Pulse Proof 2 by Wes Fife

Ipswich Fringe Festival

27 May to 12 June

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TICKETS PG THE IRANIAN SIEGE 6.30pm £6 00 SJM THURS 27 MAY FREE TIME RADICAL 7.45pm £6 00 NWS THURS 27 MAY FRI 28 MAY 7pm ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE WORDS 8pm £6 00 NWT THURS 27 MAY FRI 28 MAY 8.30pm COME TO WHERE I’M FROM 7pm £6 00 SJM FRI 28 MAY DANCE3 7.30pm £8 00 JDH FRI 28 MAY & SAT 29 MAY SEX IDIOT 10pm £6 00 NWS FRI 28 MAY INVISIBLE 11.30am £4 00 NWS SAT 29 MAY INTERNAL 2.30, 3, 3.30pm £8 00 NOV SAT 29 MAY SUN 30 MAY 4, 4.30, 7, 7.30 8, 8.30, 9pm MOMENTS OF ENCOUNTER 3pm 00 CHE SAT 29 MAY POLAND 3 IRAN 2 4pm £8 00 GRY SAT 29 MAY WHENEVER I GET BLOWN UP… 7pm £8 00 NWS SAT 29 MAY PAPER TOM 8.30pm £4 00 SJM SAT 29 MAY REYKJAVÍK 2.30pm, 4pm £8 00 THG SUN 30 MAY ROSS SUTHERLAND 6.30pm £6 00 SJM SUN 30 MAY THE BELL JAR 6.30pm £4 00 NWS SUN 30 MAY CERTAIN DARK THINGS 8pm £8 00 NWT SUN 30 MAY DEATH DRIVE 8.30pm £6 00 SJM SUN 30 MAY KEEPERS 8.30pm £6 00 NWS SUN 30 MAY 3D CAMERA OBSCURA 00 BSC TUE 1, WED 2, FRI 4 10am, 12noon, 2pm & SAT 5 JUNE LANGUAGE 00 BSC TUE 1, WED 2, FRI 4 11am, 1pm, 3pm & SAT 5 JUNE SUS NWS TUE 1 & WED 2 JUNE 7pm £6 00 WATERLOG 7.30pm £4 00 SJM TUE 1 JUNE HALF MAN, HALF CLAM 8.30pm £8 00 NWT TUE 1 JUNE STOLEN VOICES 7pm £6 00 SJM WED 2 JUNE SUDDEN CHANGE OF EVENT 8.45pm £8 00 NWT WED 2 JUNE WHAT DO YOU THINK… 9pm £6 00 SJM WED 2 JUNE IT’S LIKE HE’S KNOCKING TBC THURS 3 & 6pm £8 00 FRI 4 JUNE MOSHING LYING DOWN & AGNES AND WALTER

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TICKETS PG 7.45pm £6 00 8pm £6 00 7.50, 8.10, 8.30am 00 1, 1.20, 1.40, 5.30, 5.50, 6.10, 6.30pm 6 to 9pm 00 7.45pm £4 00 8pm £8 00 10.15pm £6 00 4pm £8 00 6pm £6 00

TAKEN LEAVE SJM THURS 3 JUNE TRUE LOVE WAITS NWS THURS 3 JUNE ONE-MINUTE BIRDWATCHING FRI 4 JUNE POWERHOUSE NWT FRI 4 JUNE LIQUORICE AND… NWS FRI 4 JUNE ENTANGLED & DAS (IST) EIN... NWT FRI 4 JUNE PREGNANT?! NWS FRI 4 JUNE SHALLOWRIDGE THG SAT 5 JUNE ALMOST 10 SJM SAT 5 JUNE EVERYTHING MUST GO 7.30pm £6 00 NWS SAT 5 JUNE TU I TERAZ 8pm £4 00 SJM SAT 5 JUNE BETWEEN THE CRACKS 3pm £6 00 SJM SUN 6 JUNE MY NAME IS… 7pm £6 00 JDH SUN 6 JUNE BIG BAG OF BOOM 7pm £6 00 NWS SUN 6 JUNE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS £8 00 MCG SUN 6 JUNTEN COME 9pm YOU WILL BE RARE 9am to 5pm 00 BSC TUE 8, WED 9 & THURS 10 JUNE YOU WILL BE RARE ARTIST LECTURE WED & THURS 1pm THE MAN I CURE 7pm £8 00 THG TUE 8 JUNE SHAKESPEARE À LA CARTE 8pm £20 00 ARL TUE 8 JUNE MY NAME IS SUE 8pm £8 00 NWT TUE 8 JUNE CATCHER 8.30pm £6 00 NWS TUE 8 JUNE 3RD RING OUT 00 INSTRUCTION FOR HEARTBREAK 6.30pm £6 00 NWS WED 9 JUNE FRA/G/MENT/ING 5.30, 6, 6.30pm £4 00 SC THURS 10 JUNE FRI 11 JUNE 5.30, 6, 6.30pm SAT 12 JUNE 5.30, 6, 6.30pm RAIN FROM A DRY SKY 7pm £4 00 NWS THURS 10 JUNE WOLF 8.15, 9.45pm £8 00 UCS THURS 10 JUNE LECTURE NOTES ON A DEATH SCENE ?? FRI 11 & 12 NOON, 1, 2, 4pm, £8 00 SAT 12 JUNE 5, 6, 8, 9pm BURNING OUT 00 BSC 6.0 9pm £6 00 NWS FRI 11 JUNE KELLERMAN

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Ipswich Fringe Festival

Welcome to PULSE ’10, your opportunity to see the newest and the most cutting edge work from the UK and beyond! Not only is PULSE a great opportunity for you Festival Freddies to explore new cultures and experiences, but it’s also an incredibly valuable chance to socialise with like minded festival folk! This year sees more innovative and exciting venues added to the list, with theatre in a bed-sit, a car park and a shipping container! We’re also showcasing a selection of the newest work from the region in the Escalator Weekend, which opens the festival and we’re making it even easier for you hardcore followers to see more work with the introduction of the Festival Pass. Buy the pass for a tenner and you get a quid off every ticket – plus extra benefits!! Choosing what to see is a hard job and it’s just not possible to see it all, especially because the number of shows this year has almost doubled!!! The PULSE website is an invaluable resource with links to participating companies, extracts from shows, more images… everything you need to make informed choices.

It’s only left to thank you, the supporters of PULSE for making this one of the most successful Fringe Festivals in the region. As long as you continue to hunger for innovative and exciting new work, we’ll serve it up piping hot and tasty!! And while we’re on the subject, we are teaming up with the Greyhound Pub again this year to offer you an amazing 25% discount on your food – upon presentation of your ticket for a PULSE 10 event!

Enjoy!

Steve Freeman Festival Director

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Check the website daily to view my video blog, Steve’s Shorts (from 24 May), to post reviews and to check out what’s new.

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This is one reward card that you will use!! We thought it was time that we gave a perk to those hardcore festival goers among you, to make it even easier to see as much work as you want to!! The pass will entitle you to a quid off every ticket, limited to 1 ticket per performance. You’ll also be invited to the Festival Wrap Party, which is a chance to chat with the festival team and give your feedback on the numerous events you’ve attended across the festival. The festival pass is ten quid and can be purchased from the Box Office at the New Wolsey Theatre. By purchasing a pass, you become part of a very select group of Festival Freddies – there’s no need for funny handshakes or rolling up the left leg of your trousers in this club – just wear your pass, enjoy some of the most exciting theatre and don’t be surprised if we come and say hello!!!

UNDER CONSTRUCTION When you see this symbol it indicates that the piece is a rehearsed reading or a work in development. Works in development can be at various stages of production.

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TWO BITES OF THE CHERRY To help you to get the most out of PULSE, days when you can see more than one event have been marked with the ‘Two Bites Of The Cherry’ symbol.

