LANWest Endorsed

A selection of new work, endorsed by LANWest members and colleagues – no longer emergent but ready to go, with the quality mark of a recommendation from one or more of the region’s key promoters or producers.

nb: scroll to the bottom of the page for each show to “comments” for details of promoter endorsements.

Levantes Dance Theatre

Room Temperature Romance

  • Type of work/venue/location: Mid, black box, dance floor
  • Available to tour: Autumn 2010

Choreographed and Performed by Eleni Edipidi and Bethanie Harrison Multimedia Design by Gopan Iyadurai Lighting Design by Kristina Hjelm This charming story is about the moments that mean nothing and everything in life’s [more…]

Room Temperature Romance

Simon Bowes/Kings of England

Where We Live and What We Live For

  • Type of work/venue/location: Small, black box
  • Available to tour: From now

“Where We Live and What We Live For” is a series of narrations and little performances by Peter and Simon Bowes; a meditation on the complex and changeable relationship between [more…]

Where We Live and What We Live For

Proto-type Theater

Virtuoso (working title)

  • Type of work/venue/location: Small, black box
  • Available to tour: From now

Using live video, miniature figurines and a hypnotic soundscape, Virtuoso(working title) ruminates on love, home and perfection. Proto-type Theater will present the world premiere of Virtuoso (working title) on 22 April [more…]

Virtuoso (working title)
  • Type of work/venue/location: Small to mid range,
  • Available to tour: Autumn 2009

“I made you a submarine reminds me that contemporary performance does not always have to be cold and unmoving, but can insist on a mode of emotional contemplation and experiential [more…]

I Made You A Submarine
  • Type of work/venue/location: Small, Any space/site BUT requires total blackout
  • Available to tour: On request

Astounding. A blessing. Moving. Emotional. Challenging. Entertaining. Stimulating. Perfectly written. Angry. Peaceful. Beginning middle and beautiful end. I wish it never did. Lemn Sissay, poet. A journey in the dark [more…]

something a taxi driver in Liverpool said…

Quarantine

Susan & Darren

  • Type of work/venue/location: Small, black box, studio
  • Available to tour: For one-off-gigs

An ‘event with dancing’, Susan & Darren was created with and performed by Darren Pritchard of Company Fierce and his mum, Susan. Audiences are invited to help Susan and Darren [more…]

Susan & Darren

Pigeon Theatre

The Rehearsal: A Trilogy

  • Type of work/venue/location: Small, site specific, bar
  • Available to tour: From Spring 2008

The Rehearsal (a trilogy) Performed live in the bar! (Beer provided) Three shows available for touring from Spring 2008 In a bar at the end of a long night’s drinking two [more…]

The Rehearsal: A Trilogy

Forecast Dance

Wordsolos

  • Type of work/venue/location: Small, studio theatres - sprung floor
  • Available to tour: From Autumn 08

Wordsolos is a thoughtful reflection on childhood, ageing, place and possibility performed by a thirty four year old woman and an eight year old girl. This rich fusion of dance [more…]

Wordsolos

Companions of Pram

The Trampoline Orchestra

  • Type of work/venue/location: Small scale, black box or studio theatre performance
  • Available to tour: Autumn 2008

The Trampoline Orchestra are holding a concert that presents a selection of songs, routines and poetry expounding the art Musical Trampolining. All are welcome. Developed in September 2007 as Hammer [more…]

The Trampoline Orchestra

Levantes Dance Theatre

Gin & Satsumas

  • Type of work/venue/location: Small scale, Black box/dance space
  • Available to tour: From January 2008

“Bethanie and Eleni submerge us in a world which glorifies normality and sends the imagination loopy. Gin & Satsumas is the story of gin and a lot of satsumas.” Artistic Director: [more…]

Gin & Satsumas