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 GOOD COP BAD COP / Image: Hanner Call / Courtesy: good cop bad cop

GOOD COP BAD COP

Performative events|Site-specific|Installation-based performance

SIZE OF COMPANY
2–7 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small

PERMANENT STAFF
Artist
Richard Huw Morgan
Artist
John Rowley

ARTISTIC POLICY
good cop bad cop creates artwork for a variety of contexts and locations, combining skills in photography, video, performance, and text. Drawing on both historical and contemporary themes and references, performances frequently push the performers’ physical endurance to its limits.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
‘Phantom Ride’ elevates the art of the unreliable narrator to a new level – its very unreliability is unreliable…clever, funny and filled with deadpan charm.
Metro
The spectators are implicated in the discovery of the unknown within their familiar environment … a novel idea, the experience is unexpected and original.

La Presse, Montreal
Difficult to define and impossible to categorise, which is the sign of a creative and unique production.
Vibes

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Brodys Notes
Theoretical performance constructed in real time through a process of mutual cross examination, interrogation, coaxing and suggestion. 70 minutes. No interval. 2 on stage. 3 on road
Hanner Call
Durational liminal performance in urban, rural and sub-rural landscapes. 3 on the road plus up to 50 local performers. Duration variable
Phantom Ride
Based on the life and lost works of pioneering film-maker William Haggar. 70 minutes. No interval. 3 on stage. 4 on road.
Mas o Amser
A physical and audio performance, performed at dusk in close proximity to the audience. How to behave in the face of ultimate doom. (includes nudity). Duration variable 3 on the road
Untitled plus Support
A physical and text based work that explores, and subverts, the conventions and iconography of the press conference. Duration variable, 4 on the road

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
RS
A physical and text based work drawing on the life and work of Welsh poet R.S. Thomas. 70 minutes, no interval, 6 performers, 7 on road
We welcome the opportunity to develop new works in response to available opportunities.

WRAP-AROUND
Workshops, seminars, exhibition and lectures may form part of the group's presentations. We are keen to undertake residencies and to collaborate with professional and amateur practitioners.
Our workshop, ‘In All Languages’ concentrates on developing a structured physical language and how this can be articulated and mediated to produce performances. We are keen to train local performers to be able to participate with us in our existing, and new collaborative, productions

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2006
Australia: More Beautiful Than God
2006 Ireland: Left Footers

TOURING AVAILABILITY
All productions available on request from January 2009