fuel january-june 2013 brochure

January–June 2013fueltheatre.comJANUARY–JUNE 2013 fueltheatre.com

Hello

We have a delicious mix of theatre, installation, dance, film, comedy and podcasts for you to savour this season.

We bring you three brand new shows from artists whose ideas we love:

Will Adamsdale’s comedy with songs about a couple who find a Victorian man in the wall of their flat at the Royal Court and on tour;

Fevered Sleep’s film installation with performance about home with sounds of birdsong and a string quartet at the Young Vic and on tour;

Clod Ensemble’s mix of dance and visual theatre with a live blues score at Sadler’s Wells and on tour.

Then there’s a new series of podcasts called While You Wait which you can listen to online and at our listening stations around the country. Artists include Paul Clark, Malika Booker and Stefan Kaegi.

And in March, Fuelfest at Bristol Old Vic draws together a range of our events all in one place following hot on the heels of Fuelfest in Glasgow and Liverpool.

We hope you find something to tickle your taste buds.

Louise Blackwell and Kate McGrath Co-Directors

Fuel produces fresh work for adventurous people by inspiring artists.

We work in partnership with some of the UK’s most exciting contemporary theatre artists to develop, create and present new work for all. All the artists we work with create shows, performances or experiences that have direct and playful relationships with their audiences. They appeal to emotions and intellect: things that make you laugh and cry, and take place in theatres, on the streets, online or in unique, purpose-built structures.

For more information visit fueltheatre.com

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WELCOME TO OUR JANUARY-JUNE 2013 SEASON


WHERE YOU CAN FIND US

Brighton• Body Pods• The Victorian in the Wall• …and another project to be announced

Bristol• Give Me Back My

Broken Night• It’s the Skin You’re Living In• Make Better Please • The 14th Tale• The Victorian in the Wall• While You Wait

Cheltenham• The Victorian in the Wall• While You Wait

Colchester• Love Letters Straight

From Your Heart• The 14th Tale• The Victorian in the Wall• While You Wait

Coventry• Above Me The Wide Blue Sky

Kendal• The Victorian in the Wall• While You Wait

Lagos, Nigeria• The 14th Tale

Lancaster• Above Me The Wide Blue Sky• Stilled

Liverpool• It’s the Skin You’re Living In• The 14th Tale• The Victorian in the Wall• While You Wait

London• Above Me The Wide Blue Sky• It’s the Skin You’re

Living In• Love Letters Straight From Your Heart• Ring• The Victorian in the Wall• Zero

Ludlow• The 14th Tale• While You Wait

Malvern• The Victorian in the Wall• While You Wait• Zero

Manchester• The Victorian in the Wall• While You Wait

Newbury• The Victorian in the Wall• While You Wait

Newcastle• The 14th Tale• The Victorian in the Wall• While You Wait

Preston• The 14th Tale• While You Wait

Poole• The 14th Tale• The Victorian in the Wall• While You Wait

Salisbury• Love Letters Straight From Your Heart

Shropshire• Love Letters Straight From Your Heart

Stockton on Tees• Love Letters Straight From Your Heart• Make Better Please• While You Wait

Stratford Upon Avon• Love Letters Straight From Your Heart

Lagos, Nigeria

London

Lancaster

CoventryLudlow

Poole

Bristol

Liverpool

ColchesterMalvern

Kendal

Brighton

Newcastle

Manchester

Newbury

Cheltenham

Stockton-on-Tees

Preston

Shropshire Stratford-upon-Avon

Salisbury

“Combining elements of both the site-specific and one-on-one theatre, the results are intriguing, fun and, at times, exquisitely touching” Exeunt magazine (on Everyday Moments, Fuel’s 2011 podcast series)

While You Wait is a new series of podcasts, each of which is a different meditation on the idea of waiting.

On the last Friday of each month a new podcast will be released for you to download for free via the Fuel and Time Out websites, iTunes and Soundcloud.

Artists in the first six months include Paul Clark, Victoria Melody, Stefan Kaegi, Lewis Gibson and Malika Booker. The podcasts will also be touring the UK via our listening stations.

fueltheatre.com #whileyouwait

Commissioners include Unity Theatre and Dublin Theatre Festival. Funded by Arts Council England and a Wellcome Trust Arts Award.

