Blue Elephant
Theatre – 2012 Autumn Season
Blue
Elephant Theatre Celebrates:
Let’s
make a Song and Dance about it
“This really was the most beautiful piece of
theatre I have seen all year.”
Stage Won on Blue Elephant In-House Production:
The Fantastical
Adventures of [Not] Being With You
Following a jubilant Spring Season, the
Blue Elephant Theatre is delighted to celebrate the success of the companies it
has worked with. Not only did the season garner four and five star reviews from
What’s On Stage and Time Out but two productions, The Fantasist and Machines For Living, have furthered their success with acclaimed
Edinburgh runs.
Both Machines
For Living and The Fantasist made
it into Spoonfed’s Top Ten Theatre Shows To See in Edinburgh as
“Blue Elephant finds” while What’s On
Stage predicted in March that “haunting and enchanting in equal measure, The Fantasist would surely be a hit at the Edinburgh
fringe”. It seems the secret is spreading that you
should head to the Blue Elephant for a programme of exciting new work that you
won’t find anywhere else in London. On this high note, the Blue Elephant
announces its Autumn Season.
Music and dance feature strongly this
season with choreographer Heather Cupid presenting the first show of the season
during Black History Month, followed by puppetry, physical theatre and live music in The Wordcatcher and
Shakespeare retold in Beatrice on Fire. In October, emerging company Sounding Motion explores the
relationship between music and dance in their show Signs, Games and Messages,
a cross art form collaboration which follows in the wake of last season’s
“strikingly innovative” Sonata Movements (The Daily Telegraph).
Fringe Report’s Best Artistic Director of
2012, Ricky Dukes, returns in October with the European premiere of Australian
musical, The Hatpin, co-produced
with Greenwich Theatre, the first time the Blue Elephant has collaborated with
another venue in this way. Fans of Dukes’ contemporary retellings of classic
works will also not be disappointed as his Lazarus Theatre Company will present
the Blue Elephant’s Christmas show, the enchanting A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Listings
Information:
Venue: Blue Elephant
Theatre, 59a Bethwin Rd, Camberwell, SE5 0XT (entrance on Thompson Ave)
Nearest
tube: Oval (Northern Line)
Wheelchair accessible
Box
Office: 020 7701 0100/084 4477 1000
Twitter: @BETCamberwell
Please Note: Tickets for The Hatpin should be
booked through Greenwich Theatre at www.greenwichtheatre.org.uk or 020 8858 7755.
For press enquiries, please contact Niamh de Valera:
niamh@blueelephanttheatre.co.uk
or 02077010100
VISUAL ARTS - Image-in Self (migration) Our Tell-Tale Bodies- 27 September – 27
October
Image-in Self (migration) runs throughout
Black History Month to explore what we reveal and conceal in our bodies,
sometimes unbeknownst to ourselves.
The body is one of a myriad of means of inscribing
culture. And of the millions of ways to inscribe culture, be it music, language
or government, the body harbours the closest connection to identity.
Image-in Self (migration) explores how much
information is encrypted on our bodies through migration and how it is
communicated back to others. The beliefs we grow up with and those we learn all
impact on that which we are.
Is this lost in every new place we go? Or is it
compromised by the new way of living? Where do we cross the line?
Artist: Sanaa AbstraKt
Dates: Thursday 27 –
Saturday 27 October (open pre- and post-show).
Appointments may be arranged in advance during other times.
Admission
Free
DANCE: What
The Soul Can’t Hide/Harbour - 4 – 6 October
A Double-Bill of Contemporary and Caribbean/Afro-Contemporary Dance
Marking Black History Month at the Blue
Elephant, What The Soul Can’t Hide/Harbour brings two separate stories together in a vibrant and resonant
performance.
Together they bring us on a journey of
personal battle, cultural difference and ultimately celebration.
Choreographer Heather Cupid presents an
evening of work where contemporary and Caribbean/Afro-contemporary
dance coincide.
Choreographer:
Heather
Cupid
Dates: Thursday
4 – Saturday 6 October
Time: 8pm
Tickets: £10 (£9 conc.), £8 Southwark
residents
THEATRE - Beatrice on Fire, 12 – 13 October - Much
Ado About Beatrice
A comedic and
absurd retelling of Shakespeare's Much
Ado About Nothing, as presented by a young woman navigating her way through
depression, bereavement and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Time: 8pm
Tickets: FREE but must be reserved in advance.
THEATRE- The Wordcatcher - Smoking Apples, A Bizarre Tale of Something and Nothing
16 – 20 October
Welcome to the world of The
Wordcatcher – a world of sound and of silence both in the
heart and in the mind, where we try to fix things in place that don’t fit
together.
Through the expert use of miscommunication,
the holes and gaps in this story fill a void rather than leave one.
