Stand + Stare Collective

Please Help Us Take The Guild of Cheesemakers to Edinburgh

Barney — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:27:37 +0000

We are very excited to be taking The Guild of Cheesemakers to the Edinburgh Festival and have managed to secure a wonderful venue called Summerhall, which will be hosting the show for five nights in August. www.summerhall.co.uk

We need to raise some money to make this possible, and wondered whether you can help? There are two ways in which you can do this:

1. Buy tickets for an exclusive fundraising preview performance at Mayfest, where there will also be a special raffle with mouth-watering prizes.
2. Make a donation, however small, via our PayPal account or by contacting us directly.

Buying Tickets

Fundraising Preview Performance:
Date: Thursday 24^th May 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Location: St Thomas The Martyr, St Thomas Street, Bristol. BS1 6JJ
Ticket price: £20, available from the Tobacco Factory box office 0117 902 0344.

If you can’t make it to the preview there are performances on Fri 25^th May (7.30pm), Sat 26^th May (3pm + 7.30pm). Tickets also available from the Tobacco Factory box office.

To find more info follow this link http://mayfestbristol.co.uk/mayfest2012_event/the-guild-of-cheesemakers/

Making a Donation

We really appreciate all of you who have supported Stand + Stare since our first show in 2009 at the Old Boys Club in Nailsworth, and thank the community of friends we have gathered along the way. Taking this show to Edinburgh is an exciting opportunity for us to showcase our work on an international platform and we appeal to you to help make this possible.

We need to raise a total of £3000, please see a breakdown of these costs below.

Registration and inclusion in Fringe Festival Programme £200
Travel £500
Accommodation £1000
Food for the company £800
Marketing £500

To donate via PayPal please follow the link below (please note that 2.2% will go to paypal), or contact us directly at info@standandstare.com

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=9998DHGFXZPK8

Please get in touch if you want any more information.

Guild of Cheesemakers – Mayfest, 25th + 26th May 2012

Barney — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 10:58:50 +0000

Catch The Guild of Cheesemakers next at Bristol’s Mayfest – 25th May 7.30pm and 26th May 3pm + 7.30pm. Tickets can be bought through the Tobacco Factory Box Office by calling 0117 902 0344.
(There may also be an additional performance on 24th May, 7.30pm. This will be a special fundraiser to raise funds to take the show to the Edinburgh Festival this summer. More details to follow.)

The newly developed show directed by Emma Callander was a recent sell out at the Barbican Theatre in Plymouth, our cheese expert, Philip Stansfield was last years winner of the Best World Cheese award for his Cornish Blue from the Cornish Cheese Company. This was a really lively evening where the audience/guild members thoroughly immersed themselves in the unfolding drama of 198 while enjoying the delicious cheeses, wine and bread.

Do not leave it to the last minute to buy tickets as numbers are limited and already selling for fast.

Ali’s Blog #8. Stop Look and Listen

Barney — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:49:41 +0000

I have just been listening to some of the conversations on the ‘Listening Project’, intimate conversations recorded for broadcast by the BBC which will be archived in the British Library for future generations to give unique glimpses of life today. I was totally engaged by these human stories, their very ordinariness making them all the more relevant and poignant.

The Mass Observation Archive has been recording moments in the lives of people in Britain since the 1930′s, this work is ongoing and gives a fascinating insight into how are world has changed but also how the things that matter to people are much the same.

Stand and Stare with support from the Arts Council are currently working with the Mass Observation Archive to develop some of the stories to be presented via Theatre Jukebox at Future Everything Festival in Manchester and Mayfest in Bristol.

Theatre Jukebox presents these stories 0n a new digital canvas. The technology is concealed within a beautifully crafted ‘bureau’ made by Jo Lathwood where the participant can sit comfortably and enjoy an intimate moment.

These are exciting times and in some ways new technology gives us the chance to listen more, not less……..

You can immerse yourself in the Theatre Jukebox at any of the events listed below:
Future Everything, Manchester, The Museum of Science and Industry
16th-19th May http://future everything.org/

Mayfest, Bristol, Old Vic and Mayfest Cafe (31 College Green)
21st-27th May http://mayfestbristol.co.uk

SITE Festival, Stroud, The Goods Shed,
28th April to 30th May http://www.sitefestival.org.uk/
Please note that the Jukebox presented at SITE will not display the Mass Observation project, but another based on the artists family archive.

