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Paper Birds Theatre Company

PAPER BIRDS THEATRE COMPANY

  
Nationality:    British
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below is a list of Paper Birds Theatre Company's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         40 Feathered Winks         Accidently Waiting To Happen         Blind         Broke         In A Month Of Fallen Sundays         In A Thousand Pieces         On the One Hand         Others         Smile Fell In the Grass, A         Thirsty

40 Feathered Winks

Synopsis:
One-third of human life is spent in bed: living, resting, crying, hiding, love-making, sleeping, dreaming, dying. Live original music accompanies this spectacular visual and physical exploration of time passed horizontally.

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Organisations:
the Paper Birds

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Accidently Waiting To Happen

Synopsis:
Three young women in the wrong place at the wrong time. An explosion of live music, movement, whispers and feathers. Beautiful, disturbing.

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Organisations:
Paper Birds Theatre Company

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Genre:
60 min Piece

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Blind

Synopsis:
Blind is a one-woman show performed by the UK's leading female beat-boxer Grace Savage and devised and directed by The Paper Birds Theatre Company. Acting as a mouth-piece for young women today Grace Savage offers the most unlikely of musicals as she explores the life, journey and experiences of a visually impaired young woman and a world encountered through darkness and light, whispers and lullabies, sirens, screams, party political broadcasts and storms. A collage of fragments of sounds from the world we live in, Blind explores the things young women overhear, that they are told by their mothers, learn in the school playground or in the pop charts. An interrogation into the influences on young women today Blind explores the songs, sounds and statements that our world is making and asks how they can affect who we become.

Notes:
devised by grace savage

1st Produced:
Pleasance, Edinburgh Festival Fringe    17 Aug 2014

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Broke

Synopsis:
Multi award-winners The Paper Birds (Thirsty, In a Thousand Pieces) return with a new verbatim production exploring the debt of a nation. Based on interviews taken across the UK in 2014, this heartfelt show explores what it means to be broke, from feeling the pinch to finding yourself penniless in this visually stunning new production. The Paper Birds company are a remarkable bunch. **** (Scotsman). Engaging, frequently very funny and poignant **** (Independent on Thirsty). The Paper Birds are expert theatre-makers. They unearth stories on hard-hitting themes through verbatim material and subtle movement (Total Theatre).

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1st Produced:
Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh Fringe Festival    Aug 2014

Organisations:
The Paper Birds

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Music:
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Genre:
Political, Physical theatre, 1 hour

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In A Month Of Fallen Sundays

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-    2004

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In A Thousand Pieces

Synopsis:
Ice-creams, suitcases and buttons tell the physically and visually moving tale of an Eastern European girl and her journey to England. A beautifully woven patchwork of accounts, misunderstanding, movement, text and original live music, In A Thousand Pieces sees the Paper Birds returning to their all-female roots to deliver this touching and delicate depiction of the violent, isolated and brutal world, home to thousands of women forced into the British sex trade.

Notes:
devised And performed by JEmma McDonnel, Kylie Walsh And Elle Moreton; music by Shane Durrant

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On the One Hand

Synopsis:
Tales of biological clocks on snooze, lives packed in boxes and cities in bags; Six women of different ages and at different stages of their lives, explore what it means to age. Growing ambitions and shrinking pensions to career changes and dementia; Fringe First winners the Paper Birds present their visually stunning 10 year anniversary show interrogating the inevitable journey that our minds and bodies undertake from birth to death. 'An energetic roller-coaster ride, exuberantly performed' (Telegraph). 'Terrifically sharp, vibrant and poignant' (Independent). 'the Paper Birds are expert theatre-makers' (Totaltheatrereview.com).

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1st Produced:
Northern Stage At St StephenS, Edinburgh Festival Fringe    Aug 2013

Organisations:
Paper Birds

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Music:
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Genre:
new writing, physical theatre 1 hour 15 minutes

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Others

Synopsis:
Multi award-winning female collective premiere their exploration into 'women as Other' and 'Other' women. Visual, political theatre based on a dialogue with three women: an Iranian artist, a prisoner and a celebrity. 'Disarming, totally original theatre' ****(Scotsman). --

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Organisations:
Paper Birds

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Smile Fell In the Grass, A

Synopsis:
Sylvia Plath

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1st Produced:
-    2003

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Thirsty

Synopsis:
Based on our nation's love affair with alcohol, Thirsty weaves together real stories, memories and booze based confessions, collected from a 'drunken hotline' and an online questionnaire. Fusing live music, verbatim text and stunning physical theatre, the Paper Birds explore the stories and social repercussions of lost memories and gained traumas, bruised knees, uncontrollable laughter, urine stained beds and sore heads, particularly focusing on the women waving the flag for 'Booze-Britain'.

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1st Produced:
Pleasance, Edinburgh Fringe Festival    2011

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