Camden People's Theatre Plays ALL THE RIGHT NOTES

Camden People'sTheatre 's brand new festival All the Right Notes brings together trailblazing work from the place where theatre and live music meet: it's a festival featuring not only theatre-makers whose work is driven by live music, but music acts whose work is audaciously theatrical, programmed in partnership with DJ and journalist Joe Muggs. They meet in the middle, splicing for your delight the hothouse thrill of live music and the buzz of inventive Contemporary Theatre.

Rachel Mars' Our Carnal Hearts (24 & 25 Nov) is an exploration of envy, told against the backdrop of a surround sound, live choral score, from the creator of The Way You Tell Em, The Lady's Not For Walking Like An Egyptian, and Story #1. Mingbeast returns with Awful Things Can Happen At Any Time (29 Nov - 3 Dec), a portrait of two wannabe rockstars forming the band they've always wanted to be in.

DoppelDanger (17 - 19 Nov) is the first work from She Goat, a new company formed by Eugenie Pastor and Shamira Turner - associate artists of Little Bulb Theatre and real life doppelgangers. The show, shared as a work-in-progress, is a theatrical live music gig, drawing on influences as varied as 90s girl band pop, Franz Schubert, alt-folk and Jean-Baptiste Rameau's harpsichord compositions in an exploration of doubling and multiplication.

Alongside the theatre bill, journalist and DJ Joe Muggs programmes a live line up of musicians whose work includes elements of theatricality and storytelling. Aisha Orzbayeva & Tim Etchells' Seeping Through (26 Nov) is a rolling improvisation combining spoken text and music. Flowdan (18 Nov), one of the foremost figures and greatest storytellers in UK Grime, will perform, for the first time ever, an unplugged set, with his unique, narrative lyrics stripped from their soundsystem context. The Memory Band (25 Nov) presents a distinctive blend of spoken word, field recordings, folklore, mixed with traditional British music forms and digital machinery.

To celebrate the launch of the festival, for one night only, the UK's most exciting theatre-makers will sack off their scripts, turn their amps up to eleven, and play some tunes. The line-up includes Mingbeast, She Goat, Conrad Murray (Beats & Elements) and Chris Brett Bailey (This is How We Die). And Will Dickie brings the festival to a close in riotous fashion with The Rave Space (2 & 3 Dec), a live art DJ set situated between rave and religious experience.

As somebody smart once said, "all art constantly aspires towards the condition of music". Well, we've only bloody well got there, haven't we?

About CPT

Camden People's Theatre is a central London space dedicated year-round to supporting early-career artists - particularly those making work about issues that matter to people right now. Its mission is to refresh and strengthen the performance sector with a new generation of artists who bring a fresh perspective to contemporary concerns, and create new artistic forms with which to address them; and to present their work to a new generation of audiences.

About Joe Muggs

Joe Muggs is best known as a music journalist, having worked since 2000 for the likes of Mixmag, The Wire, FACT, The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, theartsdesk, Bandcamp and Boiler Room. He also brings to the table experience as a DJ (currently monthly on NTS Radio with the Love Drain show), electronic musician, album compiler (Ninja Tune's 'Grime 2.0', Ministry's 'Adventures in Dubstep & Beyond'), A&R, label manager and cabaret promoter, and continues to pursue all kinds of hare-brained schemes in public and in secret.

www.cptheatre.co.uk | @CamdenPT | #AllTheRightNotes

Listings

Venue

Camden People's Theatre, 58-60 Hampstead Road, NW1 2PY

Dates & Times

Tue 15 Nov - Sat 3 Dec, Various Times

Prices

Various

Website & Box Office

www.cptheatre.co.uk | 020 7419 4841

Breathe (Everything Is Going To Be Okay)

Tue 15 Nov, 7.15pm

Alicia Jane Turner

Breathe (Everything Is Going To Be Okay) is a full body immersion of soaring strings and spiralling sound in a daringly vulnerable solo performance exploring the relationship between our bodies and minds. Blending visceral live music with intimate confessions, Breathe is an unflinchingly honest dissection of our daily anxieties and fears.

Alicia Jane Turner is a violinist, pianist, composer and performance artist in London working within theatre and live art, and contemporary classical music. She is a regular collaborator with Chris Brett-Bailey, scoring and performing the music for his performance projects.