Image: Sheila Burnett

You can find listening stations at:

King’s College London 1 Feb–30 Jun kcl.ac.uk/cultural

Ludlow Assembly Rooms 8 Mar ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk

The Continental, Preston 12-13 Mar newcontinental.net

Unity Theatre, Liverpool 15–16 Mar & 5–6 Apr unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk

Bristol Old Vic 19–23 Mar bristololdvic.org.uk

Lakeside Theatre, Colchester 20 Feb & 24 Apr lakesidetheatre.org.uk

Lighthouse, Poole 23 Mar–27 Apr lighthousepoole.co.uk

Malvern Theatres 26 Mar malvern-theatres.co.uk

Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal 28 Mar breweryarts.co.uk

Brighton Dome 2–3 Apr brightondome.org

Northern Stage, Newcastle 9–10 Apr & 21–22 May northernstage.co.uk

Royal Exchange, Manchester 12–13 April royalexchange.co.uk

Corn Exchange, Newbury 16–17 Apr cornexchangenew.com

Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham 19 Apr parabolaartscentre.co.uk

ARC, Stockton on Tees 7–8 May arconline.co.uk


FUEL, ROUNDHOUSE & KING’S CULTURAL INSTITUTE PRESENT WHILE YOU WAIT

Pentabus Theatre, Bromfield, Shropshire 26 Jan artsalive.co.uk

Southbank Centre, London 6–8 Feb & 14–16 Feb southbankcentre.co.uk

Lakeside Theatre, Colchester 22 Feb lakesidetheatre.org.uk

Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon 7–9 Mar rsc.org.uk

Salisbury Arts Centre 14 Apr salisburyartscentre.co.uk

ARC, Stockton on Tees 7 May arconline.co.uk

“ You can’t help but fall in love with it” Guardian HHHHH

Uninvited Guests stage an event that is somewhere between a wedding reception, a wake and a radio dedication show. We speak of our own and other’s loves – deep, passionate, ambivalent and unrequited – and dedicate songs to them.

If you want to join us on this happy occasion, send a dedication to someone you love, to [email protected].

uninvited-guests.net @UGuests #loveletters

A BAC Scratch and an Arnolfini We Live Here commission. Also commissioned by Leeds Met Studio Theatre. Originally funded by Arts Council England.

Image: Jonathan Bewley


LOVE LETTERS STRAIGHT

FROM YOUR HEARTUNINVITED GUESTSAND FUEL

WHILE YOU WAIT

If who we are and what we call home is interwoven with nature, what happens when everything starts to change?

Performed within a stunning multi-screen film installation, with a soundscape of birdsong, electronic music and a new score for a string quartet, Above Me The Wide Blue Sky draws together stories of love, loss and belonging from an ever changing world.

feveredsleep.co.uk @feveredsleep #fsAboveMe

Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England; Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Wellcome Trust. With additional support from Ernest Cook Trust, Newcomen Collett Foundation and The Robertson Trust.

Image: Alexander Steiner

Live at LICA, Lancaster 22–23 Feb liveatlica.org

Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry 27 Feb–2 Mar warwickartscentre.co.uk

Young Vic, London 7–28 Mar youngvic.org

ABOVE ME THE

WIDE BLUE SKYA FEVERED SLEEP/YOUNG VIC CO-PRODUCTIONCO-COMMISSIONED BY LIVE AT LICA AND WARWICK ARTS CENTREPRODUCED IN ASSOCIATION WITH FUEL

A multi-platform film project about climate, connectedness and home.

A miniature, multi-screen film installation of It’s the Skin You’re Living In tours the UK.

The 8 minute film version will be available to view on feveredsleep.co.uk/films

@feveredsleep #fsSkin

Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.With additional support from Cape Farewell, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and The Leverhulme Trust.

