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THE BEAR SPACE

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Saturday 21st  Sunday 22nd MAY      7:30pm 
Wednesday 1st Thursday 2nd JUNE    
Ages 12+                                                                                  

The Marlborough Theatre, Brighton         Tickets  HERE 
  
                                                                                                                     

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Welcome to 'The Bear Space’

The only show that has you fighting for theatre. Let puppet combat commence!

FoulPlay Productions return to the Fringe with a darkly humorous puppet bearbaiting competition. Audiences are invited to operate the aggressors, the puppet hounds, as we openly exploit the thrill of combat and the tragedy of death as drama; only in ‘The Bear Space’, it is puppets that leave their mortal coil and there’s no harm in that, right?

Building on the success of ‘The Fantastic Fox Hunt’ FoulPlay productions are proud to present ‘The Bear Space’. Our newest venture offers a playful comment on Peter Brooks’ The Empty Space and the barbaric arena of the Bear Pit. With bears, barks and a cunning bard, FoulPlay invites the audience to enter the arena and throw the punches, or place their bets on the grizzly outcome.

By taking the savagery of the Bear Pit juxtaposed with the modern elevated status of Shakespeare ‘The Bear Space’ creates a reflective spectacle, which is both intellectual and visceral. ‘The Bear Space' takes the themes of Early Modern (Elizabethan) Theatre and Bear Baiting as a means of contributing contextually to the celebrations of the 400 year anniversary of the death of Shakespeare, who’s experiences as an actor and playwright in London were evidently moved by the brutality of the blood sport.

By acknowledging the essential contribution an audience creates within arena sports and the theatre, FoulPlay stimulate one with techniques of the other as we seek to challenge the moral position of an audience enjoying the bloodlust of a bearbaiting competition.

It will have blood they say...




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           Promotional production artwork by Ulysses Black


Saturday 21st  Sunday 22nd MAY      7:30pm 
Wednesday 1st Thursday 2nd JUNE   
Ages 12+                                                                                                                                 

The Marlborough Theatre, Brighton         Tickets  HERE 
  
                                                                                                                     


©FoulPlayProductions2016                                                                                                            info@foulplayproductions.co.uk
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