Red Ladder Theatre Company and Gracefool
Collective present:
Convicts and Lunatics
Hexham Queens Hall
Friday
9th December 2016
Gracefool Collective and Red Ladder Theatre Company
present Convicts and Lunatics - a witty double bill spanning one hundred years of wayward
women and their dangerous ideas.
Convicts and Lunatics is an amusing and thought provoking
double bill featuring Red Ladder Theatre Company’s critically acclaimed
one-woman musical drama, followed by feminist comedy dance at its best, by up
and coming Gracefool Collective.
Red
Ladder champions new writing, particularly that which challenges or agitates,
and it is this common ground in questioning power and authority that they share
with the raucous and thought provoking work of dance makers, Gracefool
Collective.
Wrong ‘Un is a suffragette’s story by Boff Whalley, set in
February 1918 where Parliament is poised to grant what the suffragettes have
been fighting for – votes for all women. After years of direct action,
imprisonment and force-feeding, it seems their time has come. This is the story
of a Lancashire mill-girl on her journey from
schoolroom to prison cell and beyond.
Written by
ex-Chumbawamba guitarist and writer Boff Whalley, Wrong ‘Un was originally directed by Justin Audibert and is now under the
direction of Red Ladder’s Artistic Director Rod Dixon, with Design by Ali
Allen. Both Ella Harris (2016 dates) and Kathleen Yore will be taking on the
role of Annie Wilde, the Lancashire mill-girl galvanised by a rousing
mixture of injustice, conviction, self-doubt and fear on her journey from
schoolroom to prison cell and beyond.
This really is too much: Outlandish and highly entertaining,
this piece of dance theatre by Gracefool Collective delves into a world of farcical
stereotypes and preposterous power struggles. Watch four characters bend over
backwards in an attempt to be 3-dimensional, high definition, water-drinking,
salad-eating, moisturizing WO-men in modern society.
Originally commissioned by Northern School
of Contemporary Dance’s ’Northern Connections’ programme, This really is
too much is an outlandish,
bold and entertaining genre-busting performance. With original writing by Gracefool Collective with
extracts from Hidden: A Gender (in Gender Outlaw) by Kate Bornstein, costume
advice by Kelli Des Jarlais, sound by Florence Glen and lighting design by Luke
Haywood.
On The Web:
Gracefool Collective:
Website: www.gracefoolcollective.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/gracefoolC
Red Ladder Theatre Company:
Website: www.redladder.co.uk
Facebook: www.facebook.com/RedLadderTheatre
Twitter: www.twitter.com/redladdertheatr
Tickets:
Convicts and Lunatics is at the
Queen’s Hall Arts Centre, Hexham on Friday 9 December at 7.30pm. Tickets are £13.50 –
£6.50 and are available from the Queen’s Hall Box Office 01434 652477 or online
at www.queenshall.co.uk
/ Convicts
and Lunatics at QHA
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