28th January-1st February 2008
at Lorem Ipsum Gallery, 12b Vyner Street, London E2 9HE

Five days of Apocryphal Theatre experimentation, including both collective and individual creations from Bill Aitchison, Lukas Angelini, Lucy Avery, Julia Lee Barclay, Rachel Ellis, Birthe Jorgsensen, Boris Kahnert, Jane Munro, Theron Schmidt, Melina Seldes, Malin Stahl and sound-artist Martin Williams.

This mini-festival will show Apocryphal’s lab in action exploring the thin line between reaction and response, and also show some nascent experimental work of individual lab members, who like to make their own stuff, too.

Please join us for this series of free events 28th January-1st February 2008 at Lorem Ipsum Gallery, 12b Vyner Street, London E2 9HE www.loremipsumgallery.com

Apocryphal Theatre Lab: Reaction/Response
The Lab is:  Bill Aitchison, Lukas Angelini, Lucy Avery, Julia Lee Barclay, Rachel Ellis, Birthe Jorgsensen, Boris Kahnert, Jane Munro, Theron Schmidt, Melina Seldes, Malin Stahl.

Apocryphal lab does some more experimenting in public this time with the distinction between a reaction and a response and we hope you will join us at Lorem Ipsum for this inquiry into the nature of us and then afterwards for some post-show pontification (time for both ours and yours of course) at the Victory.

2012 by Dr Bill Aitchison PhD

For the performance 2012 researcher Dr Aitchison will reveal a sequence of startling facts about the fateful near feature. 2012, a roving argument that leaps over Mayan astronomy, chicken cults, insider dealing and mind control, is nothing less than a call for action to stave of the impending apocalypse. 

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We ventured for a drink performed by Rachel Ellis and Melina Seldes

A three-minute-show performed three times

Two performers

One aim  

Many surprises…

No more words.... we will need your help!

Journey of the heart by Sara Angelini
performed by Lukas Angelini and others.

A performed text to celebrate ten years of a woman's life.
Sensual, visual and metaphysical explorations of presence.

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"Future Worlds: Tricorn Init!" - written and performed by Julia Lee Barclay,
created in collaboration with Scale Project.

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 gallery 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. 

Missing 2 performed by Jane Munro & The Visitors

Missing 2 is a 5 hour durational installation in which spectators are invited to commemorate a loss. Participants may mark the demise of a relative, a lover, a friend or maybe the passing of their own youth. By pouring salt over their memories participants both fall into and preserve a passing. Three dancers invite spectators to join their fall into salt memorials.

 
This is how I lost my memory by Lucy Avery

"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."

photos ('Cut up / Close up' event) © Alex Kent

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