Creative Midlands West

Creative Midlands West

Sarah Kane Workshop

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 03:33 AM PDT

2 Workshops for Actors, Directors

& Writers, led by Frank Bramwell

Dates:     24th & 30th March 2013

Times:    11.00am to 5.00pm

Cost:       £15 per day

Venue:    Old Joint Stock Theatre

Sarah Kane

A short life, but a massive influence as a writer on the development of Theatre over the last 15 years.

As Theatre practitioners, understanding what lies behind her writing can help us to further develop ourselves as better Theatre professionals.

Over the 2 Workshops, together Actors, Directors and Writers will;

a)  Workshop extracts of text from Kane's plays

b)  Create new pieces of writing inspired by the workshops

c)  Lay the foundation for a forthcoming new production at the OJST later this Spring.

Further details are available at the inamoment website: www.inamoment.org.uk

To apply please email your CV and some words about what interests you about the Workshops to: Frank Bramwell at inamoment@hotmail.co.uk

These Workshops are part of the Old Joint Stock Theatre & inamoment productions ongoing New Theatre Initiative to stimulate new Theatre

here in the West Midlands.

Job Opportunity – The Designers Forum

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 03:29 AM PDT

We are looking for a dynamic forward thinking individual to undertake and develop the day to day and strategic running of The Designers Formation, the only agency in the UK exclusively representing theatre designers.

This role currently amounts to circa 16 hours per week of flexible working on a commission only basis ( averaging £5,500 to £8,250 per annum) and would suit someone working from their own base.

There is the possibility of building on this income in the potential future structure of the agency.

The role requires a motivated and innovative self-starter with excellent communicating and negotiating skills to work for and with a group of 12 individually talented designers to secure the best working terms and conditions for projects across all scales and spectrums of performance in the UK and abroad.

The role supports and is supported by a core committee of five experienced designers who are committed to building on the work of the current co-ordinator who has been in post since the founding of the agency 25 years ago. This post has arisen because the current co-ordinator has signalled her intention to retire.

We see this as an exciting opportunity to develop the future of the agency and ideally candidates should have strong face to face networking skills, the ability to produce and publish promotional material and to capture information relevant to the continually evolving nature of contemporary theatre practice.

While the role is currently based at the registered address of the agency in Nottingham, East Midlands, close  geographic proximity to this location is not necessarily a requisite of carrying out the role.

For more information, please download our Recruitment Pack at

http://www.designersformation.com/coordinator.html

Air Play – An exciting new improv show from Box of Frogs

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 03:25 AM PDT

An extraordinary new venture from those fab, funny, fearless folk at Box of Frogs.

An evening of spontaneous soap-operas, phone-ins, agony aunts and news bulletins, all made up in the spot.

A luxurious confection of voice, music, and sound-effects, created right before your very ears.

Saturday April 13th, Blue Orange Theatre, 8pm. (doors open 7pm)

Tickets just £5.  Book direct from the Blue Orange 

WOW! Festival 2013

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 03:22 AM PDT

6 weeks, 6 Wednesdays, lots of performance!

Where?

The Pubic Art Centre www.thepublic.com in collaboration with Freshold Theatre is currently curating WOW! (Watch Out Wednesdays!) – An eclectic festival of street performance in the heart of West Bromwich. WOW! Will be held every Wednesday during the summer holidays outside The Public building and we are looking to pull a diverse programme of performance together.

What we are looking for…

Want to be involved? We'd love to hear from theatre companies, artists, story tellers, poets, performers, dancers and general creative folk! Pieces can be as short as ten minutes but no longer than one hour. You can send up to two ideas for the festival. It's great opportunity to be seen, try out new work or something you think is already perfect for outdoor performance.

How will you benefit?

In return we offer a small fee or if you are working on projects over the next twelve months we will give you your time back (tripled at least!) in FREE rehearsal space for yourself or your company to use. The Public is huge, full of open spaces and has a large capacity theatre so rehearsal time in these will save you a whole lot of money! In addition we can offer technical support and the opportunity to create long term relationships with The Public which you may find useful for later work.

Interested?

