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Dateline:
26th August, 2007
The Arches Brick Award
The Arches Brick Award, offering £1k to emergent performance
companies / artists to re-stage their Edinburgh Fringe piece at the
Arches Theatre early the following year, is a new award, introduced
this year. Alongside the grant, non-financial support, in terms of marketing
and technical assistance, rehearsal space and a fully equipped theatre
space is also provided. Candidates must be experimental and risk-taking,
with a bold approach to the exploration of new theatrical languages.
The winners of the 2007 awards are:
1927 for Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
London-based emergent company 1927 combine the art of story-telling
with careful wit, live music, animation and film in an exciting and
unique way. In Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, 1927 take
the audience on a journey through many and varied landscapes; from
the weird underbelly of the suburbs, to the wild woods and the shipwrecked
seas. Presented as a collection of vignettes, we witness the characters'
darkly comic, inexorable decent into madness, death and apocalypse
- leaving the audience shocked, amused and more than a little bit
unnerved.
Analogue for Mile End
A collective of theatre-makers committed to making explosive visual
theatre, Analogue bring together artists from a variety of different
disciplines; puppeteers, playwrights and computer-game developers
come together to fully explore the potential of ensemble-based practice.
Mile End is inspired by the devastating true story of the murder
of Christophe Duclos, who was pushed in front of a train in 2002 by
Stephen Soans-Wade, a man with a history of mental illness. The show
fuses visual and physical performance to tell Michael's story countered
with the premonitions of Alex, who struggles to prevent the tragic
outcome.
The Arches Theatre is the leading Scottish provider for support to
emergent artists and performance practitioners. It currently runs the
annual Arches Award scheme for new stage directors (in collaboration
with National Theatre of Scotland and Traverse Theatre), the Artist
in Residence and Company in Residence programmes and the Arches LIVE!
annual festival of new work, amongst other mentoring schemes and professional
development projects.
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