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Overview
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Reviews and audience feedback
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Show History
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The Experts |
They tried to bury it. But now it’s been unearthed.
A crime scene? A conspiracy? Or just a forgotten place? The evidence tells many different stories.
A systematic investigation is launched and strange agencies are brought into play. As the minutes pass, clues begin to disappear in the nerve-crackling heat, faces slide in and out of focus and the air resonates with the songs of an invisible horror. Courage fails.
Following the international success of their debut …a playful meditation on magic, join Patter… in the early stages of a new show examining of fear and forensic truth.
Commissioned by and developed at BAC. Funded by Arts
Council England.
Performed by
Peter Arnold and Melanie Wilson
Devised by
PATTER... with Alex Murdoch
Directed by
Emma Benson and Alex Murdoch
Outside eye
Paul Hunter
Set and props designer
Peter Arnold
Sound designer
Melanie Wilson
Lighting designer
Mark Dymock
Production managers
Richard Couldrey
Chris Umney
Stage Manager
Elke Laleman
The Experts redefines a disturbed crime scene… great
tension, great comedy
Andrew Edgecliffe Johnson, Financial Times
A New York Trilogy Investigation into a life. Marvellous!!
Mark Down
Really strong performance… conveyed a lot without
using speech
Cariad Hancock
Loved the fat range of props and movement around the space
Unknown
Great noises. Great Acrobatics.
Annabel Hobley
You never know what will happen next
Cassandra Sigsgaard
Elicits an impressive range of responses from a compact
space and ensemble
Richard Milner
This show is available for touring. For more information email kate@fueltheatre.com
2005
April: run at BAC from 8-29 April
2004
Scratch performances in BAC’s OctoberFest
August: Development week in BAC’s Summer Holiday
January: Scratch performances in the London International Mime Festival at
BAC
For PATTER... details see biog page
Richard Couldrey: Production Manager
Richard started working in theatre in 1997 for £50 a week down in Croydon
and quickly gained more access to The Salvation Army’s South London
depot than has been known before or since. The productions he’s managed
have grown to a point big enough to ask someone else to be buried in Grandmas
old clothes in search for the perfect prop.
Mark Dymock: Lighting Designer
Mark trained at Croydon College and is a member of the Association of Lighting
Designers. Credits include: Educating Rita, Breezeblock Park (Liverpool Playhouse,
collaborating with Willy Russell on both), Appetite (Windsor Theatre Royal,
directed by Guy Retallack), Ballroom written, directed by John Retallack,
Beauty Sleeps (The Young Vic Company), Long way Home, Last Train To Nibroc
(New Perspectives Theatre Company and Nuffield Theatre), The Entertainer,
Macbeth (Nuffield Theatre Southampton), Big Baby (Oxford Touring Theatre Co.),
Playing Sinatra (New End Theatre - Hampstead), The Chair Women, The Wedding,
Love and Other Fairy Tales, Sisters and Others, Seagulls, Stranded and Princess
Sharon (Scarlet Theatre Company), The Portrait of Dorian Gray (Vienna’s
English Theatre), The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband (Queen’s Theatre),
Robbers (Actors Centre), Red On Black (Hen and Chickens), When Harry Met Barry
(The Gatehouse), The Club (Old Red Lion), Patter, Blind Summit, The Life of
Galileo, Incarcerator (BAC).
Elke Laleman: Stage Manager/Operator
Elke is Belgian.
Alex Murdoch: Director
Alex is co-founder and Artistic Director of Cartoon de Salvo for whom she
performs, directs and leads workshops. Previous productions include: Here
Be Dragons, Bernie and Clive, Meat and Two Veg, Ladies and Gentlemen, Where
Am I?, The Chaingang Gang, the education project Atlantis and Cartoon de Salvo's
street shows The Whippetsnatchers and The Finger. Alex trained at École
Philippe Gaulier, after taking her degree at the Central School and London
University. She was invited to the Royal National Theatre Studio Directors
Course (1999) and taken workshops with Monika Pagneux, Marcello Magni and
Keith Johnstone. Credits include directing; 126 Flutes with Jazz Flautist
Keith Waithe for BAC Opera; BAC's YPT show The Bull and what actually happened
and Guy Dartnell's Unsung (co-directed with Tom Morris) and performing: site-specific
shows Ghosts Nets II and Roger Salmon for Kneehigh, also The Wooden Frock
(Kneehigh and West Yorkshire Playhouse co-production) and improvising with
the Comedy Store Players. Last year she directed Ionesco's The New Tenant
at the Young Vic and a rehearsed reading of Peter Karpati's The Fourth Gate,
at the RNT Cottesloe Theatre as part of the Channels: Hungary season.