£8 (work in progress)

Elsa

Tue 15 Nov, 9pm

Isobel Rogers

Elsa's 'money job' is in a coffee shop while she pursues her dreams on the side. As she drifts in and out of the characters who come into the cafe, Elsa is confronted with different characters (from literature and reality) and she begins to lead the lives of Nina, Miranda, Lillian and Grace in her head. Keeping a part of herself elsewhere through song, Elsa plays a trick on a world that keeps telling her how to 'be.'

A play on the open mic format, Elsa brings a sense of humour and theatricality to the everyday, telling us to laugh at what we should be doing, revolt at the rat race and seek comfort in our imagination

Isobel Rogers is a writer and singer.

£12 / 10 (conc)

CPT Presents: Note Form

Wed 16 Nov, 7.15pm

Various artists

To celebrate the opening of CPT's first ever festival of cutting-edge gig-theatre, we're throwing a unique party. For one night only, the UK's most exciting theatre-makers sack off their scripts, turn their amps up to eleven, and play some tunes. Artists performing will include Mingbeast, She-Goat (Eugenie Pastor and Shamira Turner), Conrad Murray and Chris Brett Bailey.

Come join us in the CPT mosh-pit for a gig with a difference from some of your favourite theatre artists.

£12 / 10 (conc)

DoppelDänger

Thu 17 - Sat 19 Nov, 7.15pm

She Goat

Encompassing experimental live music, gender-twisting visuals, and gothic storytelling, this new work, previewing in its final stages of development, is an exploration of 'the Doppelgänger' devised and performed by a pair of real life doppelgängers. Eugénie Pastor and Shamira Turner are both associate artists of award- winning Little Bulb Theatre. This is their first collaboration as a duo.

DoppelDänger is a theatrical live music gig, featuring original music and unlikely cover songs - melding synth-pop, electronic textures and baroque harpsichord to create an uncanny and idiosyncratic musical atmosphere. The show's visual aesthetic encompasses 1630s European male fashion, 1930s wrestling and retro-futurism, questioning expected representations of femalehood. Alternative music videos appear throughout the show and run parallel to the action on stage, further questioning effects of doubling and multiplication.

Commissioned by BAC. Supported by and developed at CPT.

£8 (preview)

Within the Context of No Context

Thu 17 Nov, 9pm

Jack McNamara, Tim Parkinson and Angharad Davies

Two of the key figures in experimental music, composer Tim Parkinson and prepared violinist Angharad Davies, collaborate with director Jack McNamara to present a series of musical works that explore the crossover between theatre as sound and sound as theatre. Performed by artists at the forefront of modern composition and improvisation whose work interacts with time and space in an innately dramatic way, this is theatre for the ear and music for the eye....

With a title inspired by George S Trow's influential essay about the decline of society in the new age, this is music theatre that removes the restrictions of 'meaning' or 'context' in an attempt to reach a purity of performance.

Special guest collaborators to be confirmed.

£8 (work in progress)

Flowdan Unplugged

Fri 18 Nov, 9pm

Flowdan

Flowdan has been at the heart of the UK grime scene since its inception at the turn of the millennium - but his lyricism and vocal style make him a unique representative of a broader sound system culture. From his days as a teenage jungle fanatic, MCing in his own bedroom, to his performances with avant-garde bass warrior The Bug, he has always been one of the greatest storytellers, best vocal stylists, and most spellbinding presences in the music scene. Now, for the first time, he is going to perform his lyrics stripped from their sound system context - just Flowdan, a mic and a spotlight, in the intimate space of the Camden People's Theatre. This is grime as its never, ever been seen before.

£12 / 10 (conc)

The Castle Builder

Sat 19 Nov, 9pm

Kid Carpet and Vic Llewellyn

Asking questions about art, who it's for and what mark it leaves on the world, this playful and uplifting show intertwines personal anecdotes from Vic Llewellyn, Kid Carpet's unique brand of punky electronic music, and tales of people from around the world who have created extraordinary art just for the pleasure of it. Using as its starting point a castle on a remote headland just outside the village of Ramsvika in Norway, which was built by over the period of five years unbeknownst to anyone, The Castle Builder explores outsider artists and the joy of creating.

