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Inspector Sands

INSPECTOR SANDS

  (2005 - )
Nationality:    British
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Inspector Sands was founded by Ben Lewis, Giulia Innocenti and Lucinka eisler

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below is a list of Inspector Sands's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Dr Ox         Hysteria         If That's All there Is         Life in 22 Minutes, A         Lounge, The         Mass-Observation         Rock Pool

Dr Ox

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inspired by a Jules Verne short story.

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short piece

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Hysteria

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Hysteria is a highly expressive devised piece about panic, the apocalypse and table manners.

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If That's All there Is

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If That's all there Is is a mini epic of longing, envy, disappointment and psychobabble, starring a therapist vigilante, her moody daughter, her happy son, her pent-up patient and his thrill-seeking fiancee. Over one long summer, their lives intertwine, knot and fray, periodically hinting at an explosive climax. Will it be a gunfight between two women? a terrible motorcycle accident? the kidnap of a young executive? Or will it just be an ordinary summer which threatens to be swelteringly hot but never quite caps pleasantly warm? Inspired by the Peggy Lee song, If That's all there Is takes a funny and unflinching look at our obsession with finding happiness.

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Life in 22 Minutes, A

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This is the story of a life. A woman is born, she lives, and continues to live. Up until now she has drunk 24,752 cups of tea, eaten 776 chicken nuggets, spent 9,828 hours on the phone, cried uncontrollably 68 times, offended 28 people, fallen in love twice, spent 12 years 2 months sleeping, 2 days farting, 6,552 hours reading the headlines. And 22 minutes trying to make sense of it all. In a one-off scratch performance, award-winning company Inspector Sands will attempt to piece together a life time of unremarkable moments from start to finish. Almost.

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Lounge, The

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95 years go by in a flash. An afternoon lasts an eternity. In a care home lounge somewhere in the South of England, 97-year old Marsha Hewitt begins the last day of her life. But she cannot go quietly. As the radiators burn and Jeremy Kyle blares, festering rivalries, estranged relatives and murderous impulses jostle for space on the Axminster carpet. A riot is brewing& Extreme old age is the fastest growing sector of the population. We are voyaging into a new realm of human life that has hardly existed before, an age where nearly one in five people currently in the UK will live to see their 100th birthday. The Lounge looks at the way we as a nation cope, or fail to cope, with the process of ageing we are all engaged in, young and old. A painstakingly slow farce from the makers of award-winning shows Hysteria, If That's all There Is and A High Street Odyssey. A work in progress performance of a new idea created by Inspector Sands (directed by Lu Kemp) - to be developed autumn 2015, touring 2016. Presented by Inspector Sands and China Plate.

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part of Works in Progress: Memories and Mass Observation / Women Centre Stage

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Sphinx Theatre Company

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Mass-Observation

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Coronation Day, 1937: a young woman stumbles into a revolutionary rally and falls in love. Jubilee Weekend, 2012: a young man with a terrible hangover is stranded in a retirement home with no mobile signal. "We are all cogs in a vast and complicated machine. It may turn out to be an infernal machine which could blow us all to smithereens." Tom Harrisson and Charles Madge, Mass Observation: Britain (1938). award-winning Inspector Sands explores 95 years gone by in a flash and an afternoon that lasts an eternity.

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created by Lucinka Eisler; Giulia Innocenti; Ben Lewis

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Rock Pool

Synopsis:
A crustacean version of Waiting for Godot. For children. When a big storm whips up the sea, two very different creatures are left stranded in an isolated rock pool, far from the open water. As their little pool starts to drain away, Prawn and Crab don't have long to find a way of getting on and getting home. Funny, tender, exuberant, partially submerged theatre from award-winning company Inspector Sands. Featuring rock music and splashy dancing!

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South Street Arts Centre 21 South Street, Reading, Rg1 4Qu    10 May 2014

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Commissioned by Farnham Maltings and Arts Partnership Surrey in association with Take Art and supported by Arts Depot and South Street Reading.

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piece TYA

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