Live at LICA Autumn 2010

OCT-DEC 2010

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CROSSINGTHE DIVIDE Autumn 2010 represents an important step forward for the Nuffield Theatre, Peter Scott Gallery and Lancaster International Concert Series. Our new combined name – Live at LICA – signals our relationship with Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, and our role as a vibrant provider of professional public performances and exhibitions for the campus, the city and the region.

Lancashire Sinfonietta with young choreographers and a film-maker to develop a new interactive version of The Nutcracker for children.

Our artistic programme has been put together by a new team; and for the first time the season has a linking theme: crossing divides, be they cultural, artistic or historical.

If you are a regular attender at one part of our activity, we warmly encourage you to try something from another. With fee-free online booking and a range of new ticket offers available, there’s nothing stopping you.

Autumn also sees some important new partnerships. With Litfest we present the fantastic Carol Ann Duffy; with Ludus Dance we have commissioned three of the UK’s most distinctive choreographers; and we have brought together

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Highlights such as the aerial spectacle of Ockham’s Razor, Ellie Rees’ stunning film-works, and the Czeck fusion ensemble Bardolino make this the most exciting, varied and accessible programme we have yet delivered.

Matt Fenton Director, Live at LICA matt@liveatlica.org

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MAKINGTIME

LITERATURE CAROL ANN DUFFY LITFEST IN PARTNERSHIP

THEPRINCESS’BLANKETS

BY CAROL ANN DUFFY

WITH LIVE AT LICA FRIDAY 15 OCTOBER, 7.30PM

SATURDAY 16 OCTOBER, 10.30AM

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The effortless virtuosity, directness and humanity of Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy’s verse have made her our most admired and best-loved contemporary poet.

“In the world of British poetry Carol Ann Duffy is a superstar” The Guardian Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of The Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has written for children and adults, and has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children’s Verse, the Whitbread and Forward Prizes, and the E. M. Forster Prize in America. In 2005, she won the T.S. Eliot Prize for her collection Rapture.

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy presents her illustrated children’s book The Princess’ Blankets with musician John Sampson.

A magical blend of poetry, music and fairytale for children of 7 and over.

The Princess’ Blankets is a powerful new fairy tale of a princess who cannot get warm. Told to a stunning backdrop of illustrations by Catherine Hyde, this is a unique event not to be missed.

Litfest in partnership with Live at LICA, The Platform and Shout About Books

How might a performance last an entire year? How do we mark time and how does it mark us?

Since October 2009, the Making Time garden has been a continual presence outside the Peter Scott Gallery. Created by artists Elizabeth Willow and Jonathan Raisin, it is their response to a Nuffield Theatre commission to develop a year-long performance.

Behind this transformation of a neglected space is an exploration of presence and absence, the nature of performance, and the ways we experience and respond to time.

Through the changing seasons, Making Time is a live essay in performance and a uniquely positive take on durational art.

At noon on the 21 October the artists will leave the garden. During the weeks leading up to this there will be events to mark the ending of the year. Details will be available on the Nuffield website, and garden visitors are always welcome.

The artists are creating a book for publication later in the year; and in Spring 2011 we will host a symposium to consider further the concepts and ideas behind the project. makingtime@liveatlica.org

6|7 Eduardo Paolozzi,The accident syndrome, the Genesis of inquiry; taken from General Dynamic F.U.N., 1965 - 1970 ©Trustees of the Paolozzi Foundation, Licensed by DACS 2010

EXHIBITIONS It’s thrilling as the Exhibitions and Events Officer at an interdisciplinary arts organisation to find the art forms naturally crossing over this Autumn.

The captivating film-based works of Ellie Rees and Hetain Patel have clear links with the worlds of composition and performance, while Eduardo Paolozzi’s stunning prints draw on advertising, design, fashion and Hollywood.

Our collections also feature strongly. The unique Chambers Bequest of Pilkington’s ceramics and archive material will appear not only in our dedicated display room, but also in the Manchester Art Gallery exhibition Exporting Beauty: Pilkington’s Tiles and Pottery, which draws significantly on works from the Peter Scott Gallery.