IT’S THE SKIN

YOU’RE LIVING INA FEVERED SLEEP FILM PRODUCED IN ASSOCIATION WITH FUEL


Young Vic, London 8–25 Jan youngvic.org


Unity Theatre, Liverpool 5–6 Apr unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk

Northern Stage, Newcastle 21–22 May northernstage.co.uk

“Ellams’ poetry gleams with dusty, worn, deeply original beauty and he remains such wonderfully generous company to keep on stage.” Metro

An exuberant and touching autobiographical tale that charts the hilarious exploits of a natural born mischief, growing from the clay streets of Nigeria to the roof tops of Dublin and finally to London. In deft and beautiful poetry Fringe First winner Inua Ellams challenges expectations of what it is to be a young, black male in London today.

inuaellams.com #14thTale

A BAC Scratch Commission with Apples & Snakes. A London Word Festival Commission. Funded by Arts Council England.

Image: Edmund Collier

British Council Lagos Theatre Festival, Nigeria 16–17 Feb

Lakeside Theatre, Colchester 20 Feb lakesidetheatre.org.uk

Ludlow Assembly Rooms 8 Mar ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk

The Continental, Preston 12–13 Mar newcontinental.net

Unity Theatre, Liverpool 15–16 Mar unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk


Lighthouse, Poole 23 Mar lighthousepoole.co.uk

Northern Stage 21–22 May northernstage.co.uk


THE 14TH TALEFUEL PRESENTSINUA ELLAMS’


THE 14TH TALE“By turns arresting, provocative and… deeply

political both on a personal and a global level.” The Herald on Fuelfest at Tramway

Following two fantastic festivals at Unity Theatre in Liverpool and Glasgow’s Tramway in 2012, we travel south to Bristol Old Vic to wow audiences with a medley of bold, adventurous new work.

Performances include Bristol’s own Uninvited Guests’ thought provoking current affairs show Make Better Please, brand new comedy with songs The Victorian in the Wall by Perrier award winner Will Adamsdale, Fevered Sleep’s multi-screen film installation It’s the Skin You’re Living In and Inua Ellams’ globetrotting coming of age story The 14th Tale.

Fuelfest is your chance to get a giant taste of Fuel in one sitting. So join us to get your fill of Fuel at one of Bristol’s best arts venues.Image: Tim Rogers, flickr.com/people/timmo

FUELFEST AT BRISTOL OLD VIC

The 14th Tale 19–22 Mar

It’s the Skin You’re Living In 19–23 Mar

While You Wait 19–23 Mar

The Victorian in the Wall 21–23 Mar

Make Better Please 21–23 Mar

bristololdvic.org.uk #fuelfest



Malvern Theatre 26 Mar malvern-theatres.co.uk

Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal 28 March breweryarts.co.uk

Brighton Dome Studio Theatre 2–3 Apr brightondome.org

Unity Theatre, Liverpool 5–6 Apr unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk

Northern Stage, Newcastle 9–10 Apr northernstage.co.uk

Royal Exchange Studio, Manchester 12–13 Apr royalexchange.co.uk

Corn Exchange, Newbury 16–17 Apr cornexchangenew.com

Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham 19 Apr parabolaartscentre.co.uk

Lakeside Theatre, Colchester 24 Apr lakesidetheatre.org.uk

Lighthouse, Poole 26–27 Apr lighthousepoole.co.uk

Royal Court Theatre, London 11 May–8 Jun royalcourttheatre.com

“An ingenious comedy... deliciously leftfield fare” Time Out on The Summer House

Latte-land…

Power-prams, Grand Design knock-throughs, organic everything. A family are rushed to hospital with festival fatigue.

A work-shy writer discovers a Victorian man living in the wall of his flat. Everyone’s pretty surprised. Adjustments need to be made.

Can the strange visitor unlock his hopeless career? His flagging relationship? A story buried in these walls for over a century? (Doubt it. Maybe. Yes.)

Contains jokes, songs, banging on recycling boxes. A Nigerian.

