21 Tales
The Fionnbarr Factory Presents:
21 Tales
Choreographed by Debbie Fionn Barr
Featuring In Performance:
Niki McCretton
(Award-Winning Physical Theatre Specialist)
(Associate Artist, The Lighthouse, Poole, Dorset, U.K.)
Co-Starring Jamie Wood
In Collaboration With:
John Foster, Award-Winning Screenwriter
Joe Tunmer, Award-Winning Filmmaker
Paul Inman, Long-Time Digital Media Collaborator
Suitable For Ages 10 & Over
Show Length: 60 Minutes
Flat-Packed Stories From A Crumbling Flea-Pit
"For years, the residents of 21 West Street have come and gone, leaving traces of their lives on the windows and within the paper-thin walls; muffled voices and gusty arias, whispering and screaming to be heard. Barman Danny talks for England, but is strangely silent about a new secret life. Freda works in catering, but her 10 children are eating her out of house and home. Trevor is bookish, isolated and obsessed by someone (or something) outside his window. Jay’s imagination, meanwhile, is projecting itself onto the peeling bedroom wallpaper."
21 Tales takes real-life stories of people living in emotionally and physically restricted spaces, and through an energised cocktail of amplified movement, hypnotic visuals and painfully honest text, reverses the audience into cramped, damp and absurd corners of their own lives. This is a dance-theatre production that displays Debbie Fionn Barr’s unique way of bringing together live performance with film, text, set design and digital photography. Debbie has collaborated once again with the team (John Foster & Paul Inman) behind her successful 2003 production entitled Three Go To Pieces and this time has also worked with Joe Tunmer.
Accolades
"I really, really liked it ... fantastic ... brilliant.”
(Chris Huxley, Executive Director, Bridport Arts Centre, Bridport, Dorset, U.K.)
"Funny, touching and sometimes beautiful, 21 Tales is a
piece of dance theatre that holds the audience from start to finish."
(Ruth Eastwood, Chief Executive, The Lighthouse, Poole, Dorset, U.K.)
Past Performances
01 August 2005 --- (Premiere Performance) --- The Lighthouse --- Poole, Dorset, U.K.
10 September 2005 --- The Merlin Theatre --- Frome, Somerset, U.K.
14 September 2005 --- The Regal Theatre --- Minehead, Somerset, U.K.
28 October 2005 --- Town Hall Studios Theatre --- Swindon, Wiltshire, U.K.
26 November 2005 --- The David Hall Arts Centre --- South Petherton, Somerset, U.K.
08 December 2005 --- Bridgwater Arts Centre --- Bridgwater, Somerset, U.K.
16 January 2006 --- Jellicoe Theatre --- Poole, Dorset, U.K.
20 January 2006 --- Forest Arts Centre --- New Milton, Hampshire, U.K.
15 February 2006 --- West Cornwall Arts Centre --- Penzance, Cornwall, U.K.
22 May 2006 --- Eastwood Theatre --- Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, U.K.
23 May 2006 --- Magnus Church of England School --- Newark, Nottinghamshire, U.K.
24 May 2006 --- Elizabethan High School --- Retford, Nottinghamshire, U.K.
Total Known Performances: 12
Images Credit
Photos by Paul Inman
Archive Editor's Note
Original show description text ©Debbie Fionn Barr.
All other material, except where credited, ©Robin Chase.
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