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Lazzi

LAZZI  

 Nationality:    British
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 Aurora Borealis         Mary Shelley's Monster         My Pinocchio         Oresteia         Witkacy Idiota         Zzz Zzz

Aurora Borealis

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You glimpse the phenomenal. . . can you remain the same? Seeing the aurora borealis - it's one of those rare, sought-after, magical experiences. This new production explores how such encounters change behaviour, personality and vision. It is performed in Lazzi's unforgettable style, skilfully combining improvisation and abstraction, simplicity and joy. . . with all the imaginative, surprising touches that audiences have come to expect from this innovative theatre company. Performed in natural light, aurora Borealis is a gentle and moving exploration of character, anticipation, and enlightenment.

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by Lazzi, devised And directed by David W W Johnstone

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Dancebase, Edinburgh    -

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Mary Shelley's Monster

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My Pinocchio

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The audience finds a fifty-year-old man, Mr Pinocchio, sitting alone on a small stool centre stage, his head in his hands. He feels every minute of his fifty years. His poor rheumatic joints stiffening in a painful remembrance of woodenness. Growing old may perhaps be a bothersome reality to all, but who else has the burden of knowing that at one time he was immortal, ageless, carefree, and indeed magical? and what grinds away at him is that he happily gave it all away to be normal. Suddenly appears onstage a stiff wooden stick of a lad& it is himself so long ago in those days of adventure and fun. Remembering their story in a sparkling kaleidoscope of images, the young and old Pinocchio cavort in a collage of characters who spring from Collodi's pages to dazzle with bittersweet playfulness. Was this free misbehaving abandon really the evil waywardness that the Blue Fairy chastised him for, or was it the lightning-bolt of youthful exuberance, vibrant and unrestrained, that we are forced to shed in the name of maturity? Imagine waking up to face yourself as a youngster. Imagine liking what you see. Imagine not liking what you've become since. Imagine Mr Pinocchio! What is the dark side of the Disney cartoon? Who is the monster? Perhaps Mary Shelley wrote Pinocchio and Collodi wrote Frankenstein! This conception of the old story focuses on what it means to be normal, human, and well-behaved, as opposed to being unique, hungry for adventure, and a wilful dreamer. Join the hapless and bumbling Mr Pinocchio on the ups and downs of being human! The production appeals to both young and old, the themes resound on many levels. Using a combination of bold characterisation, physical comedy and sparkling wordplay, our mission, like Pinocchio's, is to have& and to make. . . fun!

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Oresteia

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Lazzi's production of the Oresteia is an elegantly classical yet astonishingly real rendition of aeschylus' tragic trilogy: agamemnon, The Choephorae and The Furies dating from 458 BC. In this adaptation, the hero, Orestes, appears before us, his judges, to answer to the crime of matricide. Sandy Grierson (Best actor Critics' award for Theatre in Scotland 2007) plays Orestes in an intense solo portrayal that tests the limits of physical performance as it plunges the audience directly into aeschylus' timeless themes of revenge, torture, guilt and justice. Robert Potter's 1886 translation has been pared down to an absolute minimum. Staged with extreme simplicity, with a haunting soundtrack by Davey Anderson (Rupture; Black Watch; Snuff), this is a visually stunning and challenging piece of theatre that sears its place in the mind.

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by Lazzi. Devised by David W W Johnstone And Sandy Grierson

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Cumbernauld Theatre    -

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Nucleus Programme

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Witkacy Idiota

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This performance project hopes to bring to the attention of Western audiences a truly great but often neglected artist of the 20th Century. Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885-1939) was a pioneer of the avant-garde and is a hero of the cultural conscience of Poland. His writings, paintings and photography broke new ground with bold originality. His work predates that of Ionesco, Genet, Beckett, and Brecht in the surrealist movement of the European theatre. Visits to Paris and St Petersburg had introduced him to the surrealist paintings of Picasso and Braque, and to the cinema. Travels with anthropologist and friend Bronislaw Malinowski to Australia and Ceylon introduced him to tribal culture. Witkiewicz declared that motion pictures would spell the death of the theatre unless totally new forms of theatre could be created. Why not do with theatre what the surrealists were doing with painting? He set about realising his new vision: Pure Form. His father was a successful painter of the same name - so the young Witkiewicz changed his professional name to Witkacy, by which he is still popularly known. an intellect with myriad talents and interests, he was not immediately appreciated. Some thought him interesting and innovative, but most considered him a dilettante or even a fraud. Perhaps as a reaction he developed himself into a flamboyant, fragmented and enigmatic personality, almost like one of the abstract characters in his plays. His eccentricities, and his arrogance, became legendary. However, Witkacy's contribution to world culture, Polish culture, and the 20th Century surrealist avant-garde remains. Witkacy Idiota will examine this unique and bizarre life, extracting images from his works, particularly The Madman and the Nun, in which a troubled poet is subjected to cruel therapy in a mental asylum. The word 'idiota' is Russian and a reference to Dostoyevsky's Idiot - the appropriateness of this comment to be demonstrated in a black humour.

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by Lazzi, devised And directed by David W W Johnstone

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Zzz Zzz

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