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BENJI REID
Nationality: British (BAME)
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Benji Reid is a creative producer, devisor and director. He trained as a dancer with the Northern School of Contemporary Dance and as an actor with Philippe Gaullier and Double Edge Theatre. Reid formed his own hip hop Theatre company BREAKING CYCLES, which has successfully toured work in the UK and Internationally performing to sell out audiences at The Sydney Opera House, Australia, Toronto World Stage Festival, Canada, New York and Washington DC Hip Hop Theatre Festivals, USA, Sadlers Wells, London and 3 scratch performances in The Cottesloe Theatre at The Royal National Theatre, London. In 1998 Reid directed his first main stage play, hip hop musical 'Avalanche' for Nottingham Playhouse and co-directed Jonzi D's 'Aeroplane Man' (1999). In the same year he toured 'Paper Jackets', a one-man show he wrote and starred in.
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13 Mics Devil Has Quentin's Heart, The Mr Sole Abode Paper Jackets Slamdunk13 Mics
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a concert-cum-perfonnance piece for which Reid is joined onstage by a band comprising smooth bassist Steve 0 Jay, super tight drummer Myke Wilson and turntable wizard Master Wong. Reid then proceeds to body-pop between different microphone stands to paint a kaleidoscopic picture of l0thcentury black music, mixing and scratching snippets of text and song in the same freefonn manner as hip-hop music itself. His words lay into the crass commercialisation of hip-hop as well as gangsta rap's obsession with violence and misogyny - indeed, his message is so thoughtful, socially responsible and ultimately upbeat. they ought to bus in school kids to this production. - Oliver Jones, What's On
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1st Produced:
Lyric Studio, Hammersmith, London
09 Oct 2003
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short piece
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Synopsis:
modern-day tragedy presented as a "twisted, funky and perverse musical that explodes the nature of performance, storytelling and dance"
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Devised And written by Benji Reid, Peader Kirk And Ray Shell. Based on characters from the novel 'Iced' by Ray Shell
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Birmingham: the Door, Rep, England
27 Nov 2009
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Top of PageMr Sole Abode
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At a tender age, the boy who would grow up to be Mr Sole Abode argued with his mother about his hobby of making matchstick models of buildings. the result? A life-long edifice complex. We encounter this loner as an adult, residing in an ingeniously converted fridge and musing on the ethical responsibility of architecture. This brief, amiable, underdeveloped whimsy on opting out of the material world is engagingly performed by co-writer Leo Kay, whose ability to fold himself into tiny spaces goes some way towards compensating for an over-reliance on mime and mumbling.
Fiona Mountford, Evening Standard
Fiona Mountford, Evening Standard
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written by Leo Kay And Benli Reid
1st Produced:
Lyric Studio, Hammersmith, London
01 Mar 2007
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Madrugada
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Top of PagePaper Jackets
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1st Produced:
BAC 1, London
15 Oct 1998
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Concrete Theatre
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https://www.blackplaysarchive.org.uk/explore/productions/paper-jackets
Top of PageSlamdunk
Synopsis:
a promising inner-city basketball player joins his home team rivals in the hope of hitting the big time
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written by Benji Reid And Felix Cross, music by Soweto Kinch, Lyrics by Zena Edwards
1st Produced:
Hackney Empire Theatre, London, Eur >>>
04 Feb 2004
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Genre:
Musical
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Male: 5 Female: 1 Other: ensemble
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https://www.blackplaysarchive.org.uk/explore/productions/slamdunk
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