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Dateline:
31st March, 2004
BAC Opera 2004 Programme (6th - 29th
May)
MADESTRANGE
Black and Blue
Thu 6 - Sun 23 May · Studio 1
excl. 8, 9 13 & 20 May
7.30pm (Sun 5.30pm)
£10.75 · Concs £5.50
Sex and death. What else should an opera be about? Caught in a downward
spiral of detachment a man is looking for love. Haunted by someone who
may or may not be Dennis Nilsen, his search leads him into a world,
both real and virtual, of fetishism, eroticism, violence, and ultimately
death. Black and Blue's vivid imagery uses new technologies - such as
internet chat rooms and video conferencing - to play with the audience's
perception and explore the distance between sex and intimacy.
director: Erica Whyman, composers: Michael Oliva & Deepak Kalha,
designer: Soutra Gilmour
ARTMUSIC
The Opera Room
Tue 18 - Sat 29 May · Gallery
Daily 1.00pm - 7.45pm (Sat 1.30pm - 7.45pm)
excl. Sundays & Mondays
Free entry
Hundreds of operatic fragments have been collected, composed, transposed,
dissected and rearranged to create a live and interactive installation.
Found objects are scattered throughout the space where these moments
of sound are unexpectedly placed. But it is your participation that
makes the 'performance'. As you move, the music, sound and imagery come
alive, so that each person who enters the space will have an individual
and entirely unique experience.
composer: Helen Ottaway, artist: Deborah Thomas, sound designer: Alastair
Goolden
KLEBOE GMBH & THE POPULAR SOCIETY
Exposure: a digital opera
Friday 7 May · Main House
8.00pm
£10.75 · Concs £5.50
A reclusive Bill Gates wanders aimlessly through his empire in the dead
of night, the lifts go up and down, wraiths ride the escalators and
contemplates reaping Disney carnage in his virtual world. A ghostly
Concorde appears like an angel of deliverance and takes him on a journey
faster than the speed of sound, in search of the soul of our time. The
visuals and the virtual cast are computer generated by The Popular Society
and the music is performed by Kleboe gmbh, featuring the extraordinary
voice of Louise Kleboe.
director: Alfie Thomas
CELLORHYTHMICS
The Rise of The Cellorettes
Saturday 8 May · Main House
8.00pm
£14.75 · Concs £6.50
Describing their work as Progressive Chamber Music, Cellorhythmics is
a unique ensemble, who electrify their audience with stunning musicality
and visual impact. A performance that combines the virtuosity and passion
of Jacquelyn Du Pré with the quirky energy of Frank Zappa.
LUNASEA
The Moon Behind the Clouds
Tue 11 - Wed 12 May · Main House
8.00pm
£4.75 · Concs £3.50
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Based on original music by Jonathan Cooper and lullabies collected from
South East Asia, The Moon Behind the Clouds is a spellbinding
piece about being different. Traditional Western strings combine with
instruments from China, Vietnam and Cambodia. Contemporary music technology,
haunting video imagery and physical theatre meet to create a mesmeric
evening of visual music performance. The company includes renowned singer
and cabaret artist Barb Jungr and actor/singer Kevin Walton.
BODIES IN FLIGHT & ANGEL TECH
Who By Fire
Tue 11 - Thu 13 May · Studio 2
9.00pm
£10.75 · Concs £5.50
The party's done. Six hangers-on share bizarre stories of accidental
deaths, killing time before going home, on the eve of something big.
Combining the music of the band Angel Tech with the intimate performance
style of Bodies in Flight, this is a powerful piece of music theatre,
where everyday materials - simple language, mundane actions and gestures
- fuse into poetry. The performance centres on that strange in-between
void after the party's done and before the day that just won't dawn.
CO-OBJECTS
CommonNonsense
Sat 15 - Sun 16 May · Main House
8.00pm (Sun 6.00pm)
£14.75 · Concs £6.50
Described by critics as "visually magical, hilariously funny and
twisted" these interwoven stories originate from the absurdist
inventions of Ilmur Stefansdottir. Witness a disabled ballerina in her
babywalker, a depressed diva playing an ironing board-cello, a drunken
poet blubbering in a vibrathon, a bride without a groom and a body in
a box without a funeral.
director: John Wright from Told By An Idiot.
BRIAN
A Night with Brian
Fri 14 - Sun 16 May · Studio 2
9.00pm (Sun 7.00pm)
£4.75 · Concs £3.50
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Following on from their bittersweet tale of holiday romance, Bournemouth
Ballads, Brian's new work is a little closer to home: their home.
Brian are taking time out to relax. But in the confines of their tiny
living room, with only a radio to entertain them, there's no telling
what might happen. Collaborating with a number of different directors,
including Kazuko Hohki, Brian find new and unusual ways to entertain
themselves and the audience.
