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CURIOUS DIRECTIVE

  
Nationality:    British
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         After the Rainfall         And We Will Play Again?         Body in Light, The         Boy In Darkness         Drift: Photo 51         Expoplanets         Hosts         In the Image of You         Internal Motion         Kindness of Strangers, The         Le Corps Perdue         Moonscape         Movere         Olfactory         Ordinary Spectacle, An         Pioneer         Return To the Silence         Schadenfreude         Snow Base, The         Trillion Pieces, A         Your Last Breath

After the Rainfall

After the Rainfall
After the Rainfall: Throughout history, the study of ants (myrmecology) has been used as an analogy for human behaviour. This piece uses myrmecology as a prism through which to view the present day. Navigating the arid egyptian desert, continental europe, the British Museum and a quiet village green, this piece is a patchwork of multidimensional narratives about the aftermath of the empire. Curious Directive conjure a world where multimedia, movement and sound unpick Britain's relationship to artefacts, mining and the secret life of ants. An epic, thumping, passionate story asking questions about the relationship between our past, present and into eternity. A collaboration between Curious Directive, Watford Palace theatre and escalator east to Edinburgh, and it will play at the Edinburgh Festival (Pleasance Dome, 4-27 August) followed by a run at the Watford Palace theatre.

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1st Produced:
Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh Festival Fringe    04 Aug 2012

Organisations:
curious directive / Watford Palace Theatre / escalator east to edinburgh

1st Published:
Methuen Drama, London (2012)>>>    978-1408173473

Music:
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Genre:
devised, multimedia

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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And We Will Play Again?

Synopsis:
A piece of live art where the audience manipulate the performers. Roll the dice and see where the performers move to. Follow the patterns of probability and search for the code.

Notes:
performed by Spring Offensive

1st Produced:
Greenman Festival    19 Aug 2012

Organisations:
curious directive / Watford Palace Theatre / escalator east to edinburgh

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
devised, multimedia

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Body in Light, The

Synopsis:
Light is the fastest thing in the Universe. It holds the key to thousands of narratives and ideas, from great discoveries to the anatomy of the eye. Across 8 interconnected rooms, the company have devised a journey for the spectator exploring light from the perspective of a child, the Icarus myth, tangled light and the science of photons. the audience are let through in 3s and walk through an experimental concoction of installation, dance and light art. This piece was commissioned by the CAPITAL centre, Coventry and made in response to the book Light Years by Brian Clegg.

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1st Produced:
Capital Centre, Coventry    2009

Organisations:
curious directive / Watford Palace Theatre / escalator east to edinburgh

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
devised, multimedia

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Boy In Darkness

Synopsis:
As a young boys birthday draws to a close, he surveys the endless stone labyrinth he calls home and decides to escape. Titus Groan, the 77th earl of Gormenghast, has been surrounded by forgotten rooms and perplexing ritual for fourteen years and he cant stand it anymore.

Notes:
Devised by the company, Writer: Tim Franklin and Liz Sands

1st Produced:
Zoo Venues During Edinburgh Fringe    2009

Organisations:
Curious Directive

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
devised, multimedia

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Drift: Photo 51

Synopsis:
1947. A young bio-chemist starts a journey towards one of the most remarkable scientific moments of the post-war era. In the present, a young ballerina questions her genetic heritage and rewrites her future. the two worlds drift past each other via a wandering child.

Notes:
Devised by the company, Writer: Natasha Hodgson

1st Produced:
Edinburgh International Science Festival    2010

Organisations:
curious directive / Watford Palace Theatre / escalator east to edinburgh

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
devised, multimedia

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Expoplanets

Synopsis:
a 21st century response to the planets' by Gustav Holst. We questioned how can we build on the ground laid down by one of the most famous pieces of classical music. eXOPLANeTS explored what has changed about our knowledge beyond our solar system and into new ones revealing extra-solar planets a.k.a eXOPLANeTS. We chose the eXOPLANeTS Formaulhautb HD209458b, Gliese581g and Kepler 11b-gwhich were specifically chosen as these planets are visible in the night sky from the Latitude Festival in mid-July. A holistic artistic response using composition, movement and video to create a piece of dance theatre. the piece was followed by a star-gazing workshop where we took the Latitude audience on a tour through our solar system.

