SUMMER SHORTS
Programmed by Robin Linde Productions.
DATES: 10th JUNE -18th JULY- WED-SATURDAYS.
TIMES: 11am -5pm EXCEPT FRIDAYS AT 6pm.
LOCATION: MARKET HALL, BOROUGH MARKET, SE1.
SUMMER SHORTS is brought to you by Robin Linde Productions in collaboration with IMMERGE, a series of events leading up to MERGE Festival, produced by Illuminate productions. In association with Better Bankside, Tate Modern and Borough Market.
Presenting six weeks of six different 15 minute plays.
It's not only the stories they will be sharing, it’s also the venue, a miniature moveable stage with the exterior of a caravan created by the wonderful installation artist Rosa Sijben.
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THE PLAYS
WEEK 1: 10 - 13 June
SEA VIEW
Written by Claire Wilson and performed by Maya Wasowicz and Robin Steegman
Angela moves into a caravan site to get away from it all and write her novel. But when she discovers the building of the new toilet block will obstruct her panoramic view, she takes matters into her own hands to stop it at all costs.
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WEEK 2: 17 - 20 June
THE ALAN KEY
Written by Sammy Kissin and performed by Judith Amsenga
Jo’s bed is falling apart. When she goes to Ikea to buy a new one, it seems her life is on the verge of doing the same. What she doesn’t factor in is how everything is about to change, how she’ll come back from Neasden with so much more than a new bed.
This story plunges us into the tragi-comic reality of what it means to be a human, searching for love and meaning in the assemble-it-yourself age of Ikea.
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WEEK 3: 24 – 27 June
THEN - TOEN
Created by Emma Berentsen (Amber Amborse Aurele and Sofia Morandotti) performed by Annemiek Van Elst
In this audio performance you’ll be invited you to reflect on life and the balance between life and death, with a pinch of comedy.
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WEEK 4: 1 – 4 July
LEPIDOPTERY
Created by Paloma Oakenfold
A short story about seeking out light, searching out love and stretching out wide.
Her mother used to keep her in a jam jar of Robinsons thinly cut marmalade. Until one day she’d had enough, It's a stuffy home a jam jar, apparently. So she stuck her arm out, then her neck, then a leg... And before she knew it she had uncurled, spread out, stretched up and breathed. She breathed!
It was only then she realised - she was in fact much bigger than that jar. And do you know what...? she never could fit back inside after that.
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WEEK 5: 8 - 11 July
LEFT OR RIGHT
Created and performed by: Jonathan Peck.
'Left or Right' is based on comedy in tragic situations.
It is in these moments we see people’s humanity and the beauty in comedy.
A determined idiot in the middle of a life changing situation, is it wrong to laugh?
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WEEK 6: 15 – 18 July
DIPLOMACY FROM KWAIDAN
Created by: Tanroh Ishida and Taichi Imanishi
Step inside and you will be transported to another place;
There will be no remorse at the end of this journey, when you arrive at the destination, you will know the truth.
Inspired by Japan's ancient tale published in Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan (1903).
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THE VENUE - THE CARAVAN
SET DESIGN BY ROSA SIJBEN
By turning the common order of working upside down, Rosa Sijben aims for a collaboration between fine arts and theatre that challenges the usual approach.
Traditionally there first is a play, concept or story and only then the creation of the set, Sijben wonders what would happen if fine arts wasn’t reduced to just the materials, props and costumes, but also makes a conceptual statement and takes initiative.
'What if it moves from answering a request or need, to posing a question?'
She will create a work of art, or a setting which contains several works, to be interpreted by the performers, who in that way will ‘complete’ the collaboration.