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| WRAS have four current productions. Click on them to find out more... | ||||||||||||||||||
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| COMPOST MENTIS Compost Mentis features a large compost heap and the gardener who looks after it. Their relationship slowly begins to break down when it's discovered that the compost heap has a life of its own and harbours thoughts that are fermenting within. Puppet, mechanical and musical interventions ensure that the audience like the gardener are led up the garden path.  The show is designed for outdoor spaces and signals a break from the company's previous 3 intimate shows that were designed for small audiences. |
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A little sample of Compost Mentis... (requires Flash Player 8 to view video) |
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Tour Schedule: JULY AUGUST  |
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| PIG The show combines a striking image on the outside which is comically enhanced by the public who experience a short unexpected piece of the theatre. The show is designed for children but like all the company’s work it is suitable for all ages.  A short show full of surprises that takes place in a surprisingly long pig. Pig features a 30’ long sleeping sow in a pen. You can see her snuffle, you can hear her snores. A farm-hand offers the public the opportunity for the public to act like pigs and take a peek at a 10 minute long show that takes place inside her belly. To create this show the company collaborated with Steve Gumbley (Instantz,IOU), Penny Saunders (Forkbeard Fantasy), Andy Plant (creator of the miniature theatre structures used in the company’s last two shows: Head Quarters & Bedcases) and Clive Bell (Complicite, Jah Wobble and Kazuko Hohki). Pig is funded by the Arts Council of England’s National Touring Programme.  |
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| "Thanks for Pig - once again, you were amazingly popular." Frank Wilson, Stockton Festival "I want you to know that we had rave reports of your visit to Galway." Lali Morris, Baboro Festival "Just had an evaluation meeting in Hillingdon and pleased to say they loved the pig and it was commented that Edward played a fantastic (and friendly) job of keeping the 'piglets' in line." Rob Eagles, Zap Productions "Pig was a triumph.....totally delighted audiences....brilliantly enhanced the festive feel" Claudia Woolgar, Director of Kilkenny Arts Festival "I think I've just bonded with your Pig..." Lynn Mealings, Wrexham Arts Festival "Heard great reports of your recent time in Belfast." Geraldine Mitchell, Louisborough Festival "Firstly big thank you’s for all your efforts last week. You seem to have organised a seamless delivery and even enjoy it all along the way. The feedback from schools certainly seemed to be great and you got the feeling the children hadn't experienced anything similar in school before." Catherine Orbach, Education Officer, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill following 5 day tour of rural primary schools. "It was a delightful performance that captivated both children and adults alike." Ana Gillespie, Lyric Hammersmith, London "The highlight of the Garden of Delights weekend." City Life magazine, Manchester |
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Tour Schedule: SEPTEMBER  |
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| BEDCASES A totally relaxing, action-packed experience - Bedcases is a unique show created by the Whalley Range All Stars. 5 members of the public are invited to climb into an extraordinary, oversized four-poster bed. As they lie there safely tucked in under a super deluxe-sized duvet they are wheeled into a small marquee. Once inside they experience what can only be described as a 3-D bed-time story. This features the striking visual imagination that characterises the company’s work and throws in some new surprises for good measure.  5 performers ensure that the experience is a truly 360 degree affair and that the four-poster bed is not the only thing that is larger than life. The performance is set to an original soundtrack by Clive Bell (Complicite, Kazuko Hohki and Jah Wobble amongst many others). The performance is set in an environment constructed by Andy Plant (who built the booth for the company’s previous show Head Quarters, which has toured throughout the UK, Europe and Singapore). |
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| "What a performance from start to finish. It amounted to a creative masterpiece." Bexhill Observer | ||||||||||||||||||
"A glorious mix of (literally) moving pictures, songs and animated objects" Total Theatre magazine |
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| Written reactions from the public in a comments book for the show: “Like all good shows I didn’t want it to end” “Absolutely fabulous” “Quite incredible and very original. Thank you” “Brilliant, thoroughly entertaining and original” “Highly imaginative, very entertaining” “A very lovely piece of performance” “Ingenious: constantly surprising” “Very ingenious - out of this world” “Cosy, surprising and loads of fun” “Imaginative, unexpected & super soundtrack” “Brilliant! Very unexpected” “It was lovely and relaxing” “Felt a warm glow, took me back to my childhood” “Superb - a work of great invention” “Weird but very original 10/10!!” “You never knew what was going to happen next” “It smelt nice. Quirky and funny. Very inventive” “Superbly executed” |
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| Tour Schedule: 2008 dates available soon... |
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| LIVING ROOM
Living Room is a new installation/performance by the Whalley Range All Stars. It has been commissioned by the Manchester International Festival and the Whitworth Art Gallery also in Manchester. |
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| Tour Schedule: 2008 dates available soon... |
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