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, in Oslo and Amsterdam

We've started rehearsals for our new devised production Now You See It, Now You Don't in London, and will continue rehearsals in Norway in August.

The preview performances will run from 1st - 3rd September at NISS in Oslo. Times are still to be confirmed, we will send out more information in due course.

We are very pleased to finally be rehearsing and performing in Norway, and hope to see all our Norwegian friends and colleagues there!

The premiere of Now You See It... will be at Theatre Frascati Amsterdam on the 5th September. The show will run for four nights until the 8th September as part of the Amsterdam Fringe Festival. You can book tickets on:

www.amsterdamfringefestival.nl
or http://www.theaterfrascati.nl/

We'd like to thank the Acting Department at NISS in Oslo and the Norwegian Church in London for rehearsal space. The production is supported by the Norwegian Foreign Ministry via STIKK and the Norwegian Dance and Theatre Centre.


Hamletmachine at the ITS Festival Amsterdam

We've recently returned from Amsterdam where we performed Hamletmachine in the beautiful Frascati Theatre in the heart of Amsterdam. The critic Alexandra Müller wrote:

“This Hamletmachine was the work of two directors who really knew what their question was to the text, to their actors and to the medium itself. An aesthetic and intellectual statement and at the same time a personal answer to the question: How to do theatre today.”

You can read the full review under: http://www.insted.eu/instedatits/diary


INSTED @ ITS

As delegates of INSTED, the international network for young theatre directors, our stay in Amsterdam involved a pretty full on program of seeing shows and participating in talks, debates and workshops. Under the leadership of Thomas Spijkerman and Wilko Sterke Oystein participated in a music theatre workshop whilst Philip worked under writer/director Ad de Bont, directing Dutch actors in a scene from one of his plays. The results were to be seen on the last day of the ITS Festival at the Engelbak theatre. You can read about this under:

http://oystein.ulsberg.no/blogg .

We forged lots of new friendships following the INSTED Directors' route (if you are one of them, you are receiving your first Imploding Fictions newsletter now – hello!) and look forward to tightening our links with the Dutch theatre scene... See you again in September!


Norway.Today at Southwark Playhouse in November

Our production of Igor Bauersima's Norway.Today which we developed in Cambridge in February 08 will be revived for two nights only as part of Company of Angels' Theatre Café. The performances will be on Friday 14th and Saturday 15th November at Southwark Playhouse. The Friday performance is part of the Theatre Café festival symposium which includes 5 readings, 2 productions, Young Angels Award showcases & presentation and a Theatre Café Festival Party.

Tickets for the symposium are for sale through Company of Angels, but general tickets for the two performances have not been released yet. We will let you all know as soon as they are out!

Contact Company of Angels if you want more information about the festival or want to book tickets for the symposium:
generalmanager@companyofangels.co.uk
www.companyofangels.co.uk


Angels' Associates

Company of Angels have recently announced their new Angels Associates scheme. We are both delighted to be two of the now eleven associates, and look forward to continuing our fruitful relationship with Company of Angels.


Online Implosions

Since last time you heard from us we have written blog entries on subjects ranging from Dutch hippies (flying and otherwise) via similes between Imploding Fictions and the Shining to hardcore partying with the Bard. Check it all out on http://oystein.ulsberg.no/blogg !


And as always you can check up on our projects and whereabouts under:

http://www.implodingfictions.com
http://www.oystein.ulsberg.no/blogg
http://www.newworknetwork.org.uk/userinfo.php?uid=1550
http://www.myspace.com/implodingfictions
http://www.youtube.com/improfilm
http://www.labforculture.org/en/community/person/22801

Or befriend us on Facebook and join our Facebook group for special secrets and updates - just for insiders...

Have a high spirited summer, and hope to see you soon – be it in Norway, the Netherlands or the UK...

Philip Thorne and Oystein Ulsberg Brager
Artistic Directors – Imploding Fictions