You are bound to find something inspirational in our exhibition spaces this Autumn, and we hope you will join us to experience each display and the exchanges taking place in the gallery.

Richard Smith Exhibitions and Events Officer richard@liveatlica.org

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HETAIN PATEL TEN

EXHIBITIONS

4 Nov. see p25

ELLIE REES

HETAIN PATEL

EDUARDO PAOLOZZI

TAKESHI MURATA

PRETTY EYED PIRATE SMILE

KANKU RAGA AND TO DANCE LIKEYOUR DAD

GENERAL DYNAMIC F.U.N.

UNTITLED (PINK DOT)

13 OCTOBER – 17 DECEMBER 2010

23 NOVEMBER – 17 DECEMBER 2010

23 NOVEMBER – 17 DECEMBER 2010

Opening 12 October 6pm

Opening 22 November 6pm

Opening 22 November 6pm

Hetain Patel’s films look at communication, rhythm and movement. In the two films Kanku Raga and To Dance Like Your Dad, Patel takes particular influence from Tabla and inheritance versus imitation. The presentation of Patel’s films will coincide with a performance of his new work TEN, which takes place in the Nuffield Theatre on 4 November (see page 25). Selected works from the Peter Scott Gallery collection will be on show alongside Patel’s films.

A compulsive collector, a jumbler of icons and a pioneer of Pop, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (1924– 2005) is equally revered for his mechanistic sculptures and his kaleidoscopic print projects.

Working with the iconic 1982 Sylvester Stallone film Rambo: First Blood, Takeshi Murata has created a sliding, undulating film that grows out of the Hollywood movie, shifting from figural to digital abstraction and back again.

A pulsing pink dot takes centre stage as scenes crumble and melt into themselves and each other.

13 OCTOBER – 13 NOVEMBER 2010

Ellie Rees, stills fromYou Didn’t Call, So I Read Jane Eyre, 2008 Single-channel digital video

Opening 12 October 6pm

Ellie Rees creates carefully constructed performances which employ humour and irony to investigate what it means to be a woman and an artist. Rees is especially interested in archetypes and narrative structures on the subject of gender and love found within opera and Hollywood film. It is the often exaggerated and over simplified depictions of ourselves in these art forms that Rees reflects on, in particular that of women in high and popular culture and the inconsistency between the liberated female role and the romantic views proposed by those cultures.

Rees’ work both plays with and questions the nature of performance, particularly looking at

the difference between live and recorded spectacle. Her aim is not to document a live performance event with an audience, but to make a precise performance to camera. Rees has described her work as a quest for perfection that can never be achieved, saying that her quest as a performer could function as an analogy for the quest for perfection in romance.

Hetain Patel, still fromTo Dance LikeYour Dad 2009

General Dynamic F.U.N is a series of fifty screenprints and photolithographs created between 1965 and 1970, for which Paolozzi employs the technologies of mass-reproduction and gorges on its idols – the household names and familiar faces of consumer advertising, high fashion and Hollywood. For Paolozzi, the modern age, exposed as ephemera, is a necessarily fragmented collision of visual stimulus and influence.

A Hayward Touring exhibition from Southbank Centre, London.

Sound by Robert Beatty Eduardo Paolozzi,The accident syndrome, the Genesis of inquiry; taken from General Dynamic F.U.N., 1965 - 1970 ©Trustees of the Paolozzi Foundation, Licensed by DACS 2010

Takeshi Murata, still from Untitled (Pink Dot), 2006 (detail) Single-channel digital video courtesy the artist

Margit Klepáčova, Bardolino, 11 November

CONCERTS In my first season, I am thrilled to introduce a series of concerts that I know you will find uplifting and inspiring. Great classics stand alongside superb new works by living composers.

International artists and household names take their place alongside career-launching performances by emerging young talent. There’s some virtuosic genre-bending by Czech trio Bardolino and a brand new in-house adaptation of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker for children.

The season opens magnificently with one of the world’s top orchestras performing a programme that has been chosen by you, the audience.

This vibrant mix is what makes our Lancaster concerts so special, personal and unique I invite you to join me in celebrating them this season.

