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TOUCH≈ the handbook
WHERE: @ The Alhambra, Morecambe, North West EnglandWHEN: Friday August 13 to Sunday August 22 (not Saturdays 14 & 21) 2021Curated by the Other National Theatre Contact festival director Nick Awde – +44 (0)7961 154590 / nick@deserthearts.com Please note that some of the notes below refer to the original national/international pre-Covid concept (keeping in touch…
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Consignia’s Panopticon – Phil Jarvis & Nathan Willcock
THE X REPORT HOME ‘Avant-hard’: conversations from a book in the pipeline about real avant-garde performance in the UK today Nick Awde | THE X REPORT In late 2017 or early 2018, in a pub in Stoke Newington, North London, two hours before brutalist comedians Nathan Willcock and Phil Jarvis of Consignia are to perform…
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Trojana: Web Chronicles
THE X REPORT HOME Produced by Defiant Reality: Theatre for Change & LACRA: Laboratorio de creación en artes, Colombia/France Voila! Europe Festival, London | November 12-21, 2020 Nick Awde | THE X REPORT Trojana is very much an ongoing process, a ‘live art documentary’ where the research of Maud Madlyn and Andrés Montes Zuluaga into…
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Farewell Concert
THE X REPORT HOME Produced by k2 Theater & supported by the Hungarian Cultural Centre in London, Hungary Voila! Europe Festival, London | November 9-22, 2020 Nick Awde | THE X REPORT A butler greets a string of upper-class guests – if he notices they’re in orange hazmat suits he doesn’t show it since even…
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Bingo!
THE X REPORT HOME Produced by the Karavan Ensemble & Silvia MercurialiItaly / Portugal / UK, 90mins Voila! Europe Festival, London | November 19-21, 2020 Nick Awde | THE X REPORT You can’t go wrong with bingo, and this remote extravaganza from Yael Karavan and Silvia Mercuriali proves it. Piling on the magical allure of the numbers,…
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Naked
THE X REPORT HOME Produced by NAKEDpresents & Swans Events, Poland / UK / Ukraine, 45mins Voila! Europe Festival, London | November 19-22, 2020 Nick Awde | THE X REPORT As wash of cellos and choirs ebbs and subsides, the spotlight comes up on a clingfilm chrysalis. The figures inside writhe and grunt as they…
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Telephone
THE X REPORT HOME Produced by Coney, UK, November 12-17, 90mins Voila! Europe Festival, London | November 12-17, 2020 Nick Awde | THE X REPORT It’s easy to forget how phones have changed in technology and form with radical frequency, and yet the way they connect and impact our lives has remained unaltered. And, part…
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Don’t Leave Me This Way
THE X REPORT HOME Produced and presented by Zoo Indigo, Germany / Hungary / Ireland / UK, 60mins Voila! Europe Festival, London | November 20-21, 2020 Nick Awde | THE X REPORT Don’t Leave Me This Way sees Rosie Garton and Ildiko Ripple meld Eurovision and gig theatre into a search for their roots across…
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right left with heels
THE X REPORT HOME Produced by STIGMAcollective, Lithuania / Poland / UK, 60min Voila! Europe Festival, London | November 13-22, 2020 Nick Awde | THE X REPORT I can see this absurdist double act presenting something of a Marmite choice for theatregoers. After all, a play starring the last pair of shoes worn by Magda…
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Alice in Wonderland
THE X REPORT HOME Produced by Asterions Hus, Denmark / UK, 45mins Voila! Europe Festival, London | November 9-22, 2020 Nick Awde | THE X REPORT Fearlessly billed as “a tribute to unreason, fantasy and anarchy”, Asterions Hus’ Alice in Wonderland is indeed fearless stuff that seamlessly fuses performer, props, set, costume – and the audience…