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Dateline: 9th November, 2010
bite11 The Barbican has announced its bite11 (January to July, 2011) season. The season starts with the annual London International Mime Festival. Mathurin Bolze from France returns to the Barbican Theatre with Du Goudron et des Plumes (26th – 29th January), inspired by John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, exploring friendship, cooperation and trust through a combination of thrilling acrobatics and an ingenious set. In the Pit, US performer Geoff Sobelle, last seen as part of bite07 in All Wear Bowlers, returns with Charlotte Ford in Flesh and Blood & Fish and Fowl, winner of a Fringe First Award at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe (19th – 29th January). Toneelgroep Amsterdam returns to the Barbican Theatre with the UK premiere of The Antonioni Project (1st–5th February), an ambitious staging of Michelangelo Antonioni’s groundbreaking 1960s film trilogy L’Avventura, La Notte and L’Eclisse. Robert Lepage will star in and direct the UK premiere of The Blue Dragon in the Barbican Theatre (18th– 26th February, preview on 17th) which sees the return, twenty years later, of one of the characters featured in his 1985 play The Dragons’ Trilogy. The Sapphires by Australia’s Belvoir & Black Swan State Theatre Company is set in Vietnam, 1969. Four aboriginal sisters who collectively form a Supremes cover band catch the eye of a talent scout but the realisation of a lifelong dream tests sibling love to its limits. The production features live music and Motown hits (2nd – 12th March). Peter Brook returns to the Barbican Theatre with the UK premiere and Barbican co-production of A Magic Flute (24th–27th March, preview on 23rd), which continues Bouffes du Nord’s unexpected approach to opera as seen in La Tragédie de Carmen and Impressions de Pelléas. The Chekhov International Festival, Cheek by Jowl's sister company based in Moscow, performs The Tempest in Silk Street Theatre (8th – 6th April, preview on 7th) as part of a UK tour. Deborah Warner directs Sheridan's The School for Scandal (20th May, previews from 11th – 18th June). The play, a co-production with The Holland Festival, receives its world premiere in London before travelling to Amsterdam. This production is Warner’s first show at the Barbican since becoming an Artistic Associate in 2005 following the success of Julius Caesar as part of bite05. Told by an Idiot returns to the Pit with And The Horse You Rode In On: A Sequence of Serious Follies (28th April, preview on 27th – 14th May), co-produced with Drum Theatre Plymouth and co-commissioned by the Barbican and Brighton Festival. A dark comedy of ineptitude, it explores extreme acts of violence and the lengths people will go to for their beliefs. With an inter-connected narrative, it is inspired by sources as eclectic as Gunter Grass, Hitchcock, Bugs Bunny and iconic sitcom Are You Being Served? Ridiculusmus, a regular feature of the bite programme, returns with the European premiere of Total Football (19th May, preview on 18th – 18th June) as part of a UK tour, in which David Woods and Jon Haynes try to create a UK football team for the 2012 games. Lullaby by UK company Duckie will take participation to new heights (24th June – 24th July). The evening starts with the audience changing into their pyjamas and getting into bed in the Pit as songs and stories lull them to sleep, before being woken the next day for breakfast. The last time Royal New Zealand Ballet toured to the UK was in 2004 when its performances earned the company two Olivier Award nominations. The company now returns to perform a triple bill in the Barbican Theatre under the umbrella title From Here to There (14th – 16 July). All three works are new to the UK: A Song in the Dark is choreographed by Andrew Simmons, a former RNZB dancer and a new choreographic talent emerging from New Zealand; Plan to A, a UK premiere, is choreographed by Jorma Elo, resident choreographer of Boston Ballet; and Banderillero, the follow-up by Javier de Frutos to his Olivier Award nominated Milagros, makes its European premiere. Australian contemporary circus Circa return to the Barbican with its newest creation Wunderkammer (19th – 24th July). Barbican Artistic Associates Boy Blue bring BBE: Touch (28th – 30th July), a co-commission by the Barbican, in association with the Theatre Royal Stratford East. The Pit will be transformed into a cabaret setting with fully licensed bar for this production.
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