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liveartshow and Wales Millennium Centre present The Future For Beginners |
Frequent collaborators with National Theatre Wales and Welsh National Opera, this innovative and wildly experimental company of writers, composers, choreographers and directors considers the choices we make as a couple and our plans for old ageWhat if we could design our lives – every minute, every second, every detail, to ensure that we got what and where we wanted: would we do it? Or is the unpredictability of the journey the essence of a life well lived? This is the third collaboration from Alan Harris, Martin Constantine and Harry Blake, following the award-winning dance opera Manga Sister (2012) and Rhinegold (2013) that brought techno, dance and karaoke to Wagner’s masterpiece. The Future is planned in great detail but there's a problem: Day One is missing. Matthew and Jenny want to grow old together. They have planned the rest of their lives and that future starts today. They have searched all day for today and still can’t find it. As they look over their plans and recollect the past it's clear there is a schism, a crack in their relationship that could bring their world tumbling in. The Future For Beginners examines the choices we make as a couple and the plans we have for old age. Co-creator Martin Constantine said: ““We wanted to write a piece about that old couple who are sat next to each other on a park bench, know everything about each other, and yet are still completely in love. How do they get there when it’s so easy to trap the person you love with the image and ideas you have of them when you first meet?” The Future For Beginners is one of only a handful of productions supported by this years’ Wales in Edinburgh Award. After this collaboration with Wales Millennium Centre, liveartshow are also working with National Theatre Wales to discover whether or not there is life after death. The company was founded by director Martin Constantine, composer Harry Blake and writer Alan Harris. They collaborate with a range of writers, directors, composers, designers and choreographers to create new theatre with music. liveartshow produced its first show, dance opera Manga Sister at The Yard Theatre (2012). They returned to The Yard last Summer with the award-nominated Rhinegold. liveartshow are always live, occasionally art and sporadically on show. Harry Blake won the Craig Barbour Award for Composition. His recent credits include Matthew Dunster’s The Love Girl and the Innocent (Southwark Playhouse, 2013), Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off (King's Head, 2013), Mobile Phone Show (Lyric Hammersmith, 2013), Dancing Brick’s Perle (Tobacco Factory and Soho Theatre, 2012), Manga Sister (liveartshow at The Yard 2012) and the live electronic score for Soho Theatre’s Don Giovanni (2011). Martin Constantine’s recent directing credits include: Rhinegold, Manga Sister (liveartshow), Paul Bunyan (Welsh National Opera, 2013, RPS 2014 Award Winner), Dido and Aeneas (Florilegium / Bath International Festival, 2013), The Tailor Made Man (The Arts Theatre, 2013), The Owl and the Pussycat (Royal Opera House, 2012). Writing includes: The Fat Stock Show (Chichester Festival Theatre / Bristol Old Vic) and an adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled at (National Theatre Studio). Martin established and is Director of ENO’s Opera Works, an innovative training programme for opera singers now in its seventh year. He has directed numerous large-scale projects in collaboration with different community groups at the Young Vic, Almeida, Opera North and HMP Winchester. Alan Harris’s is one of Wales’s leading writers and his The Opportunity of Efficiency played at the New National Theatre Tokyo (a collaboration with National Theatre Wales) in 2013. Other writing credits include: The Magic Toyshop (Theatr Iolo/Invisible Ink), Marsha (Capital Fringe, Washington DC), A Good Night Out in the Valleys (National Theatre Wales), Rhinegold, Manga Sister (both for liveartshow at The Yard, London), Wolf, The Lighthouse (both for BBC Radio 4), The Gold Farmer (BBC Radio 3), The Journey (Welsh National Opera MAX), The Hidden Valley (Birdsong Opera/WNO) Cardboard Dad (Sherman Cymru), Miss Brown To You (Hijinx Theatre), Brute (Operating Theatre Company), Orange (Sgript Cymru) and was part of Paines Plough’s Come To Where I’m From tour. He is also a new writing tutor, working with organisations including Welsh National Opera and Sherman Cymru. Running Time: 60 mins | Suitable for ages 12+ @liveartshow | www.liveartshow.co.uk | www.facebook.com/pages/liveartshow Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW26Q3-jKa4 Created by Alan Harris and Martin Constantine with music by Harry Blake Designed by Will Holt EDINBURGH FRINGE PREVIEW Weston Studio, Wales Millennium Centre, 8pm 24 – 26 July 2014 EDINBURGH FRINGE Summerhall, 3.40pm 1 – 24 Aug (not 12 or 19) 2014 Listings Information 8pm, 24 - 26 July 2014 £12 (£8 concs.), Weston Studio, Wales Millennium Centre, Bute Place, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff CF10 5AL www.wmc.org.uk | 029 2063 6464 3.40pm, 1 – 24 Aug (not 12 or 19), Summerhall http://festival14.summerhall.co.uk/event/the-future-for-beginners/ |
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