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Shunt Collective

SHUNT COLLECTIVE

  (1998 - )
Nationality:    British
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Shunt is a London-based performance collective and was founded in 1998. Most of the co-founders of Shunt met at Central School of Speech and Drama in London on the Advanced Theatre Practice MA in 1997/1998, which specialises in collaborative practice. In summer 1998 Shunt's final term show 'Twist' was taken to Hill Street Theatre for the Edinburgh Festival under the company name Stephanie's Fridge. The members of the company at that time were David Rosenberg, Lizzie Clachan, Louise Mari, Mischa Twitchin, Gisele Edwards, Su Jin Lee, Laura, Catherine Bowman Shaw, Kirsty Yuill, Hannah Ringham, Serena Bobowski, Gemma Brockis and Heather Uprichard. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunt_(theatre_company)

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         3 Cabarets A Trilogy         Amato Saltone         Angel of History         Architects, The         Ballad of Bobby Francois,the         Boy Who Climbed Out of His Face, The         Dance Bear Dance         Ether Frolics         Fiction         Here Lie Hedwig and Stoller         Joan's Lebanese Party         Money         Nigel and Louise's Basement Grotto         Pink Orthodox         Shunt Lounge, The         Sightings         Speech Acts         Tennis Show, The         Tropicana

3 Cabarets A Trilogy

Synopsis:
Weekly cabarets as part of the BFVT by the performance collective

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Arch 12a, EC2, London    15 Oct 2000

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Amato Saltone

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the show 'Amato Saltone' in which the company were joined by performers Ryo Yoshida, Nigel Barrett, Geneva Foster Gluck, Simon Kane, Tom Lyall, Jason Barnet and Rebecca Kilgariff. Amato Saltone was inspired by the work of Cornell Woolrich (1903-1968), the father of film noir, who, for over 35 years, fed the pulp magazines with countless stories of steamy mystery fiction. Films made of his work include Hitchock's Rear Window and Truffaut's The Bride Wore Black.

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Angel of History

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Based on the autobiographical writings of Heiner Muller, this show features only the face and hands of a single performer!

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Architects, The

Synopsis:
A wildly disorientating performance chasing the tail of myth, memory and misanthropy; and the hope that amongst you there might also be a hero.

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the Biscuit Factory, 100 Clements Road, London SE16 4DG    27 Nov 2012

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Ballad of Bobby Francois,the

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On 12 October 1972 a Fairchild F-227 chartered by an amateur rugby team left Uruguay for Santiago in Chile. Shortly before Christmas two emaciated young men staggered down from a high plateau in the Andes to announce that they were survivors of a plane which had crashed seventy days before. Shunt puts the scrum on the grill to reconsider the etiquette of survival and the awkward implications of cannibalism in polite society. Performed in a railway arch beneath London Bridge station, this is a wild, imaginative, production that veers between outrageous humour and the macabre. Critics Choice Time Out. Total Theatre and Herald Angel awards.

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Arches 12a - Gales Gardens, London EC2    May 1999

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Boy Who Climbed Out of His Face, The

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Staged in a complex made of shipping containers on a jetty near The O2 (its actually a new arts venture called The Jetty), The Boy. . . is essentially a succession of surreal encounters in a succession of different rooms. I doubt its a comparison either party would appreciate, but it comes across as a bit like the mad, crack-addled uncle to the wholesome Bum Bum Train: each room you step into is a fabulously detailed new world, but one in which everything seems to have gone drastically wrong. Most of the performers you encounter wear horrifying latex masks, at least two sections are actively terrifying, and theres a concerted effort to make things feel as awkward for the audience as possible. - http://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/the-boy-who-climbed-out-of-his-face

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Jetty - London SE10    14 Aug 2014

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Shunt / Managing Mayhem

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Dance Bear Dance

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Arch 12a, F2, London    May 2002

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Ether Frolics

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a macarbre, droll and magical cabaret-cum-hallucination.. A medical nightmare with wonderful dreamy bits.

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created And devised by Liz Clachan, Mark Espiner, Tom Espiner, Dan Jones, Simon Macer-Wright, Hannah Ringham, And David Rosenberg

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Shunt on association with Sound & Fury

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Fiction

Synopsis:
You are invited to a lecture. You know that the subject is probably important and it would be useful to hear what the speaker has to say but you can't keep your eyes open. You will fall asleep and you will dream. But you won't be alone in your dream; everyone else will be there with you. And you will have a chaperone who knows the landscape and will attend to you. So nothing can go wrong. . .unless...no...just close your eyes. Fiction is the second performance by Glen Neath and David Rosenberg using binaural sound and absolute darkness. It is an anxious journey through the sprawling architecture of our dreams and an exercise in empathy. Or is it an opportunity to have a 60 minute nap

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conceived by David Rosenberg & Glen Neath

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Here Lie Hedwig and Stoller

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Live music and cigars; text, occasional violence and tango!

