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 Toured in the UK, Europe and Australia from June to September 1990
world première ..... 19th June 1990 ..... Festival d'Eté de Seine Maritime, Rouen, France
UK première ..... 18th July 1990 ..... Tramway, Glasgow
run time ..... 80 minutes, no interval
C O - P R O D U C E R S
Co-produced by the The Festival Unit — Glasgow City of Culture 1990,
Festival d'Eté de Seine Maritime (Rouen) and The South Bank Centre (London)
Funded by the Arts Council of Great Britain, and a beneficiary of the 1989 Digital Dance Premier Award,
contributed by its winner Val Bourne of Dance Umbrella
Performances in Glasgow were presented in association with The Third Eye Centre
and the UK tour was sponsored by Beck's Bier
C A S T + C R E W
directed by ... Lloyd Newson
performers ... Scott Ambler, Scott Blick (vocals), Jordi Cortes Molina,
Wendy Houstoun, Stephen Kirkham, Lauren Potter
preliminary movement ideas ... Nigel Charnock, Lloyd Newson
composer ... Sally Herbert co-writer ... Gary Butcher lighting design ... Stevie Whitson set design consultant ... Mark Foley of Burrell Foley Associates costumes ... Yvonne Milnes
production manager ... Simon Byford
technical manager ... John MacKinnon stage manager ... Ian Richards chief electrician ... Jack Thompson set painting ... Mary Lemley
administration ... Deborah Chadbourn for Artsadmin
UK publicity ... Judy Lipsey for Lipsey Meade PR UK graphic design ... Helen Lannaghan photography ... Chris Nash, Eleni Leoussi, Hugo Glendinning
Song to The Siren by Tim Buckley used by kind permission of Carlin Music Corporation
special thanks to ....
Val Bourne + Dance Umbrella, Neil Wallace + Tramway, Nikki Milican + the Third Eye Centre,
Laurent Langlois + the Festival d'Eté, Theresa Beattie + the South Bank Centre, Paul Smith + the British Council, George Brugmans + Marina Blok of Springdance, John Ashford, Gary Carter, Danny Lane, Bob Lockyer, Nick Nuttgens, Caroline Oxford, Catherine Rees, Jonathan Graham of Circus Space, Geoff Hope + Luckings, Rotherhithe Theatre Workshop, Riverside Studios, National Youth Theatre, Hardware House, and Margaret Lasica (for the first steps).
T O U R D A T E S
FRANCE ... 17th - 18th June 1990 ... Hangar 23 du port autonome, Rouen ... Festival d'Eté de Seine-Maritime
UK ... 17th - 21st July 1990 ... Tramway, Glasgow ... UK preview and UK première UK ... 27th - 28th July 1990 ... Queen's Hall Arts Centre, Hexham UK ... 8th - 12th August 1990 ... Queen Elizabeth Hall, London NORWAY ... 23rd - 25th August 1990 ... Oslo International Festival, Oslo SWITZERLAND ... 20th - 21st August 1990 ... Zurich Theatre Festival, Zurich UK ... 4th - 5th September 1990 ... Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cambridge GERMANY ... 9th September 1990 ... Theatre 90, Hanover PORTUGAL ... 13th September 1990 ... Acarte, Lisbon AUSTRALIA ... 22nd, 25th - 29th September 1990 ... Melbourne International Festival of Arts, Melbourne
P R E S S R E L E A S E
written in 1990
"DV8 Physical Theatre is theatrically brilliant, funny, frightening, bizarre and erotic .....
superbly devised ..... breathtakingly risky ....." London Evening Standard
"Dancers struggle with an unknown force to gain control of their bodies; one falls, another seeks to fly.
Each player struggles to find a voice so as to be heard, but their words remain soundless."
DV8 Physical Theatre's new work is a direct response to the despair and loneliness evoked by
their last production, Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men, in which the performers were slaves to their desires and the environment they inhabited, victims of the sadness and oppression which surrounded them. "if only ..." looks at our attempts to determine the paths our lives take, examining the relentless search for fulfillment, and the belief that there is something better within our reach, if only we knew where and how to find it.
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