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Marisa Carnesky

MARISA CARNESKY  

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below is a list of Marisa Carnesky's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Carnesky's Ghost Train         Carnesky's Tarot Dome         Girl From Nowhere, The         House Of Knives         Jewess Tattooess         Magic War

Carnesky's Ghost Train

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Coventry, University Square    2004

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Carnesky's Tarot Dome

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The Tarot works. No one really knows why. The cards you pick at random act as a reflection of your innermost hopes and fears, reveal old wounds, historical personalities and speak of unknown futures. From the creators of Carnesky's Ghost Train comes an all new mind-blowing theatrical experience set in The Old Vic Tunnels. What if you could meet the cards in the flesh? Would you dare peek behind the veil of the High Priestess? Frolic with the Fool or come toe to toe with the Devil? Have you ever wanted to dissolve the barrier between the conscious and the unconscious and see what lies on the other side? This is a dreamlike journey taking you through giant penny arcades where slot machines and laughing policemen have been replaced by life-size Tarot characterisations. An esoteric end-of-pier tarot reading brought to life in a surreal, disorientating spectacle. You choose your 'cards', engage with their rituals, marvel at their mystifying beauty, root for them on as they wrestle and roller-skate in this extraordinary montage of live art, music, symbolism and performance. This new large-scale show sees Olivier Award winning performance artist Marisa Carnesky leading an extraordinary cast of ten cross-disciplined performers. Featuring a live music set from poetic art rockers Rasp Thorne and The Briars, and a cast including bizarre sculptural contortionist Nina Felia, Indonesian Burlesque Goddess Sumi Sumatra, London Roller Girl body art queen Traumata, Lucha Britannia Wrestling Star Phil 'The Playboy' Bedwell, queer mime superstar Rhyannon Styles, surrealist live art choreographer 'H', Chi Chi Revolver Hoola Hoop championess, Rowan Fae punk aerialist and the ephemeral dance of Vicky Butterfly.

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music by Rasp Thorne and The Briars

1st Produced:
Old Vic Tunnels, London    04 Sep 2012

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Part of the London 2012 Festival!

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Girl From Nowhere, The

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Solo Play/Drama

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House Of Knives

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Marisa Carnesky performs her own short, ironically sweet magic show House of Knives in which the inhabitant of a gorgeous palace disappears amid the mounting worries of mortgage repayments and debt
- Corinne Salisbury, British Theatre Guide

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Part of Soho Theatre's season "Everything Must Go" Short rapid response pieces relating to the economic crisis.

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Short play

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Jewess Tattooess

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Magic War

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In 1856, the French government was faced with an uprising in occupied algeria. The mutiny's leaders were rumoured to perform miracles, so they hit upon the idea of countering magic with magic. The famous magician Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin was dispatched to algeria where in a variation on the famous bullet trick he offered to be shot at close range by a local marksman. Robert-Houdin survived, and magic won the war. The latest piece from Marisa Camesky is an intriguing look at war and violence, and the illusions to which we all fall prey. It takes in the war on terror and the sleight of hand and trickery invoked by those who want to keep the war machine running.
- Lyn Gardner, Guardian

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Carnesky Prods

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Piece

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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