Thursday 2 July 2009

Things I've Seen Inbetween (Sept 08 - June 09)

image: Ontroerend Goed - Once and For All We're Going to Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up and Listen

As usual, I've barely written about any of the shows I've seen over the last few months, what with being too busy an' all (aka watching The Wire) so here's m'regular catch up list for, y'know, posterity:

- Prototype Sept 08 Platform
- Clare Thornton - Pleats and Folds (open studio)
- Dartington MAshow 08
-You And Your Work platform
-Sirenos Festival, Vilnius
-The Special Guests - Something's Got A Hold Of Me (work in progress)
-Beautifully Twisted: Live Art Weekender (Folake Shoga, Annette Foster, Marcia Farquhar, Francesca Steele)
-Prototype oct 08 platform
-Reckless Sleepers - The Pilots
-Cupola Bobber - The Man Who Pictured Space From His Apartment
-Paul Granjon - Lo-Fi Songs with Servo Drive
-Tim Etchells - Sight is the sense that dying people tend to lose first
-Live Art Weekender ( feat: Emma Bennett, Chew Magna, Lucy Cran, Stephen Cornford, Dani D’Emilia, Freeze Puppy, Kathy Hinde, Bill Leslie, Magnus Spectrum, Leiza McLeod, Iain Morrison, Sylvia Rimat, Ed Rapley, Pete Barrett, Paul Clarke, Jo Bannon)
-Edson Burton - Seasoned (work in progress)
-Prototype feb 09 platform
-Neil Callaghan & Simone Kenyon - To Begin Where I Am... Mokado
-Action Hero - Watch Me Fall
-Forced Entertainment - Spectacular
-Catherine Johnson/Bristol Old Vic - Suspension
-Tom Marshman - Hello Sailor (Goodbye Heart)
-Annette Foster - Transgressa
-Tom Marshman - Soldier Sings The Blues
-Annette Foster - Daddy Long Leggs
-Tom Marshman - Finding My Inner Cowboy
-Annette Foster - Marlene Dandy
-David Hare/National Theatre - Gethsemane
-Michael David Jones - Performance for Margarita (work in progress)
-Ontroerend Goed - Once and For All We're Going to Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up and Listen
-Ed Rapley - The Middle Bit (work in progress)
-Travelling Light Youth Theatre & Fusion Arts - Paper Wings
-Sedated By A Brick - (Un)Familiar Objects (work in progress)
-Prototype april 09 platform
-The Other Way Works - Black Tonic
-Taste platform @ Mayfest
-Tmesis Theatre - Anima
-Ontroerend Goed - The Smile Off Your Face
-Aurora Nova Productions - John Moran... and His Neighbour Saori
-Top Of The World - Paperweight
-Orbita - Delta Foxtrot
-Inspector Sands - If That's All There Is
-The Paper Cinema & Kora - King Pest and Night Flyer
-Tinned Fingers - Our Fathers' Ears
-Imitating The Dog - Kellerman
-Chris Goode - The Adventures of Wound Man and Shirley
-Timothy X Atack - And The Line Goes Dead
-Back To Back - Small Metal Objects
-Reverend Billy and the Church of Life After Shopping - The Shopocalypse
-Helen Cole - We See Fireworks
-10x3 Actors' platform (13 actors)

Blimey. That's what happens when I don't go to National Review of Live Art.

image: Back To Back - small metal objects

As usual, a mixed bag, but so far 2009 is proving to have a shit hot hit rate in terms of fantastic shows. And I mean PROPERLY FANTASTIC. Not just 'very good'. And I really don't think my standards are slipping. I can honestly say that I've seen five 10/10 shows so far this year (and that's only half a year). These are shows that are not just gorgeously constructed and performed (as was Forced Entertainment's Spectacular), or shows which have merely moved me to tears (as did Chris Goode's The Adventures of Wound Man and Shirley) but shows which have completely stunned me in their effect. I go and see a lot of theatre, so I probably get one or two of these a year; so getting five of these in 6 months is pretty scary.

Anyway, just in case anyone's reading this, here are five you should definitely check out if you get the chance:

Action Hero - Watch Me Fall
Ontroerend Goed - Once and For All We're Going to Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up and Listen
Ontroerend Goed - The Smile Off Your Face
Aurora Nova Productions - John Moran... and His Neighbour Saori
Back To Back - Small Metal Objects

Mmmmm... theatre.

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