Traverse Announces Four Emerging Theatre Companies for Hothouse 2016

Local companies’ works in development to be presented in Traverse 2 Nov 8-11

Article Source: Traverse Theatre Company
Last Updated: 12 October 2016 15:31

Local companies’ works in development to be presented in Traverse 2 Nov 8-11.

Selected companies include artists from Brazil, Australia and Iceland, all resident in Edinburgh.

The Edinburgh-based theatre companies and performers who will present work at this year’s Traverse Hothouse showcase are announced today. They are Alice Cooper with Blue Cow, Black Dingo with Scribble, Brite Theatre with Can This Be Home and Fronteris Theatre Lab with Volante.

Though all four companies and artists are first-time Hothouse participants, three of the pieces presented share a thematic link around home and belonging.

The works, which are at various stages of their development, will play in Traverse 2 from 08 - 11 November. As part of their creative progress, audience input will be actively sought by the artists following their performances.

Since its inception in 1963, the Traverse has been focused on nurturing and developing talent; cultivating both emerging and established artists. Traverse Hothouse showcases home-grown, Edinburgh-based emerging theatre companies and artists, with Traverse 2 becoming a place where the selected companies can explore their work with an audience by sharing their newest creations at varying stages of development.

Traverse Engagement Manager Sunniva Ramsay said, “We are delighted to bring Traverse Hothouse back for its third year, welcoming four new companies and artists to the Traverse 2 stage. The Traverse aims that through Hothouse, Edinburgh based companies will be given a platform to explore, experiment and discover, in the supportive environment of Scotland’s leading new writing theatre. This year we are excited to welcome to Hothouse artists from Brazil, Australia and Iceland, who have made Edinburgh their home and base – and to celebrate the dynamism and diversity of exciting emerging voices within the Edinburgh cultural scene.”

About the companies

Tuesday 8th November: Fronterias Theatre Lab

Fronteiras Theatre Lab is an Edinburgh-based company focused on multicultural/multilingual theatre and international collaborations. They will present Volante - a piece in the early collaborative stages of development. Volante is the story of an Italian circus performer, Mariana Violante, an expert rope dancer in search of a new life after her husband’s accidental death. She moves to Edinburgh, a city she loved in her youth, and begins to teach dance. Her first private student, a young man named Douglas, is struggling to reconcile his sexuality with the demands of his very conservative and upwardly mobile family.

Wednesday 9 November: Alice Mary Cooper

Alice Cooper will perform Blue Cow - a performance piece about contamination. The show is a personal piece reflecting on what it means to be contaminated and partly based on a research report about people living on contaminated land sites. Alice Mary Cooper is a performer and theatre-maker from Sydney, Australia now living in Edinburgh. She is an Associate Artist with Imaginate, and recently finished a three month FST Assistant Director Bursary placement with Catherine Wheels Theatre Company.

Thursday 10 November: Brite Theatre

Brite Theatre is an independent theatre group especially interested in the liveness of theatre, deconstructing classics and devising and writing new work about today's world. They will bring Can This Be Home to the Traverse 2 stage, a piece about people's experiences of finding a home in Britain ahead of the EU referendum. It has previously been shown at Theatre Royal Plymouth as part of the Plymouth Fringe, as an excerpt at the Tron 100 Festival and at Over to EU at the Traverse. The verbatim piece ran before the referendum but will be reworked in light of the results and the confusion that has followed and the continual search for “home”.

Friday 11 November: Black Dingo

Black Dingo Productions is an Edinburgh based theatre company, who support Edinburgh’s emerging theatre talent and aims to bring affordable theatre to audiences. Theywill present a rehearsed reading of Andy Edwards’ Scribble, a play written during his attachment to Playwright’s Studio Scotland’s Mentoring Programme, supervised by Rob Drummond. Scribble is a play about what it means to have mental health right now. Shifting between monologue, dialogue and duologue, Scribble takes the largest concepts imaginable as a means to consider the smallest moments in individual histories, charting the writer’s experiences of OCD through the lifecycle of a supergiant star.

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