The Advanced Theatre Practice, MA/MFA students take part in a term long performance experiment, focused on generating new work from a simple stimulus. Curated in companies by the course team, students create a process through exploring new ways of collaborating and performing, abandoning normative modes of theatre-making and engaging in the creative risks offered by new ideas.
From Monday 14 to Friday 18 March 2022, there will be a week of closed performances that feature one company each day, in the order seen below, for the work to be shared.
Date and time: Monday 14 March 3.00pm
Company: Single Women’s Graveyard
Title: IF YOU TAKE THIS YOU’LL BE FINE
GET A CARROT WHEN YOU JOIN!
Our performance traces the process of cultic indoctrination through audience participation and engages with both the humorous and darker aspects of cults and their rituals.
Date and time: Tuesday 15 March 3.00pm
Company: Socks
Title: Bags
We are a company specializing in puppetry and fabric based practice. We are interested in exploring satire and dark humor through mundane activity and fragmented body parts, where a human being and its’ feelings and emotions are divided and laid out on an operating table.
Date and time: Wednesday 16 March 3.00pm
Company: Ragatanga Collective
Title: This Is Not a Cabaret
This Is Not a Cabaret…. Or is it? How can you turn shame into joy? The personal into the political? This is not a cabaret addresses the marginalised voice with themes of gender, religion, excess, language and how to make a mess of your country, church and your picnic.
Explored through a series of live images that present and reveal the work invites the audience to choose their own adventure.
We will make you laugh and make you question.
We might be queer, feminist and really f**king deep… or are we just having a nice time? We invite you to make up your own mind. Come and confess with us. We’ve done this all before. See you in 3…2…1
Date and time: Thursday 17 March 3.00pm
Company: we.do.we
Title: Studio 2
It’s only a feeling. A kind of energy. An oscillation of wavelengths. A continuous pulsing, a coming and going.
Two lives unfolding. Memories coming alive and thoughts evolving. How close can we get to what’s in front, to what’s behind?
Date and time: Friday 18 March 3.00pm
Company: Milk Inc.
Title: Sanguine
‘I don’t have any memories. They’re all kinda…much of a muchness.’
Echoes of chalk draw the line between fantasy and reality. Within a space - nameless, voiceless, and timeless - six individuals forge their lives from the images of a distant past.
The Advanced Theatre Practice MA/MFA course is focused on contemporary collaborative practices, challenging and reimagining the roles of performer, director, writer, designer, dramaturg, musician, puppeteer and creative thinker in new and unexpected ways within a supportive environment of discovery and innovation.
There is also an annual Form(at) Festival, which celebrates the exciting and innovative work made by MA/MFA Advanced Theatre Practice students at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
