PRODUCED BY YOUNG TATE IN COLLABORATION WITH CUT TO THE CHASE PRODUCTIONS WITH CREATIVE INPUT FROM PUNCHDRUNK ENRICHMENT – DIRECTED BY JEN HEYES
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Curiouser & Curiouser @ Tate Liverpool
November 14th, 2011 | Posted by in Site-Specific - (0 Comments)CURIOUSER & CURIOUSER – @ TATE LIVERPOOL NOV 12TH 6PM – 9PM – IMMERSIVE THEATRE EVENT
November 8th, 2011 | Posted by in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)CURIOUSER & CURIOUSER is Young Tate’s interpretation of Tate Liverpool’s current exhibition, Alice in wonderland and is a one night only immersive theatre event that takes place throughout the Tate Liverpool building @Tate Liverpool this coming Saturday Nov 12th 6pm – 9pm all tickets £5,(normally £10 to see exhibition)
Produced by Young Tate in collaboration with Cut to the Chase Productions with creative input from Punchdrunk Enrichment. Directed by Jen Heyes
Tuesday November 1st until Saturday November 5th 2011 @ Joshua Brooks106 Princess Street, Manchester M1 6NG
All tickets £8 (no extras on booking) from – Quaytickets booking number 0843 208 0500 and online www.quaytickets.com
Please note Start Time is 7PM
CAST
JOE
Nick Birkinshaw – theatre in Lincoln, Tyneside and Glasgow, then spent 10 years touring nationally and internationally with groups such as Moving Being, Kaboodle, Doppelganger and Kiss Theatre. While working in arts and regeneration in Merseyside over the last 25 years, theatre work has included devising and directing community plays ‘The Phoenix Factory’ for Arts in Regeneration in South Liverpool, ‘Island of Strangers’ for the Aspire Trust in Wallasey, and a play for young people, ‘Intersection’, for Collective Encounters. He appeared in Jen Heyes/Andrew Sherlocks ‘Wall Talks’ presented at the Blade factory during Liverpool Biennial 2004 and at the Heritage Market in 2007, and in Walk The Plank’s multi-media ‘SWALK’ production that played festivals across the UK and Europe. For the same company he project managed the Opening and Finale events for Liverpool Capital of Culture 2008, the On The Waterfront festivals in 2009 and 2010, and currently the development of a series of site specific performance events in partnership with Cheshire Dance for the Cultural Olympiad 2012. He works regularly for River Media, Mocha and others as voice-over and presenter for corporate, training and promotional videos.
VERA
Laura Campbell -Laura is an actor, musician and performer originally from Westhoughton, now based in Liverpool since studying Drama at John Moores University.Past theatrical performances include ‘The Cenci’ at the Edinburgh Festical, The Quiet Little Englishman at the Park Palace Liverpool (Zho Visual Theatre) and Rush (National Museums). TV work inlcude Bad Girls, Queer As Folk, and several perfromances on Top Of The Pops, The Sunday show and MTV. As a musician she has ahd chart success with an album nad several singles and continues to write, record and perform original music. As one half of the electronic duo Mulu, she has collbaorated with musicians, such as Russ Mael (Sparks) and Clint Boon (Inspiral Carpets). She has supported acts such as Beth Orton, Roxy Music,Simple Minds and Van Morrison
MC/LANDLORD
Chris Hannon - Most recently, Chris appeared in Crash Of The Elysium – an immersive theatre piece for the 2011 Manchester International Festival, which was produced by Punchdrunk and the BBC Dr Who team.On television Chris appeared in two series of the BBC 3 sitcom, Lunch Monkeys, for which, in 2010, he was nominated for Best Performance in a Comedy, at the RTS Northwest Awards.Other theatre credits include: Marriage of Figaro, Hobson’s Choice, Antony and Cleopatra, She Stoops to Conquer and The Miser – Royal Exchange. Schweyk In The Second World War – Library Theatre. Blood Wedding – Liverpool Playhouse. Innocence – The Arcola. Travels With My Aunt – Oldham Coliseum. Billy Liar – No 1 UK tour. My Last Car – Warwick Arts Centre.This Christmas, Chris will return to Wakefield Theatre Royal, to play Widow Twankey in Aladdin.
