Pearson Brookes

we have 9 plays by Pearson Brookes in our database . Click on the name of the play to read reviews we have in our database.

• Saints [ 2005]
  author: Pearson/Brooks
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  Fri 29 July 8pm Gwe 29 Gorff "They are demanding. They’ll bend your ear, give you an ear, chew your ear off; they’ll put their head in a lion’s mouth, dance into mania, to get your attention. Give them half a chance and they’ll tell you their life-story. They’re full of promises and pleas and protestations, of friendship, love and compassion. They’re always full of it, just that bit holier-than-thou; stand close to them, they say, and you’ll be safe from wild beasts, dog bites, lightning, oversleeping." A special one-off event by Pearson/Brookes bringing together a crowd of collaborators past and present in the latest in a series of multi-media performance installations that have taken place in car parks to back-streets on digital cameras to Chapter theatre. Expect to stand, to move, to be moved.
  
  
• Rain Dogs [ 2002]
  author: Mike Pearson, Mike Brookes and Ed Thomas
  synopsis:
  Two men in a room; twenty monologues recorded on video; improvised texts and a live mix of the lot supervised by a visual artist. It doesn't sound like the terrain usually associated with Welsh playwright Ed Thomas, but that's what's he's exploring this month in the company of Mike Pearson and Mike Brookes. A new media performance assembling texts, films and telling stories played out in the city. Performed live by Mike Pearson and Ed Thomas with a cast of 10 actors on film. Texts, films, narratives and stories played out in the city. Performed in Cardiff , November 2002
  
  
• Carrying Lyn [ 2001]
  author: Paul Jeff, Lyn Levett, Richard Morgan, Mike Pearson, John Rowley
  synopsis:
  That's what we'll do then, John, Richard, Paul and me: carry Lyn Levett from Splott to Canton, on a Saturday night, across the city, singly, in pairs, in trios, navigating the social scene, posing a few estions about gender and mobility, hoping to get away with it. Meanwhile you'll be about to track our progress in Chapter in sound and image between 8pm and 10pm when we hope to arrive with a final account of our journey.' Mike Pearson On Saturday 2nd June a group of performers embarked on a curious journey across Cardiff. Paul Jeff, Richard Morgan, Mike Pearson and John Rowley carried actor Lyn Levett from Cardiff Central Station to Chapter, once starting at midday and then again at 8.00 that night. Both journeys followed the same route and timings but illustrated the differences in the city at these different times of the day. The route passed 12 fixed points, all of which are different distances apart (the length of Caroline Street, St David's Hospital to Chapter) but each one must be achieved over a period of 10 minutes (A-B, B-C, C-D etc). It is the varying speeds and the periods of waiting when the performers arrive early at a fixed point that created the choreography/dynamic of the work. Each of the 12 small journeys was videoed and these 10 minute fragments were collected by cycle couriers at each of the 12 fixed points and then taken back to Chapter. At least three 3 couriers were working in relay. At each of the 12 points, photographer Paul Jeff may also madee a composed photograph and the performers also gave the couriers odd polaroids or objects that they found along the route. At 8.00pm designer Mike Brookes co-ordinated, devised and animated what happened in the street back at Chapter's theatre in Canton. The video from the first journey was projected and this and other material from the first 'take' was juxtaposed with material coming directly from the streets.
  
  
• Like a pelican in the wilderness (towards the north: act 1) [ 2000]
  author: Mike Pearson & Mike Brookes
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• Just a bit of history repeating [ 1999]
  author: Mike Pearson and Mike Brookes
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• The Man who Ate his Boots [ 1998]
  author: Mike Pearson and Mike Brookes
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• Body of Evidence [ 1998]
  author: Mike Pearson and Mike Brookes
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• The First Five Miles [ 1998]
  author: Mike Pearson and Mike Brookes
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• Dead Men's Shoes [ 1997]
  author: Mike Pearson and Mike Brookes
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