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Organisations:
curious directive / Watford Palace Theatre / escalator east to edinburgh

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
devised, multimedia

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Hosts

Synopsis:
weaves three stories to give a voice to the world of epidemiology

Notes:
written by Chris Thorpe, devised by the company

1st Produced:
Paines Plough Rehearsal Room    18 Apr 2011

Organisations:
curious directive / Watford Palace Theatre / escalator east to edinburgh

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
devised, multimedia

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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In the Image of You

Synopsis:
In the Image of You is a development laboratory project with curious directive and the Playhouse as part of our new work development programme, Furnace. It explores the fabric of the human body: DNA. 1952 Travelling between London, Paris and Lebanon, we follow Rosalind Franklin, the true character behind the discovery of the structure of DNA. 2012 Sally was a student of mavErick geneticist, Douglas Larkin. Torn between a high paying job in biotechnology and the institution that shaped her, she speaks at a funeral paying tribute to her inspirational teacher. the secret of life, our genetic code, is over 4 billion years old. the key to its discovery was unravelled not by Crick and Watson, but by one extraordinary woman on a rainy afternoon.

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
curious directive / Watford Palace Theatre / escalator east to edinburgh

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
devised, multimedia

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Internal Motion

Synopsis:
A set of installations exploring the notion of the extended phenotype.

Notes:
Devised by the company, Writer: Josh Bridges, Dave Burnett, eduard Lewis & Kay Michael

1st Produced:
Edinburgh International Science Festival    2010

Organisations:
curious directive / Watford Palace Theatre / escalator east to edinburgh

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
devised, multimedia

Parts:
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Kindness of Strangers, The

Kindness of Strangers, The
It's 7:03pm on the front line of the NHS ambulance service. Sylvia is on her last shift. Lisa is on her first shift. The two women patrol the city streets, encountering the full spectrum of human experience. An immersive journey into the world of the paramedic, where the audience sit in the back of a moving ambulance and witness all that comes with a twelve-hour night shift. The Kindness of Strangers is a pan-city promenade piece taking you into the curious day-to-day life of the paramedic.

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1st Produced:
Norfolk And Norwich Festival    10 May 2013

Organisations:
Curious Directive

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
promenade piece

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  10            Other:  ensemble

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Le Corps Perdue

Synopsis:
every decade, the office of National Statistics calls for the U.K to be counted. This cycle of devised pieces which unravel the relationship between the consciousness of the body and its political role. Le Corps Perdu presents five chapters; exploring the counting, painting, saving, swapping and stealing of the human body. Performers and audience take a physical journey through the piece using mobile seating. Drift in and out of intimate personal accounts which question the worrying possibilities of the future.

Notes:
Le Corps Perdue was conceived as a show about the politics of the body. It was kindly supported by the Pleasance, Islington

1st Produced:
Edinburgh International Science Festival    2010

Organisations:
curious directive / Watford Palace Theatre / escalator east to edinburgh

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
devised, multimedia

Parts:
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Moonscape

Synopsis:
the moon shapes our lives in ways we never realised. This installation transforms the Science Museum into an art gallery with artist's impressions of the moon in all its wonder.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
London Science Museum    27 Apr 2012

Organisations:
curious directive / Watford Palace Theatre / escalator east to edinburgh

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
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Movere

Synopsis:
the commons bar. Adrift in the ministers, members and marginals, Tom has one night to get it right,. enter Beth.

Notes:
written by Jesse Briton devised by the company

1st Produced:
-    16 May 2011

Organisations:
curious directive / Watford Palace Theatre / escalator east to edinburgh

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
devised, multimedia

Parts:
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Olfactory

Olfactory
Olfactory: Over 10,000 different smells drift across our planet in various configurations. Olfactory gives you a choice to craft your identity and to decode the invisible molecules floating through the air. Who do you want to be in the future? This miniature explores our invisible relationship with perfumes and smell.

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
curious directive / Watford Palace Theatre / escalator east to edinburgh

1st Published:
Methuen Drama, London (2012)>>>    978-1408173473

Music:
-

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Genre:
devised, multimedia

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Ordinary Spectacle, An

Synopsis:
What choreography and what human relationships are created out of the movements of our ordinary existence? How can architecture, a tunnel or sharp corner of a building weave its way into choreography? This performance event etches new dynamics and possibilities into the way we look at the architecture within everyday life. At different and precise times of the day see the site and its shapes continually transform as the performers bodies move and play together in it, on it and around it. the Artist Pavilion could at one moment become a playground, the next a busy city street. What can you see?