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Escalator has been supporting performing artists and companies from the East of England since 2003 to investigate their practice and undertake a creative journey. The programme identifies nurtures and invests in talented practitioners across art-forms who want to develop artistically and establish a market place for their work. Escalator Performing Arts provides artists with time and space to play, test ideas and explore new directions. The emphasis is not on a final ‘product’ but the ‘process’ encouraging artists to collaborate, take risks and embrace mistakes. The programme responds to the individual; offering learning plans, one-on-one mentoring from practicing artists, artist led training, links to useful networks and platform opportunities to present ideas and work in progress. Highlights include live artist Holly Darton making the shift to become a solo practitioner and urban dance artist and Tom Dale, trying a series of ‘happenings’ in club spaces. Escalator East to Edinburgh prepares artists and companies for the Edinburgh Festivals and beyond. It aims to make the exhausting Edinburgh experience more enjoyable and less isolating by providing press and PR, promoter liaison, marketing and a creative community of support up at the Fringe. The programme has previously championed Hoipolloi, NIE and Gecko and in 2010 we are delighted to be taking 20 diverse shows up to the Festival, 8 of which you can see in PULSE - look for this logo on the following pages:

Escalator East to Edinburgh and Escalator Performing Arts is managed by The Junction in partnership with Colchester Arts Centre. The development scheme is supported by Arts Council England, East.

“Escalator is an excellent scheme that has enabled Hoipolloi to develop our creativity, hone our producing skills and, perhaps most importantly, share our knowledge and experience with emerging talent in the region.” Simon Bedford, Producer: Hoipolloi For more info contact: kate@junction.co.uk www.junction.co.uk www.easttoedinburgh.co.uk

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A rehearsed reading of a thrilling and deeply personal new play by astounding writer Jack Thorne (2nd May 1997, Skins, Shameless) Presented by: I nternationally acclaimed new writing company nabokov Jack Thorne (2nd May 1997, Skins, Shameless) produced by internationally acclaimed new writing company nabokov in association with The Watford Palace and The Mercury, Colchester. Jack Thorne is one of the most exciting voices in British theatre with credits including the critically acclaimed sell-out productions of 2nd May 1997, Stacey, and When You Cure Me. He is also a prolific television writer, scripting some of the nations favourite shows including Skins and Shameless. Jack is a writer with a piercing insight into the human condition. nabokov is an exhilarating new writing theatre company dedicated to commissioning, developing and producing theatre that explores the human narrative within, and offers a provocative response to, contemporary events, trends and agendas. After the sell out success of Is Everyone OK? at the Pulse Festival 2009 nabokov is thrilled to be returning to Pulse with this rehearsed reading of their next major production set to premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2010 before touring to the Watford Palace and The Mercury Colchester.

SIR JOHN MILLS THEATRE DATE: Thurs 27 May TIME: 6.30pm TICKETS: £4

nabokov presents

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“The dynamic young theatrical group nabokov” The Independent February 2010 www.nabokov-online.com Recommended for ages 16+ FRINGE.COM

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Thurs 27 May Fri 28 May TIME: 7.45pm 7pm TICKETS: £6 £6

The Frequency D’ici and The New Wolsey Theatre presents

Two guys share a flat in a converted church in a big metropolis. They are from different parts of the world, united by a shared passion for surfing. Outside the flat, the world is flooding dramatically. Whole continents are disappearing under water; populations are being wiped out. Society is drowning, riots are breaking out. As water takes on a new meaning so does surfing… Free Time Radical is a domestic story of epic proportions from the creative team behind 2009 PULSE festival hit Paperweight. “A funny, sad, truthful and surreal piece.” The Scotsman on Paperweight Recommended for ages 16+

THURSDAY 27 MAY ONLY

Developed at Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Jersey Arts Centre and New Greenham Arts. www.thefrequencydici.co.uk

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Using the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice as its starting point this theatrical poem deals with love and loss, courage and cowardice, overwhelming passion and violent grief. Orpheus and Eurydice are the golden couple of their generation, she conquering the catwalks with her extraordinary beauty and he setting stadiums on fire with his magical music. Their wedding is set to be the hottest ticket of the twenty first century. But when Eurydice is killed by an obsessive stalker Orpheus’ grief is uncontainable. He sets off to the underworld to bring his wife back from the dead and return with her to the land of the living.

NEW WOLSEY THEATRE DATE: Thurs 27 May Fri 28 May TIME: 8pm 8.30pm TICKETS: £6 £6

The New Wolsey Theatre presents

Combining the skills of some of Britain’s leading aerialists with music and video this experimental piece explores the possibilities of fusing circus and theatre skills to create a dynamic piece of theatre in three dimensions. AFTER PERFORMANCE

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SIR JOHN MILLS THEATRE DATE: Fri 28 May TIME: 7pm TICKETS: £6

Paines Plough and The New Wolsey Theatre present

The leading new writing company Paines Plough is asking playwrights from across the UK to write plays about the places they grew up. In villages and towns and cities, these plays will be performed by the writers themselves. In this special one-off performance at the PULSE Festival, playwrights from the East of England come home to tell their tale. Come To Where I’m From will result in a theatrical tapestry of the UK, woven by writers asking if home really is where the heart is. For details of the writers performing, visit: www.painesplough.com

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Recommended for ages 14+

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Devised, choreographed and performed by: Darren Ellis A solo for Darren and his drumsticks, this is an exploration of practice and the quest for perfection. Just as a drummer must lock and focus his co-ordination, measuring out a rhythm to entice people to dance, a simple rhythm can inspire armies to move. When the sticks take control that’s when the trouble starts.

JERWOOD DANCEHOUSE DATE: Fri 28 & Sat 29 May TIME: 7.30pm TICKETS: £8

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TRIPLE BILL DANCE3 A triple bill from the new wave of dance makers

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By: Laïla Diallo in collaboration with Theo Clinkard Canadian born, Bristol based choreographer Laïla Diallo first came to prominence as a dancer with Wayne McGregor’s Random Dance before attracting attention with her own choreographic work. Here, in collaboration with Theo Clinkard, she creates physical narratives of togetherness and evokes shifting landscapes of distance and closeness.

By: Mickael Marso Riviere

www. dance3.org Dance 3 is a new small scale touring initiative from the National Dance Network touring three sets of triple bills throughout the UK in 2010.

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French choreographer Mickael Marso Riviere is well known as a hip hop artist and formed Company Decalage in 2004. Appel is a trio based on the live interaction between two dancers and a musician playing Bansuri (flute) and tabla and inspired in equal parts by B-boying and capoeira. A BLANK CANVAS Foyer Installation by Heather Eddington Blends the mediums of dance, film and animation into a dancefilm installation. The dancers vividly recount their individual journeys and personal stories; nostalgically humorous and at times strikingly truthful but always intriguingly beautiful.

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NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Fri 28 May TIME: 10pm TICKETS: £6

Bryony Kimmings presents

In 2009 Bryony had her very first STI test and found out she had a very common sexual disease. In the same month, whilst moving house, she found a box of letters, emails, love mementos and hate mail from a myriad of previous partners. Not one for looking back, Bryony was faced with the arduous task of re-tracing her sexual footsteps to see where she may have contracted her little problem. This performance is about her journey… along the way she will reminisce, tell the forbidden truths and in some cases apologise wholeheartedly for the things she has done in the name of sexual conquest and love. This work has been supported by The Junction and Arts Council Escalator Scheme. Sex Idiot will be part of the East to Edinburgh 2010 programme funded by the Arts Council. www.bryonykimmings.com Recommended for ages 16+

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I was up on the 16th floor. I thought, if I unhooked my belt, if I fell, would these people notice? Would they stop? Would anyone miss me? Following a period of research and development in eastern Europe and at the National Theatre Studio in London, Invisible is a reading of Transport’s latest production in development. Invisible explores the contemporary phenomenon of mass migration to Britain highlighting questions around 21st century mobility, international migration, immigration, cultural, national and personal identity.

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Sat 29 May TIME: 11.30am TICKETS: £4

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Transport presents

Directed by Douglas Rintoul and written by Croatia’s leading playwright Tena Štivi i , Invisible is a moving account of personal journeys within a world in constant ﬂux. www.transport-theatre.eu

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Recommended for ages 14+

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NOVOTEL DATE: Sat 29 & Sun 30 May TIME: 2.30pm, 3pm, 3.30pm, 4pm, 4.30pm 7pm, 7.30pm, 8pm, 8.30pm, 9pm TICKETS: £8

Ontroerend Goed in association with Richard Jordan Productions Ltd.

