Camden People's Theatre Announces Upcoming Summer Events
By: Tyler Peterson Jun. 05, 2013
After a hugely successful spring season, which included the most successful ever Sprint festival of new and innovative theatre, CPT hosts the following shows and activity from June - August 2013:
Beta Public: New Games and Performance
Curated by Thomas Martin and Pat Ashe
Fri 14 June 7pm. £10, concs £8
Videogames. Performance. Maybe these words mean nothing to you, but trust us: you've been waiting your whole life for a night that combines the two. Wait no longer: it's here.
At Beta Public you can test AMAZING GAMES and chat to their developers, hear PROVOCATIVE TALKS and watch EXHILARATING PERFORMANCE, sit in the bar with your friends and HAVE A DRINK. Beta Public is for: anyone curious about the cutting edge of play (like you).
Head Hand Head
Written and performed by Laura Jane Dean
Devised by Laura Jane Dean and Daisy Orton
Thur 20 June 7.30pm. £10, concs £8
In the back seat of a car, an unassuming conversation takes dark and vicious root in the psyche of Laura Jane Dean. What we tell ourselves about the world - its simple probabilities and routine certainties, mortal dangers and not-so mortal dangers - melt away leaving Laura practicing head-hand-head coordination just to stay in the game. This lyrical story journeys between interior dystopia and cool normality, exploring the things we need to stay sane.
A brand new show developed with the help of ex-CPT director Chris Goode, Head Hand Head visits CPT for a one-off performance. Laura Jane Dean is a founder member of Accidental Collective, an experimental theatre and live art company based in East Kent. She is also artist-in-residence at Exeuntonline theatre magazine. Head Hand Head has been developed with support from the National Lottery through Arts Council England and the Maudsley Charity, and is presented as part of the London Creativity and Wellbeing Week.
www.laurajanedean.com
Torrents of Rapture
Presented by Dugald Ferguson
Wed 10 - Fri 12 July 7.30pm. £10, concs £8.
It was on board the 7:27 heading to... who knows where. Reggie has just found his boyfriend Charlie in the carnal position with somebody else! Crying, miserable, and betrayed, Reggie stumbles home. With the help of his friends, the hairdryer and the drill, he recounts - in a wildly romantic, idealised, and inaccurate manner - exactly what happened.
Torrents of Rapture is told using a collage of soliloquies, bad puppetry, contemporary ballet, Brief Encounter meets Saving Private Ryan via Monty Python-style cinema, filmic music, animation and live song. Fusing these elements together, it dramatises the emotional fallout that transforms a wide-eyed doormat into a superhero, as Reggie emerges victorious from the ruins of his shattered dreams.
Sports Play
Presented by Just a Must
By Elfriede Jelinek, translated by Penny Black
Directed by Vanda Butkovic
Sat 13 & Sun 14 July 7.30pm. £12, concs £10.
Presented in partnership with Austrian Cultural Forum London. Original production supported using public funding by Arts Council England. Sponsored by Stiegl. Just a Must returns to CPT after the success of Tom Lyall's DEFRAG_ as part of our 2012 Futureshock season.
www.justamust.com
Through the Window
Presented by Mamoru Iriguchi and Jamie Wood
Sat 13 & Sun 14 July times tbc. Free.
Mamoru and Jamie are locked in the windows of Camden People's Theatre. They are recording their time in there by painting onto the window what they can see. From tall buildings, to traffic on the busy street, to passers-by. If somebody stops in front of the window, Mamoru and Jamie will try to communicate with them. The conversation becomes part of the painted landscape.
Through the Window looks at the relationship between performance, audience and what stands in-between, in this instance, a solid glass wall. It was first presented, by Mamoru alone, as part of Sprint 2013. Mamoru Iriguchi and Jamie Wood are regular CPT artists. Their shows Projector/Conjectorand Beating McEnroe appear at Venue 26: Summerhall on this year's Edinburgh Fringe.
www.iriguchi.co.uk
The Still
Presented by Improbable Theatre
Fri 19 & Sat 20 July 7.30pm. £10, concs £8.
A return visit to CPT by one of the world's most exciting theatre companies, reviving their experimental improv format The Still.
What happens when exciting practitioners from outside theatre meet Improbable onstage? Over the upcoming years, Improbable will be collaborating with a series of unique and diverse practitioners. Each will be an expert in their chosen field. They will range from scientists to therapists, from astrologers to economists. Improbable's performers spend one week with the practitioner inside their theatrical still, then the fermented brew is offered up in the form of a couple of improvised performances. We have no idea in what ways the expert's work will influence the improvisations, but we have no doubt that it will.
Constance & Sinestra and the Cabinet of Screams
Presented by Action to the Word
Tue 23 - Sun 28 July 7.30pm. All tickets £14.
Following their smash sell-out international tour of A Clockwork Orange, Action To The Word return to CPT with an award-winning new musical. Constance and Sinestra, two little girls, live with their taxidermist father on The Edge of a cliff. With gorgeous original music, this gothic oddity is perfect for fans of Tim Burton, Lemony Snickett or Harry Potter. Perfect for lost little girls and boys of all ages.
www.actiontotheword.com
CAMDEN FRINGE 2013
July 29 - Aug 24. Performances at 7.30pm & 9pm. All tickets £10, concs £8.
Four weeks of performances as part of the fast-growing Camden Fringe festival - "an increasingly important platform for experimental new work" (Metro). Shows at CPT include the absurd comic thriller Heads Bodies Legs by writer Ezra Elia, Go To Sleep, Godammit! by Krumple Theatre, and The Secret Wives of Andy Williams by comedian Sadie Hasler's Old Trunk Theatre company.
CPT on the Edinburgh Fringe
Camden People's Theatre is proud to have developed seven shows featuring on this year's Edinburgh Fringe, five of which are being presented at the Venue 26: Summerhall. These shows are:
Gym Party, by Made In China, Aug 12 - 25. Recipient of the inaugural 2013 Spring festivals commission - a co-commission by the Sprint, Sampled, Mayfest and Pulse festivals.
Don Quijote, by Tom Frankland and Keir Cooper in association with Ultimo Comboio, Aug 16 - 24 as part of the British Council Showcase. Developed on CPT's Starting Blocks 2013 development scheme.
The Way You Tell Them, by Rachel Mars, Aug 3, 5, 7, 9, 13 & 15. Developed on CPT's Starting Blocks 2012 development scheme.
Beating McEnroe, by Jamie Wood, Aug 2, 4, 6, 8, 14 & 16. Developed at CPT.
Projector/Conjector, by Mamoru Iriguchi, Aug 12 - 24. Developed at CPT.
Boris and Sergey's Perilous Escapade, by Flabbergast Theatre, Pleasance Courtyard, July 31 - August 26. Developed at CPT.
The Uncanny Valley, by Superbolt Theatre, Underbelly Bristo Square, July 31 - Aug 25. Developed at CPT.
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