If you think you may have an idea or would just like to come and perform yourself then please download the form atwww.fresholdtheatre.co.uk on the home page and send it in to hannah@fresholdtheatre.co.uk.

If you have two ideas please send them on separate forms. Deadline is Friday 29th March. Successful applicants will be informed by Monday 8th April at the latest. We look forward to hearing from you!

Great War Project launch by Theatre Absolute

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 03:20 AM PDT

Theatre Absolute launch 100, a project that takes its root from the one hundred year anniversary of The Great War, 1914-1918.  Beginning in Autumn 2013, produced in partnership with the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, 100 which culminates in 2014, consists of four major commissions: a full length play by Steve Waters, a short play for schools and colleges by Richard Walls, an installation by textile artist Julia O'Connell and a short film by Jay Langdell.

Describing the project as a significant cultural event for the West Midland's region, Theatre Absolute's artistic director Chris O'Connell comments "Europe is currently gripped by uncertainties and tensions; these are uniquely altered tensions to those that rattled Europe's foundations in 1914, yet set one hundred years apart, the continent faces new crises that have compelled Theatre Absolute to take the approaching anniversary of The Great War as a stimulus to look at the journey Europe has taken in the last one hundred years, the Holocaust, the fall of Communism, the creation of the Euro, migration and immigration, and so much more."

Renowned for its award winning new plays, Theatre Absolute is keen to root the wider aspects of 100 in the experiences of Coventry and the region, yet also reflect on these experiences through the prism of Coventry as a part of Europe.

Writer Steve Waters remarks: "Being originally from Coventry, I am keen to write something that engages with the complex history of the city within the last century, the ebbs and flow of industry and labour, the complexity of the population, the traces of traumatic history."

Excited at the prospect of collaborating with Theatre Absolute, Head of Collections and Programmes at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Chris Kirby says "We are delighted to be working with Theatre Absolute on these provocative and highly relevant commissions which in part draw upon the fascinating archives in our History Centre collections'.

100 is supported by Coventry City Council and Arts Council, England.

Vamos Theatre presents full mask adventure at the Arena

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 03:15 AM PDT

On Tuesday 26 March and Wednesday 27 March, Vamos Theatre in co-production with The Courtyard Theatre is bringing its new full mask production Finding Joy to the Arena Theatre.

Joy is creative, funny, loves to dance, and is losing her memory: her grandson Danny is rebellious, fearless, bright, and always getting into trouble. When out of the blue, Danny decides to become Joy's carer, where will their unexpected and playful bond lead them?

Finding Joy takes the audience through the 1930s, the 1950s and the present day, and is performed on a quirky and intricate set that's full of surprises. It has already attracted some great reviews, with The Stage describing it as, "an intensely moving tribute and triumph."
Vamos Theatre present shows unlike any other companies: it is full mask theatre with no words, the story told through clever visual performance and a vibrant original soundtrack. It is wonderfully accessible, unashamedly nostalgic, and very playful.

Finding Joy is performed at the Arena on 26 and 27 March and tickets cost £9 Full Price and £7 Concessions. You can book tickets on our website www.arenatheatre.info, by phone, on 01902 321 321 or in person from our box office on Wulfruna Street.

Finding Joy is just one of over sixty theatre, comedy, music and spoken word productions coming up at the Arena in the next few months. More information about all of the shows is available online, at:www.arenatheatre.info.

Call for Submissions

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 03:13 AM PDT

Hello! Tin Box are Co- Pilots! Here is a little message for you to tell you all about it…

SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN FOR THE NEXT PILOT NIGHT @ AE HARRIS, BIRMINGHAM,
MAY 16th 2013 CO-PILOTED BY TIN BOX
DEADLINE 5pm ON 5TH APRIL 2013

On the 16th of May 2013 PILOT nights will return to AE Harris in Birmingham hosted by Tin Box theatre. This is a chance for theatre makers to present 10 – 20 minutes of new material in front of a real live audience.
As a bonus the venue will be available for development/rehearsals during office hours from the Monday of that week!
Your piece can be designed for a conventional stage space with an end-on audience or some other configuration shaped to one of the venue's numerous spaces.
Lots of detail about the venue and its various spaces can be found here.
As well as rehearsal space we can offer a small fee, documentation and the opportunity to quiz your audience about what they have seen.