Dear Spectator, We are five performers in search for a partner. We’d like to invite you to the next performance of Internal, our individual playground, where you can get to know us in a cosy and spontaneous atmosphere. We guarantee you an intimate and highly personal treatment. Please, inform us in time if you are unable to control your feelings. We will provide an elegant and discrete solution. Yours sincerely, The Actors

A performance by: Alexander Devriendt, Sophie De Somere, Aurélie Lannoy, Nicolaas Leten and Joeri Smet. Presented with the support of the Flemish Community, the province of East-Flanders and the City of Ghent. Winner of an Edinburgh Fringe First and a Herald Angel Award Recommended for ages 16+

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A work in development Moments of Encounter is a site-specific performance work created for a market square context. Created in collaboration with volunteer performers, Moments of Encounter is inspired by the daily rituals and patterns of movement inherent within a market place. The performance explores everyday interactions and gestures to create new and re-configured meaning and inter-relations. As the accepted boundaries of exchange fluctuate and blur, performers combine with passers-by to create an immersive, interactive work that can be experienced from the outside and within - involving the spectators themselves as part of the theatrical frame and real-time performance.

CORNHILL, IPSWICH TOWN CENTRE DATE: Sat 29 May TIME: 3pm

Rachel Oxley presents

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THE GREYHOUND DATE: Sat 29 May TIME: 4pm TICKETS: £8

30 Bird Productions present

In 1976, the best ever Polish football team played against arguably the best ever Iranian football team in the Montreal Olympics. This match featured the world renowned players Tomaszewski, Lato and Deyna for Poland as well as the great Ali Parvin for Iran, nicknamed ‘The Sultan’. Such a clash of talent led to a memorable game with Poland edging to a 3-2 win against Iran and going on to gain the Silver medal. In a humorous slide lecture/performance, visual artist Chris Dobrowolski and 30 Bird artistic director Mehrdad Seyf discuss football, revolution, swimming, chess, love and Subbuteo aided by footage from the match, specially created installations and stills of their family histories from the present day to WWII. Both artists are from migrant families and their experience of everyday life isn’t defined by one culture. Poland 3 Iran 2 truly captures how much two people from seemingly completely different backgrounds have in common both locally and internationally. “A slick, stylish, succession of stylised vignettes” The Guardian on Plastic  www.30birdproductions.org www.youtube.com/30BirdProductions Recommended for ages 12+

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A one-woman show that begins with a girl walking the streets of London searching for the next party, navigating her way through a city she believes has all the answers.

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Sat 29 May TIME: 7pm TICKETS: £6

Molly Naylor presents

Full of expectation and hope and on a quest to make her life just like the movies, she isn’t prepared for the party not being what it seems as she encounters a series of reality checks epitomised by dead-end jobs, disillusioned characters and the immeasurable cynicism of her generation. Then, in the hangover after the successful Olympic bid celebrations, she finds herself on one of the trains blown up on 7/7. In the seconds the bomb takes to explode, it throws her and London into the chaos of fallibility. Poetry, comedy and storytelling combine to tell this autobiographical 21st Century tale about how we put things together again after they have been blown apart. www.mollynaylor.com www.myspace.com/mollynaylorpoet www.hodmanandsally.com Recommended for ages 14+ Leaning On Cows is a brand new company formed of experienced young theatre professionals (hailing from the National Theatre, West End and Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds) devoted to exploring the medium of theatre to it’s full potential.

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SIR JOHN MILLS THEATRE DATE: Sat 29 May TIME: 8.30pm TICKETS: £4

Handheld Arts Collective presents

A work in development One thousand origami birds can grant a soul one wish. Or so it is said. A story told can be traded for food. A newspaper can be made into clothes. And a man who fought for his nation can return to find he no longer fits his old life - he has grown too big, too small, too creased for the smoothness of his old routines. But where do you go when you slip between the folds? Through a blend of visual media, animation, object manipulation and original music, Handheld Arts tells the story of Paper Tom – a homeless man who clothed himself in the stories of other people’s lives and traded tales for food. Taking the audience by the hand on a journey spanning time and place, we explore the space between spaces, and the moments of transformation where a single piece of paper can become a bird, or a memory can become a reality…

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“Handheld Arts are a uniquely balanced company… unashamedly enthusiastic about their storytelling, fresh with their practice and striking in their delivery.” Ray Downing, Associate Director of Theatre Venture.

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Writer and Performer: Jonathan Young Directed By: Carolina Valdes & Lucinka Eisler Set and AV Design: Paul Burgess Lighting Designer: Katharine Williams Sound Designer: Adrienne Quartly Producer: Time Won’t Wait

TOWN HALL GALLERIES DATE: Sun 30 May TIME: 4pm & 6pm TICKETS: £8

Shams presents

Imagine being lost in a foreign country Bright light and fog distorting your view Whatever possessed you to come here? Part travelogue, part forensic reconstruction, Reykjavík is a journey through a city of extremes - mysterious, absurd and beautiful - in search of a half-forgotten love affair.

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Created in collaboration with neuroscientist Hugo Spiers, this immersive, multi-sensory installation and playful performance asks: how far can we trust our own memory? “It’s a piece of theatre - “play” is too conventional a term - that experiments visibly with concepts of audience and performer, performance space, and performance itself. Smooth and dreamlike... it’s captivating throughout... heartfelt meditations on love, forgetting and inevitability” British Theatre Guide www.shamstheatre.org.uk www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMBiIM2xOgY Recommended for ages 16+ FRINGE.COM 19

SIR JOHN MILLS THEATRE DATE: Sun 30 May TIME: 6.30pm TICKETS: £6

Aisle16 presents

Ross Sutherland brings together animation and poetry to tell the true-story of his search for the cheapest form of timetravel, from self-fulfilling prophesies, to time capsules to moving back in with his parents. Included in The Time’s Top Ten Literary Stars of the Year / Time Out Critic’s Choice Award 2010. “Is this a performance poet with a comic’s stagecraft or a highly literate standup? Sutherland’s one man show is as slippery as an eel in it’s definition, and all the better for it. Hopelessly in love with language in the same way Daniel Kitson and Stewart Lee are, Sutherland’s show brings together home made videos, diagrams and poetry readings. A truly original, great show” Brighton Argus Broadway Baby  Recommended for ages 14+

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Award winning Theatre Ad Infinitum cracks open The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath’s tale of a tormented woman whose search for identity becomes a descent into madness. One woman uses the rich nuances of her unique voice and a distilled style of physical performance to weave together this story of pain, beauty and unceasing internal conflict. Lecoq-trained Ad Infinitum experiments with a fusion of physical theatre, classical storytelling and a completely original score, giving an unforgettable form to this poetic waltz with death.

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Sun 30 May TIME: 6.30pm TICKETS: £4

Theatre Ad Infinitum presents

“This curious and charming fable is glorious in its playful physicality” TIME OUT on First Class “This tour de force of physical theatre is unmissable” The Stage on Odyssey “Theatre Ad Infinitum have moved to the front of the pack, their vivid mix of theatre, clowning and storytelling gaining them critical acclaim” The Guardian

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www.theatreadinfinitum.co.uk Recommended for ages 14+

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NEW WOLSEY THEATRE DATE: Sun 30 May TIME: 8pm TICKETS: £8

You Need Me presents

Certain Dark Things is an intimate and powerful family drama set under Franco’s religious dictatorship of the 1950s, featuring the company’s trademark ‘in the round’ performance, beautiful live music, and magically inventive storytelling. The effects of Franco’s attempt to suppress the Basque culture are still felt today. In Certain Dark Things, You Need Me tell the story of a young Basque boy and his sexual awakening in a climate of fear, as those around him struggle under the intense pressures of family, politics and religion. The piece first premièred at the 2008 Hightide Festival with a company of Basque, Spanish, Catalan and British actors and is staged in the round with live music. Following this success, the piece completed a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2009 and is now touring the UK. “Beautifully crafted work” British Theatre Guide  “Fraught with tension, despair and passion, ‘Certain Dark Things’ left me craving more.” Three Weeks  Nominated for a Total Theatre Award in 2009. www.youneedme.org.uk Recommended for ages 14+

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A comic true story that starts with a suicide pact and ends with a corpse. Sacked, dumped and stuck living back with his parents, failed writer Tim Clare struggled to see the point in carrying on. Eventually, during a 4am drive, his long-suffering dad staged a dramatic last-ditch bid to shake him out of his misery.

