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Julia Lee Barclay

JULIA LEE BARCLAY

  
Nationality:    USA
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Julia Lee Barclay-Morton is a writer/director of experimental Theater. Having lived and worked in New York City most of her life, she moved to London in 2003, where she is the artistic director of apocryphal Theatre (www.flyingoutofsequence.org), a company originating from on-going weekly experimental laboratories, whose primary aim is to make visible the construction of the language with which we create the world we perceive; to allow us a moment in the gap between the understood and the unknown, to listen for the voices which have not yet formed, not yet been heard but still call to us in an undefined language which is perhaps no less real or pressing for being as yet unwritten. This goal is pursued through laboratory work, ensemble-created work and performances directed by Barclay using her written texts as one 'text' among many, including improvised gesture, dance, music, visual art and lighting. the performers respond to each other, the text and the tools developed in collaboration with each other in order to allow for a poly-vocal field to emerge, allowing the audience and performers to discover their own way into and through a collective act of becoming.

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         13 Minutes: Subliminal Car Music For Sarah         Besides, you lose your soul or the History of Western Civilization         Cut Up         Future Worlds - Tricorn Init!         Jesus Guy, The         My First Autograce Homeography (1973-1974)         No One         Rough Road         We Live In Financial Times, Part 1: Blackberry Curve         Word To No One         Word To Your Mama

13 Minutes: Subliminal Car Music For Sarah

Synopsis:
"the submission to experience is a work of meticulous description. . ." Georges Perec

Notes:
a commissioned radio piece written for ResonanceFM, heard in Autumn 2003

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Besides, you lose your soul or the History of Western Civilization

Synopsis:
A detective story searching through the scattered remains of canonical western philosophy and literature, to find clues as to who created the individual human soul, how did we end up using torture in a democracy and why no women?

Notes:
This text, as with most of my stage texts, does not suggest what players should take which lines or how the text itself should be embodied. In the case of the original production with Apocryphal Theatre, we had worked together for four years in labs to develop techniques to be able to improvise with and create work from this type of text (building on work I did with actors in labs in NYC from 1997-2002), along with devising performance scores from scratch. There are therefore terms in the stage directions which may not make sense to you, but you should feel free to allow the terms to evoke in you whatever images or resonances that emerge, as the words we use in labs are working definitions, not meant to pin anything down as much as stimulate ideas and imagination. Each performance was unique, as we did not decide on any one way to perform this text, using it instead as a springboard for new improvisations each night, using certain flexible internal structures but no rigid rules. The only thing that does happen during each performance is that we make it through the text and each free-form improvisation suggested in the text is attempted. - author

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Organisations:
Apocryphal Theatre

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http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/besides-you-lose-your-soul-or-the-history-of-western-civilization   -

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piece one act 100 min

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  guests

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Cut Up

Synopsis:
Cut Up is a cut-up of found and original texts dealing with gender, class and religion (including Shakespeare, punk rock lyrics, an article about sea horses and an essay on feminist aesthetics). as performed solo, a woman in a white wedding dress, only part of her face lit - which she moves slowly and almost imperceptively - reflects the act of someone who has been living inside of other people's words and is finding a way to use language herself - not by speaking in that language, but instead by making her mind a prism and refracting what others have said, liberating these words from their original meaning and opening up a brand new sea of possibilities.

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1st Produced:
Red Room In Eve's Apple Festival In NYC    2000

Organisations:
Screaming Venus

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Future Worlds - Tricorn Init!

Synopsis:
Future Worlds is a cut-up of official and unofficial words recorded from inside a 1960's brutalist concrete shopping centre, the Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth, UK, which was slated to be demolished having been voted "the ugliest building in all of Britain." there was a small but vocal minority of people who had enjoyed the Tricorn during the 1980's Punk/New Wave days, who wanted to save it, as it had provided the only alternative venue in Portsmouth. the movement failed and the Tricorn was demolished soon after to be replaced by something slick and soulless.

Notes:
part of an Apocryphal Theatre Mini-Festival

1st Produced:
Lorem Ipsum Gallery in London    Jan 2008

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1st Published:
Karawane or, the temporary death of the bruitist - a journal of experimental performance texts, Issue 9 2007
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Piece 15 min

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Jesus Guy, The

Synopsis:
a trip through the collective grid of unconscious desires which lead and mislead us to look to Someone in charge to ask for the name of our own nameless experience. Five performers create a new show each night, improvising with prewritten and cut-up text, using scores, ideas and objects accumulated during rehearsals and performances. an artist throws in new objects she creates during the show. No one has a space to call their own.

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Organisations:
apocryphal Theatre

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http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/the-jesus-guy   -

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Genre:
Stage Text 100 min

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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My First Autograce Homeography (1973-1974)

Synopsis:
a cut-up of journals and memories from 1973-1974, an attempted exorcism of sorts. the center does not hold.

Notes:
Reading At Manhattan Theatre Source, NYC (2002)

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Organisations:
Gemini CollisionWorks

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Piece 90 min

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No One

Synopsis:
No One is a meditation on where we are now. the primary themes are non-violence and war, the need for adequate translators and the identity(s) of the "enemy." the play is not broken up into pre-assigned line breaks or characters per se, but is nonetheless meant for multiple performers.

Notes:
part of Word To No One

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Organisations:
the Present Company

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Genre:
Short Play One act 55 min

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Rough Road

Synopsis:
Rough Road is an exploration of a territory without a map, where maps fail, where your global positioning system cannot chart your exact location, where cars are of little to no use as a mode of transportation. Rough Road is a challenge to the players and the audience: once plunged into this territory, how long can you stay t/here? Do we have a choice? Can the dead offer directions? and, finally, do you have the time?

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1st Produced:
Jean Cocteau Repertory, NYC    2001

Organisations:
reading at 'New Classics Reading Series

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We Live In Financial Times, Part 1: Blackberry Curve

Synopsis:
For just a minute, the suit pants are off, and then where the heck are we? theater conventions and the illusion of finance collude in a spectacular shell game.
- nytheatre.com

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Reading At Tbg Arts Complex, 312 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, Ny 10018    40448

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Word To No One

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Notes:
Double Bill: No One & Word To Your Mama

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the Present Company

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Word To Your Mama

Word To Your Mama
is a series of rants, dreams, speeches, ideas, manifestos, thoughts, beliefs, nightmares and maps through unknown/known territory. Structured in threes, three actors create one mind through three voices - attempting to unveil a stream of consciousness flowing to a river of consciousness flowing to the construction of consciousness and back again, in waves. a kind of channel surfing through a turn of the Millennium mind trapped in the collective body of a Night Secretary.

Notes:
part of Word to No One. the production At FringeNYC 2000 won An Off-Off Broadway Award for excellence.

1st Produced:
New York International Fringe Festival at Under St. Marks    2000

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the Present Company

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Genre:
Screaming Venus Productions

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