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• 40 word:
Three women locked away for their illicit loves. For years they re-live faltering memories amidst the drugs and brutality of the asylum. Visually stunning blend of physicality and text based on true stories. Genuinely funny and incredibly moving.
• 60 word:
Three women are locked away in the 1940's for their illicit loves. For decades they re-live their faltering memories amidst the drugs and brutality of the asylum. In the hospital's hair salon they seek solace, the radio and endings to their untold stories. Visually stunning blend of physicality and text based on true accounts. Genuinely funny and incredibly moving.
• 150 word:
Joy, Mary and Victoria are trying to remember their past and forget their present. Locked away as young women in a 1940's asylum they seek solace and friendship inside its hairdressing salon.
Here, as the radio plays the latest 80's hits, they re-live war-time affairs, illicit trysts and childhood secrets. With their recollections come strains of Glen Miller tunes and Rita Hayworth movies.
The discord of the asylum tells a different tale; ritual humiliation, forced drug experimentation and long, lonely nights. The story of each woman's struggle to survive incarceration results in three starkly contrasting endings.
The Idiot Colony was created after two years of research and interviews with former patients, mental health workers and hairdressers including those who lived and worked at St. Margaret's Hospital, Great Barr - known locally as The Idiot Colony.
RedCape use highly visual, physical theatre and nostalgic comedy to entertain and challenge their audiences.
Target Audience
• Physical theatre, visual theatre & live art, new writing attendees
• Mental Health Service users & professionals
• Women's groups e.g. The Women's Institute
• GCSE, A level & Degree level Theatre Studies & Drama students
• Older audiences with memories of the time period
Key Selling Points
• Based on research of real stories & testimonies of Mental Health Service users& professionals
• Untold British Women's stories dating from 1940's & 1950's
• Recent press coverage of similar stories - Times/Telegraph 29/09/07
• Set in a 1980's hairdressing salon. Set includes hood dryers, hairdressing action on stage
• Combining performer training of Jacques Lecoq, Elsa Gindler, indian martial art training of Kalaripyatt for teaching tools
• After show discussion/pre or post show workshops available (cost to be confirmed)
Materials
• E-flyer
• A5 or A6 leaflets
• A3 posters
• Show stills photography
• Broadcast quality show footage (EPK)
• 40 word:
Three women locked away for their illicit loves. For years they re-live faltering memories amidst the drugs and brutality of the asylum. Visually stunning blend of physicality and text based on true stories. Genuinely funny and incredibly moving.
• 60 word:
Three women are locked away in the 1940's for their illicit loves. For decades they re-live their faltering memories amidst the drugs and brutality of the asylum. In the hospital's hair salon they seek solace, the radio and endings to their untold stories. Visually stunning blend of physicality and text based on true accounts. Genuinely funny and incredibly moving.
• 150 word:
Joy, Mary and Victoria are trying to remember their past and forget their present. Locked away as young women in a 1940's asylum they seek solace and friendship inside its hairdressing salon.
Here, as the radio plays the latest 80's hits, they re-live war-time affairs, illicit trysts and childhood secrets. With their recollections come strains of Glen Miller tunes and Rita Hayworth movies.
The discord of the asylum tells a different tale; ritual humiliation, forced drug experimentation and long, lonely nights. The story of each woman's struggle to survive incarceration results in three starkly contrasting endings.
The Idiot Colony was created after two years of research and interviews with former patients, mental health workers and hairdressers including those who lived and worked at St. Margaret's Hospital, Great Barr - known locally as The Idiot Colony.
RedCape use highly visual, physical theatre and nostalgic comedy to entertain and challenge their audiences.
Target Audience
• Physical theatre, visual theatre & live art, new writing attendees
• Mental Health Service users & professionals
• Women's groups e.g. The Women's Institute
• GCSE, A level & Degree level Theatre Studies & Drama students
• Older audiences with memories of the time period
Key Selling Points
• Based on research of real stories & testimonies of Mental Health Service users& professionals
• Untold British Women's stories dating from 1940's & 1950's
• Recent press coverage of similar stories - Times/Telegraph 29/09/07
• Set in a 1980's hairdressing salon. Set includes hood dryers, hairdressing action on stage
• Combining performer training of Jacques Lecoq, Elsa Gindler, indian martial art training of Kalaripyatt for teaching tools
• After show discussion/pre or post show workshops available (cost to be confirmed)
Materials
• E-flyer
• A5 or A6 leaflets
• A3 posters
• Show stills photography
• Broadcast quality show footage (EPK)
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