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LIAM JARVIS
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Liam Jarivs is Co-Director and co-founder of analogue, with whom he has been creating award-winning work since 2007, touring both the UK and internationally. He has also worked with artists and institutions such as Gecko, Theatre-Rites, Chris Goode and the Young Vic.
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2401 Objects Battery Operated Birds Beachy Head Just What Is It About Today's Homes That Are So Different So Appealing Lecture Notes On A Death Scene Living Film Set Re-Enactments Typo2401 Objects
"Henry, are you awake?" Henry lives each day like the last. exactly like the last. every day, he tries to make sense of the world around him; the girl sitting on the lawn outside his window, the pages of a book filled with the same sentence, the 80 year old man looking at him in the mirror. In 2009 Patient H.M.'s brain is dissected live on the internet to a global audience of 400,000 people, cut into carefully preserved slices: manuscripts of tissue like the pages of a book. In 1953 Henry Molaison emerges from experimental brain surgery without any recollection of the last two years of his life or the ability to form new memories. In 1935 nine-year old Henry is knocked over by a bike, leaving him unconscious for five minutes. Following analogue's critically acclaimed Mile end and Beachy Head and inspired by the world's most important neuroscientific case-study, 2401 Objects tells the remarkable story of a man who could no longer remember, but who has proven impossible to forget.
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written by by Hannah Barker, Lewis Hetherington, Liam Jarvis, devised by the company.
1st Produced:
Oldenburgisches StaatsTheater, Germany 17 Jun 2011
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analogue
1st Published:
Oberon Books (2011) >>> 978-1849431958
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Top of PageBattery Operated Birds
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an exploration into the restrictions and revelations of our 21st Century lives. absurd, visually inventive theatre.
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Theatre Trash
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Top of PageBeachy Head
It's been a month since Stephen stepped over the edge. there was no sign - no warning. amy collects her husband's effects, the things he had with him gathered in a single box. as memories of their last night together rewind, replay and unravel, she is desperate to find out why. Joe and Matt are making a documentary. Whilst reviewing their footage they make a startling discovery that will take their film in an unexpected direction - the blurred image of a man jumping from the cliffs. Beachy Head is a powerful look at the ripple effects of one man's decision. Mixing text, 3D animation and a dynamic physicality,
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script by Dan Rebellato, Emma Jowett And Lewis Hetherington, Hannah Barker, Liam Jarvis; devised by Analogue
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analogue/the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich/escalator east to edinburgh
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Oberon Books, London (2011) >>> 978-1849430128
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Top of PageJust What Is It About Today's Homes That Are So Different So Appealing
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1st Produced:
Pleaseance theatre 2004
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Top of PageLecture Notes On A Death Scene
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You are a lecturer driving a passenger home on a rainy night. You are the passenger in the back seat. You are both simultaneously; the performer and the audience. an unusual and atmosphEric encounter for one audience member at a time.
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developed At Farnham Maltings, Central School of Speech And Drama, the Lowry And Pulse Festival
1st Produced:
Harrogate: Harrogate Theatre, England, EUR >>> 13 May 2011
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analogue
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Top of PageLiving Film Set
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We fell out of the sky tonight. But there are many things I've salvaged from the wreckage of impossible car crashes' When Liam was four years old, his Father disappeared - and from that moment onwards, his mother, sister and he have been living on a film set. . . In 1985, Liam moved in with his grandparents in a terraced house that was built on the old Sound City lot of Shepperton Film Studios. The house sat in the shadow of the giant studio warehouses. Liam's memories of that year exist as a few cinematic images and some lingering sound effects; a cloud of dry ice engulfing the garden from the set of Henry V, a mother crying into a telephone, a girl sleepwalking at night. In this intimate interactive performance, childhood memories, half-remembered facts and icons of British cinema blur into one in a poetic journey through the lens of a small boy in the 1980's.
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Script development, under commission from Theatre Royal Plymouth, 2012
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Top of PageRe-Enactments
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Re-Enactments is an interactive audio performance that casts its audience, a small group of eight participants, as the 're-enactors' of the narrator's story. Via headphones, the re-enactors receive instructions for action, speech and navigation through the cavernous basement space beneath the imposing Shoreditch Town Hall building. The voice inside the headphones belongs to a patient who has recently recovered from a serious brain trauma. They have undergone extensive physiotherapy since the accident in order to be able to move again. But their movements now feels over-rehearsed and second-hand; ever since the accident the narrator has felt like an 'actor' rehearsing to be themselves again in a world that now feels like a television show. The images on the television seem more real than the world that the narrator's body belongs to. To feel real again, the narrator must stage a re-enactment. To live inside the images onscreen. Your reality and that of the narrator's are about to meet. Inspired by Charlie Kauffman's Synecdoche, New York and Tom McCarthy's novel Remainder and emerging from research into the condition of depersonalisation and derealisation undertaken at Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study, Germany.
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Written by Liam Jarvis (with contributions from Hannah Barker). 4-week writing and development process in the basement of Shoreditch Town Hall, culminating in a 1 week run of the finished work in October, 2013. 8-week research process undertaken by Liam Jarvis as Artist in Residence at Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg in Delmehorst, Germany into dissociative conditions. This culminated in a short work-in-progress performance at the Upstairs Gallery in Oldenburg on 23rd September, 2012.2-weeks of research and development leading to a work-in-progress showing as part of The Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Awards on 13th October, 2012
1st Produced:
Shoreditch Town Hall, London Oct 2013
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analogue
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interactive audio performance
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Synopsis:
a darkly humorous two hander; an exploration into workplace paranoia; a contemporary voyage into the labyrinth that is office life.
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devised by Liam Jarvis, Ria Perry And Ceri Turnbull
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Theatre Trash
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