PUG - a New Newcastle Club Night

Starting on Friday 15 July, Newcastle’s Alphabetti Theatre is to host PUG, a quarterly theatre club night with a difference.

Organised by Rosa Postlethwaite and Hannah Walker, two artists who devise work that straddles theatre and live art, PUG is a “night of addictive performances for withered attention spans.”

The first event includes:

• re(a/t)ch
  by Charlie Dearnley

  re(a/t)ch explores ritual ceremonies of offering and acceptance as Charlie Dearnley tries to find and reflect on spiritual experiences by imbuing actions, tasks and events with otherworldly importance. Through reflecting on a christian upbringing he attempts to make some sense of his own constantly shifting belief system, and then express that through a combination of spoken word and dance.

• You Over There
  by Luca Rutherford

  Punk stuff. Fun stuff. Silliness.

  Something will happen. No one will get richer and no-one will get poorer.

  You Over There looks at what happens when we make stuff and do stuff in a way we are not supposed to. I want to invite you to be a punk with me. Shout loudly, dance stupidly, stay still and whisper if you want to, but stand in the garage with me and give a bit of you for a piece of me.

• Raising the Skirt: A Talk
  by Nicola Hunter and Dawn Felicia Knox

  Nicola Canavan created Raising the Skirt from a “place of extensive research into the historical links between the vulva and power as well as from a deeply personal place of overcoming judgement that was placed on her own body.”