Summer 2011Freshwork for adventurous people by inspiring artistsfueltheatre.com

Welcome to our summer season 2011.

We will be popping up at festivals all summer – flip thebrochure over to see what we have in store for you atLatitude, the Big Chill and the Edinburgh Fringe. Pluswe’ll be in Leeds, London, Brighton and South Africa.

And don’t forget to download your monthlyEveryday Moments podcast from our website –this season we’ll be launching new podcasts byNic Green, Nick Whitfield and Josie Long.

Enjoy!

Kate McGrath and Louise BlackwellDirectors, Fuel

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Fuel presents

Everyday Momentsin collaboration with Roundhouse Radio

We have commissioned a series of podcasts createdespecially for you to enjoy at a particular time and place.

Imagine there was a soundtrack to those small momentswhen you find yourself alone, brushing your teeth, in the bath,watching the rain stream down your living room window,or when your tucked up in bed with a hot drink but unableto sleep.

In the 2011 spring season we brought you moments byKazuko Hohki, Inua Ellams, Peggy Shaw, John Hegley andHofesh Shechter. This season we bring you new momentscreated by Nic Green, Nick Whitfield and Josie Long.

To enjoy all the podcasts released so far and to download thebrand new issues (released on the 20th of each monththroughout 2011) go to fueltheatre.com.

Funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Arts Council England.

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Fuel presentsInua Ellams’

The 14th TaleA free flowing mellifluous narrative that tellsthe hilarious exploits of a natural bornmischief growing from the clay streets ofNigeria to the roof tops of Dublin, and finallyto London. Inua vividly recreates thecharacters that punctuate his upbringing indeft and beautiful poetry, while challengingthe audience’s expectations of what it is to bea young, black male in London today.

Fringe First Award 2009.

The 14th Tale will be presented as part ofGreyscale’s Theatre Brothel in theAlmeida Festival 2011.

Almeida Theatre, London6 – 16 July, 7.30pmexcept 9, 10, 14 JulyTickets: £15almeida.co.uk/festival020 7359 4404

Sign InterpretedPerformance 13 July

“Ellams’ poetry is smooth enoughto melt in the ear, yet packed fullof snap, crackle and pop.”Time Out

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A BAC Scratch Commission with Apples & Snakes.A London Word Festival Commission. Originallyfunded by Arts Council England. Sign interpretationsupported by the City Bridge Trust.

A Fevered Sleep and Fuel production

The ForestCreated by Fevered Sleep

There is a place at the very heart of the forest. A place wherethings are not quite what they seem. People become animals,birds become music, day becomes night-time, leaves becomelight. It’s all around you. It’s full of adventure. It’s alwayschanging. It’s The Forest.

Ahead of a tour to Sydney Opera House, the creators ofBrilliant and And the Rain Falls Down invite you to a thrilling,surprising and enchanting performance for everyone 4 yearsold and over, combining dance, images, sound and light.

Stratford Circus, London7–8 July, 11am & 2pm; 9 July, 11.30am* & 3pmTickets: £6/£5stratford-circus.com, 0844 357 2625*Autism friendly performance

“Exquisite…It’s like a dream of a night in a forest.There’s a grace to this show that captivated andmoved me.” The Times ����

A Fevered Sleep and Fuel production

StilledA photographic performance marathon

Combining performance, music and photography, Stilled is adurational dance piece performed both for a human audienceand a bank of silent, all-seeing pinhole cameras,choreographed by David Harradine.

Stilled features a live, improvised music score by JamieMcCarthy and light score by Hansjorg Schmidt. Audiences arefree to come and go throughout the duration of the piece.

Originally commissioned for Wellcome Collection.

Southbank Centre (Blue Room), London18 Aug, 4–8pm; 19 Aug, 3–9pm; 20 Aug, 11am–11pmTickets: freesouthbankcentre.co.uk, 0844 875 0073

Fevered Sleep’s new book Invisible Things is available topurchase in our online shop fueltheatre.com/shop

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SimpleGirlby Melanie Wilson. Produced by Fuel.

A thrilling and touchingly funny encounter with a self-titledsimple girl – at once mischievous flaneur, epic sentimentalistand grandiose fibber. Tales of glamorous peril jostle with a livesoundtrack, executed by idiosyncratic heroine Melanie Wilson.

West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsPart of Transform Festival8 & 9 June, 8.15pmTickets: day pass £15/£10wyp.org.uk0113 213 7700

A sortie into a curious cityscape of the future past, featuringIris Brunette: part-time travelling refugee, part compassionatevoyeur. A warmly mournful and disarmingly engaging piece,inspired by the film La Jetée by Chris Marker.

Commissioned by and developed at BAC.Originally funded by Arts Council England.

Rhodes Box Theatre,Grahamstown National Arts Festival, South Africa30 June, 8pm & 10pm; 1 & 2 July, 4pm & 6.30pmTickets: R48, R46, R32nationalartsfestival.co.za, computicket.com002 783 915 8000

Melanie Wilson and Fuel present

Iris Brunetteby Melanie Wilson

“Just occasionally you come across a showon the fringe that’s innovative, startlingand ever so slightly indefinable. For me,Simple Girl is it.” Scotsman ����

“There are few more compelling presencesthan that of Melanie Wilson” Guardian

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The Future is Unwritten and Fuel in association withBrighton & Hove Albion Football Club present

Brighton ’Til I Die!by Paul Hodson & Dave Blake. Directed by Paul Hodson.

Ten years ago football fans and theatre-goers rose as oneat the end of Brighton ’Til I Die! chanting the immortalline: ‘We want Falmer!’

