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SEA/WOMAN 2010-
This performance takes the Serbian word for rehearsals ‘proba’ meaning ‘to test’ or ‘taste’ and the French ‘répétition’ meaning ‘to repeat’ quite literally before your eyes, inviting the spectator to witness a normally private process: the fractured and spiralling dive into conscious and unconscious association as the actor prepares her role. As she tests and repeats the Ibsen text, slipping between her real self and the imaginary she is struggling to represent, she finds both echoes and dissonance within her own life, a relationship with the past and insight into what it might mean ‘to act’. The collaboration is a convergence of different histories in theatrical research. Our project began as an exploration of age and memory (personal and cultural) and about what to perform – live – how and perhaps why, today. During its development, inspired by Ibsen’s domestic tragedy, our work, inevitably, became haunted by real tragedies of geopolitical disaster and conflict.
”the water is sick” (Ibsen)… Every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die from starvation and toxicity, choking on a diet of human trash fed to them by their mothers who cannot access their natural food supply from the sea’s surface. Sea/Woman has been developed as part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project, ‘Beyond the Linear Narrative: Fractured Narratives in Writing and Performance in the Postcolonial Era’, undertaken by the Goldsmiths, University of London, Pinter Centre for Performance and Creative Writing. Sea/Woman is performing in the UK and in residency in Beirut, Lebanon sponsored by the British Council, in January 2011. The project continues performing in the UK and internationally from Autumn 2011. For information contact Paula Van Hagen
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SICK OF LOVE 2009
So it is a lover who speaks and says: ……..
what echoes in me is what I learn with my body. SICK OF LOVE explores erotic love and the evocative power of the material via live animation of objects, text and flesh, extending Furse’s ongoing research into the body-in-performance. SICK OF LOVE is performed with the full presence of the animators in view. Sat around a huge bed, the audience become intimately close to the action, choosing their own ‘close-ups’. The work-in-progress is the first Etude on presence to come from the Laboratory, this one specifically exploring how the performer can channel the spectator’s attention to materiality and to the unfolding actions and images created. The performer is, like the puppeteer, saying ‘look at this’ not ‘look at me’, a way of playing that requires detailed focus and highly controlled physicality. SICK OF LOVE launches the Athletes Laboratory – an ongoing research laboratory based in the Pinter Centre for Performance and Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, working with a group of graduates from the MA in Performance Making that Anna Furse directs. Direction/Scenography - Anna Furse
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ANNA FURSE Athletes of the Heart (UK)
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Photo: Chris Jordan Message From the Gyre 2009
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This international company worked in a private ‘cyber studio’ for 18 months. Confessions of darkest dreams and desires then gave rise to a haunting work that pulsates with passionate physicality, bittersweet irony, 1000 feather pillows, a drag king and a man who cries at too much beauty. DON JUAN.WHO? is about men and women and why we still fight. It’s about seduction, love, sex, power, and the Man who never stays for breakfast. With over sixty million three hundred thousand web hits in his name, how come Don Juan still grips us?
directed by Anna Furse
with Damjana Černe, Željko Hrs, Mare Mlačnik, Tanya Myers, Matej Recer, Giovanna Rogante, Marie-Gabrielle Rotie
A poetic, complex, simple, intelligently directed performance, bounding in eroticism and desire… Don Juan. Who? is a unique piece.
Marjana Ravnjak TV SLOVENIA
Complex, complicated, and totally simple at the same time…very sincere, full of passion and love...fascinating….More performances of this kind!
Amelia Kraigher VECER, Slovenia
An unusual, provocative performance that both avoids and employs cliches.
Gregor Butala DNEVNIK, Slovenia
The performance is even more provocative when it ventures into existential, erotic, sexual extremes….a kind of melancholic aura..a kind of transcendental dimension..reaches beyond the known, the verified and the expected.
Blaz Lukan DELO, Slovenia
Following sell-out performances at Mladinsko Theatre, Ljubljana and previews at the Shunt Vaults, the production is at Riverside Studios for 4 performances only as part of FeEast Festival 2008.
Booking information: www.riversidestudios.co.uk
www.feeast.com
www.mladinsko.com
You can blog the project's themes and provocations on:
www.mladinsko.blogspot.com
This show contains nudity and strong language. Not suitable for under 14 year olds
Studio 2
FRIDAY 21 – SUNDAY 23RD NOVEMBER
Friday 21st 8pm / Saturday 22nd 4pm & 8pm / Sunday 23rd 6pm
Ticket prices £16 / £13 concs / £10 full time students/ £9 groups of 10+
Post Show Talk: Saturday 22nd November
EDUCATION/TRAINING
Professional workshop Riverside Studios Sunday 23rd November 1 – 4pm bookings: anna.athletes@googlemail.com
There is also an opportunity to experiment in the Cyber Studio in a creative/critical writing project. Contact Anna Furse if interested at the above.
INTERVIEW with ANNA FURSE on DON JUAN. WHO?
(new page opens to Theatreland TV website)
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THE PEACH CHILD 2001
Written and directed with financial support from an Arts Council Award for the Little Angel Theatre, Japan Festival 2000/National Children's Theatre Festival UK 2000. Multi media puppetry show for children based on the ancient infertility folk tale Momotaro.
In 2007/8, this play has been selected by the National Theatre for its
Connections Programme.
See www.ntconnections.org.uk.