SIR JOHN MILLS THEATRE DATE: Sun 30 May TIME: 8.30pm TICKETS: £6

Tim Clare presents

Thus Tim began a quest to lose his cynicism and get happy. But when you’re faced with jeering teens, obnoxious neighbours, all six Rocky movies and a psychic horse, is there anything in this sordid world worth getting happy about? Death Drive blends real life first-person stories with stand-up, verse and ukulele songs, drawing on material from his awardwinning memoir We Can’t All Be Astronauts. “absolutely brilliant... mesmerising” Jon Ronson “hilarious” Lauren Laverne, Grazia “the bumbling charm of Jon Ronson and the splenetic bile of Charlie Brooker’” The Bookseller Recommended for ages 14+

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NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Sun 30 May TIME: 8.30pm TICKETS: ÂŁ6

The Plasticine Men present

Two hundred years ago, twenty-two miles out to sea, two men live and work in a wooden box fifteen feet across, seventy feet above the dark oceanâ&#x20AC;Ś Using little more than a ladder and a pair of creaky chairs, two performers and a musician conjure up the confines of the infamous Smalls Lighthouse, and the remarkable true-story it guards. A tale of companionship and loss unfolds over the slow passing of days, and in the sweeping flashes of the lamp that the keepers tend each and every night. The Plasticine Men are a collective of theatre-smiths, scouring the land for stories that beg to be told onstage. They challenge themselves to simply create the extraordinary worlds that lurk on the edge of hearsay and history. The company are associate artists of New Greenham Arts and supported by The Nightingale Theatre Brighton and The Pleasance, Islington. Recommended for ages 14+ www.theplasticinemen.co.uk

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3 3D Camera Obscura is a site responsive artwork that captures the unique character and life of Ipswich town centre to offer viewers a fresh perspective of Ipswich. This immersive sculptural installation interacts both with the audience and its environment by mixing traditional photographic techniques with anaglyph 3D stereoscopic technology used in cinema (two colour filter left/right eye separation). Viewers are invited to observe the projected moving image through corresponding coloured glasses, experiencing the illusion of depth in the rendered depiction of everyday encounters and passers by.

BUTTERMARKET SHOPPING CENTRE DATE: Tue 1, Wed 2, Fri 4 & Sat 5 June TIME: 10am, 12 Noon & 2pm

Will Clifford presents

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Josh Goldman presents

Language is a stereophonic sound structure composed for seven vocalists (none of whom are using their vocal cords). As described by Kevin Austin in a review written for the Canadian Electroacoustic Community “Vocal sounds, of all types and forms, fun for the whole family! Think of the kids’ drinks and straws, gross me out!, gran’ma’s wet kisses, Donald Duck imitations and a plethora of cartoon-like situations”.

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By: Barrie Keeffe Director: Gbolahan Obisesan It’s election night, 1979. Two detectives on the graveyard shift in an East London police station exchange bets on which party will win. Delroy is brought in ‘on suspicion’. The interrogation is going to take all night.

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Tue 1 & Wed 2 June TIME: 7pm TICKETS: £6

A Young Vic/eclipse theatre co-production

The country wakes up to a new Conservative government. Written in the early days of Thatcherism, SUS is a powerful cry against institutional racism. This revival of Keefe’s 1979 classic coincides with the general election of 2010. “Police forces face threat of racist label over stop and searches” Guardian, March 2010. What’s changed? Barrie Keefe’s highly praised works include the cult classic film The Long Good Friday as well as the much performed plays Gotcha, Gimme Shelter and Barbarians. First seen at the Young Vic in 2009, SUS is the first co-production between Young Vic and eclipse theatre (The Hounding of David Oluwale, Angel House), a company with a national reputation for producing high quality, culturally diverse theatre productions and projects across the country.

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SIR JOHN MILLS THEATRE DATE: Tue 1 June TIME: 7.30pm TICKETS: £4

Menagerie presents

Since its publication in 1999, the late Roger Deakin’s book Waterlog - a swimmer’s journey through Britain has been hailed as a classic of nature writing. This world premiere one-man stage adaptation by Ipswich-based playwright Andrew Burton brings the book dramatically to life. It is presented by acclaimed new writing company Menagerie, directed by Menagerie’s Associate Artistic Director Patrick Morris, and performed by Richard Earl, whose credits include Eastern Angles’ spring 2009 tour Return to Akenfield. “Absorbing and spellbinding” British Theatre Guide on Menagerie’s Out of Your Knowledge by Steve Waters

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/ The tragicomedy of a tongue-tied man He loves her (he thinks) but somehow he just can’t seem to tell her. Maybe it’s because he thinks too much, and talks too little. Maybe it’s because there just aren’t the right words. Or maybe it’s because he’s frightened. All the time.

NEW WOLSEY THEATRE DATE: Tue 1 June TIME: 8.30pm TICKETS: £8

Freefall Theatre presents

Why is having always haunted by the thought of not having anymore? Why is everyone gasping for breath? And why can no-one hear what he’s really saying? Freefall fuse live music and performance art to examine the frustration of living in a grey world where connections are missed (or misunderstood at best), sentences hang halffinished, and life seems like one long stutter. Will he ever work it out? Perhaps the answer is easier than he thinks… “Freefall Theatre’s Half Man / Half Clam is a gem... lithe, teasing and expressive... a lovely piece with an unflinching sense of humour” Total Theatre Magazine Recommended for ages 12+

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SIR JOHN MILLS THEATRE DATE: Wed 2 JUne TIME: 7pm TICKETS: £6

Written and performed by: Neyire Ashworth Co-devised and directed by: Kath Burlinson The true story of a girl’s Anglo-Turkish upbringing and the secrets of a Turkish mother whose passionate beliefs force her into exile in Britain. This one-woman show combines live singing and clarinet with ten unique characters. Nominated Best Production 2009 Buxton Fringe Festival “Hauntingly beautiful... an innovative, evocative blend of narrative, singing and music… expertly infuses comedy with poignancy” Independent Review, Barnstaple “Well conceived and brilliantly performed” remotegoat “Perfectly crafted entertainment, a tour de force... surely one of the major highlights of this year’s festival” Musical Pointers 2009 Supported by the National Theatre Studio. Recommended for ages 12+

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Choreography: Dam Van Huynh Dancers: Dom Czapski, Joel Claesson, Victoria Hoyland, Katie Lusby, Dam Van Huynh Music composed and performed by: Leon Michener Set and costume design: Yann Seabra Lighting design: Antony Hateley

NEW WOLSEY THEATRE DATE: Wed 2 June TIME: 8.45pm TICKETS: £8

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Van Huynh Company presents

Sudden Change of Event is a multi faceted production incorporating dance, live music and visual structures. The piece is an exploration of the fragility of the moment and the infinite potential outcomes of an individual encounter. Inspired by a chance meeting which created a series of unplanned scenarios, the work explores the impact of chance encounters; whether they slip by unnoticed or leave a dramatic imprint on the individuals involved. “In Sudden Change of Event, Dam Van Huynh has created a piece so intricate that the audience can do nothing but be riveted” Critical Dance Magazine.com “This company is tight and sizzling with potential” Emma Stevenson, Ballet.co Magazine “Dam Van Huynh’s unique use of the body is striking and alarming” Hetty Blades www.damvanhuynh.com FRINGE.COM 31

SIR JOHN MILLS THEATRE DATE: Wed 2 June TIME: 9pm TICKETS: £6

Drunken Chorus present

A work in development Chris Williams attempts to reinvent the tradition of the ‘doubleact’ as a solo performer. Taking inspiration from Morecambe & Wise, Andy Kaufman and the myth of Narcissus, this performance explores what happens when one half of the double-act disappears, deserts or even dies. It is a show full of all the things you wouldn’t expect to find in a double-act - a fight, a load of booze, a long drawn out death scene, and most importantly, only one performer. “The acting is perfect...the death sequence is touchingly funny... the end product is beautiful, poignant and thought provoking.” Smiths Magazine, London Drunken Chorus are a contemporary performance company based in the north of England, fronted by artist and theatremaker, Chris Williams. www.drunkenchorus.co.uk Recommended for ages 14+

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It’s Like He’s Knocking is Leo Kay’s visually arresting and poetic one man show, a stripped back performance set in the intimacy of a bedsit. Leo weaves together a collection of memorable experiences, shared fragments from three generations of men in his family. With personal storytelling, dance theatre and Afro Brazilian percussion we are transported into a private world to question heritage, migration, memory and co-incidence. We are invited to drink a toast to loved people and places, place a bet, and remember our childhood. As Leo’s story unfolds, so in turn does our own.

