A new musical by Suzy Davies and Morgan Lloyd Malcolm for a 100-strong company of actors, vocalists and dancers selected through open auditions.
Old Vic New Voices commissioned writer Morgan Lloyd Malcolm and composer Suzy Davies to create a new musical inspired by thoughts and feelings of 250 Londoners who took part in a research stage last year. This will now be presented in the Old Vic Tunnels by a diverse volunteer company of 16 - 70 year olds made up of dancers, singers, backstagers and musicians.
This performance piece is a dramatic interpretation of a dementia diagnosis. Flora is a 76 year old woman. She is also 18, 33 and somewhere in her late forties…
Combining a poetic text and a bold score for voice and sound, Autobiographer draws the audience into Flora’s slowly unravelling mind. Fragments of stories and pulses of memory build layer upon layer into a curious, evocative portrait of a life refracted through the lens of dementia. w: www.melaniewilson.org.uk
Camberwell’s Blue Elephant Theatre is hosting a devised theatre pieceblending physical theatre, puppetry and original music to tell the story of a woman's battle with the swirl of extreme moods. Struggling with the tricks her mind plays on her, Louise yearns for sleep. Instead, she must take a strange journey with a surprise visitor in this exploration of bipolar disorder.
Over several weeks and using the collections at the Hunterian Museum as initial source material; students from Rose Bruford College have designed a cutting-edge blend of sound, light and costume to create an Installation Promenade Performance. Anatomize aims to immerse people in the world of John Hunter and the collection of surgical and biological specimens.
Cardboard Citizens is touring 40 hostels, day centres and prisons around London this autumn with a new Forum Theatre play performed by actors who have all experienced homelessness & will be visiting Toynbee Studios for two shows open to the general public.
A series of conversations, performances and workshops inspired by the theme of anatomy featuring artists, anatomists, medics and thinkers. The Season will take place across London in venues including Sadler’s Wells, Wellcome Collection, Hunterian Museum and Whitechapel Gallery.
How does the way that bodies are represented in medical culture affect our ways of thinking about them? How does the way anatomy is taught influence doctors attitudes towards their patients? What do artists know about anatomy? Is seeing believing?
Open the Parachute is a month long series of events organised by Emergence including a staged reading of Sharon Pollock’s ‘Blood Relations’ by the Resurgence Theatre Company on October 13, two fundraising concerts (Open the Parachute) also presented by Resurgence on October 9 and 23 and a film screening, ‘Voices from Both Sides of the Fence’ on November 10th.
The London Creativity and Wellbeing Week 2012 will take place from June 13-20 this summer and promises to be a great showcase for the huge variety of arts and health activity in the capital.
Cardboard Citizens is touring 40 hostels, day centres and prisons around London this autumn with a new Forum Theatre play performed by actors who have all experienced homelessness & will be visiting Toynbee Studios for two shows open to the general public.
