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ANDY SMITH
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Andy Smith has been making solo works for theatre since 2004. During this time he has also collaborated as a co-director on the plays of Tim Crouch. In 2013, they also wrote and performed what happens to the hope at the end of the evening together. Andy brought his shows Commonwealth and All That Is Solid Melts Into Air to Sprint 2014.
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Air Ship Of Fools
all that is solid melts into air
Amy Beautiful Amy
Andy Smith is Lost
Big City Confidential
Bizarre
Blood Red My Sunset
Breaker's Yard, The
Commonism
Commonwealth
Cool Million
De Sade On Ice
Edward the Second
Fist Of Frozen Lighting
Free Chicken Diners
Grand Larceny
Greyhound And the Baskervilles, The
Heroes Of the Iceberg Hotel, The
In the City Of Fear
In the Shadow Of the Guillotine
Insomniac In Morgue Drawer Nine, The
Insomniac, The
Knockabout Punch And Judy Show, The
Peyton Square
Preston Bill, The
Pucks Ri
Punchy Gorilla
Punkenstein
Respectable Wedding, A
Sawdust Caesar
Sliced Meat
Still Stationery
Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde, The
Terminal Summer
Theatrical Love
Werewolf Boulevard
Werkezzi, The
What Happens To the Hope At the End Of the Evening
Winter Visitors
Yodel If You Can
Zostressi
Air Ship Of Fools
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Croydon Warehouse, London
1979
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all that is solid melts into air
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all that is solid melts into air is a work for theatre spaces about how we change the world
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Studio USF, Bergen, Norway
04 Feb 2011
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Commissioned by and co-produced with BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen and Black Box Teater, Oslo
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Amy Beautiful Amy
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1980
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Andy Smith is Lost
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An evening of cowboy hi-jinx
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Big City Confidential
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Albany Empire, London
1974
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Bizarre
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Tour And Almeida, London
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Blood Red My Sunset
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Breaker's Yard, The
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Commonism
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The future is cancelled. We are stuck with reality. The UK is leaving the EU. Donald Trump is leader of the free world. Facebook is telling us which way to vote. The 8 richest people in the world own as much as 3.5 billion others. We need to move forward. Commonism is a meeting of two people from different countries in search of some common ground. It's a performed conversation a dialogue that asks questions about nationality, internationality, theatre and politics. Join two award-winning theatre makers the UK's Andy Smith and Norway's Amund Sjølie Sveen, as they discuss who they are, who we are and where we are going. Come and see if we can find some Commonism.
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Door, Birmingham Rep
08 Jan 2019
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Louise Blackwell, in association with Norsk Kulturråd, BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen and Lancaster Arts
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Commonwealth
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commonwealth is a new work for theatre spaces that tells a story of a group of people meeting in a theatre to listen to a story.
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Gateshead Town Hall
06 May 2012
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Gateshead International Festival Of Theatre
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Cool Million
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Half Moon, London
1977
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De Sade On Ice
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Edward the Second
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Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht
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Adaptation
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Fist Of Frozen Lighting
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Free Chicken Diners
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Soho Poly, London
1976
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Grand Larceny
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Rape, pillage, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, vermin exterminator who did by biting their heads off, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
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Music by Paul Abrahams; lyrics and book by Andy Smith
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Half Moon Theatre, London
10 Nov 1977
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Greyhound And the Baskervilles, The
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Heroes Of the Iceberg Hotel, The
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Two East End criminals are hiding out on a South Sea Island. They get orders to murder someone in the "lunatic asylum". When they get back to London things have changed - there has been a nuclear attack and a military take over
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Half Moon, London
1973
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National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 61/6
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In the City Of Fear
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Half Moon, London
1979
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Underworld Pantomime
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In the Shadow Of the Guillotine
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Albany Empire, London
1977
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Insomniac In Morgue Drawer Nine, The
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Insomniac, The
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Franz Kafka and his Father as driving force in his life
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written with David Samourai
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Knockabout Punch And Judy Show, The
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Peyton Square
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Albany Empire, London
1975
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Rock comedy
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Preston Bill, The
This is a work of fiction. Any names, characters, events or locations depicted are the product of the imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons (living or dead) is entirely coincidental. It's also a kind of history play. I'll admit that there are plenty of gaps, but that's OK. You can fill them in. Let's begin. Award-winning theatre-maker Andy Smith presents a new piece of theatre telling a story from the north. The story of a life. The story of our lives. Exploring some of the events of the last eighty years alongside the experience of a man who has lived through it, the work looks to examine as well as challenge some of our ideas of identity, location and history.
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Pucks Ri
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Punchy Gorilla
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Bankside Glove
1973
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Children's open air comedy show Youth Audience
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Punkenstein
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Croydon Warehouse, London
1977
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Respectable Wedding, A
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Open Space, London
1978
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Sawdust Caesar
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Half Moon, London
1973
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Sliced Meat
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Goldsmiths College, London
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Still Stationery
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Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde, The
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written by Peter Brewis And Andy Smith
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Terminal Summer
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Croydon Warehouse, London
1982
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Theatrical Love
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A year in the lives of four actresses
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Book by Andy Smith. Music Charles Miller. Lyrics Adam Bard
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Werewolf Boulevard
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Solo Play/Drama
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Werkezzi, The
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What Happens To the Hope At the End Of the Evening
Your friend is late. the meal is spoiled. A shadow has fallen. the story of this evening, one evening and any evening. the story of a reunion, a reiteration and an act of betrayal. A journey into the space between opposing beliefs; between action and inaction; between forms; between friends.
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what happens to the hope at the end of the evening is created by long-term collaborators Tim Crouch, Andy Smith (a smith) and Karl James.
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Winter Visitors
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Family Tragedy
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Yodel If You Can
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Tour Holland, Germany, Uk
1978
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Major Road Co
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Zostressi
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