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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit Address: n/a |
DV8 Physical Theatre was formed in 1986 and twenty years on it still refuses to be defined. Combining dance, text, documentary, animation and film, the company has produced 15 Theatre works which have toured internationally, and 4 films which have won awards including 3 Prix Italias, an International emmy and a Rose D'or
World Premieres of Plays by DV8 Physical
Bein' A Part, Lonely Art | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1985 | ||||
Organisations: | DV8 Physical | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #79029 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Bound To Please | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theaterhaus Gessnerallee, Zurich | 35487 | ||||
Organisations: | DV8 Physical | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #79030 | |||
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Genre: | dance piece 70 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | Do we shut out those who tell the truth or smile with those who hide it? We feel Bound To Please . . .. regularly silencing our own opinions and feelings in order to get along. Social etiquette defines how we should behave. But . . .. "Why accept adversity? Why be mature? Why surrender with grace the follies of youth? Why put up with the bullshit?" Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation. the ability of dance to explore a wide range of emotional states has been restricted by its limited definition of what constitutes dance and its preoccupations with physical perfection and beauty. What effect does this have on the psyche of dancers? In its honouring of beauty and its denial of human difference, has dance become nothing more than the Prozac of the art forms? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Can We Afford This / the Cost Of Living | ||
| 1st Produced: | Everest Theatre, Seymour Centre, Sydney, Australia | 36754 | ||||
Organisations: | DV8 Physical | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #79031 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 8 | ||
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Notes: | Originally commissioned by Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festivals | |||||
Synopsis: | a piece about perfection and pretence; of how society measures individuals and how we, in turn, value ourselves | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XX (2000) Page 1194 - [Theatre: Queen Elizabeth Hall] | |||||
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Can We Talk About This? | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sydney Opera House, Australia | 40756 | ||||
Organisations: | DV8 Physical | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #166914 | |||
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Genre: | piece 80 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 7 | ||
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Synopsis: | From the 1989 book burnings of Salman Rusdie's the Satanic Verses, to the murder of filmmaker theo Van Gogh and the controversy of the 'muhammad cartoons' in 2005, DV8's new production examines how these events have reflected and influenced multicultural policies, freedom of speech and censorship. Can We Talk About This? is based on real voices and interviews with leading figures from across the religious, political, cultural and social spectrum, including MPs, high profile authors and journalists. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XXXII (2012) Page 0264 - [Theatre: Lyttelton] | |||||
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Dead Dreams Of Monochrome Men | ||
| 1st Produced: | Third Eye Centre, Glasgow | 32421 | ||||
Organisations: | DV8 Physical | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #79032 | |||
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Genre: | dance piece 80 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | I was left with an endless search through the soul-destroying pub scene and its resulting one-night stands. . .passing faces and bodies, the unfulfilled tokens of an empty life. a house is not a home and sex is not a relationship. We would only lend each other our bodies in a vain search for inner peace. Dennis Nilson. DV8's latest work for four men, explores through non-narrative dance theatre the interwoven notions of loneliness, desire and trust. the men enact private rituals which become disturbing in their familiarity. When does the ordinary become extraordinary? their actions push the boundary of naturalism to the extreme, the space becomes a landscape of loneliness where "nature makes no provision for emotional death" and men are left to resurrect their own lives. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Deep End | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Place, London | 31827 | ||||
Organisations: | DV8 Physical | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #79033 | |||
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Genre: | dance piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | inaugural Spring Loaded season | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Elemen T[h]ree Sex | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bretton Hall College, Wakefield, Uk | 31868 | ||||
Organisations: | DV8 Physical | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #79034 | |||
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Genre: | dance piece 30 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Commissioned by Yorkshire Arts | |||||
Synopsis: | a translation into violent physical terms of the habitual traps of male and female relationships. [ from programme leaflet ] This explosive post-Modernist dance deals with relationships and stereotypes. Habitual hypocracy and deceit are exposed in a controversial menage a trois, revealing the full power of this extraordinary and visually stunning physical theatre. [ from the booking sheet ] | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Enter Achilles | ||
| 1st Produced: | Vienna Festwochen, Vienna, Austria | 34857 | ||||
Organisations: | DV8 Physical | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #79035 | |||
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Genre: | dance piece 75 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Co-produced by Wiener Festwochen And the Royal Festival Hall with Dance Umbrella | |||||