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’ Created and Performed by: Leo Kay Live percussion composed by: Pedro Lima De Oliveira and performed by Mestre Carlao Dramaturgy: Phillip Mackenzie Script consultant: PolarBear Technical and art team: Mishi Bekesi and Anna Smith

Thurs 3 & Fri 4 June 6pm £8

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Leo Kay and collaborators presents

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Book early, limited audience capacity. “This is 55 minutes of completely conceived, entirely absorbing theatre at its best.” British Theatre Guide on Mr Sole Abode “After watching this you leave the theatre with more questions than answers examining yourself and the society in which you live; something that more theatre should be doing.” Total Theatre Magazine www.madrugada.info Recommended for ages 14+

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DOUBLE BILL FANSHEN presents:

By: Marcelo Dos Santos …A show for anyone who has ever been in love, not been in love, or made an idiot of themselves in the name of love. Boy meets Girl. They bounce. Man and Woman live together, eat together, sleep together. They don’t talk. Princess WLTM Prince. But she lives in London in 2010 and works in a shoe shop. Moshing Lying Down is a comic trilogy about people we might know and situations we probably recognise, told in a style which is completely new. It combines the psychological accuracy and dextrous story-telling of new writing, with the visual flair and imagination of physical theatre. “stimulating food for thought” The Evening Standard on Fanshen’s recent sell-out show www.fanshen.org.uk www.twitter.com/fanshentheatre Recommended for ages 16+. NEIL PARIS with DAN CANHAm and LAURA DANNEQUIN presents

JERWOOD DANCEHOUSE DATE: Thurs 3 June TIME: 7.30pm TICKETS: £8

: A work-in-development for two dance and theatre performers inspired by the short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber. The work explores the lives of two characters who, trapped in a superficially mundane existence, delve into their private worlds of daydreams and fantasy, secret wishes and suppressed desires to ensure their relationship survives. Devised by three exceptional international dance and theatre performers, it is played out by Dan Canham and Laura Dannequin (DV8, Kneehigh, Saburo Teshigawgara, Daghda, Fabulous Beast) and directed by Neil Paris. Recommended for ages 16+.

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Rachel has had a baby and she is struggling… Rachel’s father Jeff has just retired and is having an identity crisis of his own. Rachel can’t understand how somebody with all the time in the world to do exactly what they want can find something to complain about. He can’t understand why his daughter isn’t embracing motherhood. Taken Leave is a comedy drama that voices the rarely spoken out loud ugly feelings some women have about motherhood. Lisa Turner Smith’s new play isn’t just about motherhood - it’s also about the desire and the reluctance to be needed.

SIR JOHN MILLS THEATRE DATE: Thurs 3 June TIME: 7.45pm TICKETS: £6

By: Lisa Turner Smith Directed by: Rob Salmon

Don’t count on a happy ending. “I was the privileged witness to the final part of their journey and watching this was a valuable experience.” Benedict Kent, BBC Suffolk

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Springboard, The New Wolsey’s series of theatre writing workshops, worked with 16 aspiring writers in 2009. We have worked with Lisa Turner Smith and Jenny Barnett (see FRA/G/ MENT/ING on page 61) from the group to develop their ideas into larger plays. If you are interested in writing for the stage, contact: creativelearning@wolseytheatre.co.uk to reserve your place at Springboard 2011.

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NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Thurs 3 June TIME: 8pm TICKETS: £6

Box of Tricks presents the world première of

By: Evan Placey, Kenneth Emson and Marcelo Dos Santos Daniel is a convicted murderer serving life in an American jail. Charlie is a fifteen year old girl from Reading. Charlie writes to Daniel. Charlie loves Daniel. But will true love wait? Exploring the shadowy relationships between prisoners and their ‘pen pals’, this explosive new piece merges monologue, physicality and music to create a unique theatrical experience laced with dark comedy. Originally inspired by the Amanda Knox case, three emerging playwrights investigate the intriguing and dangerous world of celebrity criminals; an immediate new drama that asks what attracts the lonely to the convicted. In a society where anyone is granted their fifteen minutes of fame, where do we draw the line? “Step a little closer and experience the innovative Box of Tricks” West End Extra on Whispering Happiness www.boxoftrickstheatre.co.uk Recommended for ages 12+

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The rules are: 1. Start when instructed. 2. Whenever you see a bird, say either its name (if you know it), or ‘bird’ (if you don’t). 3. Name each individual bird only once. 4. Stop when instructed. It is a soundtrack to the city: verbalising the passage of wildlife in each space. The cumulative sound of multiple voices will mimic the sound of flocking birds. Holly Rumble is a PULSE Associate Artist

Fri 4 June 7.30am, 7.50am, 8.10am, 8.30am, 1pm, 1.20pm, 1.40pm, 2pm, 5.30pm, 5.50pm, 6.10pm, 6.30pm

One-Minute Birdwatching is a short sound event, to be performed by the public. It will be repeated around Ipswich town centre and you are welcome to join any performance (or do all of them).

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Bettina Furnee presents

Powerhouse long and mesmerising look at the daily entrance rituals in the hall of one of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most venerable institutions, in a phenomenological take on our written legacy. This time-lapse film was shot at Cambridge University Library (copyright library built by Giles Gilbert Scott, architect of Bankside Power station and the red telephone box) during the 8-week performance of a live word association game. A sequence of 485 dominant words (selected from over 7000 on-site and online submissions) appears on a light box in the hall, and on a spoken soundtrack, and takes the audience on an associative journey from Powerhouse to Albatross, via Tom and Jerry, methadone and Albania. You can view Powerhouse at the New Wolsey Theatre throughout PULSE (27 May to 12 June) and join in a performance of a word association game at the theatre on Friday 28 May from 7.30pm to 10.30pm. www.powerhouse.me.uk

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A new play by Katie Bonna Leaning On Cows share a work-in-progress performance which takes a running jump into passion provocation and panic prevention.

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Fri 4 June TIME: 7.45pm TICKETS: £4

Leaning On Cows present

Sam believes in Mr and Mrs Noah whilst Jen wishes he wouldn’t, Lou believes she can attain inner peace - as long as it’s not too much effort - and Geoff believes the world could sustain outer serenity if only it was filled with well serviced espresso machines. Struggling for breath, as she hides from her classmates and chain smokes through ten B&H, Ellie finally discovers something worth believing in, as James leads her into the fizzing, crackling world which exists between his Walkman’s headphones. Using contemporary theatre and a live, original score created using bodies, buckets and heartbeats Liquorice & Smoke-Rings tells a modern-day story of belief, music and belief in music. Recommended for ages 16+

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DOUBLE BILL Amir Giles and Tara Pilbrow present

A playful chance meeting on the underground leads to a relationship where emotions, limbs and umbrellas become impossibly entangled. Dancing Argentine Tango to music from Baroque to Jazz, Entangled incorporates influences from Hollywood musicals, contemporary dance and physical theatre, ranging from the fun and flirtatious to the melancholy and introspective. “Absolute magic!” London Culture Club “Entangled couldn’t help but get under your skin: we didn’t know where the dancers ended and the lovers began” The Metro “austere, graceful and exciting” Kate Flatt - Director and Choreographer YELP danceco presents

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Choreography: Mariela Nestora The limits of my language stand for the limits of my world.

