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Dateline:
16th May, 2005
The Sheffield Pyramid
Sheffield Theatres, in collaboration with Unlimited Theatre, Dead Earnest
and Third Angel are hosting an new audience and arts development initiative.
Funded by Arts Council Yorkshire's Stage Exchange programme, the Pyramid
Project is linked to the Studio Theatre and is designed to deliver a
more interactive experience for audiences and establish a creative environment
for Sheffield Theatres and partner companies to develop new work in.
This four day programme of work by Unlimited, Third Angel and Dead
Earnest is an opportunity for audiences to experience work at the earliest
stages of its development in the transformed cabaret-style Studio.
Wednesday 25 May - 7.45pm
Best Laid Plans - Third Angel
Why do we stay?
Why do we leave?
When we do leave – why then? Why not sooner?
Why does it surprise us when things don't turn out as planned?
When you find yourself in unforeseen circumstances, do you adapt,
or just carry on?
How can I put this down when you're in the way?
Are you going to help me or not?
Best Laid Plans is the start of a new theatre piece by Third
Angel. Two people. Furniture. Sparse conversation. Uncomfortable silences.
pubQuiz - Unlimited Theatre and Tassos Stevens
The man from London is up to ask some rather testing questions. Gather
in the Lyceum Stalls Bar for Round One to fight for the right answers
in teams led by Unlimited plus special guest (to be announced). And
then in Round Two the questioning continues in the theatre until there
is only one winner - however bloody it gets.
pubQuiz is a quiz. It's also a performance. It’s funny,
political and this special edition will be made with just one day’s
rehearsal. Blimey.
Thursday 26 May - 7.45pm
TANGLE - Unlimited Theatre
Teleportation, Top Secret Military Experiments,
Quantum Entanglement & The Wombles.
It is possible to teleport people through time and space. It is possible
for two people to live/speak/behave identically, even though they
are separated by distance. It is possible that in 1981 the US Navy
conducted an experiment that induced invisibility in a member of a
previously unknown, globally indigenious pygmy mammal species - or
“Womble” (codename Project Tomsk).
It is possible that we will show you all of this in the theatre.
It is possible that we might not actually be able to. Welcome to the
show. We hope we can make it.
Friday 27 May - 7.45pm
The Puzzle Women - Dead Earnest Theatre
Between the breaching of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the
East German government, roughly six months elapsed. In that time the
notorious East German secret police (the Stasi) did their best to
destroy the mountains of documents they had collated over the years.
They shredded, tore and burnt around the clock leaving 16,000 brown
sacks of paper shards.
A group were set up to stick the pieces back together. With just
15 members of staff, it was calculated that this process would take
roughly 400 years.
These modern day cryptologists were given the name The Puzzle Women.
Third Angel on Film
Third Angel has been making films for as long as it’s been making
theatre. We’ve made them from little snippets of footage that
were too good to waste but didn’t quite fit into the show and
infrared images from documentation that our editor fancied playing
with. We’ve made video installations and documentaries for TV;
we’ve put film in galleries, in theatres, in supermarkets and
on the Internet. And now we’re putting it in the Studio. Come
and see what only film festival visitors usually get to see of Third
Angel, with a compact but perfectly formed programme of our digital
and celluloid work.
Little Neemo
After the performances we have a very special live music performance
in the Long Bar. Little Neemo blend grubby urban twang with timeless
folk and country stylings and a healthy shot of bitterness. Imagine
tumbleweed blowing down a vomit and rain-slick Mancunian street early
on a Sunday morning. Pretty, isn't it?
Saturday 28 May - 7.45pm
Clipboards - Third Angel
Third Angel have hit the streets, pounded the pavements and hung
about in public thoroughfares all in an attempt to make complete strangers
feel good. We wanted to tell people when they looked great, say hello
if someone was lonely or acknowledge an individual's beauty. We wanted
to communicate with all of those around us.
Discover how rude, dismissive and entertained the mighty general
public really can be when confronted with polite and quite lovely
compliments.
Clipboards is a multi-media work-in-progress with video and
live interactive performance. Let the performers recount, and show
you, how they were treated, who would talk to them, and how often
they were abused and sworn at.
Tonight the people of Sheffield will perform Clipboards.
Tickets cost just £3 for a single evening or £10 for the
full festival: 0114 249 6000.
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