 | Barbican Theatre and Dance – Autumn 2012 For immediate release: Monday 18 June 2012
The Barbican announces the autumn 2012 Theatre and Dance season. With a
combination of international co-commissions, new productions from
established and emerging British companies and collaborative projects
with key Artistic Associates, the Barbican continues to celebrate its
30th birthday year in style.
Toni Racklin, Head of Theatre, Barbican Centre, said: It has been a year of celebrations with the Barbican’s 30th
birthday and the Cultural Olympiad, culminating in the London 2012
Festival. The year continues with a strong season of international work
from France, Poland, Spain, the Netherlands and Brazil as well as from
major UK companies, Michael Clark Company and National Theatre of
Scotland. We are nurturing some exciting new emerging artists such as
Sleepwalk Collective, non zero one and The Finalists of the Oxford
Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award. There are opportunities for
participation via our weekend labs, the Barbican Weekender and the
Barbican After Dark Halloween Special on 31 October while Unleashed celebrates the Young People of Barbican Guildhall Creative Learning.
Juliette Binoche in Mademoiselle Julie by August Strindberg (20 – 29 September)
Enquirer – National Theatre of Scotland and the London Review of Books examine the current crisis in newspaper journalism (3 – 21 October)
Michael Clark Company – double bill of new work (17 – 27 October)
TR Warszawa – Nosferatu, based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula, directed by Grzegorz Jarzyna (31 October – 3 November)
Forests – Calixto Bieito, Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Barcelona International Theatre, in
association with the Royal Shakespeare Company (6 – 10 November)
Unleashed – The Young People of Barbican Guildhall Creative Learning with Boy Blue Entertainment (23 – 24 November)
Hugh Hughes – Stories from an Invisible Town, www.invisibletownstories.co.uk, interactive digital storytelling through both live and online environments, produced by Hoipolloi (28 November – 8 December)
Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker – Tatyana, a reinterpretation of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin (31 January – 9 February 2013)
The autumn season opens with Juliette Binoche in the Festival d’Avignon production of Mademoiselle Julie, directed by Frédéric Fisbach.
Strindberg’s great naturalistic dramatic poem explores the timeless
themes of love and desire set against the backdrop of class and social
convention. A classic of late nineteenth-century writing, Mademoiselle Julie
is a seminal text at the crossroads of modern theatre. Director
Frédéric Fisbach re-imagines the play in a striking contemporary staging
and brings together a chorus before whom the intimate drama and
ultimate tragedy of the three main protagonists is played out.
(Barbican Theatre, 20 – 29 September, press night Thursday 20 September, 7pm, #MademoiselleJulie)
Reflecting the Centre’s reputation as the place to experience international work, autumn 2012 sees the return of Poland’s TR Warszawa with Grzegorz Jarzyna’s production of Nosferatu. This
is TR Warszawa’s third visit to the Barbican, having last performed
here in 2010 with Jarzyna’s critically acclaimed production of Sarah
Kane’s 4:48 Psychosis and T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T. Bram Stoker’s Dracula, one of the most evocative texts in popular culture, is interpreted in Nosferatu
using the vampiric myth of life after death and the regenerative power
of blood. Seducing his audience into a dream-like state, Grzegorz
Jarzyna uses this psychological and metaphysical thriller to explore the
conflict between the fear of the unknown entrenched in human nature and
our enduring fascination with dark secrets, obsessions and the need for
transgression. Performed in Polish with English surtitles, Nosferatu
will open on Halloween (31 October) with a press performance at 9pm,
which will be followed by a series of late night Halloween-themed events
in the Barbican foyers.
Feature writers please note: there is an opportunity to see Nosferatu in Warsaw in October 2012.
(Barbican Theatre, 31 October – 3 November, press night Wednesday 31 October, 9pm, #Nosferatu)
The Barbican presents Calixto Bieito’s Forests,
co-produced by Birmingham Repertory Theatre & Barcelona
International Theatre and originally created as part of the World
Shakespeare Festival. Forests uses original verse from Shakespeare’s forest and heath scenes to create a vivid theatrical journey beginning in As You Like It’s forest of Arden, via Macbeth’s Birnam Wood to the bare wilderness of King Lear’s
cliffs of Dover. One of Europe’s most prominent theatre directors,
Calixto Bieito’s passionate and radical interpretations of classics have
stimulated both controversy and critical acclaim. With a cast of
English and Catalan actors led by Josep Maria Pou, Roser Camí and George
Costigan, Forests will be performed in both English and Catalan (Catalan text will be surtitled).
