Because two out of three, aint bad...
Until Thursday Theatre Company
Oliver Bray and Robin Sidwell formed Until Thursday in 2003 after to moving to Manchester on a bit of a whim...
The company is concerned with creating new theatre that addresses our current cultural climate whilst being concerned with accessibility and watchability. Until Thursday’s work seeks to be risky, intelligent, edgy and innovative.
Until Thursday have a close relationship with greenroom, where they have been supported in a number of commissions and are associate artists.
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Past Work
It's a Question of Taste
Two eccentric and badly educated young Englishmen set out on a quest to taste the world, their budget took them only as far as Manchester (Capital of England), New York (Capital of the USA) and Brussels (Capital of Europe). Until Thursday have rigorously documented everything they have eaten abroad and are happy to present the edited highlights and lowlights of their travels. The performers will digest ideas of global consumption, take a position on terrorism, try out their Romanian accents and enjoy a hamburger.
We have to say, you probably won’t agree with what we have to say, or even think we should say it - but saying that, you have to say, we have got something to say.
Welcome to Our World
Until Thursday have taken stuff a little too literally, and will reveal everything in this performative, interactive, workshop-seminar…
...and if there’s time, talk a little bit about their philosophy, influences and how they make performance work.
May contain adults and drinking.
Droppin' Shoppin'
Droppin' (v) To demonstrate wisdom or skill. "I'm droppin' science" (Coolin' in Cali, 1988)
Droppin' Shoppin' isolates the richest qualities of two non-theatre source materials - Hip Hop and Channel Shopping, and strips them to their barest performative components. Hip Hop becomes a drum-kit and a microphone, channel shopping becomes a sofa and a smile.
Hints at creative manifestos, friendly engagement and black culture may seduce the viewer into seemingly understanding this unnerving world, before repelling them with the disjointed reality of two middle class white boys telling the fake why they can't create.
Coz this is what it's about, come on...
We Should Have Stood Still
(then everything would have been okay)
Shamelessly indulging in a drinking game that attempts to match the weekly consumption drunk by miners 50 years ago, Until Thursday try to resurrect a site-specific performance that was made on behalf of a specific community at a specific woodland area somewhere near Sheffield… only they’re not in the woods anymore.
By mapping multiple time strands onto the performance, We Should Have Stood Still questions the way we record and make sense of the past in a performance that never quite manages to find an accurate version of itself.
Plays & Players
Plays & Players is a work that is only allowed to exist within the issues of an out-of-print theatrical magazine. The audience are guided through the 'printed' years 1953 to 1960, though their route must be precise, specific and clear, it by no means can or must be historically comprehensive.
Using found materials edited for a performance where the documentary meets the contemporary, makers and watchers alike are made to question this selection process and find their own position within this tour, this bizarre history lesson.
Thank you Janice.
It's a Question of Taste
For die-hard fans that are interested - this little fella's still doing the Brussels/NYC commute...
Last observed playing live in April 2009
NYC 2006 Brussels 2006