Fiona Sinclair Associate Director (Music) fiona@liveatlica.org

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OCKHAM’S RAZOR

CONCERTS

12 & 13 Nov see page 26

TCHAIKOVSKY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF MOSCOW RADIO

ENDELLION STRING QUARTET &WENDY COPE

BARDOLINO

TERJE MIKKELSEN CONDUCTOR ALENA BAEVAVIOLIN

HAYDN Quartet No.3, Op.33 “The Bird” ROXANNA PANUFNIK The Audience (words by Wendy Cope) ELIZABETH MACONCHY Quartet No.10 BEETHOVEN Quartet No.3 in D major, Op.18

JANÁČEK Moravian Poetry in Song MARTINU The Three Madrigals KUKAL Madman’s Wife - Blaznova zena CALLER Tres canciones de declaracion FISCHER Marel o Del

28 OCTOBER 7.30PM GREAT HALL

4 NOVEMBER 7.30PM GREAT HALL

11 NOVEMBER 7.30PM NUFFIELD THEATRE

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To open the concert season we are honoured to present a concert by the internationally famed Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra. Formerly the orchestra of Soviet Radio, they hold a rich and fascinating heritage having premiered many of the greatest Russian works of the 20th Century.

One of the all-time greatest string quartets, the Endellions celebrated their 30th Anniversary with a cheeky and amusing piece by Roxanna Panufnik and poet Wendy Cope. Their new Maconchy quartet also features tonight with some classic Haydn and Beethoven.

Tantalisingly undefinable, Bardolino is a virtuosic fusion of classical, folk and gypsy music. This versatile Czech trio leaps across these genres on a breathless musical journey that will make you fall deeply in love with the spirit of central Europe.

Kazakh-born violinist, Alena Baeva, started her international career at 10 and has claimed an impressive array of 1st prizes such as the Moscow Paganini Competition. The symphony tonight was selected by members of our audience and promises to raise the roof off the Great Hall. An unmissable concert by one of Russia’s most prestigious orchestras.

Meet the Artist 6.45pm

*Podium Lecture 1.10pm

SVENDSEN Carnival in Paris, Op.9 SIBELIUS Violin Concerto in D minor, Op.47 SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5 In D Minor, Op. 47

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EDUARDO PAOLOZZI

CONCERTS

23 Nov - 17 Dec see page 9

LANCASHIRE SINFONIETTA

PSAPPHA

HALLÉYOUTH CHOIR

JANE IRWIN SOPRANO LYN FLETCHER DIRECTOR

NICHOLAS KOK CONDUCTOR

GREGORY BATSLEER CONDUCTOR

KENNETH HESKETH Fra Duri Scogli;Theatre of Attractions PAUL MAX EDLIN Five Fantastic Islands MICHAEL TORKE The Telephone Book STEVE MACKEY Indigenous Instruments

TO INCLUDE: TALLIS If You Love Me & Salvator Mundi BYRD Ave Verum DEBUSSY Trois Chansons TAVERNER The Lamb

TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade for Strings DUNCAN WARD Hot Pot Premiere BARBER Knoxville - Summer of 1915 STRAVINSKY Pulcinella Suite 18 NOVEMBER 7.30PM GREAT HALL

25 NOVEMBER 7.30PM GREAT HALL

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To celebrate Samuel Barber’s 100th anniversary, we offer his endearingly nostalgic Knoxville. Lancaster University graduate, Jane Irwin, is one of the most admired voices in the UK and is in demand for her dramatic intensity and velvety timbre.

Musical gems from the UK and USA. This programme showcases an outstanding work by Steve Mackey who has been enjoyed by audiences in previous seasons, Psappha’s own commission Five Fantastic Islands and the groovy and energetic Telephone Book.

Duncan Ward is the 2010 winner of the Lancashire Young Composer Competition. His piece has been specially commissioned for this concert and will be recorded as part of an online collaboration with aspiring young musicians in India and the North West.