NEW WOLSEY THEATRE DATE: Fri 4 June TIME: 8pm TICKETS: £8

Das (ist) ein… is inspired by Tractatus Logicophilosophicus by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. This work is the second part of the S series a trilogy investigating paths of connection between philosophy and the body.

Focusing on the body within a philosophical and a choreographic context, this work asks questions about dance, language and articulation of content. At the same time the solos ask questions about the self: testing languages in order to express its self, about being, about becoming... How does thought become movement? The body arrives at a landscape where desire of articulating thought resembles a silent cry, like a figure out of Francis Bacon. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. “Mariela Nestora’ s work shows invention, risk and humour, but perhaps most important of all, a rare originality.” www.yelpdanceco.gr Please note that Das (ist) ein… is recommended for ages 13+

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?! PREGNANT?! is a multi-media performance work, delivered by a pseudo-pregnant cross-dressed male, who traces his epic journey on overly intimate relationships with those closest to himself. Juxtaposing exhilarating live performance with projected rollercoaster-ride animations, PREGNANT?! is a piece about ‘family’ in its broadest sense. It is set in and around his imaginary womb where all the intimate and tragicomic human relationships are condensed.

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Fri 4 June TIME: 10.15pm TICKETS: £6

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Mamoru Iriguchi presents

“So begins a beautifully surreal journey through the landscapes of worry, childhood memory, fairytale and complicated psychology” The Irish Times  “Spanning 10,000 years, the piece tunnels into the darkest recesses of the human body to toy with expectations of space and time, gender and biology, birth and death” Irish Theatre Magazine  www.iriguchi.co.uk Recommended for ages 12+

Supported by: BAC and CPT

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TOWN HALL GALLERIES DATE: Sat 5 June TIME: 4pm TICKETS: £8

Tin Horse Theatre presents

Tin Horse Theatre creates immersive environments that give the audience a unique and immediate experience. They make theatre that allows an audience direct and personal participation in the action encouraging each audience member to become a fully and fundamental live part of the narrative. Shallowridge is a show accessible to a strictly limited audience who will jointly influence how the story they are within develops. We are highly secretive about the content of our work as we want our audience to have as true a response as possible once they enter the environments we create. Since 2007 Tin Horse Theatre have been producing interactive, original performances in basements, living rooms, theatrical stages, car parks, back streets, moving vehicles and public parks. “Amazing” Felix Barrett, Artistic Director of Punchdrunk on Standing Friends (2007). “A total hallucination…….Perfect”: Tim Wilson, Artistic Director for the Arts Heritage Company on Philip (2008). “An incredibly powerful experience. You really felt you were part of a movement. Unnerving, immersive, powerful, upsetting” Audience reaction to The Valley (2009). Recommended for ages 18+ www.tinhorsetheatre.co.uk

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Written by: Raphaele Moussafir Directed by: Daniel Goldman Performed by: Caroline Horton A hilarious and tender monologue about being a child.  Nine year old Rachel is not sweet, not impressed and never far from trouble. With best friend Hortense in tow, Rachel’s on a quest to reach double figures. Along the way she battles evil teachers, annoying nannies, crazy psychologists and falls in with a particularly randy Ken & Barbie. However nothing will prepare Rachel for her encounter with the greatest opponent of them all.

SIR JOHN MILLS THEATRE DATE: Sat 5 June TIME: 6pm TICKETS: £6

Tangram Theatre Company presents

REVIEWS FROM EDINBURGH “Smooth as silk theatre ... perfectly pitched and delivered by Caroline Horton ...” The Stage - MUST SEE & Award Nomination for Best Solo Performance “One person, superb acting, gripping theatre ...” Onstagescotland  “Caroline Horton’s impressive performance is riveting throughout ...” Three Weeks  A stunning script, and a stunning performance... It’s a beautifully comic yet moving show, with a subtly touching message.” Fringe Guru  Recommended for ages 14+ www.tangramtheatre.co.uk FRINGE.COM 47

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Sat 5 June TIME: 7.30pm TICKETS: £6

or The Voluntary Attempt to Overcome Unnecessary Obstacles

Written and Performed by: Kristin Fredricksson An athletic-puppetic duet between father and daughter. Cinefilm, clowning, puppetry and hurdling are used to explore a father’s life – from dosshouse childhood to dancing on graves. In this meditation on love, loss, memory and play, we see Dad training for the Olympics by day and dragging up by night. With age his money-saving schemes become increasingly elaborate, from the secrets of free water to newspaper-stealing shoes. But eventually EVERYTHING MUST GO. Winner – Total Theatre Award (Devised performance) 2009 Winner - The Arches Brick Award 2009 “disarmingly skewwhiff…hugely affectionate” The Times  “funny, inventive and touching” Time Out  “utterly remarkable…raw, touching” The List  “Fredricksson evokes her father so vividly and unsentimentally that by the end you feel like you know him; and for a moment or two, after the stage has gone black, you’ll grieve his passing as if he were an old friend.” The Scotsman  Recommended for ages 14+

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How far would you go to survive? Where do you draw the line? A rehearsed reading of a new play exploring one Polish woman’s attempts to build a better life for herself and her troubled teenage son in the UK.

SIR JOHN MILLS THEATRE DATE: Sat 5 June TIME: 8pm TICKETS: £4

By: Nicola Werenowska

Nicola is a member of the Mercury Theatre Colchester Playwrights Group and a previous winner of the Royal Court Young Playwrights Competition. Her plays include Peapickers, (Eastern Angles 2007) and Freedoms of the Forest (Menagerie 2008). Recommended for ages 13+

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Tu I Teraz is an Escalator Project, supported by the Mercury Theatre, The Junction Cambridge, Colchester Arts Centre and Arts Council East. Thanks to Real Circumstance, Rafal and Paulina Walecki, and Goscia Nosek.

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SIR JOHN MILLS THEATRE DATE: Sun 6 June TIME: 3pm TICKETS: £6

Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds presents

By: Danusia Iwaszko Linda’s world veers crazily between the dazzling and the dark. Supersensitive to the feel and the smell and the colour of things, she battles to find an easy way to dwell with the darlings and the demons that are part of her self. Sometimes she feels she lacks any skin at all. She’s funny and creative and dynamic and she has been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder – hard for her to understand, and harder still for those who care for her. Danusia Iwaszko’s new play is part of a collaboration between Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds and Suffolk MIND.

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… Writer: Sara Masters Collaborative Performer: Paul Bayes Kitcher Design Advisor: Jean - Marc Guy Maxime Puissant Composer: Howard Haigh Lighting: Clare O Donoghue “sometimes you have to love someone enough to let them hate you”

JERWOOD DANCEHOUSE DATE: Sun 6 June TIME: 7pm TICKETS: £6

Paul and Kieran Dance Theatre present

A father and son spiral through an out of control journey from addiction into recovery. They will abandon their dreams and discourage yours. Yesterday’s history... It’s in the post... sit down, shut up, shoot up, throw it up. The door won’t swing both ways but their truth can set them free… Developed from an intensive research process with recovered alcoholics, My Name Is... questions how we love, who we love and what we’ll do to make everything OK. www.paulandkieran.com Recommended for ages 15+

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MCGINTY’S PUB DATE: Sun 6 June TIME: 9pm TICKETS: £8

Four Monks and a Nun present

Making not only their PULSE Fringe debut but also their Suffolk debut, rising comedy sketch group Four Monks and a Nun bring their latest show The Ten Commandments to the festival. In it, they give every commandment from the book of Exodus the comedy sketch treatment - ten sketches guaranteed! Thou shalt see this show (you saw that terrible joke coming didn’t you?) “That rarest of things in comedy - a Christian sketchgroup” Time Out “(Four Monks And A Nun)…had the audience hooting…sharp, expertly delivered and hilarious.” The Londonist www.fourmonksandanun.com www.youtube.com/fourmonksandanun

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Ever wished you could affect the economy? Do you even matter in the economy anyway? HE SAID Talent Agency is on a mission to change the value of a lowly action figure and make it a rare commodity. Check out their progress as they journey towards economic triumph with their ever increasing collection.

