Venue: ZOO Southside Venue 82 Dates: 2-24 August 2013 (not 4, 11, 18) Time: 21.00 (ends 22.30) Tickets: £12 – £10
Little Bulb Theatre/Farnham Maltings/The Garage/National Theatre Studio/Escalator East to Edinburgh present:
It’s the decade of all or nothing and a magical storm is gathering pace. Little Bulb Theatre return to complete the trilogy
Fringe First, Total Theatre, Arches Brick and Herald Angel award-winners return with a new piece of experimental theatre that completes the trilogy of pieces that started with Crocosmia and continued with Operation Greenfield.
Told with exciting choreography and bizarre characters Squally Showers is a fantastical balletic farce of politics and power, loneliness and love.
Squally Showers explores the intimate themes of growing up and sexuality, whilst taking in the wider political and economic concerns of the 1980’s.
Little Bulb are hugely excited about making this show and plunging feet-first into the dance world. The past years have seen an increasing focus on live music in their work, culminating in Orpheus, their recent musical extravaganza. Now they put their instruments aside to focus on the language of the body. Artistic Director Alex Scott says, ‘We didn’t want to fall into the trap of making the same type of show again and again. Putting away the instruments has forced us to make new discoveries.’
Since forming in 2008 Little Bulb Theatre have gone on to create a diverse and stylistically vibrant body of work encompassing larger scale theatre pieces, small intimate experiments in dimly lit caverns and much else in between. They are passionate about fusing more traditional theatrical forms such as character acting and dramatic structure with elements of devised visual and musical performance thereby creating fresh, live experiences that aspire to touch, startle and entertain.
This will be Little Bulb’s fifth year at the Fringe. They presented their debut show, Crocosmia, at the Fringe in 2008 to huge critical acclaim, earning the company a Scotsman Fringe First, Total Theatre and Arches Brick award, and in 2010 Operation Greenfield earned them a Herald Angel award
Squally Showers has been selected for Escalator East To Edinburgh. Each year Escalator East to Edinburgh helps artists and arts organisations to raise their profile and perform to new audiences as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.