A new play from Perrier Award winner Will Adamsdale (Jackson’s Way, The Summer House) and co-produced by the Royal Court in London.

willadamsdale.com #victorian

Funded by Arts Council England, the PRS for Music Foundation and the Unity Theatre Trust. Image: Tom Perrett

THE VICTORIAN IN THE WALL

A FUEL & ROYAL COURT THEATRE CO-PRODUCTION

WITH ADDITIONAL MATERIAL FROM JASON BARNETT, CHRIS BRANCH, MATTHEW STEER & MELANIE WILSON CO-DIRECTED BY WILL ADAMSDALE & LYNDSEY TURNER


BY WILL ADAMSDALE

“Elegant and visceral, not to mention fearless, hilarious, totally horrifying and immensely uplifting.” Carousel of Fantasies

Bring us the troubles of the world, this city’s crises and the hope in your hearts.

In these times of crisis we make a collective ministry with you, our society of friends. Possessed by the spirits of corporate fat cats, cabinet ministers and media tycoons, we invoke the demons of the day, in order to banish them forever.

Each show will draw on the day’s news and will be about whatever matters to you. We’ll speak the unspeakable and do the unthinkable for you.

uninvited-guests.net @UGuests #makebetterplease

Commissioned and developed by Theatre Bristol, Bristol Old Vic and BAC. Funded by Arts Council England. Developed with the support of Beaford Arts.

Image: Ben Dowden

MAKE BETTER PLEASEFUEL PRESENTS UNINVITED GUESTS’

IN COLLABORATION WITH LEWIS GIBSON


ARC, Stockton on Tees 8 May arconline.co.uk


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“You become the beating heart of this exciting and disconcerting piece” What’s On Stage

Ring is a sound journey in complete darkness and an an antidote to choice. The audience wear headphones that amplify the intimate details of the room, transporting you to another room that is very similar to the one that you entered. But in this room you have been recognised.

fueltheatre.com #RingLDN

Recommended for age 16+.

Triggered at Warwick Arts Centre. Funded by Arts Council England.

Image: Suzanne Dietz

Battersea Arts Centre, London 11–28 Mar bac.org.uk

RINGFUEL PRESENTS

CONCEIVED & DIRECTED BY DAVID ROSENBERG WRITTEN BY GLEN NEATH MUSIC & SOUND BY BEN & MAX RINGHAM


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“Lingeringly, mesmerizingly beautiful. The dancers exude a magnetic calm as they improvise.” LondonDance.com

Combining improvised performance, music and light with pinhole photography, Stilled is a durational dance piece that takes place in an ever growing exhibition of long exposure photographs.

Stilled will be performed as part of Curate the Campus, Live at LICA’s annual lab supporting installation, sited and outdoor work.

feveredsleep.co.uk @feveredsleep #fsStilled

Live at LICA, Lancaster Week beginning 29 April liveatlica.org

Originally commissioned by Wellcome Collection. Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and Wellcome Trust

Image: Matthew Andrews

STILLEDA FEVERED SLEEP & FUEL PRODUCTION


“This exquisite show more than lives up to its name” The Guardian HHHH

Combining movement, live music, imaginative lighting, and captivating imagery, Brilliant turns bedtime into a beautiful adventure about light and darkness, created especially for children aged 3-5.

feveredsleep.co.uk @feveredsleep #fsBrilliant

Young Vic, London 3–6 July youngvic.org

Image: Keith Pattison

From the biggest of galaxies to the smallest things in the world, Little Universe reveals the patterns and movements that set everything in motion. Visually striking and playful, this performance for 3-5 year olds has been especially created for the outdoors.

feveredsleep.co.uk @feveredsleep #fsUniverse

Commissioned by Small Wonders.

Image: Peter Fry

Norfolk and Norwich Festival 18–19 May nnfestival.org.uk

fueltheatre.com | @fueltheatrefueltheatre.com | @fueltheatre

A FEVERED SLEEP & POLKA THEATRE PRODUCTION

BRILLIANTLITTLE UNIVERSEFEVERED SLEEP’S

PRODUCED IN ASSOCIATION WITH FUEL

“A unique and spellbinding experience” Christina Cummingspencilsandwhat-not.com


fueltheatre.com | @fueltheatrefueltheatre.com | @fueltheatre

Join us to imagine the future of the Enterprise Zone in Bristol.

Walk with us through vacant lots and buildings under construction as we share what is planned for the area, and what the utopian and dystopian alternatives might be.

