lost & found [or the friend we never knew]

  • Show duration: 45 mins
  • Number in company: 2
  • Type of work/venue/location: Small, black box
  • Available to tour: From October 2007

We’re here to tell you a story. Emma wants it to be a fairy tale. Chris wants it to be a gangster movie.

This is the story of two people who can’t remember how it all began. A quiet journey through the night, through the city, through the hills. A remapping of a handful of distant memories. A Cat Stevens song plays quietly in the background.

Written and performed by Emma Buck & Chris Williams, this contemporary performance piece charts the journey of two naively optimistic dreamers as they set out in search of the friend they never knew.

lost and found [or the friend we never knew] will next be performed as part of Mayfest, at the Tobacco Factory, Bristol

www.mayfestbristol.co.uk

“Touching and emotional… took me to a place I didn’t expect to visit today” (Audience member,  In Transit Autumn 07)

Drunken Chorus

Drunken Chorus are Chris Williams and Emma Buck. Chris and Emma have been making work together for the past 18 months. The Company’s work ranges from installation to site-based performance, from theatre pieces to durational works, and is concerned with retelling and remapping stories and journeys. Thematically, the work often explores Chris and Emma’s own relationship to each other and their surroundings through the use of metaphor.

Their previous show, ‘lost & found [or the friend we never knew]’, was commissioned by Manchester’s greenroom as part of Method Lab 2007, and toured in Autumn 2007 and Spring 2008 as part of In Transit.

They are currently developing a new show, how to be a screen goddess (in the darkness of outer space) - a hilarious romp through the history of civilisation and the rise of the silver screen. Having recently shown a ‘work in progress’ at an International theatre festival in Poland, the company have now developed the work into a finished performance for Enterprise ‘08, at The Space in London’s Isle of Dogs. ‘how to be a screen goddess…’ addresses the highs and lows of being a female movie icon, exploring her role within popular culture, her role within a male dominated industry, her role within a society obsessed with appearance, fixated by beauty, gripped by the fear of being alone in the icy blackness of space.

Diary Dates

Tue 4th March

In Transit, Alsager

Alsager Arts Centre

Wed 5th March

In Transit, Lancaster

Nuffield Theatre Lancaster

Mon 10th March

In Transit, Leeds

Leeds Met Studio

Wed 12th March

In Transit, Preston

University of Central Lancashire

Fri 14th March

In Transit, Carlisle

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One comment on “lost & found [or the friend we never knew]”

  1. Tamsin Drury says:

    Endorsed by:
    Neil MacKenzie, Alsager Arts Centre, n.k.mackenzie@mmu.ac.uk

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