Post-show talks

Time:

• Right after the play Hysteria on November 13
• Right after the play Low Life on November 19
• Right after the play It Is Like It Ought To Be: A Pastoral on November 27
• Right after the play The End of Everything Ever on December 4

Venue: Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre
Target audience: Open to the public and media

Late-night series of professional talks

Time:

• Right after the play Hysteria on November 12
• Right after the play Low Life on November 20
• Right after the play It Is Like It Ought To Be: A Pastoral on November 26
• Right after the play The End of Everything Ever on December 3

Venue: Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre
Target audience: Open to theatre producers, presenters, promoters, directors, media and affiliates

Please note that there will also be a professional talk delivered by Mr. David Jubb, Artistic Director of Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) on how BAC developed the four plays and his experience of working with artists.

Time: 17: 30 on November 20
Venue: Marienbad Cafe on No. 55 Wukang Road (Near Anfu Road)
To attend this professional talk, please call 63912626 - ext 272 (Ms Yang) or email the information including your name, job and mobile number to arts.assistant@britishcouncil.org.cn to book a seat.

David Jubb
Artistic Director of BAC in London

BAC (Battersea Arts Centre) is one of the UK’s leading organisations for developing new work. Its ‘ladder of development’ takes works from an initial 10 minute ‘scratch’ performance through a structured process to full production. All four productions in Best of Edinburgh Fringe were commissioned or supported by BAC.

He has chosen to work in theatre because he is interested in bringing groups of people together. He is interested in the intimacy between artists and audiences. He is drawn to the catalytic impact of that intimacy: in giving birth to new ideas and fostering complicity between strangers. He thinks about theatre spaces like some people think about churches or mosques: places to feel at home; to feel connected to other people; to be challenged. But he also thinks theatre spaces are capable of embracing every kind of conversation; every kind of idea; and every kind of person and relationship. When theatre is good it is about invention and progress. He believes the relationship between artists and audience has the power to make the world a better place.

Over the past fifteen years he has directed and produced his own new work, run theatre spaces for artists, and managed and produced independent artists and companies. Much of his work has been characterised by an interest in facilitating conversations to develop new ideas; in making things happen from scratch.

He loves strategy, thinking about the big picture, working to create the overall story and how people fit in to that story. Equally, he loves rolling my sleeves up and getting stuck in to individual chapters. He is particularly passionate about work that is participatory, that encourages an active and engaged audience. He has spent several years teaching in schools and universities and he gets excited about learning opportunities in theatre. But producing new work, making it happen, is what he likes doing best.

He has enjoyed working with several organisations that embrace development: Central School of Speech and Drama where I was Venue Director; Your Imagination an independent producing company which he founded; Battersea Arts Centre where he was Development Producer and where he has been Artistic Director since 2004. He is also Chair of Kneehigh Theatre from Cornwall a company who represent everything that is exciting and is possible in theatre.

All Shanghai events around Edinburgh showcase are co-presented by Cultural and Education Section of the British Consulate-General and Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre and supported by Fringe Shanghai.