'Like an extended google search happening at the pub with Half Man, Half Biscuit playing in the background... it holds its audience, tenderly, in the palm of its hand, lifts us to the stars, then places us gently back down on earth, with a reminder that there's always time to live better.' - Maddy Costa, Exeunt

£12 / 10 (conc)

The Other Place

Sun 20 Nov, 7pm

Billy Bottle and the Multiple

On Election Day, 2015, a pint of milk mysteriously appears at the gates of Parliament.

Set in the week running up to a UK general election, The Other Place tells the true story of two musicians from Devon (Billy Bottle & Martine as seen on BBC's The Voice) as they make their way slowly to Westminster. On high streets, market squares and seafront promenades, they perform the same song, forty-nine times over, and at each stop they start conversations with whoever they meet, asking them "Who's got the Power?".

Following on from their critically acclaimed album, Unrecorded Beam (the poetry of Thoreau), The Multiple features Martine Waltier, Roz Harding and Billy Bottle, (all mainstays of Mike Westbrook's Uncommon Orchestra) plus flautist Vivien Goodwin-Darke (from the psychedelic rock band, Magic Bus) and recording artist and producer Lee Fletcher (of Unsung Productions) on soundscapes. Like the best art rock, they combine folk, jazz, pop and minimalism in an engaging and meaningful way.

£12 / 10 (conc)

Pale Phoebe

Tue 22 - Wed 23 Nov, 7.15pm

Moths

Pale Phoebe is a performance focussing on the sonic and dreamlike qualities of an imagined journey to the moon. It is a show where relationships between live electronic music, storytelling and lighting design become interdependent and paramount.

Moths are a multidisciplinary performance collective based in London. They champion a working practice that collaborates live music technology, projections, lighting design and text to tell stories in new ways. Supported by CPT's Starting Blocks 2014

£8 (work in progress)

The Unmarried

Tue 22 Nov, 9pm

Lauren Gauge

Rhythmically underscored by a live mix of beat boxing 90's Dance hits and old-school UK Garage, award-winning Lauren Gauge explores with cutting comedy, the feminist defiance of the legacy of a patriarchal society that nearly succeeded in defining the hopes of a generation.

£12 / 10 (conc)

The ReGeneration Game

Wed 23 Nov, 9pm

Boogaloo Stu

Boogaloo Stu presents a work-in-progress showing of a new comedy musical. With inner city pubs are being closed at an alarming rate, gentri?cation continues apace in our urban areas. It would seem that our cities and communities are being hollowed out and left for dead by developers driven by greed. Faced with imminent closure, Kev and Babs from the Dog & Dumplings plan to take on the big boys in this musical tale of a boozer in decline, dodgy developers and dogging...

Devised, written and performed by Boogaloo Stu and Flick Ferdinando.

£8 (work in progress)

Our Carnal Hearts

Thu 24 - Fri 25 Nov, 7.15pm

Rachel Mars

This fairy comes round your house. You, she says, are in luck. Ask for anything you want. Anything in the world and I'll give it to you. But whatever you ask for, your neighbour gets double. Our Carnal Hearts is a gleeful, thrilling and murky celebration of envy, competitive spirits and all the times we f*ck each other over. Performed with a live surround-sound choral score, it is born from the suspect parentage of an ideological rally, a drunken sing-song and a seductive dream.

Made with Louise Mothersole (Sh!t Theatre) on compositions and arrangements. Co-commissioned by CPT.

£12 / 10 (conc)

Too Human

Thu 24 Nov, 9pm

Ziad Nagy

"It is equally impossible to feign it or divulge it. To a person who hasn't got it, it will remain a riddle even after it is openly confessed. It is meant to deceive no one except those who consider it a deception and who either take pleasure in the delightful roguery of making fools of the whole world or else become angry when they get an inkling they themselves might be included. In this sort of irony, everything should be playful and serious, guilelessly open and deeply hidden... It contains and arouses a feeling of indissoluble antagonism between the absolute and the relative, between the impossibility and the necessity of complete communication. It is a very good sign when the harmonious bores are at a loss about how they should react to this continuous self-parody, when they fluctuate endlessly between belief and disbelief until they get dizzy and take what is meant as a joke seriously and what is meant seriously as a joke." (Friedrich Schlegel, Philosophical Fragments)

