Trial of The Mariner

Set in a dystopian future, 8 sailors venture into the radioactive oceans to discover new resources, to their horror they become stranded upon the Plastic Continent floating around the North Pacific gyre where the Skipper, the last remaining survivor is taken to trial by the Plastic Creatures for crimes against Nature...

Described as a performance of 'deranged genius', our latest production by Lotos Collective

www.trialofthemariner.com



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Everyman, an enquiry

We'll be hosting a discussion group at the Whitechapel Gallery that will kickstart a year of performance workshops building the new Lotos Collective event 'Everyman'. With invited guests from a variety of professions we'll be investigating the archetype of the Everyman across disciplines, attempting to decipher a universality of the urban citizen.

Discussion group is free and is part of The Nature of the Beast installation by artist Goshak Macuga.

The discussion will open to audience participation for the latter portion, come share your ideas!

Triangulated City: Beirut - Show Images

Site A: Zoukak (alleyway)

Site B: Central Parking, B7 (-7 underground)

Site C: Luna Park

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مدينة متلته Triangulated City عرض مسرحي تفاعلي في ثلاثة مواقع

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الأصدقاء الأعزاء

مدينة متلته

Triangulated City

عرض مسرحي تفاعلي في ثلاثة مواقع

19-20-21 آب 2009 الساعة السادسة والنصف مساءً (الدخول مجاني)

ثلاث عروض في ثلاثة مواقع سرية في مدينة بيروت

للوصول إلى أي موقع، توجهوا إلى احد نقاط اللقاء التالية:

- موقف السيارات المواجه لمسبح اللونغ بيتش، المنارة.

- مقهى ومطعم البارومتر، مقابل مستشفى خوري، الحمرا.

- قارعة الطريق، مفترق سامي الصلح وفرن الشباك، العدلية.

لمزيد من المعلومات: info@zoukak.org ; www.zoukak.org

مدينة متلته / Triangulated city عرض مسرحي في "الفن الحي" يحقق في حركة الإشاعات والخرافات التي تنتشر في شوارع بيروت.

خلال ثلاثة أيام، في ثلاثة مواقع، ثلاثة عروض ستتالى في وقت واحد كل ليلة. الجمهور مدعو إلى ثلاث نقاط لقاء، حيث سيعطى كل فرد منهم إشارة تقوده إلى موقع العرض. هذا ما سيبدأ مغامرة تقود الجمهور لإكتشاف المواقع الثلاثة المتواجدة في مدينة بيروت، مستخدمين سلسلة من مفاتيح وشيفرات وأسرار وإشاعات تنتقل بهم وتنقلهم من مكان إلى مكان. كل موقع يتوافق مع العناصر الثلاثة التي تشكل بنية "الخرافة" Superstition -: الإقناع والطقس ونذائر النحس.

عملت فرقة زقاق المسرحية (لبنان) بالتعاون مع مجموعة لوتوس (لندن + نيويورك) ومجموعة من المشاركين على خلق عالم هذا العمل في المسرح الموقعي، المتعدد الوسائط الفنية. من خلال القصص والذكريات والأساطير المدينية، يكتشف الـ "مدينه متلته" السرد القصصي الساري في طرق الجغرافيا المدينية لبيروت وشوارعها. في حين يتنقل الجمهور في المدينة من موقع إلى موقع، يمتد العرض ليشمل الرحلة التي يقيمها كل فرد من الجمهور، مموهاً الحدود المتواجدة بين مواقع العروض والعالم الواقعي.

مدينه متلته/ Triangulated city تشجع الجمهور المشارك لمشاهدة المدينة في كل موقع كعرض حي ومكان للقاء والمواجهة.

Dear friends

Triangulated City
An interactive Live Art event in 3 locations

19, 20, 21 August 2009 at 18:30 - Free Entry

3 performances in 3 secret locations in Beirut. To disclose each location meet at any one of these 3 meeting points at 18:30 on the 19, 20, 21 August 2009:

• Long Beach Parking Area, Manara • Barometre Pub (facing Khoury Hospital), Hamra
• Corner of Furn el Chebak & Sami Es Solh, (intersection)

For more information: info@zoukak.org www.zoukak.org

Triangulated City is a Live Art event that investigates the movement of superstition and rumour that spreads through the streets of Beirut.

Over three days, in three locations, three performances will unfold simultaneously each evening. The audience is invited to three (3) meeting points where they will be given a clue to the location of the sites. This begins an adventure where the audience explores these three locations spread throughout the city, using a series of keys, codes, secrets and rumours, that will move with them from place to place. Each location corresponds to one of three structural elements of superstition: conviction, ritual, and omens.

Zoukak Theatre Company and Cultural Association has worked in collaboration with Lotos Collective (London/New York) and with invited participants to create this
multi-disciplinary site-specific performance world. Through the stories, memories, and urban legends born from the sites, Triangulated City explores the geographical and geopolitical movement of narrative through the streets of Beirut. As the audience moves through the city from location to location, the performance expands to include the journey each individual may take, blurring the boundaries between performance site and reality.

Triangulated City encourages spectators to view the city as a living performance with each location a place of confrontation and encounter.

Conference Presentation - Napoli Scorticata

As part of the Italian Theatre Season's Conference on Modern and Contemporary Italian Theatre, I will be presenting the performance project Napoli Scorticata, developed with Lotos Collective in Naples, Italy in 2007.

Schloss Lüntenbeck Performance

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This performance was truly an amazing experience. 

Alexa and I met Annette Schulze-Lohof in Hallein, Austria during a Fluxus workshop with Geoffrey Hendricks. Her performance actions are absolutely poetic and simple. She recently sat in a local square in Germany with 30 newly hatched chicks, picking them up gently one at a time until they fell asleep in her warm hands. Then placed them down and repeated the mesmerising process with another. 

There were many facets to this piece, Annette with her fish, Alexa with her wine, and me with the earth. We each went about our performance actions for a period of an hour, constructing this 20 metre table, upon which our various elements would cross, mix and through their interrelating, develop all new meanings and connotations. 

Schloss Lüntenbeck

Aug. 31st Lüntenbeck Castle, I will be performing with Lotos Collective in collaboration with Annette Schulze Lohoff.   

http://www.schloss-luentenbeck.de

Lotos Workshop

Lotos ran a 1-hour workshop where participants were invited to decipher the narratives locked in the objects found at Turnkey Manor. The workshop was run by a virtual moderator whilst Rag and Bone, two characters from the manor house enaged the participants...