Successful Arts Council Grant + New promo vid for Theatre Jukebox

Barney — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:59:50 +0000

We have been successful with our Arts Council England, Grants For The Arts application to develop Theatre Jukebox. This film shows the existing curation, but we are currently working with the Mass Observation Archive to build and develop two brand new Jukeboxes. They will premier at Future Everything in Manchester before moving down to Bristol’s Mayfest. The work explores how universal truths and our national identity are sometimes best revealed through the mundane and the particular.

Throughout May the existing Jukebox will be at SITE Festival in Stroud. This curation is an autobiographical story based on a box of family records belonging to Lucy and Barney’s family (The Heywoods).

- Future Everything, Manchester. 16th – 19th May.
- Mayfest, Bristol. 21st – 22nd May.
- SITE Festival, Stroud. 1st – 30th May.

Guild of Cheesemakers – 27th + 28th Jan, Chelt SOLD OUT

Barney — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:00:22 +0000

Over the last few months Stand + Stare have been re-developing The Guild of Cheesemakers in preparation for a tour later in the year. The first showing of the newly developed piece will be on 27th and 28th January at a secret location in Cheltenham. For those of you who haven’t got a ticket, it has unfortunately already sold out. It will however be coming to a town near you in the coming months. Check back for updates.

The piece was originally presented as part of Mayfest and SITE 2011 and has since been awarded an Arts Council Development Grant. It has also been supported by Parabola Learning Curve, Theatre Gloucestershire, Woefuldane’s Dairy, Hobbs House Bakery and Avery’s Wine Merchants.

Ali’s Blog # 7 – strong cheese and mild weather

Barney — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:14:44 +0000

In the Parlour a year on it feels really lived in with people coming and going and lots of work going on, some new faces and more than twenty people using the building. Looking out on college green is always changing and fascinating, this morning The Red Maid’s School paraded passed in their red coats and bonnets the older girls in neat black coats with red roses in their lapels then around Occupy Bristol. So much pageantry around the protest camp making the scene very thought provoking.

Stand and Stare is busy having received a Research and Development grant from the Arts Council to develop the Guild of Cheesemakers with a view to a tour in 2012.

If you missed this sumptuous and and beguiling show there will be the chance to see and taste it on 27th (confirmed) and 28th (tbc) January 2012 in Cheltenham following a scratch event on the 29th November at the Parabola Arts Centre, see their listings for details. Parabola Arts Centre

Theatre Jukebox is an arcade style cabinet which delivers stories to a max of 2 people at a time and uses RFID technology (oyster card technology) to create audio and visual surprises. Lucy and Barney continue to work on this at the Pervasive Media Studio which has moved into a new space at the Watershed.

If you are interested in finding out more and would like to see the Jukebox in action then do get in touch. We have used material from our family archive to develop the first curation for Theatre Jukebox and presented it at Bristol Old Vic ‘Ferment’ , Battersea Arts Centre ‘Freshly Scratched’, PAC Cheltenham and The Roses Tewkesbury. The Jukebox is a canvas in which an endless source of stories and information can be painted. There are exciting plans to use it with the Mass Observation Archive as part of ‘Future Everything’ in Manchester and Mayfest next year, as well as a number of other projects.

If you are in New York before the end of December 2011 our film ‘The End‘ is showing as part of an international touring exhibition called ‘Home and Away’, at the ISE Cultural Foundation in Lower Manhattan. This is a short film we made in 2009 about an old man with foreign accent syndrome - ISE Cultural Foundation

3D audio trail for The Roses Theatre

Barney — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:09:19 +0000

Stand + Stare have created a 3D audio trail for the Roses Theatre in Tewkesbury. Peel back the layers of time and discover the stories and memories lurking below the Theatre’s surface.

Participants are given an MP3 player containing 5 audio tracks. Each track is recorded using a 3D sound technique and designed to be listened to whilst in a particular location within the theatre. Dotted around the building are numbers (see photos below) that correspond to the MP3 track numbers, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Participants should listen to Track 1 first in the foyer. They are then free to explore the theatre looking for the other numbers. It does not matter in which order tracks 2, 3, 4, and 5 are listened to.

