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"Loose your mind to love"

"Conceived by Foolish People's Artistic Director John Harrigan the detail and beauty of this work is spellbinding, so that at times one loses all sense of where the performance begins and the truth ends. Laid open with endless tunnels and chambers to be explored and secrets to be discovered, the piece offers much to experience, at times invoking pity, at others joy, and occasionally fear, depending on how far you let your curiosity take you. Each person coming to this piece will leave having experienced it differently - the more open you are to the enchantment within it, the more deeply you will be immersed. Not too dissimilar to love itself! And like love, its memory will stay with you long after it has ended. This is not simply a performance; it is an experience not to be missed."

A Red Threatening Sky - Five Star Review - Gabriella Apicella

Red Threatening Sky - Updates

Things are moving along quickly towards the opening night of 'A Red Threatening Sky'.  One of the artists I'm most excited to be working with is Xanadu Xero. 

 

The work Xanadu has created for the project brings glamour and sex into an old Abattoir. She's one of those rare people you meet that hold honesty, integrity and art above all else. 

Xanadu is part of the second wave of artists we just announced on FP.

Tickets are on sale now. If you're planning on coming, then buy online now and you'll save yourself some money. We open on the 11th of February. Come see Loves dirty little underbelly.

Art & Design by P. Emerson Williams

A Red Threatening Sky

 

The Abattoir Pages - New Performances Added.

Remnants of Calder Hall

Cirxus photo album. All photography taken by Yiannis Katsaris.

CIRXUS - Tickets Now Available!

25th May - 13th June 2009 

Starting time: 

8.30pm & 9.15pm 

STUDIO K 

Written and directed by John Harrigan 

1957- Seascale, the North of England. Cirxus is an old English circus lost in the shadows of the smoke stacks of Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station. FoolishPeople will use mythology, shamanism, music and dance to bring the darkness of an atomic circus to life. The performance will allow audience members to step into the world of an old English circus lost in the 1950s, explore its sideshows and meet extraordinary characters from the past and future.

Athalia the ballerina waits in the ring for Loudon the Clown to return with directions to the Black Pool, the mythic site of the Home Sweet Home, the final show of the season. Join her as she begins a bizarre and wondrous search for Loudon through the irradiated secrets of Cirxus, where she must face the macabre atomic menagerie, haunted by circus animals and navigate her way through the maze of strange, hallucinogenic sideshows on the other side of time. Immerse yourself in the world of Cirxus, where theatric arcana and Atomic fallout irradiate the sawdust arenas of our inner worlds.

Presented by FoolishPeople

Written and Directed by John Harrigan

Creative Team 

John Harrigan 

Lucy Allin 

Victoria Karlsson 

P. Emerson Williams 

Claire Tregellas 

Tereza Kamenicka 

This is a promenade performance in Arcola's new industrial space, Studio K. Cirxus is based on fact: the German Bremen University confirmed that radioactive contamination by Americium-241 found in some soil samples taken by Greenpeace 11.5 km south of Sellafield, were 400 times higher than those taken 11 km from Chernobyl. 51 years on, the villagers of Seascale still live with the ramifications of the accident at Pile 1 of the Windscale Works Atomic Energy Factory. 

Cirxus will be FoolishPeople's first London performance run since the critically acclaimed Dead Language at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 2007. 

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TICKET INFORMATION: 

• Ticket Prices £14/£10 

• Tuesdays 'PAY WHAT YOU CAN' (subject to availability) 

• Free tickets are available for under 26s under the Night Less Ordinary Free Ticket Scheme Monday-Thursday evenings for the first 2 weeks (please ring box office more information) PLEASE NOTE: 

• No concessions on Fridays and Saturdays 

• Proof will be required for concessions 

• All tickets are NON-REFUNDABLE 

Cirxus Image by P. Emerson Willliams.

DPRGRM, PILOTLITE, MYTHOS MEDIA & FOOLISHPEOPLE PRESENT ‘Y’

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 

DPRGRM, PILOTLITE, MYTHOS MEDIA & FOOLISHPEOPLE PRESENT 

‘Y’ 

In a post-apocalyptic world, ‘Y’ is a documentary-style reality show where the grand prize is the future of our species on planet Earth. 

Mythos Media and FoolishPeople will join with DPRGRM/Pilotlite to create 'Y', a feature film that starts shooting in Los Angeles July 2009. 

