Want to work with a top poet and a top director to make a spoken word theatre show?
The Gulbenkian and Apples and Snakes working together with Wise Words offer you this great opportunity to… Join us in a land between spoken word, hip hop, and theatre. A land where 80’s Hollywood blockbusters rudely intrude upon family meals, and crucially, a land where your creative input and ideas will help shape the outcome... View Article
The Gulbenkian and Apples and Snakes working together with Wise Words offer you this great opportunity to…
Join us in a land between spoken word, hip hop, and theatre. A land where 80’s Hollywood blockbusters rudely intrude upon family meals, and crucially, a land where your creative input and ideas will help shape the outcome of a professional show!
This project is an opportunity to work with London-based spoken word artist Simon Mole to develop your writing and performance skills – for free!
Exclusively, there is also the chance to work with internationally acclaimed theatre director Peader Kirk to focus on using spoken word and poetry in a theatre environment.
You will get to know other artists, and maybe even end up performing in a professional spoken word theatre show while you’re at it!
Participants must be aged between 17 and 25.
To apply to take part in this opportunity please email [email protected] - places will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
WHEN:
Workshops will take place at the Gulbenkian, as follows:
Sunday 1st March (afternoon) - Writing workshop 1
Sunday 8 March (afternoon) - Writing workshop 2 & Performance Workshop 1
Thursday 12 March (evening) - Performance Workshop 2
Sunday 14 March (afternoon) - Dress Rehearsal and performance
www.simonmole.com | www.extrachair.co.uk | www.gulbenkian.co.uk |www.wisewordsfestival.co.u
ABOUT THE SHOW:
INDIANA JONES AND THE EXTRA CHAIR! presented by The Gulbenkian and Apples and Snakes
Every family dinner needs a hero. Mike is 23 years old but still asks ‘what would Indy do?’ at times of crisis, and it’s crunch time when we meet him at a busy train station on his way to his Mum’s. His crumbling love-life is colliding with his heroic fantasy world and the consequences move from hilarious to heart-breaking. Join our hero round the table for his toughest adventure yet, meeting his mum’s new boyfriend!
Simon Mole’s ground-breaking one-man show is touring nationally. This eye-catching collaboration with critically acclaimed site-specific theatre director Peader Kirk takes spoken word performance in an exciting new direction, with Simon’s brilliantly crafted poetic story at the core of a full evening of immersive entertainment. Basically, it’s good fun. And you get dinner!
In an exciting twist, the events will be different at each venue, showcasing original performance from local young writers.
Quotes about the show:
“The young poets were brilliant - brought a tear to my eye!”
Audience member, ARC
“One of the most groundbreaking spoken word shows I have seen” - Russell Thompson, Apples & Snakes London Co-ordinator
“Extremely funny, moving and well observed.” - Aoife Mannix, poet in residence BBC radio 4 Saturday Live
ABOUT SIMON MOLE:
Simon Mole hails from a land between spoken word, hip hop, and theatre. With an eye for the often overlooked in the everyday, his work is entertaining and accessible but remains rooted in a love of the craft of writing.
Simon built his skills at the open-mics and battles of the Brighton hip hop scene. As one half of ‘Mole & Iris’ he has put out two well received mini-albums, as well as spending five years as the emcee in a ten piece live hip hop band playing festivals and venues across the UK. As a solo performer, he has shared the bill with established artists such as Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, Polarbear, Simon Armitage, and Kate Tempest, featuring at venues such as Waterstones Bookstore in Piccadilly, Latitude Festival and Southbank Centre. He is currently part of the Chill Pill Collective, curating and performing at hugely popular poetry nights at Soho Theatre and the Albany. In May 2012 Simon was a performing guest on a live broadcast of The Verb with Ian McMillan for BBC Radio 3, and in June 2013 he was interviewed on BBC London breakfast, performing poetry commissioned by Brent Council as part of his current role as the first ever Poet Laureate for the borough.
ABOUT PEADER KIRK:
Peader Kirk is an Artist and Director working internationally in the fields of Performance and Sound Art. His work has recently been shown at the ICA, London, The National Theatre of Greece, Athens and the Academy of Fine Arts, Turin. The scale of the work ranges from intimate encounters in small rooms to large-scale public works in the urban environment. Peader’s theatre work challenges old notions of performance creating immersive performance environments where the audience become a part of the work and anything is possible.
