SAMPLED FESTIVAL
Unfinished and Unleashed
Sat 04 – Sun 05 May 2013
SAMPLED Festival: Unfinished and Unleashed is a weekend festival celebrating fresh ideas in performance, covering contemporary theatre, dance, live art, spoken word, sound art, circus and everything in between. Two varied days of entertainment, ideas and inspiration for audiences and artists. Cambridge Junction is a centre for both the presentation and the development of innovative contemporary performance and we are keen to invite audiences to see the process. We’re interested in the kind of shows that couldn’t exist without audiences: shows and experiences made for the live moment, teetering on the edge, about to fall off.
Unfinished and Unleashed
This year, the programme consists of three strands reflecting on themselves and both interrogating and celebrating fresh ideas and the processes of making performance: Unfinished, Unleashed and Unrealised. SAMPLED Festival charts the development of ideas from hesitant scribblings, through pitches, work-in-progress performances at various stages, all the way to finished shows, and then the impossible!
Unfinished Work-in-progress performances from some of the UK’s most exciting performance makers, presenting shows at varying stages of development, all with opportunities for feedback and discussion. Saturday will also feature a debate on the benefits and problems with the expectation of presenting performance in an unfinished state.
Saturday Block Stop DEADWAIT Sarah wakes up in an empty room. She has been taken by the ‘416 Killer’. You are an agent. You have been linked wirelessly to Sarah and must guide her to safety through a maze of dangers and difficult choices. Can you win the game? blockstop.co.uk Hannah Jane Walker and Chris Thorpe I Wish I Was Lonely A participatory show about contactability in which the audience commit to leaving their phones on. A show investigating what it means to participate in communication – or not. hannahjanewalker.co.uk Louise Orwin Am I Pretty/Ugly? Responding to a trend of teenage girls posting videos on YouTube asking viewers to rate their looks. If YouTube is a mirror of our society, what is being reflected? louiseorwin.com John Boursnell A Young Person’s Guide to Musique Concrète A tabletop performance for an audience of three: a collection of sounds conjured from objects and speakers featuring Frenchmen in bow ties, arguments with Germans, and possibly, The Beatles. johnboursnell.co.uk
Sleepwalk Collective Karaoke Catatonically deadpan; an exercise in antitheatricality that’s either brazenly cynical or pathetically honest depending on how you want to look at it. sleepwalkcollective.com 30 Bird Domestic Labour: A Study in Love Dancing bicycles and vintage Hoovers are brought to life in this witty investigation of feminism, love and the very domestic fight over who does the washing up, revealing connections between Iran and Europe. 30bird.org Discussion Does the culture of presenting work-in-progress show a lack of trust in artists, audiences and promoters? A panel discussion and audience debate on the prevalent culture of showing performance early, and why it’s vital – or not? TOOT Be Here Now An interactive celebration of record shops and ‘music you can hold’ exploring the thrill and anticipation of buying and consuming music, and the ways we chart our lives through how we listen to music. tenoutoften.org.uk Made in China Gym Party Amidst the litter of brains of Those Who Have Passed, Jess, Chris and Ira vie for success. At once a delicate and violent three-way contest and a hilariously confused call-to-arms. The product of a new co-commissioning collaboration between Mayfest, Pulse, Sampled and Sprint festivals. madeinchinatheatre.com
Sunday only the lonely breakfast A breakfast discussion group. The first of a series of events taking place at Cambridge Junction over the next year, led by producer Claire Summerfield, drawing on different formats exploring how we develop and interrogate art, forming a network of ‘critical friends’. Block Stop DEADWAIT tattenbaum-deluca make way for tatty-del’s second show How much space is a performer invited to take up, whose turn it is to take the stage and where is the line exactly between being ‘good at sharing’ and doing a total overshare? tattenbaum-deluca.com
Michael Pinchbeck The Middle A one-man show devised for a theatre foyer. Hamlet is a character caught in a limbo between ‘To be or not to be’ and by casting his father, Tony, to play the title role, Michael hopes to explore time passing, ageing and the relationship between father and son. michaelpinchbeck.co.uk Tom Penn An Extraordinary Amount of Time The window of opportunity for life to exist in our universe is almost impossibly small. Yet here we are, together, living in an unimaginably tiny and precious moment. This show is a celebration of the time we have. @GrenvillePenn
Hunt and Darton BORE There will be more moves, poems, ‘you do it’ bits and definitely leggings. We are the opposite of bored about this. In fact, it might be about excitement. huntanddarton.com
Hollie McNish A British Tea Break Did you hear her? She said she was English. Fucking English! In this intimate spoken word show, Hollie McNish brings to the tea table her confusions and dilemmas over Britishness, cuppas, cupcakes and scones. holliemcnish.com
Huck Alexander The Great – A Folk Operetta A musical coming of age/road movie style story dealing with themes of religion, drug use, sexual identity and love as a teenager in mid west America. pindroppublicity.com
Freddie Opoku-Addaie All Hands On Vivid moments and personal experiences of the equivocating human condition, loosely based on the BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs format, the work takes a surreal path exploring the physical and psychological struggles within us.
