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Orpheus

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Orpheus is a hymn to love wrapped in a beautiful, magical, heart-pounding piece of high-stakes theatre.’ YORK PRESS

Created by Alexander Wright (The Flanagan Collective) and Phil Grainger (Gobbledigook),ORPHEUS is an internationally award winning show wound together from hair raising spoken word and soaring soul music. It’s a modern retelling of the ancient myth, transporting us
through dive bars, back streets and late night karaoke. It’s a show about falling in love, about seismic shifts in your everyday life, and about how far we’d want to go to save those we hold so near and dear. It’s a 5,000 year old story,
but told for us, here, now. Performed by a storytelling and a musician, the tale is wound together from a guitar and a book, and the audience.
We created ORPHEUS to play anywhere and everywhere. The show premiered in the garden of a dutch cheese shop in Cromarty. Since then it’s played in houses, pubs, halls,
shops, tunnels, libraries, foyers, bars, empty lofts and - very occasionally - a theatre.
ORPHEUS won Best Theatre (weekly) award at the Adelaide Fringe and the Summerhall Award at VAULT Festival.. 

Told through a fusion of hair raising spoken word and original, live, soulful music, ORPHEUS sits in between spoken word poetry, an acoustic gig and a theatre show. Split in to two 40 min halves, it is designed to be performed in social spaces; the village hall; the back room of a pub; as part of a gig night; in a more traditional theatre context; or at festivals. We want to bring the show to where people are, to tell a great story and play some great music.
 
Previous Acclaim for The Company:
‘Theatre with heart’ Ian Rankin / 
‘Ruddy gorgeous’ The Guardian / 
‘Stratospheric’ The Herald
***** The Scotsman /
***** The Skinny / 
***** A Younger Theatre / 
***** ThreeWeeks / 
***** Public Reviews /                   
***** Broadway Baby

ORPHEUS is looking to tour across 2019. We are looking to tour to theatres, social spaces, community spaces, unusual spaces, special places. We looking to talk with programmers, festivals, rural touring networks, people who book theatre all the time and people who have never book a show in their lives. If you want us to come to you, we want to chat. The show is incredible flexible - it’s two performers, a book and a guitar. We usually perform loosely in traverse. If there’s a good, usual or unusual way for us to bring the show to you, then let us know - more than likely we’d be up for it. We’ll be around the UK and with some international dates too.

LIGHTING REQUIREMENTS

No specific requirements. The show can either be self contained or work alongside the venue's tech specification.

AVAILABILITY

Always Available

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DURATION (IN MINUTES)

SETUP TIME REQUIRED

ABOUT THE SHOW

Own PA Supplied

Own Lighting Supplied

Promotional Materials available

OTHER TECHNICAL INFORMATION

1 hour get in, 30 minute get out time.
The show is best performed in traverse where possible. The company can set this up on arrival at the venue. 
We prefer to include an interval.
The music in the show is all acoustic.

SUITABLE FOR...

Christmas show

PERFORMANCE LANGUAGE

English

MAIN GENRE

Storytelling - Poetry

OTHER GENRES

Storytelling - Poetry
Drama
Music - Folk Roots Celtic

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