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Eddie Ladd

EDDIE LADD

  
Nationality:    Welsh
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Eddie Ladd is one of Wales's most original and exhilarating solo performers. a former member of renowned experimental Theatre company Brith Gof, her career has encompassed numerous roles including singer, dancer, actress and television presenter. Her current work - which focuses primarily on themes of colonisation and the survival of small nations - encompasses Theatre, site-specific and internet-based productions; and seamlessly mixes dance, Welsh and English text, music, and new technology to create witty, powerful and accessible performances. In recognition of her pioneering approach, Ladd has recently been awarded a prestigious Creative Fellowship at aberystwyth University.

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below is a list of Eddie Ladd's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Caitlin         Callas Sings Mad Scenes         Club Luz         Cof Y Corff / Muscle Memory         Life And Times Of Leni Riefenstahl, The         Lla'th         Once Upon A Time In the West         Scarface         Unglucklicherweise: A Selective Biography Of Leni Riefenstahl

Caitlin

Synopsis:
Dyan Thomas and wife Caitlin explore their inner anti-hero in this intimate dance production. The year is 1973. Within a circle of chairs, 60-year-old Caitlin Thomas is confronting head on her drink-addled and destructive marriage to the poet Dylan. Twenty audience members sit open-mouthed in this uncomfortable but compulsive AA meeting as tumultuous scenes from a 16 year relationship fuelled by love, addiction, jealousy and infidelity begin to flood out of her. Hello my name is Caitlin and Im an alcoholic, she introduces herself. A woman of few words  her husband had all the words  she nevertheless continues: My husband was a very famous poet. I was going to be a very famous dancer. We were supposed to be equal but it wasnt like that. As Caitlin and Dylan drink, fight, love and leave each other, the unoccupied chairs come into their own as the significant objects of their lives: a babys crib, a highchair, a straightjacket and Dylans deathbed. The duelling duo find themselves on all fours, flat on their backs, buried under a tottering pile of folding chairs and manuscripts and perhaps most disturbingly, him staggering around with her wrapped about his head. But which partner is predator and which is prey? The dischordant soundtrack (empty, eerie, tolling bells, lots of screeching feedback) is written by experimental Welsh musician Thighpaulsandra and live manipulated by Sion Orgon. Caitlin and Dylan are a prototype Sid and Nancy  or Kurt and Courtney. Two creative people bound together by love and addiction, living out their chaotic private lives for all to see. Both switch seamlessly between self-obsessive introversion and manic exhibitionism. Writing in her 1982 autobiography, Caitlin recounts: Ours was not a love story proper. It was more of a drink story.

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Devised with and performed by Eddie Ladd and Gwyn Emberton

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Callas Sings Mad Scenes

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written by Eddie Ladd And Rachel Whitehead

1st Produced:
-    1994

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Jesus and Tracy

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Club Luz

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-    2002

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Cof Y Corff / Muscle Memory

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Commissioned by the Royal Opera House, Cofy corf f/muscle memory is an 'essay on foot' in which Ladd tries to re-connect with significant moments in Welsh history. Recognising that history and culture are constructs, she speculatively approaches an understanding of the two through movement analysis. Her trademark choreography, captured by an on-stage camera crew, is vision-mixed with a series of digital environments; the finished composition then viewed live on screens in the auditorium. With accompanying narration delivered through an infrared headphone system and a separate soundtrack heard in the theatre space itself, Ladd creates a complex, riveting and intimate multi-media performance.

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Life And Times Of Leni Riefenstahl, The

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-    1996

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Jesus and Tracy

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Lla'th

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written by Eddie Ladd And Cliff McLucas

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-    1999

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Once Upon A Time In the West

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-    1996

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Jesus and Tracy

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Scarface

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-    2000

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Unglucklicherweise: A Selective Biography Of Leni Riefenstahl

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written by Eddie Ladd And Rachel Whitehead

1st Produced:
-    1995

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Jesus and Tracy

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