HELEN CHADWICK
Dancing In My Mothers' Arms
Wednesday 19 May · Main House
8.00pm
£4.75 · £3.50
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Dancing in My Mothers' Arms is a solo performance of songs accompanied
by a pack of cards and a pair of hands, by something bowed and the smallest
dance, by a drum and a heartbeat. The show is threaded with a tribute,
a story and a toast. Helen has made five solo albums, and composes for
theatre, radio and opera. Her solo and group song/theatre/story performances
tour Australia, the Americas, and Europe
JONATHON STONE
Beethoven's 9th Symphony - The First Ever Solo Performance of One
of the Masterworks of the Western Canon
Fri 21 - Sun 23 May · Studio 2
9.00 pm (Sun 7.00pm)
£4.75 (Concs £3.50)
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Beethoven hummed, mumbled and shouted in public before he wrote his
music down. Translating his 9th Symphony back to the tune Beethoven
might have hummed is one of several approaches Jonathon Stone will take
during the making of this new solo version for the 21st Century.
Jonathon Stone is half of Ralf Ralf and a composer of sorts. His work
crosses the boundaries between dance, theatre and music.
THE CAPSULE
Columbia
Sat 22 - Sun 23 May · Main House
8.00pm (Sun 6.00pm)
£4.75 (Concs £3.50)
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January 2003. A doomed ship orbits the Earth. For the crew of The Columbia
it's been a text-book take-off, a perfect mission. Caught up in the
wonder of space travel, they do not know that a seemingly trivial incident
at the start of the flight has sealed their fate. Back on Earth no-one
wants to face the disaster that's about to unfold. Sective and shocking,
this real life drama is presented in a series of experimental fragments.
Live singers and musicians perform alongside an ambitious video design
that mixes familiar images with specially-created new visuals.
SHARPWIRE
Adam's Apple
Tue 25 - Thu 27 May · Studio 1
7.30pm
£10.75 · Concs £5.50
A multi-media song-cycle. Ripened in the hothouse environment of BAC
Scratch and the This Way Up Tour, Adam's Apple returns. This
intoxicating and intimate passion play of sound, song, movement and
video journeys into lyrical and haunting worlds between the everyday
and the mythical.
performed, composed and devised by SharpWire.
EDDIE LADD
Club Luz
Wed 26 - Thu 27 May · Main House
8.00pm
£10.75 · Concs £5.50
A club night of electro songs and B-movie visuals, featuring a 12 number,
Kraftwerk and Kinspired, Laurie-Anderson-on-speed solo set. The solo
set is based on Sam Fuller's 1963 film Shock Corridor. Trent
is a black inmate of a mental hospital who believes he is white and
a member of the Ku Klux Klan. The performance transposes his delusion
into songs on alienation, grief, extreme solutions and the redemptive
power of (Welsh) pop. Eddie Ladd performs a bilingual set by on-stage
composer and DJ, Dewi Evans. Winner of a Total Theatre Award at the
Edinburgh Fringe 2003.
DAVID GLASS ENSEMBLE
Disembodied
Fri 28 - Sat 29 May · Studio 2
9.00pm (Sat matinee 3.00pm)
£4.75 · Concs £3.50
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Disembodied too: David Glass returns with an entirely new selection
of material exploring the nature of time beyond the body. This new vaudeville
continues the work which began at BAC Octoberfest 2003.
co-directed by David Glass and Tom Morris in collaboration with composer
Jonathan Cooper
BETWEEN THE NOTES & NIALL ASHDOWN
Note to Tale
Fri 28 - Sat 29 May · Studio 1
7.30pm
£10.75 · Concs £5.50
Let the five musicians from Between the Notes and actor-comedian Niall
Ashdown pluck up your ears and incite your imagination. Hear the biggest
fish landed on earth, explore the Mexican deserts and desserts with
singing buffet surfers Bob and Jean … or something else entirely.
Note to Tale is an extraordinary collaboration between some of the most
talented improvisers working in the UK. Taking inspiration from audience
suggestions, an array of instruments and voice, stories and music are
created before your very ears. Every show is different but they are
always funny, moving and extremely inventive
OPERA NORTH & LEEDS MET STUDIO THEATRE
Resonance
Saturday 29 May · Main House
8.00pm
£14.75 · Concs £6.50
Opera is a hybrid; a potent and sometimes unstable mixture of sounds,
words, pictures and movement. The opportunity to play with that mix,
represent what living artists are engaged in and respond to new disciplines
afforded by technology is what Resonance is all about. One ticket, one
evening, three remarkable adventures in musical theatre.
FAULTY OPTIC THEATRE OF ANIMATION - Licked
Based on a Victorian cautionary tale, The Cat Mother, Faulty
Optic use digitally and acoustically composed sounds and music, live
voice, specially written verse, cronky puppets and pre-recorded film
to unleash a chilling cycle of events.
FORCED ENTERTAINMENT - Starfucker
Packed with death, danger, jetlag and sex, Starfucker creates
a mischievous imaginary movie in text and soundtrack alone. Forced
Entertainment invite the viewer to imagine a catalogue of Hollywood
stars in a sequence of unlikely, violent or intimate scenarios.
PAUL CLARKE & JOHN BINIAS - The Weather Man
Among his many extraordinary achievements, Robert FitzRoy took on
a sceptical establishment to prove that scientific weather forecasting
was possible. Using spoken word, tenor voice, and string quartet,
this story tells the tale of one of the nineteenth century's most
contradictory characters.
NOTE : A Scratch performance is work at a very early stage of
development. Scratch performances are an opportunity for artists to
explore new ideas in front of an audience with collaborative feedback,
not critical opinion, as their goal.
Box Office:
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boxoffice@bac.org.uk
BAC, Lavender Hill, London, SW11 5TN
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