Ready?

Ready? was a new short-term residency scheme for artists who were somewhere between ‘emerging’ and ‘established’. The residencies culminated in four new works presented at greenroom in 2007.

Swine Theatre: The Package

A worrying piece of voyeurism! It tells of the adventures of a sinister set of anti-heroes in a tangled city, a place of mutilated shadows and whispering dust…When enigmatic ‘businessman’ George Moffat comes into possession of the eponymous parcel, he soon finds that he has the one thing which everyone wants…the one thing which no-one can ever get, because if you couldhave the package, then it wouldn’t be The Package anymore.

Swine Theatre are Tam Hinton & Tom Liggett and associates.

Glass Eyed: Celebrityville!

A Whippet-thin blonde with a tan from a can,
A Reality reject with a master plan,
Cash to flash and time to kill,
They’ll meet their match in Celebrityville!

Fame is on the rampage.
How on earth can we compete?
Why, we ALL become celebrities of course!

Glass Eyed presented this interactive cabaret performance club night. A larger-than-life star factory that just won’t quit… check out www.glasseyed.com to see images from the evening and find out more.

Glass Eyed are Bryony Kimmings, Jenny Edbrooke & Alex Innes.

HooH HaH Productions with Ailis Ni Riain: brief-blue-electric-bloom

HooH HaH Productions (dir. Tracy Gentles) in collaboration with international prize-winning composer/writer Ailis Ni Riain present brief-blue-electric-bloom, an innovative collaboration of sound-scape, voice theatre, film and live performance; combining both parties’ own specialist artistic capabilities and creative outlooks through an immersive performance-installation investigating the minutiae of life.

Segun Lee-French: Liar/Opuro

Founder of Manchester’s Speakeasy People poetry collective, Segun has won several awards for his writing for theatre but no awards for his poetry! For Ready?, Segun will explore his dual Nigerian & English heritage in a solo show called Liar/Opuro, about the eternal human desire to wear someone else’s clothes.

Segun presented a work in progress performance of Liar/Opuro at the decibel Performing Arts Showcase 07 in Birmingham on Thursday 6th September: decibel PAS 07.