SIZE OF COMPANY
2–4 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small

PERMANENT STAFF
Creator & Performer
Julia Bardsley
Composer & live sound mixing
Andrew Poppy
Production Manager & Video/Lighting
Marty Langthorne and/or Azusa Ono
Producer (for Aftermaths & The Complete Divine Trilogy)
Natasha Davis
Project Manager (for Almost The Same)
Stephanie Allen

ARTISTIC POLICY
Oscillating between performance and installation, Bardsley’s work offers a heightened ‘live’ experience. The audience’s role and the conventions of theatre are reconfigured into a visual and sonic landscape of extreme sensation and immersion.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
Each detail of her appearance is unforgettable. The stage could do with more such indelible images.
Susannah Clapp, The Observer (Trans-Acts)
Julia Bardsley’s gorgeous Almost The Same has been the most heavy-hitting and symptomatically ‘live art’ work I’ve seen so far.
Theron Schmidt: RealTime (Almost The Same)
Bardsley is a really fascinating artist. In recent years she has been making inspired and unsettling work on the cusp between the theatre and the gallery.
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian (Almost The Same)

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Part one of The Divine Trilogy
TRANS-ACTS
An accident at the crossroads between video & live-presence. A smash up at the intersection of performance & script. A Director & Actress splayed across the dissecting table, waiting for the Understudy to walk on & corpse.
For an audience of 12, includes installation element in separate space. Contains semi-nudity
105mins – no interval. Usually perform 3 shows a day over 2/3 days. 1 performer, 1 crew
Part two of The Divine Trilogy
ALMOST THE SAME (feral rehearsals for violent acts of culture)
A figure lurks in a dark place of collapse, a theatre of dirt, an ark of humiliation. Beneath the pelt it growls, licks, pants, bites back…
For an audience of 35, includes installation element in separate place. Contains semi-nudity
90mins  - no interval. Usually perform 2/3 shows a day over 2/3 days. 1 performer, 3 crew

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Part three of The Divine Trilogy
AFTERMATHS: a tear in the meat of vision
From the dazzling heights of the apocalyptic catwalk, from amongst the glorious atrocity merchandise, from within the mourning mass, the spectacular fe/male host/ess emerges, delivering The Doctrine of Last Things.
For an audience of 99, 70mins – no interval, requires minimum 14m x 14m space. 1 performer, 3 crew

WRAP-AROUND
Workshops: target age range 18 years upwards for students & practising or emerging artists
1.Materialise/De-materialise: Bardsley & Poppy working with garments & the body and creating notation and sonic scores.
2.Persona’s, skin & garments: Bardsley working with ideas of disguise, inhabiting bodies, wounds & body alterations.
Post-performance discussions: with creative team & audience
Residencies: for creating new projects or developing the themes of the existing pieces.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2006 Belgium: Trans-Acts
2008 Portugal: Trans-Acts & Almost The Same
2008 Croatia, Slovenia: Almost The Same

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Trans-Acts & Almost The Same are available for touring from January 2009
Aftermaths is available for touring from April 2009
Trans-Acts, Almost The Same & Aftermaths are available for touring as the complete Divine Trilogy from April 2009