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Taking a cue from the space industry, Jay Scheib's latest work pits hard Science against Philip K. Dick as interplanetary speculation runs amok, the indigenous population gets screwed, and a strange "anomalous" kid seems to hold all the answers. Developed at MIT with a team of Mars researchers and anthropologists, a mission to colonize the Red Planet is revving up for 2017. Imagining what might happen once we get there, Scheib drops seven performers into a simulated Martian society. Can't make ends meet on Earth? Consider a one-way ticket to Mars!

Link Via Futurismic

The Free Theatre of Belarus

Link: Mark Ravenhill on the Free Theatre of Belarus | Theatre story | guardian.co.uk Arts.

The risks of this secret performance are very real. Most of the actors have already lost their day jobs at state theatres; for some, this meant losing their homes. Last August, at a performance of Edward Bond's Eleven Vests, cast and audience alike (including children) were all arrested.

“Entertainment has let us down...It’s actually preventing us from living our lives.”

In the run up to the London Premiere of 'Dead Language' at the ICA next week, John has been involved in a variety of interviews, the most recent being an exclusive interview with Open Magazine's Loma-Ann Bonner:
"There's a layer to art and entertainment now that's stopping us thinking, it's coming between us and common sense."

Next week, FoolishPeople will feature on LBC Radio, with an audio preview of 'Dead Language'. Details to follow...

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A few facts about FoolishPeople:

We create ritual art, theatre, film and meta-events.

Some of the usual terms that apply to the world of theatre are not applicable to our work. For example we do not create PLAYS.

The use of Theatrical terminology is a contentious issue for us as a Magickal Order.

Theatre is full of the most awful and weak terms to describe a sacred art. For the last hundred years the majority of my contemporaries have worked tirelessly to weaken theatre with soft minds and pointless works of entertainment that have been placed between our minds and what throbs all around us.

The work conducted by the master magician Artaud has been deformed and torn down by an army of wasted flesh who are only interested in money, fame and fucks.

FoolishPeople conducted the Eden Working within 'Dead Language' this weekend at Esozone to begin a new era within our work with the creation and instigation of a new ritual movement: The Theatre of Manifestation.

We conduct a Theatre of Manifestation and create Weaponised Art in various media.

We don't fucking make plays.

Desecration at Galleries of Justice - September 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th 2007

Inscription found within Father Lewis Wells Bible, Page 32
A Haunted Bloodline; the Wells Family: A Personal Portrait (Hardcover)

"One step, two steps, humble your history, quickly child, lest we idle and reveal the rawness of our hearts within the chapel of locks.

Shuffle softly into the Sinewy Tunnel. Please child, eyes averted from the Tetravalent, one socket sucked raw, red and dry.
Only one eye left.
 
Rather half the truth, than all a lie.

Step deep into his tide of darkness.
Feel the heat of the Suns first rays, here in Eden's deepest bowels. Kneel now dearest child, before his dusty throne.

All the mistrials of your life. All the misery of past blood.
Every angle of slotted worth. See, perhaps this is why we exist?

Look now child, as your truth is unveiled in this act of Desecration."

Deep down below the earth is the Deluge, birthplace of Desecration. Immeasurable darkness and ancient power: a primordial energy that has grown within the earth, since Eden’s first light.

The Desecration has fed upon the Wells family for over ten generations.

Now, Edward Wells, a fallen priest, part time escape artist, Magus and the blackest sheep that the Wells lineage has ever witnessed must enter into the realm of Deluge if he is to remove his family’s curse before Desecration is released upon humanity in a wave of decimation and suffering.

So who better to unlock the puzzle of Deluge than a down and out escape artist and natural born Sorcerer who combines all the mistakes of his family’s bloodline in one frail body?

Edward must traverse and survive every liars veil, Tetratravelent Goddess, Evil Turnkey, and King Demon of Deluge’s hyper dimensions to confront and learn why Desecration, a thing born in the first light of Eden wants to wipe his family from all of creation.

Dear Sir or Madam,

You are cordially invited to align with either Edward Wells or the entity Desecration in a magical pact, as you unlock the truth of the Demons that reside within your own family line.

Join Edward on his journey into the Deluge this coming September as you enter into the immense meta-narrative of Desecration within Nottingham’s infamous Galleries of Justice.

You are free to explore the entire manifestation, throughout the ritual in your own time, as you fall, forever deeper and closer to ultimate truth.

Theatre of Ophidia and FoolishPeople will redefine immersive magickal theatre as your will and intent are revealed via the various magical experiences offered within the realm of Deluge.

