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Julia Bardsley

JULIA BARDSLEY

  
Nationality:    British
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         Aftermaths: A Tear In the Meat Of Vision         Frankenstein         Hamlet?         Institute, The         therese Raquin (Murder By the Seine)         Trans-Acts         Vinegar Works, The

Aftermaths: A Tear In the Meat Of Vision

Synopsis:
with the audience cast as a congregation, we gather for the party at the end of the universe, an almost religous celebration inspired by the Book of Revelations.
- Lyn Gardner, Guardian

Notes:
Spill Festival of Performance. the third part of her Divine Trilogy

1st Produced:
Laban, London    2009

Organisations:
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Music:
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Piece

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Frankenstein

Synopsis:
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Notes:
From the Novel By Mary Shelley

1st Produced:
Haymarket Studio, Leicester    1992

Organisations:
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

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Hamlet?

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Shakespeare Revival

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Play/Drama

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Institute, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
created by Dereck, Dereck (Julia Bardsley / Phelim Mcdermott). London International Mime Festival. The first Festival took place at The Cockpit Theatre and Arts Centre, London NW8, in January 1977. In that year the event was called The Cockpit Festival of Mime and Visual Theatre. It is now the longest running festival of its kind in the world. With the exceptions of 1983 and 1986, the Festival has taken place each year, featuring, in addition to workshops, films, debates and special events, performances by the following artists and companies.

1st Produced:
London International Mime Festival    1990

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Music:
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Genre:
Mime

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therese Raquin (Murder By the Seine)

Synopsis:
meticulous study of the psychological turmoil preceding and following a domestic murder

Notes:
from novel by emile Zola

1st Produced:
Basingstoke, Haymarket    2004

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Genre:
adaptation

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Trans-Acts

Synopsis:
there's a flock of sheep and a shepherd and, depending on your point of view you might even witness a miracle in Julia Bardsley's Trans-acts. Which was full of suitably religious imagery for easter. With an audience limited to 12. this performance, which opens the Spill festival, had more than a hint of the Last Supper. Religion and theatre have a great deal in common: ritual, guilt, faith. transgressions and transformations. In Trans-acts, Bardslev combined the two, and the result was a cross between theatre of Blood and a Mass. the ridiculous and the mysteriously holy. an actress (shown only on video) made a spectacle of herself watched by a godlike director in a puke-green suit, which unzipped like a lizard skin. a devilish tiny tail peeped out of a pouch at the front of her suit like a furry little penis. Part installation, part exhibition and part performance. there were wounds like red velvet, a creepy ventriloquist's dummy, a suicidal eve (more slipping on a banana than eating an apple) and falling angels. It sometimes seemed that andrew Poppy's wonderful music ensured that the devil got all the best tunes. Bardsley's piece celebrates the transformations of theatre and makes you question everything you see. Look one way down a table laid with a series of wine glasses and you witness an accident ending in smashed glass. Look the other, and you are witnessing a miracle, some-thing smashed rendered whole again.
- Lynn Garner, Guardian

Notes:
Part of Spill, An international festival of experimental theatre.

1st Produced:
Shunt, London    2007

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Vinegar Works, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
created by Dereck, Dereck (Julia Bardsley / Phelim Mcdermott). London International Mime Festival. The first Festival took place at The Cockpit Theatre and Arts Centre, London NW8, in January 1977. In that year the event was called The Cockpit Festival of Mime and Visual Theatre. It is now the longest running festival of its kind in the world. With the exceptions of 1983 and 1986, the Festival has taken place each year, featuring, in addition to workshops, films, debates and special events, performances by the following artists and companies.

1st Produced:
London International Mime Festival    1989

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Mime

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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