EXHIBITION AT BUTTERMARKET SHOPPING CENTRE DATE: Tue 8 - Thurs 10 June TIME: 9am to 5pm : Artist lecture at 1pm on Wed 9 & Thurs 10 June

HE SAID Talent agency presents

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TOWN HALL GALLERIES DATE: Tue 8 June TIME: 7pm TICKETS: £8

FAT CONTENT presents

Hauntingly surreal, hilarious and poignant, this multisensory production will bring you into the heart of Whitesands Sanatorium. Enter the world of two suppressed nurses who fall dependant upon their male captive. As the smell of institutional macaroni wafts down the corridors, they resolve to cure him with the unorthodox medicine of full fat milk. The Man I Cure explores loneliness, gender roles and sexuality, through a mixture of poetry, naturalism, dance, dark-comedy and complete engagement of the senses. “...a highly original and accomplished piece of complete theatre. The Man I Cure pulls back the surface of the sensory world to tap into something altogether more thought-provoking and disturbing, whilst at the same time managing to be great entertainment.” Buxton Review “At times fairy story, epic, poem, romance and war film it is punctuated with wonderful song and dance routines worthy of a ‘forties musical…The superb performances of Daniel Redfern, Rachel Lincoln and Anna Beecher take you along with them in this frightening and amusing rollercoaster of a tale.” Edinburgh Evening News “A beating heart of original experience.” Hairline Watch the trailer at www.fatcontent.org Recommended for ages 12+

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Devised by: Richard Hahlo and Jonathan Cullen Commissioned by: Brighton Festival Fancy a hamburger with Hamlet? Or moules with Macbeth? You are invited to dine with the Bard in this unique Shakespeare à la Carte experience. From the balcony scene to Dunsinane, your waiter will take your order from a menu of Shakespeare’s greatest hits. The actors – drawn from the National Theatre and RSC – will then perform nourishing speeches and bite-size scenes for your delight. As Polonius might put it, we’ve got: ‘Tragedy, Comedy, History, Pastoral, Pastorical-Comical, Historical-Pastoral, TragicalHistorical, Tragical-Comical-Historical-Pastoral.’ All served with vittles, verse and a side order of iambic pentameter. “Shakespeare à la Carte was delicious... a clever gem of a production.” Miriam O’Reilly, Pick of the Week Radio 4

ARLINGTONS DATE: Tue 8 June TIME: Dining from 6.30pm, Theatre begins at 8 8pm TICKETS: Inc. 2 course meal: £20 Inc. 3 course meal: £24.95

Hydrocracker Theatre Company presents

“Taster-sized portions of The Great Bard’s work are the dish of the day in this brilliantly conceived and imaginatively staged theatrical event. It is a treat both for the Shakespeare lover and the newcomer. For the Shakespeare connoisseur, there are plenty of knowing references as well as the chance to get involved in the sort of audience participation designed to heighten your enjoyment of the show rather than make you feel stupid.” Brighton Argus FRINGE.COM 55

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Tue 8 June TIME: 8.30pm TICKETS: £6

Pilot Theatre in association with York Theatre Royal present

By: Richard Hurford Directed by: Suzann McLean Designed by: Lydia Denno New York, December 8, 1980. Mark Chapman shoots and kills John Lennon. A hotel room, December 7, 1980.

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Mark Chapman opens The Catcher in the Rye and reads as the book’s hero Holden Caulfield brings an escort to his hotel room. To talk. Mark picks up the phone and does the same. Twenty-four hours later John Lennon is dead. No one knows what took place in that hotel room on Mark’s last night of anonymity. Until now. A woman comes forward with her story – a girl in a green dress trapped in a New York hotel room the story of John, Holden and Mark Chapman. Remixed, re-lived, re-imagined. Award winning writer Richard Hurford’s stunning new play explores the fatal attraction of fame and obsession. www.pilot-theatre.com Recommended for ages 15+

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By: Zoe Svendsen and Simon Daw The temperature is rising, the earth is changing and your city is threatened. How will you respond? This is a story in which YOU decide what happens next. Imagining a world in which nature takes revenge on industrial humanity, 3rd Ring Out takes you forward in time to an emergency planning rehearsal set in Ipswich. Metis use live performance, video simulation and interactive computer systems to produce work which responds to contemporary concerns. The result has the immediacy of theatre combined with the thrill of a disaster movie; a fiction rooted in fact.

UNIVERSITY CAMPUS SUFFOLK DATE: Wed 9 to Sat 12 June TIME: 11am, 1.30pm, 4.30pm & 7pm TICKETS: ÂŁ8

Metis Arts presents

Awarded a prestigious TippingPoint Commission in association with DECC, 3rd Ring Out is already causing waves. Co-commissioned by Without Walls, Norfolk and Norwich Festival 2010 and The Junction Cambridge. Supported by The National Lottery through Arts Council England. www.3rdRingOut.co.uk www.metisarts.co.uk Recommended for ages 14+

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NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Wed 9 June TIME: 6.30pm TICKETS: £6 AFTER PERFORMANCE

Francesca Millican-Slater presents

Ever had your heart broken? Ever wanted to have your heart broken? Everyone needs a little heartbreak in their life and now you can have it with a full step-by-step program of how to break your own heart. This informative seminar will put you on the road to heartbreak by letting you know what heartbreak is, where it comes from, how to do it in the comfort of your own home and what music you should listen to while you do. If it’s been fixed - lets break it! A self help style seminar, complete with power point that tells you about the history of heartbreak and invites you to try a little of your own. A cross between a lecture, a talk show, a game show and a medical examination, heartbreak has never been so entertaining! “interesting and brilliantly put together. She will go far.” Simon Casson (Duckie) on Let Me Take You By The Hand www.francescamillicanslater.co.uk Recommended for ages 14+

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By: Jenny Barnett Directed by: Rob Salmon Who doesn’t howl at the loss of a mother? Isn’t there in all of us that need to be nurtured, to be reassured, to know that there is someone whose love is unconditional? This piece depicts the switch-over point: when a mother who has given all her life now needs care and love herself. It’s often upsetting and untimely, but also very frustrating for those around. At the heart of this play is the life of 85 year old Nora Giddings. Her daughter, Caroline, the once lively, creative woman has been slowly disappearing for the past couple of years, but her decline has become now more worrying. Caroline now suspects that her mother is not coping well with day to day living. Up until now, she has been only too willing to be convinced that Nora is managing.

VENUE 1 REVEALED WHEN YOU BOOK DATE: Thurs 10, Fri 11 & Sat 12 June TIME: 5.30pm, 6pm & 6.30pm each day TICKETS: £6 - to see one performance each

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Mother and daughter have colluded without either realising it. Now, however, for both of them life is becoming increasingly fragmented. This story is told over 3 consecutive days at 3 town centre locations, starting on Thursday 10 June. Your first venue will be revealed when you book and subsequent venues confirmed at performances. Performances will take place at 5.30pm, 6pm & 6.30pm each day. “The New Wolsey’s Springboard Rehearsed Readings suggests another positive step in the region’s promotion of creative writing.” Benedict Kent, BBC Suffolk FRINGE.COM 59

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Thurs 10 June TIME: 7pm TICKETS: £4

Hydrocracker presents

By: Neil Fleming “Do you have the slightest idea how hard it is to change something?… Really change it? A plan, a company, a human soul?” Meet James Brown. Charismatic, foul-mouthed, brilliant. Meet Leif, wunderkind of statistics and stochastics. Meet Nicola, precocious, attractive, ambitious as hell. They are the Consultants. Invisible and unaccountable, consultants are everywhere, whispering in the ear of corporations, banks, governments. Once they move in, they never leave. Rain from a Dry Sky is the story of a weak man who wants to be strong, a chief executive who gambles everything – his business, his marriage, his happiness – on a deal with the devil. Faced with corporate and personal disaster, Hugo Shackleton brings in Brown and his team to transform his fortunes. But will he survive a move to the most dangerous strategy of all? Hydrocracker’s work is “an alliance between formal experiment and rich content” Michael Billington, The Guardian “The clever Hydrocracker company... brilliantly bullies its audience into hilarious subjection.” Susannah Clap, The Observer on The Erpingham Camp www.hydrocracker.co.uk Performed reading. Recommended for ages 16+

