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The Erpingham Camp
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by Joe Orton (1967)
Brighton Pier, May 12-24, 2009
Commissioned by Brighton Festival
Following a hugely successful site-specific production of Harold Pinter's The New World Order at Brighton Festival 2007, and
of Shakespeare a la Carte at Brighton Festival 2008, Hydrocracker
staged its 2009 Festival offering, Joe Orton's comedy The Erpingham Camp, on
Brighton Pier.
Hydrocracker assembled an exceptional artistic team, including director Ellie Jones
(Artistic Director Southwark Playhouse), designer Ellen Cairns, sound designer Thor
McIntyre-Burney and lighting designer Paule Constable.
This was the first time in 43 years that the pier has featured in the Brighton Festival.
Hydrocracker's latest site-specific show was produced and managed by ArtsAgenda. Artistic direction by Richard
Hahlo and Jem Wall.
Want to know more about Joe Orton? Visit
JoeOrton.org.Reviews
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Musik
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By Neil Fleming, a version of Frank Wedekind's 1906 play.
A Dumbfounded Theatre-Oxford Stage production
at London's Arcola Theatre in 2005.
This haunting, satirical tragedy about sex, abortion and bigotry ran for seven weeks
in 2005 to stunning reviews. First performed at Plymouth Theatre Royal, the show
was originally the brain-child of two Hydrocracker directors, Jem Wall and Neil
Fleming.
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The Boy's Own Story
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By Peter Flannery
Jem Wall starred in Flannery's bittersweet one-man
comedy about the loneliness of the goalkeeper at the Brighton Dome in September
2004. A Hydrocracker production with Made in Brighton Ltd and the Brighton Dome.
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Macbeth in Kazakhstan
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Geoff Church's inspirational multi-lingual and multinational production of Macbeth
ran in October-November 2004 at the Deutsche Theater, Almaty, and remains in repertory.
A co-production between Hydrocracker, the DTA, and local theatre company SCENE,
and funded by the British Council, the show drew on both mythic and contemporary
sources, a Russian-speaking royalty mixing with elemental Kazakh witches.
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Sphinx
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By Neil Fleming
A bold re-working of the Oedipus myth and a hard new look at the nature of power:
political, sexual, and violent. Under redevelopment by Hydrocracker for 2011.
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