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Joan's Lebanese Party

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Shunt Founder Member Andrew Rutland along with the help of some other Shunt artists launches his new Supper Club. Between 1963 and 1984, Joan and her then third husband travelled to all the exotic corners of the globe savoring all the culinary delights on offer. During her two year stay in Beirut, the then Paris of The Middle East, she became great friends with Governor Emile Yanni and his entourage who were well known at the time for their extravagant soirees. Tonight in the kitchen we have Mahmoud Mallah, the grandson of the Governor's personal chef, cooking a true Lebanese feast. After dinner music supplied by Jonny Trunk: musical archeologist recently returned from his Middle Eastern dig. There will be shisha smoking, backgammon, cocktails, late night dancing and whole roasted lambs. Joan always dressed impeccably. Making an effort is compulsory for all our guests. A tie is required for the gentleman.

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New Supper Club by Andrew Rutland and Shunt artists

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London    06 Dec 2014

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Money

Synopsis:
a radical response to Zola's 1890 novel L'Argent, centres on a French financial crisis and banking collapse

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Based On Novel By emile Zola

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Nigel and Louise's Basement Grotto

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This summer Nigel and Louise found an Elf eating a cheese sandwich in the basement of Shoreditch Town Hall. He showed them the secret magic portal he uses to travel between London and the North Pole. He said they could use it to visit Father Christmas Bring your children along to this magical Christmas adventure where they meet Santa and get a present.

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Curated by Nigel and Louise, Chris Brett Bailey and Imven Eke Fri

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Shoreditch Town Hall, 380 Old Street, London EC1V 9LT    12 Dec 2014

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Pink Orthodox

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Pink Orthodox is an impersonator, a stripteaser, a black sheep and a sore thumb. He is a man who realised that he could make people laugh by playing with his ringlets and revealing the contents of his pockets. Addicted to the laughter, he reaches further into his mind to find humiliating memories for the delight of the crowd. As he considers the comic potential of being consumed by fire, we wonder "how far is this man prepared to go and is it safe to go with him?"

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Shunt Lounge, The

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The Shunt Lounge was a project by Shunt from September 2006 to July 2010. It was a night-time art space, bar and club in a labyrinth of railway arches under London Bridge Station in London. For the price of entry the public could enjoy for free a huge diversity of experimental performance, art, music, sculpture, talks, film, installation, puppetry, plays, exhibitions, interventions, which changed every week. The Shunt Lounge was open from Wednesdays to Sundays every week. It was technically managed by Andrea Salazar and supported by George Tomlinson.

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Labyrinth of railway arches under London Bridge Station in London    Sep 2006

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Sightings

Synopsis:
Performance installation in which Shunt imagine the Clocktower is filling with water.

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Croydon Clocktower: David Lean Cinema, Outer London    28 May 2001

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Speech Acts

Synopsis:
Two classic texts performed out of a suitcase; followed by a soft-collar cabaret. 'Not I' , The Woyzeck Wound, 'Cabaret'.

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Author: Samuel Beckett, Heiner Muller, Hedwig, Stoller. Company Shunt.

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Tennis Show, The

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the theme is tennis and the minutiae of its power struggles between the sexes and the petty, water-thin layers of command that exist between the umpire, linesman and ball boys/girls who hold anarchy at bay.
Philip Chapman, What's On

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Museum of the Unknown, London    21 Nov 2000

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Tropicana

Synopsis:
the journey occupies roughly three stages. Apparently descending in a lift, we are ushered into a dusty, cage-filled room where a menacing figure announces, "I'm a dog trapped in the spirit of a man," and warns of impending dangers. We then move into what looks like a looted wine-cellar where surreal images emerge out of almost total darkness: a horizontal elevator floats past, feathered showgirls loom out of the gloom, disembodied feet pass by. Eventually we glimpse a hearse on which the entertainers dance acrobatically. After a brief interval, in which beer is dispensed from the hearse's coffin - irresistibly reminding me of Some Like it Hot - we get to sit in a sepulchral operating theatre. Here we are confronted by the corpse of the lift-attendant who brought us down. A team of mock doctors probe his innards with indecent glee, hacking their way through the bones and viscera before producing one or two surprising objects. Finally, we are invited to drink at the Tropicana bar before being released into the reassuring bustle of London Bridge. - Michael Billington, Guardian

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