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The companies listed below have been invited to represent the United Kingdom during the Festival.
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XI BOGOTÁ INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL |
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UNITED KINGDOM, GUEST OF HONOUR |
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Kneehigh Theatre / Royal Shakespeare Company
Play: Cymbeline |
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For 25 years the company has created vigorous, popular and challenging theatre for audiences throughout the UK and beyond with a multi-talented team of performers, directors, designers, sculptors, administrators, engineers, musicians and writers. is a contemporary and innovative approach to Shakespeare.
“It made me want to gurgle with delight…. It embraces you so warmly it feels like you have been physically hugged. I loved it with a passion” The Guardian
“Some of the most beautiful moments I've ever seen at the national” Time Out London
“A glorious romp, swift, funny, cheeky and inventive…This is Kneehigh at its best: don’t miss it if the tour comes anywhere near you” The Sunday Times
“The truly great theatre companies stand out by their ability to be distinctively themselves and yet make a succession of shows that are distinctively different. After an astonishing few years of creative frenzy, Kneehigh joins those ranks.” The Guardian
Listen here to interviews with Emma Rice, Director of Kneehigh Theatre and Mike Shepherd, actor. |
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Forced Entertainment
Play: Bloody Mess |
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The Company is considered as stimulating, provocative, challenging and surprising, and explores the possibilities of what performance might be. Forced Entertainment’s defies description and categorisation. Marking the culmination of their twenty years work in theatre it is an epic for ten performers that creates a startling new logic from the collisions of disconnected characters, stories and performances. s is Forced Entertainment at its best – uncompromising political Pop Art, ironic physically demanding camp trash, visual spectacle that tries to describe the contemporary world in all of its beauty, horror and complexity. Forced Entertainment call a kind of manifesto for the future – the mess they have made this time is big, bloody and beautiful.
“A get-down-and-get-dirty, thrilling, horrible, fantastic, cathartic, wet and sticky two hours.” Theatre Review
"A wonderfully playful theatrical game on the nature of illusion, narrative and laughter... Ridiculously good." ****" The Guardian |
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Blind Summit Theatre
Play: Low Life |
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Blind Summit Theatre, founded in 1997, explores the relation between puppets, their operators and the audience. The company seeks to make a turn in audiences’ conception about puppets, opening to this new art form and important reinvention in contemporary art. is a beautiful, funny, poetic, moving gin-soaked cabaret of deadbeats and losers in a world of puppets. It is inspired by North American writer Charles Bukowski’s Low Life chronics and his novel Pulp.
“Stories brought to life in an overwhelming way by the puppets of Blind Summit theatre“ **** Timeout Critic's Choice
“Mad, bad and beautiful in equal measure” **** The Guardian, Today's Picks
Listen here to interviews with the actors of Blind Summit and hear them talk about their play. |
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Hoipolloi Theatre / New Wolsey |
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Hoipolloi Theatre has its audience in mind when devising its shows and creates work that is lively, entertaining and visually and physically dynamic. Humour is a key element of the company’s work; ranging from the darkly comic to laugh-out-loud slapstick.
“We are committed to creating new work for theatre that imaginatively engages our audience and makes them laugh. It is these two things, imagination and laughter, that drives us”.
The company was formed in 1996 by Shôn Dale-Jones (Artistic Director) and Stefanie Müller (Associate Director), and since then has toured 15 new shows nationally and internationally to a variety of venues.
"Our work is celebratory, colourful, and playful, full of physical energy and visual excitement. Most importantly, it is always our aim to appeal to a wide range of people - to entertain them as well as to playfully challenge their sense of reality. tells two stories: one about a rabbit and the second about Hugh’s father. The theme of death links all three and by telling them together, the show helps go of any fear we have of dying. A lot of people have asked about why this show is about death. I told them it was because so many questions surrounded the subject that it felt very attractive”.
“For a decade, Hoipolloi have been entertaining audiences with a succession of exuberant, inventive shows, rooted in the traditions of commedia, vaudeville and the absurd” The Guardian, April 2003
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Total Theatre Award 2006 |
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