Fierce Festival 2008
21 May - 1 June 2008
Theatre Spaces
Unconventional
Public Spaces
After a decade of stop-you-in-your-tracks live art events and performances FIERCE the much loved international arts festival is trailblazing once more giving you, the audience, the power to programme your own festival!
Twenty-four live art performances have been shortlisted by Fierce but only nine of them will feature in the Fierce! Festival itself. You now need to vote for the performances you most want to see live. It’s free!
The twenty four shortlisted acts are divided equally into three venue categories – Conventional Theatres, Public Places and Unconventional Spaces. Fierce have reserved a range of spaces. You decide what goes in them.
So how does it work?
Read the artist pitches here and on the My Fierce Festival website
Choose your top three performances and vote! (one act for each venue category)
Help is at hand with a leader board; vote tactically to ensure your favorite acts make the final cut!
From 7th April shows with the least votes will be eliminated each day, the most popular shows will then be performed LIVE during Fierce Festival at venues across the West Midlands 23rd – 26th May.
Fierce! International Performance Arts Festival, featuring My Fierce Festival takes place from 21 May 2008 to 1 June 2008.
Go to the Fierce Festival web site to vote
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Theatre Spaces
Atomic
A low-fi lip-sync spectacular, featuring Blondie’s greatest hits and puppets!
Atomic Productions
'Picture This'. New Jersey, 1979: a young woman attempts to vanquish her dark roots and become a true 'Platinum Blonde'. She encounters 'Denis' Dubois, photographer to the stars – who 'rolls her in designer sheets' and 'covers her with love'.
I Told It To A Mannequin
Want to get something off your chest, it's good to talk to plastic people
Francesca Millican-Slater and Lindsey Price
Let loose to a plastic person and become a writer and collaborator of a piece created from words that you wish you had said but never did. ‘I Told It To A Mannequin’ makes you participant, patient and protagonist in an opportunity to get those words off your chest.
In My Father’s House
A Celebration of the Plum. A Preparation for Death. Cheers
Kindle Theatre
Curious and comic, ‘In My Father's House’ explores the relationship of four women to their Father, father, lover and son. The women invite you to join them in their daily service, celebrating life and preparing for death.
Love Song Dedication
Seamless and bracing performance poetry about being in and falling out of love.
Rosie Dennis
A bracing hybrid poetry performance about being in and out of love, mixing movement and text to create a deceptively simple and evocative work. It is a fragile, raw and compelling exploration of the ordinariness of love.
Playing The Victim
The nightmare of male violence or the beauty of one woman’s pleasure?
Switch
Based on true events, ‘Playing The Victim’ is an intense performance piece which asks what it means when something disgusts or terrifies us, what first appears to be a nightmarish exploration of male violence is revealed as the beauty of one woman’s pleasure.
Post-Show
The performers rush onstage for a post-show discussion - the only problem, the audience have never seen the show?
Kettle Of Fish
You’re late!!! You have missed your friend’s big performance, but have made it in time for the post-show discussion. This means you’ve got forty minutes to work out what happened in the show. Can you blag it?
The Bald Soprano
An explosion of absurdity and Englishness
Oval House Youth Theatre
If you thought Eugene Ionesco’s play ‘The Bald Soprano’ couldn't make any less sense, prepare to be impressed! This high-octane production explores Ionesco's perceptions of Englishness making use of eight different languages plus dance and stage combat.
Whisper
WHISPER about how we see and what we hear
Proto-Type Theatre
Three performers activate a live world as audience members listen on headphones. A visually decadent, aurally immersive performance that asks the audience to question what is real in a world of increasing technological sophistication.
Public Spaces
B1 Labyrinths
A guided tour of the city centre where actors mingle with crowds and audiences find dramas in neglected alleyways
Needless Allies
One city. Six performers. Countless characters. Multiple directions. All beginning whilst travelling on a bicycle, Familiar places will be made unfamiliar, landmarks turned inside out, forgotten places will be brought centre stage.
I Scream Van Of Horror
Come inside at dusk to short scary movies, Shock Ices and Knickerbocker Gories.
Fuse
Arriving at a street corner near you with its eerie chimes and its Hansel and Gretel façade, the ‘I Scream Van Of Horror’ offers the delights of Shock Ices, Knickerbocker Gories and a programme of short scary movies.