(Barbican Theatre, 6 – 10 November, press night Tuesday 6 November, 7.45pm, #ForestsBarbican)
October sees the continuation of the Barbican’s relationship with National Theatre of Scotland with the London premiere of Enquirer,
a site-specific work based on interviews with leading figures in the UK
newspaper industry conducted by three journalists, Paul Flynn, Deborah
Orr and Ruth Wishart. Rocked by ongoing allegations of corruption,
bribery and other illegal practices, the media becomes the story in this
theatrical investigation into the current crisis in newspaper
journalism. Enquirer, a co-production with the London Review of Books
is edited and directed by Vicky Featherstone and John Tiffany and
co-edited by award-winning novelist and journalist Andrew O’Hagan. Enquirer
opened at The Hub in Glasgow in April 2012. This promenade production
will be performed in a Barbican off-site venue, to be announced, and the
cast includes Maureen Beattie, John Bett, Billy Riddoch, Gabriel
Quigley and James Anthony Pearson.
(Barbican off-site, 3 – 21 October, press night Friday 5 October, 8pm, #Enquirer)
The Barbican continues to develop its relationship with off-site venues in East London and will present The Finalists, a showcase of new theatre. Selected for their boldness and innovation, the finalists of the annual Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award
will present their work in progress to the public and a panel of
judges. Encompassing digital and participatory theatre, live art and
dance, this is an eclectic showcase of emerging theatrical talent from Amy Draper, Analogue, The Building Site, Curious Directive, Davy and Kristin McGuire, Future Ruins, Hannah Bruce, Shams and Ania Bas, simple8, State of Flux, Studio Dubbelagent, UndertheBed and the vacuum cleaner.
(Barbican off-site: Shoreditch Town Hall and other East London venues, 11 – 13 October, #TheFinalists)
Previous winners of the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award include the phenomenon You Me Bum Bum Train and Slung Low, who return to the Barbican with the 2012 Christmas production, 59 Minutes to Save Christmas, an interactive journey around the Barbican Centre for intrepid adventurers of 7+ and brave parents.
(Barbican Centre, 15 December – 6 January, press performance Monday 17 December, 5.30pm, #59mins)
Barbican Artistic Associate Michael Clark Company
return to the Barbican stage with a double bill of new work
choreographed to specially commissioned music. This production will
continue Clark’s history of collaborating with contemporary artists,
designers and musicians, and includes lighting design by artist and
filmmaker Charles Atlas, and costumes by Stevie Stewart, formerly of
Bodymap.
An iconic British dancer, choreographer and artist who
first came to prominence in the early 1980s, Michael Clark is renowned
for his legendary collaborations with bands, fashion designers and
visual artists including Wire, Leigh Bowery, Trojan, Peter Doig and
Sarah Lucas. Clark’s return to the Barbican will follow the company’s
residencies in Tate Modern’s immense Turbine Hall in 2010 and 2011, and
the Whitney Museum of American Art for the Whitney Biennial 2012.
(Barbican Theatre, 17 – 27 October, press night Thursday 18 October, 7.45pm, #MichaelClark)
The Barbican’s Creative Learning programme is central to the ethos of
the building, and in November the inspirational talents of Artistic
Associate Boy Blue Entertainment’s young dancers Da Bratz and Bluez combine with The Young People of Barbican Guildhall Creative Learning to present Unleashed,
a new show which brings together a professional theatre team working
with the ideas of young poets, drummers, filmmakers and musicians. In a
high-energy urban explosion, directed by Walter Meierjohann, the voice
of the young people of East London is unleashed on the Barbican main
stage.
(Barbican Theatre, 23 – 24 November, press night Friday 23 November, 7.15pm, #Unleashed2012)
Following a sold-out run at the Barbican in 2011, Compagnie MPTA / Mathurin Bolze return with Du Goudron et des Plumes.
One of today’s most original and brilliant young circus creators,
Mathurin Bolze explores friendship, cooperation and trust through a
combination of thrilling acrobatics, bewitching lighting and original
music by Philippe Foch and Jérôme Fèvre, all played on an ingenious set.
(Barbican Theatre, 28 November – 1 December, press night Wednesday 28 November, 7.45pm, #Bolze)
The Barbican consolidates its strand of high quality international theatre for children with Dutch company Het Filiaal, who present Miss Ophelia in the Pit during half term. This stage adaptation of the book Ophelia’s Shadow Theatre
by Michael Ende uses lively narrative, imaginative puppetry and a
beautiful score to tell the story of soft-spoken and ordinary Ophelia,
who one day experiences something quite extraordinary.
