Sat 20 March • 2-10pm • Sad 20 Mawrth
A one day festival of live art created by a network of UK–based women artists,
performers and writers. Factory Floor moves between an eclectic range of subjects,
with performances running from an intimate 5 minutes to an hour. They will spark debate about making experimental theatre, live art and political intervention and what it means to be a woman. It’s eclectic and break neck. Have a speed date, meet Elvis and work with Elephants, move from life and death, to Market Road, gain an insight into being pregnant with breast cancer and have a post-Chekhovian lesson in love in war.
Entry to all performances throughout the day: £12/£10/£8. Afternoon (until 6pm) or evening only: £8/£6
For more information and tickets call 02920 304400
Programme
Double Bill:
Abi Lake & Caroline Wilson • 2pm
Manchester-based Abi Lake was the co-founder of Scarlet Letter Performance Company and the Factory Floor network. Her solo piece The Paper Dress was performed at Chapter during Experimentica 03. Her latest work, Elvis is my Mum delves into the family chest…
Caroline Wilson’s performance But I Just Want to Fall in Love and Work with Elephants is not about falling in love, or working with elephants. So what is it about?
"The lights go down... The music comes up...
The lights come up... And then what?"
Kerstin Bueschges • 4-6pm
Date, Mate, Fake, Bake
An exploration of internet dating via one-on-one encounters in an intimate space. Please book your 5 minute slot at the box office 029 2030 4400.
Louie Jenkins • 4pm
Moth
Jenkins explores the fragile relationship between life and death. Physical and poetic, this solo performance dances intimately amidst absence and presence, fact and fictional truth, Leeds United and a Ford Capri.
Clare Duffy • 6pm
Local Reality Expo on… Market Road
Edinburgh-based Clare Duffy is a playwright and founding member of Unlimited Theatre. Her touring piece Reality Expo on… is made as a response to a local street in each host city.
Emily Underwood-Lee • 7pm
Patience
"I grew some lumps, I grew some lumps,
I grew some lumps. One was a baby, two
were something more sinister."
Returning to Chapter after last year’s Experimentica festival, this powerful piece explores Underwood-Lee’s experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer while pregnant.
Using personal narrative to explore universal themes, Patience asks questions about life, death, love, determination, motherhood and what it means to be a woman.
Lena Simic • 8pm
Masha Serghyeevna
Simic explores the boundaries between desire and revolution in this re-working of Chekhov’s Three Sisters; an engaging performance about longing, dancing, affairs, lost and unsent letters, soldiers, war, Moscow…
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