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Slung Low

SLUNG LOW

  
Nationality:    English
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Yorkshire-based Slung Low is led by seven artists collected from diverse creative backgrounds including movement, video, sound and direction. they were the winners of the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award 2008, enabling them to produce the acclaimed Helium at the Barbican Centre as part of BITE 08.

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below is a list of Slung Low's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         59 Minutes to Save Christmas         Ablutions         Beyond the Front Line         Blood + Chocolate         Helium         Knowledge Emporium, The         Last Seen         Punching The Sky         Small Worlds         They Only Come at Night: Vision         White Whale, The

59 Minutes to Save Christmas

Synopsis:
In this brilliantly interactive show, the kids are the heroes. Someone is out to spoil the holiday season. But who could be attacking the Christmas spirit? Join the Royal Christmas Brigade and embark on a quest around the Barbican foyers to solve this mystery. But beware: misbehaving elves, grumpy fairies and plenty of surprises await you on your journey. So calling all intrepid adventurers and brave parents: you have 59 minutes to join our fun-filled, festive race against the clock, dodge flying baubles, sing at the top of your voice and hopefully save Christmas.

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Genre:
Christmas Show

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Ablutions

Synopsis:
Picture yourself as a bartender, sipping top-shelf whiskey and watching your customers descend into nightly oblivion. Your heart is broken by the world around you and, leaving the whiskey aside, you hatch a devious, unthinkable plan of escape. . .Award-winning FellSwoop Theatre present Ablutions: a dark, modern drama, adapted from the novel by Man Booker shortlisted author, Patrick DeWitt. A grimly funny tale from the sodden depths of the Los Angeles underworld, Ablutions blends a live soundtrack with detailed mime and deWitt's heart-wrenching humour.

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Beyond the Front Line

Synopsis:
big bold promenade performance taking place outside the theatre in tribute to our service men and women.
- Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph

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written by Matthew David Scott, Richard Warbuton, Joel Horwood And John Hunter

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Blood + Chocolate

Synopsis:
During the Christmas of 1914 the Lord Mayor of York sent out a chocolate tin, designed and made at the Rowntree's factory, to every soldier from York who fought at the front. As news came of the young men who would never return home the women of the city stepped into the jobs at the factories and the landscape of the city changed forever as its people struggled to reconcile beliefs of conscientious objection against family loyalties. Pilot theatre, Slung Low and York theatre Royal, three of the region's most dynamic producing companies, collaborate for the first time to bring the modern city of York to life with the stories of the workers and owners of the chocolate factories alongside those young men who gave their lives to defend the homeland. Audiences will have a unique experience as they follow the story through the streets of York, watching the events unfold in and around some of York's landmark buildings whilst listening in to the characters' conversations via headphones in a surprisingly intimate way. theatre as you have never seen, or heard it before. With a cast of over 200, this production will offer audiences theatre on an epic, cinematic scale. It will transport you to new places and show you the city of York in a new light. the ghosts of the past will walk amongst you.

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written by Mike Kenny

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Pilot Theatre, Slung Low and York Theatre Royal

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Genre:
promenade performance

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  cast of over 200

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Helium

Synopsis:
members of the audience are individually taken an a magical mystery tour through a series of specially constructed 'rooms' where as interlopers, not participants - stowaways are what you hear yourself called - you witness the elements of a modern fairy story. Greeted by a removal man or woman, who becomes your guide, you are briefed and led from space to space to enter alone. It begins at the end you are told and you find yourself eavesdropping on a telephone conversation with a young woman called Bella. She is talking to someone, but you can hear another conversation going on at the same time in which her grandfather, Max, former member of a World War Two bomber crew, is talking to her.
- Howard Loxton, British theatre Guide

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30 min Piece

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Knowledge Emporium, The

Synopsis:
We all know at least one thing that no-one else knows. Join us on a walk-about journey from the Gate theatre through the streets of Notting Hill to discover and share the hidden stories contained within our community, ending up at a sweet shop like no other, the KNOWLEDGE Emporium. No money is needed here for your penny chews and humbugs, just a little piece of your knowledge to add to the Big Book of Everything That We Know

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Last Seen

Synopsis:
In any one year over 200,000 people go missing. Most are found. Enter a world of those who have fallen through the cracks, a place for the unnoticed, a place where lost souls crash land. Last Seen takes audiences on a multi-sensory journey from the stage of the Almeida onto the streets of Islington. Seating will not always be available, so comfortable shoes and attire appropriate for the weather are recommended.

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Writers Simon Burt, Lolita Chakrabarti And Matthew David Scott have worked with the company in the creation of the show.

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Punching The Sky

Synopsis:
A new play in it's final stage of development, combining live performance with animation and an original score, Punching The Sky explores the complexities of our relationship with online pornography, the dangers and redemptive qualities of the internet, and the contradictory nature of our feelings about sex, censorship and parenthood.

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written by Liz Patch

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Small Worlds

Synopsis:
an interactive journey through a series of rooms combining live performance, music and digital projection

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They Only Come at Night: Vision

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It is a participatory experience made up of video, live performance and headphone communication with the mysterious vampire hunter Quinn, who guides you through an alien world of evil enemies
- Howard Loxton, British theatre Guide

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An Underground Car Park    2007

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Piece / Installation

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White Whale, The

Synopsis:
Slung Low's new version of Melville's Moby Dick. You are given a set of headphones. When you put them on you can hear all the actors like they're whispering in your ear. There's music too, a soundtrack. You take your place by the side of the canal and get ready to watch the action. It's not just a play, it's an adventure: and it's happening right in front of you. Live. In the future we hunt whales for the oil in their bodies. Just like they did in centuries past. The oil of a single whale can run an army for a week. This is new science. This is our future. So we send gangs of men out onto the dark, cold sea to bring back the things we need. The crew of the Pequod are going to sea because it's their job. But Ahab, captain of the Pequod, is not going to sea for the oil or for the money. Ahab is going for revenge. Revenge on the vast whale that took him down into the black depths of the ocean. Revenge on the greatest whale in all the oceans: a perfectly white whale. And Ishmael, a young man new to whaling, he's going to sea seeking a hunter's violence, trying to stop the thoughts of violence in his heart. And we are all going with them.

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written by James Phillips

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Beeston Festival    14 Jun 2014

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