(The Pit, 31 October – 7 November, press performance Wednesday 31 October, 2pm, #MissOphelia)
From 13 – 17 November, the award-winning live art and experimental theatre group, Sleepwalk Collective, present As the Flames Rose We Danced to the Sirens, the Sirens – an hour of troubling intimacy in which Iara Solano Arana of
Sleepwalk Collective samples and replays the iconography of B-movies
and early cinema in an attempt to re-work cinematic and cultural clichés
into something heartfelt and profound.
(The Pit, 13 – 17 November, press night Tuesday 13 November, 7.45pm, #SleepwalkCollective)
Much-loved emerging Welsh artist Hugh Hughes
returns to the Barbican with a brand new show. When Hugh Hughes
returned to his childhood home in Llangefni to help his mum move house, a
tapestry of memories from his past began to unfold. In Stories from an Invisible Town, Hugh,
with his sister Delyth and brother Derwyn, shares these family stories
with the audience in an unpredictable, playful and engaging evening. The
live show is presented alongside a unique new online space, www.invisibletownstories.co.uk ,
where visitors can get lost in a collection of reminiscences manifested
as short films, photographs, animations, maps, diagrams, audio clips
and poems. Stories from an Invisible Town is produced by Hoipolloi whose previous shows at the Barbican include Hugh Hughes’ Floating, Story of a Rabbit and 360, with all three also presented as a trilogy, The Wonderful World of Hugh Hughes , in autumn 2010.
(The Pit, 28 November – 8 December, press night Thursday 29 November, 7.45pm, #InvisibleTown)
Beginning in the Pit foyer, non zero one present the time out, a playful and personal interactive performance set in the changing room of a swimming pool before a water polo final. the time out
looks at teams and what it means to be part of one, using live sound
mixing, audio and projection. Written and performed by non zero one who
are Sarah Butcher, Iván González, Cat Harrison, John Hunter, Fran Miller
and Alex Turner with music by Robert Logan. non zero one are affiliates
of the National Theatre Studio and will perform you’ll see [me sailing in antarctica] on the roof of the National Theatre from 6 – 15 July as part of London 2012 Festival.
(Barbican Centre, 23 October – 4 November, press previews Monday 22 October, 7.45pm and 9pm, #nonzeroone)
Informed by the digital elements evident in some of the work in the Barbican spaces this autumn including Nosferatu, Stories from an Invisible Town, Miss Ophelia and the time out, the Barbican Weekender
is a free programme of music, film, theatre and visual art across the
foyers, celebrating the influence of digital technology on the arts with
a range of activities for everyone.
(Barbican Centre, 3 – 4 Nov 2012, #bweekender)
Looking forward to 2013, the London International Mime Festival will be resident at the Barbican during their annual January slot, followed by Cia de Dança Deborah Colker, one of Brazil’s leading contemporary dance companies, with Tatyana. Tatyana explores the four main characters from Pushkin’s classic novel, Eugene Onegin,
and adds a fifth – Pushkin himself, who interacts with the desires,
thoughts and actions of the four main characters of his masterpiece. Set
to an eclectic soundtrack featuring Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky,
Stravinsky and Prokofiev combined with contemporary music, Tatyana is performed on a striking set with Colker’s physically daring, sensual choreography. Tatyana comes to the Barbican following performances at the 2012 Edinburgh International Festival.