Revived and refreshed, this passionate, funny show isback to celebrate the opening of Albion’s long awaitednew home.

A rollercoaster ride through Albion memories: fromhumble beginnings to First Division glory, from Cup Finalto the end of the Goldstone, Hereford, Gillingham,Withdean, promotion and on, heads held high, to Falmerand the future.

Theatre Royal, Brighton27 July, 8.30pm28 July, 6pm & 8.30pmTickets: £10–£21ambassadortickets.com/brighton0844 871 7650 (booking fee applies)Groups Hotline 0844 871 7617

“A brilliant show … an audience of bigburly football fans, with tears in theireyes, leaning over the threshold atthe end to shake the hands of theactors on stage” Observer

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Fuel presents

Belarus Free Theatrein association with the Pleasance

Herald Angel winners Fuel return to the Edinburgh Fringe topresent the first performances of a new show in developmentby the internationally acclaimed and 2011 OBIE Awardwinning Belarus Free Theatre in their first visit to the Fringe.Previous shows include Being Harold Pinter (“world-classtheatre, built on the guts of raw experience” Daily Telegraph)and Generation Jeans (“a rare opportunity to see political arttruly in action” Sunday Times).

For show details see fueltheatre.com

Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh22 – 29 August, 1pmTickets: £10/£80131 556 6550pleasance.co.uk

"Truly passionate, truly political theater"New York Times

“The bravest theatre in the world” Time Out

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Jackson’s Wayby Will Adamsdale. Produced by Fuel.

Winner of the Perrier Award for Comedy 2004.

Part theatre, part comedy, Jackson’s Way is a satire on theworld of self help and corporate jargon, but so much more….

“Hi, I’m Jackson and ten years ago I got excited...”

A life-coaching legend tells you how he made it happen… andstay happened! Join Chris John Jackson for perhaps the mostsurreal and funny hour you are likely to spend in a theatre.

Latitude Festival, Southwold17 JulyTickets: included in festival passlatitudefestival.co.uk0871 231 0821

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Fuel presents

The Summer HouseA Comedy Thriller

Devised by Will Adamsdale, Neil Haigh, Matthew Steer andJohn Wright. Directed by John Wright.

Three men arrive by car at a remote house in the countryside.Who are they? Where are they? Are those stuffed beavers onthe wall? Then the Vikings arrive.

This is a play about men and all their crap, about myths andwhat they’re for and about the weather and how it blows allthe other stuff away anyway.

Commissioned by Corn Exchange Newbury. Developed as part of Fuel at theRoundhouse and the Jerwood Residencies at Cove Park. Originally funded by ArtsCouncil England. Production time in kind provided by artsdepot. Workshops on toursupported by the Ernest Cook Trust.

Latitude Festival, Southwold15 & 16 JulyTickets: included in festival passlatitudefestival.co.uk0871 231 0821

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A BAC Scratch Commission

“Goddamn awesome… stupendously asinine yetwholly infectious” Telegraph 2011 on Jackson’s Wayas part of The London Jacksathon!

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Fuel presents

The Simple Things in Life

Fuel brings you a haven within the hubbub of a festival:five short experiences to celebrate the simple things in life byLewis Gibson, David Harradine, The London Snorkelling Team,Frauke Requardt and Barnaby Stone. A table with a story totell, a band bursting at the seams, a sound journey througha good book, a surreal and mesmerising dance, and aninstallation that takes flight – each found inside a gardenshed for you to discover.

Funded by Arts Council England. Box office provided by Spektrix.

Latitude Festival, Southwold15–17 JulyTickets: included infestival passlatitudefestival.co.uk0871 231 0821

Royal Shakespeare Company,Stratford-upon-Avon13 AugustTickets: freersc.org.uk0844 800 1110

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Big Chill Festival, Ledbury5–7 AugustTickets: included infestival passbigchill.net0844 888 4411

Royal Botanic GardenEdinburgh19–27 AugustTickets: £12.50/£5fueltheatre.com

For performance times please see venue websites and/or programmes.

Fuel presents

Electric HotelConceived and directed by David RosenbergChoreographed and co-directed by Frauke Requardt

Electric Hotel is a lonely, bizarre and beautiful outdoorspectacle; a uniquely designed, fly-by-night hotel brought tovivid life through dance and sound. Sitting on the outsidelooking in, the audience snatch glimpses of the do-not-disturb lives unfolding behind the floor to ceiling windows.

Wearing headphones to eavesdrop on the internal spacesof the building they watch the residents in their privaterooms: natural habits, unnatural fantasies and wildlyeccentric housekeeping.

Commissioned by Sadler’s Wells and Without Walls. Funded by Arts CouncilEngland and a Wellcome Trust Arts Award. Supported by the Jerwood CharitableFoundation. jerwoodcharitablefoundation.org and the Royal Victoria HallFoundation. Research supported by Jerwood Studio at Sadler’s Wells and the UCLEar Institute. Subsidised Rehearsal Space provided by Jerwood Space. Developedat Cove Park. Built by Urban Space Management and Fuel at Trinity Buoy Wharf.

Latitude Festival,Southwold14 – 17 Julylatitudefestival.co.uk0871 231 0821

Big Chill Festival, Ledbury4 – 7 Augustbigchill.net0844 888 4411

Tickets: included in festival pass.

Electric Hotel will continue totour in our autumn season.

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“A playground for the imagination… the aircrackles with excitement” Metro

“Thrillingly intense… rich and rewarding”Guardian

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