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DV8 PHYSICAL THEATRE / Image: To Be Straight With You / Photographer: Matt Nettheim

Image: To Be Straight With You
Photographer: Matt Nettheim
DV8 PHYSICAL THEATRE

Text-based: Medium|Physical theatre|Dance theatre

SIZE OF COMPANY
18 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Medium to large

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Lloyd Newson
Executive Producer
Eva Pepper
Operations Manager
Louise Eltringham

ARTISTIC POLICY
DV8 Physical Theatre's work is about taking risks, aesthetically and physically; about breaking down the barriers between dance, theatre, and personal politics and, above all, communicating ideas and feelings clearly and unpretentiously. It is determined to be radical yet accessible, and to take its work to as wide an audience as possible.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
Hard-hitting and passionate, you will not be able to resist this life affirming show.
The Guardian (To Be Straight With You)
Stirring…startling…strikingly sustained.
The Times (To Be Straight With You)
Visionary and artistically magnificent…Highly political; Angry, powerful and emotional.
Neues Deutschland (To Be Straight With You)

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
To Be Straight With You
A poetic but unflinching exploration of tolerance, intolerance, religion and sexuality. It incorporates dance, text, documentary and animated projections.
80 minutes (no interval). Suitable for 16+.Cast: 9, 18 on the road

WRAP-AROUND
Workshops and pre-show discussions

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2005 Czech Republic, Korea, Taiwan, Ireland, Switzerland, Serbia & Montenegro, Belgium, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Hungary: Just for Show
2007 Germany: To Be Straight With You
2008 Australia, Switzerland, America, Paris, Sweden: To Be Straight With You

TOURING AVAILABILITY
To Be Straight With You
autumn/winter 2009