Please let us know in your submission if you are interested in using a particular space, and whether you would take up the offer of rehearsal time in the week.

APPLY HERE NOW!

Deadline for submissions: 5pm on 5th April 2013.
Performance date: 16th May 2013 at 7.30pm, @ A E Harris, 110 Northwood Street, Birmingham, B3 1SZ

Who runs PilotNights?
Set up in 2003 by Simon Day, Pilot Nights has been managed over the past few years to great success by Sam Fox and Jess Mackinnon of Kindle Theatre and Paul Warwick of China Plate. On the celebration of Pilot Night's 10th birthday, they handed over the controls to Jo Gleave and Jo Newman of Tin Box theatre and producers Pippa Frith and Thomas Wildish to take Pilot on the next part of its journey.

This core team are supported by a rotating number of Co-PILOTs who assist in the production of one PILOT Night. Co-PILOTs are all practising artists with an interest in producing/ curating. PilotNights is supported by Arts Council West Midlands, Warwick Arts Centre, mac birmingham, The Arena, Wolverhampton and The Public.

FIND PILOT NIGHTS ON FACEBOOK
FOLLOW PILOT NIGHTS ON TWITTER

p.s. This is the last week to catch Tin Box's Pint Dreams in Birmingham and London! We have been taking over plenty of pubs across the West Midlands so far as part of Theatre Fever and have shared stories, songs and sausage rolls! Join us for a pint in a pub near you soon! DATES AND INFO HERE

Limited Offer: £15 Tickets for Hamlet

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 03:10 AM PDT

Limited offer: £15 tickets for Hamlet

The RSC's Summer 2013 season begins in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre from 14 March with Hamlet, directed by David Farr with Jonathan Slinger in the title role.

Hamlet's father is dead. He suspects his uncle of murder but has no proof. He fears his mother's involvement but dare not confront her.

If his suspicions are correct he has a duty to avenge his father, but if he strikes down an innocent man he risks eternal damnation.

Watch the trailer

£15 ticket offer

We have a limited number of £15 tickets available to book online for the 7pm performance on Tuesday 26 March.*

Buy Tickets

*Terms and conditions apply. Offer available on selected date only. Tickets are available online only and cannot be booked over the phone. Cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer. Please note the earlier start time of this performance as latecomers may not be admitted until a suitable break in the performance.

Cover Up: A Rehearsed Reading (22 March)

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 03:01 AM PDT

Fri 22 March, 7.30pm | The Edge, Digbeth, Birmingham

 

Space2Develop presents

Cover Up

(a rehearsed reading)

By Jane Campion Hoye

Directed by Jouvan Fucinni

The streets of West London, a knife-crime and a teenage boy charged with murder. Jo, a work-weary criminal lawyer from the Midlands has seen it all before. But this time it's different. Through a series of interviews with young Notting Hill socialite Tamara, Jo finds herself drawn into a social world very different from her own…yet where the parallels with her own story, as a child of the seventies, has a shocking resonance.

Cover Up is an arresting noir styled play in development with local emerging artists, writer Jane Campion Hoye and director Jouvan Fucinni (artistic director Future Theatre, writer of Empty), who met at Theatre Exchange. An exciting cast includes;

Nadia Kemp-Sayfi (Twelfth Night Blue Orange Theatre)

Caroline Frewin (Silver Street BBC Radio Drama)

Philip Jennings (Brimstone & Treacle Tread the Boards Theatre Company)

Laurence Saunders (BBC's EastEnders)

And Hal Geller (REP 100 Hidden Histories)

Jane Campion Hoye originally based in London relocated to the Midlands and recently completed a Masters in Playwriting at the University of Birmingham. Since graduating at the end of 2009, she has had a variety of short scripts successfully performed in Birmingham and Bristol, winning competitions and "audience favourite" votes. Cover Up is her first full-length play for the stage.

Tickets: £2.50 on the door

Call: 0121 772 6160

Find out more:

SPACE2DEVELOP | THE EDGE | A MAP TO THE VENUE
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