SIZE OF COMPANY
Up to 5 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small to large

PERMANENT STAFF
Executive Director
Philip Lloyd
Programme Co-ordinator
Luke Cooper
Buildings & Technical Manager
Andrea Salazar
Production Co-ordinator
Eleanor Barrett
Office & Finance Manager
Catherine McKinney

ARTISTIC POLICY
Shunt is a collective of artists who have been working together for 10 years on site-specific shows that aim to question the rigid boundaries between audience and performance. The collective’s home is a vast labyrinth of railway arches under London Bridge station. Its current project, The Shunt Lounge, is an amazing bar where Shunt Artists curate work from the wider artistic community and work as individuals, creating and showing their work. The collective’s work represents the diverse interests and skills of its artists, including aerial work, performance, and installations.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
Radical, original, incredible.
Time Out (Tropicana)
Thrillingly inventive.
The Independent on Sunday (Tropicana)
Eye-poppingly surreal...Where else in London can you check out avant garde installations, chew the fat over some video art, see a wacky Edinburgh Festival-style performance, drink and then dance the night away?
London Lite (The Shunt Lounge)

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
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A collaboration between Lizzie Clachan and Glen Neath exploring everyday encounters, making voyeurs of the audience by isolating them in individual booths. Spying from a hidden vantage point and listening on headphones, they eavesdrop on a series of provocative encounters played out in a busy public environment. Can be presented in any language.
3 x 4 min plays, 3 performers, 5 on the road.
What if…? By Layla Rosa.
Aerial movement, moving image and physical feats collide with audio, video and vocals to create a unique theatrical performance, illusion and installation.
60 mins approx, suitable for a variety of spaces at a variety of lengths, 5 on the road.
Mudman
An unsuspecting crowd go about their business. The lights dim and loud, wild music interrupts their drinking. From out of the darkness emerges a naked man caked in mud. As he walks among us, searching, he is bombarded from above with tomatoes, a river of salt, flour bombs, porridge and ping pong balls. His gruelling journey ends with a cascade of water in which he washes himself clean. What on earth was that…? Mudman is one of a series of short, visually arresting events devised by Louise Mari and Nigel Barrett to be performed unannounced in crowds.
Show length; 10 minutes variable and can be toured to a variety of venues. Company 3 on the road.
The One Man Show
An epic visual visceral performance. A man, an audience, why are we here?
50 mins approx. 1 performer, 2 operators.
Adult Humour By Andrew Rutland
Andrew's one man show. Part Ronnie Corbett part Benny Hill, the show takes the format of andrew chatting to the audience about his life and his psychology...the show attempts to fuse elements of stand up comedy, music, surrealism and of course weird arse performance art.
A journey into the mind of a confused individual, says Max Ringham
The Portrait
A collaboration between Serena Bobowski, Antony Hampton & Anna Frisch. Performed by Serena Bobowski. Serena performs a portrait of herself-the edit of a breakfast conversation with Anthony Hampton. Conceived and written by Anthony Hampton and directed by Anna Frisch.
The Pianist By Mischa Twitchin.
The Pianist is a non-verbal installation performance giving visual and aural echo to Wladislaw Szpilman’s memoir. It has no technical requirements beyond a CD player and PA, and a complete blackout.
10 mins, 1 performer, 2 on the road
Reading Clausewitz; Postcards from Vienna By Mischa Twitchin.
Performance with projected images, pre-recorded sound montage, and live speech. Technically it requires a projector and wall (or screen), and CD player and PA.
10 mins, 1 performer, 2 on the road
The Piano Tuners
A solo performance, with text from Beckett’s novel Watt and music from Kurtag’s Jaketok (15 minutes). By Mischa Twitchin.
Technical requirements are simply for a PA, with one person and one prop on the road. (A DVD is available and it could, for example, be performed in someone’s house.)
I wonder sometimes who I am By Mischa Twitchin.
An intimate evocation of the relation between art and politics, with one performer, a specially-made piece of furniture, and a soundscape with the music and voice of Arnold Schoenberg (45 mins). The performance requires a blackout and simply an ordinary electric power source, with two people on the road. (A DVD is available and it could, for example, be performed in someone’s house.)
Untitled By Hannah Ringham.
A poem without rhyme or metre – or any of those qualities normally associated with a poem. This is a one woman comedy show
45 mins approx, 1 on stage, 5 on the road

WRAP-AROUND
Some of the above productions will have wrap around activities in the form of post performance discussion, talks and educational workshops demonstrating the individual shunt artist’s approach to making work. For specific details please contact Luke Cooper at events@shunt.co.uk.

TOURING AVAILABILITY
All productions available to tour throughout 2009