Impulse Response
Step into a slightly spacey world, anything can happen, what just happened?
Unearthed Performance
An interactive performance installation based on an ecosystem involving live dance, video projection and electronic music, the audience is invited to move through and within the installation and see what changes they can trigger.
It Sank With The Shape Of Us
Can a space be charged with the energy of a relationship?
A multimedia installation set in a small box dressed like a living room, with a distinct smell and the impression that someone has not long departed. What happens when a voice asks you all the questions they want to and all the things they shouldn’t?
Let’s Brumba!
A glitzy dance-a-thon -through the city's hotspots, the ‘Brumba’
Miss High Leg Kick and Boogaloo Stu
Put down your shopping and enjoy this brief encounter, this is one visually arresting and show-stopping act that will probably stop traffic too. Miss High Leg Kick and Boogaloo Stu’s interpret the classic Latin American rumba. A non-stop dance-a-thon from dawn until dusk.
Pacman Plus
Blurring the lines between video games and real life…
Pete O’Donnell / Joy Armitage
Ever wondered what it would be like to control someone, be totally under control, or even be a ghost for the afternoon. In a homage to this retro classic become Trapped in a physical manifestation of a virtual world.
The Fête Encounter
Roll up, step inside, dance a jig! … Who will you meet at The Fête Encounter?
Various artists
They’re waiting for you and they want you to step into their world, expect chocolates, ethical bear baiting, a door wonderland, Punch and Judy, a ukulele ceilidh and bunting during a unique carnivalesque experience.
Human Contact
A musician's naked body is covered with freeform motifs to music
Lucy McLauchlan
Using skin as a temporary canvas Human Contact explores the notion of ownership of artwork, the images created are personal, one of a kind artworks but what value do they hold if they can't be sold?
Unconventional Spaces
Berlin Cabaret Ballroom Dance
Spectacular transformation performances and live dance music with ballroom dancing Bridge Markland / Jerry Jenkins & His Band Of Angels
Jerry Jenkins & his Band of Angels play their wonderful fresh and lively mix of music including romantic waltz and tango, rumba and cha-cha for swinging hips, pulsating jive, polka to carry you away and crazy twist that shakes the walls.
Consuming (In)Dependency
The Art of Cooking: Guilt, Power, Pain and Dependency
Biggi Stiller
The art of cooking and issues of guilt, power, pain and dependency are explored where the audience end up cooking a meal for artist Biggi Stiller. However, Biggi suffers from food intolerances and allergies, which pushes her to stick to a restricted diet.
Footwashing For The Sole
During the course of our lifetimes our feet take a real punishing
Adrian Howells
Performance artist Adrian Howells will tenderly wash feet, anointing and massage them with an expensive and fragrant oil, and finally maybe being allowed to kiss them.
The Art Of Love(war)
Very practical advice in 'making love not war' is performed
Áine Phillips
Presented as a witty public address with video art projections, the performance plays with the paradox of 'war with love' and explains how to make love not war, whilst also revealing how acts of destruction and bloodshed can be recreated in affairs of the heart.
The Divine Edgar
Maybe the only way to understand premature burial is to experience it …
Film Ficciones
Drawing on elements of Victorian horror, fairground rides and immersive film ‘The Divine Edgar’ is a short, sharp assault on the senses. Led by lamplight towards a large black coffin guarded by grave diggers - the real show begins…
The Moment Before We Kiss
"I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them." - Mae West
Michael David Jones
In ‘The Moment Before We Kiss’Michael David Jones offers strangers the chance to savour with him the moment before the first kiss. Before their lips touch, they both must stop and hold this moment.
‘Til Death Do You Part – Marry Yourself
Why love, honor and cherish someone else? Marry yourself --
L. Gabrielle Penabaz / The House of St. Eve
Whether you’re waiting for the right person, already married, or just frustrated with the institution of marriage itself, ‘’Til Death Do You Part – Marry Yourself’ lets you create your own personal wedding ceremony for joyful celebration.
UGLY (-) Natural Order versus (ou)R-DNA
A Live Art experiment examining the parameters of flesh, liberties, ethics and government
Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney
The audience are invited to a secluded location to determine the new human species from selective breeding, societal inception, scientific intervention, biotechnology and the genome culture.
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