
Space: Public Spaces
Time: 12pm - 5pm
Date: Saturday 2 - Sunday 3 June 2012
Price: Free
Pop up to the terrace and discover the magic of Foxy and Husk's playground. These feral creatures welcome you into their world as they battle away at the tug of war, hula-hoop till they drop and while away the afternoon playing their favourite game of 'find the biscuit'.
POINT OF INTEREST
Company: Unclaimed Creatures
Space: Public Spaces
Time: From 12pm (every 20 minutes)
Date: Friday 1st - Sunday 3rd June 2012
Price: Free
A strange location. An unexpected view. A curious encounter. Where will you go next?
ACCIDENTAL FILM TENT
Company: Various Artists
Space: Public Spaces
Time: From 12pm (continuously)
Date: Friday 1st - Sunday 3rd June 2012
Price: Free
The Accidental Team have compiled a selection of exciting new films...
TEA
Company: Anton Burdakov
Space: Public Spaces
Time: 12pm - 5pm
Date: Friday 1st - Sunday 3rd June 2012
Price: Free
This project visualises paths of projected light in black tea. Somehow in tea rays of light become visible, tracing out crist planes and edges, forming full three-dimensional figures.