Apocryphal Festival
10th - 16th November 2008
Camden People’s Theatre, NW1
Tickets: Full £12 Concessions £6
Festival pass for all shows: Full £36 Concessions £18
except: Besides, you lose your soul performative response, which is a fundraiser and workshop showing (see end of schedule for details), which is free.
Apocryphal once again showcases work of its lab members and the group’s work together in this diverse festival. What makes the members of Apocryphal lab unique is that everyone creates their own work as well as performers with Apocryphal and we are excited to show you the multiplicity of imaginations that make up Apocryphal.
Festival Lighting Designer: Boris Kahnert
2012 by Bill Aitchison
Fresh from its premiere at the Wunder Der Praerie Festival, Mannheim, 2012, Bill Aitchison's new apocalyptic show will get its first UK showing this Autumn. In the performance 2012, independent researcher, Dr Aitchison, reveals a sequence of facts covering Mayan astronomy, the war on terror, dog cloning, Saddam Hussein's novels and the end of the world. 2012 concerns itself with the space where conspiracy theories, propaganda, science, art and politics cross over with one another becoming indistinguishable. Intricately constructed and sharp as a scalpel, 2012 is a snapshot of uncertainty, of where desire, and fear, leads the contemporary imagination.
Made in collaboration with Boris Kahnert (light) and James Dunn (sound).
Supported by Arts Council England and Burton Taylor Studio/Oxford
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This is how I lost my memory
Written/Directed by Lucy Avery
Performed by Zoë Bouras & Rachel Ellis“Because you are the centre of your world it feels like this is the apocalypse. It's not, you're just disintegrating. They're taking you from the inside …”
First seen as a reading at Lorem Ipsum Gallery in January 2008 this is the first full production of this new performance piece
2012 by Bill Aitchison
see Monday for details
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Strung Together
Performed/Created by Alison Blunt with Ivor KallinThe piece is best described by scrabbling the phrases below and inserting all possible antonyms whilst listening to the sound of scrabbled phrases.
Deep violin growls. The voice of an old German shepherd. She smiled affectionately at the memory of her faithful friend. Master appeared in a dream. A song of bones loved and lost.
Howls and clattering wood end in silence. Tall tale. Short tale. A faint trace of Bach? Tailed.
©Julia Burstein
This is how I lost my memory
Written/Directed by Lucy Avery
Performed by Zoë Bouras & Rachel Ellissee Monday for details
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Strung Together
Performed/Created by Alison Blunt with Ivor Kallinsee Tuesday for details
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Feldröhren I+II
Created by Boris Kahnert
A Light to Sound Performance&
Jumbled Wonder
Created/Performed by Faculty of Wonder and Jumbled
(aka Rachel Ellis and Lucy Foster)Two performers decide that something is missing.
So they drink some wine and start writing …
They are hoping for a new creation, a celebration, an audience reaction, to live the dream before the moment has passed. And, slowly, words fill the room with a wavelength they are both on.
The Jesus Guy
Written/Directed: Julia Lee Barclay
Created/Performed by Bill Aitchison, Lukas Angelini, Lucy Avery, Zoë Bouras, Rachel Ellis, and Birthe Jorgensen.Originally presented in 2006, Apocryphal bring The Jesus Guy back for one night only.
Five performers create a show, improvising with written and improvised text, scores, ideas and visual materials accumulated during rehearsals and performances.
A visual artist throws them new objects she creates to play with. No one has a space to call their own.
The Jesus Guy is a trip through the collective grid of unconscious desires, which lead and mislead us to look to Someone In Charge to ask for the name of our own nameless experience.
Humming BirdPerformed/Directed by Lukas Angelini
Text by Sara Angelini and others'A performance about emptiness and fullness. Simply that!'
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Jumbled Wonder
Created/Performed by Faculty of Wonder and Jumbled
(aka Rachel Ellis and Lucy Foster)see Wednesday for details
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Future Worlds: Tricorn Init!
Written/Performed by Julia Lee Barclay in collaboration with Scale Project (Paul Burgess and Simon Daw)Future Worlds is a cut-up of official and unofficial words found inside the Tricorn Centre days before it was demolished. Scale Project took video and photos from inside the structure on the same day and will be making this element part of Barclay's performance. The Tricorn was voted the ugliest building in all of Britain, but was one of the only venues for punk and alternative music in the 80s and its passing was mourned by a small but vocal minority in Portsmouth, as it will inevitably be replaced by something slick and soul-less.
Scale Project is a multidisciplinary exploration of the disjunction between design ideas and their final realisations, particularly in the context of urban environments. Scale Project is led by Paul Burgess and Simon Daw
Besides you lose your soul or the History of Western Civilisation
A performative response
Written/Directed: Julia Lee Barclay
Created/Performed by Bill Aitchison, Lukas Angelini, Lucy Avery, Zoë Bouras, Rachel Ellis, Birthe Jorgensen and Boris Kahnert“Besides, you lose your soul” is the last line of an interview of a U.S. Army officer from a New Yorker article about the inefficiencies of the use of torture for gathering accurate information. Besides, you lose your soul attempts (with the humour that results from certain failure) to search through the remnants of Western Civilization in order to find out who's to blame for the creation of the individual soul (that can apparently be lost or recovered) which can lead to those we do not recognize being branded soul-less. It's a bumbling cut-up detective story searching for clues as to how to get out of this mess. ‘This mess’ meaning the use of God v. Godless (soul v. soul-less) to justify the ruthless realpolitik of all the unholy Holy Wars (on Terror, on the Godless Infidels, on the Axis of Evil, on women’s bodies, etc.). We will fail of course, but perhaps we will stumble onto something in the course of our struggling that can open up a door to...not sure where really.
“It was without a doubt one of the most stimulating nights of theatre I’ve had in quite some time.”– Martin Denton of nytheatre.com
Workshop Informal Showing
see below for more information about the workshop
Humming Bird
Performed/Directed by Lukas Angelini
Text by Sara Angelini and others'A performance about emptiness and fullness. Simply that!'
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Future Worlds: Tricorn Init!
Written/Performed by Julia Lee Barclay in collaboration with Scale Project (Paul Burgess and Simon Daw)see Friday for details
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Sat-Sun, Nov. 8-9 and 15-16:
12-4pm£100/£50An Apocryphal Workshop with Julia Lee Barclay
An intensive workshop in our working methods and discoveries, which will culminate in workshop participants creating their own short piece using the Apocryphal tools, for an informal showing on the final day of the festival.
If you are interested in our work, how we do it, and searching for ways to stimulate your own practice with new tools, this would be a good workshop for you.
The workshop will be small (no more than 12 people), so if interested send along your CV to julialeebarclay <at> yahoo.com for consideration. The workshop will take place in the main theatre space.
“You opened up a whole new idea to me and it has endless benefits” – Lucy Davies, workshop participant
“...the work began to deconstruct what it means to 'perform' and it brought a level of honesty and truth that I had never explored before” - Rose Condo, workshop participant
“It made me look to a whole new level…I could take this and apply it to lots of other work that I do.” – Danielle Bertin, workshop participant
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