Northern Stage – Summerhall August Festival 2015

Voice Workshop with Ros Steen

Dave — Thu, 28 May 2015 04:05:50 +0000

This workshop introduces the voice work of Nadine George, used in productions such as Black Watch and Alan Cumming’s Macbeth, to creative practitioners wishing to explore their embodied voice linked to text.

The workshop will be led by Professor Ros Steen, former Head of the Centre for Voice at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and one of the first accredited teachers of the Nadine George Voice Work. This innovative approach reveals the truth of the voice and the self. Workshop maximum 10 people. Loose clothing to be worn.

The workshop will involve physical contact.

The Paradise Project

Dave — Thu, 28 May 2015 04:05:40 +0000

Imagine a place better than where you are. Every day they come in and try again. They try to figure out how to live together. They start to build something that will never be completed, at least not within their own life times. And everyday it works. Or it doesn’t. Well, it depends how you measure it.

So today, today they will try something different. The Paradise Project is full of wit, intelligence and humanity.

Join Third Angel (Sheffield) and mala voadora (Lisbon) for a show about following instructions, inventing your own rules, and keeping trying.

A co-production with Warwick Arts Centre, Maria Matos Teatro Municipal and House on Fire, with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union. The Paradise Project is a Triggered@Warwick project and is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England

My Name is…

Dave — Thu, 28 May 2015 04:05:20 +0000

Discover the story behind the story that hit headlines in 2006.

When Gaby disappeared from her Scottish home, it was assumed that her Pakistani father had kidnapped her and the spiralling headlines were only momentarily silenced when it emerged that Gaby may have fled of her own accord. To her mother Suzy’s distress, Gaby declared: ‘My name is Ghazala’, and turned her back on Gaby and seemingly, the West.

“Humorous and entertaining.” ★★★&#9733 Time Out

“Absolutely gripping … a drama of terrific integrity.’ ★★★★ The Scotsman

Written by Sudha Bhuchar. Directed by Philip Osment. www.tamasha.org.uk

Key Change

Dave — Thu, 28 May 2015 04:05:14 +0000

The prison van, fences high, a magpie. ‘One for sorrow. Snatched the babies. The mother fought, but it was too big and flew too high.’

Devised by women from HMPYOI Low Newton and originally toured to male prisons, Key Change is a raw and illuminating portrayal of women in prison, using only a few chairs, a ghetto blaster and four rolls of masking tape.

Directed by Laura Lindow, written by Catrina McHugh and developed through a Dilly Arts commission, Key Change was named the North East’s Best Devised Piece by BritishTheatreGuide.info in 2014.

Human Resources

Dave — Thu, 28 May 2015 04:05:59 +0000

You’re the kind of person who never backs down from a fight. You were the kind of kid who licked the iron. The stories become who you are. This show is a conversation about whether that is useful.

Here Is the News from Over There (Over There Is the News from Here) – A Borderless Twitter Ballad Fresh from the Middle East

Dave — Thu, 28 May 2015 04:05:56 +0000

Every day we see the news and images bombard us. What we miss are people’s stories, the poetry of the ordinary. News From Over There… brings together writers and performers from all over the Middle East and UK to fashion a new story woven from a tapestry of tweets, music, and storytelling.

Join us as we create an epic new ballad – live over 22 frantic Fringe nights.

From The Bloody Great Border Ballad team.

Going Viral

Dave — Thu, 28 May 2015 04:05:48 +0000

A new virus has broken out. Everyone in the world starts weeping. What now? Going Viral is a show about how things spread.

Drawing on the science of epidemics, it explores the spread of disease, of panic, of ideas. It shows how our society reacts, and how our connected world makes us all more vulnerable, and more human. How do you behave when it’s impossible to tell symptoms from distress? Is panic airborne too? What’s spreading through this theatre, here, today?

Going Viral is a new development in Daniel’s trademark blend of comedy, storytelling and performance lecture.

Five Feet in Front (The Ballad of Little Johnnie Wylo)

Dave — Thu, 28 May 2015 04:05:42 +0000

A clock, a town, a sunrise on an empty open coffin and the wind. The wind, who’s dead set on sticking someone in it by sunset. Down in the dust bowl the air’s so thick folk just can’t see what’s coming their way anymore, all ‘cept Johnnie, little Johnnie Wylo.

Struggle, survival, sex and live music brewed up into a foot stomping, bath blasting, bone shaking hoedown. A wild and darkly funny tale about hope and daring to have it in the land of the downtrodden.

Cinema

Dave — Thu, 28 May 2015 04:05:34 +0000

August 1978. Cinema Rex fire, Abadan, Iran. Four-hundred and twenty-two dead. The year of Superman, Saturday Night Fever, and an act of terror that sparked a revolution. Who will remember the dead?

Shahrzad – feral cat, teller of tales – pleads with Death for one more life. To have another saucer of milk. To tell the stories of the dead. Paris, Baga, Peshawar, Aleppo, New York, London, Utoya, Abadan… What matters now is that the names are not forgotten.

ZENDEH creates award-winning, unforgettable theatre that connects the personal with the political.