CHORUS 3/ Jeremy Kyle/Joe’s Son
Christopher Hollinshead – Christopher trained at Manchester Metropolitan School of theatre, credits include Macbeth
(feelgood theatre) Romeo and Juliet (Northern Broadsides) Title role Hamlet (UK/international tour)Loot (New Vic Theatre Stoke) Richard III (Demi-paradise) Romeo and Juliet (Royal Exchange Theatre) Vieux’ Carrie (The Library Theatre Company) A Midsummers Night Dream (all male/festival theatre) Richard III (George benson award, globe theatre) Space dread (Contact theatre)
Television: The Street (ITV Productions) In a Land Of Plenty (BBC)
Film: Macbeth (Tangent Films)
Chorus 1/Judge/Vicar/Doctor
Brian Dodd - Previous theatre credits include:Cupcakes and Carousels (Manchester) September in the Rain (Floral Pavilion), Blood Wedding (Liverpool Playhouse), Wall Talks (Tobacco Warehouses) Trapped (Unity Theatre) Therese Raquin (Ustinov Studio Bath -Winner of Liverpool Echo Arts and Entertainment Award for Best Home Production), The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol (Unity Theatre) Teechers, The Exorcism, One for the Road, Dancing at Lughnasa, Othello, Oedipus Rex, The Last Judgement and Antigone.Television/Radio includes:Crimewatch Solved (BBC), Dockers – Writing the Wrongs (Channel 4) & The King of Edge Hill (Radio 4).Film includes: The Map & BIM (Balfour Beatty), Uncover…Liverpool – A World Heritage City (Albert Dock and Pier Head). An actor for many large scale corporate events including: Official Master of Ceremonies @ Liverpool 08 Peoples Opening & performing for Her Royal Highness, The Princess Royal as part of the Bibby Line Bi-Centenary celebrations.Brian is a regular performer with Cut to the Chase Productions www.cuttothechaseproductions.co.uk
CHORUS 2/MANAGERESS/JOE’S WIFE
Jo Mousley -Most recently Jo had the privilege of playing Hilda Ogden, Deirdre Barlow and Ena Sharples to name just a few in a National tour of ‘Corrie!’ the stage play, by Jonathan Harvey.Previous credits include: ‘The Road to Nab End’, ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’ (Oldham Coliseum).‘Ugly’, ‘Forgotten Things’ and ‘Riot Rebellion and Bloody Insurrection’ (Red Ladder).Jo played The Moon/The Wife in ‘Blood Wedding’ (Liverpool Playhouse) for Cut to The Chase and is delighted to be working with Jen once again.
I Love Vinegar Vera – Tickets On Sale
September 29th, 2011 | Posted by in Performance | Theatre - (0 Comments)Tuesday November 1st until Saturday November 5th 2011 @ Joshua Brooks 106 Princess Street, Manchester M1 6NG
All tickets £8 (no extras on booking) from – Quaytickets booking number 0843 208 0500 and online www.quaytickets.com
Please note Start Time is 7PM
More information about I Love Vinegar Vera can be found on our webpage
NEWS – Cut to the Chase Productions to present I LOVE VINEGAR VERA (WHAT BECOMES OF THE BROKENHEARTED)
August 19th, 2011 | Posted by in Site-Specific | Theatre - (0 Comments)I LOVE VINEGAR VERA (WHAT BECOMES OF THE BROKENHEARTED)
Written by Nadia Drews
Directed by Jen Heyes
Dramaturg – Jen Heyes
Co – produced by Cut to the Chase Productions and Nadia Drews
We have been working in collaboration with Nadia Drews, the plays author, for the past 12 months, to co – produce the world premiere of this fantastic new play.
Originally developed through North West Playwrights nurturing scheme I love Vinegar Vera has been through a lot of development before reaching this full scale production stage.
‘I Love Vinegar Vera’(What Becomes of the Brokenhearted)’ is a play that defends the right of all people to be vulnerable and all vulnerable people to be given their rights . It challenges all the judgement callers, Kyles and Cowells and all others alike to …to care. It calls out to all lost souls and soul fans. It calls for an end to the condemnation.
