Under the new artistic directorship of Matt Ball, the 2007 Sprint Festival,
a platform for innovative emerging companies and a celebration of all
physical, visual and unusual theatre, will be the biggest ever. Sprint
2007 boasts thirteen companies, eight world premieres, one Total Theatre
Award winner, one twice-Total Theatre Award nominee, a Manchester Evening
News Best Fringe Performer and a production selected to be part of the
British Council Showcase in Edinburgh 2007.
Sprint 2007 takes place at Camden People’s Theatre, 58-60 Hampstead
Road, London NW1 2PY. We have a special ticket offer for BTG readers:
take a look at the end of the programme listing for details.
1 – 3 June at 8pm
And Even My Goldfish
Chotto Ookii
Chotto Ookii present their Total Theatre Award winning show. A surreal
production that delves into the mind of a man on a neurotic rampage
with the use of clowning, choreography and visual spectacle.
4 – 6 June at 8pm
The Alice Project
Rafifi Theatre
Developed from a BAC scratch night, Rafifi Theatre premiere a show
that promises to challenge any nostalgia for Carroll’s tale.
The Alice Project will take you down the rabbit hole and side step
through the mirror into a world of jazz bars and music boxes, childhood
memories and love stories, where dreams and reality merge and desires
and nightmares collide.
7 – 9 June at 8pm
Funeral Games
Unpacked
Two brothers reunite to bury the dead and dig up the living. The lights
are going out and the water's coming in. A tale of tea stains, stiffs
and brotherly love. Brighton-based Unpacked present their new production
developed on the Nightingale Theatre’s Ladder of Development,
which fuses physical theatre, new writing, object animation and puppetry.
10 – 12 June at 8pm
Some Mistakes and Anticlimaxes
Sleepwalk Collective
“We attempted to re-draw the world from scratch. And it was like
the words and things all got mixed up. It was like we were broken.”
Sleepwalk Collective present their brand new production, first shown
as a work in-progress at the White Bear Theatre. Some Mistakes
and Anticlimaxes continues their focus on anti-performance, attempted
performance and the balance between reality and pretending.
13 - 14 June at 8pm
The Little Girl who was too fond of Matches
Impetuous Kinship
Impetuous Kinship present their critically acclaimed production, first
seen at Edinburgh 2006 as part of the East to Edinburgh programme.
The Little Girl who was too fond of Matches is a physical theatre
adaptation of the award winning French-Canadian novel of the same
name, which follows Alice on her journey of a lifetime.
15 – 16 June at 8pm
A Kiss From The Last Grey Squirrel in the Broken-Down Kindom
Rough Memory
Imigration, immigration, colonisation, Red versus Grey, obesity, hoarding,
genocide and fur…Rough Memory bring singing, dancing and the
sharpening of claws to this production, where they re-imagine fear,
loss and belonging in a multi-cultural age of respect and tolerance.
17 – 19 June at 8pm
Time to GO (dot)
Skinworks Independent Company
Time to GO (dot) investigates through movement and voice the
conflict between individual ambition and conforming to a collectivity.
Five absurd characters are encapsulated in a suspended atmosphere
where life-changing actions are distracted through social dynamics.
20 – 21 June at 8pm
Double Negative
Chopped Logic
Following up the sell-out performances of The Runaround (Sprint
06) and the success of Paramour at Edinburgh 2006, Chopped
Logic are creating a brand new performance. Double Negative
is a story of suspicion, secrets and the possibility of escape, told
through the bold and beautiful interweaving of text and movement.
22 – 23 June at 7.30pm
24/7/52
Bill Aitchison
Bill Aitchison previews his brand new solo show before taking it to
the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the British Council Showcase 2007.
24/7/52 is a task-based, non-linear performance about time:
how we experience it and how we tell it. Each production is unique
in that the task cycles cued onstage never precisely match that of
any other performance.
23 June at 9pm
Quartet (for Anna Akhmatova)
Augusto Corrieri
Corrieri’s solo performance explores the idea that theatre is
not what takes place onstage but is what happens in the minds of spectators.
Based on the incident that took place at La Scala opera house in 1913,
Quartet is never presented as a whole, the audience is invited to
connect each part, slowly imagining a whole performance that may or
may not exist.
24 – 25 June at 8pm
The Dark Side
Tickle Theatre
Tickle return with their unique mixture of inventiveness and comic
anarchy as they present their theatrical translation of a song about
death. Founded in 2004 they work as a collective to create accessible
theatre that celebrates our ability to play and imagine.
26-28 June at 8pm
Bed
Knavish Speech
Knavish Speech premiere their brand new production, fillling the Camden
People’s Theatre with beds as they explore the bed as the symbol
of our life cycle. The beds constitute both the scenography and audience
seating, deliberately blurring the boundaries between spectator and
performer.
29 June – 1 July at 8pm
The Krapp of My Life: Towards a Poor Imitation of Samuel Beckett
Corpus Soma
Corpus Soma devise mythologies for the modern world. The Krapp
of My Life: Towards a Poor Imitation of Sammuel Beckett investigates
the internet culture pandemic and uses found texts including spam,
junk mail and blogs for inspiration.
1st July at 9.15pm
The Long Walk To The Performance
Search Party
Join Search Party as they re-tell and re-enact stories of hope and
optimism, of tragedy and regret. Search Party are determined to remain
optimistic but as the tragedies accumulate and the failures escalate,
it becomes a test of optimistic endurance.
Ticket prices vary from £5 to £18 but the British Theatre
Guide is offering an EXCLUSIVE 25% off tickets booked for any production
in the festival if booked before 25 May.