Following Seemingly
Invisible last year, Smoking Apples return to the Blue Elephant with a new
piece using puppetry, physical theatre and live music. Smoking Apples aim to
ignite the adult imagination to find wonder in the most human and mundane of
situations.
“…a heart-melting play, especially for those
hardened by fast city-living, about the magic found in the simplest of human
exchanges” Katie Shellard, Running in
Heels
"Smoking Apples is a company to watch. Their
use of puppetry, in the broadest sense, is creative and exciting.” Linda Lewis,
Puppet Centre Trust
Devising Cast: Molly Freeman,
Matt Lloyd and Hattie Thomas.
Dates: Tuesday
16 – Saturday 20 October
Time: 8pm
Tickets: £8 (£6 conc.), £5 Southwark
residents
Post show discussion: Wednesday 17
October
DANCE and MUSIC - Signs, Games and Messages - Where Dance and Music Meet…
Fusing
electronics, innovative choreography and the music of cutting-edge composers, Signs, Games and Messages probes the subtleties
of being human: the minute signs and idiosyncrasies that let us glimpse who we
truly are, the games we play with each other and the hidden messages we send.
Music by György Kurtág, Tigran Mansurian, Javier Alvarez and Sounding
Motion's resident composer Benjamin Graves
Musicians: Stephen Upshaw (viola), Calie Hough
(percussion)
Dancers: Imogen Bland, Adrian
Gillott, Jaya Hartlein, Michael Kitchin and Anne Marie Kristensen
Choreographers: Imogen Bland, Anne Marie Kristensen and Dominick Mitchell-Bennett
Lighting Designer: Greg Gould
Choreographers: Imogen Bland, Anne Marie Kristensen and Dominick Mitchell-Bennett
Lighting Designer: Greg Gould
Dates:
Wednesday 24 - Saturday 27 October
Time:
8pm
Tickets: £10 (£8 conc.), £7 Southwark residents
THEATRE: The Hatpin - 30 October – 24 November
Heather Doole, Blue Elephant Theatre and Greenwich Theatre in
association with Lazarus Theatre Company
Press Night: Thursday
1 November
An Award-Winning Musical, brought to the UK for the first time
Amber Murray gives up her son to the
wealthy Makin family in the belief that he will have a better life. When she is
unable to visit him, her suspicions are aroused. Refusing to be brushed off
with excuses, she begins to look more closely into the family she has entrusted
with her son. The Hatpin is about being brave enough to find the truth, and
then having the strength to face it.
One of
the most shocking and influential trials in Australian history inspires this
haunting musical, receiving its European premiere at the Blue Elephant.
Described
as “a must see” and “a landmark moment in Australian musical theatre” by The Sydney Morning Herald when it was
first produced, The Hatpin is
directed by Ricky Dukes, named Fringe
Report’s
Best Artistic Director earlier this year.
“…An evening of unusually strong and emotive theatre…Ricky Dukes has directed an astonishing interpretation…” Kevin
Quarmby, Big Q Reviews on Women of Troy
*The Hatpin was originally produced by Neil Gooding Productions
and White Box Theatre at the York Theatre, Sydney, February 2008. The American
premiere was presented at the 2008 New York Musical Theatre Festival.
Music: Peter Rutherford
Book and Lyrics: James Millar
Director
and Designer: Ricky Dukes
Musical
Director: Aaron Clingham
Costume
Designer: Alice Pocock
Associate
Director: Gavin
Harrington-Odedra
Dates: Tuesday 30 October – Saturday 24 November (Tuesday – Saturday only)
Times: 7.30pm
Tickets: £16.50 (£12.50 conc.) £10 Southwark Residents & previews Tuesday
30 and Wednesday 31 October
THEATRE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream - 27 November – 15 December
Press Night:
Thursday 29 November
A Spell-binding
and Striking Re-Imagining
Lazarus Theatre Company returns to the Blue Elephant to herald in
Christmas with a touch of magic and enchantment.
One of Shakespeare’s best-loved comedies, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is transported to a frozen forest by a
company whose work is “a superb lesson
in how to adapt an old classic for a contemporary audience" (Spoonfed).
High in the mountains, four young lovers
find themselves far from home, following romance at all costs. With the fairies
at hand to weave their spells, nothing is quite as it seems until confusion
gives way to happily-ever-after.
"If you know anyone unsure of Shakespeare
then take them to see this and have them fall in love!"
Dave Jordan, WhatsonStage on
Macbeth
Director
and Designer: Ricky Dukes
Lighting
Designer: Alex Musgrave
Costume
Designer: Rachel Dingle
Dates: Tuesday 27
November – Saturday 15 December (Tuesday – Saturday only)
Times: 8pm (Wednesday
matinees at 4pm on 5 and 12 December)
Tickets: £15 (£10 conc. and previews Tuesday 27 and Wednesday 28 November), £9
Southwark residents
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