Ollie Smith Cat In Hell Via sleek whiskers and glamorous assistants, handcuffs and horror movies, conjuring tricks and confetti, this is a nightmarish dismemberment of escapology acts, circus sideshows and Vegas-style cabaret – and a blackhumoured meditation on loneliness and control. ollie-smith.com
Jonathan Priest Knot Circus ‘What is on the end of your rope? How much rope is enough? If something comes undone can it be fixed?’ Based on themes taken from the work of RD Laing also titled “knots”. ausform.co.uk/jonathanpriest.html
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Cambridge Junction is fully accessible. If you would like to discuss any access issue prior to your visit, please call us on 01223 511 511. You can request this guide in large print.
Info
Under 14s must be accompanied by an adult. Booking fees of £1 per ticket apply to online and telephone bookings (no fees charged in person at our Box Office counter). All seated events are unreserved. Capacities for each show in the festival vary, so a pass ticket does not guarantee entry to all events.
Unfinished and Unleashed
UnLEASHed On Saturday evening, beginning with a new durational performance from GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN, we present an evening of five performances which, in their own particular ways, are never ‘finished’: live, varied from performance to performance, partially improvised or partially unplanned. Unleashed only passes available, subject to availability - £8
GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN Hairpiece “Hair I am.” “I’m hair too.” “I’ve always been hair.” Premier of this durational performance set to be the length of a traditional theatre show, 5 wigs are locked in a game of banal wordplay that circles around questions of existence, entitlement and class. getinthebackofthevan.com Tim Spooner Subliming Furiously A story is cast in the interior cavities of the mouth and respiratory system and released into the larger interior of the venue. A demonstration of language as a material substance. We travel through the woods and encounter scenes on the verge of tragic abstraction. tspooner.co.uk New Noveta HUPHEN HYRAX An exploration of bodies at work through ritual, noise, movement and constructed physical structure, they present their vision with no set course. We wouldn’t want to ruin the surprise! newnoveta.portfoliobox.me
Jamila Johnson-Small and Alexandrina Hemsley ‘O’ – a contemporary struggle ‘O’ is scandalous, joyous, confused, outraged and simply hurt. A negotiation of the delicate consequences of making a dance about being black, mixed and female. This is a dance that reconsiders the dilemmas, assumptions and sexualisation that bodies can be subjected to. ‘O’ is an unflinching account of minority experiences - a physical unfolding of a realisation of difference. acontemporarystruggle.com Greg McLaren Symphony for Audience and Performer This oblique state-of-thenation triptych, brought into existence through collaboration with the audience, focusses on the current social situation in England, then zooms out to rest of Europe and the world. The action follows the descent from heaven of a dead man mistaken (in heaven) for Steve Jobs and descends via police helicopter to a nationless, homeless fox, desperate to please but unable to understand. We fall down again to the riotous city below. Will you play your part in the story, do nothing, or resist? gregmclaren.com
