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Marc Rees

MARC REES

  
Nationality:    Welsh
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Marc Rees's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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         {150}         Caligula Disco         Fist         For Mountain, Sand And Sea         Gloria Days         House Project, The         Iddo Ef         Raw Material: Llareggub Revisited         RevolUn         Shed Light         Unknown Pleasures: Threshold         Willows III - Waiting for take off

{150}

Synopsis:
Performed in English, Welsh and Spanish, {150} will bring to life key moments in the story of the 150 Welsh men, women and children who settled in Patagonia in 1865, and the lives of their descendants today. This multi-platform production, combining live performance in Wales with a specially commissioned film from Patagonia, will be staged in the Royal Opera House stores near Aberdare - a vast building not normally open to the public, close to the homes of many of the original settlers. .

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1st Produced:
Royal Opera House Stores, Abercwmboi, Aberdare, Wales    27 Jun 2015

Organisations:
National Theatre Wales and Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  7            Other:  schoolchildren

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Caligula Disco

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
-    2000

Organisations:
Marc Rees / R.I.P.E (Rees International Projects Enterprise)

1st Published:
Burt Reynolds, bathrooms and Adidas   -

Music:
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Performance piece

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Fist

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1st Produced:
-    1999

Organisations:
Marc Rees / R.I.P.E (Rees International Projects Enterprise)

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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For Mountain, Sand And Sea

Synopsis:
What is it about the seaside that brings out the most unusual in people? Wales' leading exponent of contemporary performance and installation, Marc Rees, is bringing together a group of artists from around the world to create a multi sensory journey through a quirky Welsh seaside town. Barmouth's location on the west coast of Wales and lying between a mountain range and the sea on the mouth of the river Mawddach makes it arguably one of the most beautiful places in Wales. It rests just within the south west corner of Snowdonia National Park, and is steeped in a history rich with connections to the shipping and slate industries. However, as with so many similar seaside towns, over the summer months an influx of tourists from the Midlands and the North-West give way to a winter of harder times in Barmouth. Chapels on the main street have become Pound Shops', with cash registers in the pulpit and giant inflatable crocodiles hanging from the church organ. Making their base in one such chapel, Marc Rees' performers will take people on very unusual and unexpected guided tours of the town.

Notes:
conceived And created by Marc rees; creative collaborator Benedict Anderson

1st Produced:
In Barmouth, Wales    25 Jun 2010

Organisations:
National Theatre Wales

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Gloria Days

Synopsis:
Henry Cyril Paget, the fifth Marquess of Anglesey, bankrupted himself despite an annual income of £8m in today's money. He did so by frittering it on beautiful fripperies and useless extravagances - he even modified his car so the exhaust sprayed perfume - and was known as the Dancing Marquess. This is the detail that performance artist Marc Rees focuses on in this arresting and at times thrillingly sensual combination of dance, film and sound.
- Elisabeth Mahoney, Guardian

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Organisations:
RIPE

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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House Project, The

Synopsis:
A labyrinthine walk-in novel where the text is written on the walls, ceilings and floors of a domestic house and brought to life by an eclectic cast of some of Wales' most charismatic, innovative and diverse performers including actors from stage and screen poets, sonic artists and lap dancers. Staged in a deserted house only a minute's walk away from Chapter each night audiences will be invited to enter and wander through its spaces. the text is taken from the novel 7 Rooms, A Prologue, a Bridge and an afterward by Michael Toppings and the House Project was first presented by Toppings in Regina Saskatchewan in 2000.

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1st Produced:
Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Glamorgan    24 Mar 2004

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Iddo Ef

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1st Produced:
-    1995

Organisations:
Marc Rees / R.I.P.E (Rees International Projects Enterprise)

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Raw Material: Llareggub Revisited

Synopsis:
A re-imagining of the world of Under Milk Wood including a live/broadcast event in collaboration with BBC Cymru Wales. This live theatre experience will take us on a journey through Laugharne - the place that inspired Under Milk Wood, and 'the strangest town in Wales' according to Dylan Thomas himself. On foot, we will explore hidden and transformed spaces as we find Thomas's characters re-imagined on screen by some of Wales's most extraordinary and well-loved performers. As we go on our trail through the town, local townsfolk introduce us to the actions, habits and secrets that make today's Laugharne as curious and unique a place as it was when Thomas called it home.

Notes:
written by Marc Rees and Jon Tregenna after "Under Milk Wood" by Dylan Thomas

1st Produced:
Laugharne, Wales    03 May 2014

Organisations:
National Theatre Wales

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
live-art piece

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RevolUn

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written by Marc Rees And Benoît Lachambre

1st Produced:
-    2002

Organisations:
Marc Rees / R.I.P.E (Rees International Projects Enterprise)

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Shed Light

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    2004

Organisations:
Marc Rees / R.I.P.E (Rees International Projects Enterprise)

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Unknown Pleasures: Threshold

Synopsis:
Occupying a triangular site at the northern end of Swansea High Street, stands a three-storey Baroque red-brick building - a former Music Hall and Variety theatre that has played host to the likes of Charlie Chaplin, Lillie Langtry and Marie Lloyd (and a few less illustrious acts including the Monopeds - a troupe of one-legged acrobats!). the Palace theatre opened in 1888. It survived the blitz, became a temporary morgue, was the first venue in Wales to screen a silent movie, served as the setting of an Iris Gower trilogy and became a notorious gay nightclub in the early 80s. It is now sadly derelict and decaying. 120 years after its opening, we mark the occasion and draw attention to its fascinating past with a surreal homage that will re-examine and re-imagine its history. Interdisciplinary artist Marc Rees brings together two extraordinary performers and two brand new talents in a unique, strange and beguiling artwork. Threshold incorporates explorations from the dilapidated site; authentic artefacts; architectural musings; film footage; diary readings; decapitated Disco heads and adulterated high-energy dance anthems in an intriguing fusion of art installation and documentary-style performance.

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1st Produced:
The Riverfront, Newport, Gwent    02 Jun 2008

Organisations:
Volcano Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Willows III - Waiting for take off

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    2000

Organisations:
Marc Rees / R.I.P.E (Rees International Projects Enterprise)

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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