*Podium Lecture 1.10pm Preview Concert 6.45pm

SATURDAY 4 DECEMBER 7.30PM GREAT HALL STANDARD: £16.50, £14 (£14, £11.50 CONCESSIONS) WEB ADVANCE: £15.50, £13 (£13, £10.50 CONCESSIONS)

The outstanding Hallé Youth Choir have a glorious evening of vocal treats in store. The choir is one of the Halle’s youngest ensembles, known for their exceptional quality and passionate performances.

A seasonal delight for Christmas.

The leader of the Hallé also directs the ever-popular Tchaikovsky Serenade and balletic Pulcinella with Lancashire’s own star-studded chamber orchestra.

Meet the Artist 6.45pm

*Podium Lecture 1.10pm Preview Concert 6.45pm photo credit Michael Swallow

Photo credit Andrew Price Photographer and Nicholls and Nicholls Design

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CONCERTS NUTCRACKER MINIATURES

THE GREAT HALL STANDARD SEATING PLAN

COMING UP IN SPRING 2011 (FULL DETAILS IN OUR FORTHCOMING SPRING 2011 BROCHURE)

LEVANTES DANCETHEATRE LANCASHIRE SINFONIETTA ANIMATION BY ADAM GREGORY

MAHAN ESFAHANI, Harpsichord: 20.1.11 GRAND UNION ORCHESTRA "Bengal Tiger, Shanghai Dragon": 27.1.11 FRETWORK "The Silken Tent": 3.2.11

MONDAY 6 DECEMBER 11AM & 1.30PM NUFFIELD THEATRE

MANCHESTER CAMERATA ENSEMBLE "Transfigured Night": 10.2.11

STANDARD: ADULTS: £9.50. CHILDREN: £6, FAMILY TICKET: £22 (4 PEOPLE) WEB ADVANCE: ADULTS: £8.50, CHILDREN: £5, FAMILY TICKET: £20 (4 PEOPLE)

XUEFEI YANG, Guitar "Forty Degrees North": 17.2.11

The premiere of an adorable children’s production of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker by the Live at LICA team.

NATALIE CLEIN, Cello & KATYA APEKISHEVA - Piano: 24.2.11 RAINER HERSCH, Comedian "All Classical Music Explained": 3.3.11

Local children have worked in their schools with artists to add their own magic to the performance. A special curriculum resource for teachers is available.

NATIONAL YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA: 10.3.11

Mouse soldiers, a handsome prince and the Sugar Plum Fairy all spring into life in this interactive adaptation of everyone’s favourite Christmas story.

VALERIY SOKOLOV, Violin & KATHRYN STOTT, Piano: 17.3.11

Suitable for children age 4-6 years.

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Ockham’s Razor The Mill. 12 and 13 November.

THEATRE & DANCE This season's theme of 'crossing the divide' has informed our theatre and dance programme in many ways. Tradition meets the contemporary, technology meets the body, the international meets the local, and cultures intersect. The result is a heady mix of what theatre could and should be: curious, passionate and surprising.

My personal highlights include the awe-inspiring aerial antics of Ockham's Razor, Hetain Patel's beautiful piece TEN (complimented by his film-works in the gallery), the physical inventiveness of Inspector Sands' massive hit If That's All There Is, and the uncompromising personal politics of Pete Edwards' FAT. I hope you enjoy these and everything else on offer.

Alice Booth Creative Producer alice@liveatlica.org

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THEATRE & DANCE FORCED ENTERTAINMENT

LUDUS DANCE AND NUFFIELDTHEATRE LANCASTER PRESENT

THETHRILL OF IT ALL

CONSEQUENCES

UK PREMIERE

19 OCTOBER 8PM NUFFIELD THEATRE

12 & 13 OCTOBER 8PM NUFFIELD THEATRE

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A jaw-dropping dance theatre spectacle that will have you laughing out loud and holding back the tears.

A new show from Forced Entertainment is a major event in the UK theatrical calendar, so we are delighted to be hosting this important UK Premiere.

For the first time, Ludus Dance and the Nuffield Theatre have together commissioned three new dance pieces. In this electrifying triple-bill, three of the UK’s most prominent choreographers – Nigel Charnock, Yael Flexer and Ben Wright – each take you on a compelling journey of cause and effect, in a pulse-racing mix of energetic dance, theatre and music.

