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NIC FRE K ST EZ E EU R !

B E R L I N B O N A N Z A

GIULIO D’ANNA PARKIN’SON

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ONTROEREND GOED & THE BORDER PROJECT FIGHT NIGHT

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GIULIO D’ANNA PARKIN’SON In the past the father carried the son, now the roles are reversed. How they translate that on stage is incredibly gripping ... What a gift to each other, and to the audience...

Giulio is 33 and a choreographer. Stefano is 64 and has Parkinson Disease. Father and Son tell you a universal tale about the power between father and child. Bodies speak words that were never said. Their mouths shape the memories of both joy and sadness. Two different lives, a generation apart.

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GUILIO D’ANNA -Main PARKIN ’SON Hall 18u05

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ticket price SUMMERHALL £10, (conc.) £9 box office: 12-18, 20-25 0845 874 3001

Bonanza is a documentary portrait on the officialy smallest town of Colorado: seven inhabitants, a city council and a mayor who lives 300km down the road. Located in the Rocky Mountains, these seven inhabitants had imagined a life in solitude, but are confronted with their few neighbours: fights, gossips, murder and a lawsuit that puts the further existence of Bonanza at risk. This city portrait consists of a scale model of the city (7m by 3m) and five screens (a screen for each house). Five simultaneous screens represent the five houses of the citizens of Bonanza. Cities where you get to know all the residents are rare. But in Bonaza this is possible. But in spite of this extremely small population, the residents hardly have any contact with each other. Bonanza is a microcosm of the world, the residents claim. Berlin portrays this world-in-miniature on a scale model of the town and five film screens - a “quintet documentary”.

Produced by Giulio D’Anna Big in Belgium, RichardAanJordan Productions TheatrewithPlymouth and Theater Zee in associationLtd,withDrum Summerhall

B E R L I N B O N A N Z A

(c) BERLIN (berlinberlin.be)]

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BERLIN - BONANZA Main Hall 16u30 (2-11 AUGUST)

ticket price £12, (conc) £10, preview £6 preview 2-4, then 5-11, 13-18, 20-25

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Berlin portrays reality like a painter used to do: with a bit more color, lively angles of incidence and a brush setting that betrays a critical undertone. Knack Focus

Produced by Berlin with Big in Belgium,with Richard Jordan Productions Ltd, Drum Theatre Plymouth in association Summerhall

Tourniquet offers a hypnotic experience and is one of the best plays of the year. The actors don’t utter a word, but it is the viewer who is left behind speechless at the end. De Standaard

With Tourniquet, the Belgian company Abattoir Fermé continues its course of silent and filmlike theatre and has made one of its most visually enthralling and magical works to date. Without the aid of any spoken text, the piece suggests the history and contours of a house and its three ‘ghosts’ - with Kreng’s intriguing soundscore as an invisible fourth character. Tourniquet focusses upon the ideas of rituals and trance and was inspired by (clandestine) exorcisms, still performed in modern day Europe. Tourniquet was selected for the Dutch Theatre Festival as one of the year’s best productions. The piece gained notoriety as one of Abattoir Fermé’s most critically acclaimed and successful productions. Mysterious, eerily beautiful, hypnotic, visually stunning and shocking to some, Tourniquet is the theatrical, trance-inducing counterpart of “The Exorcist” or the cinematic work of David Lynch.

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ticket price SUMMERHALL £12, (conc) £10, preview £6 box office: preview 2-4, then 5-6, 8-11, 13-18, 20-25 0845 874 3001

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In the most impossible ways he builds his staggering Utopia. When the house breathes, the mirror under­ neath it breaks. These are moments the whole world could stand or fall. Nick Steur lets the world stand. He harvests grace from pompous mass.

Once in a while something raises the hair on your neck. Something incredibly minimal, beautiful & breakable. This is that show. Small in approach, big in ideas. Since he was a child Nick Steur balances rocks on top of each other. No glue, cement or any other trick is involved. It’s all about concentration and finding the balance between your own force of will and the stone. Share some of his focus and realize that true happiness lies in the luxury of being occupied with one thing only.

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FIGHT NIGHT combines Ontroerend Goed and The Border Project s forces into a playful and immersive political’ exploration. The performance puts five actors into the position of ‘candidates’ struggling to get the audience s sympathy and, ultimately, their vote. Only ’ one of them will survive the relentless series of eliminations and they apply all possible tactics and strategies to assure their victory.

De Standaard

ONTROEREND GOED & THE BORDER PROJECT FIGHT NIGHT

Drum Theatre Plymouth, Vooruit and Richard Jordan Productions Ltd in association with Adelaide Festival

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Tue 6, 13.15 Wed 7, 15.30 Thu 8, 18.30 Fri 9, 20.45 Sat 10, 11.00 Sun 11, 13.15

ticket price preview £12 / (con)£6 / preview Thu 1 Sun – Thu £17 / (con) £12 / £6 unemployed Fri & Sat £19 / £14 concession

Tue 13, 15.30 Wed 14, 18.30 Thu 15, 20.45 Fri 16, 11.00 Sat 17, 13.15 Sun 18, 15.30 TRAVERSE box office: 0131 228 14 04

Tue 20, 18.30 Wed 21, 20.45 Thu 22, 11.00 Fri 23, 13.15 Sat 24, 15.30 Sun 25, 18.30

(c) front: reinhout hiel back: ronny wertelaers

ONTROEREND GOED -Traverse FIGHT NIGHT 2

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Without even a single political reference, Ontroerend Goed’s Fight Night makes a precarious analysis of the consensus politics which our democratic system has fallen into. That’s impressive.

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Produced by Nick SteurTheatre with Big in Belgium, Richard Jordan Productions in associationLtd,withDrum Summerhall Plymouth and Theater Aan Zee

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