Inspired by a lack of opportunity for experimental performance, Taut will bring together artists from all performance disciplines for work-in-progress showings and short performance snippets. Except an eclectic night with work that challenges theatre conventions and ask the audience to reassess what theatre can be.
Featuring performances by:
Hannah Ringham
''Take it or Leave it" is a play written to be performed in the street just outside a theatre building. The piece explores ideas of show, audience, political and social presences outside and inside a theatre building and has fun with/ challenges ideas of living and/or dying in a public or private place. Work in progress.
Phil Smith
Phil Smith works with words, music, sound, and radio. He is a regular contributor to Short Cuts on BBC Radio 4 and has hosted and produced Jazz Dis-junction on NTS Radio for ten years.
He has also made a number of collaborative projects composed of found photography, voice, piano and field recordings. Phil also experiments with speech-songs, radio collages and poetry, some of which have been presented at international conferences and aired on national radio stations.
Hippolyte Broud
This performance invites the audience to shift their usual listening experience and enter a sonic realm, perpetually haunted by the presence of an old actor, as if he refuses to leave the poem into which he has invested so much of himself. By experiencing each vocal oscillations of the British actor John Gielgud when he performs Christina Rossetti's poem “A Birthday" the auditor delve in the sound layer by layer, until they unveil the story that lies beneath those words.
Lucy Waterhouse
Lucy will be presenting a dance-theatre piece with contemporary dancers, Anna Smith and Petronella Weihahn. It's inspired by a search for 'total feeling' with the dancers and expressionist artwork by women in the 1900s.
This event will also feature audio and video work tbc.
Programmed by Calum Perrin.
"It is precisely these types of projects, involving these types of people, in these types of theatres that make London what it is."
The Lancet