The company’s 25-year body of work reflects an interest in the mechanics of theatre itself, the role of the audience, and the machinations of contemporary urban life. “One of Britain’s greatest theatre companies” (The Guardian), these pioneers of the British avant-garde have an unparalleled international reputation.

Nigel Charnock brings you a thunderously chaotic chunk of dance theatre that explores the effects of order and chaos on our lives, whilst poking fun at the self-destructing tendencies of our fame hungry society. Yael Flexer’s ‘show within a show’ sees the four dancers caught up in the ripple effect of their own decisions as they create a show before your very eyes. Meanwhile, Ben Wright’s choreography calls us to seize the moment… NOW!

In The Thrill Of It All, nine performers in grubby tuxedos play out a comical and disconcerting vaudeville to the strains of Japanese lounge music.

Deranged dancing girls swirl, giggle and bicker. Shabby comperes compete for the microphone and the audience’s attention. Dances end in fights, jokes end in confusion, and sentimental stories end in arguments in this unsettling and extraordinary performance.

Suitable for 10 years plus and family audiences. www.ludusdance.org

Forced Entertainment is regularly funded by Arts Council England.

“Theatre turned inside out.” Sunday Times www.forcedentertainment.com Photo Hugo Glendinning

Photo: Merlin Hendy

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INSPECTOR SANDS

RECKLESS SLEEPERS

IFTHAT’S ALLTHERE IS

IT’S GOINGTO BE A LONG LONGTIME

22 OCTOBER 8PM NUFFIELD THEATRE

29 OCTOBER 8PM NUFFIELD THEATRE

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Winner, Edinburgh International Festival Fringe Prize 2009 Guardian ‘Pick of the Fringe’

UK/Belgium-based theatre company Reckless Sleepers formed in 1988, taking its name from a painting by the Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte. Led by Artistic Director Mole Wetherell, they have become an important and distinctive voice in contemporary theatre, always combining intellectual inquiry with deadpan humour.

Commissioned by the Lyric Hammersmith, If That’s All There Is was a sell-out hit at the Edinburgh Festival before touring nationally to rave reviews. A young company really going places, Inspector Sands follow their interest in the 21st Century mindset using their trademark bold visual theatre style and absurd humour.

If That’s All There Is takes shape as a mini-epic of longing, envy and psychobabble that examines our obsession with feeling happy at any cost. A couple are teetering on the brink of marriage. As the happiest day of their lives approaches, the panic begins to rise. And everyone’s watching… ★★★★★ Edinburgh Guide

★★★★ The Guardian

“An acutely observed, often surreal and sometimes painfully funny comedy about the dysfunctional links between modern neuroses and the all-too-human need for love” The Times www.inspectorsands.com

Commissioned by the Nuffield Theatre, Reckless Sleepers’ new show is about time, and travelling, and the rehearsals for the lunar landings. It’s about what happens when performers become moon-rock, re-enact a zero gravity moonwalk, or leave footprints that will never disappear. Dancing to the songs that astronauts sung as they went into orbit, it’s a 40th anniversary trip to the moon.

‘A wry, mischievous, lyrical and perceptive witness to the times we live in’. The Herald (on previous Nuffield show Spanish Train) www.reckless-sleepers.co.uk

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HETAIN PATEL’S EXHIBITION

THEATRE & DANCE

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LEVANTES DANCETHEATRE

HETAIN PATEL

SANKALPAM

ROOMTEMPERATURE ROMANCE

TEN

CORPO-REALITIES

2 NOVEMBER 8PM NUFFIELD THEATRE

4 NOVEMBER 8PM NUFFIELD THEATRE

9 NOVEMBER 8PM NUFFIELD THEATRE

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Somewhere between Bolton, Barbados, Scotland and India, three men – Hetain, Mark and Dave – make a journey of discovery. Subtly combining music, body percussion, dance and performance, and taking the Indian ten-beat rhythm cycle as a starting point, this show delves with honesty and humour into questions of cultural identity.

