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Dateline:
18th May, 2003
South - A Response to the Eclipse
Report
The Vayu Naidu Company is the first manifestation of the relaunched
Arts Council Eclipse Report dealing with race and racism within the
theatre and South takes a multiculturally diverse approach to
make compelling storytelling theatre that weaves narrative with live
music and dance. From the West a myth of unspoken love and of the triumph
of art over treachery. From the East a tale of a god & goddess tumbling
across incarnations to seek the fulfilment of human and divine love.
From the North a story of Viking violence. In spite of its darkness,
the human desire to protect the mead of light and wisdom.
South
By Vayu Naidu Company
So many faces, voices unheard, their stories untold…
Vayu Naidu, a remarkable writer and compelling storyteller, has teamed
up with Orphy Robinson, a renowned jazz musician and one of the most
exciting performers of the marimba to have emerged on the international
jazz scene for years, in a remarkable revival of a lost art form.
Vayu Naidu Company's new creation, South, directed by Chris
Banfield, is a visually stunning piece of cross-genre theatre, which
draws on multi-cultural inspiration to make compelling storytelling
theatre that weaves narrative with live music and dance. South will
make its London debut at the Purcell Room, Royal Festival Hall, on May
27th, prior to a National tour.
South is storytelling at its finest, based on traditional myths
and legends, told in a modern context, which delivers a contemporary
vision of our multicultural society in a witty approachable form. Offering
an exploration of how the cardinal directions influence people culturally
and emotionally, South is an unique cross art-form production with the
action portrayed by three dancers blending contemporary and south Indian
(bharata natyam) moves set to lively, original, percussive and computer
generated music.
Storyteller and Artistic Director of the Vayu Naidu Company, dedicated
to new writing for theatre and performance storytelling with new composers,
Vayu Naidu is a distinguished and prolific writer.
Her plays and new work include:
- There Comes a Karma - directed by Vanessa Whitburn - BBC
Radio 4 Drama short listed for the Richard Imison Award for best new
writing for Radio;
- Playboy of the Asian World - directed by Nona Shepphard and
commissioned and produced by Leicester Haymarket Theatre;
- Nine Nights - directed by Chris Banfield and commissioned
and produced by Leicester Haymarket Theatre;
- When - directed by Vanessa Whitburn -BBC Radio 4 Drama;
- Future Perfect (2000), Storytelling performance - director/composer
by Judith Weir which toured nationally as part of the Contemporary
Music Network, and in 2002 did an All-India British council Tour in
collaboration with BCMG (Birmingham Contemporary Music Group);
- When Shakespeare Met Kali directed by Nona Shepphard as part
of the Soho Theatre Shorts.
Her new commission by BBC Radio 4, Guess who's coming to Christmas?
directed by Vanessa Whitburn will be broadcast in 2003.
Jamaican born Orphy Robinson is renowned as a brilliant Jazz musician/composer
combining jazz, contemporary classical, African, funk and improvising
music. He has composed scores for film, television and commercials and
later this year he is undertaking a commission for the Royal Opera House.
Orphy, a past winner of a British Jazz Awards 'Best Newcomer' also
won subsequent awards for 'Best Miscellaneous Instrumentalist' at the
BBC Jazz Awards. He is to be heard playing on award winning albums by
Courtney Pine, Andy Sheppard, Jazz Warriors, Jazz Jamaica, Shivanova
and has consistently been nominated during his career for many such
awards.
TOUR DATES SUMMER 2003
MAY
- 27th - Purcell Room, Royal Festival Hall, London
- 29th - The Mill Studio, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford
- 30th - The Hawth Studio, Crawley
- 31st - Trinity Theatre & Arts Centre, Tunbridge Wells
JUNE
- 2nd - Quays Theatre, The Lowry, Manchester
- 7th - Croydon Clocktower
- 14th - Watermans Arts Centre, Brentford
- 17th-21st - The Door, Birmingham Repertory Theatre
- 24th - The Town Hall, Grassington Festival, Yorkshire
JULY
- 2nd - Phoenix Arts, Leicester
- 4th - Ludlow Assembly Rooms
- 5th - Queens Hall, Hexham
- 9th-10th - Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, London
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