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SourDough Theatre

SOURDOUGH THEATRE

  (2010 - )
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    Thornlea, New North Road, Exeter, EX4 4LA

SourDough Theatre is an emerging collaborative company based in Exeter, who work organically with both new and old media to devise performance with storytelling at its heart. They use visual devices such as shadow puppetry, masks, candlelight and torch light to generate their language for performance.

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

         Bloodline, The         Christmas Carol, A         Edith's Walk         Ice Maiden, The         Red Oleanders         Rogues and Wanderers         Wings, Wasps And Feathers
Bloodline, The

Synopsis:
The Bloodline is inspired by the dynamics of power within criminal underworlds, and their parallels to Shakespeare's King Lear. SourDough Theatre is an emerging company based in Exeter, who work collaboratively with both new and old media to devise performance with storytelling at its heart. The company takes on a new challenge with this piece, using classical texts and iconic crime films to re-imagine the drama within both.

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Christmas Carol, A

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This was a show we did to raise funds for the St. Stephens Church fund in Exeter. We adapted the Dickens' timeless tale and brought our own touch to it. Lit solely by candles and singing classic carols during the piece we re-imagined the story, making it fast-paced whilst using our old favourite medias of puppetry and self-lit actors.

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Edith's Walk

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An Exeter Blitz Audio Tour. Follow Edith through the city centre as the ghosts of Exeter emerge from the rubble to tell their stories. Members of Exeter based company, SourDough Theatre, have collaborated with Dan Smith from WootWoo.com to create a new audio experience for the city, to commemorate the bombing of Exeter in 1942.

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Ice Maiden, The

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She, the murderess, the destroyer, is half a child of air and half the powerful ruler of the streams SourDough Theatre present Hans Christian Andersen's The Ice Maiden, the dark tale of a young man called Rudy, whose life is beset by an evil being - the queen of the glaciers, a force of icy rage from the natural world, the titular Ice Maiden. After escaping her when he was young he must now do everything in his power to resist the lure of the Ice Maiden and escape her frosty grasps. Working from Andersen's original text, SourDough have devised their own version, merging the old story with their new interpretation. Here they unveil their production of this morbid fairy-tale, exploring a world that is both enticing and dangerous. The story is illustrated with many of the company's favourite devices; shadows, projection, puppetry and live music.

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Barnstaple's Fringe Theatre Festival, The babtist hall, Barnstable     20 Jun 2013

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Red Oleanders

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Set in a mythological world reminiscent of India's greatest epic poems, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, the play shows the effect of systematic mechanisation of human resources as a means of serving a corrupt tyranny. At its heart is the character of Nandini, a beautiful young girl who inspires a revolution against the cruel regime. She acts as a catalyst for change in a society resigned to its bleak fate working in the goldmines of a great King who is himself imprisoned behind an iron curtain of his own making. Her symbol is a simple red flower from which she draws great resolve and eventually brings a kingdom to its knees.

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Original Playwright - Rabindranath Tagore

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Rogues and Wanderers

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A devised performance that has been researched and developed in Exeter through a collaborative and workshop based process.

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Wings, Wasps And Feathers

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This was an educational puppet show aimed at young and old alike. We took the show to an open day at Poltimore House in Devon and told our story of two very different rooks who realised a lot more is achievable when they work together.

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