At the forefront of the Asian dance form Bharata Natyam, Sankalpam celebrates both tradition and change. Corpo-realities is an intimate triple bill for five outstanding dancers that pushes the boundaries of the Bharata Natyam form, and celebrates its variety.

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Starting life as a Nuffield Theatre/Rules + Regs commission, Levantes Dance Theatre’s show Room Temperature Romance went on to win the 2009 Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award and a run at London’s Barbican.

Blending dance, video and movement with flamboyant costume and evocative audio, Levantes have a charismatic movement style that playfully explores the perverse aspects of the human psyche. Time Out ‘Critics Choice’, Room Temperature Romance is a charming story about the moments that mean nothing and everything in life’s daily routine.

A fantasy voyage that invites you to indulge in the delights of ordinary and extraordinary behaviour, and ultimately just makes you smile. www.levantesdancetheatre.org

Corpo-realities is choreographed by a stellar line-up: Stephanie Schober, Southbank Centre resident choreographer; Luca Silvestrini, Artistic Director of Protein Dance; Stella Uppal Subbiah, Co-Artistic Director of Sankalpam, and internationally renowned theatre director Phillip Zarrilli.

TEN looks at the meeting place between the red dot on the Hindu forehead and the red cross on the English flag.

www.sankalpamdance.com

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NUTCRACKER MINIATURES Mon 6 Dec see page 16

Photo: Hetain Patel

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OCKHAM’S RAZOR

ROUGE 28THEATRE

PETE EDWARDS

THE MILL

URASHIMATARO

FAT

12 & 13 NOVEMBER 8PM GREAT HALL

16 NOVEMBER 8PM NUFFIELD THEATRE

30 NOVEMBER 8PM NUFFIELD THEATRE

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Rouge28 Theatre is a company of international artists based in London.

They fuse traditional puppetry and contemporary performance techniques to produce stunning, original and intriguing visual theatre.

FAT tells the journey of a gay, disabled man in search of his heart’s desire.

Combining movement and images with poignant anecdotes, FAT follows James in his surreal quest to find the fat man, eat some spaghetti and live happily ever after.

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Ockham’s Razor stunned sell-out audiences at the Nuffield Theatre with previous show Arc in 2008. They return laden with awards and plaudits with their new show, The Mill, that has astounded audiences and critics around the country..

Ockham’s Razor create daring physical theatre on specially created aerial equipment. In The Mill, a large wheel made of wood and steel is suspended from a 7-metre high rig, linked into a system of ropes and wooden drums to create an intricate set. Powered by the performers using all their strength and weight, they create a precarious world where small decisions or actions gather momentum and impetus beyond their control.

By turns treadmill and pleasure wheel, The Mill is the vehicle for a roller-coaster ride through every human emotion, and its effects are as unpredictable as they are dramatic. ‘a terrifically imaginative and original show, something really special.’ The Guardian ‘aerial artistry... with ingenuity and theatrical flair’ The Times www.ockhamsrazor.co.uk

Inspired by Japanese mythology, Urashima Taro combines striking visuals and video projections with life-size Bunraku-style puppets and Kamishibai, the traditional Japanese paper theatre that is the origin of Manga. The result is a fascinating and unsettling story of lust, betrayal and loss. www.rouge28theatre.co.uk

Pete Edwards is a playwright, actor and live artist. His work incorporates differing speech and body movement patterns that are rarely explored in contemporary performance.

Please note this performance contains material of an explicit and adult nature.

