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SPENCER HAZEL
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Chalking Crosses Circus Flesh Klub Phantom Limb Scratch Seizer Without TraceChalking Crosses
Synopsis:
a Belfast family rips itself apart when siblings become involved with people they should know better not to. there are offers you can't refuse, there are feelings you can't ignore. and there are cons equences you can't avoid.
Notes:
Nominated in the category Best New Play, Manchester evening News Awards 1995. "It's An enormously powerful piece, beautifully written straight from the gut. Its high levels of theatricality reveals A firm grasp of the notion that our troubled times require Dramatic forms that Are just that bit more challenging." Manchester evening News 1995
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Organisations:
North West Playwrights Festival
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Genre:
Political Drama
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 5 Other: -
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Synopsis:
Circus Britannia has come to town blowing its own well-worn trumpet of pomp and tradition. See the fixed smiles, giggle along with the canned laughter, then take a peek behind the curtains. experience the backstage world full of aspiration and fear, hope and brutality - a world beyond the ring, where people are destined to walk their own tightrope. With shows that must go on, regardless.
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Scottish Tour
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assembly/Cottier 1999
Organisations:
Boilerhouse Theatre
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Music:
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Genre:
Performance / Physical theatre
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 2 Other: all names same as performers
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Top of PageFlesh
Synopsis:
exploiting the ease with which we commodify our and each other's flesh, four performers offer up their bodies for your enjoyment. In an orgy of intimacy, Frantic assembly perform for your pleasure. For the price of a ticket, these performers are yours for a full, heady eighty minutes.
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International Tour (Frantic Assembly); 2nd production Toronto 2002; "touching, embarrassing, Amusing And disturbing., serves it up with style, ingenuity, honesty And skill. . . A crackingly clever And entertaining script, Almost Elizabethan in its inventiveness" the Stage 1996 "hardcore ballet meets contemporary Drama, this nail-biting exploration has Already had such Acclaim it's hard to know what to Add, except it is surprisingly Accessible And At once dark, erotic And funny." edinburgh evening News 1996 "sustained throughout on A suggestively punning, Almost poetic text by Spencer Hazel, they manage to give it A personal, And so genuinely disquieting slant, where the selling of bodies for sex And the selling of bodies for entertainment cross over. . . Now that's entertainment." the Independent 1996 "..challenging And spectacularly well performed piece of dance theatre. Hazel's script is sheer poetry. Quite one of the most compelling pieces of wordsmithery I have heard in A long time"-the Herald 1997 "..offers something Altogether more interesting, intelligent, sexy And sad: A lippy, witty 80 minutes of dynamic dance theatre.. A brash, confident, shove-it-in-your-face show" the Guardian 1996
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Organisations:
Frantic assembly
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Genre:
Physical theatre
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 2 Other: all names same as performers
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Synopsis:
6 performers explore the thumping drive of the sweaty dancefloor, discovering that the mindless, faceless trance of the modern club is anything but that. Hardwired into their lives outside, the club experience gives them space to disconnect, challenge the notions of end-of-century identity politics, and enter the realm of the visual, aural, and physical. Some time to get personal.
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International Tour; Winner Best Directed Play- Cairo International Festival; "not theatre for the faint-hearted.. A ferocious display of energy.. the ingredients of mime, stand-up, dance And dialogue whipped up into An exhilarating spectacle.. portrayed with Astonishing verve And humour. . . terrifically enjoyable theatre that really engages with An Audience." TimeOut 1995 "..evocative, really inspired writing, very clever use of recorded sound, monologues And physical And verbal parodies of typical experiences, A huge Amount of ground covered with wit And verve., An excellent piece theatre." the Scotsman 1995 "goes for the Adrenaline surge, buzzes with contemporary relevance, but it has intelligence And heart And humour too." the HeRaLD 1995
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Organisations:
Frantic Theatre Company
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Genre:
Physical theatre
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 3 Other: all names same as performers
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Synopsis:
Phantom Limb tackles the impact of loss and separation on our lives and explores why what is lost is never truly gone. Six performers in search of an absent friend conjure him up through their reminiscences.
