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Bill Aitchison

BILL AITCHISON  (1971 - )

 Nationality:    British
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Bill aitchison's work, variously described as live art and experimental theatre, has a strong international following and has been seen in theatres all over Europe, as well as on buses, bridges and the streets of London and New York. aitchison has a striking physical presence which is both engaging and (occasionally) alarming and his performances display impeccable discipline and great comic timing.

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

 24/7/52         Customer Is Always Wrong, The         Vinyl         Zones 2-6

24/7/52

Synopsis:
aitchison's work frequently demonstrates a preoccupation with our place in space and time, and 24/7/52 is no exception. as the title suggests, the piece is about the rigours of daily life; 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks of the year. Structured like a game, eight clunky old tape recorders are programmed with a sequence of sound cues that, when heard, prompt aitchison into action. These might be as mundane as reading, sleeping or eating but, as the tapes overlap with one another, the cues come thick and fast and the actions no longer represent structured normality but become manic and unachievable in the allotted time. With great physical skill, aitchison literally juggles tasks

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devised by Bill Aitchison with James Dunn And Boris Kahnert

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Customer Is Always Wrong, The

Synopsis:
an eccentric demonstration of cultural expectations and confusions
Lyn Gardner, Guardian

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part of Junction Sampled Festival Of Performance

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Cambridge, Junction    30 Apr 2011

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Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 09 Page 481

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Vinyl

Synopsis:
One day Bill discovered that the number 1 on the day he was born was Grandad by Clive Dunn, a song so bad, in so many ways, that it is in its own way remarkable. From that discovery Vinyl is the natural consequence: a track for each year of his life. As its name suggests this is an all vinyl show but be warned, Bill's record collection is pretty damn diverse, even perverse, and for Vinyl he delves deep into it and talks about the tracks and about what the music means, about the memories these tracks evoke and the decades that have brought us to where we now are. Bill is no normal DJ and his stories are as diverse, idiosyncratic and pointed as the music he plays.

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Zones 2-6

Synopsis:
Zones 2-6 balances between following a doppelganger's journey through Outer London on a search for its elusive real self and following a mental journey through his imagination to find a central self. Through a series of reports this Quixotic doppelganger describes and simulates in a perpetual present tense, locations very similar to those of the actual performing space. an un-resolvable search, Zones 2-6 concludes by poignantly staging the paradoxes of a fixed and fluid social identity.

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The play was later re-titled Zones II-VI

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Chelsea Theatre, London    2005

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experimental theatre/performance art Piece

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