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Upstairs at the Gatehouse, Camden People’s Theatre, The New Diorama

26-31 October 2010

A collaboration with with Creative Producers’ Collective, Camden Council and a consortium of Camden theatres.

CPT 26 – 31 October

Neck of the Woods American Express /The Crack
Oyster Eyes His Eyes were like Oysters

Regina Fichner Social Porn

Petar Miloshevski Hope

On the VERGE Duetiquette
Big Nonsense THIS IS MINE

The Stokey Spinners Ghostly Tales for Halloween
Manuel Lavadera Frankenstein

New Diorama Theatre 2 – 7 November

Tormented Casserole Let Him Have It

Fifth Word Exposure

Tearaway Project A remedy

Neck of the Woods American Express

Neck of the Woods You & Me

TWW Productions Making Allowances

Get Over It Romeo & Juliet

Rational Madness Text

Crucial Theatre Doggerland

SHAM Thin Ice

Juliane von Sivers Junk

Upstairs at the Gatehouse 19 – 21 November

ScenePool Productions Little Deaths

Filskit Theatre Company Snow White

Smoking Apples Theatre Company Seemingly Invisible

Metatesta Dance Company Mr Good-Taste’s Widows

+ The Little Difference words make/Song of Sybil

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The New Diorama London

25 – 30 May 2010

Filskit Theatre Company The Living Canvas

Big Odd A Broken Part

Secret Centre Theatre Unrelated

Sussurus Bloody Women

Robert Taylor I am Woof

Victoria Kember Where Have All the Ladies Gone

The Silky Pair Shelved

The Lab Theatre Collective Snatching Threads

Schauplatz Theatre Co Known Unto God

AlKamie (No) Living Room

Festival Open Debate Programme:

Counting the Cost : risk and rewards in today’s theatre.

Supported by ESRC, Institute for Small Business and Enterprise, Performance Initiative, Camden Council and Brunel University Business School

Speakers

Nick Giles Director Corn Exchange and Newbury Arts

Kerry Irvine ScenePool

Chris Mellor Senior Art Development Office Camden Council

Ria Parry Leverhulme Director in Residence National Theatre Studio

Chair

Barry Edwards ScenePool

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Camden People’s Theatre London

24 – 29 November 2009

Secret Centre Theatre Unrelated

Robert Taylor I am Woof

The Silky Pair The Reunion

Francesca Miller-Slater Let Me Take You By the Hand

Nic Chalmers My Face and the Wall

Alan Stanley Taylor Love is Chemical Reaction

Marcus Orlandi Never Better

ScenePool Productions The Loser

From the Box One Day Like This

Big Odd A Broken Part

Maude Laflamme in association with

London Playwrights’ Collective To Death

ScenePool Productions After Care

We Were Here Re-Imagining the Mother

The Typewriters The Golden Record

Orbita The Stars Below Us

Wide Eyes Theatre Collective We Stand in a Crowd

Thomas John Bacon Psychosis

Theatre Corsair The Terror of Happiness

Sussurus in association with

ScenePool Productions Bloody Women

Filskit Theatre Company The Living Canvas

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Camden People’s Theatre London

5 – 10 May 2009

Digame The Pleasure Project: Ariadne

Monica Battaglia Crossing Chaos

PartSuspended Un-Re Strict-ed
Revolving Doors Theatre he Trial of Medea

Emer O Connor Bloody Women
Jeremis Iron Arts Collective The Failure Project

Needless Allies Double Exposure
ScenePool Productions Up Against

Tom Wainwright presents Pedestrian

Teatre a Quatre Mans Not to be reproduced

Malcolm Whittaker The Red Room

Drs and Nurses Natural Selection

Lumenis Theatre Company Clearance

Silversmith (In)Formalities
Impetuous Kinship three zero

Pit Theatre A Stroke of Genuis

Restless Company Monstrous Love
Aaron Paterson Havisham

Elizabeth Macias-Gutierrez A silent case of the female body

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Camden People’s Theatre

3 – 8 February 2009

Freathy Tippett Licence My Roving Hands

Silversmith Dance Theatre (In)Formalities
Lindsey Price presents Atlas

The Honourable Society of Faster Craftwomen Holiday

JointPredicament That’s how the light gets in

Jonathan Brown Free Beer
Aaron Paterson Havisham

Construct Theatre Lost/Found?

Tom Marshman Soldier Sings the Blues

Richard Staplehurst Uber
Serenity Theatre Company The Space Between

Callow The Beige Adventures af Ay and Bee:1

Lazuras Theatre Co The Duchess of Malfi

Allan Stanley Taylor Love Is A Number
Plain Breed Conceptual Liasons

Secret Centre Theatre The Photojournalist.