They deftly expose the hypocrisy of the "moral majority" by exposing the Demons within all our hearts and the awful outcomes that occur from never facing up to, or refusing to sit down and discuss who we really are with humanities closest living myths.

Tickets can be purchased online or by calling 0114 251 3232. "Desecration" runs from the 6th to the 9th September 2007

Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - theatre: Save the clapping until the end

Link: Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - theatre: Save the clapping until the end.

The very idea of this makes me want to barf, frankly. What a preposterous notion: to congratulate someone on their existence before they've uttered a single line. I get a bit fed up with people treating "talent" as if they were sired on the planet Mars anyway; and to have the dramatic illusion broken by a sudden burst of applause seems irritating in the extreme. They say that Britain ends up aping every new American trend five years down the line. Please, please may we be spared this one.

Or leave it all together as far as I'm concerned...

'Desecration'

FoolishPeople in association with Theatre of Ophidia and Fright Nights are pleased to announce a new production ‘DESECRATION’ at Nottingham’s infamous Galleries of Justice, this coming September.

‘Desecration’ will redefine immersive theatre, as ritual performance and magickal art combine to reveal the secret truth of an ancient site of suffering and punishment. For centuries on the site of the Galleries of Justice, people were imprisoned, stripped of their civil liberties in the courtroom and brutally executed on the gallows on the front steps.

The production will last up to three and a half hours where the audience are free to roam the courtrooms, prisons and caves, following the narrative of each of the Gods, spirits and humans who inhabit the living myth of ‘Desecration.’

Written and directed by John Harrigan, performed by FoolishPeople and produced by Theatre of Ophidia and Fright Nights.

Fright Nights was the first company of its type to offer overnight ghost hunting experiences to the public and retains its reputation for haunted and unusual locations. Since 1999 there have been over 1000 overnight investigations, 400 field trips and 400 haunted weekends, as well as appearing and consulting on over 200 documentaries and television programs last year alone.

Theatre of Ophidia combines many currents into a mixture of theatre, art and occultism with which to be subliminally digested by the audience.

The combined expertise of Theatre of Ophidia, Fright Nights and FoolishPeople will enable the creation of unique magickal and immersive experiences unavailable anywhere else.

Terra Incognita- In acknowledgement

FoolishPeople would like to say thank you to the following people for their support, talent, effort and commitment to Terra Incognita:

The incredible Polly Barker, Lili Spain and both her wonderful parents, Joyce, Karen, Finn and Gage Harrigan, Tereza and Jan Kamenicky, Santi Genochio, India Banks. Cliff, Stef, Sancha, Sy, Screw and everyone else at the 491 Gallery and Vertigo.

Reinhard Schleining, Petr Sirovy, Yiri Kohl, David Blank, Emma Jane Spain, Simon Allin, Adrian Multon, Chryssanthy Kofidou, Sebastian and Sandra for all their valuable help and expertise.

All the wonderful cast: Tereza, David Monard, Mark Wright, Saima Duhare, Naia Headland-Vanni, James Rose, Tamara Rebolino, Victoria Karlsson, Alessandra Fel, Greta Lange, Santi and India.

The other stunning performers: David, Sara, Steve and Maryam in Le Masque Noir, Lewis Ironside and Jack Catling.

Everyone helping in production: Polly, Maxine, TheeMasterBee, Eva, Anna, Jen, Jessica, Steve, Cliff, Marco, the Dionysian Underground, Andy and Vittoria.

All the artists who’ve poured their creative talents into the project: Reinhard, Yiri, Chyssanthy, Adrian, Sarah Grainger Jones, Lucy Williams, Iwen Tang, Slater Chiang, Maia Sambonet, Marta Angelozzi, Anonym Z, Justin Hellickson, Garry Hunter, Alexandra Santos, Leila Bryan, Maryam Hashemi and Michelle.

The incredible musicians, DJ's and bands who’ve come from far and wide to perform: Movement Improbable, Goy on Goy, Zno, Killaflaw, Voluptuous Fuzz Water, Behram, Joel Cahen, Simon Allin, David Monard, Bill Vincent, and Hugh MacDonald.

In reverence and awe to Bast, Gentle claws approach upon dead ideas. Soft velvet, pounding. Sharp coloured hurricane, sinew through space and time. Soft, hot warmth that burns the lies away, mother Lilith, may they find their way to your club. Fire in blood, wings spread across time, Asmadai. The Moon, creating beautifully vivid shadows and dreams that conjure unknown worlds.

Cigarettes and Excuses

Cigarettes and excuses comes highly recommended, side project of FP member Naia Headland-Vanni and friends.

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