I’m super excited to be performing at Traumfrau and Pink Fringe’s next party for International Women’s Day: IWD EXTRAVAGANZA – al fresco queer disco. Dancing, shows, live art, food and installations in Brighton’s most unusual venue..
Saturday 12th March
Wagner Hall, Brighton
9pm-3am
Full details & tickets: www.traumfrau.co.uk
This past Wednesday I took Ollie to The Glory for their drag king contest, MAN UP. I was excited and mildly terrified, having never performed in this context before – a sweaty bar and a (blood)thirsty crowd. But I’m super pleased to say that Ollie has made it through to the final, which is next Wednesday 18th November. He will be in esteemed company, not least with excellent pals Figs In Wigs and johnsmith.
Photos from this week soon.
The Glory is at:
281 Kingsland Road, E2 8AS
I’m very pleased that I’m going to be part of The Yard‘s annual festival, NOW ’16, in Spring next year, alongside a line up of really excellent artists: Emma Frankland, Ponyboy Curtis and Dog Kennel Hill Project.
The Yard currently have a call out for new work to be part of each weekly double bill. For more info and to apply go to www.theyardtheatre.co.uk.
Deadline for applications is the 20th November.
In November I am doing two nights of showings of Be Gentle With Me at Shoreditch Town Hall. Throughout 2014-15 I have done several small solo showings of the piece as it has been developing, and I am now really excited to invite you to the first public sharings of the ‘bigger’ version of the show, presented with performer Gerard Bell.
These will be work-in-development showings.
Shoreditch Town Hall
6th November 7pm & 7th November 7.30pm
Tickets £11, booking here: www.shoreditchtownhall.com
If you were unable to make it to Break Yourself at Ovalhouse earlier this year, I am doing a one-off showing of it at CPT on 1st October as part of Calm Down, Dear 2015 – a festival of feminist theatre. This performance will still be in-development, as it was at Ovalhouse, and I’m delighted to then be embarking on the next round of work to finish the show this Autumn.
Calm Down, Dear
Camden People’s Theatre
Thursday 1st October
8pm, Tickets £8
Booking: www.cptheatre.co.uk
This Thing Called Artist Development
I will be contributing to this event hosted by Ovalhouse, a day of provocations, papers and questions examining the state of the artist development ecology today.
Friday 22nd May, from 11am
£10, full info and ticket booking: www.ovalhouse.com.
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Be Gentle With Me at PULSE Festival Scratch Day
An in-progress showing of new work, Be Gentle With Me.
Saturday 30th May
Session 3, 3.45-5pm
New Wolsey Studio, Ipswich
£5 or £10 for the full day, info and booking at: www.wolseytheatre.co.uk.
On the 9th May I’m presenting Keine Angst in Marburg, Germany, as part of an interdisciplinary symposium entitled Angst: Haben – Nutzen – Kosten about angst/fear. I’m incredibly excited (and, appropriately, terrified) to be re-staging the show bilingually so that it will be performed partly in English, and partly in German. This is the first time I’ve done this with any of my work, or performed in German at all (at least, since the age of 10). I’ll also be participating in a panel discussion around ‘Cultures of Fear’.
The full programme can be found here: theater-marburg.com
Angst: Haben – Nutzen – Kosten, Theater Marburg
Saturday 9th May, 3.30pm
Galeria Classica
Free
Break Yourself, 1st-4th April from Ira Brand on Vimeo.
This Spring/Summer I am developing a new performance based on some early experiments from last year. Be Gentle With Me is about notions of ‘health’ and ‘illness’, the nature of pain, and our bodies as changing, fluctuating, things.
I’m presenting two in-progress sharings in March, at Camden People Theatre’s excellent Sprint Festival, and the equally delightful Buzzcut in Glasgow. Dates below and more about the piece here.
Sprint: Short Cuts, Camden People’s Theatre
A mixed bill of work in-progress
Friday 13th March
8pm, Tickets £12/£10
Booking: www.cptheatre.co.uk
Buzzcut Festival, Glasgow
18th-22nd March 2015
Sunday 22nd March, 5pm
Pay what you can
Full line-up here: glasgowbuzzcut.wordpress.com
Ira has received one of two commissions from Ovalhouse to make a new piece for their Spring 2015 Public | Private season. Break Yourself (working title) will be an experiment in taking on alternative performance personas, with a first round of in-development showings in early April:
Ovalhouse
Wednesday 1st April – Saturday 4th April 2015
7.30pm, Tickets £8/5
Booking & full details of the Public | Private season: www.ovalhouse.com
More about Break Yourself here.
I am revisiting a short piece I made for the Holy Sh!t Stamp Fundraiser in July, Be Gentle With Me (working title). I’m really pleased to be performing a work-in-progress of the piece at two events coming up in October: Hatch: Exchange and PILOT Nights.
Hatch: Exchange
Sunday 12th October
Embrace Arts, Leicester
Full line-up and details here: http://hatchnottingham.org.uk/hatch-exchange/
PILOT Nights
Tuesday 14th October
Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry
Tickets and details here: http://pilotnights.co.uk/next
In preparation for this week’s performances of A Cure for Ageing as part of BOLD Festival at The Albany, I answered some questions on their blog about researching, making, and learning from the show. You can read it here:
https://albanydeptford.wordpress.com/2014/09/22/ira-brand-reveals-a-cure-for-ageing/