ANATOMY #3: PANTOMIME FOR THE END OF TIME

It's surprising how quickly the theatrical world can respond to my thoughts. No sooner had I suggested that pantomime is in need of a radical overhaul, I found an email from just over a week ago announcing that Anatomy, the cabaret style night of Live Art, has finalised the line up on ANATOMY #3: PANTOMIME FOR THE END OF TIME, based on an idea that I stole from Ali Maloney. 

Anatomy are hot on the diversity of styles, so the night is held together by the two hosts, Ali Maloney and Harry Giles. I'm in the middle of an article about mime - I'm really struggling with this - so I am going to give the details and come back to them later. I was talking to a couple of the artists on the train, so I'm sure I'll be able to get an interview or something. 

Walk, by Oli Benton

I'll Be Home for Christmas: A Suicide Note, by Victoria Bianchi

The Snow Queen (interlude song), by Eddy Dreadnought

The Blood that Binds, by Laura Edwards and Calum MacAskill with Janine Fern

Scheduling Spontaneity, by Rebecca Green

Walk the Line / The Deadwood Stage, by Charlie Murphy and friends

The Man in the Dress and The Principal Female Boy, by Greg Sinclair

Uranus, by Moreno Solinas

Opul, by JL Williams and James Iremonger

To Elucidate, by Jamie Wardrop and Rebecca Morris

It's at Summerhall...

Anatomy Seeks Artists, Vile Seeks Credit

It must have been Arches Live! 2011 when I predicted a future pantomime emerging from the grotesque cabaret of Ali Maloney. When the call-out for Anatomy's third Live Art inflected, cabaret style evening went out, I immediately contacted Maloney, claiming that this was my idea.

Here's the press release.




PANTOMIME FOR THE END OF TIME

Friday 14th December 2012
Summerhall, Edinburgh

CALL OUT FOR PERFORMANCE PROPOSALS

Following on from the sell-out successes of of ANATOMY #1 and #2, we are delighted to announce our return to a more regular spot. ANATOMY#3: PANTOMIME FOR THE END OF TIME is the first in a regular year-round programme of our spectacular performance variety.

A contemporary take on the music hall variety show, ANATOMY is a
platform for performance artists of all disciplines. Beyond scratch,
it creates a stage for risk-taking performance and breath-taking
theatrics in Edinburgh’s exciting new multi-arts venue, Summerhall,
within a historic anatomy lecture theatre.

ANATOMY seeks proposals from theatre practitioners, artists, dancers,
music makers and destroyers, sculptors, story tellers, film makers,
clowns, poets, photographers, mimes, installations, painters, weirdos
and burlesques; the abstract, the comical, the terrifying, the
sublime, the unfathomable, the beautiful, the life-changing and the
oddly mundane.

Proposals should be for pieces of 5-20 minutes in length.

There is, as the more eagle-eyed may have noticed, a vague theme for
ANATOMY #3. Celebrating both ‘the season’ and the pre-scheduled end of
all life and existence as we know it, we would welcome proposals
involving, responding to or becoming a PANTOMIME FOR THE END OF TIME.
This theme is loose and you are free to use it strictly, loosely or
not at all; adhering to the theme is not a deciding factor in
selection.


If ANATOMY is somewhere that you and your art belong, please download
an application form and return, completed, as a single file, by 9th November 2012 to:
anatomynight@edinburghpeergroup.com

Selected acts will have access to rehearsal space in the week before
the show, technical support, and a small expenses budget of £30.

For further information, please contact
anatomynight@edinburghpeergroup.com, or visit here
The deadline is Friday 09 November 2012 at 00:00.


Unfortunately, Maloney had, in fact, called his Ratcatcher "a dark pantomime" and I was simply stealing his idea. Artists can apply to perform without worrying that any profits made will be ending up in my pocket, and my lawyers won't be in touch.