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BILL AITCHISON (1971 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Bill Aitchison's work, variously described as live art and experimental theatre, has a strong international following and has been seen in theatres all over Europe, as well as on buses, bridges and the streets of London and New York. Aitchison has a striking physical presence which is both engaging and (occasionally) alarming and his performances display impeccable discipline and great comic timing.
Plays by Bill Aitchison
24/7/52 | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #71729 | |||
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Genre: | 60 min Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | devised by Bill Aitchison with James Dunn and Boris Kahnert | |||||
Synopsis: | Aitchison's work frequently demonstrates a preoccupation with our place in space and time, and 24/7/52 is no exception. As the title suggests, the piece is about the rigours of daily life; 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks of the year. Structured like a game, eight clunky old tape recorders are programmed with a sequence of sound cues that, when heard, prompt Aitchison into action. These might be as mundane as reading, sleeping or eating but, as the tapes overlap with one another, the cues come thick and fast and the actions no longer represent structured normality but become manic and unachievable in the allotted time. With great physical skill, Aitchison literally juggles tasks | |||||
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Customer Is Always Wrong, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cambridge, Junction | 30 Apr 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #128606 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of Junction Sampled Festival Of Performance | |||||
Synopsis: | an eccentric demonstration of cultural expectations and confusions | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI Issue 09 Page 481 | |||||
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Zones 2-6 | ||
| 1st Produced: | Chelsea Theatre, London | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48824 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | experimental theatre/performance art Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | The play was later re-titled Zones II-VI | |||||
Synopsis: | Zones 2-6 balances between following a doppelganger's journey through Outer London on a search for its elusive real self and following a mental journey through his imagination to find a central self. Through a series of reports this Quixotic doppelganger describes and simulates in a perpetual present tense, locations very similar to those of the actual performing space. An un-resolvable search, Zones 2-6 concludes by poignantly staging the paradoxes of a fixed and fluid social identity. | |||||
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