To hear the tracks please follow this link http://soundcloud.com/theatretracks/sets/theatre-tracks-the-roses-1/

Theatre Jukebox at BAC 13th Oct, 7pm

Barney — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:52:09 +0000

Our latest project, Theatre Jukebox, will be part of Freshly Scratched at Battersea Arts Centre next thursday evening (13th Oct) from 7pm.

It’s pay what you can and there should be loads of other interesting work going on too.

Here’s a link to some info about Freshly Scratched at BAC http://www.bac.org.uk/whats-on/freshly-scratched/

and heres’s one to some info about the Jukebox http://www.standandstare.com/projects/theatre-jukebox/

“Imagine a Jukebox that plays stories instead of records, and allows you to choose the chapters you want. Stand + Stare have already imagined such a machine.”
D-Shed, Bristol

Red Dog Theatre’s production of ‘The House of Bernarda Alba’

Barney — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:46:38 +0000

Red Dog are currently in rehearsals for their new production of Lorca’s ‘House of Bernarda Alba’. Barney from Stand + Stare is working with them to create some film and animation elements to compliment the design of the show. It will be touring from 27th September until the begging of November (see details below). Check it out if you get a chance.

Lorca’s ‘The House of Bernarda Alba’

“We have eight years of mourning now and not a breath of air will be allowed in from the street. The doors and windows may as well be bricked up, do you hear?”
But nothing can stop the growing tide of desire of Bernarda Alba’s five daughters.As the frustrated tension mounts, each holds onto their longings, jealousies and hopes for the attention of the virile Pepe Romano, promised in marriage to one of them.

Following their successful tour and London run with Naomi Wallace’s ‘One Flea Spare’ Red Dog now brings Federico Garcia Lorca’s final masterpiece The House of Bernarda Alba’ to the stage in a new adaption by Kate Littlewood. In the 75th anniversary year of Lorca’s death this is a stunning theatrical journey into the imagination of a great poetic writer, a theatre giant at the height of his powers.

This production is touring nationally and we hope to see you at one of our local performances:

Foyer Arts, Stroud September 27th – October 8th at 7.30pm Book online or 01453 840021
The Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter October 11th – October 15th at 7.30pm Book online or 01392 667080
St-Thomas-the-Martyr, Bristol November 1st – November 5th 7.00pm Book online or email us
The Everyman Studio, Cheltenham November 8th – November 12th at 7.45pm Book online or 01242 572573

Integrating acting, design and animation this promises to be an extraordinary piece of theatre. It is also ideal for GCSE/A Level students, performing arts/drama students and particularly students interested in art and textiles as costumes are designed by Corinne Hockley.. Please contact Groups for school bookings and workshops The play is suitable for 14+. Performance time 90 minutes

The Creative Team

The Cast

Jude Emmet- Bernarda Alba/Magdalena
Kim Hicks – Poncia
Kate Abraham- Matirio/Prudencia
Saskia Portway- Angustias/Magdalena/servant
Amy Enticknap – Adela/Beggar woman/Amelia

Testimonial

“Red Dog Theatre Company’s production of One Flea Spare is one of the best I ‘ve seen and in certain particulars, it is the best. The show is sensual, gritty, inventive and intense. What a joy it is to see my work produced to such high standards: impeccably acted, and directed with such vitality as to knock your socks off” Naomi Wallace, playwright
“It’s rich and dense, but never less than compelling in a revival that boasts some fine performances” 4**** The Guardian
“Sue Colverd’s gutsy, sexy production veritably whiffs of seventeenth-century London, enhanced by the alluringly raggedy, circular design of Corinne Hockley and Davy McGuire’s elegant video art.”Time Out

Follow Red Dog

If you are on twitter follow us on @RedDogCompany.

www.reddog.org.uk

Theatre Jukebox at Bristol Old Vic 20th – 23rd July

Barney — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:40:51 +0000

For the last six weeks Stand + Stare has been at The Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol developing a new project called Theatre Jukebox. It reinterprets the original arcade machine and combines it with interactive theatre, to create a unique new canvas that delivers mini stories and experiences. It is still in it’s prototype stage, but we would love to invite you to come and have a go and let us know what you think.

It will be part of Ferment at The Bristol Old Vic from Wednesday 20th to Saturday 23rd July (this week), from 6 – 10pm. You can find us in the Foyer.

There is no need to book and it takes between 5 and 20 mins (depending on how long you want to spend with it). It seats up to two people at any one time.