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WOLF returns to PULSE 2010 following its 2009 work-in-progress debut and prior to its Escalator East to Edinburgh Showcase 2010. This time director Kath Burlinson and the Authentic Artist Collective invite you to meet the wolves in the basement of the Underground Spiral Car Park on Civic Drive, Ipswich! WOLF is highly atmospheric, mythic theatre that includes physical storytelling, song and new writing on themes both contemporary and ancient. Remember how you felt when the wolves met you on stage in 2009? This year they will be sexier, scarier and much more unpredictable. Come and involve yourselves in an unforgettable event, or we’ll huff, and we’ll puff, and we’ll… Cast includes former members of Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake Company, the David Glass Ensemble and Dreamthinkspeak. Text by Iain Finlay Macleod. Directed/devised by Kath Burlinson, a Suffolk-based artist whose work has been seen all over the UK and internationally. “Smart…complex…incredibly strong…one of the most charismatic productions of the PULSE 2009” Mad Dog www.kathburlinson.co.uk/wolf Supported by: Mid-Suffolk and Babergh District Councils. Recommended for ages 12+

UNDERGROUND SPIRAL CAR PARK DATE: Thurs 10 June TIME: 8.15pm & 9.45pm TICKETS: £8

Kath Burlinson and the Authentic Artist Collective presents

SHORTER FAMILY VERSION OF THE SHOW WILL ALSO BE PERFORMED AT: WINGFIELD BARNS IP21 5RA Wed 9 June at 7pm £4 from Wingfield Barns Box Office 01379 384 505 Booking essential. DOLLOPS WOOD CO6 5AL Sat 12 June at 7pm £4 from Pulse Box Office or Polstead Community Shop Booking essential.

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TOWN HALL GALLERIES DATE: Fri 11 & Sat 12 June TIME: 12 Noon, 1pm, 2pm, 4pm, 5pm, 6pm, 8pm, 9pm TICKETS: £8 62

Analogue presents

An intimate encounter in a darkened room between yourself and your reflection. It’s you and it’s not you at all. You are a lecturer driving a passenger home on a cold Halloween night. You are the passenger sitting anxiously in the back seat. You are both simultaneously; the performer and the audience. You are in the headlights of a past that is catching up with you... Analogue follows up Beachy Head, their acclaimed co-production with the New Wolsey Theatre, with an immersive experience for one audience member at a time. “...a visionary young company” The Metro Recommended for ages 14+ Developed at Farnham Maltings.

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6.0: ‘Five years ago the last of the world’s ice disappeared. A year after that the sport of ice-dancing went with it. Tonight, at the PULSE Fringe Festival, Heap Krusiak and Pebble Adverati, the greatest ice-dance pair the world has ever known will attempt to bring back what the world took away, by performing their free dance on a stage with no ice’. After an award-winning Edinburgh run, the thrilling young company Dancing Brick presents its beautiful and hilarious new play about loss, sport and what happens when our environment stops providing us with what we need. Packed full of poetic images, mime and comedy, 6.0 is a performance not to be missed.

NEW WOLSEY STUDIO DATE: Friday 11 June TIME: 9pm TICKETS: £6

Dancing Brick presents

Winner of the Arches Brick Award / Shortlisted for a Total Theatre Award “Genuinely thrilling to watch… this climate change porable gets a 6.0 score” The Stage “Intelligent and poignant… like all of us, Heap and Pebble just carry on regardless; their fixed smiles never slip even as the polar ice cap melts” The Guardian “a remarkable invention” Edinburgh Guide  “intensely funny, brilliantly inventive” Fringe Review  “extraordinary and refreshing” Three Weeks  www.dancingbrick.net FRINGE.COM 63

BUTERMARKET SHOPPING CENTRE DATE: Fri 11 & Sat 12 June TIME: 3pm

Katherine May and Nimble Fish present

“Last night, I dreamed of a room that overlooked the sea. I’d never been there before, but I knew it well…” In Burning Out, Katherine May guides us through a dream-like landscape, immersing us in the story of two women linked by an invisible thread. We are invited to peer inside the author’s world as she creates and manipulates her characters. Burning Out challenges the traditional author reading, drawing in bespoke sound (designed by Tim Blazdell) and live video performance. It invites new audiences into literary performance, including those who will never read the book. Burning Out is the first production by The Re:Authoring Project, a collective set up by Katherine May and cultural producers Nimble Fish to develop more engaging ways to bring books to a live audience. You can read the Re:Authoring manifesto here: http://reauthoring.wordpress.com

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Direction: Andrew Quick Text: Andrew Quick Music: Simon Wainwright, Ed Waring, Richard Huxley from Hope and Social Video: Simon Wainwright Design: Laura Hopkins

NEW WOLSEY THEATRE DATE: Fri 11 June TIME: 7pm TICKETS: £8

Imitating the Dog and Pete Brooks present

Part musical, part dream play, Tales from the Bar of Lost Souls is a magical realist story of forbidden love, criminality and the possibility of finding redemption in the unlikeliest of places. Exquisitely designed by Laura Hopkins, the audience watch the action through the bar’s window, as a carnival of unsavoury characters reveal themselves and haunting tales of murder, love and forgiveness unfold. Tales from the Bar of Lost Souls is a new theatre show and workshop project made as a collaboration between The National Theatre of Greece, Cyprus Theatre Organisation and imitating the dog as part of the British Council Creative Collaboration programme. “imitating the dog, a company at the forefront of testing the nature of theatre” The Guardian imitating the dog experiment with the role of story-telling and narrative in contemporary theatre. They make innovative use of digital media, design and physical performance to create offkilter worlds in which to explore public and private obsessions. www.imitatingthedog.co.uk www.talesfromthebaroflostsouls.com

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NEW WOLSEY THEATRE DATE: Sat 12 June TIME: 8pm TICKETS: £8

Dafydd James and Ben Lewis in association with Notebook presents

The cult hit of last year’s Edinburgh Festival, My Name Is Sue tells the story of the piano-wielding prophet from Wales who has so far kept her thoughts to herself. But now she has cleared her throat and is ready to sing. She cordially invites you into her lounge to sing you through her life from finishing school to doomsday. With virtuosic piano skill, a soaring falsetto and her faithful backing band, Sue brings to life tales of economic bus travel, tragic schoolgirl longing, a Cardiff-based Armageddon and the work of Julia Roberts. An unforgettable hour of comedy/tragedy/music/theatre/cabaret. “Pleasingly daft, inconsequential and brilliant” The Guardian “Hysterically funny and beautifully played” Time Out “Certainly one of the most unusual, remarkable and memorable hours on the fringe” The Stage “Funny, tragic, insane and endearing all at the same time” The Metro Winner of the Total Theatre Award 2009 for Theatre & Music Recommended for ages 13+

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Come and enjoy a drink and a bite to eat in a friendly atmosphere 9 HENLEY ROAD IPSWICH IP1 3SE 01473 252862 www.greyhound-ipswich.com

Bentwater Roads Y BY TONY RAMSA

Photo: Emma Johnson

without an owner

The story of a landscape and the people of the East coast stretches across two millennia

July 1st – 18th 2010 Hush House, Bentwaters Park

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£5 Preview tickets: Thurs 1st & Fri 2nd July Sat 3rd – Sun 18th July Tickets: £9 - £17.50 01473 211498 www.easternangles.co.uk

HOTEL NOVOTEL IPSWICH CENTRE The Novotel Ipswich Centre is an AA 3 star rated hotel right in the centre of Ipswich. First choice for business and holidays, the hotel is a short walk away from the shopping area, the newly opened University Campus Suffolk, the unique waterfront and the Ipswich Town football ground. Meeting@Novotel offers a professional service to ensure your event runs smoothly. Our new approach to Elements dining and our Elements Restaurant and Bar offer the ultimate in choice. Limited pay parking available.

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