(About Us)
Drunken Chorus is a contemporary performance company working across a variety of forms, including theatre, installation, cabaret events and durational pieces. Whilst the company's work often changes dramatically from one project to the next, it has at its core a strong visual style. The work often plays with theatrical landscapes through text, soundscapes and movement sequences. Drunken Chorus are constantly seeking to explore new ground, to find new ways of making work - from text-based comedy, to a wordless horror performance - nothing is ever off the table!
(news)
DRUNKEN NIGHTS...
We're working on something new...
Something big and ambitious...
We’re planning a series of curated platforms, featuring performance work made specifically for public houses. There will be three or four evenings, all in London pubs, showcasing around 30 short pieces of work (under 10 mins) by emerging and early career artists. We’ll be looking for work that responds to this specific environment, considering types of audiences in bars, histories of live performance in pubs etc.
After that, we’re hoping to select three artists / companies to receive development support from Drunken Chorus, mentoring from a professional practicing artist, rehearsal space and a production budget. These three pieces of developed work will then form a whole evening of performance, which will be shown at pubs in London and around the UK – perhaps even internationally.
All of this is (as usual) funding dependent, so please keep your fingers crossed for us. We hope to be able to stage the performance events in Autumn 2012, with the developed work touring in late Spring 2013. We’ll be making further announcements in July. In the meantime, get your thinking caps on and start considering how you might make work that would engage with a pub context. PLEASE NOTE: we are not looking for straight theatre / plays to be performed in pubs. We’re looking for performance work that is playful, challenges conventions and breaks rules. Above all we’re looking for work that is created in direct response to public house environments.
If you think you’ll be interested in submitting a proposal when the time comes, please feel free to get in touch with us now with any questions. You may also wish to invite us along to see your existing work if you have performances planned in the UK over the next few months – this will help us with our selection process. Email: info@drunkenchorus.co.uk
HELL IS BACK...
Drunken Chorus are pleased to announce the online release of the full length video of their most recent performance piece, AND HELL FOLLOWED WITH THEM
CLICK HERE TO WATCH
***PLEASE NOTE: For best results we recommend you watch this video with headphones or through good quality speakers, due to the heavy bass sound levels. We also recommend you change the YouTube settings to 1080pHD.
AND HELL FOLLOWED WITH THEM is a horror performance by Drunken Chorus, with sound design by Steve Kilpatrick.
Filmed by Sheena Holliday and Adam Greenwood (Crestfallen Productions) at Junction in Goole.
The projected was supported by The National Lottery through Arts Council England funding, as well as Live at LICA, LANWest, Junction, Testing Grounds, China Plate / Pilot and Proto-Type Theater / Sunday Lunch Club.
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