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JULIAN MAYNARD SMITH
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Ape Live From Paradise Mind Out What's Wrong With The WorldApe
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Written and directed by Stevens, Ape has been developed with his co-performers Julian Maynard Smith (Station House Opera) and Amanda Hadingue (Stan's Cafe). Ape introduces a condition that renders the three interdependent. Tied to one another through an imperative to copy and assimilate each other's behaviour, they do not have distinct and individual lives. They have no autonomy of thought and yet they strive to establish separate identities through fabrication and superficial differences.
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written by Gary Stevens And developed with Julian Maynard Smith And Amanda Hadingue
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a logistical nightmare of a concept involves a tripartite, jigsaw-like performance using three sets od actors in three different places
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Developed in conjunction with Susannah Hart, devised by the company
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Toynbee Studios! B'ham / Colch'r, London 2005
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Station House Opera in collaboration with De Daders
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Top of PageMind Out
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The central conceit of Mind Out, is that each of the five cast members undergoes a complete separation of mind and body onstage. The actions and expressions of thought or feeling of one actor are under the control of another, whose will is exerted through verbal instructions. An example: A directs B to sip from a mug of tea. but it is B who tells C to swallow. This basic premise acquires an increasingly dotty domino effect as the show progresses. Roles shift in terms of who has power over whom, instructions lengthen and passages of cartoon violence ensue. There is no actual plot or characters, only commands and imposed motivations that are either met with co-operation or resistance. The result is an elaborate, 70-minute theatrical game that pushes the notion of contradictory behaviour and cause-and-effect social manipulation to sometimes enjoyably ridiculous extremes.
- Donald Hutera, The Times
- Donald Hutera, The Times
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Devised And Performed by Zena Birch, Tom Bowtell, Susannah Hart, Julian Maynard Smith, Helen Morse Palmer
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BAC, London, Eur >>> 2008
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Station House Opera
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live video links performance spaces in Rio and London and both are displayed in real time on a split screen in each venue, bad soap acting from two countries simultaneously
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Soho, London 2008
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Station House Opera / Phila 7
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