Restless Company Human Alchemy

The Stealth Fantasmic The Ballad of the Skull Fairy
Orbita At Least it’s Not The End Of The World

Pit Theatre Comings and Goings

Leap de Lune The Tale of the Half Moons

Thomas John Bacon Psychosis
Robert Taylor presents I am Woof

Brushwood Theatre Productions T.G.I Friday

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Camden Peoples’ Theatre London

25 – 30 November 2008

Revolving Doors Theatre The Wigmaker’s Apprentice

Ova Play Bag Fear

The Ugly Tree If My Heart Were a Camera

Alessandra Fel Upside-Down

Syndromus Still

Mary’s Room Wild Woods

White Knight Theatre Co Late Bus

Lazarus Theatre Co Nine

Manje Theatre Three Nights

Lou Cox

in association with Finnybone Pieces of Me

2325 Theatre Little Fish

ScenePool Productions Toasted

Anthropoid Theatre That in There

Chloe Dechery After/Before

Chameleon’s Dish The Photojournalist

Grey Light Productions Lovepsoons

Lindssey Price /

Francesca Millican-Slater Maurice + Jim

Maggie Irving BaRoneSS Elsa MeetS MaGGie The CLOWn

Paradox Productions A Comical Nightmare

Side Pony Productions Devil’s Gulch: A Dastardly Deed

Interventure Echo Variable Bianca

Performance Klub Fiskulturnik Mass Exercise with Nadia and Olga Sokolski

Big Odd The Missing Parts

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Battersea Arts Centre London

11 – 14 June 2008

In association with Performance Initiative to give theatre graduates from participating University Theatre Departments an opportunity to platform their work professionally. A collection of graduate performances from

York St John University

Plymouth University

Brunel University

University of Chichester

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Camden People’s Theatre, London

11 – 16 March 2008

Snave The Speed of Dating

Seymour Cooper Me & You

Duguid Dance Rose Tinted Petals

Overdramatic Theatre Useful Knowledge to Know

Channel Swimmer Impermanence: Using the Under Cling Hand Technique

Scrunchy Heart Theatre Co Little Dagger

CosmoTheatre Other Kind

lamb|da Come On Over

Eva Weaver The Bread of Those Years

Play Possum Ruling the Board

Shambolic Theatre An Imaginative Woman

Root Experience The Onion Project

Carla Esperanza Tommasini The Tears of Eros

Francesca Millican-Slater Those Little Words

Taylan Halici floodlondon

Eirini Kartsaki Cock tales and ballards

The Dendrites Company Atopos

Concrete Cow Small Change

Karl’s Imposter The Extra Ordinary Mugging of Mr Winterbottom

Kettle of Fish Post-Show

Plastic Spoon My Ivory Tower

Lets go Crippling Pea-Party

Sarah Liisa Wilkinson Hung Up

Theatre Unknown Shadows

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Camden Peoples’ Theatre London

January 22 – 27 2008

Full Tilt Theatre Company Complex-Electra/Oedipus

No Nonsense Theatre Romeo and Juliet

Cosmo Theatre The Woman with the Camera

Finger in the Pie Finger in the pie

Adi Lerer OPEN

Aya Nakamura Urashimo Taro

Slowly I Turn I’m your late Night evening

Room for Pudding I Met This Girl

Mollie McClelland Multiple

Preface Morn Beauty in Stone

Rachel Mars 27 Questions I will never ask my grandmother

Nat Tarrab Motherfucker

Hourglass Hopper’s Women

Theatre Lab The Monopoly Game

Levantes Dance Theatre Gin and Satsumas

Fingers When you cry in space your tears go everywhere

Lost Spectacles Lost in the Wind

HamFisted Waste of Time

Michaela Stonisova Cabaret Secrets

Steffi Sachsenmaier Im-pressions of an-other

Fragmented Ego Theatre Co MILF

Lazarus Theatre Co Electra

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Camden People’s Theatre, London

3 – 8 July 2007

Novarasa The Poem Unwritten

Vertical Exchange Performance Group Siren Song

Jumbled Oh, My Green Soap Box

Temple Potato Skins

Desideratum Phaedra by Yannis Ritsos

First Theatre Onwards, Outwards

Cellar B Fewer Emergencies by Martin Crimp

SKIPtheatre Fill Up_Full_Stop

Drunken Chorus Arts Collective to be seen:a wonderful horse

Small Change Theatre Quicksleeve’s Pledge

Platform End Days

Silversmith Dance Company After They Left

eVolve 1

30 May – 2 June 2006

In association with Performance Initiative to give theatre graduates from participating University Theatre Departments an opportunity to platform their work professionally.