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International Tour (UK/Canada); "combines elements of straight Drama, dance, A capella singing And film to build up A kind of impressionist painting of the life of this strange Author. . . the images created by the Actors' bodies, enhanced by Spencer Hazel's choreography And wonderful lighting, illuminate the text. Hazel has A fantastic eye And creates beautiful effects. . .something oddly moving that is not Available Anywhere else."-the British theatre Guide 2001 "the play is An Almost dizzying Assault on the senses: song, music,. . . the At times highly impressionistic dialogue swells up And crashes over you like A wave, leaving but A sensation of the explosion that came - before"-Globe And Mail 2002 "this is A work full of Affection And Also some pain, with the Anguish of loss humorously offset by memories of physical pain, through A recurring motif of broken limbs. Phantom Limb is not An easy work to fully grasp, but it certainly manages to cram All sorts of provocative ideas into An hour"-Manchester evening News 2001
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Organisations:
Theatre Gargantua and 2021 Performance
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Genre:
Performance / Physical theatre
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 3 Other: 1 pre-recorded
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Top of PageScratch
Synopsis:
Valentines Day 1998. Two friends find themselves together in a small room away from everybody else. they think they know each other pretty well. But this night will scratch out secrets they've hidden from others, even from themselves. Scratch reveals the performances we create to keep the outside world from getting beneath our skin. the carefully maintained surface that masks the truth.
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National Tour. "Witty And to the point. . .more brutal And encompassing than mere words can describe"-Belfast Telegraph "hauntingly beautiful. . . Amazingly evocative theatre., the effect is Awe-inspiring., really inventive., pure brilliance." Manchester evening News
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2021 Performance
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Genre:
Physical theatre
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: all names same as performers
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Synopsis:
In his modern day amphitheatre, Seizer rips his way through his fellow performers' lives for the salacious benefit of the audience. Playing on the crowd's insatiable appetite for reality entertainment, Seizer gets up close and personal with an intimate dissection of others' vulnerabilities. an evening of gut-splitting, emotional abuse, performed entirely without anaesthetic, and entirely for your amusement.
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National Tour (Boilerhouse); 2nd production Toronto Velvet Underground 2002. "at last, A show that's louder, bolder And nastier than its flyer claims. . . Seizer delivers its coup de grace with A gratifying, state-of-the-art relish." the Independent "an experience that sates A generation's demand for visceral, Angry, intelligent theatre." the Guardian "the comedy stuffed punters should get down on their bended knees And thank them. It's like A bomb going off. An explosion of visceral energy And uncompromising political writing; A spike of contempt And loathing banged hard into the complacent heart of theatre. . . rabid, brutal, restless." the Scotsman
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Organisations:
Boilerhouse Theatre
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Genre:
Performance / Physical theatre
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 2 Other: all names same as performers
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Top of PageWithout Trace
Synopsis:
250,000 people go missing every year in the U.K. they walk out of their houses and out of their lives and into the silence of cold statistics. When someone you love disappears all you have left is your imagination. Without Trace deals with the subject of a missing person. It follows the story of Beth, who disappears on a journey of self-discovery, leaving anxious friends, her lover and a trail of mystery and misery behind her.
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International Tour. "Without Trace is A work of Advanced sensibility"-the Independent "an exhilarating spectacle"-the Guardian "pulverizing, overwhelming, Without Trace left A very big trace indeed in my mind"-the Daily Telegraph "richly hybrid theatre that layers film, text, movement And music, erasing the lines between them, And delivering A punchy, provocative And frequently over-whelming experience." evening Standard 2000
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Organisations:
V-TOL Dance
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Genre:
Dance / Physical theatre
Parts:
Male: 2 Dancers, 1 actor Female: 2 Dancers, 1 actor Other: -
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