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Sue MacLaine

SUE MACLAINE

  
Nationality:    British
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Sue MacLaine is a theatre-maker, writer and performer based in Brighton, England. She has created three works; Still Life: An Audience with Henrietta Moraes, The Sid Lester Christmas Special (with Emma Kilbey) and Can I Start Again Please. She is a freelance director, dramaturg and mentor with a particular interest in working with dance artists. She qualified as British Sign Language/English interpreter in 1997 specialising in performance interpreting.

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         Can I Start Again Please         Come To Where I'm From         Dry Season, The         Sid and Valerie         Sid Lester's Big Night In         Still Life: An Audience With Henrietta Moraes

Can I Start Again Please

Can I Start Again Please
What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent - Wittgenstein Two languages, one signed and one spoken, coincide and collide in a new work by Sue MacLaine. Can I Start Again Please contemplates the capacity of language to represent traumatic experience, in particular childhood sexual violence. Made in response to the current landscape of revelation and disclosure, the work is both political and personal. Bells ring, hands fly, mouths speak. Eloquent silence, articulacy, disruption, interpretation, the abyss of memory, gaps, breaches, chasms attempt to comprehend that which is never fully grasped: the incomprehensible moment.

Notes:
conceived by Sue MacLaine with Nadia Nadarajah

1st Produced:
Brighton: The Basement     22 Mar 2015

Organisations:
Sprint 2015

1st Published:
Oberon Books (2016) >>>    978-1783193356

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Come To Where I'm From

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Come To Where I'm From is a theatrical tapestry of the UK, woven by writers asking if home is really where the heart is.

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1st Produced:
The Theatre Chipping Norton     07 Jun 2012

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Sue MacLaine

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Dry Season, The

Synopsis:
A short play about fragility, bodies and porousness.

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part of The Big Idea: Two Duets. Two writer-performers collaborate with performers to create short plays to perform together.

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Sid and Valerie

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Old time vaudevillian, tap dancer and acrobat, Sid Lester helped make Variety great and now he wants one last shot. He is resentfully assisted by his daughter Valerie, eager to launch a new career as a singer-stroke- impressionist and leave her job as a taxi cab controller behind. Sid's performance style is influenced by his old chums Tadeusz Kantor and Tommy Cooper and Valerie's by Shirley Bassey. Together they attempt to entertain with balloons, a raffle, talking birds, toffees, some singing, joes, a shuffle-step-hop, guest spots and interactive games. the show also contains family dynamics. Sid & Valerie is about wishing a small life big and is performed by Sue MacLaine and Emma Kilbey from an original idea by Sue MacLaine.

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written by Sue MacLaine and Emma Kilbey

1st Produced:
Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe     19 Aug 2013

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Sid Lester's Big Night In

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Meet Sid Lester, old-time vaudevillian and natural raconteur as he takes arms against the threat of time. Sid wants to entertain you with a tap-dance here and a ditty there, intertwined with anecdotes from his many years on stage. He may lose track of what is past and what is present, of what is real and what is imagined.

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1st Produced:
Brighton Dome, Brighton     18 Mar 2011

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Still Life: An Audience With Henrietta Moraes

Synopsis:
Come and take part in an intimate life drawing performance. . .Your hostess is Henrietta Moraes - model and muse to Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud and uncrowned Bohemian Queen of the 1950s Soho set. Take a seat in the life drawing studio as Henrietta, with characteristic wit and candour, tells stories from her life and re-creates poses from her illustrious career. As she reminisces she will invite you to draw her; as the performance progresses the line between subject and object, artist and model, public and private, are blurred. Are her stories influencing your view of her, and therefore your drawing?

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Still Life began life in 1990 with a traditional stage adaptation of Henrietta Moraes autobiography.

1st Produced:
Phoenix Brighton, White Room     08 May 2011

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Genre:
60 min piece

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