Does the chancer deserve to be given a second chance? Should we all be given the benefit of the doubt? Come to the pub and see the regulars as you have never seen them before. Cut to the Chase productions continue the innovative, site specific approach which shaped their triumphant Wall Talks and present this passionate and polemical new work written by Nadia Drews and directed by Jen Heyes. Politics, poetry and a pint are combined in one unique theatrical event. The snarl, and the swagger of Berkoff’s East are brought up north. You will be left with a hangover you won’t want to forget.
Life can be a sick joke….A man walks into a pub….. There was a loose woman called ………… Vera and Joe. You couldn’t make it up could you? Vera…you know Vera ? You might have heard her called her some other names ….you might have made up a few yourself…a local character….always a drama….tragic…She drank too much and she said too much and there was nowhere for her to go…but down. The same old sob story. … Who cares? Only the likes of Joe…you know Joe………he can’t help himself…. lame? ……… lost ?….he will love you…… ..He loves her. Bleeding heart meets bleeding tart. You’ve got to laugh….or you’d have to cry.
You know how it will end. Or do you? Maybe it is you who decides?
Funded by The Arts Council of England
More to follow . . .
Alice in Wonderland – Tate Liverpool. Young Tate. Punchdrunk Enrichment
August 15th, 2011 | Posted by in Site-Specific - (0 Comments)Produced by Young Tate in collaboration with Cut to the Chase Productions.Creative input from Punchdrunk Enrichment. Directed by Jen Heyes
Tate Liverpool
Young Tate Liverpol is a group of around 15 members with a strong interest in the arts. They range from 17-25 and have a wealth of experience programming events in the gallery. This process of production is mediated and managed by the Youth and Community Curator Shaun Curtis ( who is moving onto a new position at Tate London this Friday!) There most recent project was to curate a Tate collection display with counterparts from galleries in Paris, Helsinki and London as a part of a major European project and produce the catalogue to accompany the exhibition.
Through this project they took part in a performance at Centre Pompidou directed by Fatou Traoré, an experience they wish to build on with their next project.
This next project is to produce an event in response to the forthcoming Alice in Wonderland exhibition at Tate Liverpool between 4th November – 29th January. To create this new production they will collaborate CttC artistic director Jen Heyes with creative input from Punchdrunk Enrichment director Pete Higgin. The project will be managed by Karen Green.
We had our first meeting today in the Tate cafe. First time for us all to meet and discuss the project. Punchdrunk’s Enrichment director Pete Higgin travelled up from London met by Joe from Young Tate at Lime Street Station for our 2 hour team discussion/presentation by Shaun Curtis and discussion with representative members of the Young Tate team. We have an opportunity to take a peak at the as yet ‘top secret’ Alice in Wonderland planned exhibits.Very exciting . . . We also have an opportunity to take a look around the building and view possible spaces. Karen, Pete and I play catch up as Shaun and Young Tate members share their ideas around the project to date as well as their hopes and expectations for the collaboration.
We begin devising in September more news then . . .
After a collaboration in 2010 with Dr Nick Owen director of The Aspire Trust and composer Gary Carpenter, Cut to the Chase Artistic Director Jen Heyes is to perform at:
Riverside Studios: Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival: Closing Schools for the Future
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TREASURED – The Awesome and The Intimate @ The Liverpool Anglican Cathedral 2012 co-produced with The ASPIRE Trust
June 4th, 2011 | Posted by in Performance - (0 Comments)
TREASURED: THE AWESOME AND THE INTIMATE
conceived and created by Jen Heyes, Artistic Director, Cut to the Chase
Co – Produced with The ASPIRE Trust
Inspiration
When Giles Gilbert Scott designed Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral his intention was to create a space that captured the awesome and the intimate. As well as being one of Europe’s most awe inspiring cathedrals, he created an iconic architectural wonder which contains a myriad of intimate details in tiny carvings and corners: and as such, he generated an intimate space with an intimate god, irrespective of one’s personal faith.
Photos which demonstrate the power of the setting can be seen here:
Vision
In 2012, our partnership aims to collaborate to bringing an extraordinary piece of multimedia spectacle to the Cathedral and the wider community: Treasured: the awesome and the intimate.
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