#ThrowbackThursday FLOW

With our upcoming theatre dance experience IGNIS, exploring and inspired by the powerful and potent qualities of fire, we throwback to the last time Hubert Essakow draped our stage with his beautiful choreography.

Inspired by water, FLOW was an innovative collaboration of dance, design and music. Five dancers with a pioneering collective of artists created a new full length dance experience, staged in the round in an ever-changing waterscape. 

"The ultimate in immersive theatre" 

Independent on Sunday 

Designed by Tom Dixon and composed by Peter Gregson, FLOW explored unique properties and different states of water, to reveal the dynamic relationship of mankind to this essential element, the most valuable of commodities.

"Enjoyably strong on style- a serious, exhilarating collaboration"

The Guardian

 

"Essakow's choreography is stunning"

A Younger Theatre 

 

Performed: 4 - 23 February 2013

Choreographer - Hubert Essakow 

Designer - Tom Dixon

Composer - Peter Gregson

Dancers -  Sonya Cullingford, Daniel Hay-Gordon, Thomasin Gulgec, Simone Muller & Kieran Stoneley

Sound Design - Andy Marlow

Lighting Design - Matthew Eagland

Dramaturg - Dan Ayling

Text - Richard Thomas

Projections - Kitty McMahon

Happy Holidays from The Print Room Theatre!!

Anda, Veronia, Justine, Isobel, Julia and Oliver would like to wish everyone a very merry holiday season!

See you all next year!!

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New Season Programme!

8 February - 1 March 2014

The Print Room presents 

IGNIS

A new dance production inspired by fire.

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15 March - 12 April 2014

The Print Room presents the UK Premiere of

THE DEAD DOGS

by Jon Fosse

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19 May - 7 June 2014

The Print Room in association with Opera Erratica presents

TRIPTYCH

An experimental opera première, designed by Gavin Turk

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Throwback Thursday: Cheek to Cheek

Shameless confession... Yes, I am one of the few people that still watch Glee.

And during this performance from last weeks episode I couldn't help but be reminded of Kika Markham's heartbreaking voice singing this song in The Last Yankee.

New Shoes New Show

For six months I have wanted the same pair of shoes, and for a Gemini’s attention span this is a lifetime, this week the day finally came when I got these beautiful leather, steal capped, triple soled, buckled beauties.  My favourite part in the purchase of new shoes is the first moment you try them on and an instant partnership is formed, you are going to travel the world together, party together and walk taller, there is so much to look forward to. 

With no patience I wore them the first chance I had.  Things were going well for a while, and then the pain started.  I went and bought thicker socks, but the pain got worse, by the evening I had to ask for a plaster in a bar I had gone to, and by the end of the day I was limping home.  The partnership between the shoes and I had definitely turned a little sour, the relief I felt taking them off…well I can’t even explain.

I strapped up my heal and reverted to an old trustworthy pair of Dr Martin boots, but the pain just got worse, I battled it with pain killers and blister plaster, I even had the Theatre Manager get me a walking stick out of our props store.  The shoes have gone back in the box, waiting for me to heal so I can attack them again.

To deviate, or perhaps to parallel, this experience isn't dissimilar to putting together a new show.   The meet and greet, the first read through, that’s when you first try on the show and you know a fabulous production lies just a few weeks away.

Then everything gets underway and sometimes there are bumps, and it can be painful (sometime literally, yesterday I saw the theatre manager hit her head on a low door frame at least three times) rehearsals aren't always smooth, lighting can be temperamental, sets are enormous sculptures that take time and energy out of everyone.

But you have your team; they are your pain killers, your plasters, your bandages and your stick.  The support system that helps you through the pain, and before you realise it you have worn in the shoes, they have moulded to the exact shape of your feet and they are perfect.  And not only appreciated by you but by those around you, “That shoe was amazing, the best shoe I've ever seen”.

The pain is forgotten and you can enter into a wonderful run.

That isn’t to say everyone will like your shoes, there aren’t always to everyone’s taste, but it’s often just easier to ignore the critics.

Poetry @ The Print Room - Emily Berry

Emily Berry is a poet, freelance writer and editor. She grew up in London and studied English Literature at Leeds University and Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College. An Eric Gregory Award winner in 2008, she co-edits the anthology series Stop Sharpening Your Knives and is a contributor to The Breakfast Bible (Bloomsbury 2013), a compendium of breakfasts. Her début poetry collection Dear Boy (Faber & Faber, 2013) won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and was short-listed for the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize.

On December 16^th Emily will be reading at The Print Room for our fourth night in a series of successful poetry evenings along with Daljit Nagra and Maurice Riordan.

Check out her website here:

http://www.emilyberry.co.uk/

And get a sneak peek into the evening by listening to her read from her début collection Dear Boy here:

“Emily Berry's debut is a treat. She is a new yet anything but hesitant voice. What is stimulating is that she approaches poetry as a flexible, permissive, dynamic ally. She seems to have complete freedom with form, and will use a poem whenever helpful as a vehicle for escape. A getaway car ... Berry's range is amazing.”

                                                    Kate Kellaway for The Observer

The Amygdala Cast

In case you have missed are beautiful line up of actors for Amygdala, here they are!  What more incentive could you possibly need to book tickets!

Jasper Britton, Hermione Gulliford and Alex Lanipekun