Erratica and Print Room at the Coronet Team for World Premiere of REMNANTS

ERRATICA, the international new British music theatre company, will bring the world premiere of Remnants to the Print Room at the Coronet, this summer. With previews starting on 12 June as part of InTRANSIT Festival, this production tells the true story of one woman's experience of the aftermath of the Srebrenica massacre, and her family's connection to the Holocaust in Bosnia 50 years before.

Adapted from the memoir The Stone Fields by Croatian-American writer Courtney Angela Brkic, Remnants will be performed by an all-female cast of four singers and a dancer. Director Patrick Eakin Young layers audio extracts from interviews with the author over a wholly unique combination of original vocal works by Christian Mason, traditional Balkan music, and deep, rumbling electronic compositions by Shelley Parker with choreography from Jamila Johnson-Small.

A moving personal narrative set against the backdrop of the twinned tragedies of Bosnia and the Second World War, Remnants is a troubling and timely reminder of the consequences of prejudice and how the traumas of the past continue to affect us to this day.

Courtney Angela Brkic has worked for the United Nations International War Crimes Tribunal at The Hague and has carried out extensive research in to Croatia's war-affected female population. Her memoir The Stone Fields: An Epitaph for Living, the inspiration for this production, in part recounts her time spent in eastern Bosnia as part of a Physicians for Human Rights forensic team, where she helped to exhume and identify the bodies of thousands who were massacred in 1995. Brkic intertwines this personal experience with the story of her Grandmother, Andelka, and the losses she faced during the Bosnian Holocaust of World War II.

Remnants will be performed by Emma Bonnici, Victoria Couper, Eugenia Georgieva, Fabiola Santana and Olesya Zdorovetska.

Patrick Eakin Young, Artistic Director of ERRATICA, spearheads an artist-led initiative, New British Music Theatre, which brings together and showcases exceptional practitioners working in music-driven theatre across the UK. This new way of defining work aims to create an identity that encompasses and makes space for music-driven drama in all its guises, transcending the gap between 'music theatre' and 'musical theatre'. Alongside ERRATICA, a wealth of respected artists are embedded in the movement, including 1927, Klanghaus, Little Bulb, Verity Standen and Melanie Wilson.

Running in conjunction with Remnants, What Remains: Memory, History and Conflict is a series of ancillary talks and events, curated by ERRATICA, which will also take place at the Print Room at the Coronet. Bosnian artist Šejla Kameri? will be the main artist for What Remains: Memory, History and Conflict. Forming part of this programme is OBJECTS OF MEMORY, a video project examining the memories and significance we assign to inanimate objects.

With full details to be announced, the programme will include panel discussions, installations, films and music events, all responding to themes of memory, resonance, ritual and the aftermath of conflict.

This June, InTRANSIT Festival will once again take over the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea with its exciting and experimental programme of site-responsive art and performance.

Following REMNANTS, Print Room at the Coronet will present the Golden Globe nominated composer Jocelyn Pook, with her new work Hearing Voices which explores the lives of women who have lived with mental illness, across generations. Blending live performance, recorded interviews and Pook's original music, Hearing Voices will run 12 - 15 July.

IF YOU GO:

12 June - 1 July 2017
REMNANTS
Print Room at the Coronet, Notting Hill Gate, W11 3LB
Mon -Fri 7.30pm | Sat 3:30pm & 7:30pm
Press Night: 14 June

Created & Directed by Patrick Eakin Young
Based on the book The Stone Fields by Courtney Angela Brkic
Music by Christian Mason and Shelley Parker
Choreography by Jamila Johnson-Small
Sound Design by Alex Groves
Lighting Design by Burke Brown
Set and Costume Design by Ana Ines Jabares-Pita

Featuring:
Emma Bonnici
Victoria Couper
Eugenia Georgieva
Fabiola Santana
Olesya Zdorovestska

Tickets: £20 - £28 (£16, £23 concession)
Book at www.the-print-room.org or by calling 0203 642 6606

ERRATICA is an international performance company that creates unconventional, music-driven installations and theatre pieces. Last seen in London in 2014 with their piece Triptych, their most recent project La Celestina (2015), an installation opera, received critical and public acclaim when it premiered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. For more information, visit www.erratica.org, or follow on Twitter: @ERRATICA_UK and Facebook: facebook.com/erraticauk

Print Room at the Coronet began life in September 2010 in a converted printing warehouse just off Westbourne Grove, with a mission to present an exciting mixture of theatre, dance, concerts, art exhibitions and a variety of multidisciplinary collaborations. The theatre is now realising its unique artistic vision in its new, permanent home, Notting Hill's iconic Coronet. Go to www.the-print-room.org or follow on Twitter @the_printroom.

Patrick Eakin Young is a director, designer, artist, and artistic director of ERRATICA, originally from Toronto, Canada, now living and working in the UK. He attended Columbia University in New York where he studiEd English and Comparative Literature. He has assisted directors in the US both regionally and off-Broadway, held observerships at both the Metropolitan Opera and the Royal Opera House, assisted for the South African artist and director William Kentridge, and been a fellow of the Atelier Opéra en Création at the Festival D'Aix-en-Provence, France. Since 2007, he has been directing and producing contemporary musical spectacles through ERRATICA. His work has been presented in New York, Johannesburg, Toronto, and London.

Burke Brown studied International Studies and Theater Studies at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC. He received his Masters of Fine Arts from the Yale School of Drama.

