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Hello, I’m assistant director on JUDGMENT DAY which is due to open at the Almeida Theatre in September. We’re currently recruiting extras and actors for small non speaking parts. It will hopefully be a lot of fun and it’s an opportunity to work...
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What I do... (Actor, director, designer, teacher etc?)
Director and theatre translator

Joint Artistic Director of Imploding Fictions
Associate of Company of Angels
My Quick CV
I'm a freelance director and theatre translator. I'm an associate of Company of Angels for whom I have translated 'Nightblind' and directed 'Norway. Today' and have a close relationship with the international department at the Royal Court for where I have translated three plays, assistant directed 'The Ugly One' and read and report on scripts on a regular basis. My own company 'Imploding Fictions'has toured to Egypt, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway and Serbia. Our production of 'Hamletmachine' won the Premio Claudio Gora' in Rome and played to full houses at the Cairo Opera House Studio.
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http://www.implodingfictions.com
Another website I'd like to plug
http://www.oystein.ulsberg.no/blogg/

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Extras needed for production at the Almeida!

Hello,

I’m assistant director on JUDGMENT DAY which is due to open at the Almeida Theatre in September.

We’re currently recruiting extras and actors for small non speaking parts.

It will hopefully be a lot of fun and it’s an opportunity to work at one of London’s most respected theatres with renowned director James Macdonald (Glengarry Glenross, West End/ Dido, National Theatre/ Blasted, Royal Court etc.)

In one scene we want to involve a brass band, so if you play a brass instrument we coul… Continue

Posted on July 2, 2009 at 1:33pm —

Philip Thorne

Imploding Fictions' Amsterdam Season

Imploding Fictions Newsletter

Oslo 28th August 2008


Now You Don't – CANCELATION

This is not a newsletter filled with dates, plans and projects for a change... but a cancelation. We were about to embark on our tour of Now You See It, Now You Don't. Due to an unfortunate accident this has been cancelled. For the full story visit our blog under:

http://oystein.ulsberg.no/blogg

Apologies to our friends and colleagues in Amsterdam! We know that many of you had already booked ticke… Continue

Posted on August 29, 2008 at 11:50am — 1 Comment

Philip Thorne

Imploding Fictions' Summer Season

Imploding Fictions’ Newsletter

22nd July 2008, London


It's been a while since our last newsletter, not because of any summery laziness but due to a crammed schedule of planning, rehearsing, writing and touring.

In this newsletter you can read more about our coming performances of Now You See It; Now You Don't in Amsterdam and Oslo, our revival of Norway.Today in London in November and the continued success of our production of Heiner Müller's Hamletmachine.


Now You See It; Now You Don't
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Posted on July 22, 2008 at 6:55pm —

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Reviews of Imploding Fictions' Hamletmachine

Imploding Theatre Machine [sic]
HAMLET MACHINE (Heine Muller) - Imploding Fictions

cast: Hannah Boyde & Samuel Metcalfe
direction: Philip Thorne & Oystein Ulsberg Brager
seen: 23-6-2008, Frascati 1, Amsterdam
review by: Anne Maike Mertens

The beginning is amusing, two people in suits bound to each other by a tie. The students from the London Rose Bruford College take the audience with them in the two texts by Heiner Muller. First there is ‘man in the lift’, an almost androgynous… Continue

Posted on July 11, 2008 at 8:17pm —

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