(Barbican Theatre, 31 January – 9 February 2013, press night Thursday 31 January, 7.45pm, #TatyanaBarbican)
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Mademoiselle Julie
By August Strindberg
Produced by Festival d’Avignon
France
Thursday 20 – Saturday 29 September 2012, 5pm, 7pm, 7.45pm (see website for schedule), Barbican Theatre
110 mins / no interval
£16-65
Age guidance: 14+
Post-show talk: Monday 24 September
Press night: Thursday 20 September, 7pm
Produced by Festival d’Avignon
Co-produced by the Barbican, Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, les Théâtres de
la Ville de Luxembourg, Théâtre Liberté de Toulon, La Comédie de Reims
Centre dramatique national, CDDB Théâtre de Lorient Centre dramatique
national, France Télévisions, Compagnie Frédéric Fisbach
With the support of Région Île-de-France, ADAMI, and the Maison Lanvin
With the special support of SPAC-Shizuoka Performing Arts Center
National Theatre of Scotland and London Review of Books – Enquirer
Edited and directed by Vicky Featherstone and John Tiffany
Co-edited by Andrew O’Hagan
Interviews by Paul Flynn, Deborah Orr and Ruth Wishart
Lighting design by Lizzie Powell
Costume design by Janice Borgos
UK
Wednesday 3 – Sunday 21 October 2012, 8pm, Barbican off-site (venue tbc)
90 mins / no interval
£20
Age guidance: 14+
Press night: Friday 5 October, 8pm
Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award – The Finalists
UK
Thursday 11 – Saturday 13 October 2012 (see website for schedule),
Barbican off-site (Shoreditch Town Hall and other East London venues)
£5 (single event), £10 (Thursday or Friday showcase)
Age guidance: 12+ / Age restriction: 16+ (the vacuum cleaner)
Co-produced by the Barbican with CREATE and Shoreditch Town Hall
Michael Clark Company – new work
Choreography by Michael Clark
Lighting design by Charles Atlas
Costumes by Stevie Stewart and Michael Clark
UK
Wednesday 17 – Saturday 27 October 2012, 7.45pm, Barbican Theatre
Running time tbc
£16-42
Press night: Thursday 18 October, 7.45pm
Commissioned by the Barbican
Co-produced by the Barbican, Michael Clark Company, Maison des Arts de
Créteil, Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg and Tramway, Glasgow
Michael Clark Company is supported using public funding by Arts Council England
non zero one – the time out
UK
Tuesday 23 October – Sunday 4 November 2012, 2pm, 5pm, 7.15pm, 7.45pm
(see website for schedule), Barbican Centre (meet in the Pit foyer)
60 mins / no interval
£12
Age guidance: 14+
Press previews: Monday 22 October , 7.45pm and 9pm
the time out is supported by Arts Council England. Developed at the National Theatre Studio and the Basement, Brighton. Sponsored by Zoggs
non zero one are an affiliate company of the National Theatre Studio
Het Filiaal – Miss Ophelia
Netherlands
Performed in English
Wednesday 31 October – Wednesday 7 November 2012, 10am, 11am, 12pm, 2pm, 3pm (see website for schedule), The Pit
45 mins / no interval
£8.50 (tickets same price for adults and children)
Age guidance: 6+
Press performance: Wednesday 31 October , 2pm
Het Filiaal is funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture &
Science of the Netherlands, and by the province and City of Utrecht
TR Warszawa – Nosferatu
Written and directed by Grzegorz Jarzyna
Set design and costumes by Magdalena Maciejewska
Music by John Zorn
Lighting design by Jacqueline Sobiszewski
Poland
Performed in Polish with English surtitles
Wednesday 31 October – Saturday 3 November 2012, 7.45pm (9pm on 31 Oct), Barbican Theatre
110 mins / no interval
£16 – 35
Age guidance: 16+
Barbican After Dark Halloween Special: Wednesday 31 October, 7pm – 1am
Pre-show talk: Thursday 1 November, 5pm
Weekend lab: Saturday 3 – Sunday 4 November
Film: Nosferatu, A Symphony of Terror (Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens)
(Germany 1922 Dir. F.W. Murnau 84 min) with live musical accompaniment by Paul Robinson and introduced by Grzergorz Jarzyna, Saturday 3
November, 4pm
Press night: Wednesday 31 October, 9pm
TR Warszawa and Teatr Narodowy
Co-commissioned by the Barbican with Narodowy Instytut Audiowizualny,
Dublin Theatre Festival, Adelaide Festival and TR Warszawa Foundation
Strategic partner Adam Mickiewicz Institute
Barbican After Dark Halloween Special supported by the Polish Cultural Institute
Barbican Weekender
Saturday 3 – Sunday 4 November 2012, Barbican Centre
Free
Calixto Bieito – Forests
Directed by Calixto Bieito
Dramaturgy by Calixto Bieito & Marc Rosich
Set design by Rebecca Ringst
Costume design by Ingo Krugler
Lighting design by Tim Mitchell
Spain/UK
Performed in English and Catalan (Catalan text will be surtitled)
Tuesday 6 – Saturday 10 November 2012, 7.45pm, Barbican Theatre
