WORLD PREMIERE

NEW DIRECTIONS 2010
The Gate Theatre and Headlong Theatre present

LULU

FRANK WEDEKIND

ADAPTED AND DIRECTED BY ANNA LEDWICH

10 June - 10 July 2010

Who are you?
How far are you prepared to go?
What are you prepared to become?

Initially banned for its perceived immorality, LULU follows the fortunes and ultimate tragedy of a young woman, a femme-fatale, who skips from one husband to the next leaving a trail of broken hearts and broken bodies in her wake.

“This ongoing collaboration between the Gate and Headlong confirms both as invaluable agents of experiment and intelligent innovation”
TIME OUT on New Directions 2009

Wedekind drew inspiration from circus and variety to create a play that would entertain, thrill and shock. This provocative new production revels in the danger of fatal, decadent desires, harnessing the raw power and precariousness of sexuality to unmask the LULU enigma.

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Video Trailer
Rehearsal Gallery

Director Anna Ledwich
Design Helen Goddard
Music Alex Silverman
Lighting Emma Chapman
Sound Carolyn Downing
Movement Georgina Lamb

Cast Sean Campion, Michael Colgan, Paul Copley, Caroline Faber,
          Jack Gordon, Sinead Matthews

    
(L-R: Sean Campion, Michael Colgan, Paul Copley, Caroline Faber, Jack Gordon, Sinead Matthews)

MONDAY – SATURDAY 7.30pm | SATURDAY MATINEE 3.00pm
TALKBACKS 22 June & 8 July

  Audio Described Performance
  3 July at 3.00pm (Touch Tour at 2.00pm)

  Captioned Performance
  8 July at 7.30pm

Image © Benjamin Badyk
www.benjaminbadyk.com

From the feverish fantasies of Powell & Pressburger working with Jack Cardiff (The Red Shoes), the psychological shadings of Bertolucci and Vittorio Storaro (The Conformist), the political pop-artistry of Godard and Raoul Coutard (Pierrot le Fou) and the emotional expression of Nicholas Ray’s, Rebel Without a Cause, the ICA celebrates classic filmmakers who took colour on screen to new depths.

Korte Metten

• klein / kort / hevig werk

Stimulated by Joëlle Tuerlinckx, the master students from École de Recherche Graphique (ERG) worked out a rapid series of solo exhibitions in établissements d’en face, within the course of ten consecutive days, with an average rate of two previews per day. This scenario implies constant overlaps, links and gaps between the individual presentations created. These unexpected moments are the basis for their exhibition in Netwerk.

Trailer Prévues/Preview from erg.

Christoph Schlingensief was born in 1960 in Oberhausen. With films including Das deutsche Kettensägenmassaker and Terror 2000, art installations, exhibitions and actionist projects such as the container action Bitte liebt Österreich!, as well as the creation of the political party CHANCE 2000, he has been unwavering in his involvement in cultural and political discourse over the past two decades. The themes that interest him always centre on the issues of God, redemption and the meaning of all art. He has staged highly respected theatre and opera productions such as Kunst und Gemüse, A. Hipler at the Volksbühne in Berlin and the ATTA-Trilogie at the Volksbühne, Vienna’s Burgtheater and the Schauspielhaus in Zurich. Highpoints between 2004 and 2007 include Wagner’s Parsifal in Bayreuth and The Flying Dutchman in Manaus’ legendary opera house in 2007. The 2008 Ruhrtriennale festival saw the premiere of his fluxus oratorio Church of Fear. He has frequently been invited to participate in the Theatertreffen in Berlin and has won several awards, most recently the 2010 Helmut Käutner Award. The foundation stone for Schlingensief’s total art project REMDOOGO, the world’s first opera village in Burkina

Film lineup

- Die 120 Tage von Bottrop (1997, 60 min)
Absurd homage to and parody of the eccentricities and insanities of the Fassbinder era.
- Freakstars 3000 (2003, 75 min) 
Christoph Schlingensief incorporates fiasco and brilliance into a one-of-a-kind fame academy for social deplaced. 
- Terror 2000 (1992)
Neo-nazis go on rampage in a small town while two bumbling detectives search for a kidnapped social worker.
- Das deutsche Kettensägen-Massaker (1990, 60 min) 
‘The German Chainsaw Massacre’: 16 million East Germans on their way to the golden West. 4% never got there: were they processed into sausages?
- Menu Total (1986, 81 min)
Meat your Parents  
- United Trash (keine UT aber englische Sprachfassung) (1995/6)
A grotesquely erotic and blasphemous comedy about a Messiah in Africa
- 100 Jahre Adolf Hitler (1989, 55 min)
The last Hour in the Führerbunker was shot in only one night and shows the chaotic Nazi clique romping noisily through the cellar, revelling in intrigues and violence.
- Christoph Schlingensief und seine Filme – Interview und frühe Kurzfilme (1968-2004, 157 min)
Famous theater rioter and performer Christoph Schlingensief has his roots in film. This portrait shows many of his early films for the first time.

From 6pm until…

In German with English subtitles

5–>0€

Reservation: welcome@wiels.org

Artists

Fred Frith

Zeena Parkins

Carla Kihlstedt

Matthias Bossi

The Norman Conquest

Cosa Brava