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Michael Walling

MICHAEL WALLING  

 Nationality:    British
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Michael Walling founded Border Crossings in 1995. He studied History at Oxford University, and subsequently trained at Trinity College, Dublin. He has directed numerous productions across four continents, winning awards for Two Gentlemen of Verona in the US and Paul & Virginie in Mauritius. He has directed the bulk of Border Crossings' productions, and is responsible for the overall direction of the company. Productions elsewhere include: Die Zauberflote (Spain), Attempts on Her Life, Victory, Hard Times, The Art of Success, Macbeth (Mauritius), The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, The Tempest (India), Cosi fan Tutte, Romeo and Juliet (usa), The Great God Brown, Play with Cocaine, Beardsley, Spokesong, Sir Thomas More. Michael also teaches regularly at Rose Bruford College, and Central School of Speech and Drama. For Rose Bruford's Distance Learning courses, he has written Modules on The Social Stage, Shakespeare, The Designer, Elements of the Performance, Post-Colonial and Black Theatres and Ways of Talking about Theatre / Opera. His many publications include pieces in Suspect (Toronto, Alphabet City 2005) and Peripheral Centres / Central Peripheries (Saarbrucken, 2006). Michael directed the ENO's acclaimed workshop productions of Wagner's Ring at the Coliseum and Barbican. He was Associate Director to Peter Sellars on Nixon in China, and to Phyllida Lloyd on The Handmaid's Tale (Canada). During summer 2008, he will direct A Midsummer Night's Dream for Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, usa.

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 Consumed         Dis-Orientations         Mappa Mundi         Orientations         Re-Orientations         Toufann

Consumed

Synopsis:
Sex, money and the world wide web. Shanghai 2013. After more than twenty years, Tong Zheng returns from the States  to sell Wall Street. The China he finds is very different from the one he left behind. Who is the fascinating shanghai beauty he meets online? A strange love story in a virtual world  but a love story all the same. An eternal triangle evolves in a world in which communication is instant but intimacy proves unattainable, where technology brings the world together but simultaneously isolates. As its story unfolds, the play reflects on the Wests relationship with China as it rises as a global powerhouse yet struggles to leave the past behind. Powerful, witty and visually stunning, Consumed brings together technology and heartbreak in a story that is both personal and global. Created by leading theatre-makers from the UK and China, Border Crossings once again joins forces with Chinas leading contemporary theatre, the Shanghai Arts Centre, following the extraordinary Re-Orientations.

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Border Crossings in association with Shanghai Arts Centre & Tara Arts

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Dis-Orientations

Synopsis:
The narrative of the opera entwines itself around the story of a British Talent Scout, Julian Lucas, who is in Shanghai searching for his teenage daughter, Alex, who went missing a year ago.
Emma John, Time Out London

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Devised And Performed by Amanda Boxer, Nancy Crane, Tony Guilfoyle, Tori Hart, Ma Haili, Ku Leng Un, Zhang Ruihong. Conceived And Directed by Michael Walling

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Border crossings

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Mappa Mundi

Synopsis:
Set in nine countries across four continents using nine languages spanning seven centuries. Mappa Mundi takes its name and its inspiration from the famous medieval map that hangs in Hereford Cathedral: the known Christian world sharply defined, the unexplored regions peopled by fantastical monsters, canibals, griffons and fire-tongued serpents. Brought back to life by children playing on his grave, the map-maker Richard of Holdingham witnesses the contemporary world - much of which has been shaped by the ideas contained in his map.

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Devised And Performed by Nisha Dassyne, Mauricio Elorriaga, Lifati Harimedi, Anjali Jay, Veronica Needa & Ben Pitts Also devised by Peter Kenny. Conceived And Directed by Michael Walling

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Old Cathedral, Coventry    2000

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Border crossings

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Border Crossings, London, 2003   -

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Orientations

Synopsis:
Developed through workshops in Bangalore, and with Asian community groups in London, Border Crossings' new theatre-piece is a wild gender-bending blend of dance, film, theatre, opera and traditional Yakshagana

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created And performed by Lydia Baksh, Pnitham K. Chakravarthy, Khandkar Adil Hussain, Peter Luke Kenny, Radhaknishna Urala. Conceived And directed by Michael Walling

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Border Crossings & Watermans

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Border Crossings, London, 2004   -

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Re-Orientations

Synopsis:
After the storm, the survivors attempt to build a future. A Chinese baby is abandoned by the roadside. Two Swedish actors play out sexual dramas, both onstage and off. Former banker Marie Lucas battles with tsunami relief in India, until an unexpected phone call shatters her world as the characters lives collide across continents.

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written by Michael Walling, Also devised by David Alcorta, Geraldine Alexander, Nancy Crane, Mikael Dahl, Huang Chen, Wen Xiao Wei

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Border crossings

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Toufann

Synopsis:
A ship is caught in a storm - an electronic storm created by computer-genius Prospero and watched by his daughter. . .. . .. . .. . .. . .. . .. Kordelia! This is just the first of many surprises in Dev Virahsawmy's free-wheeling Mauritian fantasy, based on The Tempest. Toufann is a hilarious, irreverent celebration of an island that ought to be Paradise, and an oblique look at the problems of living in a multicultural society. An exuberant, quirky and inspiring story, Toufann is also a spellbinding celebration of human diversity, determination and love.

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Original Playwright - Dev Virahsawmy. Adapted by Nisha And Michael Walling

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Border crossings

1st Published:
Border Crossings, London, 2003   -

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Male:  9            Female:  4            Other:  -

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