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CHRISTOPHER BRETT BAILEY
(1987 - )Nationality: Canadian
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I'm a maker and writer of Theatre, author of the award winning the Inconsiderate Aberrations of Billy the Kid and an Associate Artist of Made In ChinA. As a performer I have appeared at National Theatre, BAC, BBC, Traverse and in the bowels of the Top Secret Nuclear Bunker at Kelvedon Hatch. I am also a musician making experimental music and sound. I am the electronic half of ambient music duo Moon Ate the Dark and the composer of a series of noise-guitar workouts called THIS MACHINe WON'T KILL FASCISTS BUT IT MIGHT GeT YOU LAID. My performance training came from east 15 Acting School's Contemporary Theatre degree and I later attended Goldsmiths College, University of London where I earned an MA in Writer's Block. I was born on 3rd July 1987 in Fort erie, Ontario, Canada, spent my childhood in Buffalo, New York and am now based at Se13, London, england. Give my regards to Brooklyn.
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Camera Test Gym Party Ick! Inconsiderate Aberrations of Billy the Kid, The She is Beautiful, She is Barefoot Theres Something You Should Know Before We Go Any Further This is How We Die We Hope That You're Happy (Why Would We Lie?)Camera Test
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Top of PageGym Party
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From the hot young company (Guardian) that sold out the National theatre in 2012: a razor sharp, slightly dark three-way battle to the death, and hilariously confused call-to-arms. Gym Party is an epic tale of hopeless determination: the brilliant, terrible, universal human desire to win, and go on. Anarchic, comic and thoughtful, it speaks to anyone who frets about the state of the world, then gets distracted by a dumb celebrity tweet. Not since Forced Entertainment burst on to the scene almost 30 years ago has a company arrived with such a fully formed and distinctive voice. (Guardian).
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devised by Made In China with Christopher Brett Bailey and Ira Brand
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Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe Aug 2013
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new writing, performance art 1 hour
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Top of PageIck!
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Top of PageInconsiderate Aberrations of Billy the Kid, The
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Billy shoots his Mom because he doesn't want to go to school. Free from parental control, will he ever manage to clean up the mess? Will his Father discover that he's seducing the pizza delivery girl, wrapped in the skin of his dead wife? Will the pizza delivery girl fulfill her aspirations of perfect customer service? Billy thinks he's got away with murder but nothing's ever that simple &and Billy's mom is up in heaven, galvanizing an army of feminist angels. . .
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Billy was first performed by students on the Contemporary theatre BA at e15 under the direction and guidance of Uri Roodner, without whom the show could not and would not have been. Many deep thankyous and much love to Uri.
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Top of PageShe is Beautiful, She is Barefoot
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Top of PageTheres Something You Should Know Before We Go Any Further
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Top of PageThis is How We Die
Tales of paranoia, young love and ultra-violence. . .a spiralling odyssey of pitch-black humour and nightmarish prose. . .Savage, surreal, hypnotic and apocalyptic, THIS IS HOW WE DIE blends spoken word, storytelling, caustic humour and gutter philosophy into a dizzying exorcism of a world that is convinced it is dying. With echoes of Lenny Bruce, William Burroughs, beat poetry and B-movies, THIS IS HOW WE DIE is a prime slice of surrealist trash and a blood-soaked love letter to the depraved, the depressed and the death-obsessed.
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Top of PageWe Hope That You're Happy (Why Would We Lie?)
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Jess and Chris claim to be lifelong friends. But they also claim each other are liars. And that they are eyewitnesses to the majority of the key world events of the last hundred years. We Hope That You're Happy (Why Would we Lie?) is a hilarious and unsettling examination of what it means to be a tuned in, delusional and unwitting consumer in a hyper communicative world. Flat-out, unhinged and strangely normal, featuring a cooler full of beer and icecream, a preposterous repeated dance routine, two kilos of flour. . . and a lot of ketchup.
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by Made In China with Christopher Brett Bailey
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Chisenhale Dance Space, London 06 Apr 2011
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