When Did You Stop Dancing

Presented by What A Little Bird Told Me Theatre The dancing plague; a true story bursting with heart & play Rach wants to tell you a story.  A true story. The story of The Dancing Plague of 1518 started by a lone woman boogying in the streets. A story of 100s of women dancing in the streets.  And not stopping… She wants to tell you in 2018 everybody is welcome on our streets, she spends most of her time feeling safe and that we don’t need a national campaign to tell a girl that she can. But she said she’d tell you the truth.  She’ll do that instead. A show about female uprising, what it means to take a stand; and to stand together. Rachel McBride of What a Little Bird Told Me showed extracts from When Did You Stop Dancing at a Unity scratch night a couple of years, and Ive found myself talking about the show ever since! So it was only natural to continue working with Rachel once I stepped down from Unity! Key Dates: Fri 5th/6th October at 6pm –  Liverpool Unity Theatre Thurs 11th October at 7.30pm – Manchester, The Edge Sat 13th October at 7.30pm – Edge Hill University, The Arts Centre Wed 17th Oct at 7.30pm – Barnard Castle, The Witham Wed 24th Oct at 7.30pm – Wigan, The Mill at the Pier (ALRA) Creative Team Written & performed by Rachel McBride Direction & dramaturgy by Chris Hill Creative Mentoring by Rachel Mars Object …

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Horny Handed Tons of Soil

Client: Phrased & Confused Horny Handed Tons of Soil is a co-production between Phrased & Confused and Unity Theatre  ‘A modern day Under Milk Wood’ (Chris McCabe) ‘it steals and quietly breaks your heart’ (Liverpool Sound and Vision) Project weblink: www.phrasedandconfused.co.uk Inspired by the maverick work of Adrian Henri, Horny Handed Tons of Soil, fuses beat poetry with folk song, electronic composition with live brass and percussion and documentary film with theatrical story telling. It’s a truly mesmeric show, beautiful in so many ways Heres the blurb: ‘The city is alive. Wandering the streets, the Child, the Poet and Death trace memories and map dreams onto a landscape shifting under the spell of time’ You can read more about the show, Adrian Henri here and about Lizzie Nunnery’s process in developing the show here http://phrasedandconfused.co.uk/about-the-show/ Key dates: 7 June – York Theatre Royal Web Links: http://www.nunnerynorheim.com/ Back in 2016 Phrased & Confused together with the Unity Theatre commissioned Liverpool based poet, folk singer and playwright Lizzie Nunnery to create a new spoken word piece to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Mersey Sound by Roger McGough, Brian Patten and Adrian Henri. Lizzie has always found herself drawn to the work of Adrian – a poet, painter and performer – a polymath who like many of the artists both Unity and Phrased & Confused work with, crossed boundaries and genres with ease.  So it was Adrian’s work, his ‘happenings’ and his wanderings (early experiments in mytho-geography) that …

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