Blind Summit - The Table

Moses is a cantekerous 2 foot high puppet, with a cardboard head, who lives on a table. And he's got a problem. All he ever gets asked to perform is fairy tales or children's birthday parties, and he's fed up with it. He's an artist! He's a serious puppet! So tonight the table is his and anything can happen...

Epic puppetry inspired by Beckett, the Bible and Ikea.

FRINGE FIRST WINNER
PICK OF THE FEST Guardian
ONE OF THE TOP 5 MODERN PUPPET SHOWS Sunday Telegraph
GRAND PRIX Kontrapunkt Festival, Poland

“"Dazzling"”
The Scotsman ****

"Astonishingly accomplished "
The Telegraph ****

"Blind Summit prove once again that when you're working in miniature you don't have to think small"
The Guardian ****

**** The Times **** The Independent
**** What's On Stage ***** SG Magazine
***** Exeunt Magazine **** Edinburgh Spotlight
***** The Public Reviews **** Three Weeks
**** Broadway Baby **** The List

Devised, performed by Blind Summit, Mark Down and Nick Barnes

Puppets designed and made by Blind Summit Theatre

BLOG:

29.5.12
Run at Soho Theatre done making 103 performances! The Table is now a two part show: Moses does one hour, and the French Puppetry is an encore. We have at least learnt to do an hour of gags, now we need to shape the show into some sort of narrative arc. Without losing the immediacy of the mucking around and the improvisation. The show is at its best when things go wrong...

18.7.11

Hmm... yes I know - long time since I blogged last. So. Today we are a week away from our first London preview at Jackson's Lane. I am nervous about finishing in time but also we need a deadline to make us finish, and an audience to tell what we have made. I wonder what it is. I am still not sure. There have been some great discoveries - especially I like a little man we have made out of hands and feet and a cast of Martin's head. He still has a lot of potential to discover. The cast are really good and in good spirits and we are working working working. That is all we can do now - keep working, get the feedback from the audiences and then rework. And hope they come. We look forward to seeing you! Is this how you write a blog?

21.5.11
We just came out of 2 weeks workshopping at Jackson's Lane with a bunch of puppets and lots of different people every day. Some old friends, some new friends, some people we've wanted to work with for a while. It's been very brainstormy, anything goes, chaos.We "shared" on Thursday and collected comments from "beautiful and amazing" to "I expected more..." to "I didn't understand it"! I don't understand it yet either. We have found some exciting new images - paper coming out of a brief case, a giant Elmer Phud arms dealer character, two disembodied heads having a romantic dinner, an old man fishing off a table, heads trapped in a square of string. An old man fishing off the side of the table. I think it's going to be a visual journey through Beckett. And existentialisme. But what is the table? Why have we called it "The Table"? We have a lot of thinking to do... hmmm... Loving Jackson's Lane and being in Highgate: there are trees, it's on a hill, there are some nice pubs, there are two year olds doing ballet and teenagers doing streetdancing and we spotted John Simm the other day with his boy.


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		SHOWS THE HEADS THE TABLE PAPER STORY BE SAFE - NIGEL MOUND OLYMPICS MASTER & MARGARITA KOMMILITONEN! EL GATO CON BOTAS A DOG'S HEART THE OTHER SEDER CALL OF THE WILD TESTING PANACEA 1984 ORIGINS ARHAT TAMING THE DRAGON HIS DARK MATERIALS SHUNKIN ON EMOTION FAERIES MADAM BUTTERFLY LOW LIFE CHEREVICHKI A PUPPET IN THE WORKS MARTIN'S WEDDING PIRATE PUPPETRY THE SPACEMAN TRAMPING THE BOARDS MR CHINA'S SON


