EXTRA SHOWING!
Saturday 4th July 2020
7pm (this 65-minute film will be available until 10pm)
TICKETS
As before, we are not charging for tickets for this ‘live showing of a pre-recorded thing’ as we would like to make this as accessible as possible to all, but we would greatly appreciate donations from those who are able to give, as this will enable us to invest directly into our future productions and the next Play Machine training school, which has already nurtured over 60 artists as they develop their craft – Facebook
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What our audiences loved about Lucid:
“I love that the production took full advantage of the pandemic. The medium allowed each cast member to have their own journey and a unique energy. The production has such a breadth of genre and style”
“It was completely off the wall but on the button with current collective emotions”
“The fun the ensemble were obviously having was contagious!”
“Original, use of technology, the art itself…it was a piece of art, the control each member had over their individual pieces but also how they felt like a cohesive team”
“The sheer mentalness of it. Just letting go and committing to the world fully and completely so we could get sucked in”
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Meet Mr. Ruffle and our Play Machine Ensemble as they attempt to meet each other in a dream
This ‘live showing of a pre-recorded thing’ originally premiered at 7pm on Friday 19th June and was available again at 7pm on Saturday 20th June. We did not charge for tickets but accepted donations, and we are thrilled by the generous response to our fundraiser, raising £1,248 for futre productions and artist training & development
Age recommendation 14+
If you can’t wait until then for great Tinderbox content, such as the recent Solo Art pieces created by artists during lockdown, then visit our YouTube channel, and please subscribe while you are there!
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Press Release
IGNITION 2020
“It’s not a play, not a documentary, not a dream, not anything. But it’s all of them too and Mr. Ruffle is coming soon.”
Lucid is an ambitious surrealist short film/documentary about Tinderbox Director Patrick J O’Reilly and the 2020 Play Machine Ensemble who, due to current lockdown restrictions, now attempt to meet together in a dream to rehearse their new play, Mr. Ruffles Truffle. Mr. Ruffles Truffle was due to be performed at the Crescent Arts Centre 24th May and was unfortunately cancelled due to Covid-19. Tinderbox took the opportunity to document the process of creating work using online resources such as Zoom and other platforms which brilliantly paved the way for a macabre world of Burlesque, absurdist theatre, and surrealist comedy to try and make sense of our current equally bizarre situation. As a vibrant arts sector, we continue to find sources to connect and make theatre, and Lucid pushes this idea to the very extreme with an ensemble doing whatever is impossible to come together into the same space to create a live theatre performance.
Artistic Director, Patrick J O’Reilly, said;
“Lucid tells the story of the Director and Play Machine cast who are trying to rehearse their production called Mr. Ruffle’s Truffle online for Ignition. That night however, the Director has a dream where Mr. Ruffle appears and suggests that they all meet in a lucid dream to rehearse their play. Unfortunately, the sinister Mr. Ruffle terrorises the sleeping cast as they begin to turn into the characters of the play in the actors’ homes. The play itself refuses to follow restrictions and comes to life despite the global pandemic. Lucid is inspired by our present experiences with vivid dreaming and disrupted sleeping patterns during Lockdown. It’s macabre. It’s surreal entertainment. It’s complete nonsense. Lucid is a satirical tonic (with a bite) to celebrate the absurdity in our lives.
Lucid features 11 artists who participated in Tinderbox’s acclaimed professional training programme Play Machine, which runs for 6 months every year at the Crescent Arts Centre. We are delighted to continually develop artist practice and we are proud to demonstrate the sector’s ability to adapt to our current situation.
Caoileann Curry-Thompson, Arts Development Officer for Drama and Dance, Arts Council of Northern Ireland said, “In these unprecedented times of dark theatres I am delighted that Tinderbox are rising to these particularly testing circumstances with Lucid. Ever inventive, brave and committed to exploring the inexhaustible richness of live physical performance, the Tinderbox team with their Play Machine artists are working on an artistic intervention into this theatrical barrenness. Using the recorded and digital means available they have concocted a suitably playful and absurd scenario by which to interrogate the tensions between liveness and recorded, awoke and asleep, theatre and film.
We don’t know what it will be like; it may well throw up more questions than it answers – but we do know it will be fearless and unique, and any questions it asks will be resonant for the entire theatre sector and audiences in these times. We at the Arts Council wish them all the very best, and look forward to experiencing Lucid.”
Lucid will premiere online the 19th and 20th June 2020
Further information on Tinderbox, please visit www.tinderbox.org.uk
Posted on 15 May 2020
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