This will be a B.S.L. signed performance. www.filmpro.net/fatlive

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ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST

LANCASTER & DI DISTRICT STRICT CHORAL SOCIETY SO OCIETY

EAT DRINK SHOP

28th-30th November, The Sugarhouse

GUARDS! GUARDS! 9-11th December, Nuffield Theatre

Autumn Concert: Saturday Saturday, ay y, 27th November November, r, 2010. 7 7.30pm

Karl Jenkins’ Gloria (pr (premiered emiered July 2010),, Faure’s Faure’s Requiem Bob Chilcott Requiem, ott - A Little Jazz Masss

DAUGHTERS OF HEAVEN 10-11th December, The Dukes DT3

Spring Concert: Saturday Saturday, y, 16th April, 2011. 7.30pm AUDITIONS: 9th and 10th October 12noon in Furness College Foyer For more information visit www.theatregroup.co.uk or find us on Facebook

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Both concerts sited within th the he Great Hall, Lancaster University sity See www .ldcs-choral.org.uk for concert details and choir membership m www.ldcs-choral.org.uk

CAFÉ / BAR If you’re after something a little special, come and enjoy a cup of Atkinson’s finest fair-trade tea or coffee and a slice of quite simply the best cake on campus, supplied to us by The Ginger Bakers of Kendal. If you need a little more sustenance then we serve delicious fresh soup, provided by Lancaster University’s very own Souped Up, alongside a wide range of soft drinks and snacks. Our bar also boasts an impressive selection of locally brewed bottled beers, wines, lagers, ciders and spirits. We are open 11.00 – 4.00 Monday – Friday during term time and from an hour before the show on performance nights.

GALLERY SHOP From silver jewellery to sock monster toys, pottery to postcards, the Live at LICA shop based in the Peter Scott Gallery features an exciting and varied selection of work by local artists and craft makers.

We will also be stocking a large range of books, CDs and DVDs which relate to the current season, and cover diverse artistic practices.

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Dancing Lancaster

By Car

By Bus

Dancing Lancaster is a new scheme making it easier for you to discover the rich and diverse range of dance across the City. Choose to watch world class dance companies, learn your first steps or develop your professional dance skills. Dancing Lancaster will signpost classes, performances, festivals and more.

Make the most of Dancing Lancaster! Visit www.dancinglancaster.org

Leave the M6 motorway at junction 33 and take the A6 north towards Lancaster.

Turn right at the third set of traffic lights on the A6 into the University main drive.

Take the first exit left from the roundabout at the top of the main drive and follow signs for the Nuffield Theatre, Peter Scott Gallery or Great Hall.

Refunds and Exchanges These will not normally be made unless a performance has been cancelled. Please note all web advance tickets are non refundable. We are unable to reserve seats without payment.

Parking

Buses (numbers X1, 2, 2A, 3 and 4) leave from the centre of Lancaster very regularly (every 5 minutes on weekdays) for the 20 minute journey to the University. Buses also leave the city centre at Common Garden Street for the University. For bus information call ‘Traveline’ on 0871 200 22 33. All buses drop off at the University underpass, beneath Alexandra Square in the centre of campus.

NO Booking / Online Fees

Payment

We have now completely scrapped all of our internet transaction fees. Regardless of how you choose to pay, we don’t implement any booking, internet or postage fees.

Whether you book online or in person, we accept all major credit and debit cards except American Express or Diners Cards.

Box Office Location

The Nuffield Theatre is currently part of a national scheme to provide young people under the age of 26 with free theatre / dance tickets. We have set aside a number of tickets for various Nuffield shows this year – please contact the box office for details.

FREE tickets for under 26s The Box Office can be found at the rear of the Peter Scott Gallery, by the Making Time garden.

On the evening of shows and events, the box office is now located in the Peter Scott Gallery.

Accessibility

Box Office Opening Hours Open from 14 September

Social Networks

Monday to Friday 11am – 5pm, and until the show on the evenings of performances. An answer-phone operates outside of these times.

Find us at www.facebook.com/liveatlica or Twitter users can tweet us direct @liveatlica Group Bookings

Gallery Opening Hours The Peter Scott Gallery is open during exhibitions Monday to Friday, 11am – 5pm and Saturday 11am – 4pm.

Special ticket deals are available for groups including school parties. Please contact the box office on 01524 594151 for further information.

THIS BROCHURE IS AVAILBLE IN LARGE PRINT FORMAT. PLEASE CONTACT THE BOX OFFICE (01524 594151) FOR A COPY.

All our venues are fully accessible including nearby car parking spaces (see map opposite).

We have hearing loop systems in the Box Office, Great Hall and the Nuffield Theatre.

