Performance poetry by David J, Stickman, Polarbear, Yusra Warsama and Claire Williamson.
Apples & Snakes has commissioned five artists from five regional areas to each compose a twelve minute piece on the theme of ‘exposed’. They explore issues of political, personal and environmental exposure through performance styles from hip hop through free verse to the luxuriantly lyrical. Each performance will feature the five commissioned artists as well as a local host and guest performer, unique to each venue. The artistic director is Lucy English, Bristol’s Queen of Slam.EXPOSED is the company’s most ambitious collaborative project to date with twenty performances, sixteen partner organisations and five touring artists. This makes it the biggest national poetry tour ever programmed.
The tour will call at Birmingham Rep, The Y (Leicester), The Plough Arts Centre (Great Torrington), Arnolfin (Bristol), Merlin Theatre (Frome), The Royal Hotel (Southend-on-Sea), Lincoln Drill Hall, Cherry Jam (London), Canal House Bar (Nottingham), Whitechapel Art Gallery (London), The vaults (Oxford), Yorkshire House (Lancaster), Bickerton Village Hall (Chester), Goostry Village Hall (Chester), Brewery Arts Centre (Kendal), Chester University Campus, Contact Theatre (Manchester) and Lanternhouse (Cumbria).
For full listings: www.applesandsnakes.org/exposed
LISTINGS INFORMATION – PREVIEWS AND LAUNCH
venue: The Door, Birmingham Rep, Centenary Square, Broad St, B1 2EP
website: www.birmingham-rep.co.uk
box office: 0121 236 4455
time: 19:45
Preview
date: 30/08/06
tickets: £5 / £4
guest acts: Spoz and Leila Rasheed
Preview
date: 31/08/06
tickets: £8 / £4
guest acts: Leeanne Stoddart and Maxwell Golden
Launch
date: 01/09/06
tickets: £8 / £4
guest acts: Simon Pitt and Kim Trusty
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