Wednesday 30 May: University of Plymouth

Thursday 31 May: De Montfort University

Friday 1 June: Bath Spa University

Saturday 2 June: Brunel University

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CPT Camden Peoples’ Theatre London

January 23 – 28 2007

Theatre Lab The Melancholy Death

Precarious Dance Druthers (If I Had My)

Les Landscapes Kirati

Tickle Theatre The Dark Side

Fat Head Theatre Blue

Point of Departure Skolka

Freefall Game for 4 and Double Bass

Skin Reach Each Starry Night

Organic Theatre Sheepskin

Hi-Veld Theatre Co The Trouble

Shaky Isles Kiwi Slices

L’Homme Silencieux Scenes of a Massacre

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TheatreTechnis London

11-16 July 2006

Optik shiver

Zephyr in Zanussi excerpts and inserts

Not Just a Hat Stand elastic belt

three-fortyone dances lights far out north

Levantes Dance Theatre Inside old shoes revisited

Milk Bottle Fantasy terrorist league

Prometheus run Wrapped bodies

ProActive Productions The bald prima donna by Eugene Ionesco

l’homme silencieux Fluvi/ echarcissus/ Goose study

AHK Productions Sweet or dry?

Festival Conference Event

What’s next? Signposting routes for the theatre making graduate.

Thursday 13 July

In collaboration with project/arts P.I network presents this research forum that examines programmes and initiatives that assist/develop/support theatre graduates.

Reveal

Arts Depot London

6 – 8 April 2006

cie Nathalie Béasse Landscape

Publick Transport 20,000 Leagues Under The Office

theatre trash typO

GroundWork 2

Hoxton Hall London

21 – 26 February 2006

Solar Salt Do I know everything I need to know about this moment?

Les Landscapes Domestic Acrobatics

Ed Stephenson Productions The Charnwood Sisters

Liquid Forestory

GroundWork 1

Theatre Technis London

14 – 24 September 2005

Hyeon-Jeong Goh Company
The Winter Ensemble
tik tak BOOM
Theatre Trash
Treehouse Theatre Company
Why’rd
Red Motel
Inform Theatre

Festival Events

Debate: ‘Performance research and the theatre industry’

An open forum to discuss what role research plays in the wider public domain, and in particular what potential it has for the future health and development of professional theatre practice.

Working Session

A day-long event that provides you with a facilitator and a studio space, producing a working environment where you can explore your creative ideas, form new collaborations and explore opportunities.

About Us

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We work with theatre makers of all kinds – directors, companies, writers, performers – and at any stage of their practice, from early career to established artist.

Look out for calls with details of performance and project opportunities.

ScenePool directors are Barry Edwards and Kerry Irvine

Aftercare

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After Care

by Steve Lambert

Premiere performance.

Produced by ScenePool.

Camden Peoples’ Theatre London 2009

Toasted

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Information Coming soon

Up Against

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A new play by Mark Konik

Will and Brodie fell in love and then something fell apart.

A journey of love between a man and a woman, played out in three scenes. An ordinary story with extraordinary emotions; lust,rejection, desire, hate.

Up Against is a play not so much about being in love rather what it is to fall out of love and live with what remains.

A human story, told with humour, compassion and reflection, a story that will find an echo in all of us.

Will: Seth Sinclair
Brodie: Cassie Laver
Directed by Barry Edwards
Written by Mark Konik -
Mark Konik is an award winning writer from Newcastle, Australia, currently residing in London. He has written plays for both adults and children, which have been produced and published in Australia, New Zealand and the UK.

This play has been commissioned and developed by ScenePool as part of our new writing initiative.

Please note use of strong language in this play

Photograph: by Adrian Betts

The Loser

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A new play by Kim Wiltshire

Furniture gone…Fuck!!
House taken…Fuck!!
Girlfriend gone…Fuck!!
£500 in pocket…Result!

Take a step into the world of Tom, The Loser, a man who lives for the moment, stuck at the bottom of the heap and looking to be going nowhere. Where money means everything and the pub is the only place to be. This new play by Kim Wiltshire shows how a few lucky breaks can make you everything or nothing.