Before your eyes, a glowing vision of the future will appear, the collective imagining of all those present.

Give Me Back My Broken Night is a theatrical guided tour, not of the historic past, but of the future of your city.

uninvited-guests.net productofcircumstance.com @UGuests @OfCircumstance #BrokenNight

Part of a series of Bristol Temple Quarter commissions coordinated by Watershed, Knowle West Media Centre and MAYK, with funding from Arts Council England. http://www.bristoltemplequarter.com/the-zone/animating-the-zone. Originally commissioned as part of Watershed’s Theatre Sandbox in partnership with Soho Theatre.

The Enterprise Zone, Bristol4 – 7 Aprilwatershed.co.uk

A FEVERED SLEEP & POLKA THEATRE PRODUCTION

FUEL PRESENTSUNINVITED GUESTS & CIRCUMSTANCE

GIVE ME BACK MY BROKEN NIGHT

“It was a gorgeous piece that haunts me still” Maddy Costa, States of Deliquescence blog

“a hugely impressive attempt to transfer an immersive theatrical experience onto the screen” The Times film blog

Inspired by the tragic event in 2000 that saw the Russian submarine Kursk suffer a huge explosion and its 118 crew perish, the story follows five British crew members on board a Royal Navy hunter-killer submarine, sent to spy on the Russian Kursk on its final fateful mission.

Watch the film online at www.thespace.org where you can also listen to Sub Stories, a series of podcasts about Sound&Fury’s Kursk.

soundandfury.org.uk thespace.org.uk #kurskfilm

This film is an adaptation of the original stage production Kursk. Commissioned by the Junction. Funded by Arts Council England, a Wellcome Trust Arts Award and the Genesis Foundation. Subtitles supported by the City Bridge Trust.


KURSKSOUND&FURY’SA FUEL FILM

WRITTEN BY BRYONY LAVERY & SOUND&FURY DIRECTED BY AMANDA BOYLE AN ADAPTATION OF THE STAGE PLAY ORIGINALLY CO-PRODUCED BY FUEL & THE YOUNG VIC

KURSK

A turbulent mix of dance, music and visual theatre.

Zero is set to an original blues score played live by a band of acclaimed musicians and featuring an explosive cast of performers.

Zero is a world where nothing is certain – where women can be tigers and men can be snakes. Families, marriages and friendships are laced with sibling rivalries, frustrated desires and murderous ambitions.

Heavens open and lives fall apart. Here, we are all at the mercy of the stormy weather. At least we can still sing the blues.

clodensemble.com @ClodEnsemble #zero

Commissioned by Sadler’s Wells. In partnership with South East Dance. Research supported by Jerwood Studio at Sadler’s Wells and Shoreditch Town Hall. Funded by the Leche Trust, The Hinrichsen Foundation and PRSF. Clod Ensemble is an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation.

Image: Manuel Vason

Sadler’s Wells, London 4–5 Jun sadlerswells.com

Malvern Theatres 7 June malvern-theatres.co.uk

Plus other dates in the South of England to be announced


ZEROCLOD ENSEMBLE



In 2012 we created a series of 12 podcasts by artists and scientists, each exploring a different part of your body. You can listen to the podcasts online at fueltheatre.com and using our listening stations, which will be touring the UK in 2013.

Funded by a Wellcome Trust Arts Award.

Image: Annie Cavanagh, Wellcome Images (designed by Leopold)

#bodypods

BODYPODSFUEL, ROUNDHOUSE AND THE UCL EAR INSTITUTE PRESENT

Brighton Dome 1 Feb–20 Apr brightondome.org

FUNDERS & PARTNERS

A R N O L F I N I

“Fuel is on the side of the angels... the living, breathing equivalent of good deeds in a naughty world.” The Herald

We need your help to make inspiring ideas come to life for the broadest possible audience. There are lots of ways you can get involved; just £5 a month can have a real impact. And because we’re now registered as a charity, we’re able to add Gift Aid to your donation – so your support will go even further. In return, we’ll give you exclusive benefits and the inside story on what we’re up to. To make your mark, visit our website fueltheatre.com/support-us

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