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| | | Posted on 23.04.2009 | Posted by LB
Creative Professionals needed to support performance of "Cirxus" .
Due to the short notice of the project being picked up by the Arcola, Foolish People have not had time to fund raise or apply for any grants, so the positions are unpaid, but a great opportunity to gain experience by working on an exciting project at one of London's most prestigious fringe theaters.
We are looking for:
* Costume designers, especially who specialize in the 1950's.
* Production assistants- To give assistance to our Head Set Designer
* Photographer- To take promotional shots during rehearsal period to promote the piece, and to take photographs during a performance. (Please note they can use any images for their own portfolio/to promote themselves)
* Lighting Designer
* Make up artist- Nb. the makeup will be circus theme!
* Marketing Manager/ Consultant- Any advice in this field is very welcome, especially from anyone with experience working in theatre marketing.
* Interns- Anyone who is enthusiastic/willing to help out in different ways to learn about the business
* Volunteer Ushers- We will need two per night for entirety of run, so anyone who wants experience in handling promenade/immersive theatre would be perfect for this!
* Project Manager- To Liaise with Arcola Front of House Team and be responsible for introducing audience into the environment.
Synopsis:
1957- Seascale, the North of England. Cirxus is an old English circus lost in the shadows of the smoke stacks of Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station. FoolishPeople will use mythology, shamanism, music and dance to bring the darkness of an atomic circus to life. The performance will allow audience members to step into the world of an old English circus lost in the 1950s, explore its sideshows and meet extraordinary characters from the past and future.
Athalia the ballerina waits in the ring for Loudon the Clown to return with directions to the Black Pool, the mythic site of the Home Sweet Home, the final show of the season. Join her as she begins a bizarre and wondrous search for Loudon through the irradiated secrets of Cirxus, where she must face the macabre atomic menagerie, haunted by circus animals and navigate her way through the maze of strange, hallucinogenic sideshows on the other side of time.
Immerse yourself in the world of Cirxus, where theatric arcana and Atomic fallout irradiate the sawdust arenas of our inner worlds.
Presented by FoolishPeople
Written and Directed by John Harrigan
Creative Team: John Harrigan, Lucy Allin, Victoria Karlsson, P. Emerson Williams, Paron Mead, Richard Webb, Claire Tregellas & Tereza Kamenicka
'Cirxus' is a promenade performance in Arcola's new industrial space, Studio K. Cirxus is based on fact: the German Bremen University confirmed that radioactive contamination by Americium-241 found in some soil samples taken by Greenpeace 11.5 km south of Sellafield, were 400 times higher than those taken 11 km from Chernobyl. 51 years on, the villagers of Seascale still live with the ramifications of the accident at Pile 1 of the Windscale Works Atomic Energy Factory.
Cirxus will be FoolishPeople's first London performance run since the critically acclaimed Dead Language at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 2007 which was part of the London Lates Season of Cultural Events and selected for The Times top 5 events
If you would like to apply. please contact Lucy with a brief email and CV and/or examples of your work
Lucy
lucena@foolishpeople.org
We are looking for:
* Costume designers, especially who specialize in the 1950's.
* Production assistants- To give assistance to our Head Set Designer
* Photographer- To take promotional shots during rehearsal period to promote the piece, and to take photographs during a performance. (Please note they can use any images for their own portfolio/to promote themselves)
* Lighting Designer
* Make up artist- Nb. the makeup will be circus theme!
* Marketing Manager/ Consultant- Any advice in this field is very welcome, especially from anyone with experience working in theatre marketing.
* Interns- Anyone who is enthusiastic/willing to help out in different ways to learn about the business
* Volunteer Ushers- We will need two per night for entirety of run, so anyone who wants experience in handling promenade/immersive theatre would be perfect for this!
* Project Manager- To Liaise with Arcola Front of House Team and be responsible for introducing audience into the environment.
Synopsis:
1957- Seascale, the North of England. Cirxus is an old English circus lost in the shadows of the smoke stacks of Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station. FoolishPeople will use mythology, shamanism, music and dance to bring the darkness of an atomic circus to life. The performance will allow audience members to step into the world of an old English circus lost in the 1950s, explore its sideshows and meet extraordinary characters from the past and future.
Athalia the ballerina waits in the ring for Loudon the Clown to return with directions to the Black Pool, the mythic site of the Home Sweet Home, the final show of the season. Join her as she begins a bizarre and wondrous search for Loudon through the irradiated secrets of Cirxus, where she must face the macabre atomic menagerie, haunted by circus animals and navigate her way through the maze of strange, hallucinogenic sideshows on the other side of time.
Immerse yourself in the world of Cirxus, where theatric arcana and Atomic fallout irradiate the sawdust arenas of our inner worlds.
Presented by FoolishPeople
Written and Directed by John Harrigan
Creative Team: John Harrigan, Lucy Allin, Victoria Karlsson, P. Emerson Williams, Paron Mead, Richard Webb, Claire Tregellas & Tereza Kamenicka
'Cirxus' is a promenade performance in Arcola's new industrial space, Studio K. Cirxus is based on fact: the German Bremen University confirmed that radioactive contamination by Americium-241 found in some soil samples taken by Greenpeace 11.5 km south of Sellafield, were 400 times higher than those taken 11 km from Chernobyl. 51 years on, the villagers of Seascale still live with the ramifications of the accident at Pile 1 of the Windscale Works Atomic Energy Factory.
Cirxus will be FoolishPeople's first London performance run since the critically acclaimed Dead Language at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 2007 which was part of the London Lates Season of Cultural Events and selected for The Times top 5 events
If you would like to apply. please contact Lucy with a brief email and CV and/or examples of your work
Lucy
lucena@foolishpeople.org
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