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IMPROBABLE THEATRE |
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Plays by Improbable Theatre |
70 Hill Street | ||
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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 | #58496 | |||
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Genre: | Devised Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | When the lights come up, the stage is empty except for a table with two sheets of newspaper laid out on it. Then Phelim McDermott, Steve Tiplady, and Guy Dartnell appear, and with a few quick, deft motions the sheets are transformed into two animated creatures and then into a single one. It's a puppet, but not like one you've seen before, and even though we see its three handlers behind it, it moves with a logic and locomotion of its own; it even has a personality (and a sweet one at that). Later the Improbable threesome will create windows, door, doorknobs, gardens, staircases, hallways, rooms, and even an entire house out of sealing tape, and each new creation brings a childlike sense of wonder and delight at the sheer inventiveness of it all. It's all the more joyous because this is not Ed Sullivan Show gimmickry. It's real theatre: a new way to tell a story. | |||||
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Box | ||
| 1st Produced: | Aug 2009 | |||||
Company: | Improbable Stage 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 | #114802 | |||
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Genre: | Devised Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 | ||
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Synopsis: | Every BOX has six sides, twelve edges, and eight corners. It is consistent. It is what's expected. It does not change. We often make ourselves slaves to finite expectations. When does our BOX become a prison? Told predominantly through movement, this theater piece contemplates the safety, the comfort, and the joy of the BOX we know, all the while asking us to consider the possibilities that can arise when one is willing to step outside of that with which we are familiar and perhaps love more than anything else, in order to experience or perchance even to create something new. Are you intrepid, or are you content with the finite definition of happiness and success that our social order dictates? Find out as you take this theatrical journey exploring a life lived inside and outside the BOX. | |||||
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Coma | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
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 | #17671 | |||
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Genre: | Devised Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Life Game | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, Lyric Square, King St, London W6 0QL >>> | 07 Jul 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 | #116722 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Each night a mystery guest will be interviewed about their life: their loves, regrets, fantasies and dreams. As they talk, watch Improbable transform their stories, there and then, into a magical piece of theatre. | |||||
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Panic | ||
| 1st Produced: | Leeds: Courtyard, West Yorkshire Playhouse, England, EUR >>> | 2009 | ||||
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 | #96484 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Improbable has grown out of a way of working that means being prepared to create work by the seat of your pants and the skin of your teeth, stepping onstage before you are ready and allowing the audience to have an integral part in the creation of a show. . . So at the time of writing it is hard to say what it is you will see tonight, but somehow, some way, it will feature the Great God Pan. . .' Quote taken from the programme | |||||
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Spirit | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
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 | #17672 | |||
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: | Devised Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Three of them just amble on in their own characters and clothes, and begin to talk, muse, tell stories about some major theme, in this case, the instinct for war and violence that recurs through human history, the way men relate to it and the question of whether anything of us survives death. Somehow, the phrase "lantern lecture" comes to mind, along with the word "playgroup". There's sharp, jewel-like lighting, an ingenious set like a sloping roof full of little skylights and hatches, fine use of music and sound; sometimes, there are little puppets or toy aeroplanes, which take over the burden of the story and the action for a while. | |||||
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Sticky | ||
| 1st Produced: | Platt Fields, Manchester/tour | 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 | #17673 | |||
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