Synopsis: | What does it mean to be 'a Man'? DV8's next project [ enter achilles] intends to look beyond issues of sexuality to the fundamental question of what constitutes masculinity. Our premise is to show how feelings, thoughts and actions deemed to be 'unmanly' are hidden by men only to manifest themselves, albeit subliminally, in other ways. What are the compensating actions that men take when they deny their feelings? 'Unmanly' behaviour is often considered threatening, particularly by those who uphold rigid precepts of how men should behave. Why should non-conformity produce so much abhorrence and fear? Perhaps it reflects the fragility of masculine identity which has traditionally been about control - men controlling themselves and therefore needing to control others. Men have historically oppressed women, but the question explored in DV8's new work is: how oppressive have men been to themselves? Through dance, DV8 will review male interactions. Using public bars as a starting point, we will look at how the pint, shared between men, can become a metaphor for bodily fluids / our life source, and how the qualities of the glass (the pint) can represent our rigidity, fragility and transparency. By juxtaposing the elements of intoxification/sobriety, soft/hard, straight/curved, beautiful/violent, we hope to discover the commonality that could bind men together rather than set them against themselves and one another. This work will present itself as a poetical (movement) response, embracing the complexities and contradictions of the above ideas rather than reflecting didactic theories. the piece will concentrate on the personal in relation to stereotypical images, drawing on the individual experience, personality and movement vocabulary of each of its performers. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Entre Achilles III | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stranmillis College - Belfast | 1998 | ||||
Organisations: | DV8 Physical | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #166915 | |||
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Genre: | dance piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XVIII (1998) Page 1627 - [Theatre: Stranmillis College - Belfast] | |||||
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Happiest Day Of My Life, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Dansens Hus, Stockholm | 36300 | ||||
Organisations: | DV8 Physical | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #79036 | |||
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Genre: | dance piece 90 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Mixing the surreal with the suburban, DV8's new work, the Happiest Day of My Life, examines what is swept beneath the carpeted lands of convention in the pursuit of love. Kate wants to be in love, but only if it is perfect [ fantasy is a hard act to follow ]So she bought a wedding dress on sale or return [ for better or worse ] Rob is in the running, but what is he running towards - or away from? [ What's the difference between illusion and delusion ] all roads lead to the living room, in which . . .. . . | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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If Only | ||
| 1st Produced: | Festival D'Ete De Seine Maritime, Rouen, France | 33043 | ||||
Organisations: | DV8 Physical | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #79028 | |||
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Genre: | 80 min Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | DV8 Physical theatre's new work is a direct response to the despair and loneliness evoked by their last production, Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men, in which the performers were slaves to their desires and the environment they inhabited, victims of the sadness and oppression which surrounded them. "if only . . ." looks at our attempts to determine the paths our lives take, examining the relentless search for fulfillment, and the belief that there is something better within our reach, if only we knew where and how to find it. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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John | ||
| 1st Produced: | National Theatre, Lyttelton, South Bank, London. SE1 9PX >>> | 41942 | ||||
Organisations: | DV8 Physical | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #166902 | |||
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Genre: | dance piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 9 perfomers | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | John is a new verbatim dance-theatre work by Lloyd Newson, Artistic Director of DV8 Physical Theatre. Newson interviewed more than 50 men asking them frank questions, initially about love and sex. One of those men was John. What emerged was a story that is both extraordinary and touching. Years of crime, drug use and struggling to survive lead John on a search in which his life converges with others, in an unexpected place, unknown by most. JOHN authentically depicts real-life stories, where movement and spoken word combine to create an intense, moving and poignant theatrical experience. . . .and that's why I come here, because it's another door that's opened, you never know where this is gonna lead. | |||||
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Just For Show | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brighton Dome | 38479 | ||||
Organisations: | DV8 Physical | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #79037 | |||
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Genre: | Piece, 75 min Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | conceived And directed by Lloyd Newson | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XXV (2005) Page 1504 - [Theatre: Lyttleton] | |||||
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Living Costs | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tate Modern, London | 37760 | ||||
Organisations: | DV8 Physical | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #79038 | |||
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Genre: | dance piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Commissioned by the Tate As part of the Tate & egg Live series | |||||
Synopsis: | A promenade performance through the public spaces, incorporating dance, circus, physical daring and visual spectacle, with specially commissioned video projection, soundtrack and live music. The work combines new material with elements of The Cost of Living to explore the building's architecture from the Turbine Hall to the seventh floor - Low and High art/living. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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MSM - Men Seeking Sex With Men | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre D'Aujourd'Hui, Montreal | 34242 | ||||
