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BARREL ORGAN
(2013 - )Nationality: English
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Barrel Organ is a UK-based touring company formed in the West Midlands. The eleven of us have all directed, produced and performed in various pieces of work, but have never enjoyed working within the traditional hierarchies of theatre, which is why we decided to form a small company which would work collaboratively and collectively to create politically engaged theatre. Our first show, Nothing, is a series of eight monologues spoken by characters feeling a disconnect with the world around them, and is performed in a fresh, unrehearsed order every night in a setting which invites the audience into discussion and participation. The piece was based on script, written by Lulu, but was built upon and devised around by the ensemble, opening with short runs in Leamington and London before heading to the National Student Drama Festival in April 2014 where it won four awards, including the Sunday Times Playwriting Award and the Award for Creative Risk. Collaboration is vital to our work, and so the opportunity to explore and develop our ideas is what we really need in order to continue the good work which have begun as a Company with Nothing. We are currently working on our next shows, Untitled Project About Apathy and Some People Talk About Violence, which will premiere in 2015. Our style is inherently, self-consciously theatrical, drawing attention to the work that the context of 'theatre' is doing in order to highlight audience members' relationship with their surroundings. We strive to create pieces which engage with the audience and ask them to interrogate various aspects of twenty-first century culture. Though stylistically minimal our theatre never underestimates the audience's intelligence, who we hope will be intellectually active during our performances.
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Anyones Guess How We Got Here Nothing Some People Talk About ViolenceAnyones Guess How We Got Here
Anyones Guess How We Got Here is a road-trip. A haunted house. A bedtime story. A photo-album. An 80s fantasy film. A demolition project. A riot. Barrel Organs new play about the long-lasting trauma of debt and eviction.
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Text by Jack Perkins
1st Produced:
ZOO venues, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
13 Aug 2017
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commissioned and developed at Camden People's Theatre
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Nothing is much more than a series of monologues. It is about - among other things - cupcakes, action films, crap television, shitting, sex, buses and stalking. It is about alienation and being young. Initially written as eight monologues by Lulu Raczka (winner of the Sunday Times Young Playwriting Award), Nothing asks questions about the nature of theatre itself as performers improvise a new cut with every performance, each starting the show without knowing which particular monologue they will be performing on that occasion. Nothing is thus a game for both performer and audience, but it is also a serious interrogation of the structures within which we live.
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1st Produced:
Leamington
2014
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written by Lulu Raczka
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monologues
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There is no use in rage. There is no use in screaming. There is no use in crying out and screaming 'this is unfair', just wait, cause no one cares. In a world of globalization and greed, of zero-hour contracts and The Big Bang Theory, violence worms its way into every aspect of our lives. Following their debut show Nothing, multi award-winning young company Barrel Organ present Some People Talk About Violence. Expect people, or just ideas, in mindless frustration, on the edge of some kind of revolt.
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additional material created later by Craig Hamilton and Ellice Stevens
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written by Lulu Raczka
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