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JULIA LEE BARCLAY |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Julia Lee Barclay is a writer/director of experimental theater. Having lived and worked in New York City most of her life, she moved to London in 2003, where she is the artistic director of Apocryphal Theatre (www.flyingoutofsequence.org), a company originating from on-going weekly experimental laboratories, whose primary aim is to make visible the construction of the language with which we create the world we perceive; to allow us a moment in the gap between the understood and the unknown, to listen for the voices which have not yet formed, not yet been heard but still call to us in an undefined language which is perhaps no less real or pressing for being as yet unwritten. This goal is pursued through laboratory work, ensemble-created work and performances directed by Barclay using her written texts as one 'text' among many, including improvised gesture, dance, music, visual art and lighting. The performers respond to each other, the text and the tools developed in collaboration with each other in order to allow for a poly-vocal field to emerge, allowing the audience and performers to discover their own way into and through a collective act of becoming.
Plays by Julia Lee Barclay
13 Minutes: Subliminal Car Music for Sarah | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
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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 | #68484 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | a commissioned radio piece written for ResonanceFM, heard in autumn 2003 | |||||
Synopsis: | "The submission to experience is a work of meticulous description. . ." Georges Perec | |||||
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Cut Up | ||
| 1st Produced: | Red Room in Eve's Apple Festival in NYC | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Screaming Venus | |||||
| 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 | #68483 | |||
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Synopsis: | Cut Up is a cut-up of found and original texts dealing with gender, class and religion (including Shakespeare, punk rock lyrics, an article about sea horses and an essay on feminist aesthetics). As performed solo, a woman in a white wedding dress, only part of her face lit - which she moves slowly and almost imperceptively - reflects the act of someone who has been living inside of other people's words and is finding a way to use language herself - not by speaking in that language, but instead by making her mind a prism and refracting what others have said, liberating these words from their original meaning and opening up a brand new sea of possibilities. | |||||
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Future Worlds - Tricorn Init! | ||
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| 1st Published: | Karawane or, the temporary death of the bruitist - a journal of experimental performance texts, Issue 9 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #68482 | |||
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Synopsis: | Future Worlds is a cut-up of official and unofficial words recorded from inside a 1960's brutalist concrete shopping centre, The Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth, UK, which was slated to be demolished having been voted "the ugliest building in all of Britain." There was a small but vocal minority of people who had enjoyed the Tricorn during the 1980's Punk/New Wave days, who wanted to save it, as it had provided the only alternative venue in Portsmouth. The movement failed and the Tricorn was demolished soon after to be replaced by something slick and soulless. | |||||
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Jesus Guy, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Camden People's Theatre, London | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Apocryphal Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #46368 | |||
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Genre: | Stage Text | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | a trip through the collective grid of unconscious desires which lead and mislead us to look to Someone in charge to ask for the name of our own nameless experience. Five performers create a new show each night, improvising with prewritten and cut-up text, using scores, ideas and objects accumulated during rehearsals and performances. An artist throws in new objects she creates during the show. No one has a space to call their own. | |||||
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My First Autograce Homeography (1973-1974) | ||
| 1st Produced: | reading at Manhattan Theatre Source, NYC | 2002 | ||||
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 | #68486 | |||
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Synopsis: | a cut-up of journals and memories from 1973-1974, an attempted exorcism of sorts. the center does not hold. | |||||
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No One | ||
| 1st Produced: | Present Company, NYC | 2002 | ||||
Company: | The Present Company | |||||
| 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 | #1879 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of Word To No One | |||||
Synopsis: | No One is a meditation on where we are now. The primary themes are non-violence and war, the need for adequate translators and the identity(s) of the "enemy." The play is not broken up into pre-assigned line breaks or characters per se, but is nonetheless meant for multiple performers. | |||||
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Rough Road | ||
| 1st Produced: | Jean Cocteau Repertory, NYC | 2001 | ||||
Company: | reading at 'New Classics Reading Series | |||||
| 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 | #68485 | |||
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Synopsis: | Rough Road is an exploration of a territory without a map, where maps fail, where your global positioning system cannot chart your exact location, where cars are of little to no use as a mode of transportation. Rough Road is a challenge to the players and the audience: once plunged into this territory, how long can you stay t/here? Do we have a choice? Can the dead offer directions? And, finally, do you have the time? | |||||
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We live in financial times, Part 1: Blackberry Curve | ||
| 1st Produced: | reading at TBG Arts Complex | 27 Sep 2010 | ||||
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 | #119612 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | For just a minute, the suit pants are off, and then where the heck are we? Theater conventions and the illusion of finance collude in a spectacular shell game. | |||||
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Word To No One | ||
| 1st Produced: | Camden People's Theatre, London | 2002 | ||||
Company: | The Present Company | |||||
| 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 | #1880 | |||
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Genre: | Two Plays Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | Double Bill: No One & Word To Your Mama | |||||
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Word To Your Mama | ||
| 1st Produced: | FringeNYC | 2000 | ||||
Company: | The Present Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Plays and Playwrights 2001, The New York Theatre Experience, Inc >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 09670234-2-4 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1881 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play One Act | |||||
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Notes: | part of Word to No One. The production at FringeNYC 2000 won an Off-Off Broadway Award for Excellence. | |||||
| is a series of rants, dreams, speeches, ideas, manifestos, thoughts, beliefs, nightmares and maps through unknown/known territory. Structured in threes, three actors create one mind through three voices - attempting to unveil a stream of consciousness flowing to a river of consciousness flowing to the construction of consciousness and back again, in waves. A kind of channel surfing through a turn of the Millennium mind trapped in the collective body of a Night Secretary. | |||||
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