	Moses is a cantekerous 2 foot high puppet, with a cardboard head, who lives on a table. And he's got a problem. All he ever gets asked to perform is fairy tales or children's birthday parties, and he's fed up with it. He's an artist! He's a serious puppet! So tonight the table is his and anything can happen... Epic puppetry inspired by Beckett, the Bible and Ikea. FRINGE FIRST WINNER PICK OF THE FEST Guardian ONE OF THE TOP 5 MODERN PUPPET SHOWS Sunday Telegraph GRAND PRIX Kontrapunkt Festival, Poland “"Dazzling"” The Scotsman ** "Astonishingly accomplished " The Telegraph **** "Blind Summit prove once again that when you're working in miniature you don't have to think small" The Guardian **** The Times The Independent What's On Stage * SG Magazine * Exeunt Magazine Edinburgh Spotlight * The Public Reviews Three Weeks Broadway Baby ** The List Devised, performed by Blind Summit, Mark Down and Nick Barnes Puppets designed and made by Blind Summit Theatre BLOG: 29.5.12 Run at Soho Theatre done making 103 performances! The Table is now a two part show: Moses does one hour, and the French Puppetry is an encore. We have at least learnt to do an hour of gags, now we need to shape the show into some sort of narrative arc. Without losing the immediacy of the mucking around and the improvisation. The show is at its best when things go wrong... 18.7.11 Hmm... yes I know - long time since I blogged last. So. Today we are a week away from our first London preview at Jackson's Lane. I am nervous about finishing in time but also we need a deadline to make us finish, and an audience to tell what we have made. I wonder what it is. I am still not sure. There have been some great discoveries - especially I like a little man we have made out of hands and feet and a cast of Martin's head. He still has a lot of potential to discover. The cast are really good and in good spirits and we are working working working. That is all we can do now - keep working, get the feedback from the audiences and then rework. And hope they come. We look forward to seeing you! Is this how you write a blog? 21.5.11 We just came out of 2 weeks workshopping at Jackson's Lane with a bunch of puppets and lots of different people every day. Some old friends, some new friends, some people we've wanted to work with for a while. It's been very brainstormy, anything goes, chaos.We "shared" on Thursday and collected comments from "beautiful and amazing" to "I expected more..." to "I didn't understand it"! I don't understand it yet either. We have found some exciting new images - paper coming out of a brief case, a giant Elmer Phud arms dealer character, two disembodied heads having a romantic dinner, an old man fishing off a table, heads trapped in a square of string. An old man fishing off the side of the table. I think it's going to be a visual journey through Beckett. And existentialisme. But what is the table? Why have we called it "The Table"? We have a lot of thinking to do... hmmm... Loving Jackson's Lane and being in Highgate: there are trees, it's on a hill, there are some nice pubs, there are two year olds doing ballet and teenagers doing streetdancing and we spotted John Simm the other day with his boy.
THE TABLE

FUTURE TOUR DATES HI-RES PRODUCTION PHOTOS REHEARSAL PHOTOS To Book: UK & Europe: Stephanie Hay, General Manager stephanie@blindsummit.com US, Australia, NZ, South America: Michael Mushalla, www.double-m-arts.com CAST: Mark Down Nick Barnes Sean Garratt CO-DEVISERS: Sarah Calver Ivan Thorley Irena Stratieva Mabel Jones MUSIC: Lemez and Friedel LIGHTING: Richard Howell ARTISTIC CONSULTANT: Andrew Dawson PRODUCER: Stephanie Hay, Blind Summit Theatre TECHNICAL MANAGER: Fergus Waldron COMPANY MANAGER: Fiona Clift SUPPORTED BY JACKSON'S LANE Commissioned by YAD Arts and JCC PAST TOUR DATES: 2013: 18-19 Apr - Kontrapunkt Festival, Poland 18-19 Mar - Winchester Theatre Royal 11-15 Feb - Le Grand T, France 4-8 Feb - Le Grand R, France 31 Jan-1 Feb - Les Carre-Les Colonnes, France 28-30 Jan - Le Grand Theatre de Lorient, France 2012: 29 Nov- 1 Dec - Ring Festival, France 23 Oct - 31 Nov - UK Now Festival, China Venues were: Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre, Guangzhou Opera House 1933 Theatre and National Pioneer Theatre 7-9 Sept - Theatrefestival Basel, Switzerland 18-21 Aug - Noorderzon Festival, Holland 11-14 Aug - Pleasance, Edinburgh 28 Jul - Holt Festival, Norfolk 9-10 Jul - Festival Des Sept Collines, France 30 Jun - Wyeside Arts Centre, Builth Wells 28 Jun - Arts Festival of North Norway 5 Jun - Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury 14-26 May - Soho Theatre, London 12 May - Fidena Festival, Germany 2012 UK TOUR: 7-8 May - The Old Market, Brighton Festival 1-2 Apr - Jackson's Lane, London 17 Mar - Lakeside Theatre, Colchester 15 Mar - Brighton Dome, Brighton 14 Mar - Norwich Playhouse, Nowrich 6 Mar - The Gulbenkian, Canterbury 2 Mar - Bedford Theatre, Bedford 1 Mar - Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot 29 Feb - The Junction, Cambridge 27-28 Feb - The Nuffield, Southampton 21-25 Feb - The Brewery Theatre, Bristol 18 Feb - Lighthouse Poole, Poole 15 Feb - Warwick Arts Centre, Warwick 4 Feb - Theatre by the Lake, Keswick 3 Feb - Square Chapel Centre for the Arts, Halifax 2 Feb - The Lowry, Manchester 31 Jan-1 Feb - Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham 30 Jan - E M Forster Theatre, Tonbridge 26 Jan - South Street Arts Centre 24-25 Jan - Newbury Corn Exchange 9-21 Jan - Soho Theatre, London as part of the London International Mime Festival PREMIERE of THE TABLE: at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2011 03-29 August - Pleasance with previews at Jackson's Lane,South Street Arts Centre Reading and Trestle Arts Base.



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