LOS ANGELES, CA 02/27/09 – DPRGRM/Pilotlite announced a project today that forges a new path in independent cinema by bringing together real world experience and film in a unique way. 'Y' brings an audience inside the creation of a modern myth. The audience will become actual cast members, and be immersed in the story in real time. The film crew will also be part of the story as well as part of the cast, therefore creating a total immersive experience that bridges the traditional proscenium of audience/performer. 

The ambitious staging and shooting technique is enhanced by the premise that in the future, government facilities, such as the one depicted in this film, will have to turn to unorthodox means of funding, such as contracting the facility out as the subject of a reality based TV show. The actual crew will be made up of news, reality and documentary style cinematographers and the production will be filmed entirely in the Cinéma vérité style.

Written by John Harrigan and James Curcio, and directed by Joseph Matheny, ‘Y’ is a unique production fusing characters from Curcio’s second published novel, ‘Fallen Nation: Babylon Burning’ and Harrigan’s screenplay ‘GraveLand’, currently in pre production. 

DPRGRM will finance and distribute the film, working alongside online media corporation Pilotlite, a joint venture between Joseph Matheny and Michael Mailer Films. 

Joseph Matheny, founder of DPRGRM and Pilotlite co-founder says: “We will be employing cutting edge production, post production and distribution techniques that have been gestating for several years while the technology caught up to the vision. We chose this project and this team specifically because the project lends itself to the medium and the people can keep up.” 

James Curcio, Creative Director of Mythos Media, says: “Mythos Media was founded specifically to work on projects like this, and modern myths have been my life passion. I am eager to dive in and create this world, both as production designer and producer of the soundtrack. However, even more, I am eager to collaborate with all of the creatives that are already lining up to become a part of this truly one-of-a-kind project.” 

John Harrigan, Artistic Director of FoolishPeople comments: “Members of FP and I are extremely excited to be working on a project with such a talented and unique team. 'Y' will redefine what is possible in film production and I'm looking forward to taking on the role of Performance Director.” 

About ‘Y’: 

Civilization has fallen. In the rubble, we at the Y Corporation have developed the ultimate solution to save society: the Y Show. 

We encourage all good citizens to sign up for the Show. You will be housed within a wonderful Haze Treatment Facility and undergo unique psychological treatment, which will clear away the illness of individuality. This reprogramming will be broadcast to the eyes and ears of Citizens in our New World, populated with previous contestants and patients. This is a reality show unlike any other! 

There is a secret that haunts Haze01, the original treatment facility. Two patients, locked deep within its walls, contain archetypes that reject all reprogramming. They channel portents and omens of another future, a world where myth and divinity remake reality, manifesting a planet fit for Gods. 

In this season of the Y show, the doctors of the facility make their final attempt to process these two patients, before they break free and unleash total anarchy. Tune in. 

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Notes to editors: 

About DPRGRM/Pilotlite: 

DPRGRM was founded by auteur Joseph Matheny to meet the new age of media convergence head-on with cutting edge media projects like ‘Y’ and Pilotlite, which Matheny co-founded with Michael Mailer of Michael Mailer Films. For more information visit: http://jmatheny.wordpress.com 

About Mythos Media: 

Mythos Media was founded by James Curcio, Peter Emerson Williams, Michael Szul and Tovarich Pizor in 2006 to produce modern myths. In the past, these have taken the form of comics, novels, and albums. For more information, please visit: http://www.mythosmedia.net/   

About FoolishPeople: 

FoolishPeople was founded by John Harrigan in 1989, taking its name from one of the major arcana of the tarot, card 0: The Fool. FoolishPeople create weaponized art, ritual theatre, collaborative events, books & film to raise a numinous experience within the witness. FP engineer immersive, open source experiences that become a catalyst for positive change. For more information, please visit: http://www.foolishpeople.org  

Press Contact: 

Joseph Matheny 

DPRGRM 

jmatheny@dprgrm.com 

310.928.6959 

http://citizen-y.com

Infekt.Viral - ०.6 - Terra:Extremitas 1

Infekt.Viral - 0.6 - Terra:Extremitas 1 from infekt.viral on Vimeo.

"A Video and sound piece composed for Terra:Extremitas by FoolishPeople focusing on remote interfacing with the locale immediate to their performance. This was achieved through a combination of psionic video, witness samples, and circuit bent equipment translating sound to video distortion while utilizing radionic tones scaled to audible octaves." Ikipr

Terra: Extremitas - Artifact

'The Nursery' installation by Ilse Versluijs

Sound design by Teresa Donohoe

Video by CONVERSARE on Vimeo.

Terra:Extremitas - Photo Archive

The Photo Archive for Terra:Extremitas is now online. All Photos by Cecile Mella.