Press Release – 22 June 2010
DREAMS GET KINKY AT THE FRINGE
In their Fringe debut London based theatre company KinkyFish finds nine actors, always present on stage taking the audience on a journey through the mind of a dreamer where characters merge, duplicate, evaporate and, the story itself, unfolds like a dream.
In A Dream Play KinkyFish breaks free of traditional techniques, drawing on the performance style Viewpoints where the focus is on physicality, lighting and sound, empowering the viewer to experience the show rather than simply observe it.
With no more than a rainbow of scarves as their props the performers seamlessly swap, contort and evolve from people to buildings, breaking down the audience’s preconceived notions of life to reveal that time and space do not exist, that anything and everything becomes possible in a dream.
A DREAM PLAY
Agnes, daughter of the gods, is sent down to earth to see if life really is as difficult as people make it out to be. Written by August Strindberg in 1901, A Dream Play delves into a dream, where characters to locations change without rhyme or reason and a locked door becomes an obsessively recurrent image.
LISTINGS INFORMATION:
Venue: The Space @ Venue 45, Old St Paul’s Church Hall, Jeffrey St, EH1 1DH
Dates: 23rd – 28th August
Time: 16:10 (16:55)
Preview: Saturday 21st August 2010 / 15:10 (15:55) / £6 (£5)
Ticket prices: £8 (£7)
Venue box office: 0845 508 8387
Fringe box office: 0131 226 0000 / http://www.edfringe.com/
LONDON PREVIEW :
Dates: Tuesday 20th & Wednesday 21st July,
Venue: 503 Theatre, The Latchmere Pub, 503 Battersea Park Road, London, SW11 3BW
Time: 7:30 (8.15)
Ticket Prices: £10
Theatre503 box office: 020 7978 7040 / http://www.theatre503.com/contact/
KINKYFISH:
Web: http://www.kinkyfish.co.uk
Email: media@kinkyfish.co.uk
Facebook fan page: http://www.facebook.com/kinkyfish
Twitter: kinkyfish_drama
For further information, images and press enquiries please contact Larissa Moran at KinkyFish on media@kinkyfish.co.uk
ABOUT KINKYFISH
KinkyFish are a company of actors dedicated to theatre, script and venues that are a little bit different. Formed in 2008 they connected through their shared vision to create an experience for the audience. Their first show, The Tempest, was inspired by French dramatist Antonin Artaud and found viewers blind folded and sniffing sardine oil. In July 2009, KinkyFish took Artaud’s principles even further and performed Our Country’s Good where they continually moved the audience around the central courtyard of Westbourne Studios. In December 2009 Kinkyfish presented a longer version of Strindberg’s A Dream Play in the Oxford House theatre in Bethnal Green, London.