This month we will travel to Brescia, Italy, to present Commitment Phobe at Wonderland Festival. Very happy to be (briefly) on the road again with this show.
The performance is:
Saturday 29th November, 21:00
Teatro IDRA
Tickets: wonderlandfestival.it
Send your Italian friends our way!
My latest work RUNNER is back this autumn and winter with some touring in the UK, Netherlands, and Belgium. Dates and venues are:
Saturday 25th October, Transform Festival, Leeds, UK, transformfestival.org
Wednesday 29th October – Saturday 1st November, Frascati, Amsterdam, NL, frascatitheatre.nl
Wednesday 3rd & Thursday 4th December, Monty, Antwerp, BE, monty.be
Thursday 11th December, Het Nationale Theater, Den Haag, NL, hnt.nl
Tuesday 16th December, Corrosia, Almere, NL, cultureelcentrumcorrosia.nl
Wednesday 17th December, Lieve Vrouw, Amersfoort, NL, lievevrouw.nl
More about RUNNER here, and I hope to see you there!
I’m excited to share that my new work RUNNER will premiere at SPRING Festival in Utrecht in May 2025, with touring in the Netherlands and Belgium later in the year.
A woman is running outside of the theatre. You are invited to accompany her, this unfamiliar body making its way through the city. Setting a pace, covering distance, breaking a sweat. Working hard, and being good.
RUNNER is a performance about running and exhaustion. It explores the interwoven and contradictory joys, miseries and potentials of both physical exhaustion and exhaustion as a sociopolitical state. What kind of proximity, intimacy, and pleasure can be produced by hearing a body exert itself? And why do we value people when they are pushing themselves to their limits?
Dates:
SPRING Festival, Theater Kikker, Grote Zaal
Friday 23rd May, 20:30 & Saturday 24th May, 15:30
Booking: springutrecht.nl
The work is produced by Frascati Producties in co-production with SPRING Festival, with additional support from CAMPO and Batterseas Arts Centre.
More about future touring soon!
This November I’m bringing Ways To Submit back to the Netherlands with a special one-off performance in Utrecht as part of De Utrechtse Nacht. The event is organised in partnership with SPRING performing arts festival, and takes place at a nightclub in Utrecht, KABUL à GoGo.
Ways To Submit
KABUL à GoGo, Gietijzerstraat 3, 3534 AV Utrecht
Saturday 23rd November, 20:45
Tickets are free, no booking necessary
Full info: culturelezondagen.nl
As the venue is a club space, not a theatre, it is recommended to wrap up warm!
This week I’m in Naples, where I’ve been invited to participate in Altofest – a residency and festival situated in domestic spaces.
For Altofest, artists are hosted in the homes of resident citizens, and we live together for two weeks. Artists stay and work in the same space: informal, domestic, daily. We are invited to question and rewrite our work by relying on the elements present in the spaces that host us. I’m here working on like the party has been cancelled, a show I last performed in 2022.
The public programme takes places 19th – 23rd June. All performances are free but reservation is essential because most spaces have limited capacities. Programme (and the full Altofest philosophy) is here on their website: www.teatringestazione.com/altofest.
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Dates for my performance are:
like the party has been cancelled
Friday 21st June, 21:30
Saturday 22nd June, 19:30
Sunday 23rd June, 17:30
This is a show about wanting to bring order to mess, and wanting to disrupt order. About wanting to build new things with old shit.
It is a reflection on control, on losing yourself, and on desire. It investigates the conflicting urges to be in control – to have mastery, to be effective – and to lose control – with its evocation of release and freedom. It explores the idea that everything can be reimagined, and then the problem that everything comes to us full with meaning, history, feeling. It asks: what does it mean to know that you want, but not what you want?
‘Like the party has been cancelled’ is a live-collage performance of cut up bodies, grafted animals, half landscapes, recomposed histories, dissected worlds. An intuitive, meditative, image trip, that attempts to burst its own banks and flood the room. With you in it.
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* This mobility project is supported by Culture Moves Europe, a project funded by the European Union. This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.
While I was in Paris for Paris Globe Festival I did an interview with Et Merdre ! We talked about Ways To Submit and Commitment Phobe and the development of my practice and the why and what and how of making art.
It was a very enjoyable conversation – you can listen on your podcast platform of choice here: etmerdre.fr or watch on youtube here.
This month I will be performing in Paris for the first time. I’m thrilled to have been invited to present both Ways To Submit and Commitment Phobe at Paris Globe, an international festival that is part of the cultural programme that surrounds the Olympics in Paris this year.
Dates are:
Ways To Submit
Théâtre de la Concorde
Saturday 25th May, 19:30 & Sunday 26th May, 15:30
Booking: parisglobe.fr
Commitment Phobe
Théâtre de la Bastille
Wednesday 29th & Thursday 30th May, 19:00
Booking: parisglobe.fr
Tickets are now available online, and you can see the full programme here: parisglobe.fr
In March 2024 we will be performing Commitment Phobe again at Frascati in Amsterdam, and Festival Cement in ‘s-Hertogenbosch. Hope to see you there, more tour dates coming soon..
Frascati, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Friday 15th & Saturday 16th March 2024, 21:00
Tickets €10-€15
Booking: frascatitheater.nl
Verkadefabriek, Festival Cement, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Friday 22nd March 2024, 17:00
Saturday 23rd March 2024, 21:00
Booking: festivalcement.nl
This September I’m presenting both Commitment Phobe and Ways To Submit again, one in Germany and the other in Spain:
Commitment Phobe
Theaterszene Europa Festival, Cologne, Germany
Saturday 23rd September, 20:00
Tickets: €15/€7
Booking: studiobuehnekoeln.de/theaterszene-europa-2023
Ways To Submit
Festival TNT, Terrassa, Spain
Saturday 30th September
Tickets: €11
Booking: www.tnt.cat/en (on sale from 6th September)
Ahead of the premiere of Commitment Phobe, and it’s tour to The Yard in London, I wrote some things about the show, the process, and why I made it. You can read them here:
A blog for Run Riot.
An interview with Theatre Full Stop.
Enjoy. x
I’m excited to announce that my new show Commitment Phobe – which began as an idea back in 2020! – will premiere in April 2023, and then also be presented in London in May.
Commitment Phobe is an exploration of doubt in a society that values certainty. It is a response to a perceived social and cultural demand for the clear, the sure, and the consistent – ways that we are taught it is worthwhile and understandable for a person to be. It is about what it means to not know, to not choose, and to keep moving.
Dates:
Frascati, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Wednesday 19th-Saturday 22nd April 2023, 21:00 (Premiere: Thursday 20th)
Tickets: €10-€15
Booking: www.frascatitheater.nl
NOW 23 @ The Yard, London, England
Tuesday 2nd-Saturday 6th May 2023, 21:00
Tickets: €15/€17
Booking: www.theyardtheatre.co.uk
The work is produced by Frascati Producties, in coproduction with wpZimmer, C-Takt, Festival Cement, and The Yard Theatre. Read more about the show here.
We’re starting 2023 (well, February) with some performances of Ways To Submit at CAMPO in Gent, Belgium. I’m very happy this work continues to have a life, and that I can share it with audiences again.
CAMPO Nieuwpoort, Gent, Belgium
Wednesday 1st & Thursday 2nd February 2023, 20:30
Tickets: €14/€12
Booking: www.campo.nu