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Milk Presents

MILK PRESENTS

  
Nationality:    British
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Milk Presents formed was born out of a desire to make work that explores the portrayal of gender and sexuality in stories and popular culture. Our work has a charmingly low-fi aesthetic and seeks to push the limits of contemporary Theatre making. the work fuses cabaret song, lyrical new writing and live animation on overhead projectors. We make innovative and refreshing devised performance with something to say about the world. Milk Presents are an associate company of the Point, Eastleigh We like bicycles, Riot Grrrls, TED Talks, acetate, Electric Pedals, lots of cardboard, tomato ketchup, catchy tunes, Tom Waits, sweat, pretty pictures, bunting, contraptions, David Hoyle, loud music, pulleys, Kneehigh, clowning, OHP's, boys, girls and everything in between. If you like these too you might like us. the company is made up of three artists; Lucy Doherty, Ruby Glaskin, and Adam Robertson, graduates from the Central School of Speech and Drama, having studied Applied Theatre and Theatre Practice. their professional experience includes working with Kneehigh Theatre, Almeida Theatre and London Bubble Theatre Company.

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

         454 Grams         Bluebeard: a Fairytale for Adults         Real Man's Guide to Sainthood, A         Self Service

454 Grams

Synopsis:
454 Grams is a retelling of Merchant of Venice told through live art and animation created live on an overhead projector. This piece entitled toured nationally to festivals including Leeds Emerge Festival, Camden Fringe and Buxton Fringe (where the company was nominated for Best Production). Cartoons, caskets and chaos! Milk Presents invites audiences on a spectacular romp through Italy. . .Balloons glow and wheels spin to illuminate a world of greed, disguise and revelry. 454 Grams is born out of lines, moments and smells from Shakespeares Merchant of Venice. Fusing live art with clowning, music and mayhem 454 Grams queers the tale of Shylocks tragedy.

Notes:
devised and created by Lucy Doherty, Emma O'Hanlon and Mischke Weinreb

1st Produced:
-    2010

Organisations:
Milk Presents Theatre company

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Male:  2            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Bluebeard: a Fairytale for Adults

Synopsis:
the tale of a violent nobleman in the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts by one of them to avoid the fate of her predecessors. Using pedal power, chains and pulleys to wreak revenge, homespun contraptions and cabaret song, Bluebeard: A Fairytale for Adults is a feast of raw entertainment with seductive storytelling at its heart.

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Real Man's Guide to Sainthood, A

Synopsis:
With pedal-powered brute force, elegant lyricism and punchy original music, Milk Presents bring you a feisty retelling of the story of Englands patron saint. Follow George as he journeys from boy to man to courageous warrior. Clawing at the walls of a sleepy English town, a beast threatens the norm. Townsfolk turn to drastic irreversible measures to preserve their way of life. Can the boyish hope of a nation save the day before he turns into a beast himself? Manliness is dissected, heroism is slain and a legend is laid bare on a cadaver tray. This 60-minute whirlwind of a show from a Total theatre Award-nominated company is sure to put hairs on your chest.

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1st Produced:
Underbelly, Cowgate, Edinburgh Festival Fringe    Aug 2012

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Self Service

Synopsis:
A punk-style queer voyage through what normal really means, featuring original live music, handcrafted animation and tacky politics. Total Theatre Award nominees present their latest deliciously decadent, raucously low-fi, toe-tapping, gender-bending 'cabaret of the most welcoming kind' (BritishTheatreGuide.info). This show spans decades of popular culture, political upheaval and quaint normalness. It episodically and sporadically attempts to define the indefinable. Ann Widdecombe, Madonna and the Beatnik generation are thrust together in a theatrical feat that wears high-heels a size too small and sunglasses a size too big. 'Play School meets Weimar Cabaret' (Guardian). Photo by Holly Revell.

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sprint festival

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Genre:
cabaret show

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