100 mins / no interval
£16-35
Age guidance: 14+
Post-show talk: Wednesday 7 November
Press night: Tuesday 6 November , 7.45pm
Presented by Birmingham Repertory Theatre & Barcelona International Theatre
Originally created as part of the World Shakespeare Festival, produced
by the Royal Shakespeare Company for London 2012 Festival
Supported by the Embassy of Spain and Institut Ramon Llull
Sleepwalk Collective – As the Flames Rose We Danced to the Sirens, the Sirens
Created by Sleepwalk Collective
Performed by Iara Solano Arana
Directed by Sammy Metcalfe
Original music by Esme Squalor
UK/Spain
Tuesday 13 – Saturday 17 November 2012, 7.45pm, The Pit
60 mins / no interval
£12
Age guidance: 16+
Press night: Tuesday 13 November, 7.45pm
Unleashed – The Young People of Barbican Guildhall Creative Learning with Boy Blue Entertainment
Directed by Walter Meierjohann
Boy Blue Artistic Directors: Kenrick ‘H20’ Sandy and Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante
Set and costume design by Ti Green
Lighting design by Mike Gunning
Video design by Louis Price
Associate costume design by Jane Dickerson
Sound design by Steve Mayo
UK
Friday 23 – Saturday 24 November 2012, 7.15pm (also 2.30pm matinée on 24 Nov), Barbican Theatre
Running time tbc
£12.50
Age guidance: 7+
Press night: Friday 23 November, 7.15pm
Supported by the City Bridge Trust and using public funding by Arts Council England
Compagnie MPTA / Mathurin Bolze – Du Goudron et des Plumes
Conceived and directed by Mathurin Bolze
Original music by Philippe Foch, Jérôme Fèvre
France
Wednesday 28 November – Saturday 1 December 2012, 7.45pm, Barbican Theatre
75 mins / no interval
£16-30
Age guidance: 7+
Post-show talk: Thursday 29 November
Press night: Wednesday 28 November , 7.45pm
Presented in association with London International Mime Festival
Co-produced by La Brèche, Cherbourg; Les Subsistances, Lyon; L’Agora,
Boulazac; Le Parc de la Villette, Paris; La Verrerie d’Alès en Cévennes;
le Cratère-Scène Nationale d’Alès; Théâtre des Salins-Scène Nationale
de Martigues; Théâtre National de Bretagne, Rennes; Scène nationale 61,
Alençon; Grand Théâtre de Lorient; Le Trident-Scène Nationale de Cherbourg-Octeville
Compagnie MPTA is supported by DGCA - Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, DRAC, Région Rhône-Alpes et Ville de Lyon
Hugh Hughes – Stories from an Invisible Town
Created and presented by Hugh Hughes with Delyth & Derwyn Hughes
UK
Wednesday 28 November – Saturday 8 December 2012, 7.45pm, The Pit
Running time tbc
£16
Age guidance: 12+
Weekend lab: Saturday 1 – Sunday 2 December
Press night: Thursday 29 November, 7.45pm
Produced by Hoipolloi
In association with The Junction, Cambridge
Research and development supported by the Barbican and the National Theatre Studio
Hoipolloi is supported by Arts Council England
Slung Low – 59 Minutes to Save Christmas
UK
Saturday 15 December – Sunday 6 January 2012, see website for schedule, Barbican Centre (meet at Advance Box Office)
59 mins / no interval
£12 (tickets same price for adults and children)
Age guidance: 7+
Press performance: Monday 17 December , 5.30pm
Co-commissioned by the Barbican with Slung Low
Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker – Tatyana
Creation, direction and choreography by Deborah Colker
Executive director: João Elias
Art direction and set design by Gringo Cardia
Lighting by Jorginho de Carvalho
Musical direction by Berna Ceppas
Costumes by Fabia Bercsek
Brazil
Thursday 31 January – Saturday 9 February 2013, 7.45pm (also 3pm matinée on 9 Feb), Barbican Theatre
Post-show talk on Thursday 4 February
95 mins / including interval
£16-30
Press night: Thursday 31 January , 7.45pm
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About the Barbican
A world-class arts and learning organisation, the Barbican pushes the boundaries of all major art forms including dance, film,
music, theatre and visual arts. Our creative learning programme further
underpins everything we do. In 2012 we celebrate the Olympic year with
many of our projects forming part of London 2012 Festival – it is also our 30th
Birthday year. Over 1.5 million people pass through our doors annually,
hundreds of artists and performers are featured, and more than 300 staff work onsite. Our architecturally renowned centre opened in 1982 and
comprises the Barbican Hall, the Barbican Theatre, the Pit, Cinema One
(with Cinemas Two and Three opening in Beech Street in autumn 2012), Barbican Art Gallery, a
second gallery The Curve, foyers and public spaces, a library, Lakeside
Terrace, a glasshouse conservatory, conference facilities and three restaurants.
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