Unrealised Ideas before they’ve been made, that just might inspire you... Our foyer will be filled with pages of notebooks full of ideas for artworks that may never have been made, providing an enticing insight into different artists’ creative processes. We asked artists for their next idea, the one that hasn’t been developed yet, to present their creative response to the concept of a ‘pitch’, with the opportunity of having the full version commissioned by Cambridge Junction. Sign up for a slot on the day and experience their pitches, the beginnings of a performance yet to be made. See website for further details. Most events are limited capacity. Nigel Barrett and Louise Mari Eye Test Hannah Silva Panopticon Sh!t Theatre [ideas around crime] Jamie Moakes HE SAID John Boursnell [ideas around cons and Spirit Photography] Helen Stratford An Architectural Cleaning Cupboard Tour Laura Milnes Iuvenes adeste (you, when, add ‘A’s, add, est, eh?) SHATTER RESISTANT After Party Tom Bailey and Dan Ashworth Tailored Tom Penn Alright, So Does Everyone Know What They’re Doing? Bill Aitchison The Tour of All Tours
Performing the Impossible
Closing the festival, we look to the impossible, inviting artists to perform proposals for projects that could never be realised: sometimes things are better left in the imagination. A mixed bill of performed proposals. Structured around an Arts Council application, Jane Francis Dunlop’s ‘Proposal One (A Presentation)’ explains a satirical long-term participatory art performance wherein participants give her money to live. Thomas Martin will then explain his ideas for ‘Modern Girl: An Impossible Meat Loaf Jukebox Musical About Transvestites and Transexuals In the Deep South of the United States. Performed By A Cast of Hundreds. Explained by Tom.’
Plus more to be announced.
Full details, tickets and schedules at junction.co.uk
schedule Saturday Time
Length
Company name
Title
Venue
Status
1200 (every 45mins til 1845)
30mins
Block Stop
DEADWAIT
ANT Lab
Unfinished
1230
30mins
Hannah Jane Walker and Chris Thorpe
I Wish I Was Lonely
J3
Unfinished
1315
30mins
Louise Orwin
Am I Pretty/Ugly?
J2
Unfinished
1330 (every 30mins til 1800)
20mins
John Boursnell
A Young Person’s Guide to Musique Concrète
The Hub
Unfinished
1400
20mins
Sleepwalk Collective
Karaoke
J3
Unfinished
1445
30mins
30 Bird
Domestic Labour: A Study In Love
J2
Unfinished
1530
1 hour
Discussion
Does the culture of presenting Mezzanine work-in-progress show a lack of trust in artists, audiences and promoters?
1630
20mins
TOOT
Be Here Now
J2
Unfinished
1700
40mins
Made in China
Gym Party
J3
Unfinished
1800
Durational
GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN
Hairpiece
J2
Unleashed
1930
1 hour
Greg McLaren
Symphony for an Audience and Performer
J3
Unleashed
2035
20mins
Tim Spooner
Subliming Furiously
J1
Unleashed
2100
10mins
New Noveta
Huphen Hurax
Foyer
Unleashed
2130
45mins
Jamila Johnson-Small and Alexandrina Hemsley
‘O’ – A Contemporary Struggle
J2
Unleashed
Status
Sunday Time
Length
Company name
Title
Venue
1030
1 hour
Only The Lonely
Breakfast
Mezzanine
1130 (every 45mins til 1515)
40mins
Block Stop
DEADWAIT
ANT Lab
Unfinished
1130
20mins
tattenbaum-deluca
make way for tatty-del’s second show
J3
Unfinished
1200
30mins
Hunt and Darton
Bore
J2
Unfinished
1240
20mins
Huck
Alexander The Great – A Folk Operetta
J3
Unfinished
1310
40mins
Ollie Smith
Cat In Hell
J2
Unfinished
1400
20mins
Michael Pinchbeck
The Middle
Foyer
Unfinished
1430
20mins
Tom Penn
An Extraordinary Amount of Time
J2
Unfinished
1505
30mins
Hollie McNish
A British Tea Break
Boardroom Unfinished
1545
25mins
Freddie Opoku-Addaie
All Hands On
J2
Unfinished
1630
50mins
Jonathan Priest
Knot Circus
J2
Unfinished
1730
30mins
Various artists
Peforming the Impossible
J2
Unrealised
At the end of each of the Unfinished performances the audience will be invited to stay for a 10 minute session of feedback and discussion to inform the shows “development”.