£12 / 10 (conc)

The Memory Band

Fri 25 Nov, 9pm

The Memory Band

The Memory Band returns once more to the ghost-lit back-roads of British traditional music where digital machinery and acoustic musicians congregate to make old music from the future. There are several uses of spoken word elements taken from field recordings including the voices of Vashti Vincent recorded by folklorist Peter Kennedy, Albert Hupton as recorded by writer George EwArt Evans and poet Basil Bunting reading from his epic poem 'Briggflatts'. The album also features an extract from William Langland's The Vision of Piers Plowman as read by Robin Kirkpatrick from a forthcoming film about the ancient Stourbridge Fair.

Since 2002 The Memory Band has been producing its own modern recipe of traditional music with a rolling cast of contributors led by producer Stephen Cracknell. A Fair Field includes vocal contributions from Liam Bailey, Helene Bradley, Hannah Caughlin and Nancy Wallace and features the rhythm section of Olie Brice on double bass, FrEd Thomas on piano and Tom Page on drums with strings by Lucy Railton and Rob Spriggs.

This event is a preview of the soon to be launched album A Fair Field.

£12 / 10 (conc)

Gig Theatre: Why live music and theatre are converging

Sat 26 Nov, 5pm

Panel discussion

All the Right Notes is a festival celebrating the volume and quality of performance taking place in the margins between live music and theatre. But why is this happening, and why now? What do theatre shows have to gain by becoming more like gigs - and vice versa? What can music and theatre (the artforms; the industries) learn from one another? Join our panel of practitioners and experts, from both sides of the music/theatre divide, to discuss what's happening on the front-line of gig-theatre.

Free (£3 suggested donation)

Big Bang

Sat 26 Nov, 7pm

Various artists

Our signature explosive nights of new works in progress return with an All The Right Notes special, feature the following works:

Yes My Selector by Ross Sutherland

Poet Ross Sutherland delivers

a love monologue, edited together from real things he has shouted at drum and bass DJs mid-set. Ross hosts the new writing podcast, Imaginary Advice. His plays include Stand By For Tape Back Up and Party Trap. His poetry is available from Penned in the Margins.

Beats & Elements by Paul Cree and Conrad Murray

Using beatbox, rap and spoken word this show will explore the lives of different charters living in a London tower block. An exploration of class, gentrification and race.

Elephant & Castle by Lillian Henley and Tom Adams

Husband and Wife, Lillian and Tom, play Wife and Husband. They share a bed. Lillian likes to sleep. Tom likes to sleep walk. And sleep talk. A lot. Part live music gig, pArt Theatre. This is Gig Theatre. Elephant and Castle is another world between waking and sleeping. This is a scratch performance of 20 minutes performed by award winning? Lillian Henley (1927) and Tom Adams (Still Score, Howl at the Moon)

I Belong by Nima Séne

"I belong" explores the sensation of belonging - the politics of belonging - the nostalgia of belonging - the illusion of belonging - the seduction of belonging. Using spoken word, movement, electronic music, pop cultural references and autobiographical absurdism Nima Séne re-discovers what it means to belong with the help of her persona Beige B*tch.

a love monologue, edited together from real things he has shouted at drum and bass DJs mid-set. Ross hosts the new writing podcast, Imaginary Advice. His plays include Stand By For Tape Back Up and Party Trap. His poetry is available from Penned in the Margins.

Beats & Elements by Paul Cree and Conrad Murray

Using beatbox, rap and spoken word this show will explore the lives of different charters living in a London tower block. An exploration of class, gentrification and race.

Elephant & Castle by Lillian Henley and Tom Adams

Husband and Wife, Lillian and Tom, play Wife and Husband. They share a bed. Lillian likes to sleep. Tom likes to sleep walk. And sleep talk. A lot. Part live music gig, pArt Theatre. This is Gig Theatre. Elephant and Castle is another world between waking and sleeping. This is a scratch performance of 20 minutes performed by award winning? Lillian Henley (1927) and Tom Adams (Still Score, Howl at the Moon)

I Belong by Nima Séne

"I belong" explores the sensation of belonging - the politics of belonging - the nostalgia of belonging - the illusion of belonging - the seduction of belonging. Using spoken word, movement, electronic music, pop cultural references and autobiographical absurdism Nima Séne re-discovers what it means to belong with the help of her persona Beige B*tch.