His recent designs include work with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mabou Mines, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Ars Nova, NYSF-Public Theater, Apollo Theater, Ohio Theater, and the Baryshnikov Arts Center. His work has been presented at The Joyce Theater, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, New York City Center, Yerba Buena Center and across North America, Europe and Russia. His regional work includes work at Center Stage, Cleveland Playhouse, Magic Theatre, Northern Stage, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Two River Theater Company, and Playmakers Repertory Company. Brown's international work includes productions at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, the Golden Mask Festival in Moscow, the Seoul Performing Arts Festival in South Korea, the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, Opera Erratica in Toronto and the Bayerisches Staatsballett in Munich.

Recent dance design includes work with English National Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ailey II, Parsons Dance, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Houston Ballet, St. Louis Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, Compañia Nacional de Danza (Mexico), and Aszure Barton & Artists.

MR. Brown volunteers with the 52nd Street Project and is the Director of Wingspace Theatrical Design Professional Mentorship Program.

Alex Groves is a composer and sound designer creating work for the concert hall and theatre. His work has been commissioned by the Royal Opera House and Union Chapel and supported by Spitalfields Music, Ovalhouse, Bristol Old Vic and Snape Maltings. His music has been performed at the Linbury Studio Theatre (ROH), Spitalfields Music Summer & Winter Festivals, National Theatre Studio, Kings Place and Union Chapel, broadcast on NTS Radio, Resonance FM and BBC Radio 6 Music, and released on Icelandic label Bedroom Community.

Ana Inés Jabares-Pita's work crosses a range of genres: opera, ballet, theatre, installation and film. Her extensive grounding in music has led to a particular interest in sound as part of the scenography which has let to her current research being focussed on how to use video games, digital and interactive media in performing arts.

Ana joined The Gate Theatre's Jerwood Young Designers in 2014. Her work Idomeneus (Gate Theatre) was selected by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, to become part of their archive and her work for DOMESTICA (Sleepwalk Collective) and Sappho...in 9 Fragments represented Spain in the Prague Quadrennial of Scenography 2015. Some other of Ana's most recent work includes, The Wish List (Royal Court Theatre and Manchester Royal Exchange, The Echo Chamber (Young Vic Theatre), LeLa & Co (Royal Court Theatre) and Another Love which premiered at Cannes Film Festival. Ana has worked on tours including; Company of Wolves's The End of Things Tour and Fisk with Tortoise in a Nutshell. She has received numerous accolades including The Spirit of Dundee Award (2015) for costume design, The Linbury Prize for emerging designers (2013), Best Set Design Award at the Ottawa Fringe Theatre Festival(2013) for Sappho... in 9 Fragments, The European Opera Prize for her proposal of La Traviata and winning the design category in the campaign "Hechos de Talento" to represent Spanish Talent in more than 15 countries all over the world, including iconic places as Picadilly Circus on London or Times Square in New York.

Šejla Kameri received the ECF Routes Princess Margriet Award for Cultural Diversity in 2011, the DAAD-Berlin Artist Residency Fellowship in 2007, and the Special Award at October Salon, Belgrade in 2005. In 2004 she won the ONUFRI Prize of the National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania. Her first short film 'What Do I Know', premiered in Corto Cortissimo section of Venice International Film Festival and circulated over 40 film festivals winning Golden Pram for the Best Short Film awards at Zagreb Film Festival and Adana Film Festival. Her work is included in European collections such as Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris; MACBA, Barcelona; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; ERSTE Collection, Vienna; Deutsche Telekom, Bonn and Vehbi Koç Foundation in Istanbul.

Recent solo exhibitions include Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius (2012), Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade (2012), Kunsthaus Graz (2012), MSUM Ljubljana (2012), Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb (2011) and MACBA, Barcelona (2011).

Jamila Johnson-Small makes dances and works to create spaces (on stage, in corners, on screens, in rooms, in bodies) with no single direction and no clear intentions, harbouring no desire to be useful other than to make gestures towards decentralised power and non-hierarchical structures for existing. Her work is driven by an interest in the potential of dancing as a radical social proposition, considering an engagement with politics as inevitable and embodied, attempting to reveal and discuss the politics, perversities and movement of power within and around structures of production and the production of being. She is interested in surfaces, structures and the space/tension between things.

Jamila is one half of duos immigrants and animals (now defunct) and Project O, and works solo as Last Yearz Interesting Negro. She runs DIY event GUSH at home in London, conversation series Hotline with Sara Sassanelli and sometimes makes work in collaboration with other artists including Fernanda Munoz-Newsome, Shelley Parker, Josh Anio Grigg and Phoebe Collings-James.

Christian Mason is part of a new breed of British composers, and a rising star of the classical world. His emotionally rich and mysterious music has been commissioned, performed and broadcast in the UK and internationally, by the likes of the BBC PROMS, The Philharmonia and Munich chamber Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus, to name a few.

Shelley Parker is a stalwart of London's underground experimental electronic music scene. She has performed at Tate Britain, Café Oto and the Whitechapel gallery and produced installations for the De la Warr Pavilion, and the V & A. She releases on the labels Opal Tapes, Entr'acte and her own imprint Structure.

InTRANSIT Festival of Arts and Performance is an annual festival of site responsive art and performance from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The festival champions work that is immediate and relevant, encouraging the involvement of local people and places in the creation of new work. Now in its eleventh year, the festival celebrates the changing urban landscape, making use of public and private spaces throughout the borough. InTRANSIT is unique in London in that it exclusively commissions new art of every genre in unexpected locations.

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