Organisations: | DV8 Physical | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #10440 | |||
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Genre: | dance piece 90 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | MSM is a sociological term that was created to refer to men who have sex with men in public toilets, colloquialy referred to as cottaging. the term was coined because many of the men involved refuse to identify themselves as gay despite their activities. In fact it is mainly men who describe themselves as heterosexual who seek out sex in this way. ". . . . . one might have expected that men indulging in anonymous sexual exchanges in lavatories would prove to be lonely, socially alienated, unmarried, and possibly ageing homosexuals. In fact it appears that the majority were married and predominantly heterosexual." Laud Humphreys, Tearoom Trade This new work from DV8 returns to the subject of male sexuality and looks at what it is that gives rise to the need for sex characterised by chance encounters, anonymity and the possibility of arrest or violence. the piece will act as a mirror to a wider world where we all have hidden secrets, where we all descriminate against others. It will be a place where private fantasies are enacted, fantasies which often reveal too much about ourselves. It will look at our desire to step outside the boundaries of society, to risk situations loaded with danger and fear in order to keep feeling alive. Members of DV8 interviewed 50 men of different ages, backgrounds and sexualities, investigating their desires, fantasies and realities. the fear and liberation, the violence laced with sexual immediacy, the complicated emotional reactions so far revealed by this research all point to a dense psychological work. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XIII (1993) Page 1300 - [Theatre: Royal Court] | |||||
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My Body, Your Body | ||
| 1st Produced: | University Of Essex Theatre, Colchester, Uk | 32078 | ||||
Organisations: | DV8 Physical | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #79039 | |||
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Genre: | dance piece 90 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | First version created in December 1986 with 3rd year Ba students At Leicester Polytechnic | |||||
Synopsis: | My Body, Your Body is loosely based on a book entitled "Women Who Love Too Much" by Robin Norwood. the initial inspiration for this work was the result of letters and a tape recording of a close female friend who 'loved too much'. My Body, Your Body started with the story of one woman but has ended up being shared by many. Consequently, in addition to my own company, I'd like to thank the third year Ba students at Leicester Polytechnic for their commitment and honesty when the preliminary work was created in December 1986. also thanks to the late Company of Cracks for their initial support and stories which helped form the basis of this work. - Lloyd Newson God said unto woman: "I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thy shall bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee." Genesis, Chapter III verse xvi | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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devised And created collaboratively by Lloyd Newson And Nigel Charnock | My Sex, Our Dance | |
| 1st Produced: | 1986 | |||||
Organisations: | DV8 Physical | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #79040 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | devised And created collaboratively by Lloyd Newson And Nigel Charnock | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Strange Fish | ||
| 1st Produced: | Teatro Central, Seville, Spain | 33744 | ||||
Organisations: | DV8 Physical | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #79041 | |||
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Genre: | dance piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Commissioned by eXPO 92 (Seville), Britain At eXPO | |||||
Synopsis: | This piece is about friendship, Lloyd explains, "and about the search for something or someone to believe in. It looks at how misunderstandings affect our relationships and how in turn these begin to influence what we ultimately believe. It questions whether our need for love and intimacy saves or enslaves us. Is it lack of belief in ourselves that drives us to place our hopes in things beyond our immediate lives? the need to maintain faith and belief often distorts perception: through anticipation and expectation we create situations in our minds that can never match reality and by doing so perpetuate dissatisfaction with what life has to offer." | |||||
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To Be Straight With You | ||
| 1st Produced: | Haus Der Berliner Festspiele, Berlin, Germany | 39422 | ||||
Organisations: | DV8 Physical | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78829 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 9 perfomers | |||||
Notes: | a work conceived And directed by Lloyd Newsons | |||||
Synopsis: | the persecution of people because of their sexual orientation is every bit as unjust as that crime against humanity, apartheid. We must all be allowed to love with honour.' archbishop Desmond Tutu. DV8's artistic Director Lloyd Newsons leads a multi-ethnic cast in a poetic but unflinching exploration of tolerance, intolerance, religion and sexuality. DV8's new show is based on hundreds of hours of audio interviews collected throughout the UK with people directly affected by these issues. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Vol XXVIII (2008) Page 0442 - [Theatre: Nottingham Playhouse] | |||||
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Twelfth Floor | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Organisations: | DV8 Physical | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #93771 | |||
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Genre: | Dance Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | By Tanja Liedtke, Featuring dancers from DV8 | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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