Seeping Through

Sat 26 Nov, 9pm

Aisha Orazbayeva & Tim Etchells

In Seeping Through, artist, director of Forced Entertainment and writer Tim Etchells collaborates with violinist Aisha Orazbayeva on a rolling improvisation that combines and moves between spoken text and music. Taking place over an intense, two hour period, the work comprises a set of spontaneous fragmentary improvisations in which text and music are treated as fluid forces in the same space, fading in and out of each other, breathing together, cutting and cancelling each other, creating a dynamic and always unstable landscape.

Seeping Through builds on the collaboration between Orazbayeva and Etchells commissioned for BBC Radio 3's Late Junction in 2015 and their session for KIT Records on NTS Live (June 2016), as well as on the line of Etchells' solo performance for theatre spaces A Broadcast (2014), and his ongoing series of improvisations in gallery spaces under thecollective title Work Files.

£12 / 10 (conc)

Awful Things Can Happen At Any Time

Tue 29 Nov - Sat 3 Dec, 7.15pm

Mingbeast

Gemma and Ixchel have always wanted to be in a band. They've been going on about it for years. Now they're ready to plug stuff in and get all up front. As you can see, they don't have any instruments yet. But they've been through a lot and just like you they've got a ton of songs in them just floating around. Some are hits just waiting to go global. Others are like bad poems scrawled on a bedroom wall during an unspectacular break-up. (But they're pretty great songs too). So here they are, on the brink. This is their big chance to get it all out, to throw it all up on stage for the sake of the music.The music. It's all about the music.

This is a show about wanting to be in a band and then being in one.

£12 / 10 (conc)

Building a Voice Percussion...

Tue 29 Nov, 9pm

Antosh Wocjik

What happens when memories disappear? Where do they go - and can we get them back?

Using just his voice and a Roland TD-4KP electric drumkit, Antosh Wojcik explores the effects of dementia on speech, memory and motor skills. Assigning rhythms to family members, Antosh attempts to build a 'voice-percussion gun' to destroy inherited Alzheimer's. Poems become beats become glitches in time in this poignant and mesmeric display of live drumming and spoken word.

£8 (work in progress)

Controlled Madness

Wed 30 Nov, 9pm

Andy Blake and friends

Andy Blake is an underground legend. More than just a DJ or party promoter - though he is rightly revered for both of these things - he is a pied piper, a polemicist, a provocateur, a standard bearer for the esoteric values of old-school acid house culture, and a relentless interrogator of the modern world and its foibles. Anyone who's heard him speak publicly, or better still caught him in conversation in some dark and smoky nightlife niche, will know that he is a man who can cut across topics of community, politics, technology, conspiracy, culture and subculture, and things a whole lot weirder besides, and provide perspectives you'd never imagined existed. Controlled Madness sees Blake at the heart of a late-night quasi-symposium - lit and soundtracked to conjure up a backstreet backroom atmosphere - with cultural commentators Ben Bashford and Joe Muggs. From simple questions of what makes a good party and why parties get shut down, expect the discussion to range far and wide into worlds unknown.

£8

Between

Thu 1 Dec, 9pm

Daniel Marcus Clark

Armed with just an electric and acoustic guitar, a beat up old voice and a bagful of broken ballads, sound-tracked stories and fingerpicking tunes, Daniel Marcus Clark (EarFilms;The Hat) explores what can be done with one set of arms and lungs on stage. Finding the story in every song and the song in every story, his style sits between, at times, an old storyteller and Marc Ribot and at others Mississipi John Hurt and Vincent Price. Inventive, funny, touching and very unique.

£12 / 10 (conc)

The Rave Space

Fri 2 - Sat 3 Dec, 9pm

Will Dickie

A live art DJ Set. A space for ravers old and new. A space for the beyond. Beyond theatre. Beyond dance floor. A space for thewordless. These are words. And this is where it gets confusing... The b-lines in jungle music are never misunderstood. Come together - Dance - Let go.1 DJ. 1 Crowd. 1 truth? 1 love.

£12 / 10 (conc)

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