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Performed On The Artists Pavilion Which Was Specially Created To Stand Beside The Thames, Before Moving To University House, Warwick.    2009

Organisations:
curious directive / Watford Palace Theatre / escalator east to edinburgh

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
devised, multimedia

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Pioneer

Synopsis:
Fringe First winners return with the heart-breaking tale of the first human mission to another planet. Set in the near future, a maverick Dutch space flight director, far from home, contemplates an error which will cost her everything. An international team is assembled to venture the 52 million miles across our vast solar system. Using a breath-taking combination of video design and movement Pioneer takes audiences on a whirlwind journey through a deep sea simulation chamber, nightclubs, mission control and back to a quiet beach looking up at the night sky. Rigorous, inventive and intelligent. . .bright young company (Guardian).

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1st Produced:
Zoo Southside, Edinburgh Fringe Festival    Aug 2014

Organisations:
curious directive/ NNF/ Watford Palace Theatre/ Escalator East to Edinburgh

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Devised, Sci-fi, 1 hour 20 minutes

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Return To the Silence

Synopsis:
One morning Dr Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroscientist, wakes up and realises that she is suffering from a stroke. Studying her own brain from the inside, she makes a number of life changing discoveries about her perception of the world. the audience witness a number of the patients which she has met, read about or heard about over her years as a practising brain scientist. exploring the phenomenon of the Capgras Delusion, Periodic limb Movement, Pica syndrome and sudden loss of depth perception, Return to the Silence uses intricate choreography, video design and mobile audience seating - the show takes its audience into the mysterious and unchartered territory of the human brain; shifting backwards and forwards between the left and right hemispheres.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Warwick Arts Centre Studio    2009

Organisations:
Curious Directive

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXXI (2011) Page 0078

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Schadenfreude

Synopsis:
A theatre installation about the pleasure we take from the misfortune of others.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    2011

Organisations:
curious directive / Watford Palace Theatre / escalator east to edinburgh

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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devised, multimedia

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Snow Base, The

Synopsis:
the Snow Base is named after C.P Snows influential lecture the Two Cultures, exploring the curious proposition that the breakdown of communication between scientists and artists was a major hindrance to solving the worlds problems. This viewpoint, in conjunction with the vital questions of human biology inspired the Snow Base. Snow base is not a piece of theatre, a scientific experiment, an live art exhibit or a lecture hall; it is all these things in once venue, across differing levels, rooms and atmospheres; it is a total experience of the world of science and theatre. the Snow Base renders complicated scientific themes tangible and beautiful for its audiences. Mostly, we want our audiences to leave feeling curious about the relationship between theatre and science.

Notes:
Devised by the company, Writer: Jack Lowe

1st Produced:
Edinburgh International Science Festival    2010

Organisations:
curious directive / Watford Palace Theatre / escalator east to edinburgh

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
devised, multimedia

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Trillion Pieces, A

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
London Science Museum    25 May 2012

Organisations:
curious directive / Watford Palace Theatre / escalator east to edinburgh

1st Published:
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Music:
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devised, multimedia

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Your Last Breath

Your Last Breath
Your Last Breath: 1876 - Christopher leaves his young family behind to work in Norway. He will map the uncharted mountains for the very first time. 1999 - Anna's body freezes after an extreme skiing accident and her heart stops. But doctors gradually warm her until it miraculously starts beating again. 2011 - Freija, a successful business woman, has just lost her father. She travels to scatter his ashes in Norway. 2034 - Nicholas explains a medical breakthrough which saved his life as a baby, whereby the human body can be 'suspended in animation.' Spanning 150 years, Your Last Breath piece fuses movement, live piano score and video unravelling the landscapes of the heart and our own personal geographies. It was a Fringe First Winner in 2011 and will be touring, potentially to Scandinavia, in the Spring.

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1st Produced:
Pleasance, Edinburgh Festival Fringe    03 Aug 2011

Organisations:
curious directive / Watford Palace Theatre / escalator east to edinburgh

1st Published:
Methuen Drama, London (2012)>>>    978-1408173473

Music:
-

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Genre:
devised, multimedia

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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