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Peter Reder

PETER REDER  (1960 - )

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Peter Reder was born in 1960 in London, where he continues to live and work. He studied music in London and theatre in Paris and has been creating original theatrical works since 1993. He has produced work in the UK for LIFT (London International Festival of Theatre), National Theatre Studio, South London Gallery, and Somerset House, and internationally in Germany, Singapore and AustraliA. His solo show "Guided Tour" was featured in the British Council Showcase at the Edinburgh Festival and will be shown internationally in 2006/7, with performances at the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, and in Bucharest in February/March 2006.

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 City Of Dreams         Contents of a House, The         Guided Tour         Xylotheque

City Of Dreams

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Contents of a House, The

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The British performance artist Peter Reder has spent weeks mining the tales and the treasures of Preston Manor. Now he wants to tell you about them. Preston Manor is the epitome of Edwardian glamour, yet its history reaches back to the Domesday Book. Over the centuries it has become a repository of memory: a trove of objects, images and histories. What are they, and what do they mean? The Contents of a House will attempt to catalogue everything you can see in the house in the hope that something of the unseen, the unspoken  even the unspeakable  will emerge. This subversive promenade performance takes the form of a tour, guided by Reder himself. Images, video, anecdotes and personal interaction will reanimate the building and the artefacts within it, with perhaps a touch of fantasy to bring Preston Manor's past to life.

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Preston Manor is a charming historic house on the outskirts of Brighton & Hov    04 May 2013

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Guided Tour

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a tourist outing for deconstructionists

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Xylotheque

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