This week Rosie goes underground to chat with Alexander Parsonage about: Finger in the Pie; Quitting Art School; Conceptual, Philosophical, Political; The Bollocks Myth of the Lone Genius; Hooked on Directing; KneeHigh Theatre and Magic; Bleed the University Dry; Post-University Company in Crisis; The Great Tragedy of English Theatre Education; Unhealthy Actor Lifestyle; External Revenue Source; Space and Time is Precious; Overnight Success in Cabaret; Good Direction Versus Terrible Direction; Theatre of Cold Backstage Brutality; Backing a Good Horse; Overnight Success to Overnight Flop; Threats of Litigation Lead to Breakthroughs; Publication Confusion; Cabaret =/= Theatre or Standup; The Bubble Hasn't Burst; Big Cabaret Umbrella; How Do We Survive??; European Models, Money and Barriers; International Embarrassment and Value; Low Pay No Pay and How Do We Celebrate Good Collaboration?; The Myth of the Producer; Theatre Makers = Entrepreneurs; Day Job Stigma; English Theatre is the Best in the World; Not Interested in Politics; Effective Political Voice for the Arts; Theatre About Emotion; Concurrent Realities; What Makes it All Worth It.
About Alexander:
Alexander is an award winning theatre director and co-founder of Finger
in the Pie. He has worked extensively in clown, mime, visual theatre,
puppetry and cabaret. His clown production – Sweeney Todd: His Life, Times and Execution! was shortlisted for a Total Theatre Award in 2009 and his follow up production Waiting for Stanley was
listed in the top 10 best reviewed shows of Edinburgh 2012. He is
currently working on the Mimetic Festival 2014. Alexander
trained in theatre creation at the London International School of
Performing Arts (LISPA) a Lecoq based pedagogy in London.
Website: http://www.fingerinthepie.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fingerinthepie
Twitter:https://twitter.com/fingerinthepie
Mimetic: http://mimeticfest.com/
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Inspiring and inspired human performance tornado Rubyyy Jones hashes it out with Rosie this week on SO MANY TOPICS! They are: Fluid Performance Artistry; Compartmentalised Training; Six Hundred Applicants, Thirty Places; Triple Threats and Triple Pirouettes; Peers Are Teachers Too; Christmas Graduates and Cocaine; Segregated From the World; Smash Your Own Space!; You Can Do What You Want in Cabaret As Long As It's Considered; Career By Numbers; PrePrepared Life in the UK (Kinda); Seeing ALL of Canada... Seeing Too Much of Canada; Know Your Enemy a.k.a Being an Agent; Sad in a Gorgeous Appartment; Not a Nun Kinda Gal; Finding Your Voice(Over); Finding Your Written Voice; Pressure to be a Yes Man; Sticking to Your Guns and Being Willful; Sexual Awakenings Through Celibacy; Masturbation for SCIENCE; Falling in Love With Your Body; Expectations Surrounding Sex; A Force of Nature; LAZER TORNADO!; Living Too Much as Your Persona; Save Rubyyy Jones; Conversations With the Universe; Critique Sandwich; Tournament of Tease; Not Limited by Personal Brand; Cabatheatre; English Breakfast Bathroom; Slow and Steady; Barter Systems; Safe Stages and Winning People Over.
About Rubyyy
Rubyyy
Jones is an all singing, dancing, stripping force of nature! A big fat
fabulous queer Canadian with an extensive theatre and dance background
she has been smashing up the cabaret scene for the last four years as a
solo artist, compere, writer, activist, choreographer and mentor. An
award winning performer, ranked Top 20 in the UK in 21st Century
Burlesque list 2014, and an innovative producer, profiled in The Sunday
Times Magazine, Rubyyy brings her brand of love, lust and light with
flare, glitter and fight.
Website: www.rubyyyjones.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rubyyy-Jones/178244772234173
Twitter: www.twitter.com/rubyyyjones
Mimetic Festival: http://www.mimeticfest.com/events/event/save-rubyyy-jones/
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Rosie sits down with Pi the Mime and his translator, Alexander Luttley, to talk about many mimey topics: Multiple Mimes; Not a Biochemist; Learning Multiple Mime Styles; No Hablo Espanol; The Only Discipline With No Words; Mimetic Proposals; Making a Show Quickly; All the Mimes; Multiple Mime Disorder; Mime Gender and Moving Around; Who Are You Sleeping With?; Labels Labels Labels; Expectations and Individuality; Powerful Labels or Restrictive Labels; Tribal, Social Animals Called Humans; Too Much Focus on Labels; Being Bad at Expected Behaviours; The Circle; All Lesbians Carry Lighters; The Gender-Bending, Burlesque Dancing Mime and the Catholic Priest; Accidental Gender Comments; Assumptions; Playing with Ideas and Cabaret Roulette (again!!); Arguing with Pi; Improv With Yourself; The Triangle; Kinsey, Scales and Volume Control; The Best Identity Crisis Ever; Cabaret is the Best; What Happened to Fun?; Exploration and Failure; Finger in the Pie; Performance Course with Pi; Carpeted Stages and Mime Murder; Audience Interaction Gets Cheeky.
About Pi the Mime:
Pi the Mime steps
straight out of internationally trained performance artist Alexander
Luttley’s imagination and onto any stage that’ll have him. Combining
mime, clown, various forms of dance, circus and burlesque, Pi and the
mimes have burst onto the scene with a full length production and a
variety of sketches that have appeared all across the UK Cabaret and
Theatre scene. As they approach a year and a half they also embark on a
journey as ‘teachers’, combining Luttley’s wealth of training with what
has become the recognisable Pi the mime style. With a passion for
performance and an avid interest in fighting the restricitions of social
labels upon the individual, Luttley and Pi look forward to popping up
more often, and returning with Award Winning Production – Un Cas de
Nostalgie – at Mimetic Festival 2014 in The Vaults (from 20th – 28th
November 9:50pm).