Guide / assistance dogs are welcome in the foyer and auditoria.

Patrons including: wheelchair users, registered disabled and essential companions are now able to book tickets directly online should they wish to do so.

Please contact us in advance with any special access requirements.

Visitor parking is available (free anywhere on campus after 6pm and weekends), including wheelchair accessible spaces.

See map for nearest locations for parking.

For weekday parking there are pay and display machines, alternatively parking scratchcards can be bought at the Reception lodge. Parking charges only apply weekdays before 6pm.

By Train There are direct rail links between Lancaster and London, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Oxford and major cities in Scotland. The X1 bus service runs between the Railway Station and the University every 20 minutes Mon - Sat daytimes and hourly on Sunday afternoons and evenings. Taxis are also available from outside the station.

Lancaster Railway Station is a 5 minute walk away from the city centre.

By Bike A scenic cycle route links campus to Lancaster city centre. The route takes around 25 minutes.

Live at LICA is sited in the Great Hall complex on the campus of Lancasetr University, set in 250 acres of beautiful landscaped parkland south of Lancaster city centre

DIARY AUTUMN 2010

DESIGN: ANONYNOUSDESIGN.NET

OCTOBER - DECEMBER FORCED ENTERTAINMENT:THE THRILL OF IT ALL

12 & 13 OCT 8pm

NUFFIELDTHEATRE

PRETTY EYED PIRATE SMILE BY ELLIE REES Opening 12 October 6pm

13 OCT – 13 NOV

PETER SCOTT GALLERY

KANKU RAGA AND TO DANCE LIKE YOUR DAD BY HETAIN PATEL Opening 12 October 6pm

13 OCT – 17 DEC

PETER SCOTT GALLERY

LITFEST – CAROL ANNE DUFFY

15 OCT 7.30pm

LUDUS DANCE & NUFFIELD THEATRE PRESENT: CONSEQUENCES

19 OCT 8pm

GREAT HALL NUFFIELDTHEATRE

MAKING TIME FINALE

21 OCT TimesTBA

INSPECTOR SANDS: IF THAT’S ALL THERE IS

22 OCT 8pm

TCHAIKOVSKY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF MOSCOW RADIO

28 OCT 7.30pm

RECKLESS SLEEPERS: IT’S GOING TO BE A LONG, LONG TIME

29 OCT 8pm

NUFFIELDTHEATRE

LEVANTES DANCE THEATRE: ROOM TEMPERATURE ROMANCE

2 NOV 8pm

NUFFIELDTHEATRE

ENDELLION STRING QUARTET WITH WENDY COPE

4 NOV 7.30pm

HETAIN PATEL:TEN

4 NOV 8pm

GARDEN NUFFIELDTHEATRE GREAT HALL

GREAT HALL NUFFIELDTHEATRE

SANKALPAM: CORPO-REALITIES

9 NOV 8pm

NUFFIELDTHEATRE

BARDOLINO

11 NOV 7.30pm

NUFFIELDTHEATRE

OCKHAM ’S RAZOR:THE MILL

12 & 13 NOV 8pm

ROUGE 28: URASHIMA TARO

16 NOV 8pm

GREAT HALL NUFFIELDTHEATRE

LANCASHIRE SINFONIETTA

18 NOV 7.30pm

EDUARDO PAOLOZZI: GENERAL DYNAMIC F.U.N. Opening 22 November 6pm

23 NOV – 17 DEC

PETER SCOTT GALLERY

UNTITLED (PINK DOT) BY TAKESHI MURATA Opening 22 November 6pm

23 NOV - 17 DEC

PETER SCOTT GALLERY

PSAPPHA

25 NOV 7.30pm

PETE EDWARDS: FAT

30 NOV 8pm

HALLÉ YOUTH CHOIR

4 DEC 7.30pm

NUTCRACKER MINIATURES

6 DEC 11am & 1.30pm

GREAT HALL

GREAT HALL NUFFIELDTHEATRE GREAT HALL NUFFIELDTHEATRE

Box Office 01524 594151 www.liveatlica.org boxoffice@liveatlica.org