Tom: Simon Pennicott
Mark: John Last
Shona:Maria Gray
Directed by James Puttock

Kim Wiltshire
Kim is a writer, community artist, lecturer and PhD student who lives in Manchester with her husband, CB. After several years working in theatre and TV, she decided to do an MA in Creative Writing at the Writing School at MMU, which she gained in 2003, going on almost immediately to work (part time) on her PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing, a hybrid study that uses original writing and academic theory to explore contemporary masculinity through the persona of the Loser (http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/writersgallery/content/Kim_Wiltshire.html). In 2007/8 she was mentored by Charlotte Keatley through North West Playwrights to write her first full length play, ‘Joy with Child’, which has had two showcases in Manchester, and is currently working on her second full length play. She has had several short stories published, most recently ‘The Rose Seller’ in Migration Stories. She has worked on many community projects since 2003, mostly through Lime Arts and Health (www.limeart.org), and is currently joint lead artist on a Cystic Fibrosis project funded by Children in Need. She is part time Creative Writing lecturer at MMU and an Associate Lecturer for the Open University.

Living Canvas

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Filskit Theatre invites you to join them on a journey into the private world of four characters. Fleeting images appear and disappear offering a glimpse of true identity in a world of social masks. A feather takes centre stage, tempting and taunting the individuals to reveal something about themselves as it floats on by…
The Living Canvas follows a multi-stranded, non-linear journey through the fragments and episodes that build the identities of four individuals. In this piece the company combines physical theatre, original songs and the innovative use of pocket projectors in order to develop a unique style of visual storytelling. “The Living Canvas Project” forms part of the company’s larger investigation into the interaction between the live performer and recorded image.

“They used a technique I have never seen before… pocket projection… onto walls, people and backing sheets. This innovative technique sets this company apart from so many others out there.”

Skye Crawford, London Fringe Review, 2009

Little Deaths

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A new play by Steve Lambert

Director: Barry Edwards

Alma Theatre Bristol and Upstairs at the Gatehouse London 2010

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‘When I get home, I’ll undress, look at myself in the mirror, it’ll be like it never happened.’

Sam has had a life-changing experience and now she wants more. Paul is not so sure.

The secret lives of a man and a woman meet in a sexually charged encounter that pushes both of them to their limits.

Paul: Samuel Webster
Sam: Cassie Laver
Directed by Barry Edwards
Written by Steve Lambert
Produced by ScenePool

About the writerSteve has had a number of short and full-length plays performed, mainly in Bath and Bristol. In 2009, they have included Max Theatre Company’s production of ‘Welcome’, ‘Sleep With Me’ and ‘Happy Happy Happy’ at the Trinity Centre, Bristol, and Theatre West’s production of ‘Showing

the Monster’ at the Alma Tavern, Bristol. Set in 1968 just after the abolition of stage censorship, the latter earned a five-star rating in Venue magazine, which described it as “brilliant”. Steve, who worked for 30 years in the newspaper industry, is a member of the Head and Tales story-telling group in Bristol.

I Am Woof

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Robert Taylor presents I am Woof

An exploration of the extreme emotions attached to war, and the difficulty of articulating them. The play is based on verbatim text taken from three interviews with soldiers at different points in their service, and documents how these men react to the realisation of both going to Afghanistan and reintegration into the everyday upon their return.

Bloody Women

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Susurrus in collaboration with ScenePool

”Imagine a time and land where women ruled supreme.
Everything was as it should have been.
Everything was as it had been.
Before the rivers filled with blood.
Nobody knows what’s true but we have the stories.”

A story about women of ancient myth. They’re fighters, leaders and lovers and everything is as it should be, until the pup arrives. Bloody Women is a one-woman show populated by sexually depraved goddesses and one spectacular bull.

As Susurrus I want to re-explore storytelling, without set or props or spectacle, just a voice, some characters and an audience’s imagination creates the simplest and most magical theatre.

Emer O Connor trained at ALRA and besides TV and theatre credits has a special interest in devised storytelling; her devised show with Jo Hammett Looking Forward to Friday (based on office jobs, line dancing and fairy tales)was performed guerilla-style in various offices and went to Coventry’s Pilot Festival in 2004. 2008 was spent creating Bridge of Leaps with Maggie Grace and Claire Mallet, a mix of traditional storytelling with music and physical theatre (premiered at The Space’s Enterprise 08 Festival). Last year Emer also collaborated with performer Melissa D’Arcy and writer Debbie Kent creating Wild Woods (shown at the ScenePool Festival in Camden People’s Theatre) which explored the escape routes of women trapped by circumstance and invited the audience to come with them on a journey through the primeval forest of the imagination.