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QUICONQUE
(2000 - )Nationality: British
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Quiconque was founded by Catherine Alexander in 1999. The company is committed to producing meaningful and high quality, visual devised work which is accessible to all audiences but particularly to young people. The company aims to work with exceptional young performers, designers and technicians who are at the beginning of their careers: giving them the opportunity to work collaboratively with experienced practitioners. The company tours widely and where possible aims to perform and lead workshops in non-theatre venues to audiences who may be seeing theatre for the first time.
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Big Bad Duvet Terror Biscuits of Love Dreaming of the Bones, The Fundamental Hideaway Last Laughs Mr Pye Push Sold Window Plays Paint and PrisonerBig Bad Duvet Terror
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This colourful devised show told the story of three primary school siblings who awoke one night to find that their Mum had disappeared.
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Top of PageBiscuits of Love
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Quiconque premiered Biscuits of Love at the Dublin Fringe Festival October 2004. The show tells the true story of the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle, the seventeenth century Posh and Becks: William, the soldier husband who invented modern dressage, and his wife Margaret, the first published female philosopher. The show sees civil war, scientific discoveries and exile through their eyes and is intelligent, physical, insane and very funny. The show went on to tour Ireland.
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Top of PageDreaming of the Bones, The
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In 1999 company members produced a touring production of Yeats' The Dreaming of the Bones' which travelled to Listowel, Galway and Kilmallock and to outdoor performances at Corcomroe Abbey, Coole Park and the Falls of Doonass Festival. The company also ran theatre and mask making workshops for over 80 Clare children and teenagers culminating in a parade and performances at the Courthouse theatre, Tulla.
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from The Dreaming of the Bones by W.B. Yeats.
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Top of PageFundamental
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This work in progress showing was presented at Arts Depot as part of the Depot Untapped festival. The show explores the subject of religious cults and mind control. The company explored a wide range of source material including verbatim text from ex-cult members and adaptations of novels. The work received very positive audience feedback and is still in development.
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Top of PageHideaway
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Weaves together extraordinary stories of young hideaways, revealing worlds bubbling with concealed life. From a wartime attic to Russian sewers and Renaissance convents
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01 Feb 2003
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Top of PageLast Laughs
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This devised show received a grant from the Irish Arts Council that enabled us to work with director Helen Gregg (Macnas). The show took the form of a post-mortem cabaret; a black comedy with songs, dance and physical theatre about the last years of four old age pensioners. Quiconque toured Last Laughs widely across Ireland to Tulla, Feakle, Galway, Tinahely, Wexford, Waterford and Clifden and Westport Arts Festivals as well as non-theatre venues including the back rooms of pubs and traditional music centres.
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Top of PageMr Pye
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Harold Pye is on a mission to infect the island of Sark with the blinding light of goodness. Things seem to be going swimmingly until he makes a shameful discovery. . . he has started to sprout wings. With reports of angels, devils and missing persons the local constabulary arrive from Guernsey to investigate this extraordinary mystery. As well as telling the story of Mervyn Peake's darkly comic novel this production also muses on love, art, religion and the nature of islands. The three actors are joined by an artist, painting live during performance, to create an ever evolving projected scenography. Using the simplest of means the company create an exquisite miniature world where anything can happen. Welcome to the island of Sark. . .
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Adapted from the novel by Mervyn Peake
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Top of PagePush
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Precious Jones lives in Harlem with her mother who beats and abuses her. She wants Precious to stay home, eat herself fat and keep the welfare checks coming. At age twelve Precious has her first child and four years later she has another. Her dad is the father. But Precious wants better for her son. After being suspended from school Precious joins the 'Each One Teach One' alternative school and, inspired by her new teacher and class mates, she learns to read and write.
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Adapted from the novel by Sapphire and re-imagined by the ensemble cast, Push is a powerful and disturbing story told by Precious and her classmates, enlivened by humour, joy and 1980s music and dance moves. - See more at: http://newdiorama.com/whats-on/push#sthash.jZMXrhZK.dpuf
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Top of PageSold
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partnership with the Human Trafficking Foundation to help raise awareness about modern day slavery.
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Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe Festival
03 Aug 2011
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Top of PageWindow Plays Paint and Prisoner
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These were two short devised clown shows performed in windows to passers by and primary school children as part of the Sprint Festival at Camden People's Theatre.
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